poketwo_announcements

[zealous sierra]

Upcoming Change to Pokétwo's Prefix and Deprecation of Custom Prefixes @everyone

Due to limitations imposed by Discord, on August 17, 2022, Pokétwo commands must be used with the mention prefix (@Pokétwo). Both the current default of p! and custom prefixes that you may have set in your own servers will no longer work. That means, if you're not using the mention prefix already, you'll likely have to change the way you run commands. Here are some examples:

Old: p!pokemon --legendary
New: @Pokétwo pokemon --legendary

Old: p!t a pc 200
New: @Pokétwo t a pc 200

Old: p!c sunflora
New: @Pokétwo c sunflora

We suggest you take the next week to try out the mention prefix and acclimate to its use. Between August 17 and August 31, commands run with the default p! prefix and any old prefixes you may have set will trigger a notice reminding you of the change. After August 31, old prefixes will stop functioning altogether with no response from the bot.

This change is being made due to Discord's deprecation of message content access for verified bots. Right now, it's a temporary bandage to ensure Pokétwo continues working. For the long term, I've been working on rewriting Pokétwo using slash commands, but it's been moving along slowly due to a lack of free time on my part. Since the deadline is coming up soon, I've decided instead to take a while longer to complete and polish the rewrite instead of rushing it out.

Read more about Discord's limitations at https://bit.ly/3SCNtCg.

[leaden valley]

Bot not responding or being slow to respond @Outages

The bot seems to be very slow responding to commands. We are aware of this and are currently investigating this issue!

@Outages update — there’s an issue with our infrastructure and I’m in touch with our host to get some bigger disks attached to our servers… bot should be back up later today or tomorrow, thank you!

[leaden valley]

@Outages We're still running into a couple issues with infrastructure, note that I am working on it so please sit tight! Thank you for your patience.

[leaden valley]

Bot Operational @Outages

The bot is back online; however, a couple external services, including the forms portal, may still be offline.
Thank you for your patience! As compensation for the downtime, all users have received 1 Master Box.

[leaden valley]

@Outages I'll be doing a little more maintenance on our servers. There may be a few restarts (1-2 minutes each) while I do this, but no significant downtime. If the bot restarts during an incense, the incense will automatically resume after the restart. Thank you for all your patience!

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Summer Splash @everyone

Summer's well underway, and some Pokémon are sporting new outfits to match the season!
For the next two weeks (until <t:1662706740:F>), the following limited-time event Pokémon will be available to catch in the wild:

• Sharkfin Totodile
• Floatie Piplup
• Ukulele Pichu
• Grilling Snorlax
• Martini Dratini
• Surf Pikachu

These event Pokémon can also be obtained from redeems and from vote boxes.

[leaden valley]

All Systems Operational @Outages

All systems, including the forms portal, are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

@Outages The bot will be doing a full restart. Please be prepared for intermittent downtime for the next ~10-20 minutes.

[leaden valley]

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[zealous sierra]

Store Update

A couple prices at https://poketwo.net/store have been updated due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates.

In addition, the store now supports payments in BRL (Brazilian Real), MXN (Mexican Peso), and PHP (Philippine Peso). Remember, if you are looking for your local currency to be added to the store, please let us know and we'll try to fulfill your request.

[leaden valley]

Infrastructure Maintenance @Outages

Over the next couple of hours, I'll be working on our infrastructure security, which requires me to shift traffic between nodes as I go through each machine. There should be very little downtime, but the bot may reboot for 1–2 minutes on some servers a few times.

If this happens to you, note that the bot will come back up (and incenses will resume) within 1–2 minutes. Thank you!

[zealous sierra]

Thread Support Update @everyone

In the past, there was an issue with Pokétwo not working in older threads.
Thank you for the reports and your patience. This issue has now been fixed!

[leaden valley]

Upcoming Planned Downtime @Outages

We will be having a maintenance period of up to 2 hours starting at approximately <t:1663625700:T> (<t:1663625700:R>).
Due to this, new incenses will be unavailable for purchase starting now until after the maintenance period.

[leaden valley]

Planned Downtime @Outages

The maintenance period is starting now, and will last approximately 2 hours.

[leaden valley]

Continued Downtime @Outages

Unfortunately I've run into some major issues so the downtime will be continuing until further notice. No ETA is available.
Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

🔄 Restart @Outages

The bot will be restarting briefly to apply some updates.
Incenses will resume after the restart. Please sit tight.

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outages

There is currently a Discord issue that is causing 2/152 clusters to not work properly. There is nothing I can do at the moment to fix this.
I will be in contact with someone at Discord tomorrow to see if we can resolve the issue.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Autumn 🍂 & Halloween 👻 2022 @everyone

Happy Halloween! Are you wearing your most creative costume today? Well, you'd better be — otherwise, you'll be no match for the outfits being worn by these new Autumn & Halloween Pokémon that have been spotted in the Pokétwo wilderness recently.

For the next two weeks, the following Pokémon will be catchable and redeemable in the wild:

• Autumn Chikorita
• Autumn Rapidash
• Autumn Snivy
• Autumn Pansage
• Autumn Skiddo

What's more, some 😨 SPOOKY 😱 entities have been searching for these Pokémon... offer any Autumn 2022 Pokémon you have obtained to this mysterious entity using the @Pokétwo halloween offer command to receive 🎫 Trick-or-Treat tickets! Then, use these Trick-or-Treat tickets with the @Pokétwo halloween trickortreat command for the chance to receive these additional Halloween Pokémon (which cannot be found in the wild) and other goodies:

• Halloween Alolan Ninetales
• Halloween Carbink
• Halloween Morelull

In addition, if the entire community trick-or-treats 666,666 times, drop rates will be increased for the rest of the event.

You can view more information on this event with the @Pokétwo halloween command. Good luck!

Thank you to @Anoea @B(L)OO! 👻 | SH Ponyta @✞ | Jack-o’-Levi | sh ZORUA @Foxrii | SH Rookidee @Blubambee | Jess 🍓 for working on the art for this event!

[zealous sierra]

✅ QUEST COMPLETE ✅ @everyone

As we've hit 666,666 trick-or-treats, drop rates for Halloween Pokémon in Trick-or-Treats have been boosted! Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Bot down in all servers @Outages

We are looking into the situation and hope to fix it as soon as possible
Server will is in lockdown, meaning you cannot talk in most channels

Auctions are paused and will be extended/resumed upon bot reactivation
If there are issues with these when the bot is fully functioning again, please reach out to staff

Incenses are paused and will resume upon bot reactivation
If this does not happen, please reach out to staff with evidence of the lost Pokémon in the incense

**Do not vote during the bot outage as it may result in not receiving a voting box. **

We are dealing with a severe security issue.

The bot may be down indefinitely until the issue is resolved.
I am taking the proper steps to secure our systems. Rest assured, no sensitive information is at risk.
Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

[leaden valley]

@Outages The bot is not shutting down. I am waiting on a response from one of our hosting providers; as it is the weekend, I do not expect a response until Monday. More updates will come once I receive a response from them.

[leaden valley]

I have received the response I was waiting for, and the security issue has been resolved. I'll be working on bringing the bot back up, I estimate that it should take another 1-2 days. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Update: I'll need a little more time to bring all our infrastructure back up. Thanks for your patience!

[leaden valley]

I'm still waiting on some servers to be reprovisioned, but we've made a lot of progress toward bringing the bot back up!
Note: Please do not ask about when the bot will be back up. I will send an update when we're done. Thank you for all your patience.

[leaden valley]

@Outages The bot's up again in the community server and a small number of other servers! Since I'm still waiting on our hosting provider to take care of a couple tasks, I'll be gradually bringing it back up and monitoring stability. I will make another announcement when the bot is fully back up.

[leaden valley]

Update: I am still waiting on our hosting provider to take care of a few tasks. Thanks for your patience!

[leaden valley]

@Outages I've just received word that our hosting provider has taken care of everything needed, so all that's left for me to do is to reconfigure the remaining three machines, run some tests, and deploy Pokétwo back! I'll try to get this done by tomorrow, but unfortunately, I have a final and will also be on the move tomorrow, so it may have to wait until Saturday. But we're getting really close!

[leaden valley]

Update: This might be pushed to Monday because I ran into another issue that my hosting provider needs to fix.

[zealous sierra]

Pokétwo is back online! @everyone

I've finally managed to get Pokétwo back up and running — sorry for the extreme delay! This shouldn't have taken nearly this long, but with a couple days of debugging networking, then being stuck studying for finals, and lastly waiting over a week for our host to transition our machines over to their new system and fix any issues made our recovery time come out to over two weeks. On the bright side, I've been able to take my time to rebuild our infrastructure from the ground up to be much more robust, so nothing like this should happen again.

To compensate, we'll be giving everyone 5 Master Boxes. You can open these boxes with @Pokétwo open master. In addition, for the next two weeks, there will be a 50% spawn rate boost and a double shiny rate boost. I hope this at least helps y'all catch up a little on the catching time lost due to the bot being down.

In addition, we're doubling opportunities to earn vote boxes by introducing an additional bot list site! You can now vote for our bot on both https://top.gg AND https://discordbotlist.com to earn up to 4 boxes a day! Run @Pokétwo vote for links to both bot lists.

You can vote on the new site here: https://discordbotlist.com/bots/poketwo/upvote

Lastly, we've also extended shiny charms that were active when the bot went down.
We'll be re-opening our support server help desk very soon, so if you have any further concerns, feel free to open a ticket there.

Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

@Outages bot up

[leaden valley]

@Outages Hey guys, there was an issue with spawning earlier because I forgot to scale the # instances of our image generation server from 4 (while only this server had the bot up) back to 32 (which can handle all the spawning on all servers). It's fixed now, sorry about that!

[leaden valley]

@Outages Bot's restarting briefly, sorry about this!

[zealous sierra]

New Event 🎄 Christmas 2022 @everyone

It's Christmas Eve, but unfortunately, somebody has hacked into Santa's workshop and stolen all his presents! Santa needs your help to raise enough money to recover his gifts and spread his holiday cheer. Look out for 🪙 Christmas Coins dropped while catching any Pokémon! Donate these coins to Santa by spending them at Santa's Shop. If, by <t:1672560000:F>, the community donates a total of 200,000 coins, then Santa will be able to get everyone presents!

The event will continue until <t:1673164800:F>, but donations after January 1 will not count toward the community quest goal.

You can donate coins to Santa to receive different boxes:

Random Box (1 coin) — random assortment of Pokémon and other items
Pokémon Box (4 coins) — Pokémon and Event Pokémon
Currency Box (4 coins) — shards, Pokécoins, and redeems
Event Box (8 coins) — Event Pokémon only

In these boxes, you'll have the opportunity to receive these limited-time Event Pokémon:

• Snowball Gastly
• Ice Princess Kirlia
• Choco Milcery
• Lights Mew
• Christmas Tree Snorunt
• Lights Pachirisu
• Nutcrack Sirfetch'd
• Ice Present Eiscue

Thank you to @Anoea @Bluedolph🎄| SH Ponyta @Dagger_Mace @jas | 🎄 | shinies @chri for drawing the art for this event!

Remember, on top of the chance to earn Christmas Coins and these Event Pokémon, the spawn rate boost and shiny rate boost from the above announcement are still active, so now's a great chance to pop some incenses and catch some Pokémon!

Good luck, and happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outages

We are currently investigating an ongoing issue causing the bot to be unresponsive.
Thank you for your patience while we resolve this.

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

@Outages All auctions ending in the next hour will be extended by 30 minutes while I perform a little maintenance work

[zealous sierra]

The event period has now ended — you have another week to redeem your rewards.

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outages

There is currently an issue causing the bot to be unresponsive in ~4% of servers.
We are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outages

We are having some network issues. Please stand by...

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone!
Cupid time is almost here, but wait...? He forgot his bow and arrow!!
Who is going to take his place in the Pokétwo world celebrating Valentines and spreading love
Find out soon 👀

[zealous sierra]

Valentine's Day Event @everyone

Cupid time is almost here, but wait...? He forgot his bow and arrow!
Decidueye is taking his place in the Pokétwo world, celebrating Valentine's and spreading love!
Celebrate by purchasing a Cupid Decidueye Gift for that special someone, or simply a friend.

Each Cupid Decidueye comes with a customizable card! Pick from our selection of different backgrounds and overlays, along with a custom message! An example of a possible combination of backgrounds and overlays is shown below.

Use the command @Pokétwo valentine gift <ID/@User> <message> to purchase a gift!

• You may purchase up to 5 gifts.
• The first gift costs 5,000 Pokécoins.
• Additional gifts cost 10,000 Pokécoins each.
• Trainers (both gifters and receivers) must have started Pokétwo prior to February 11, 2023 to participate.

Gifts will be available for purchase for the next seven days (until <t:1676764800:F>). Enjoy!

[zealous sierra]

🥚 + 🐇 = 🧺

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Spring & Easter 2023 🌱 @everyone

It's Spring Time! Flowers are blooming, creating a perfect opportunity to create some beautiful bouquets. Maybe flower-arranging isn't your thing and you prefer finding hidden eggs within the vast landscape for a special gift! No matter what choice you prefer, there is always something for everyone.

For the next two weeks (until <t:1682146800:F>), the following Pokémon will be available to obtain through completing special event tasks, detailed below:

– Bug Catcher Weedle
– Flower Paras
– Hatching Beautifly
– Bird Nest Nuzleaf
– Spring Blooming Diancie
– Flower Pheromosa
– Eggneton
– Egg Hunter Kangaskhan
– Egg Basket Buneary
– Egg Searching Steenee

Obtaining and Arranging Flowers

Look out for an assortment of flowers dropped while catching Pokémon:

– Venusaur Leaf
– Shaymin Gracidea
– Lilligant Lily
– Gossifleur Cotton Blossom

• Eldegoss Cotton Ball

Arrange these flowers into bouquets with the @Pokétwo spring bouquet command to entice limited-time Spring Pokemon to come to you. Different Pokemon will prefer different flowers, so don't forget to make different bouquets in order to entice a variety of Spring Pokemon!

Obtaining Easter Eggs

You can also obtain Easter Eggs from catching Pokemon! Each Easter Egg contains a special limited-time Easter Pokémon inside. Complete quests in order to hatch the eggs and obtain these special Pokémon!

[leaden valley]

Bot is down @Outages

The bot is currently offline, it'll be back soon!

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[zealous sierra]

Heya @everyone!

Pokétwo is about to have its anniversary really soon! In order to commemorate its anniversary, we have decided to host a Pokétwo Anniversary Drawing Contest. The top ideas will be picked through a public poll from the top 10 ideas and will be made into reality! If you only have an idea description, please be as thorough as possible. We will be only opening images through Imgur links, so if you do have an image, make sure to upload it through Imgur! The deadline to submit these will be on <t:1684220340:f>. Please use your Discord ID when submitting. If you have no idea how to get the ID, please read this link: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/206346498-Where-can-I-find-my-User-Server-Message-ID-LMAO.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXbBeIfB9addpclR5UCZku0Jb6DmlPXE66IBSR65y12hz_rA/viewform?usp=sf_link

[zealous sierra]

Heya @everyone!

Thank you so much for your patience! There were many wonderful ideas and drawings for submissions. Out of all these amazing submissions, we have finally narrowed our top 10 selection. Please make your choices wisely as you can only vote once! This poll will end on <t:1684728000:f>.

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1gaintS6YlBXiS9UJc9ITdq8rwU5yXpKmffbBp0vHxLnVXg/viewform

[zealous sierra]

The form has now been closed!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Third Birthday, Pokétwo! @everyone

Another year has passed, and May 30 comes by again, meaning it's now been three years since Pokétwo was created!
Let's celebrate together with some new updates.

1️⃣ Generation 9 Pokémon

The new Pokémon from the Paldea Region introduced in Generation 9 are now available! Thank you to @Anoea for helping recolor the shiny artwork for these 100+ Pokémon, and to our staff, most of all @Witherr🖤 | sh ralts, for helping me run some extensive tests before the release to ensure a smooth transition.

Full Pokémon List: Sprigatito, Floragato, Meowscarada, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge, Quaxly, Quaxwell, Quaquaval, Lechonk, Oinkologne, Tarountula, Spidops, Nymble, Lokix, Pawmi, Pawmo, Pawmot, Tandemaus, Maushold, Fidough, Dachsbun, Smoliv, Dolliv, Arboliva, Squawkabilly, Nacli, Naclstack, Garganacl, Charcadet, Armarouge, Ceruledge, Tadbulb, Bellibolt, Wattrel, Kilowattrel, Maschiff, Mabosstiff, Shroodle, Grafaiai, Bramblin, Brambleghast, Toedscool, Toedscruel, Klawf, Capsakid, Scovillain, Rellor, Rabsca, Flittle, Espathra, Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, Tinkaton, Wiglett, Wugtrio, Bombirdier, Finizen, Palafin, Varoom, Revavroom, Cyclizar, Orthworm, Glimmet, Glimmora, Greavard, Houndstone, Flamigo, Cetoddle, Cetitan, Veluza, Dondozo, Tatsugiri, Annihilape, Clodsire, Farigiraf, Dudunsparce, Kingambit, Great Tusk, Scream Tail, Brute Bonnet, Flutter Mane, Slither Wing, Sandy Shocks, Iron Treads, Iron Bundle, Iron Hands, Iron Jugulis, Iron Moth, Iron Thorns, Frigibax, Arctibax, Baxcalibur, Gimmighoul, Gholdengo, Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, Chi-Yu, Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, Koraidon, Miraidon, Walking Wake, Iron Leaves

The Paldean forms of Tauros and Wooper will also be added in the coming days.

Note that while we've been able to gather most Generation 9 data, we're missing some battling-related information, such as the details on how the new moves introduced in the generation work. The new Pokémon will still have movesets; they just won't include the brand new moves for now. Additionally, we don't have back battle sprites, so those are replaced with flipped versions of the front battle sprites for now.

2️⃣ Limited-time Event Pokémon

For the next two weeks (until <t:1686726000:F>), the following Pokémon are available to catch in the wild:

– Anniversary Lapras, by @concrete : swablu
– Skater Wooper, by @Stranger and @Anoea
– Cupcake Alcremie, by @E

These can also be obtained from redeems and from vote boxes!

Lapras, Wooper, and Alcremie are the winners you guys voted for in the art competition that's been happening in this channel! Thank you to everybody who submitted artwork, and congratulations to the amazing people listed above for winning the popular vote.

3️⃣ Store Sale

We'll also be having a sale on our shard shop at https://poketwo.net/store!
Use code LECHONK at checkout to receive 20% off on all shard purchases.

From me, and all of Pokétwo management and staff, wishing for another year of happy catching to all!
(And... perhaps look for something else coming up soon 👀)

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Pride Month 2023 @everyone

It's Pride Month, and Pokémon are celebrating too! Certain Pokémon have even been spotted in special pride forms. Participate in this festival for the chance to obtain limited-time Pride Pokémon, all while supporting the LGBTQ+ community!

Use the @Pokétwo pride command to view information regarding this event.

New Pride Pokémon

During the month of June, we're introducing fifteen new event Pokémon, each showing off its own colors:

– Pride Zigzagoon, Comfey, Arceus
– (Non-binary) Pride Mew, Unown
– (Lesbian) Pride Masquerain, Tinkaton
– (Bisexual) Pride Bellossom, Toucannon
– (Gay) Pride Roserade, Rufflet
– (Transgender) Pride Gardevoir/Delphox, Sylveon
– (Pansexual) Pride Milotic, Piplup

To obtain them, you will need to befriend the regular versions of these Pokémon. You can have one active buddy at a time, to whom you can offer pride flags ( 🏳️‍⚧️ ). These pride flags will drop while catching regularly, and also from event quests. The more pride flags you offer to your buddy, the higher that Pokémon's pride level — once that level is high enough, the Pokémon will transform into its Pride variant! You will also receive Pokécoins from offering flags to your Pride buddy.

To view your current Pride buddy, use the @Pokétwo pride buddy command.
To offer flags to your buddy, use the @Pokétwo pride offer command.

Pride Arceus: You will only be able to set Pride Arceus as your buddy after you have collected one pride Pokémon associated with each type of flag. This counter resets after, so if you would like to obtain another Pride Arceus, you must collect one pride Pokémon of each type again before you can do so.

Boosted Festival Hours

Every seven hours, there will be a four-hour festival duration during which one pride flag is featured! During these four-hour windows, flag drops of that type will be more frequent while catching. You'll also receive a new set of event quests during each window, which you can complete to receive bonus flags of that type. You must complete all quests within the four-hour window to receive the reward.

You can view the current or next festival window with the @Pokétwo pride command.

Pride Month Fundraising

While we hope everybody is able to have fun with Pokétwo during Pride Month, we'd also like to draw attention to some of the serious societal issues surrounding this celebration. The matter of the fact is, LGBTQ people still face discrimination all across the world. LGBTQ youth are especially affected, with studies showing that LGBTQ youth are more than four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society.

During Pride Month, I will be personally donating $5,000, with an additional $0.80 for every $1 spent on the bot, to the Trevor Project (https://www.thetrevorproject.org/). The Trevor Project is a US-based suicide prevention organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention assistance for youth who might find themselves in that situation.

If you purchase shards during Pride Month, you will also receive a Pride 2023 badge when the month ends.
If you'd like to help support the cause further, please also consider donating individually to The Trevor Project, or to another organization working to support the LGBTQ+ movement!

[zealous sierra]

Hey! We've rolled out a couple new updates thanks to the work of @Witherr🖤 | sh ralts:

– Level and IV are now shown when your are prompted whether you would like to set a Pokémon as your Pride Buddy
– You'll now receive a notification when you are eligible to obtain Pride Arceus
– You're now able to override a Pride Buddy that you set in the past
– Flag parsing logic has been improved in the offer command
– Fixed various miscellaneous bugs

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outage Pings

Recovered @Outage Pings

All systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Majour Outage @Outage Pings

The bot seems to completely offline, we are looking into it.

[leaden valley]

Maintenance @Outage Pings

Doing some maintenance on the cluster. Bot is expected to not be affected.

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be offline everywhere, we are looking into it!

Recovered We’re back! Sorry about that, and thank you for your patience.

[zealous sierra]

Pride Month Update @everyone

The Pride Month event has now fully ended. Thanks for participating!
Any existing flags left in players' inventories have been converted to Pokécoins at the rate of 50 Pokécoins per flag.

Additionally, thank you for your support throughout the Pride Month event and fundraiser! Your support during Pride Month has enabled the donation of $22,300 to the Trevor Project (receipt attached below). Every user who has purchased shards with real-world currency has received a Pride badge as well as a special event Pokémon Pride Tandemaus as a gift for their generosity.

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone!
We would like to improve the Pokétwo events and what better than to ask the community directly! we wanted to ask your opinion regarding the previous event (Anniversary x Pride) and the events you've played so far.
If you would like to give your feedback, please fill in the google form linked below.

Thank you ❤️

https://forms.gle/X1PVV6Dt5rMH4rJ79

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone!
Thank you all for the feedback! ❤️
We will go through all the responses and discuss what we can improve for future events.
The form will be closing in <t:1692627360:R>, so if you haven't responded yet, do it now 💪

The form is closed!

[leaden valley]

Pokétwo Gateway Restart @Outage Pings

We will be restarting our gateway proxy. This may result in up to a few minutes of downtime while all shards reconnect.

[zealous sierra]

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[zealous sierra]

Summer Camp time 🏕️ @everyone

Summer is nearing its end, and it's the perfect time to go camping! Join Camp Leader Quagsire, Tent Snorunt, Camper Charjabug, Timber Timburr and Kettle Polteageist on a trip to Clarity Lake to set up camp and take part in various activities together! Go on expeditions with your pokemon to explore the lake, caves and forests for rewards 🥾, Go fishing at the lake for valuables 🎣, Visit the Camper Shop to purchase souvenirs and Join the group around the campfire to tell ghost stories 👻!

During this 2 week event, you can participate in various campsite activities and earn ☀️ Summer Tokens, Shards, Exclusive Pokemon and much more!

Do @Pokétwo summer to learn more!

Fishing 🎣 (@Pokétwo summer fish <amount>)

Whenever you catch a wild Pokémon, there's a chance that you'll find a 🪱 Fishing Bait! You can use these to test your luck in the waters for ☀️ Summer Tokens, Pokécoins and much more! And if luck is on your side, maybe you'll reel in a Fishing Smeargle ft. Magikarp!

Expeditions 🥾 (@Pokétwo expedition)

Send your Pokémon on expeditions to explore the beautiful locations at Clarity Lake to search for ☀️ Summer Tokens! The longer they're exploring, the more they'll be able to find.

The Camper Shop 🚙 (@Pokétwo summer shop)

Camper Charjabug has got many exciting items for you! Spend your hard earned Summer Tokens here for various items and souvenirs! From Pokécoins and Shards to a variety of Pokémon, it's got it all. Here you can obtain various summer-exclusive Pokémon to add to your collection!

• Camp Leader Quagsire
• Tent Snorunt
• Camper Charjabug
• Timber Timburr
• Kettle Polteageist
• Marshmallow Maushold

Ghost Story Telling Contest

What is a campfire without eating marshmallows while listening to scary and exciting ghost stories?
Tell a small original Pokémon ghost story in the Google form linked below to join the ghost story contest 🔗

The top 5 most original and fun stories will be published and voted upon by the community.
Each of the top 5 will earn a Summer Camp reward and the winner's story will be the theme for the upcoming Halloween event 🎃

👉 https://forms.gle/wpqJzDrMbWrgT5zv6 👈

[zealous sierra]

Ghost Story deadline

Hey everyone,
We have gotten a lot of Pokémon ghost stories already, thank you all for sharing 👻 !
To be able to read the stories thoroughly, we will be closing the form on <t:1693764000:F>
So if you haven't submitted yours yet, please do 🎃

👉 https://forms.gle/wpqJzDrMbWrgT5zv6 👈

FORM IS CLOSED!

[zealous sierra]

End of the Summer 2023 Event

Hey y'all! The Summer 2023 Event has ended! You can no longer receive Fishing Bait or send pokemon on expeditions. Any pokemon still on expedition will return with rewards the same though, and you can continue to solve riddles on these expeditions :)

Remember to use your remaining Fishing Bait (@‌Pokétwo#8236 summer fish) and Summer Tokens (@‌Pokétwo#8236 summer shop) before the final ending of the event, which should be 1 week from now.

Hope you all have enjoyed the event so far, happy catching

[zealous sierra]

Ghost Story Community vote 👻

@everyone
Thank you to everyone who responded to the Ghost Story contest!
We have selected a top 5 for all of you to read and vote on.
The winning story will be the inspiration for the upcoming Halloween event 🎃
The voting will close <t:1694894400:R>

👉 https://forms.gle/WVHR88YbnxaHCFNZ7 👈

[zealous sierra]

Ghost Story Community vote part 2 👻

@everyone
Thank you all for the lots of responses! Because three stories are so close to each other in score, we wanted to have an extra vote for the top 3!
This time, you can choose for a first choice and second choice.
The winning story will be the inspiration for the upcoming Halloween event 🎃
The voting will close <t:1695236400:R>

👉 https://forms.gle/hEBdpCwAQ7vfDHEs6 👈

FORM IS CLOSED

[zealous sierra]

Ghost Story winner 👻 !

@everyone
We are excited to announce the winner of the Ghost Story Contest
This will be the inspiration for the upcoming Halloween event 🎃
Thank you all for voting and writing the lots of amazing stories ❤️

The Tale of the Ruined Golurk by @D-Wrecks | Slakoth

Gather around now, for I am about to tell a tale you best not forget, the tale of Ruined Golurk and the four Sinister Sages! Many moons ago, an extraordinary Golurk roamed the world of Pokémon, hailed as the strongest in all the land! The Golurk disliked conflict and did everything in its power to maintain peace, only using its mighty strength to protect the defenseless from the powerful.

However, one day while Golurk was wandering through the woods, it encountered a group of four unnamed ghost-type Pokémon surrounded by a pack of fearsome Mightyena! Golurk intervened to protect the Pokémon, and a fight ensued! However, the cunning leader of the Mightyena pack had a foul trick in mind: during the battle, it shredded Golurk’s chest seal clean off!

The only thing restraining Golurk’s true power is the seal on its chest, and without it, Golurk went into an uncontrollable frenzy! Golurk easily chased off the pack of Mightyena… but then turned on the four ghost types it was trying to protect! But before Golurk could lash out with its power, it saw the fear in the eyes if the four ghost-type Pokémon and remembered for a brief moment who it used to be. It couldn’t harm these Pokémon, because all it ever did was protect the defenseless! But Golurk knew it couldn’t hold back its power much longer…

Hurt, enraged, and conflicted, Golurk bolted deep into the woods, trying to isolate itself from all other Pokémon so it wouldn’t accidentally unleash its terrible strength upon them. Without the seal, the rift on its chest grew wider every day, and more cracks branched out across its body. The infinity energy was leaking out of the Ruined Golurk, which only increased its rage and power further. Any Pokémon that tried to approach the Ruined Golurk in the woods was met with its unrelenting attacks. There was truly nothing it could do to stop itself from rampaging around…

But the four ghost-type Pokémon that were rescued by the Golurk never forgot the look of pain in its eyes before it turned and fled. They vowed to band together and restore the Ruined Golurk to its normal, heroic self. The four unnamed ghosts each had unique powers that they hoped would help them locate and calm Golurk. They called themselves the Sinister Sages, and only together could their powers quell the Golurk.

The Sage of Flames plans to use its light to illuminate the woods and attract the Golurk, luring it from the depths of the woods. The Sage of Shadows will trap the angry Golurk in place, allowing the other sages to complete their work. The Sage of Foliage plans to grow a new, extra-powerful seal for the Golurk, a seal that will never be removed again by the cruel and wicked Pokémon of the land. Finally, the Sage of Snaring will secure the seal to the Golurk’s chest, trapping the infinity energy within the Ruined Hero once and for all. With all these steps completed, they hope to restore their hero to defend the lands once more.

It is said the Sinister Sages continue to roam the woods to this day, attempting to seek out their hero and save it from its torment, but their quest isn’t easy. Without the Heroic Golurk around, the cruel Pokémon of the world roam unchallenged, causing mischief and chaos wherever they go. The Sages are forced to fight off these Pokémon and keep searching for their hero, no matter how long it takes them…

That is why you must heed this story, you must take caution when around these woods at night! If you hear distant rumbles or see glowing through the trees, it can only be the Ruined Golurk! Flee as quickly as you can before you are met with its terrible might! And beware the shadows too, for that is where the packs of wicked Pokémon lurk!

[zealous sierra]

🍃 Autumn is coming 🍂 @everyone

Leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, the temperature is dropping. It is time for Autumn!
A handful of Pokémon are preparing for the colder times and you are able to catch these!

• Pile of Leaves Swalot
• Toadsie
• Pumpkaboo Spice Latte
• Autumn Dachsbun
• Mushroom Nacli

This small event will be 1 week of catching event Pokémon, in preparation for upcoming Halloween 🎃

<t:1697251542:f>: The event has now ended! Hope y'all had fun and love the event pokemon as much as I do :D

[zealous sierra]

Autumn Event extended

Due to the bot's outage this last couple days, we've decided to extend the Autumn Event by 2 days! The Autumn pokémon will be catchable until around October 13th PST (no specific timestamp because it may vary a little)!

We are extremely sorry about the outage and issues caused by it and hope that this extension will help y'all catch up. Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Back Online! @Outage Pings
Everything should be back to normal working order again! Incenses should also be safe to start now. Any broken incense should also resume as normal. Otherwise if you've lost more than 20 pokemon on your incenses, please open a ticket on our support server!

We've also decided to extend the Autumn event by 2 days! #717883936314753045 message

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Saving Ruined Golurk 👻 @everyone

Event Backstory

Hey everyone! Halloween is near, and the world of Pokétwo preparing for festivities 🎃, but a tragic thing happened in the forest. Golurk has been attacked and lost control over its powers 😱 ! Four brave Pokémon, the Sinister Sages, want to help Golurk and save the forest from evil Pokémon. You can help the Sinister Sages during the coming two weeks. But be wary of the several Foul Beasts that roam the forest freely now without Golurks protection 👀 .

During these two weeks of the Halloween event, there will be six milestones to conquer together as a community. Together we can save Golurk and the forest ❤️

The Four Sinister Sages are:

• Braixen, Sage of Flames
• Weavile, Sage of Shadows
• Breloom, Sage of Foliage
• Roggenrola, Sage of Snaring

The Foul Beasts are:

• Evil Mightyena
• Voodoo Spinda
• Pumpkin Gothorita
• Overgrown Shiinotic

[leaden valley]

Event commands not working in some servers @Outage Pings
Event commands, satchel drops, profile command, Ruined Golurk spawns, etc seem to not be working in some servers. Please double check that these do work in your server before playing, while we investigate the issue!

Fixed! They should work fine again in affected servers.

[zealous sierra]

Halloween event end

The event has now ended as of <t:1699563800:f>! (Sorry about the late announcement). You'll still be able to open satchels you already own for about a week or so, but new ones won't drop and previously catchable event pokemon will no longer spawn. Hope y'all enjoyed the event

Remaining sigils will soon be converted to pokecoins!

[zealous sierra]

🍂 Harvest Festival 🥧 @everyone

After the spooky season and the battle with Golurk, everyone wanted to celebrate with a Harvest Festival 🍂 !
For 7 days, you can catch the following Pokémon preparing for the Harvest Festival:

👒 Harvesting Ledian
🧑‍🍳 Cooking Chespin
🥕 Nibbling Bunnelby
🍐 Pear Flapple

We wish everyone a happy Harvest and good luck preparing for the darker and colder days ❤️

[zealous sierra]

Halloween Feedback

Hey @everyone!
Halloween is already a couple of weeks behind us, but we were wondering what you guys were thinking of the event. It would help us greatly if you can fill in this Google Form regarding the event.

👉 https://forms.gle/kTaH9JSa2wa7yUDL6 👈

We hope you enjoyed the continuing of the story of Ruined Golurk 😊

[zealous sierra]

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[zealous sierra]

All Aboard The Poké Express! 🎟️ @everyone

All aboard The Poké Express, where adventure awaits and joyous cheer fills the air! As the frosty winds whistle through the forests and hills, cosy up inside The Poké Express with various event-exclusive Pokémon for the most magical journey of all—to the North Pole to see Santa!

Catch event-exclusive pokémon!

• Santa H. Zorua
• Reindeer Deerling
• Pyjama Minccino

During this 3 week event, you can earn a wide assortment of rewards such as Event-exclusive Pokémon, Rare pokémon, High IV Pokémon, Pokécoins, Shards and an exclusive Christmas Badge from the Poképass! Complete minigames to earn XP, level up your Poképass and collect various festive gifts and rewards along the way!

Do @Pokétwo christmas to learn more!

🎟️ The Poképass (@Pokétwo christmas)

The Poképass is a fun new mechanic where you can complete minigames and level up to earn various rewards, getting better and better rewards as you reach higher levels! Complete the Poképass and collect special rewards for every extra level you complete 👀!

Earn Poképass-exclusive pokémon!

• Train Varoom
• Conductor Dragonite
• Pyjama Plusle & Minun
• Christmas Tree Smoliv — Watch as it evolves into most beautiful christmas tree of all —
• Christmas Tree Dolliv
• Christmas Tree Arboliva

Minigames (@Pokétwo christmas minigames)

You can complete a wide variety of minigames in order to earn XP and progress your Poképass! Complete easy minigames that refresh daily for quick XP, and harder minigames that refresh weekly for massive XP!

Presents (@Pokétwo christmas open <qty>)

Once you've completed the Poképass, you will receive a present from Santa for every new level you complete! These presents can contain huge amounts of the different rewards you've received throughout the main levels of the Poképass, along with an exclusive pokémon 🎆!

Server Profile Picture and Banner by @Elle 🎄 Vulpix!

[leaden valley]

Event minigames/quests not rewarding if DMs closed @Outage Pings
There is a bug where event minigames/quests do not reward XP if your DMs are closed. We are working on fixing this bug as soon as possible, but until then please make sure that the bot is able to DM you. If this has happened to you, please DM me with screenshots and I'll give you the XP and rewards manually.

Fixed!

[leaden valley]

Outage @Outage Pings
The bot is offline. We are investigating the issue!

Please wait until the bot is back up to request incense refunds, if any

Back online!
Please open a ticket in our support server if you've lost 25 or more pokemon in your incenses and would like a refund

[leaden valley]

Event quest reset notification down
Quest reset notifications are down due to a large backlog caused by the outage, but they'll still reset when you use an event command. We're working on deploying a fix for this.

[leaden valley]

Discord media outage @Outage Pings
Media (images, videos, etc) are currently not able to load due to a problem on discord's end. This is not something we can fix. Check https://status.discord.com to stay updated!

Please do not use incenses at this moment as you will be unable to see the spawned pokemon. For currently running incenses, please kick the bot in your server in order to pause them until this issue is resolved.

[zealous sierra]

Christmas Event End @everyone

The event has now ended as of <t:1705225511:f>! Previously catchable event pokémon will no longer spawn, no new minigames will appear and no Poképass XP will be granted on catch. But you can still complete current minigames and open presents for about a week!

We really hope you all have enjoyed the event !

[zealous sierra]

End of Year Feedback

Hey @everyone!
Christmas is already a couple of weeks behind us, but we were wondering what your thoughts are on the past year and the Christmas event. It would help us greatly if you can fill in this Google Form!

👉 https://forms.gle/h2EjcPAtN9MEVBiK6 👈

We hope that we can make nice events for this year ❤️

[zealous sierra]

Love Is In The Cold Air 💞! @everyone

In between the cold days there is a special day full of love, Valentine's Day!
During this 2 week event, you can catch several Winter Pokémon in the wild and find 💝 Chocolate Boxes as you catch pokémon, that contain various rewards! Use @Pokétwo#8236 valentines to learn more 🎉
Chocolate Box exclusive Valentine's Pokémon:

• Lovebird Unfezant
• Snoozing Meowstic
  Catch event-exclusive Winter Pokémon:
• Snowy Wormadam
• Polar Stufful
• Snow Leopard Sneasler

Introducing Genders!

We're happy to announce that we're introducing the Pokémon gender system to Pokétwo (permanent)! Keep an eye out in the wild, as some of them will appear different depending on their gender! There's a total of 103 Pokémon that have new gender art, can you collect them all? 🔥

For now, this is mostly a cosmetic feature. But this the first step towards other features coming in the future, stay tuned! 👀

A huge thanks to the Event Team, @Anoea, @oliver and especially @Spek for their tremendous hard work!

We hope you all have a lovely day together with loved ones and/or friends ❤️

[zealous sierra]

Winter x Valentine's Event End

The event has ended today. The catchable event Pokémon will no longer spawn and the boxes cannot be earned anymore.
We hope you enjoyed the event !

[zealous sierra]

Winter & Valentine's Feedback

Hey @everyone !
I hope you all enjoyed the Winter & Valentine's event ❤️ . We were wondering what your thoughts were regarding this event and some general thoughts on events within Pokétwo.

👉 https://forms.gle/mux3aFhEmBHfJhQ7A 👈

Thank you for participating in this event and hope to see you all soon 👀

[zealous sierra]

Spring Overgrown 🌱

@everyone
Spring came earlier than expected, which seems to be affecting many Pokémon. Three Pokémon in particular show these overgrown symptoms, catch them before they flee!

The following Pokémon will appear in the wild to be caught for a week!

• Overgrown Mawile
• Blossom Cherrim
• Overgrown Carnivine

Happy catching! 🌿👀

[zealous sierra]

Spring Event End

The event has now ended. The catchable event Pokémon can no longer spawn!

We hope that you enjoyed this event

[zealous sierra]

Happy Easter

Happy Easter @everyone! To celebrate Easter, the Easter Bunny has hid eggs everywhere with various prizes in them, and it's up to you to find them 👀.

By completing quests, crossing out bingos and filling up bingo cards 📝, you can win lots of prizes, along with 5 new exclusive Pokémon!

• Egg Painter Meowth
• Easter Egg Azurill
• Flower Family Swanna
• Easter Togedemaru
• Egg Forager Lechonk

See what you need to do for your Easter Bingo card by doing @Pokétwo easter!

Event ends in 2 weeks (April 13)

[zealous sierra]

Happy April Fool's everyone!
All colour disappeared from Pokémon and turned into sketches! We will need a week to 'fix' the colour problem and bring everything back to normal 📝 .
A team of really talented people put a lot of time and effort into it, and we're happy to see you guys enjoying it so much 😊. It will stay this way for a week before reverting back!

You can find the lovely drawings and their credits here!

[leaden valley]

Discord message sending issue @Outage Pings
Due to an issue on Discord's end, the bot is unable to send messages in a lot of servers. This is causing spawns to not get sent, causing confusion. This is unfortunately not something we can fix, but you can stay updated at https://discordstatus.com !

If you have incenses running, we advise that you kick the bot from the server in order to pause them to prevent loss of spawns until this issue is resolved. If you've lost 25 or more spawns from an incense, please open a refund request ticket on our support server.

[zealous sierra]

Easter Event End

The easter event has now ended! You can still complete your existing Bingo card and open your Easter Eggs, but you can't get new cards/quests anymore.

Thank you for playing

[leaden valley]

Outage @Outage Pings
The bot has stopped responding to most commands. We are looking into it!

All auctions have been extended by 3 hours (won't take that long to fix, I overcompensated), will extend further if needed

We're back!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Anni4sary, Pokétwo! 🎂 @everyone

It's Pokétwo's 4th birthday and to celebrate, the pokémon are opening: Poké2Café, and need your help! Accept orders, find ingredients in the wild, cook up a wide variety of dishes, serve them to hungry customers during these 2 weeks and earn various rewards and exclusive Pokémon along the way! 🧑‍🍳

Milestone Exclusive Pokémon

• Birthday Cake Alolan Vulpix
• Fancy Cutlery Doublade

Order Completion & Donation Special Pokémon

• Pasta Bolognese Tangela
• Temaki Gulpin
• Ice Cream Spheals
• Clamacaron
• Goomy Brûlée
• Strawberry Shortcake Applin
• Dango Falinks
• Onigiri Bellibolt

🎟️ Fulfil Orders!

You will receive a set of new orders at regular intervals, accept one and get cooking 🔥! An Easy order will appear every 30 minutes stacking up to 20, and a Hard order every hour stacking up to 10. Hard orders are more challenging to complete, but yield much better rewards! Each order will have a unique recipe, and you must use the right ingredients to complete them!

🌿 Ingredients

As you catch wild Pokémon, you will find various ingredients that can be used to fulfil orders. As you find more and more, it will become increasingly important to manage your ingredients and accept orders based on the ingredients you have. Can you keep up? 👀

Donate Ingredients

Done with all your current orders and got nothing to do? You can take a break, or you can keep at the grind 🔥! Donate excess ingredients from your stock in exchange for some rewards! Keep in mind though, you might need them for future orders!

💎 Order & Donation Milestones

As you complete orders and donate ingredients, you will receive special pokémon for reaching certain milestones along with the usual rewards!

• A Birthday Cake Alolan Vulpix at every 10 Hard orders and every 10 Donations
• A Fancy Cutlery Doublade at every 20 Easy orders and every 5 Donations

Do @Pokétwo#8236 anniversary and @Pokétwo#8236 help anniversary to get started!

And finally, thank you 💛

On May 30th, Pokétwo will be 4 years old!!! It has truly been a wonderful journey with you all. It brings us true joy to be able to improve and build new features and events for you all to enjoy. We have much more in the works and many exciting new & long requested features that we can't wait to show you! Stay tuned on the 30th for some big surprises 👀, and in the later days of June for a pride event!

From the entire Pokétwo team, thank you. This wouldn't have been possible without you. We hope you have a wonderful year, and happy catching! 💛

Note: There will be a discount on the store on the 30th, we will make an announcement with the promo code once it's live!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Fourth Birthday, Pokétwo! 🎂 @everyone

It's 30th May yet again, which means that Pokétwo has now turned four! To celebrate, we're excited to introduce a handful of long awaited features!

1️⃣ Forms Are Here!

It's been exactly four years since Pokétwo was created and ever since, the various unique forms of Pokémon have consistently been our top suggestion! Today, we are extremely excited to say that they're finally here. Say hello to 84 new forms (including G-Max) that you can collect! Thank you to @Anoea for her very hard work on organizing this addition, recolouring all shiny artwork and drawing missing artwork, that made this possible! Some will spawn in the wild, some will require new held items, and some will require the brand new item, Transformation ! Can you collect 'em all?

Full Forms List

We have been able to gather most data on these forms, however we unfortunately do not have all their moveset data, so some may be inaccurate. In addition, we have made it so that all forms (event, gmax, etc) that do not have any moves will now inherit moves from their base Pokémon, just so they're still usable until we have the updated data!

2️⃣ Gigantamax Pokémon

The long awaited Gigantamax Pokémon are here! You can now obtain all 35 Gigantamax Pokémon—but here's the twist—as you catch Pokémon that have a G-Max form, there will be a chance that they have the Gigantamax Factor, transforming them into the G-Max form!

Additionally, thanks to the much appreciated hard work of @kylasazandora, @fittle and @Andrew (Beta Male), the stats of the Gigantamax Pokémon have been balanced to make them more viable in battle!

3️⃣ Pokédex Completion Milestones! 🏆

For many years, you have requested rewards for your hard work completing the Pokédex, so to celebrate your accomplishments, we are introducing Pokédex Milestones! There is a milestone for every time the Pokédex has been updated throughout Pokétwo's lifetime, with more to be added as our Pokédex expands! Complete them to earn the exclusive form, Original Magearna! Psst, if you've already completed any of these milestones, try running pokedex to view and claim your rewards 👀

4️⃣ 'The Indigo Disk' DLC Pokémon 💿

The brand new Pokémon from The Indigo Disk expansion are all here! They can be found spawning in the wild, while some can be evolved to from old Pokémon!

Full Pokémon List: Archaludon, Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos, Terastal Terapagos & Pecharunt

5️⃣ Incense Overhaul ♻️

As promised, we are happy to introduce a big overhaul to Incenses! Competitive or casual, now you can fully customize your incenses with Durations and Intervals that suit your catching style! View all running incenses in your server using the brand new incense command—and finally, you can now pause your Incenses!

Note: Your current running Incenses will stop for some time as we migrate them to the new system! You can check their status using the incense command, and we will keep you updated at #717883936314753045!

6️⃣ Store Sale

To celebrate Pokétwo turning four, we'll be having a sale at our shard shop, https://poketwo.net/store!
Use code POKE2CAFE at checkout to receive 20% off on all shard purchases!

But that's not all! Along with these major updates, we also have a handful of QOL features, changes and bugfixes that can be found at #908955378883112990!

And finally, thank you. Thank you Oliver, the Pokétwo team and, most importantly, you, for making all this possible. From me and the entire Pokétwo team, thank you for the journey so far and the wonderful memories we've created together. Looking forward to another year full of joy and catching Pokémon!

[leaden valley]

Incense Purchase Bug @Outage Pings
There is a bug at the moment preventing the incense buy command from working. We are fixing it asap!

Fixed! Enjoy your incenses!

[zealous sierra]

@everyone Quick heads-up, shiny rate of the Original Magearna pokedex reward is boosted (since the beginning of the update!) until tomorrow this exact moment! Get to catchin' 👀

[zealous sierra]

Thanks everyone 🥹 and thanks especially @Witherr💛 @MetSpek for their hard work working on new features, as well as all the @Admins, @Moderators, and event team / other contributors! I don't really do much nowadays and it's thanks to them that @Pokétwo can still be here :)

[zealous sierra]

Happy Pride month everyone ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
Stay tuned for later this month 👀

[leaden valley]

Maintenance Outage @Outage Pings
Hey everyone, we are currently scaling our systems to more evenly distribute the load and hopefully increase overall stability, including incenses. The bot will be down for around 10 minutes, thank you!

We're back!

[leaden valley]

Skipping Spawns / Catches @Outage Pings
We are currently investigating an issue that is making the bot sometimes skip spawns and sometimes not send the catch message. So far it seems like it may be an issue on Discord's end, but we are still looking into it to make sure

Should be good now!

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outage Investigator
Sorry guys, I messed up

[leaden valley]

Pokétwo is back! But Guiduck isn't coming back up for some reason. We're looking into it!

Guiduck is back!

[leaden valley]

Selecting Moves In Battle Not Working @Outage Pings
Selecting moves in battle is currently not working. We're looking into it!

[zealous sierra]

Anniversary 2024 Event End

@everyone

The event celebrating Pokétwo's 4th Anniversary has now ended, and Poké2Café has closed after a very successful grand opening! You can still complete existing orders and donate existing ingredients, but you will no longer receive new ingredients or orders. Good work!

Exchanging Ingredients

Initially we wanted to convert all leftover ingredients to pokécoins, but you guys have expressed that you'd prefer having more chances at getting your favorite event pokémon instead. So, you can now exchange ingredients for specific ones you may need for orders or donations, in a 3:1 ratio! Use @Pokétwo help anniversary exchange to learn more!

E.g. if I wanted more chocolate in exchange of butter and cheese, i'd do @Pokétwo#8236 ev exchange chocolate butter:5 cheese:2

This will be available for a week!

Thank you for playing, we hope that you enjoyed playing this event as much as we enjoyed making it!

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone, there's been a fake bot scam going around so we wanted give you all a reminder that whenever you're trading in any server other than OS, please always double check that the Pokétwo bot is the official bot.

The official Pokétwo bot will always have a ✓ next to the "APP"/"BOT" tag (as seen in the screenshots) and the username & discriminator will always be Pokétwo#8236. If any of these mismatches, it is a fake bot and you should immediately report the user and leave the server. Please be vigilant!

[zealous sierra]

Anniversary 2024 Event End

The event has now fully ended, thank you for playing

[leaden valley]

Incense Outage @Outage Pings
Incenses have stopped spawning. Don't worry, your incenses are still there and will resume as soon as we fix the issue!

You can still @Pokétwo#8236 incense pause if you want to pause your incense(s) and then resume once it's back so it doesn't come back up suddenly

Back!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Happy pride month @everyone! As the Pokémon all celebrate and show their support, some Pokémon in particular wanted to express their support by showing all colours of the rainbow! 🌈 😊

From June 23 to June 30 you can catch the following Pokémon in the wild:

• Pride Ampharos
• Rainbow Minior
• Painted Acorn Skwovet
• Gradient Chi-Yu

❤️ 🧡 💛 Happy Catching 💚 💙 💜

[zealous sierra]

Pride 2024 Event End

The pride event has ended, sorry for the late ending! Thank you for playing

[zealous sierra]

Welcome to The Summer Olympics! ❤️‍🔥

@everyone
The Summer Olympics has kicked off, and the competition for 1st position has begun! Join a team, earn points for your team by playing unique Minisports with brand new mechanics and earn pokécoins, event pokémon, shinies and other rewards along the way, with an exclusive badge at the end of the event in 2 weeks!

🏆 Standings

As you earn points for your team by playing the Minisports, your team will rise in standings among the other teams. Keep your team in the top 3 to earn special rewards, including an exclusive pokémon at the end! Even if you fail to do so on one Minisport, there are 2 more for you to conquer as a team!

🎟️ Play Minisports!

As you catch pokémon, you will earn 🎟️ Olympic Tickets which you can use to play any of the three Minisports to earn points and rewards! The more points you earn, the more pokécoins and better boxes you will get!

🎯 Archery

You will be briefly shown 5 targets on a square board only once. Remember the locations of these targets and type them in to shoot! You will get 1 per target, and each target will earn you 1 point! The more targets you hit, the more points you will earn!

🏃 Relay Race

You will be given an olympic-themed word, for each letter of which, you have to catch a pokémon whose English name starts with that letter. As little catches you can finish your word in, the more points you will earn!

🏅 Pentathlon

Complete 5 tasks of varying difficulties in sequence: Catching, Trading, Battling, Evolving and Releasing. As little time you can finish your tasks in, the more points you will earn!

Pokémon

Box Exclusive Pokémon

• Archery Sentret
• Relay Race Raboot
• Fencinteleon (Fencing Inteleon)

Catchable Pokémon

• Waterpolo Ducklett
• Boxel (Boxing Toxel)
• Cheerleader Oricorio

Exclusive Pokémon For Top 3

• ??? 👀

Do @Pokétwo#8236 olympics to get started!

[leaden valley]

Incenses Re-enabled @Outage Pings
Purchasing/resuming incenses was temporarily disabled due to skipping spawns. It has been re-enabled.

[zealous sierra]

@everyone Hello everyone, we have detected and suspended 35 autocatchers automating Olympic minisports in the current event to get thousands of points illegitimately. We have removed a total of 97,371 points across all teams and all minisports that were obtained illegitimately by these autocatchers.

We will continue to monitor, suspend and remove points earned by illegitimate users through unfair means. Best of luck to all teams—play fair, enjoy the event, and may the best teams win!

[zealous sierra]

We have suspended 3 more autocatchers and removed a total of 2,642 more points obtained unfairly by them.

[zealous sierra]

We have suspended 10 more autocatchers who were abusing minisports and removed a total of 7,899 more points obtained unfairly by them.

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outage Pings
Most Pokétwo commands seem to not be working. Incenses are also lagging/down. We are investigating the issue!

Please pause your incenses or kick the bot from your server to pause them until there is an update here!

Please wait until the bot is fully back up before requesting an incense refund, as your incense could resume normally once it's back. Once it's back up, if you lost 14% or more spawns from your incense, please request for a refund at https://discord.gg/poketwo-support

We're Back!

[leaden valley]

Bot Instability @Outage Pings
The bot is unstable at the moment and keeps lagging out or stopping functioning. I have restarted it and it seems to be ok now but it seems to be a system-level problem that we need more time to look into. If your incenses stop spawning or skip spawns, it is advised that you kick the bot from the server to pause them (works even if the pause commands dont work) until it's back again.

Back!
The issue should be solved now. Incenses should be ok to resume now. Please request an incense refund in the support server if you lost 14% or more spawns from your incense!

[zealous sierra]

We have suspended and removed a total of 100,120 more points from 30 more users who were found to be abusing minisports via account automation (selfbotting)

[zealous sierra]

(A small note that the point of these announcements is transparency to avoid confusion about suddenly missing points. They're about only the autocatchers that contributed points that were removed, and is not an exhaustive number of autocatchers being suspended.)

[zealous sierra]

Hey y'all, we have suspended and removed a whopping 1,111,148 points from 175 autocatchers / minisport automation selfbots who had obtained these points illegitimately.

Honestly, still in shock seeing such a huge number. We quadruple checked all the suspensions and calculations, and could not find any discrepancies. Almost all these accounts are brand new alts, all found to be selfbotting the event.

Sorry, we're a bit late! We didn't want to do a purge so close to the end of the event as it can significantly affect the standings, but it had to be postponed due to some irl circumstances :(

There's still about 23h left to the event, good luck! Once the event ends, you won't get any new tickets or points, but you'll still be able to use your remaining tickets and open your boxes for 1 more week. Please note that during this time you won't earn any more points or pokécoins per point from playing minisports, only boxes—so you should use as many tickets now as you can. And you have to open all your boxes within the same week as well!

Here's a before-after of the standings:

[leaden valley]

Bot Instability @Outage Pings
The bot seems to have some troubles with pokemon spawning at the moment, whether that be normally, by incense, or by redeem. Additionally, it seems like minigames have been affected by this instability.

We are aware of the issue and looking into it.

[leaden valley]

Issues with image generation @Outage Pings
Our image generation server is facing some issues at the moment causing spawn, archery and other images to not work. We are on it! The event will be extended, we will announce the extended duration once the issue is fixed.

We're back!

OH and please pause your incenses

[zealous sierra]

@everyone Hey everyone, really sorry about the outage preventing spawns and completion of minisports. The event has been extended, and will end at roughly <t:1723669212:F>! Shiny charms have also been extended.

[zealous sierra]

We have suspended and removed a total of 351,731 more points from 109 more users who were found to be autocatching and/or abusing minisports via account automation (selfbotting)

[zealous sierra]

We have suspended and removed a total of 502,660 more points from 188 more users who were found to be autocatching and/or abusing minisports via account automation (selfbotting)

Crazy number again because we got a lot of ones we missed in previous waves, but we triple checked everything to make sure the numbers are correct!

[zealous sierra]

The Summer Olympics Event End @everyone

As The Summer Olympics come to a close, we celebrate the incredible efforts, dedication and the spirit of unity that brought the Pokétwo community together!

Results

The final results are in. All teams put in hard work, and it's time to see the fruits of your efforts. Did your team place in the top 3? Use @Pokétwo#8236 olympics results to see the final results! Congratulations to the top 3 teams, well done!

Prizes

You've worked hard as a team, and it's time to enjoy the prizes you've truly earned;

• For the top 3 teams in each minisport: A team badge to signify your unity as a team, lots of boxes for various rewards and, finally, the exclusive legendary pokémon:

🐦‍🔥 Olympic Flame Moltres 🐦‍🔥

• And for those who did not make top 3: A team badge to signify your united dedication, and a handful of boxes for various rewards!

Well done, and enjoy the prizes that you've earned through your hard work and efforts ❤️‍🔥

To view the final results and claim your rewards, use @Pokétwo#8236 olympics results!

Final Week

The event will be up for 1 more week for you to use your remaining tickets to play minisports and open your boxes. You will no longer get new tickets and minisports will no longer reward you points for your team or pokécoins per point, only boxes!

Important: The rewards are not automatic, nor is the badge. You need to manually claim them using the command above! And this final week will be for using both tickets and opening boxes. There will be no extra time to open boxes afterwards. So make sure to open your boxes as soon as you get them!

Thank you for playing, we hope you enjoyed the event! We had fun working on it, and it was fun seeing the competitive spirit throughout the event! Happy catching
PS: Huge thank you to @Anoea (on break) and @jas for their hard work on the amazing banners for the event menus!!!

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outage Pings
Most Pokétwo commands are dysfunctional. Incenses are also down. We are investigating the issue, it will take a bit more time to fix.

Please pause your incenses or kick the bot from your server to pause them until there is an update here!

Please wait until the bot is fully back up before requesting an incense refund, as your incense could resume normally once it's back. Once it's back up, if you lost 14% or more spawns from your incense, please request for a refund at https://discord.gg/poketwo-support

Sorry for the late announcement!

[leaden valley]

Everything should be back online. I apologize for the downtime. Some auctions finished when the bot came back up; these auctions were reversed since people did not have the opportunity to bid on them. Shiny charms that expired during the downtime have been extended. Thanks for your patience!

[leaden valley]

**Major Outage @Outage Pings **
Almost all Pokétwo commands are down. We are investigating the issue and try to fix it as soon as possible.

Pause your incenses or kick the bot from your server to pause them until the bot is back up again

Wait until the bot is completely back up before requesting an incense refund. Chances are that your incense will resume normally when the bot is back.
If this doesn't happen and you lost 14% or more spawns, please open a ticket in the support server (https://discord.gg/poketwo-support)

[leaden valley]

Major Outage
Pokétwo is currently facing a major outage due to issues with our servers. We are not fully sure what the problem is and are investigating the issue, and it will take some more time to fix. The bot may have to stay down for a couple of days as we work on fixing the problem, we will keep y'all updated.

FAQs

Q: Pokétwo is not responding to any commands nor spawning any pokemon in my server

Pokétwo is currently facing an outage, please read above

Q: I had incenses running, are they gone?!

Incenses should resume normally once the bot is back up. To ensure they don't resume at an inconvenient time, you can kick the bot from the server.

In case you lost 14% or more spawns per incense, please request a refund at our support server once the bot is back up

Q. Should I vote during the outage? / I voted but did not receive boxes

Do not vote during the outage as you will not receive any boxes. We will likely provide some kind of compensation for the lost boxes once the bot is back up.

Q. Will shiny charms / event opening period / auctions be extended?

Yes

Q. I want to report someone, but I can't open tickets

Please DM an online moderator for reports while Guiduck is down! Include the user ID, details of the report and evidences. Please do not DM staff regarding the outage, vote boxes or incense refunds

[zealous sierra]

Update bot outage

@everyone For the past few days, the bot has been unstable and offline due to server problems. The problem has been located and is getting fixed. Due to the size of the problem, the bot will remain down for a couple of days.

We will keep you all updated on the situation via this channel. The Official server is closed down until the bot is back again.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this caused you and want to thank you for your patience ❤️

[leaden valley]

Monitoring @Outage Pings

The bot's back up! Auctions and shiny charms have been extended. We're not sure whether it'll be completely stable yet, but we're monitoring. We'll make an announcement in #717883936314753045 when we're confident that the bot is back for good.

[leaden valley]

We're back! @Outage Pings
We've been monitoring the bot's stability for the last few days and it seems to be stable now! Battling should also be fixed across all servers. Thank you for your patience!

The Olympic event claim period will end in 1 day from now!

[zealous sierra]

Summer Olympics Event End

@everyone The Summer Olympics and the ticket claim period has officially ended. All remaining tickets have been converted to Pokécoins at 100 per ticket. Sorry for the inconveniences caused by the outages, and thank you for playing! We hope you enjoyed this event

PS: Battling is back up!

[leaden valley]

Captcha page too ^^

Buttons 'Interaction failed' @Outage Pings

Buttons and other UI components are currently facing issues on Discord's end. This is not something we can fix, you can stay up to date at https://status.discord.com

[zealous sierra]

Hey y'all, due to the recent Pokétwo outages, some auctions bugged out and caused the hosts of affected auctions to receive, and winners to lose, multiple times the original winning bid.

Sorry that this has taken so long to address, but we have reversed these changes. Here are the affected auctions and their details:

• #1255251 (Auction ID) (<t:1724775691>) (Timestamp): 1,500,000 (Original Winning Bid) x 10 (Extra times it was credited/deducted) = 15,000,000pc (Total Extra Pokécoin Amount that was credited/deducted, which has now been reversed)
• #1256293 (<t:1724906574>): 2,100,000 x 9 = 18,900,000pc
• #1255015 (<t:1724992731>): 5,260,000 x 4 = 21,040,000pc
• #1236186 (<t:1722301225>): 45,000 x 9 = 405,000pc
• #1235639 (<t:1722332595>): 41,000 x 9 = 369,000pc
• #1255581 (<t:1724739469>): 620,000 x 9 = 5,580,000pc
• #1255746 (<t:1724764651>): 100,001 x 8 = 800,008pc
• #1248876 (<t:1723695867>): 41,100 x 6 = 246,600pc
• #1255709 (<t:1724757681>): 65,000 x 6 = 390,000pc
• #1236126 (<t:1722324286>): 710,000 x 5 = 3,550,000pc
• #1235618 (<t:1722328489>): 49,000 x 5 = 245,000pc
• #1256035 (<t:1724843631>): 100,000 x 4 = 400,000pc
• #1255692 (<t:1724757680>): 330,000 x 3 = 990,000pc
• #1255753 (<t:1724764650>): 65,100 x 3 = 195,300pc
• #1236031 (<t:1722324655>): 46,000 x 2 = 92,000pc
• #1236503 (<t:1722328487>): 45,000 x 2 = 90,000pc
• #1236522 (<t:1722339705>): 5,000 x 2 = 10,000pc
• #1236490 (<t:1722336303>): 50,000 x 1 = 50,000pc
• #1236217 (<t:1722340823>): 3,769 x 1 = 3,769pc
• #1236024 (<t:1722342091>): 32,001 x 1 = 32,001pc
• #1248773 (<t:1723695866>): 40,000 x 1 = 40,000pc
• #1253714 (<t:1724232882>): 11,111 x 1 = 11,111pc
• #1253854 (<t:1724232885>): 15,000 x 1 = 15,000pc
• #1253421 (<t:1724232837>): 200,000 x 1 = 200,000pc
• #1254461 (<t:1724432058>): 450,000 x 1 = 450,000pc
• #1255502 (<t:1724770831>): 400,000 x 1 = 400,000pc
• #1255493 (<t:1724968174>): 1,391,111 x 1 = 1,391,111pc
• #1256625 (<t:1724992730>): 150,000 x 1 = 150,000pc
• #1256631 (<t:1724993257>): 50,000 x 1 = 50,000pc

If you want to verify this bug yourself, you can search in:#bot-auctions SOLD <Auction ID> to see the duplicates.

We're sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. All the affected users (i.e. hosts and winners of these auctions) have been DMed by Pokétwo explaining the situation and the sudden change in their balance. Here's an example of such a DM:

On that note, we have also fixed the unintended mechanic of users with negative balance being unable to trade.

[zealous sierra]

🦋 Catching Fairies 🦋

@everyone
When Autumn comes and the leaves turn red, yellow and brown, the world looks magical. This is also the time that various fairies are seen, preparing for the Winter to come.
During this week, you will be able to catch three fairies before they hide until Spring!

The following Fairy Pokémon have been sighted in the wild:
🌙 Moon Fairy Mudkip
🥀 Flower Fairy Flabébé
🔥 Fire Fairy Salandit

Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage and lag @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be unresponsive/down in a lot of servers. And Incenses seemed to be laggy in some others. We are investigating the issue.

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage and Incense Instability @Outage Pings

The bot is still unresponsive/down in a lot of servers, and incenses are also still laggy (skipping spawns/laggy responses/not catchable). We are looking into the issue, but it's been taking a while due to real life circumstances.

We have disabled the purchase and resumption of incenses until the issue is resolved. The event will also continue until the bot is stable, and we will announce in advance when it will actually end. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outage Pings

The bot seems to have just gone offline in a lot of servers. We are investigating the problem!

The above outage is also still in effect.

Sorry about the inconveniences and thank you for your patience!

Bot and Battling are back up where they were down (not incenses yet) @Outage Pings

The bot should be back up in the servers it was down in. Battling has also been fixed, along with a bug fix that should hopefully prevent battling outages like this in the future.

If the bot is still down in your server, please @ me in #719100151146348544 with the server ID (please double check before pinging)

Incenses are still disabled unfortunately. We are still investigating the instability of incenses, thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Buttons and other UI components lagging @Outage Pings

Buttons and other UI components are currently heavily delayed or not working. This is unfortunately an issue on Discord's end. You can stay up to date with the status at https://discordstatus.com/

[leaden valley]

Incenses are back up @Outage Pings

Incenses are back up, for the time being. We will be monitoring for instability.

[zealous sierra]

Hey @everyone, sorry about the recent incense outages and the inconveniences they have caused. We have also been unable to end the event since lots of people have been waiting on incenses to play the event.

But we have deployed a couple fixes and incenses have been enabled again, and they seem to be stable so far (please let us know in #719100151146348544 if not!). We are also aware of the bug where pausing incenses sometimes still lets a spawn through. It's a side effect of one of the fixes we deployed, and will be fixed soon.

Since incenses seem to be ok now, we will be ending the event 24h from now (<t:1729704600:f>)

Thank you for your patience and enjoy the event during this time!

[zealous sierra]

Autumn Event End

The autumn event has (finally) ended! Thank you for playing

[leaden valley]

Embedded images not loading @Outage Pings

Some embedded images such as pokedex images are not loading. This is an issue on Discord's end and not something we can fix. You can stay up to date with the status at https://discordstatus.com !

[zealous sierra]

Día de Muertos

(Day of the Dead)

@everyone
Dive into the colorful Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday honoring friends and family members who have passed away. Pay respects to loved ones by building home altars, called ofrendas decorated with favorite foods and beverages, candles, flowers and pictures. During this two week event, you will be able to encounter Pokémon and complete quests, collect items and decorate ofrendas to earn Pokécoins, exclusive Pokémon and more!

Ofrendas 🎇

Ofrendas are traditional Mexican altars decorated during Día de Muertos to pay respects to deceased loved ones. Collect various items by helping Pokémon in encounters and decorate ofrendas with these items to earn Nicho boxes.

Encounters 🦁

During your catching adventures, you'll occasionally encounter alebrijes and Pokémon in need of assistance. Alebrijes are colorful fantastical creatures believed to connect the living and spirit realms. You can only have one active encounter at a time, which you complete by finishing quests for Pokécoins, Nicho boxes and items to decorate your ofrendas.

Decorative Items 🕯️

You will earn traditional items such as Calavera (Sugar Skulls), Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead), Cempasúchiles(Marigold flowers) and more by completing encounters. These items can be used to decorate your ofrendas the way you like it!
Offer items with the @Pokétwo#8236 ddm/dotd offer [items] command.

Nicho Boxes 🎁

Nicho boxes are small display boxes used as a portable shrine to an important figure or loved one. Nicho boxes are earned through completing encounters and completing ofrendas. The boxes contain a variety of gifts such as Pokécoins, exclusive Pokémon and more!

Event Pokémon

Nicho Box Pokémon

• Sombrero Lotad
• Sugar Duskull
• Honoring Yamask
• Monarch Gothitelle
• La Catrina Hisuian Lilligant

Wild Pokémon

• Alebrije Pyroar
• Papel Picado Pidgey

To get started, write @Pokétwo#8236 ddm/dotd and enjoy!

[zealous sierra]

Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Encounter Stacking

Hey @everyone, after a lot of feedback we have made it so that you can have multiple encounters at once now! You can now have up to 5 encounters active at once, and be able to complete their quests in one go instead of one encounter at a time (not at the same time though). We decided to limit it to 5 encounters in order to maintain the balancing, and because it takes 5 items to complete an ofrenda so it seemed like the perfect number. We hope that this change will make the event more enjoyable for you all, and thank you for all the feedback!

Distinction Between Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Halloween

This year, we decided it would be a nice change of pace to celebrate Day of the Dead instead of Halloween. But many people confuse Day of the Dead and Halloween, especially due to the closeness of the dates, so we felt like it was important for us to clarify that Day of the Dead is a completely separate holiday from Halloween, they are not related! We've also added a note at the bottom of the event embed about this.

Happy Halloween everyone

[zealous sierra]

Día de Muertos 2024 Event End

@everyone The Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) event has now ended! You can no longer encounter.. encounters.. but you can still complete existing ones, use items and open your boxes for 1 more week!

Thank you for playing, we hope you enjoyed

[zealous sierra]

Sweater Weather ☕

@everyone
The days are getting colder, rain is falling and winter is coming. For a week, you are able to catch three Pokémon looking for warmth and comfort during these colder times!

The following Pokémon will be catchable for a week:

• Sweater Teddiursa
• Leafy Baltoy
• Cosy Perrserker

Happy catching! ☕

[leaden valley]

Commands not working @Outage Pings

Most commands are currently not working. We are investigating the issue!

[leaden valley]

Commands not working @Outage Pings

Most commands are currently not working. We are investigating the issue!

Re-ping to notify that, as of recent, incenses will no longer continue losing spawns even if they error! If you check your server's @‌Pokétwo#8236 inc you'll see that the numbers aren't going down. They'll resume again once the issue is fixed, so pause them if you don't want it to resume suddenly. Please keep this in mind and double check before requesting for a refund.

Bot is back!

The bot is back! Auctions and Shiny Charms have been extended by 2 days. Incenses should be resuming normally, there shouldn't have been any spawn loss during the outage due to a failsafe we implemented recently! Thank you for your patience!

[zealous sierra]

Sweater Weather Event End

@everyone
Hey y'all! The Sweater Weather event has come to an end. Hopefully you all enjoyed catching these cosy pokémon!

Outage & Auction/Charm Extension

The bot is back! Auctions and Shiny Charms have been extended by 2 days. Incenses should be resuming normally, there shouldn't have been any spawn loss during the outage due to a failsafe we implemented recently! Thank you for your patience

[zealous sierra]

Hey guys, the custom invite link to the support server is not working at the moment because the boosts in the support server expired. Oliver is the one who bought all the boosts necessary to keep it at level 3, but he's away for a few days and won't be able to fix it until then. For now please use https://discord.gg/a3sKw98qG4 !

[zealous sierra]

[zealous sierra]

A Christmas Crisis 🎄

@everyone
It's Christmas, and it's time for Santa to set out with presents. But to his dismay, he finds his workshop completely abandoned! All the elves are nowhere to be seen, Santa is running a day late, and there are gifts and toys that need to be made ASAP!

Help Santa make toys and gifts by completing various tasks, and earn Presents containing Pokécoins, shards, redeems, special event Pokémon, and more along the way!

Blueprints

You will be randomly assigned blueprints for crafting gifts and as you complete your assigned tasks, each will reveal a cell on the blueprint. Avoid empty cells, complete tasks corresponding to parts of the gift and build streaks to earn better and better rewards for your efforts 💪

You will earn more and more rewards the higher the streak of "good" cells you garner. But beware, one wrong move and it goes down to zero! Additionally, you'll earn an extra present and an event Pokémon corresponding to your blueprint upon completion!

Use @Pokétwo#8236 christmas to get started!

📜 The Mystery

As you help Santa recover from this setback, the mystery behind the disappearances will slowly be unveiled. There are no goals; craft a higher and higher number of gifts as a community and the story will reveal itself part by part on its own...

Two event Pokémon will be unlocked in the coming days as the story progresses.

Event Pokémon

Presents

• Santa Snorlax
• Music Box Bellossom
• Doll Lopunny
• Snowglobe Glaceon
• Gingerbread Gimmighoul
• Grinch Grimmsnarl (Grinchsnarl)

Found in the Wild

• Candy Cane Wiglett
• Elf Audino

Merry Christmas everyone! May your holiday season be filled with joy, love, and warmth, happy catching!

This event will last 2 weeks.

[zealous sierra]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

[zealous sierra]

Christmas 2024 — Story Update

@everyone
As the community presses on, Elf Audino reveals the truth: someone has taken the elves, to sabotage Christmas. His motive was clear—without the elves, Santa Snorlax's operation would grind to a halt. But what he did not anticipate, was everyone's unwavering determination to save Christmas. Grinch Grimmsnarl (Grinchsnarl) can now be found in presents.

Santa Snorlax is happy Christmas can go on thanks to your efforts, but the elves remain missing, and it's time for a rescue. This is the end of the story, for now...

Use @Pokétwo christmas to see the full story and other event information.

[zealous sierra]

@everyone

Blueprint Completion Presents Bug

Hey y'all, I just found a bug that prevented blueprint completion from rewarding you a present (thanks @ck3!). I have fixed this bug, and given everyone their missing boxes.

-# i've also fixed the bug preventing quests from completing :P. to make your stuck quests complete, just catch a pokemon

[zealous sierra]

Christmas Event End
Hey @everyone! The Christmas 2024 event has ended. Santa Snorlax thanks you all for your help, without which his operation would've failed for sure. Event pokemon will no longer spawn in the wild and you can no longer get new blueprints, but you can still complete your current one and open your boxes for 1 more week. Thank you for playing, we hope you enjoyed

[leaden valley]

Bot unresponsive/offline in some servers @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be offline in some servers. It already was on a handful before, but it seems to have gone down in more. We're looking into it, it may take some time!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Lunar New Year 🏮

@everyone
It is the Lunar New Year, and some Pokémon have joined the festive celebrations for 2025, the Year of the Wood Snake, and the mark of new beginnings!

The following Pokémon will appear in the wild for a week:

• Wooden Serperior
• Paper Lantern Lampent
• Lion Dancer Litleo

Happy Lunar New Year, and happy catching! 🧧

[leaden valley]

Commands not working @Outage Pings

Most commands are currently not working. We are investigating the issue!

Bot is back!

The bot is back! Auctions and shiny charms have been extended by 1 day.

[zealous sierra]

Trading, Battling and Voting should be fixed now too

Also, the bot had been offline in some servers previously (even before today's outage). Please let us know in #719100151146348544 if it's still down/unresponsive in your server, along with the server ID.

Lunar New Year Event End

@everyone
The Lunar New Year event has now ended, we hope that you enjoyed it ! Sorry for the delayed ending, I've been swamped with exams and other obligations and totally forgot. We'll experiment with auto ending events in the future, but we're not sure if it'll be possible because of a few moving parts in the way our codebase works. It probably won't be possible for bigger events, but might be doable with smaller ones, we'll notify!

[leaden valley]

Bot offline in some servers @Outage Pings

The bot is offline in some servers. We've identified the issue and are looking into fixing it!

[zealous sierra]

Happy Valentine's Day 💘

@everyone
The season of love has arrived, and along with it some Pokémon full of love to express! But wait, what's this? There are some baby Pokémon among them... what could this mean?

The following Pokémon will be catchable for a week:

• Hearts Fidough
• Love Bombirdier
  You can earn the following Pokémon from Valentine Boxes:
• Baby Ducklett
• Pacifier Pancham
• Baby Toy Klefki

💝 Valentine Boxes

As you catch Pokémon in the wild, you'll earn Valentine Boxes. They contain various goodies such as exclusive event Pokémon, shiny Pokémon, pokécoins, shards, redeems, etc!

Use @Pokétwo#8236 valentines to learn more about the event!

Note: This event will auto end at exactly <t:1740130154> (<t:1740130154:R>)! After that there will be a 1 week box opening period.

Breeding Is Here 🍃

@everyone
Welcome to the Pokétwo Daycare! The daycare is a new permanent feature, where you can add Pokémon for a chance to produce eggs if they're compatible, and gain XP in the process. Offspring hatch from these eggs, inheriting various traits from their parents!

💘 Valentine's Event Special: During this event, you'll earn 5 Valentine Boxes everytime you breed a pair of Pokémon and every time you hatch an egg!

Egg Groups

Every Pokémon has at least one egg group, except undiscovered egg groups. Egg groups determine the compatibility of two Pokémon to breed. You can see the egg groups of a Pokémon using the pokedex command. You can also use the new --egggroup <egg_group> flag to find Pokémon of specific egg groups!

Compatibility

Whether two Pokémon are compatible to breed depends on a few factors. Two Pokémon are compatible only if they're of opposing genders and have at least 1 common egg group. The only exception to this is Ditto, which is compatible with every other Pokémon. However, Pokémon with undiscovered egg groups (e.g. rares, event Pokémon, etc) can not breed no matter what.

If two Pokémon are compatible, how compatible they are also depend on a couple factors. The higher the compatibility, the higher the chance of them producing an egg. Compatibility increases when:

• the two Pokémon have different original owners (the player that first had it)
  • this only applies to Pokémon moving forward, we sadly did not keep track of this for earlier Pokémon. but due to this, old Pokémon and new Pokémon have increased compatibility between them vs old-old or new-new.
• both Pokémon are of the same species

Oval Charm

You can increase the chance of producing eggs by 60% with the new item— Oval Charm—from the shop!

Eggs

After adding two compatible Pokémon in your daycare, as you catch Pokémon there will be a chance of them producing an egg. Eggs are stored in your egg basket, which will hatch once their egg cycles are complete. You can hold at most 20 eggs at once in your egg basket.

Once two Pokémon breed, they're put on a breeding cooldown for 7 days, as well as the offspring. You can use the --breedable/--nocooldown flag to search for Pokémon that aren't on cooldown.

Egg Cycles

Each species has a set number of egg cycles its eggs need to complete before they will hatch. Egg cycles progress as you chat, with 16 messages counting for 1 cycle.

As you chat, the Pokémon in your daycare will also gain XP at the same time, along with your selected Pokémon as usual. You can prevent this using XP Blockers, or Everstones if you just want to block the evolution.

Inheritance

Offspring will inherit various useful traits from their parents.

• The species it will be depends on the mother / non-ditto parent, with a few exceptions (acc. to Bulbapedia but not all).
  • if the mother / non-ditto parent is a regional form, there's a 20% chance of the offspring being regional as well. Unless the father / ditto is holding an Everstone, in which case it'll choose that species.
• they will always inherit at least 1 IV stat from parents, with a chance of up to 3, which is the rarest.
• they will also inherit common moves between parents (within moveset). If one of the parents knows a move that is an egg move for the offspring species, that will be passed down.
• the level of offspring is always 1-5, 1 being the rarest.
• the shiny chance is the standard (shiny charm and streak apply).

Use @Pokétwo#8236 daycare to get started and learn more about breeding!

Huge thank you to @MetSpek, @anoea and Bulbapedia without whom this wouldn't have been possible!

We hope that you will love this new feature and the Valentine's Event! Happy Valentine's Day everyone ❤️

[zealous sierra]

There was a bug allowing people to insta breed pokemon on cooldown. This also gave them 5 valentine boxes each time. All these boxes have been removed, and the people that abused the hell out of this bug have been permanently suspended. If you see a negative number of boxes in your inventory, this is why, sorry about the inconvenience. Please keep in mind moving forward that abusing bugs to benefit will get your account permanently suspended. You can report bugs in #719100151146348544 or you can DM a Developer directly if it's sensitive.

We're also aware of the bot lag and slow commands, we're not sure what's causing it but we're looking into it.

[leaden valley]

Bot unresponsive/offline @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be offline. It'll be back up in 10mins or so. Incenses won't die, they'll resume fine once the bot is back. But you can kick the bot to make sure it doesn't resume at a bad time. Please don't open an incense refund ticket before the bot is up and you're sure that you've lost spawns.

[leaden valley]

Incenses @Outage Pings

The bot is still offline, I haven't been able to figure out what happened. But I've paused all incenses and added 100, 50 and 33 spawns to all currently running 10s, 20s and 30s incenses respectively. When we update here that the bot is back online, you can resume your incenses. After it's back online and after resuming your incenses, if you see that you've lost more spawns than you were given back or your incense has ended (not in @Pokétwo inc), please open an incense refund ticket.

I'm currently at uni so I can't investigate further at the moment, will do so once I'm back home.

Back up?

It seems to be back up, but might still be unstable

[zealous sierra]

Valentine's Event End

The Valentine's event has now auto-ended as of <t:1740389354>! You can still open your boxes for 1 more week, but no new boxes will drop and event pokémon will no longer spawn. Thank you for playing, we hope you had fun!

P.S. Breeding is a permanent feature!

[leaden valley]

It will take some more time. Oliver is working on it, sorry for the inconvenience! Please don't resume any incenses in the meantime.

Bot Down @Outage Pings

The bot has been unstable for the last day or two. We're working on it, the bot will be down for an hour or two (or more!)

Sorry for the inconvenience! Incenses should be fine and should resume once it's back up. You can kick the bot from your server to prevent it from resuming at an inconvenient time.

Partially up

The bot is working in some servers, down in others. We're working on it!

In the meanwhile, I've added some spawns to all incenses since the instability and paused all currently running incenses so that they don't lose any more spawns. Please don't resume them until we update here that the bot is back up fully.

[leaden valley]

Partially up? @Changelog Pings

The bot is coming back up in servers one by one. But it is still unstable and may act out again, we are monitoring it. Please let us know in #719100151146348544 if the bot is not working in your server along with the server ID.

All incenses are paused atm, please don't resume them until we confirm that the bot is stable. Thank you!

[leaden valley]

Bot back up! @Outage Pings

We've located and fixed the issue causing the outages and instability. It SHOULD be fully back up and stable again. Please let us know in #719100151146348544 if it's still being weird!

On a side note related to the bug, please let us know in #719100151146348544 if the event command isn't saying anything in your server (it should say "There is no event currently active.").

Thanks a lot for all the bug reports and for your patience, sorry about the inconvenience! We've extended shiny and oval charms and auctions by 4 days. But unfortunately I can't reverse auctions that have already ended 😔. We have given everyone 3 ultra boxes and 3 master boxes for the trouble

[zealous sierra]

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀

@everyone
Spring is coming and weather is getting better again, making it a perfect moment to celebrate St Patrick's Day!
During this event, you can catch three unique event Pokémon celebrating St Patrick's Day and the upcoming warm days.

St Patrick's Day is celebrated all over the world with parades and festivals, music and dancing.

The following Pokémon will be catchable for a week:

• 🍀 Shamrock Meganium
• 🪙 Treasure Turtwig
• 🍵 Good Luck Sinistea

The event will auto end at exactly <t:1742509800>, happy catching!

[zealous sierra]

St. Patrick's Day Event End

The St. Patrick's Day event has ended (automatically at the above time). Thank you for playing, we hope you enjoyed

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be down in some servers (including DMS). We're looking into it!

Since it's down in DMs, battling probably isn't working atm.

I have the ability to bring it back up for a little bit, but it'll go down again after some time.

Back up!

[zealous sierra]

???

[leaden valley]

Outage @Outage Pings

The bot is glitching and is down in all servers, we're investigating the issue̸͈̽.

Back uP!!

[zealous sierra]

you guys should report the glitches you find in the wild in the bug-reports channel so we can fix them

Happy April Fools Day❗

@everyone

The bot is finally back from the outage. But wow, the bot seems to be glitching! What is going on?

For a week, glitches can be found while catching. These glitches need to be fixed by solving a puzzle. Each solved puzzle will grant you a :glitched_box: (imagine the emoji i'm too lazy to get nitro) Glitched Box and contribute to the community milestones to make Pokétwo stable again, unlocking various upgrades alongside.

You can also find some special glitched event Pokémon in the wild!

Glitches ⚡

As you catch Pokémon in the wild, some of them will be glitched. The Pokémon's image will appear glitched and parts of it will be out of order. You must fix it by figuring out the correct order. The order for the parts is left -> right, hence the ABCD labels.

When you fix a glitch, you will earn a Glitched Box and contribute towards community milestones that unlock various upgrades.

Glitched Boxes contain goodies such as unique event Pokémon, pokécoins, shards, redeems, rares, or smth idk

Community Milestones 🏆

Pokétwo is unstable, and we need your help to fix the glitches in the bot. Fix glitches in the wild to progress these milestones as a community and unlock upgrades for everyone! There's a total of 3 community milestones.

Event Pokémon

During this event, you can earn 5 different glitched event Pokémon!

Glitched Boxes

• Porygon-X
• Error Darkrai
• uhhh that's all i think???
• oh right and Corrupted Blacephalon

Catchable

• Sylvirus
• Glitched Beta Arceus (after 1st milestone)

Help us make Pokétwo stable again™!!! The event will auto end precisely at <t:1744070400> but lets be real it'll probably get extended due to some bug

[zealous sierra]

the order of the images is left -> right

but it wont work rn regardless of what you do because it's broken totally intentionally because of afd yes

:bleh:

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ok it should be fixed now 👍 remember that the order is left -> right thats why it's labelled ABCD 😠

[zealous sierra]

wait view this image in 5 minutes it doesnt work with the commas yet

[zealous sierra]

you now get 45s and 2 chances to fix a glitch. during the 1st chance nobody else can steal it. but if you fail the 1st chance, others can then yoink it.

[leaden valley]

Laggy Incenses @Outage Pings

Incenses, especially faster ones, are sometimes laggy. They may be skipping spawns, spawning multiple at once, etc. Consider doing one of the slower options if you want a smoother experience.

This is also one of the rare opportunities where I can pretend like bugs and lag are intended and part of the event\™

[zealous sierra]

click this button for free pc

[zealous sierra]

@everyone
Sorry y'all, there was a bug that made only event sylveons and arceus' spawn from <t:1743514135> to <t:1743515824>. I've removed all the sylveons and arceus' during this time (60k+ normal and 37 shinies).

If any of yours that were removed were legitimate (redeemed or boxed) please DM me with full screenshots and the long ID of the pokemon if possible

Boxes also died during this bug so if you've lost any boxes please DM me with screenshot proof

Let's just pretend like the glitches spread and overtook all spawns and this was all intended and part of the event...

[zealous sierra]

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[leaden valley]

Bot Restarting @Outage Pings

The bot is restarting as we test some changes we made hoping for it to help with the incense and overall lag. Please keep us updated in #1356421020923465799 on how this goes and if it helps at all!

Attempted Improvement

Made a change, let's see if it helps with the lag

[zealous sierra]

Uhhh for some reason like 80 of the pending message requests disappeared???? (there were 160)

Could you guys create tickets instead in the support server and I'll get to them when I can https://discord.gg/poketwo-support

[zealous sierra]

Thank you everyone for your hard work in solving the glitches, you've completed the last milestone. The glitches continue to appear in the wild, but your efforts have been helpful in keeping things under control! But, something see̴̊͝ms off..̷̊.

[leaden valley]

Bot Restarting @Outage Pings

The bot is restarting as we test some more changes we made hoping for it to help with the incense and overall lag. Please keep us updated in #719100151146348544 on how this goes and if it helps at all!

Improvement?

Incenses appear to be better now, but some things like trades and catches are bugged/slow. We're looking into it!

[leaden valley]

Bot Maintenance @Outage Pings

The bot is currently down for some maintenance purpose as we work on fixing the slow catches and commands. Thank you for your patience! The event will be extended 2 days once we're back up fully.

WIll be back in 5-10 minutes.

[leaden valley]

Back up! @Outage Pings

The bot is back up! Incenses should no longer be lagging (out of order spawns, delayed spawns, etc), redeems should no longer be delayed, trades should be working again and catches should no longer be delayed. Please let us know in #719100151146348544 if things are better now or if some issue persists. The event has been extended for 2 more days, thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outage Pings

The bot got ratelimited by Discord and will be down in some servers for an hour or two :(

Coming back up?

It seems to be coming back up. Keep us updated in #719100151146348544 !

[zealous sierra]

April Fool's Day Event End!

A bit late but the April Fool's Day event has ended as of April 9th. Thank you for playing! No new boxes will drop or event Pokémon will spawn, but you can still open your boxes for a week.

During this April Fool's, we conducted a few silly jokes and tomfooleries that include:

• Fake shiny catches (with rick roll shiny emoji) - 50+ users have fallen for this and reported it as a bug
• Hints always showing Dittos - 100+ users have fallen for this and reported it as a bug
• The legendary fake ping server icon - 10000+ users have fallen for this and gotten upset
• The bot has gone haywire over 10 times as a sick and funny april fool's prank (definitely intentional and not something i pulled my hair out over)
• Everyone has been given 0 free pokecoins

p.s.: i made these numbers up

WE HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED PLAYING THE EVENT <3

i feel like i m̶͉̒issed something

[zealous sierra]

Happy Easter! 🥚

@everyone

It's the time of the year where (chocolate) eggs are everywhere: Easter! And to celebrate, for a week, 3 Easter themed Pokémon can be seen in the wild searching for eggs, protecting eggs and even being an egg 👀

The following Pokémon will be catchable for a week:

• 🪺 Egg Nest Lapras
• 🥚 Cracked Ditto
• 🐰 Easter Bidoof

Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outage Pings

In some servers, the bot is having trouble launching tasks like incense spawning, starting trades, etc. We're looking into it. I've tried a couple things, please let us know if it helps in #719100151146348544!

Fix deployed!

This should mostly be fixed. We deployed a fix to restart these failed tasks if they stop randomly.

[leaden valley]

Maintenance Outages & Restarts @Outage Pings

The bot may go down temporarily in some servers while we do some maintenance and debugging related to recent lag and outages.

[zealous sierra]

Happy 5th Anniversary, Pokétwo! 🎉

@everyone
Another year has passed since the birth of Pokétwo, and Pokétwo is turning 5 on the 30th of May! The team and the bot have gone through some wonderful times together with you all, thank you. To celebrate, there will be an event starting today and then some very exciting updates later in the month, along with store discounts. Stay tuned! 👀

Dungeons & Dragonites 🐉

Welcome to the Pokétwo dungeons filled with adventure, surprises and trickery! During this 2 week event, as you catch Pokémon and explore the wilderness, you will come across various encounters. Use your survival instincts to solve them and be rewarded, or you may get in trouble! Have fun out there adventurer, and good luck!

Adventures ⚔️

Adventures start automatically, during which you will come across various encounters while catching in the wild. Solve these encounters to earn Adventure Gold which will accumulate in your current adventure. But be careful, failing one will deduct gold from the adventure! An adventure ends after 10 encounters, after which all the Adventure Gold you earned during that adventure will get added to your Total Gold for you to use in the shop!

Encounters ⚠️

Various encounters will show up during adventures, all with different mechanics and puzzles to solve. Solving them in as few tries as possible will give you the most gold, and failing will deduct gold from the adventure. You can have at most 10 encounters stacked in an adventure and completing them all will complete the adventure and start a new one, restarting the cycle!

Dungeon Shop 🏪

The gold that you earn from completing adventures can be used to purchase various chests and Pokécoins from the Dungeon Shop! These chests contain rewards such as Event Pokémon, Pokécoins, Shards, Shinies, etc. There are 3 different chests, each containing better rewards and a better quantity of rewards than the one before. Choose from Common Chest, Rare Chest, Legendary Chest or Event Chest, or simply exchange your gold for Pokécoins!

Event Pokémon

Collect 11 different exclusive event Pokémon from the wild and chests during this event!

• Cursed Blade Honedge (Chests)
• Guardian Dragonite (Catchable & Event Chest)
• Druid Zarude (Chests)
• Cube Slime Grimer (Catchable & Event Chest)
• Wizard Kricketune (Chests)
• Banshee Banette (Chests)
• Ranger Floatzel (Catchable & Event Chest)
• Rogue Toxicroak (Chests)
• Bard Purrloin (Catchable & Event Chest)
• Minotaur Bouffalant (Chests)
• Barbarian Bloodmoon Ursaluna (Chests)

So, what are you waiting for adventurer? Get started with @Pokétwo anniversary, good luck!

[leaden valley]

Slow Responses @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be slow at responding in some servers. It'll fix itself eventually but until then if incenses are difficult to catch please pause them! (either via the command, by kicking the bot or by removing its send message perms in the channel)

[zealous sierra]

The event has been extended by 3 days because of all the lag and outages

[zealous sierra]

Some Minor New Mechanics ⚙️

Time-dependent Spawns

Before, time only mattered for evolutions. But they affect spawns too now. Pokémon that previously evolved during a specific time (e.g. Espeon, Umbreon, etc) and some of the new forms (Vivillons, Cherrim, etc) will only spawn during that respective time of the day in the server!

Seasonal Spawns

The new Seasonal Deerling and Seasonal Sawsbuck forms will only spawn during their respective seasons IRL! Meaning that their forms will only spawn during Winter: Dec-Feb, Spring: Mar-May, Summer: Jun-Aug, Autumn: Sept-Nov! Seasonal Sawsbucks can be evolved from Seasonal Deerlings though.

Store Sale 💸

There's a discount at our shard store with the code DRAGONITE5 (5 instead of S at the end) for 2 weeks, starting now!

-# P.S. Sorry I'm a tad late! There will also be a pride event at the end of June! :)
Thank you again for being with us on this crazy journey. To another year of fun! Happy catching and stay tuned next week

Happy 5th Anniversary, Pokétwo! 🎉

@everyone
It's been another wonderful year with you all, and Pokétwo has turned 5! The bot, the team and the community have all gone through so much throughout the years and it's absolutely breath-taking to see the bot still standing after 5 years and growing. Thank you to everyone who has played and/or is playing Pokétwo, without you none of this would've been possible <3

The Anniversary Update, Part 1 🎂

This year, we will be splitting the anniversary update up into two parts. The first part will introduce Forms, Part 2! The second part, released next week June 7th (after the event ends), will introduce an exciting new feature to express your creativity and personality. Stay Tuned! :)

Forms, Part 2! 🎭

Last year we dropped the Forms update introducing a bunch of new forms. But it did not include them all, so this year we're adding more (almost all!) of the missing forms for you to explore and collect! Introducing, a whopping 137 new forms!
HUGE props to @anoea for her hard work on all the artwork <3!

Full list of the new forms and how to get them!

• Arceus Type Forms (17)
  • Judgment move type also changes!
• Silvally Type Forms (17)
  • Multi-Attack move type also changes!
• Unown Alphabets (27)
• Furfrou Trims (9)
• Vivillon Forms (19)
• Core Minior Forms (7)
  • Open Miniors with the Chisel!
• Flabébé Flowers (4)
• Floette Flowers (4)
• Florges Flowers (4)
• Seasonal Deerlings & Sawsbucks (6)
  • Spawn during their respective seasons irl!
  • The event Winter Sawsbuck has been renamed to Winter Event Sawsbuck, with awesome new artwork!
• Sweet Alcremies (6)
• Cyclizar Modes (2)
• Koraidon Builds (2)
• Miraidon Modes (2)
• Shellos Line Forms (2)
• Burmy Cloaks (2)
• More Rotom Forms (3)
• 4 Other Forms
  • Sunshine Cherrim
  • Spiky-eared Pichu
  • Neutral Xerneas
  • High-speed Flight Configuration Genesect

[zealous sierra]

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[zealous sierra]

Happy pride month! :)
-# The pride event will be towards the end of the month!

[zealous sierra]

@Changelog Pings The event has been extended for 1 more day due to continued instability

[zealous sierra]

Leftover adventure gold has been added to everyone's total gold!

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone,

We're really sorry, but we'll need to postpone the release of Anniversary Update Part 2 by a few days due to some unforeseen personal issues. We're not sure of the exact new date just yet, but we'll keep you updated. Sorry if this is a bit disappointing, and thanks so much for your understanding and patience

[leaden valley]

Bot, forms, applications, etc all down @Outage Pings

Everything seems to have gone down for some reason, looks like some kinda problem with our servers. Will take some time depending on when oli is active!

Slowly coming back up

[leaden valley]

Bot, forms, applications, etc all down @Outage Pings

Everything seems to have gone down for some reason, maybe some kinda problem with our servers or maybe it's a Discord issue

Fixed!

It was a problem with our servers. Oliver fixed the issue and the bot, along with the other services, should be back up again!

[zealous sierra]

Hey y'all, I feel really guilty saying this but I need 1 more day. My finals have been holding me up a lot and studying for them along with the personal issues I mentioned above have drained all my energy to work on this, so things have been moving slowly. I underestimated the amount of time it would take for me to get things done and overestimated the speed and energy with which I can work with.

I was hoping to release this like 11 hours ago but I ran out of steam and fell asleep, woke up and worked as much as I could til now but I have to go rn for a final that I'm wildly unprepared for 😭

This update is really big and complex and something we're very excited to bring to you and I want to make sure I don't rush out something unpolished. I'm really sorry for postponing this update 2 times and getting y'alls hopes high just to disappoint 😔

I will try to release it at <t:1750458601:F> (it will likely take longer)

Here's a hint :)

[leaden valley]

Bot slow responses @Outage Pings

The bot is slow at the moment due to some database issues it appears. We're looking into it. Kick the bot if your incenses are not catchable, they'll resume when you add the bot back

[zealous sierra]

New Quests! 📜

Along with profile customizability, we have added 18 new quests for each Type—and 18 different Type Backgrounds for your profile that you can earn by completing them! See them using @Pokétwo quests!

Store Discount Extension

As promised, the discount at our shard store has been extended! Use the same code as before, DRAGONITE5 (5 instead of S at the end)!

Sorry about the long wait, we hope that you enjoy this update, happy catching! :)
-# Note: we might notice some instability with our image server because of this update since it's more stuff for it to generate. We've scaled it up in preparation but we'll keep a close eye on it!

Here are some of my personal favs 👀

Introducing Profile Customization! 🎨

@everyone

For a very long time we've been wanting to add more customizability to Pokétwo, to allow people to make things to their liking and express themselves in their own ways. So, we're extremely excited to bring Profile Customizations to Pokétwo for you to bling out and show off your achievements in your own image!

Display your favorite Pokémon, showcase your top badges, add personality to your profile using titles, and much more to come! There are 5 categories of items that you can obtain—through the new profile shop with pokécoins and shards, through completing quests, playing events, etc. as you play the bot: Styles, Highlights, Backgrounds, Display Pokémon and Titles

• Styles 🧊: Styles decide how the windows on your profile will look. For now there are two available: Basic and Glass!
• Highlights 🌟: Give your profile a shine with colorful highlights on the edges. Mix and match them with different backgrounds to find the perfect combination for yourself :D
• Profile Backgrounds 🖼️: You can completely customize the background of your profile, choose from a big collection of special event banners and colors to design your profile with new looks!
• Display Pokémon 🏆 : Show off your favorite Pokémon by putting them on display on your profile, with a wide variety of custom display backgrounds to choose from!
• Titles 🏷️: Give your profile a unique twist with titles, combine them to form titles to your liking!

Customize your profile interactively using @Pokétwo profile edit, showcase your top badges using @Pokétwo profile badge and set titles using @Pokétwo profile title!

The Profile Shop 🛍️

The new profile shop will offer a variety of customization items every week. Every week, it will present you with items from each category and reset again the following week. Different items have different rarities, so plan ahead and grab them fast! Use @Pokétwo profile shop to take a look!

[zealous sierra]

new transparent style! thanks @Ainz 😎

[zealous sierra]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

@everyone
Happy pride month everyone! To celebrate love and identity, some special pokémon full of color, character, and charisma have started appearing in the wild!

The following Pokémon will be catchable for a week:

• 🌴 Celebrating Alolan Exeggutor ft. Komala
• 👒 Proud Crocalor
• 💅 Pride Queen Bruxish

🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Flag Profile Backgrounds

Grab the Pride Flag Backgrounds Bundle for free from the profile shop containing pride flag backgrounds to express your identity! This bundle will be free and available forever in the shop :)
-# @Pokétwo profile shop bundles

Happy catching ❤️
.

[zealous sierra]

event extended for one more day because of bot instability !

[zealous sierra]

Pride Event End

The pride event has ended, thank you for playing <3

[leaden valley]

Occasional outages @Outage Pings

After the recent fix attempts, the bot's outages seemed to have improved. The bot still goes down occasionally but usually for a small amount of time and comes back up fully within some time. While we continue to investigate this issue, please remember that you can kick the bot or remove permissions from channels to force pause incenses during these outages!

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone!
We hope you all had a great Summer break this past month. We as the development team also took a break, but will be coming back again soon 💪 . Stay tuned for upcoming events, updates and bug fixes :)

[leaden valley]

Market Disabled Temporarily @Outage Pings

The market search command will be disabled for the time being while we debug the root cause of the stability issues. You can still view and edit your own listings with the --mine flag.

[leaden valley]

Market Back Up @Outage Pings

The market search command is back up!

[leaden valley]

Market Disabled Temporarily @Outage Pings

The market search command is going back down again. Sorry 😦

[zealous sierra]

Rainy Days ☔ @everyone

The weather has gotten harsher, winds howling and rain pouring from the skies. But there's a certain melancholic comfort to it all. For 1 week, various rain themed pokémon will appear in the rainy wild and Bundles as they adjust to the shifting weather!

💧 Drops & Quests

Earn Drops by completing quests, and use them on the brand new multi-reward box mechanic: 🛍️ Bundles for Pokécoins, shards, redeems, special event Pokémon, boosts, exclusive profile decorations and more!

🛍️ Bundles

Bundles are a new kind of box that have a chance for multiple tiers of rewards from each. When you open a bundle you'll get a few guaranteed rewards, along with a chance for more, rarer and better rewards. They contain new kinds of rewards such as boosts, charms and event exclusive profile decorations.

🌟 Rain-themed Event Pokémon

• Umbrella Farfetch'd (Bundles-only)
• Cloubat (Bundles-only)
• Foombrella (Catch-only)
• Muddy Goomy (Catch-only)
• Raincoat Grafaiai (Bundles-only)

P.S. The market search command has been re-enabled for the official server, for now.

Do @Pokétwo autumn to see your quests and get started!

[leaden valley]

Market Back Up In The Official Server @Outage Pings

The market search command has been re-enabled in the official server. We will fully re-enable once we figure out a solution for the issues caused by it.

[zealous sierra]

The shard store is back up!

[leaden valley]

Incense Caching Optimization @Outage Pings

We've rolled out an update optimizing incenses by caching them, please let us know in #719100151146348544 if you face any incense related bugs, or about general bot stability.

Please keep us updated on the stability of the bot in #719100151146348544

[leaden valley]

Market Temporarily Disabled Again @Outage Pings

The market search command has been disabled again in the official server to test if it improves bot stability. If it does not, we'll re-enable it again. Please keep us updated in #719100151146348544!

[leaden valley]

We have deployed an update that might help with stability issues. Will continue to monitor.

[zealous sierra]

hey guys the halloween event will be a day* late due to me struggling to find time and energy for poketwo dev due to some personal reasons. all the theme and art stuff by the others have been done for a while but there are dev delays on my part

the halloween event had to be pushed to on the day because of bot outages (along with the same reason as above) causing the autumn event to be postponed too otherwise even with delays i could've released at least before the day itself

im really sorry about this! ❤️

edit: a day or two* 😭

[zealous sierra]

sorry guys, i just spent another all-nighter working on it but there is still some more work to do. but i have classes now and wont be able to continue for another 12 or so hours :(

this event is one i'm really excited about so i really don't wanna rush it out. really sorry for the wait but you won't be disappointed, thanks for understanding ❤️

eta: 13-16 hours

[leaden valley]

Bot Outage @Outage Pings

We need to take the bot down for a sec as I'm currently unable to update and add the new halloween event pokemon due to an issue. I need to contact oliver for this and the bot will bug if I let it run past the due time for the new event pokemon without updating. Hang tight!

Back up!

The bot is back up. The event has been extended by a day for the trouble along with the other stability issues!

[leaden valley]

Bot Outage @Outage Pings

The bot will be down a bit as we apply some changes to add the catchable-only event pokemon back to boxes for a few more days

Back up!

[leaden valley]

Partial Outage @Outage Pings

The bot seems to be down in some servers due to it being ratelimited in some clusters. It should be back up in a bit on its own but other than that I was unable to find what's wrong all of a sudden, but I've let oliver know for some help

Should be all good now!

[zealous sierra]

Hey @everyone

For the past few months, things have been going dire on several levels within the Pokétwo bot and server.
Please read through the end, because this will be important information to know:

-- The bot --
For around half a year now, Witherr has been the only developer working on the bot. Maintaining the bot is already a huge challenge in itself, let alone having to deal with events and updates, all on his own.
For over a year I've been pleading to get another developer alongside him, so he would have a bit less on his shoulders. This plead has fallen on deaf ears.

As a result, the bot will have no Christmas event this year.

We really didn't want this to happen, but we had no choice but to lay down our work, until there is a plan to get an extra developer involved.

-- The server --
As most of you have already noticed, there have been multiple staff members who laid down their work. This inherently has to do with the same type of problem as the bot is facing.
There have been pleads from all staff to administration to tackle problems with appeals, reports, tickets and the bot, that have yet again fallen on deaf ears.
There are problems with getting people in the right places to move forward, admins don't have the right perms to tackle problems, staff can't perform without these admins.

We hope that there will be a change this coming year, where we can push forward, tackle the problems and have hope again that Pokétwo will endure, but for now, we have to wait. We are sorry that we weren't able to end this year in a good manner, but wanted to give the honest truth.

We will keep you all updated on these matters. Thank you for reading ❤️

[zealous sierra]

Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays! 🎄🫶

[leaden valley]

Commands Sometimes Not Working @Outage Pings

Commands appear to not work at times. This is supposedly due to a Discord bug when you mention the bot by typing @, which for some reason adds invisible characters before the mention, preventing the bot from recognizing it as a prefix.

For now, please copy paste this instead of typing out the mention until Discord fixes this (or we might add a work-around if it persists)

@Pokétwo 

[leaden valley]

Market search enabled in DMs @Outage Pings

Hey guys I accidentally enabled market search in DMs and thought it might be a good opportunity for us to gauge the performance issues in case of DMs. We'll keep an eye on how this turns out, please report any lag in #719100151146348544

[leaden valley]

Bot outage @Outage Pings
The bot seems to be down. Investingating.

[leaden valley]

It'll take some more time guys, oli needs to go in person to our servers and fix the issue.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outage Pings
The bot is back! Sorry for the delay. One of our servers experienced a drive failure and I had to visit the datacenter that Pokétwo is hosted in to perform a physical replacement. Although it's just an hour drive away, I had to wait for parts to arrive and very busy the two days immediately after.

[leaden valley]

by 6 hours

We extended auctions and shiny/oval charms as we continue to investigate the issue!

[zealous sierra]

@everyone Hey guys, oliver made an announcement in #729437516997853238 but now that both developers have been fully onboarded I think we should announce here as well:

Welcome two new members @Foreboding | 饮水思源 and @Var to our development team! As you all know ever since spek retired I've pretty much been the only one holding down fort in terms of development and while I still love it, it's been impossible to manage and has burnt me out fully. I'm super confident in these two and I'm excited to see what we can do together :)

Things are still slow as they catch up to speed, which has been throttling a lil because of how burnt out I am but oliver has been helping around more and we're figuring things out slowly but surely :) Rest assured Pokétwo isn't going away any time soon!! (🤞)

Stay tuned for an event we've been working on for a while! It has been moving slowly majorly due to me being too burnt out to do anything but it will be out soon :)

HAPPY CATCHING

[zealous sierra]

@everyone On that note, we're going to assemble a new Balancing & Testing team to help with balancing and testing events before they go live. Kind of a beta testing team! The team will get access to a barebones version of events prior to release to test things out and see if it's balanced and fun! Click the button below if you're interested in joining that team!

You must have played Pokétwo for at least 2 years and must not be suspended! We'll consider adding you to the team after reviewing :)

Thank you so much for wanting to help :D

Please keep in mind that everything within the testing team strictly stays within the team. Any kind of leak or similar will get your account permanently suspended without notice.

Please hang on as I add more filters so that it doesn't get spammed

There we go, you must also have at least 75k catches! sorry :( otherwise it was getting spammed and we want experienced catchers/players

Click if you're interested in joining the Balancing & Testing team :D, we'll reach out if we want to bring you on! Please join the official server to click the button if you're seeing this through the published announcement.

This will close in less than a day depending on if we have found enough candidates!

[leaden valley]

Bot Outage @Outage Pings

Continuation of the last outage message, I've located the issue but need oli to fix it!

[zealous sierra]

Alright guys, we got more than enough applicants! Thanks, I'll close this now :)

[leaden valley]

Maintenance Outage @Outage Pings

I've taken a leap of faith and attempted a fix myself. But for it to happen faster I will take the bot down temporarily.

[leaden valley]

It will take a long time. So in the meantime I will bring the bot back up partially; in OS and DMs and all the clusters that fall between those two. Basically it'll be back up in 1/4th of the servers

[leaden valley]

Took the bot down in all servers again as it continues to recover. In its current state it's not playable anyway and is just causing bugs

[zealous sierra]

67

[leaden valley]

Bot Outage @Outage Pings
The bot is down, we've figured out the issue and working on fixing it

[leaden valley]

or like it's coming back up

@Outage Pings Should be back now!

[leaden valley]

The bot is not stable and will not respond to majority of commands.

[leaden valley]

@Outage Pings should be back now for real

Shiny Charms and Oval Charms have been extended by 3 days.

[leaden valley]

Bot is currently responding slowly @Outage Pings

The bot is experiencing significant latency across most commands. We're actively investigating the issue.

All auctions have been extended by 48 hours and will continue to be extended as needed until the bot is stable again.

[zealous sierra]

💐 Springtime is here! @everyone

Spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere - plants are growing and flowers are blooming everywhere you go!
For two weeks, you will be able to garden in Pokétwo to collect exclusive event Pokémon as you help them grow and flourish!

Grow your own Spring Pokémon!

Earn 🌱 seeds,💧water, and 🍂 fertilizer , by catching Pokémon of various types!
Put these items to use in your new garden! Check @Poketwo spring or @Pokétwo spring garden to get started.

👝 Seed Bags

Complete gardening quests to earn seed bags to collect even more Spring Pokémon or other rewards!

Spring-Themed Pokémon

• Mycena Paras (Gardening/Seed Bags)
• Onion Petilil (Gardening/Seed Bags)
• Dandelion Jumpluff (Gardening/Seed Bags)
• Blooming Budew (Gardening/Seed Bags)
• Blossom Hydrapple (Gardening/Seed Bags)
• Swarming Ledyba (Catchable/Seed Bags)
• Cicada Vikavolt (Catchable/Seed Bags)

Happy catching! 🌼

[zealous sierra]

Hey! We fixed the issue with the bot not registering your interactions with the components. Everything should be working now!

[leaden valley]

Took the bot down to fix some things, will be back up in a few minutes

Bot is back up!

[leaden valley]

Bot should be coming back up across clusters. Will be keeping an eye on it for a bit.

[leaden valley]

Bot is working again! I'll keep an eye out on it for a while and unlocked channels in Official. Thank you everyone for your patience.

[cursive needle]

Fixing this up, chill ppl

.invite

[lilac nest]

Want to add me to your server? Use the link below!

Invite Bot

https://invite.poketwo.net/

Join Server

https://discord.gg/poketwo

[cursive needle]

Pokétwo #status

Pokétwo #bot-news

Pokétwo #changelogs

[leaden valley]

@Status Updates

Bot is down in most servers
We are looking into it!

online!

[leaden valley]

@Status Updates I forgot to pay the server bill. I’ll get the bot up soon.

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Shiny Halloween giveaway Hosted by <@!683434719769264130>

Winners:
@viscid canopy
@hearty hemlock
@ashen kayak
@zenith meteor
@wicked scaffold
@dreamy swan
Hosted by: @wraith thistle

6 Winners | Ended at · Oct 28, 2021, 5:43 AM

[wraith thistle]

Hey guys! We have a very generous giveaway here from @river relic and @valid nebula!!!
There are 6 Shiny spooky Pokemon being given away in Poketwo:
IVs (hp/atk/def/spatk/sp.def/spd):
Shiny Gourgeist: 16/5/5/4/17/16 (33.87%)
Shiny Sinistea: 19/12/5/26/10/12 (45.16%)
Shiny Lampent: 6/4/3/10/18/26 (36.02%)
Shiny Golurk: 20/15/25/27/14/25 (67.74%)
Shiny Duskull: 25/20/4/21/7/0 (41.40%)
Shiny Misdreavus: 19/4/2/25/26/28 (55.91%)

Please show some thanks for this amazing giveaway, and winners please DM @river relic to collect - first in best dressed!!

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @viscid canopy, @hearty hemlock, @ashen kayak, @zenith meteor, @wicked scaffold, @dreamy swan! You won the Shiny Halloween giveaway Hosted by @river relic!

63 entrants ↗

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Halloween 2021 🎃 @Eveeryone

It's spooky time~ For the next week, Dark and Ghost type Pokémon will spawn more frequently. Catch these scary Pokémon to obtain 🎫 Trick-or-Treat tickets, with a 50% chance of dropping on each catch. You can use these Trick-or-Treat tickets through the p!halloween command for the chance to receive limited-time event Pokémon:

• Vampire Raichu
• Sandshrew of the Sarcophagus
• Devil Jigglypuff
• Frankenstein Psyduck
• Pumpkin Togepi
• Devil Wooper
• Jack-O-Lantern Chandelure
• Shadow Xerneas
• Candy Corn Cutiefly
• Ghost King Blacephalon

You can also obtain tickets by voting for us on Top.gg. Each vote counts as one ticket, so you can get up to two a day.

Thank you to @anoea, @HaltPunkCyberFire230, , @chaotichavoc, and @R for helping draw the art for these beautiful Pokémon! Our artists are now credited under each p!pokedex entry, if applicable.

/╲/╭ºoꍘoº╮/╱\

[leaden valley]

@Status Updates

Bot is laggy
Please be patient, bot is slow and incenses may not be working properly

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Status Updates
We are aware that our services are offline at the time.
This is due to a major influx in usage from the Halloween event, causing our servers to crash.
We're working on restoring the bot. Thank you for your patience.

Online
The issues are resolved (for now, at least) and the bot is back online.
Incense refunds are being processed.
It's possible that the bot may be unstable periodically but it's ok right now.

[leaden valley]

@Status Updates

Bot is down in most servers
We are looking into it!

Bot is slowly starting to work again

[leaden valley]

We've been receiving three times the usual volume of commands today, I apologize if the bot struggles to respond quickly.
Thank you for your patience.

[leaden valley]

@Status Updates

Bot is down in most servers
We are looking into it!

Bot is slowly starting to work again

[leaden valley]

Server Maintenance @Status Updates

We're getting infrastructure upgrades. The bot may go partially up/down for the next hour or so.
After this is completed, it should improve bot stability.

EDIT: The upgrade is partially complete, but we'll have to pause for now.

[leaden valley]

Server Maintenance @Status Updates

Resuming our infra upgrades. The bot will go partially up/down for the next hour or so. Please stand by.

Note that the bot shouldn't actually stay down in your server for more than a couple minutes, since we have multiple machines to shift traffic between. If you're running an incense, we recommend waiting a few minutes to see if it comes back up, and, if it does not, kicking the bot from your server temporarily to pause it. Otherwise, if you miss a substantial part of your incense, you can DM a moderator afterward to request a refund.

[leaden valley]

Maintenance Complete @Status Updates

We finished our infrastructure upgrades! Although today was rocky, this should result in much better stability in the future.
Thanks for all your patience; the bot is starting up again now and should be fully online within a few minutes.

[leaden valley]

Bot may be laggy or down on some servers.

[worldly mirage]

Hey guys, as part of all the server changes, we're removing the #846061555866796032 channel. Any trades can just be done in #poketwo_bot_commands!

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Shiny Whirlipede Hosted by <@!812352553744203796>

Winner: @manic crescent
Hosted by: @wraith thistle

Ended at · Nov 11, 2021, 3:41 AM

[wraith thistle]

Hey guys! @full plank is giving away a Shiny Whirlipede for you to have a chance at! It's IVs are 65.59%!
Please make sure to show some appreciation for this giveaway, and winner please DM them to claim

[zealous sierra]

Hey everyone,

Recently there has been a lot of redeem scams going on. If you aren't in your own server and are suspicious, double check what you're confirming by adding 1 pc. Do not confirm twice in a row without checking the transaction. The safest place to trade is here in the official server.

Please be careful.

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @manic crescent! You won the Shiny Whirlipede Hosted by @full plank!

41 entrants ↗

[zealous sierra]

Galarian Evolutions

The following Pokémon now spawn in the wild:

• Obstagoon (also evolves from Galarian Linoone)
• Perrserker (also evolves from Galarian Meowth)
• Cursola (also evolves from Galarian Corsola)
• Mr. Rime (also evolves from Galarian Mr. Mime)
• Sirfetch'd
• Runerigus

Please note that some of these will evolve automatically on level up, so be sure to put an Everstone on Pokémon you do not want evolving.

[zealous sierra]

Thanksgiving Fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders @everyone

Happy Thanksgiving from the United States! First off, I'd like to thank all of you for your support throughout the past one and a half years. We recently hit 2.7 million users and 700,000 servers, much more than I ever imagined when I first started working on Pokétwo. I'd also like to give my deepest thanks to my @Moderators, @Admins, and s. Being able to get to where we are now is a direct result of everybody's combined efforts. To my staff members, thank you for all the time and effort you put in to managing the bot and community.

Pokétwo's mission is to bring people together, and we're committed to making a difference in the world. Back in June, we donated $5,000 to Amnesty International to defend human rights (Receipt: https://bit.ly/3cToG96). For Thanksgiving, we've decided to run a fundraiser, inviting all of you to contribute for an even farther reach!

For the next two weeks, we're running a fundraiser to support Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organization that provides millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations across over 70 countries every year. This is a great opportunity to help fund medical relief to save lives and ease suffering around the world, and you'll receive in-game rewards while you're at it.

👉 https://msf-fundraiser.poketwo.net/ 👈
👉 https://msf-fundraiser.poketwo.net/ 👈
👉 https://msf-fundraiser.poketwo.net/ 👈

For every $15 you contribute to the fundraiser, you will be rewarded 1× limited-time event Pokémon United Pikachu. This Pokémon is only obtainable through this fundraiser. There is no limit to the number of United Pikachu you can obtain. In addition, we have the following total donation milestones:

• If we raise more than $2,500, all donors will receive a **profile badge **to showcase their generous contribution.
• If we raise more than $5,000, all donors will receive 20,000 Pokécoins, and 5× Shiny United Pikachu will be raffled.
• If we raise more than $7,500, all donors will receive 50,000 Pokécoins as a reward for their charitable donation.
• If we hit our goal of $10,000, all donors will receive 1,000 shards, and 10× additional Shiny United Pikachu will be raffled.

We're super excited for this fundraiser. Pokétwo will cover all transaction fees; 100% of your contribution will go to Médecins Sans Frontières. We will also be matching the first $5,000 in donations, $1-for-$1.

The fundraiser will end at <t:1639094400:F>. Happy Thanksgiving!

(For more information about Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders, check out https://www.msf.org/.)

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outages
We are aware that our services are offline at the time.
We're working on restoring the bot. Thank you for your patience.

Recovered
We have deployed a fix and all services are back online.

[zealous sierra]

Fundraiser Update @everyone

Thank you for all the support so far! We blew through the original $10,000 goal in less than a day. I'm absolutely amazed by how much we've been able to achieve together as a community to support this cause, and I couldn't be more happy.

(If you missed the announcement a few days ago, please read the original post above.)

As there's still more time left, we're adding two more milestones:

• At $20,000, Pokétwo donate another $3,000 to the cause in addition to our original $5,000 and the funds you guys have contributed. We'll also raffle out another 15× Shiny United Pikachu (totaling 30).

• At $30,000, all donors will receive 500 shards and we'll raffle out another 15× Shiny United Pikachu (totaling 45).

Remember, your donation will go to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders to help them carry out millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations across over 70 countries every year. Pokétwo will cover all transaction fees so 100% of your donation will go to the charity.

👉 https://msf-fundraiser.poketwo.net/ 👈

The fundraiser will end at <t:1639094400:F>. Let's all unite to make one final push, to deliver the biggest impact we can!

[leaden valley]

Upcoming Server Maintenance @Outages

We'll be performing maintenance on our database in around 20 minutes. Downtime may last up to one hour.

[leaden valley]

Degraded Performance, Market Temporarily Disabled @Outages

Sorry for the long wait! The database migration was partially successful and the bot's coming back up. Unfortunately, some large operations are still running in the background so you may notice slowness in the bot. The changes I made to the market system rely on these upgrades so market will be temporarily disabled until this is complete.

We'll need to have more maintenance tomorrow to finish.

[leaden valley]

Server Maintenance @Outages

We need to finish making some database changes. The bot will be down for up to two hours.

[leaden valley]

Online @Outages

Back online with market disabled. The server died in the middle of the migration so we'll need to restart it. We've stabilized the infrastructure and fixed the issue causing everything to go on fire last time, so it should be smoother this time!

[zealous sierra]

Fundraiser Update @everyone

We've extended the fundraiser by two days due to the bot being down! Remember to donate to receive to help us reach our goal of $30,000. You'll support Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders in providing medical humanitarian aid across over 70 countries, and receive cool rewards like a limited-time event Pokémon United Pikachu in the process.

👉 https://msf-fundraiser.poketwo.net/ 👈

The new end date is <t:1639267200:F>.

[leaden valley]

All Services Operational @Outages

Thanks for your patience. Market is now re-enabled. Performance has significantly improved for p!pokemon, p!market search, and related commands. For more information on the updates, read the patch notes in #908955378883112990.

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Shiny Snover hosted by <@!683434719769264130>

Winner: @granite tulip
Hosted by: @wraith thistle

Ended at · Dec 16, 2021, 1:00 AM

[wraith thistle]

Hey guys, @river relic is generously giving away a shiny Snover for you to have a chance at! The details are:
IVs: 58.60%
(HP: 21/31, ATK: 17/31, DEF:3/31, SPATK: 22/31, SPDEF: 16/31, SPD: 30/31)

Please show appreciation, and winner please DM them!

[zealous sierra]

Fundraiser Recap @everyone

Thank you for helping us raise $27,861 for Médecins Sans Frontières! After our contribution of $5,000 + the $3,000 for hitting one of the donation milestones, that works out to a whopping $35,861 raised to help people in need of medical humanitarian aid all around the world. Out of that, Pokétwo also covered $1,324 in transaction fees from your donations.

We're incredibly amazed at the power of our community and we're glad we can make an impact on the world.

As promised, for hitting the milestones, we've added 70,000 Pokécoins and 1,000 shards to the accounts of everyone who donated. As for the raffle, the winners of the 30× ✨ United Pikachu raffle are...

||@Rad @spoon kid @jChyu @João Rodrigo @Gardevoir (Wants your Venonat) @clone ramen @cheesyslyguy @Kyutoryu @kwhen_ @JυλιαΝιgτmοοη(SB) @GreyDragonX @sledding || sh dwebble @Mallak @Semrah SH-Goomy @Azaheet 黄昏 @Fur-E @MW_147 @Lust P2HB @Tyler🦝 @bakahentai @Rajin Risk @Who? @britxo ✨ vulpix @Roak Simp @Dimsum♂ @Ruzovy @Nerdberto @cacamaca @Snip @Roxi•Fabulous||

The Pokémon has automatically been added to your account. Congratulations to the winners and thank you everybody for your donations! We look forward to running more fundraisers like this in the future; if you have suggestions for those, please feel free to @ us on Twitter.

(You can view the donation receipt at https://bit.ly/30uhSfO.)

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @granite tulip! You won the Shiny Snover hosted by @river relic!

43 entrants ↗

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Assorted shiny Pokémon Hosted by <@!683434719769264130>

Winners:
@wraith rampart
@hearty hemlock
@silk rampart
@dry hinge
@exotic birch
@autumn herald
Hosted by: @potent oak

6 Winners | Ended at · Dec 23, 2021, 12:24 AM

[potent oak]

@river relic is kindly giving away 6 shiny Pokémon for poketwo including: shiny Togepi, shiny Vanillite, shiny Cherrim, Shiny sawsbuck, shiny Pidove and shiny Dewgong! Prizes are given out on a first come first serve basis so if you’re after a certain one make sure to dm the host promptly

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Shiny Spheal hosted by <@!611641726024810516>

Winner: @hearty hemlock
Hosted by: @dense blaze

Ended at · Dec 23, 2021, 12:46 AM

[dense blaze]

hey guys! @south vale has kindly donated a shiny spheal in Poketwo for you all! make sure to show your appreciation and DM them if you win!

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Shiny Zigzagoon Hosted by <@!812352553744203796>

Winner: @cinder jay
Hosted by: @potent oak

Ended at · Dec 23, 2021, 5:33 AM

[potent oak]

@full plank is giving away this shiny Zigzagoon in poketwo for one lucky winner! Please show your appreciation and winner dm them to claim

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @wraith rampart, @hearty hemlock, @silk rampart, @dry hinge, @exotic birch, @autumn herald! You won the Assorted shiny Pokémon Hosted by @river relic!

45 entrants ↗

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @hearty hemlock! You won the Shiny Spheal hosted by @south vale!

45 entrants ↗

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Assorted shiny Pokémon Hosted by <@!683434719769264130>

Winners:
@umbral mist
@lilac owl
@restive pier
@exotic birch
@dense spade
@slow kraken
@full plank
@silk rampart
@cobalt ice
@wicked scaffold
Hosted by: @potent oak

10 Winners | Ended at · Dec 24, 2021, 1:43 AM

[potent oak]

@river relic is giving away 10 shiny Pokémon for poketwo including Minior, Spheal, Chingling, Mega Sceptile, Impidimp, Aurorus, Snowy Castform, Staryu, Milcery and Wormadam! Please show your appreciation and winners dm them to claim—prizes are handed out on a first come first serve basis

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @cinder jay! You won the Shiny Zigzagoon Hosted by @full plank!

44 entrants ↗

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @umbral mist, @lilac owl, @restive pier, @exotic birch, @dense spade, @slow kraken, @full plank, @silk rampart, @cobalt ice, @wicked scaffold! You won the Assorted shiny Pokémon Hosted by @river relic!

43 entrants ↗

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Christmas 2021 🎄 @everyone

For the next two weeks, some Ice and Rock Pokémon will be carrying certain gift boxes for Santa... Catch these Pokémon to obtain Nice and Naughty Boxes! You can open these boxes with the p!christmas or p!event command for the chance to receive some of these limited-time event Pokémon:

• Rudolph Vulpix
• Angel Diglett
• Candy Cane Marowak
• Mrs. Claus Jynx
• Christmas Mareep
• Santa Delibird
• Ornaments Spoink
• Poinsettia Lilligant
• Christmas Rowlet
• Wreath Comfey
• Lights Pyukumuku
• Presents Komala
• Ornament Eldegoss
• Cake Appletun
• Elf Impidimp

(Art by: @anoea, @BlueLego, , @Rengoku Kyojuro || sh Rayquaza , , and @ironlegend | broke gang. Thank you!)

The event will end on <t:1641614400:F>. Happy catching!

[potent oak]

!greroll 923008124229681192

[ivory verge]

🎉 The new winner is @tiny crag! Congratulations!

🎉 The new winner is @granite tulip! Congratulations!

[potent oak]

New winners of the assorted shiny Pokémon for poketwo please dm @river relic to claim!

[cursive needle]

whoever won that spheal hmu

[cursive needle]

y'all think im kidding

[leaden valley]

Restarting @Outages

The bot ran into a hiccup while performing some updates. It is starting up again.
If you're running an incense, it will resume automatically when it comes back up.
(If you missed a significant number of spawns, please immediately stop the incense and DM a mod for a refund.)

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Assorted Poketwo Shinies

Winners:
@umbral mist
@muted urchin
@uneven cradle
@woeful dirge
@cinder jay
@slow sequoia
@exotic birch
Hosted by: @cloud flame

7 Winners | Ended at · Jan 1, 2022, 2:43 AM

[cloud flame]

hello everyone! @full plank has kindly donated 7 shiny pokemon from poketwo (3 scatterbugs, 1 vivillon, 1 drampa, 1 bruxish and 1 croconaw). winners, please DM Lillie to claim the prizes! and don't forget to show your appreciation to them in #giveaway_thanks

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @umbral mist, @muted urchin, @uneven cradle, @woeful dirge, @cinder jay, @slow sequoia, @exotic birch! You won the Assorted Poketwo Shinies!

54 entrants ↗

[exotic birch]

[cloud flame]

Don't forget to DM Lillie to redeem your prize! They are first come first serve

[dense blaze]

harry rig again

[exotic birch]

[dense blaze]

[cloud flame]

!greroll 926304415479107604

[ivory verge]

🎉 The new winner is @fallen osprey! Congratulations!

[cloud flame]

new winner of the poketwo shiny, please DM Lillie!

[leaden valley]

Incenses are unstable @Outages

Please be patient, incenses may not be working properly

[leaden valley]

Planned Server Maintenance @Outages

We'll be rolling out some internal updates in around half an hour or so which will last for 5-10 minutes.
These updates should greatly enhance the stability of the bot and also allow for near-zero downtime restarts.

If you're running an incense when the downtime happens, it'll automatically resume after the bot comes back up.
Kicking the bot from your server will also let you decide when to resume your incense (by re-inviting the bot).

[leaden valley]

Server Maintenance @Outages
The bot will be down for around 5-10 minutes. Read previous message for info.
I'll update this message when the bot comes back up.

Online
Back up!

[leaden valley]

Bot Down @Outages

Bot is appearing online but doesn't react to most commands.
We are aware of this and are investigating

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

We have deployed a fix and all services are back online. Thank you for your patience.

[zealous sierra]

The event has been extended by two (2) days to accommodate the bot outages.

The new end date is <t:1641787200:F>.

[cursive needle]

Due to unforseen circumstances, poliwhirlkek has had some cosmetic changes.

I hope you can all adapt to love the new age of poliwhirlkek

[zealous sierra]

The period to open event boxes will end <t:1642478400:R> at <t:1642478400:F>. After this time, event boxes will no longer be claimable and badges will be distributed. (Amended.)

[ivory verge]

GIVEAWAY ENDED

Assorted poketwo shinies Hosted by <@!701751556294311976>

Winners:
@ember bloom
@hearty hemlock
@valid nebula
@thin vector
@zenith meteor
@spring arch
@sand raptor
@merry lantern
Hosted by: @potent oak

8 Winners | Ended at · Jan 20, 2022, 3:25 AM

[potent oak]

@ashen kayak is generously giving away some poketwo shinies including Trapinch, Vikavolt, Weavile, Chandelure, Ludicolo, Roggenrola, Gogoat and Sceptile! Please show them your appreciation and wish them a happy birthday for tomorrow
Winners please dm them to claim and prizes will be given out on a first come first serve basis

[ivory verge]

Congratulations @ember bloom, @hearty hemlock, @valid nebula, @thin vector, @zenith meteor, @spring arch, @sand raptor, @merry lantern! You won the Assorted poketwo shinies Hosted by @ashen kayak!

51 entrants ↗

[leaden valley]

Bot Down @Outages

Bot is appearing online but doesn't react to most commands.
We are aware of this and are investigating.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All services are now operational. Thank you for your patience.
If you missed an incense due to the outage, DM a mod for a refund.

[leaden valley]

Incenses are unstable @Outages
Please be aware that incenses may not be working properly at the moment. If you have gotten a refund, please refrain from buying another incense in the near future. The bot may also be offline in some servers.

Major Outage
The bot is offline. Please be patient while we investigate.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All services are now operational. Thank you for your patience.
If you missed an incense due to the outage, DM a mod for a refund.

[zealous sierra]

New Event • Winter @everyone

As the days get colder, some new Pokémon are here to play in the thick snow! During the event duration (two weeks, ending <t:1645056000:F>), 10 new Pokémon will be available to catch in the wild:

• Snowflake Bronzor
• Choco Sinistea
• Crystal Larvesta
• Snowy Amaura
• Spikey Cyndaquil
• Elsa Galarian Ponyta
• Snowman Pikachu
• Winter Sawsbuck
• Snowy Slowpoke
• Primal Glastrier

(Art by @Anoea and @Dagger_Mace Thank you!)

These Pokémon can also be redeemed and will count toward the shiny hunt of their respective base Pokémon.

The event will end on <t:1645056000:F>. Happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Market and auction may be down and are being fixed. Thank you for your patience.

[zealous sierra]

Valentine's Day Special @everyone

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Celebrate by purchasing a Valentine's Nidoran for that special someone, or simply a friend!
Use the p!valentine gift <@user> [message] command to buy a gift! (Artwork by @Anoea)

• You may purchase up to 5 gifts.
• The first gift costs 5,000 Pokécoins.
• Additional gifts cost 10,000 Pokécoins each.
• Trainers (both gifters and receivers) must have started Pokétwo prior to January 14, 2022 to participate.

Gifts will be available for purchase for two days (until the end of the Winter event; <t:1645056000:F>). Enjoy!

[zealous sierra]

The Winter and Valentine's Day events have now ended.

We've heard many requests for the event to be extended due to redeems being down. After some discussion, we will be re-enabling redeeming these event Pokémon for a 1-week period whenever the command is fixed. During this period, they will not spawn naturally and will only be obtainable via redeem.

[zealous sierra]

hi

[barren patrol]

why though

(oh no I can type in here)

[leaden valley]

Bot Down @Outages

Bot is appearing online but doesn't react to most commands.
We are aware of this and are investigating.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All services are now operational. Thank you for your patience.
If you missed an incense due to the outage, DM a mod for a refund.

[leaden valley]

There is currently a rolling restart going out to refresh the bot. Be patient and if the bot is down in your server give it time, it’ll come back on its own :)

[zealous sierra]

Dedicated Support Server @everyone

In the past, we've handled player support—things like reports, account transfers, and incense refunds—through DMs with our staff team. Although this worked well when we were smaller, we realize that it is not an ideal solution, both for players and staff, since we often need to internally shuffle information around, which can be time-consuming and difficult.

Today, we're opening a new dedicated support server to handle all these requests instead. From today on, if you need support, please join this server and follow the instructions instead of DMing a staff member. The help desk contains solutions for a few common problems and lets you open a ticket if you need further support, where you can talk directly to our team.

👉 https://discord.gg/poketwo-support 👈

We hope that opening this server will make it easier for players to get in contact with our team and get their problems solved faster, while making it easier for our staff team to handle a broader range of situations. Please let us know if you have any feedback on the server.

Note that this server is only for support—there is no space to talk, so please do not join the server expecting to do so. Furthermore, please only open a ticket if you need support. I know it's tempting to open a ticket just to test out the system, but please quell that temptation as it makes it harder for our staff team. Any abuse of the ticket system may result in a ban from this server without warning.

[leaden valley]

Incenses are unstable @Outages
Please be aware that incenses may not be working properly at the moment. If you have gotten a refund, please refrain from buying another incense in the near future until another announcement stating that incenses are working again.

[leaden valley]

Bot Down @Outages

Bot is not reacting to messages, we’re aware and are investigating.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All services are now operational. Thank you for your patience.
If you missed an incense due to the outage, please join discord.gg/poketwo-support and open a ticket.

[zealous sierra]

April Fools' Day Recap @everyone

If you didn't notice, all the spawn images were replaced with redrawings carrying Ditto faces for a week! Shoutout to everyone who helped out with the project, it was a really big effort to redraw nearly a thousand Pokémon, especially @Anoea and @not numa- 🍓 who drew over 150 each:

@Anoea @Blubambii | Jess 🍓 @5865f2Lego @bubblessttoooooonochahahfgiek @Keldeo_Trafficker @Chaotic Havoc @コビーくん(cobias)||[WolF][CAT] @Dagger_Mace @DanePengi | Pikachu @gone for a while @Foxrii_ @2948O98O9368O @itsonlyanna @jyn [8D][morc][🅿] 🐮 @white chocolate enjoyer @not numa- 🍓 @ˏˋ✦ : Ko || Mareep ˊˎ- @MetSpek @MozzSylveon700 @Squirrel @✨SH Eevee✨ @septu🍓 @Sparki ❄ || SH Fennekin✨ @SuperJedi224 @SylveDub @taffy | rowlet @The water I attack 🍓 @witheoeoeoeni @Wolly @Yiqii @Mewtwo |Sh Flabebe @Bumble @leafeon is food @q, server catlady[CAT, clone]

Full credits for each Pokémon, as well as the artwork, can be found at this gist below:

https://gist.github.com/WitherredAway/b3d3e197e495abef6bcbd1a39472ce4d

[leaden valley]

Bot Down @Outages

Bot appears online but does not seem to be reacting to most commands.
We are investigating this.

[leaden valley]

Market and auction features have been re-enabled for all accounts.

Redeems have been re-enabled.

[zealous sierra]

Market, Auction, Redeems Re-enabled, Winter Pokémon Redeemable @everyone

Market and auctions have been re-enabled for all users along with redeems! I've gone around and patched the big issues that caused us to disable them a few months ago. Thank you for all your patience and we apologize for the long wait.

As promised, Winter Pokémon from the previous event will be redeemable for the following week (since redeems were disabled during the event) until <t:1652079600:F>. However, they will not spawn in the wild. This includes the following Pokémon:

• Snowflake Bronzor
• Choco Sinistea
• Crystal Larvesta
• Snowy Amaura
• Spikey Cyndaquil
• Elsa Galarian Ponyta
• Snowman Pikachu
• Winter Sawsbuck
• Snowy Slowpoke
• Primal Glastrier

Happy catching!

[zealous sierra]

🎉 ONE MILLION SERVERS 🎉 @everyone

As of today, Pokétwo is now being used in 1 million servers! This is a huge milestone for us and it's amazing how far we've been able to come through the past two years. Thank you, everyone, for all your continued support and enthusiasm, and I can't wait to see what the future holds.

I would like to give a special thanks to all my staff members for their relentless efforts. Keeping the server peaceful, taking care of bad actors, investigating glitches in the bot, handling the endless stream of DMs and tickets… Pokétwo couldn't have gotten this far without all the work you do every day. I can't thank you enough for your continued patience and support.

To celebrate this milestone, we'll be doing a huge giveaway of 1 million shards and 50 Nitro Gifts!

15,000 shards to 5 winners
10,000 shards to 10 winners
5,000 shards to 25 winners
2,000 shards to 100 winners
1,000 shards to 500 winners
Discord Nitro to 50 winners

Simply react on this message with any emoji to enter. Winners will be announced in 1 week.
If you are seeing this in your own server, you should join https://discord.gg/poketwo and find the message to react (it's in the #717883936314753045 channel)

In addition, we'll be having a sale on our online shard store! Have you been looking to purchase some redeems or incenses? Use the code ONEMILLION at checkout at https://poketwo.net/store to get 50% off all shard purchases! This coupon code will last 1 week, until <t:1653202740:F>.

Thank you all again for 1 million servers ❤️ Happy catching!

[zealous sierra]

Giveaway + Sale Ending Soon @everyone

Just a reminder that the giveaway above ends <t:1653202740:R>. Make sure to react to the above message if you have not already (not this message). Winners will be drawn soon. Also, the 50% off shard sale at https://poketwo.net/store ends <t:1653202740:R> as well — use the code ONEMILLION at checkout.

[zealous sierra]

Giveaway Re-run @everyone

The giveaway was supposed to have ended, but, unfortunately, Discord randomly decided to delete 10,000+ reactions on the original message, so we're going to redo the giveaway with a more foolproof method this time (sorry about that!)

Press the Blurple-colored button labeled "Enter Giveaway" on the message below this message to enter the giveaway!
Entries will be accepted until <t:1653807540:F> (<t:1653807540:R>)

[zealous sierra]

New Terms of Service @everyone

We have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These Terms can be viewed on our website at https://poketwo.net/terms. These Terms are a contract that defines what is acceptable use of Pokétwo and its related services, and violations of these Terms may result in the suspension of your account. Please read these Terms carefully; not knowing the content is not an excuse for violating them.

Going forward, new users will be explicitly prompted to agree to the Terms when they pick starter Pokémon. For existing users, if you have not done so yet, Pokétwo will prompt you to read, understand, and accept these Terms before granting you continued access to the bot. If you choose not to accept these new user terms, you will no longer able to use Pokétwo.

Thank you, happy catching!

[leaden valley]

Brief Maintenance @Outages

The bot will be offline for 10-15 minutes for a brief maintenance. Please stand by.

Online @Outages

All services are back online. Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Brief Maintenance @Outages

The bot will be offline for 15-20 minutes for a brief maintenance. Please stand by.

[leaden valley]

Online @Outages

The bot is now back up. Sorry for the delay; there were some unforeseen issues.
There is still an issue causing the bot to be down in a small number of affected servers. We are working on it.

[leaden valley]

@Outages We have confirmed that the issue causing the bot to be down in a small number of servers is due to a problem with Discord, not a problem with Pokétwo. Unfortunately, there is nothing that we can do at the moment. Sorry about that!

[zealous sierra]

🎉🎉 Happy Second Birthday, Pokétwo! 🎉🎉 @everyone

It's May 30, 2022, and that means it's been exactly two years since Pokétwo was created!
This year, we're celebrating with some big updates:

1️⃣ New Hisuian Pokémon & Forms

This has been requested for a while, and we're finally adding them. This includes 26 new Pokémon and forms:

Wyrdeer, Kleavor, Ursaluna, Basculegion, Sneasler, Overqwil, Enamorus, Hisuian Growlithe, Hisuian Arcanine, Hisuian Voltorb, Hisuian Electrode, Hisuian Typhlosion, Hisuian Qwilfish, Hisuian Sneasel, Hisuian Samurott, Hisuian Lilligant, Hisuian Zorua, Hisuian Zoroark, Hisuian Braviary, Hisuian Sliggoo, Hisuian Goodra, Hisuian Avalugg, Hisuian Decidueye, Origin Palkia, Origin Dialga, and Therian Enamorus

Most of these will spawn naturally in the wild (except for the last three) and many of them can be obtained via evolution too. Of course, you can also redeem the ones that spawn naturally!

2️⃣ Limited-time Event Pokémon

For the next two weeks (until <t:1655535540:F>), the following Pokémon are available to catch in the wild:

• Sprouting Oddish
• Bouquet Shaymin
• Cherry Blossom Cottonee
• Spring Fever Cubchoo
• Eternal Flower Floette

These can also be obtained from redeems and from vote boxes.
In addition, there is also another event Pokémon Anniversary Sunflora that cannot be caught in the wild but can be obtained from...

3️⃣ Anniversary Bingo Event

To celebrate anniversary, we're running a Bingo event for the next two weeks (until <t:1655535540:F>). Each player will receive a randomized Bingo board of 25 different quests (one of them is a free space). Every time you complete a quest, you will receive an Anniversary Box which you can open with p!anniversary open to receive random rewards. However, what's more exciting are the Bingos:

When you complete all five quests in a row, a column, or one of the two diagonals on the 5×5 board, you will receive 10,000 pokécoins in addition to another Anniversary Box. There are 12 Bingos per board, and on your third Bingo, you will receive the limited-time event Pokémon Anniversary Sunflora (can also be received in Anniversary Boxes).

If you manage to complete all 25 quests, you can also reset the board to get a new set of quests and restart your Bingos!
Do p!anniversary to view details about this event, including your Bingo board.
You must run this command once before quests are generated for you.

4️⃣ Store Sale

To celebrate our Second Anniversary, we'll also be having a sale on our shard shop at https://poketwo.net/store.
Use code BIRTHDAY at checkout to receive 20% off on all shard purchases!

We hope you enjoy these updates. Here's to another great year ahead!

[zealous sierra]

Anniversary Bingo Event Extended

Due to some issues with the initial release of the event, we are extending the event until <t:1655621940:F>.
In addition, every user who has had at least one box in the past has received 3 additional Anniversary Boxes as compensation.
See #717972767252676629 for more information regarding these issues.

[leaden valley]

Bugs Fixed @Outages

The above bugs have been fixed (to my knowledge). We're really sorry about the release of this event with these bugs, and I should have done more adequate testing beforehand to ensure a good experience for everyone. Nevertheless, I hope that everyone is able to enjoy it now that the issues have been fixed. The event will be extended by three days to account for these bugs.

In addition, everyone who has had at least one box at any point in time has receive 3 Anniversary Boxes to compensate for these issues.

If you continue to experience what feels like unintended behavior, please report it and we'll investigate as soon as possible.

[leaden valley]

Minor Outage @Outages

There is once again an issue on Discord's end causing the bot to be down in a small number of servers.
Discord is rolling out a fix but we have no information on when that will come through.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that we can do at the moment. Sorry about that!

[leaden valley]

Server Maintenance @Outages

We are updating internal data stores to accommodate possible new features in the future.
The bot will be offline for an estimated 30–40 minutes while we perform this maintenance.

Maintenance Complete @Outages

Maintenance has been completed and all services are back online.
Thank you for your patience!

[leaden valley]

Bot not responding / being slow to response @Outages

The bot seems to be slow at responding to command/unresponsive in most servers. We are aware of this and are currently investigating in this issue.

[leaden valley]

Ticket Bugs @Outages
Please do not create new tickets in the Pokétwo support server. There is currently some issues and we are investigating it as well.

We will announce when this is fixed, and you can open incense refund tickets at that time. Until then we're extremely sorry for the inconvenience and we're working on it!

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

The bot has been stable for the past couple of hours and everything looks healthy internally!

[leaden valley]

🔄 Restart @Outages

The bot will be restarting briefly to apply some updates.

[leaden valley]

🔄 Restart @Outages

The bot will be restarting briefly to apply some stability updates.

[leaden valley]

🔄 Restart @Outages

The bot will be restarting briefly to apply some updates.

[leaden valley]

Major Outage @Outages

We are currently investigating an ongoing issue causing the bot to be unresponsive in a large number of servers.
Thank you for your patience while we resolve this.

[leaden valley]

Recovered @Outages

All services are back online. Thank you for your patience!
The outage was due to changes on Discord's end causing issues with assumptions made in a library we used.