Pokémon GO will be bringing back the Squirtle Squad this weekend

Pokémon GO’s upcoming Squirtle Community Day event this weekend is the best Community Day yet thanks to a fun reference to the anime.

My mom has become the Pokémon expert of my house these days thanks to her obsession with Pokémon GO, so when she came to me with a question about why this weekend’s Community Day will feature Squirtles with sunglasses, it gave me a ping of pride to know that my two decades with Pokémon trumps her recent discovery in some areas.

One area is the anime, which I watched religiously in my early teens.

The Squirtle Squad was a gang of rough and tough delinquent Squirtles that appeared in the anime back in the very first season. Because Ash’s starter was a Pikachu, the show writers needed to shoehorn the actual three starters, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle, into Ash’s collection for popularity’s sake. In one episode, Ash helped the Squirtle Squad gang leader subside his emo rage, and his reward was the Squirtle that remained his friend through several seasons.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/07/03/pokemon-go-squirtle-squad-community-day/