Pokémon Go Catch Mastery event starts off Rising Heroes

Of all Pokémon Go events in history, this is one of them

Marco Wutz | Feb 28, 2023

Pokémon Go Catch Mastery event starts off Rising Heroes /

Jokes aside, while the first event for Pokémon Go’s newest season, Rising Heroes, could be a lot more exciting than what’s on offer, Catch Mastery comes with one redeeming aspect: a XP bonus for catching Pokémon.

Running from March 5, 2023, 10am local time to 8pm local time, you gain double XP for every Pokémon you catch with Nice Throws, Great Throws, Excellent Throws, and Curveball Throws. The event also features an increased chance of encountering Shiny versions of Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, and Hitmontop in this timeframe.

Pokémon Go Catch Mastery header. — Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, and Hitmontop are training for their big moment / Niantic

Unfortunately, these are also Pokémon with relatively low base catch rates, which could make it tricky to take full advantage of the XP bonus and may lead to a high degradation of your Pokéball reserves.

Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan will spawn more frequently in the wild, while Hitmontop will be a Field Research reward. Tyrogue will be featured in 7 km Eggs and can be Shiny as well. There are no other featured Pokémon for this event.

A Timed Research is going to enable you to encounter up to 40 Hitmontop in addition to those you find through the Field Research.

It’s definitely a slower start to the season than Pokémon Go players are used to, which is not going to help a lot with the fact that the community is really frustrated with Niantic once again after technical issues with the Las Vegas event and rumors about further nerfs to Remote Raids.

Pokémon Go Rising Heroes also features new Elite Raids with Regidrago and Regileki as well as a fresh season of GO Battle League full of exciting PvP formats.

Published Feb 28, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg