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. Omfg why is psychic types being a absolute pest today
    Paraflinching Jirachi
    Iron defense spamming mega Slowbro
    The ever annoying Eon Twins
    And Cosmic Sigilyph

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  3. I just realized: this gen is a great time to be a bug fan. We have great ones such as Vikavolt, Ribombee, Wimpod evo, and potentially diving bell spider.

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  5. Am I the only really happy with how Grass was treated this Gen? It’s always felt like the black sheep of the starter types but this Gen it’s gotten so much variety and numbers!

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      • Rowlet (1-3)
        Bounsweet (4-6)
        Fomantis (7-8)
        Alolan Exeggutor (9)
        EDIT: Morelull (10-11)

        Which isn’t too bad considering that Fairy and Normal, which have the most Pokémon, only introduced Pokémon in the early to mid teens.

        Also,

        Rowlet3-Badass
        Tsareena-Elegant
        Lurantis-Both TBH
        Morelull2-Satanic
        Exeggutor-Memey

        So a lot of variation too

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        • Morelull and Its evolution too.

          Yeh I guess it’s a bit better than last Gen. Granted I preferred the designs of Trevanant and Gourgeist way more than Tsareena and Lurantis.

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          • I think it’s just me being a sucker for more elegant designs but holy cow Trevanant and Gourgeist are probably amongst my favourite designs tbh

    • Not I
      I can’t believe not one single Tiki Pokemon
      I really wanted a Grass/Fire Fetish Tiki Pokemon

      (legal clarification fet·ish
      ˈfediSH/
      noun
      an inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.
      synonyms: juju, talisman, charm, amulet)

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    • I am, but I despise the imbalance. Certain types (flying, normal, fairy, dragon, grass) got treated very well this gen, and certain types (steel, ice, dark) were left behind. Especially since they said in an interview that they wanted to balance the new pokemon, it seems very odd.

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      • Inb4 they take the number up to 151 and they’re all part Fairy but with the other types being raised in number as a compromise

        watch the world burn

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        • I feel that that’s less ‘running out of ideas’ and more ‘oh crap there’s nearly 1000 of these things better release them slower to get each one more attention’.

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  6. When is the news coming?
    I can’t wait to see it because even if there’s nothing we haven’t already learned of from the data mine, at least we’ll get some names. I really want to know the sea urchin’s name.

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  10. This is a long question, but how would you guys rate the eighteen types in terms of ‘how much you like it?’. Keep in mind someone’s bottom type doesn’t necessarily one they find bad or shouldn’t exist, just that they like other stuff better.

    Mine goes:

    1) Fairy
    2) Flying
    2) Grass
    4) Ghost
    5) Poison
    6) Fire
    7) Electric
    7) Bug
    7) Dark
    10) Normal
    11) Rock
    11) Steel
    13) Ice
    14) Water
    15) Fighting
    16) Ground
    17) Psychic
    18) Dragon

    Some of these seem a lot lower then they really are because I have so many ties, and tbh I don’t really dislike any types because of Dragon and that’s mostly because of how Obnoxious some fans are (other people who’s types got nerfed by Fairy tend to have valid points, most Dragon fans just seem offended they got taken down a peg although thankfully nobody here is like that)

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  16. Actually, it would be cool if Post Game the Trial Captains Battled you, and Hau becomes one, so 8, and they form a League, with the Kahunas as the E4, but with more powerful teams than in the main game.

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  18. If anyone has seen the battle intros video, what are those 4 type themed intros near the first half (like one has wings for flying)? They aren’t kahunas, the kahunas are the swirly vortex things in the second half (we’ve seen from the trailers).

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    • So they are redoing the intros like in ORAS I loved how they were also personality specific. Like Phoebe having colorful flower petals blowing by ie: my favorite of them all. I thought it was really cool and gave it a little extra touch to the games

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        • I save them all. Actually I am beginning to think the Pokemon world has an overpopulation problem. If you can find a fully grown flying plant dinosaur every three steps. I mean I think they are having some problems xC

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    • Oh no! People got the same pokemon they would have obtained with hours of tedious, unskilled work in a much shorter amount of time! What cheaters!!! Who knew arriving at the same goal by a much more effective means was so horrible?

      I really hate this guy

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        • Ehh not to get technical because I hate it when hacked pokemon are used against non consenting opponents but the skill in Pokémon is from the battling, not the endless Grinding for a perfect Pokémon

          Also Verlis feels the need to call out having multiple shinies and things with perfect IVs (as in: 0 in attack if it’s weak to Foul Play, etc) and ignores the fact they are in fact possible with effort, something verlis seems unfamiliar with.

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      • this! honestly i dont have a problem with hacking. Someone can hack the best team but if they dont have the skills, they are not going nowhere

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        • GF puts in time and effort to make it easier and easier for people to get legit competitive Pokemon, yet people are still too lazy to play the game the way it was intended to be played.

          I don’t like to use language, but this pisses me off.

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          • TBF though how much of that video is Verlis claiming people are cheating just because they could’ve put in effort that he can’t fathom as a clickbaiting not self aware ‘Charge Beam Furfrou is viable’ attention seeker?

          • I’m just saying that you shouldn’t trust Verlis to state who’s cheating and such, and since he’s the main window into the apparent scum and villainy of the bloody Pokémon community it’s a window warped with bias and envy

            The guy waving a middle finger was disgusting tho

          • here is my two cents: While I can see your point, people could use that time to sharpen their battling skills. Getting a perfect competitve legendary is not easy like you say. It takes a long time. I still stand which what I said before. Is not the pokemon that matters, is the skills.

          • To be fair it was only for the last year of that Generation and you have to use them for something rather than sitting in the box and looking pretty

          • I think it is stupid. The only people I respect in any type of competition of any sorts is the ones who takes something nonviable or the underdog and turns it into a victory.

          • Think about it: what has GF done for new players to the meta game in the last two gens? We have ability capsule, visible and easily trainable EVs, and now we can even raise IVs. It’s like giving a test and then when people cheat lowering the difficulty so you don’t have to, and yet people STILL cheat.

          • In Gen 7? I don’t recall seeing that 1/31 values anywhere in the current games. Hmm, maybe I’m blinder than I thought I was. Lol

          • but all those things will not make the player a better competitve battler. Good for GF they are finally doing that, but in a meta where legendaries are still the main force, people will still cheat

          • It’s more the IV’s that are the problem. I think there might be a decrease in hackers this generation because you can now raise them with relative ease.

          • I’m sorry but you’re obviously not a competing player because all of that stuff still takes ages to do. They just took it down from ‘well competitive Pokémon has to be my life to get anything valid out of it’ down to ‘well at least I can pin down a job/homework but guess where the rest of my free time is going’.

            People don’t want to waste their life on something that takes hours that they might dump in minutes after finding out the set doesn’t work?

            Is hacking acceptable? No. It’s unfair.

            Is hacking understandable: Hells yes, entry into competitive Pokémon is hard af

          • I am a competitive player, I have been for years. Don’t go around assuming things, mmkay? It USED TO BE hard, it’s getting easier and easier with every generation. People who think it’s okay used to be understandable, but now it’s just plain lazy.

          • I think any person who does compete higher up competitively has no valid argument of how time consuming it is. They are already using time better spent at a job and stuff to compete. I don’t see the difference.

          • I am saying if you are going to waste your time on a video game you might as well spend the extra time to do things legitimately and the honorable way. Cheaters don’t deserve to be seen as winners or whatever. In the end of the day its just a game. No offense to anyone. I just don’t see how people say its waste of time when most people nowadays already view video games as a waste of time.

          • I don’t mind losing or winning as long as I am having fun. I don’t have fun cheating in games I wouldn’t feel accomplishment. I don’t use legendaries Honestly legendaries are more something I just buy plushies ofx3

          • Oh please, don’t make it out like you haven’t made assumptions on the Internet darling. Everyone does it, and it’s an honest mistake.

            Regardless, people don’t have the time for all the Grinding and actually want to play the game, not everyone has the luxury of time and patience for it. And yes, whilst it isn’t acceptable (honestly, showdown exists for a reason), not understanding why people still hack is honestly surprising coming from a supposed competitive player because one such as you should be aware of how much time and effort goes into just to even be able to play in the first place, compared to games such as Overwatch, where such boring busy work isn’t necessary to get into the scene. There, everyone immediately has equal access to the same chartacters, and that’s probably why it has a way more respectable competitive scene despite being 20 years younger than Pokémon.

          • They keep dumbing it down and making it easier. In the end it’s up to you, I personally don’t feel accomplished if I hack, but eh, whatever. To each their own.

          • The only thing I hack is shinyness, and not change anything else. Though I never use them, and just give them out as prizes. It feels the only one that’s ok to me, Shiny doesn’t effect anything

          • It doesn’t matter how dumbed down it is, they should have to dumb it down in the first place with the amount of RNG luck involved in getting a competitively sound Pokémon, which is why Pokémon has such a frankly terrible in comparison competitive community compared to literally everywhere else

          • All competitive gaming communities are literally the worst people of society with a few exceptions. I have played several competitive games and the people I meet are atrocious it comes with the territory. I don’t blame it on the competitive works for this game specifically.

          • Out of curiosity, how long does one full Pokemon take for you? As in IVs, EVs, egg moves, tutor moves, evolved, holding its item and everything. It takes me maybe and hour and a half, which isn’t too long IMO.

    • Tbh though if it was anyone but Verlis I’d probably actually care but the fact the guy’s so salty over not being the ‘pro-Pokemon player’ as well as the fact that I feel for a fact he’d be guilty of pretty much the same stuff if he actually got to Worlds (the man cried and blamed a break up on Smogon for flip’s sake) just makes me feel like he’s a deranged loon doing his best to get attention.

      Like yeah competitive Pokémon has serious problems but they should tackled fairly and unbiased rather than some envious, click baity bampot like

      Also every time he calls someone pretentious I have to stifle a laugh

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  23. In all seriousness, have we just given up on Niantic ever fixing the tracker? I completely forgot about that TBH, but I’m pretty sure they were testing a new tracker at some point, what ever happened to that?

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    • Nothing so far. It’s still the same random people with the pokestop proximity tracker beta. I know it isn’t widely released yet because I don’t have it. 🙂

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  25. I have reason to believe that the “Champion” of Alola has been leaked, but I don’t have an exact source to confirm that quite yet.

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