Pokémon GO Gets Spooky!

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Pokémon GO’s first ever Halloween Event is officially here! If you pokemon go halloweenlog in and play any time between now and November 1st you’ll be to reap several benefits such as:

  • Receiving 2x the reward candy for every Pokémon you catch and hatch
  • Professor Willow giving you 2x the reward candy for each Pokémon you transfer
  • Buddy Pokémon will spawn candy 4x faster than usual

In addition to the candy bonuses, the following spoopy Pokémon evolution lines will spawn at a higher rate than usual:

  • Zubat, Golbat
  • Meowth
  • Gastly, Haunter, Gengar
  • Drowzee, Hypno
  • Cubone, Marowak

Do events like these entice you to log into the game and play more often? What level are you, and how close are you to completing the Pokédex in GO?

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576 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Gets Spooky!”

  1. With 15.64 million copies sold world-wide, Pokemon X and Y are the best-selling 3DS games and are the 5th best-selling Pokemon games in the franchise narrowly beating Black and White which 15.6 million copies sold.

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  2. POTENTIAL SPOILERS: Based on the battle intros, as well as an unconfirmed rumor going around Twitter, it appears that Professor Kukui is the Champion, or perhaps a major opponent in Sun and Moon. I’m trying to trace this information to a source of some kind, so I can’t be certain just yet.

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  3. Best-selling Main Pokemon Games:
    1. Pokemon Red, Blue, and Green with 31.38 million
    2. Pokemon Gold and Silver with 23.1 million
    3. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl with 17.63 million
    4. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire with 16.22 million
    5. Pokemon X and Y with 15.63 million
    6. Pokemon Black and White with 15.60 million

    Best-selling Remakes/Follow Up Pokemon Games apart of the Main Series:
    1. Pokemon Yellow with 14.64 million
    2. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Sapphire with 13.18 million
    3. Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver with 12.72 million
    4. Pokemon Firered and Leafgreen with 12 million
    5. Pokemon Black and White 2 with 8.52 million
    6. Pokemon Platinum with 7.6 million
    7. Pokemon Crystal with 6.34 million
    7. Pokemon Emerald with 6.32 million

    Pokemon Sun/Moon should become the first Pokemon games since Gold and Silver to pass the 20 million mark.

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  7. Halloween Comment Question: What is your favorite Poison, Ghost, Dark, and Psychic Pokemon?

    For me it is Crobat for Poison, Golurk for Ghost, Crawdaubt for Dark, and Espeon for Psychic

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  8. Well I’m finally spending my Pokemiles
    So now every four hours I’m sending 90’Rare Candies until I run out of points

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  12. My team is:
    Litten3
    Pikipek3
    Lycanroc (Midday)
    Wimpod2
    Morelull2
    Kommo-o

    What about you guys? Also which Pokemon from this gen is your favorite? Mine is either Litten3 or Lycanroc.

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  13. So I’m working on compiling a very detailed list of all the reasons that the leaks aren’t complete, I’ll post it when I finish eventually. I’m thinking to save time, I’ll adress the most common counter arguments so I don’t have a bunch of people telling me those. xD

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  17. Alright, this isn’t complete, I don’t have counter arguments and I feel like I’m missing a reason (can’t remember what it is right now), but here it is. These are some of the reasons why I think know the dex isn’t complete.
    (my hands hurt so bad right now from typing this somebody help me lol)
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    1. Ash-Greninja is nowhere to be found in the datamine, meaning it’s stored somewhere else. Before you say “these are pokedex stills, of course it isn’t there”, Mimikyu and Wishwashi’s form changes are in there, so it makes no logical sense to not include Greninja’s form change.
    2. The 6 (counting the two after Mimikyu as one because of form changes) missing models cannot be totems. Firstly, these are pokedex stills, and if totems are just pokemon with an orange aura with no real unique features, they would not have a pokedex still. Secondly, we know there are 7 trial captains, and there are only 6 totems here (again counting the two after Mimikyu as one), so even in the highly unlikely event that they are totems, there are STILL missing models here.
    3. This list does not include a pokemon that resembles the strange souvenir, nor does it include a pokemon that resembles the statues on Mahalo trail. It is not any of the Tapu pokemon, as when their shells are put together they don’t resemble any of them at all. And the strange souvenir is the perfect candidate to be from Alola, as it is “a pokemon venerated as a protector in a region far from Kalos”.
    4. The datamine does not include any stills for Charizard (who we’ve seen in trailers and is a pokeride pokemon) or Horsea (who we’ve also seen in trailers and is on an alolan statue).
    5. GameXplain claims they found MULTIPLE new pokemon in the first two hours of the game, and the leaked pokemon don’t look early game, as most are evolutions and the rest look late game. Remember, this is only the first TWO HOURS, so to find more than 1 new pokemon demonstrates how this can’t be complete. UPD: After this was written, the MeleMele dex was discovered. There are no new pokemon that aren’t evolutions other than the anenome thing, which is late in the dex, implying it isn’t found until late MeleMele. This furthers the point, as there is not more than one unannounced pokemon on this list which would be under embargo by GF.
    6. Marshadow is in the mythical pokemon section, which would mean that Solgaleo and Lunala are lacking a third legendary to the trio.
    7. This is one is very loose, and more of just a thought I had. Remember the Chinese leaks that said we would get a “dolphin and a snowman”? Well, people seem to think it’s the Tapu and the Crabrawler evolution, but it’s very confusing. When I see those pokemon, I would never call them a dolphin or a yeti, I would call them an ice crab and an island guardian dolphin. The leaker was very specific on so many things (rugby monkey, to name one) so it seems odd that he was so ambiguous here.
    8. The types, stats, abilities, and names are all missing from the datamine. This one is another very loose connection, but it makes little sense to scrub literally EVERYTHING except for the pokedex stills.
    9. Before I make this point, I want to make it clear that the chinese leaker has gotten literally everything right, they haven’t been wrong even once. Well, the chinese leaker said that there was a cat pokemon that could change it’s type based on it’s parent pokemon that passed down a type. You could argue that it’s Silvally, but it hardly looks like a cat, likely can’t breed, and changes its type by holding an item, so Silvally is very far off from this supposed cat pokemon.
    10. There is a very large type imbalance in the pokedex, I’m sure everyone here can agree on that. Well, I recall that in a recent-ish interview with game freak, they said that they were taking extra time in the development of new pokemon to make sure that the types were balanced, so either they were lying, or this isn’t all we have, because this dex certainly isn’t balance, it’s not even close.
    11. Watch this video until you get to the part where it says “pop up images”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNdThqpWMw Look at the image in the second row, second from the left (the helmet looking thing). People say that it’s the pokeride helmet, but if you do a quick comparison, you’ll find it doesn’t match up at all. So, that being said, we have no idea what this is, or what pokemon it is modeled after. In the pokemon world, everything from pastries to watering cans are designed after pokemon, so it’d make little sense to model this helmet-looking item after something that isn’t a pokemon.
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    Also I wrote part of this a few days ago, so if some stuff doesn’t match up, or I repeated some stuff, my bad. xD

    Hopefully tomorrow delivers, I’m counting on you.

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    • your theory could literally be backed up more if freaking Gamexplain would tell us more. Is really not that hard to say if the pokedex is completed or not

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        • yeah that why im bitter at them. Is literally just a yes or no answer. Heck they may be vague and say maybe. I dont think pokemon would sue them

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          • Well you don’t know if they would, and Gamexplain’s whole shebang kind of hinges on nintendo so it’d be very unwise to take any risks. Look at it this way: if they say no new pokémon, they’re the ones confirming that GF is letting us down again, and potentially hurting game sales. If they say new pokémon, that can’t concievably be bad for them, but wouldn’t it be a nicer surprise for us if the new pokémon were discovered in a trailer, or in the game?? And if they say maybe, they’re just being dicks whatever the truth is (I’m definitely hinging on nothing new, come on guys we have 7 trial captains, they’ve clearly not changed since XY…).

          • You make a good point on Gamexplain I’ve hear a lot of bitching that they should just give us something but like you said they do more stuff on Nintendo and why jeopardize what they have with them

    • I’m hoping a lot that you’re right I know ppl keep telling me I’m getting my hopes up but even with XY I didn’t get my hopes up for a lot of Pokemon but with Sun and Moon I just have a feeling we won’t be disappointed!!!

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    • I hope to Arceus you’re right. I desperately want there to be more Pokemon. But I’m content with what we have, so I won’t be disappointed if this is in fact all we get, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover something new.

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    • 1) Legitimate point.
      2) Totem Pokemon are not just Pokemon with an orange aura. They are also bigger versions of their normal counterparts. One possible reason why Wishiwashi might not have a Totem form is because it is already so big.
      3) I still maintain that the Red Tapu is the strange souvenir. The strange souvenir can easily represent early concept of the Pokemon, and I would really like to see in-game movement of the Red Tapu. Those hands can line up nicely with what we thought were nostrils on the souvenir.
      4) Legitimate points.
      5) Multiple new Pokemon that GameXplain could have found include: Pikipek’s evolution, Alolan Grimer, and Alolan Diglett.
      6) It’s possible Marshadow actually is a mythical Pokemon. It wouldn’t be the first time the mascot legendaries don’t have a trio master. Ho-Oh and Lugia do not have won, which if this were to be the case, would make yet another coincidental parallel to Gen 2. However, I think that Zygarde is both the trio master of Yveltal/Xerneas and Solgaleo/Lunala. Complete Zygarde’s chest further supports this theory.
      7) Snowman/Yeti can easily be tossed up to a mistranslation, however I do agree about the Dolphin. It’s a bit of a stretch.
      8) Yes, GameFreak clearly removed stuff from the demo, so it is odd that they left this in.
      9) I can see both sides. I can totally see the Silvally argument, and I can see how we haven’t gotten the cat Pokemon that was described.
      10) I can’t consider type imbalance a point. Look no further than the Kalos dex. And Alola forms count.
      11) No idea.

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    • Denial, denial everywhere…all of your points can be easly debunked but there are too many and I’m tired. You choise to be disappointed, so do what you want. P.s. Greninja itself is not in the regional pokedex. Please people, stop using it as first point.

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    • I can see counterarguments to each of these points with more or less strength to them, but I need to go to bed so Imma let someone else with more time on their hands do it. Besides, you seem pretty convinced as you’re reusing arguments that people have already countered to a satisfactory extent. Fair enough, you’ve see the evidence and you’ve made your mind up. I’m just concerned you’re just setting yourself up for pain :/ .

      I’d absolutely love for there to be more, for us to be blown away and thrown into massive hype by tomorrow’s video, and for you to be able to say “I told you so” but based on GF’s behaviour in the past I have no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I’m flat out expecting the worst. It’s better than clinging to straws being pulled and getting punched in the gut when it turns out there’s nothing else.

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    • While it’s possible that many of your points are just wishful thinking I think there are some oddities in all this that make sense for there to be more Pokemon. I would say the harder selling points are Ash Greninja, the helmet, and the two Pokemon from the Chinese leak. The Chinese leak and the helmet being the most convincing. After getting so many things right it seem odd that two out of the bunch of Pokemon they accurately described would be nonexistent or shown as something that’d need explaining. The mushroom, rugby monkey, and sea cucumber all turned out to be real and with no weird stretch or explanation needed. As soon as you saw them you knew that they were what the descriptions were of. They didn’t leave much to the imagination. So why would the dolphin and snowman suddenly need to be something that people would have to reason with? Seems odd to me. There’s also the helmet which looks nothing like any Pokemon we currently have. Yes it’s similar to the Poke ride helmet, but at the very least that’s clearly a Hawlucha helmet and is easily identifiable. The mystery helmet is harder to nail down. Plus other than the colors it looks nothing like the Poke Ride helmet. It all seems very strange and make you wonder if they really do have some hidden Pokemon/concepts left for us to discover.

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    • 3 doesn’t mean anything – there’s no guarantee there is a pokemon shaped like the souvenir, it could be like the Palkia-Dialga fusion statue in gen 4 – it’s an image of a concept/fusion rather than a real pokemon

      4 also doesn’t mean anything – Charizard and Horsea are not present in the regional dex, neither is Slurpuff

      6 doesn’t mean anything – check gen 4’s pokedex, giratina and arceus are several steps away from Dialga & Palkia

      7 isn’t very strong – the snow crab is in fact based on a yeti, its claws are used to make yeti-shaped footprints in the snow and the island guardian could be mistaken for a dolphin, the guy mistook a lemur for a monkey after all

      9 It’s definately Silvally, people here have been claiming Silvally looks like a cat way before anyone remembered that. That same leak also claimed Butterfree, Growlithe, Abra and Duduo would be getting Alolan forms and there would be an Ice/Ghost snowman

      10 Wouldn’t be the first time this happened. For a start they’re probably actually counting alolan Pokemon, unlike most people here. Secondly they could simply be lying, and thirdly we don’t actually know all the typings yet, for all we know the spiky sea creature could be part ice

      11 As I’ve said before, this make could easily just be a funky pattern unrelated to Pokemon. Asside from the watering cans, most other items usually aren’t based on pokemon. Devon scope, contest clothing, bikes, item finder – none of these things have pokemon designs. “everything” is far too broad, it’s only very specific items that are designed to look like pokemon

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    • And plus I’m pretty sure there’s more Pokemon because lots of Pokemon seem impossible to believe to have no egos so I doubt they revealed/found ALL of them.

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      • no, I called out the splatoon players who think its funny to troll people who want to enjoy themselves. my post included the word “Damn” which I guess counts as bullying, according to Nintendo. I’m hoping the message sank in before it was erased.

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        • Haha ok, I understand. You mean squid parties?

          I can’t find a pic of mine, but mine was a post in the pre-release day of Smash which featured a psycho villager.

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          • no, I mean, on multiple occasions, I’ve been against and on a team where one player thinks its ok to taunt his teammates with squidbagging and booyah’s while standing at spawn. it happened today to me…. In ranked, of all modes.

          • That’s still trying to start a squid party…

            At least you’re only stuck with them for 3 minutes, being in a League/DOTA/Storm game with a troll costs 20-45 minutes. 🙂

          • but the thing is, clearly each time the team isn’t in the mood (squidparties should result in an instant ban anyways, but unfortunately there’s no way to detect them) so why drag them down?

          • That’s the internet for us. Thanks to the magic of anonymity, some people just get off on the misery of others…

            It is what makes invisibility the ultimate superpower… all of the power with none of the responsibility heh heh heh.

          • whats worse is private battles exist, go do it there lol. I’m the kind of guy who enjoys preforming well over winning, but I feel like the biggest dbag ever when my team has one extra member, and when we are at the disadvantage, 3 on 4 isnt easy, assuming you are up against competent players. but, as you said, people can get away with being jerks so long as know one knows who they are.

          • I made a stamp portrait in super Mario 3d world where peach decapitated toad, and he was gushing blood. it was hilarious, and got over 30 likes, but it wasn’t moderated.

  23. I’m trying to stay hopeful for some ice types to be secretly in the coding or soemething. Hopefully the video tomorrow releases a never before leaked pokemon so the hype can go off the rails. It doesn’t even have to be an ice type tomorrow- just anything to stir this up!

    Although, honestly learning typings and names for the leaked ones will be fun!

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    • I’m mostly curious about the anchor pokemon. I have my fingers crossed for either:
      Rock/Ghost
      Steel/Poison
      Rock/Poison

      edited to include spoiler tags.

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