Giacomo & Kingambit make their Pokémon Masters EX debut alongside today's launch of the Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio event

Pokémon Masters EX's five-year anniversary celebrations begin to wrap up this week with the launch of a brand new Event, Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio, and the debut of the first of two new sync pairs, Giacomo & Kingambit.

Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio
In this new event, Clavell and Giacomo both arrive on Pasio, with Clavell looking to open up a new School on the island. This event is available in-game now, and will continue until October 17th, at 10:59pm (PDT).

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As with other recent Story Events, this event features an altered, simplified format, where players will collect Event Points as they complete battles, earning rewards based on the total amount of event points acquired instead of trading for specific desired rewards. Players will need to collect a total of 10,000 Event Points for this event in order to receive all possible rewards. Featured event rewards include 5★ Scout Tickets, Skill Items, a Field Move Candy Coin, 5★ Power-Ups, and Event Medals. Other rewards able to be obtained include Special Skill Feather 51, custom Sync Orbs for Giacomo & Kingambit and Clavell & Quaquaval, and Lucky Cookies for Giacomo & Kingambit, Clavell & Quaquaval, and Penny & Sylveon.

As usual for events of this type, players will have an increased chance of receiving bonus rewards if they take on event battles using teams that feature specific sync pairs. The more of these sync pairs that players place in their lineup, the greater the bonus received. The applicable Sync Pairs and reward rates are as follows:

• Giacomo & Kingambit: +60% (×1.6) bonus rewards
• Penny & Sylveon: +40% (×4.6) bonus rewards
• All other sync pairs with the Paldea Theme Skill: +20% (×1.2) bonus rewards

These bonuses stack additively, so having a team consisting of Giacomo & Kingambit, Penny & Sylveon, and another Sync Pair with the Paldea Theme Skill would grant a combined +120% (×2.2) rewards.

Players should also note the following when playing this event:

• The number of plays available for Daily Extreme Battle 1 are reset every day at 11:00pm (PDT).
• To participate, players must have completed Main Story Chapter 1: The More the Merrier (Normal) in single-player.
• The sync pairs that appear as opponents in battle have different capabilities than those players can actually obtain.
• All mission completion rewards must be claimed within three days of the mission period ending.
• All Event Points collected during this event will be automatically deleted once the event is over.

Log-in Bonus
The Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio event includes a log-in bonus over 14 days. Players can receive these bonuses up until October 16th, at 10:59pm (PDT), so even if you're a couple of days late starting the event you'll still have the chance to receive all of the available gifts.

• Day 1: Skip Ticket ×20
• Day 2: Gems ×100
• Day 3: Gems ×100
• Day 4: Gems ×100
• Day 5: Skip Ticket ×20
• Day 6: Gems ×100
• Day 7: Gems ×100
• Day 8: Gems ×100
• Day 9: Skip Ticket ×20
• Day 10: Gems ×100
• Day 11: Gems ×100
• Day 12: Gems ×100
• Day 13: Gems ×100
• Day 14: Skip Ticket ×20

Gem Special
In conjunction with the Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio event, the following four Gem Specials will be available in the purchase gems tab of the in-game shop until September 30th, at 10:59pm (PDT), offering discounted prices on paid gems.

• September event gem special 1: Gems ×300
• September event gem special 2: Gems ×1,800
• September event gem special 3: Gems ×3,900
• September event gem special 4: Gems ×7,000

Giacomo Poké Fair Scout
Giacomo & Kingambit make their debut in this limited-time Poké Fair Scout alongside the launch of the Academy Founding Chapter: Let's Make a School on Pasio event. This scout is available in-game now, and will run through to October 17th at 10:59pm (PDT). As normal for Poké Fair Scouts, 5★ sync pairs have a 10% chance of appearing in this scout. This Poké Fair Scout also includes a daily discount, where players can perform a single scout for ×100 paid gems. This daily discount can be used 1 time per day during the entire length of the scout.

Players will also receive 4× Tech Roll Cake Coin and 4× 5★ Power-Ups each time they pair up with Giacomo & Kingambit through this scout, up to a maximum of 5 times.

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This Fair-Exclusive Dark-type Strike (Physical) Role Sync Pair are being released with an expanded sync grid, the ability to be raised to 6★ EX, and the ability to unlock a Tech EX Role when raised to 6★ EX. Raising the pair to 6★ EX also unlocks a new song for the Jukebox, along with an alternative outfit for Giacomo based on the palette of a Shiny Kingambit.

Giacomo & Kingambit are focused around outputting large amounts of damage through the Sync Move ↑ Next and Physical Moves ↑ Next effects. Their Spin You Up Good! Status move sets up their initial attacks, raising their Attack by six stat ranks, applying the Free Move Next effect to them, and increasing their Sync Move ↑ Next effect by two ranks. This event gets boosted every time allied Pokémon take damage, when their DJ Vice's Beat Drop Passive Skill increasing their Sync Move ↑ Next effect by 1 rank for each Pokémon taking damage from each attack. In addition to powering up their Sync Move, this effect also activates their Perfect Kowtow Cleave Buddy Move, which hits all opponents with a Base Power 400 strike that's further powered up the more their Sync Move ↑ Next effect is increased, while also ignoring passive skills that would reduce the damage of this attack or protect the target against a critical hit, and ignoring an Enduring effect. Additionally, this move also increases their Physical Moves ↑ Next effect by a number of ranks equal to the number of fainted Pokémon on your team.