Pokémon Go: Players believe some Pokémon are region-locked

22 Jul 2016

Steve Wright

Pokémon Go users believe they’ve narrowed down a listing of region-locked Pokémon in the game.

Region-locked Pokémon appear to be as follows:

Tauros: USA, (Canada?)
Kangaskhan: Australia, (New Zealand?)
Mr. Mime: Europe
Farfetch’d: Asia

Users in Canada and New Zealand have said they’ve caught Tauros and Kangaskhan, respectively, and others around the world say they’ve hatch the region-locked from eggs.

If egg hatching isn’t your thing, we believe you’ll be able to trade in-game quite soon. Stock up on those region-locked Pokémon, Aussies — they may be quite valuable very soon.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.