How to catch Togepi, Pichu & more in Pokémon GO!

There are some brand new Pokémon now in the mobile hit Pokémon GO (iOS/Android) for trainers to obtain, as well as a special holiday version of Pikachu starting today.

Pichu and Togepi, both introduced in Pokémon Gold & Silver, can now be hatched from eggs within the game. There are more secrets to discover though, as it seems Cleffa, Igglybuff, Tyrogue (is its evolution Hitmontop available?!), Elekid and Magby can also be hatched from eggs!

Holiday Pikachu can also be evolved into an equally festive Raichu too, so don’t stop training!

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2,556 thoughts on “How to catch Togepi, Pichu & more in Pokémon GO!”

  1. Okay…….. If Pokemon were real, and we were all real life trainers, what would your Pokemon team currently be, where would you be from, and what would be your Pokemon goal?

    I would currently be traveling through the Alola Islands with my best friend/rival. I would be on a quest to become the best Ice type trainer, but my team wouldn’t only be Ice types. Hearing that the Pokemon League is under construction I’d be training and traveling Alola to become one of the Elite 4’s there, Ice specialty. But new to the area I’m far from that day. I would originally be from Castellia City.

    My current team would be Torracat, Samurott, Beartic, Glaceon, Alola Vulpix, and Crabominable.

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    • I’d like to travel Alola as well, since I like high temperatures. I’d like to aim to become an E4-trainer as well (looks like we’re pretty much the same haha), but I’d like to be a Dragon-type trainer. I’d be from Castelia or Opelucid. I am a trainer who stole a Type: Null from Aether Foundation to discover its secret and become an even stronger trainer. I am an actor and have starred in a film with Diantha.

      My team would be Haxorus, Dragalge, Drampa, Garchomp, Dragonite and Silvally (dragon).

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    • My character would be from Alola (moving to Kalos) and would be a wandering chef specialising in Fairy and Poison-Types.

      He wants to open a chain of venues (arenas, restaurants, etc) where trainers can really test their skill in tournaments, unsatisfied with the Gym System and League focusing on single types-which isn’t realistic in the tournament scene.

      His specialised team:

      Primarina
      Ribombee
      Slurpuff
      Salazzle
      Toxapex
      Dragalge

      Casual Team:

      Primarina
      Salazzle
      Lilligant
      Pikachu (Pikachunium Z)
      Furfrou (Dandy Trim)
      Froslass

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      • Omg I like the idea of dual typings for Gym Leaders! If that’s the case my team would consist of Dragon and Ghost types:
        Haxorus
        Dragalge
        Dragonite
        Jellicent
        Decidueye
        Gengar
        (too bad the only Dragon/Ghost is Giratina)
        I’d be searching for Giratine to become the strongest trainer or something

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          • It’s called Gloomour and into Malisocrat
            Sullen moody Femalesque Fairy/Poison types that lash foes with poison soaked tentacle like limbs

            Gloomour never show positive emotions and always give their trainers the cold shoulder and violently slap foes with their whip like arms that have a poisonous tip
            Then Malisocrat think highly of themselves and even attack their own kind in order to stay atop the hierarchy and their skin secrets a fatal compound that even the faintest of touches could be lethal

          • Ooh, I’ve probably mentioned it before but I am a fan of Fae that push the boundaries of what Pokémon sets and more resemble the morally diverse myths of the past!

            Fairy seal of approval for sure

          • Look I’m not just gonna string a toxic spitting fairy
            I chose the whole fancy aristocracy theme because them wealthy elitists are a buncha bitches

            And I felt that a Pokemon with a sullen beauty would fit the idea

    • As I often say my real life Trainersona has two incarnations
      Me as Ian the Hot Blooded Veteran trainer
      Or as Earthen the Hot blooded Master of Ground types

      As with all current games my trainer travels to the “It” region to challenge the Pokemon league and add to his repertoire (yet somehow acquiring a starter Pokemon despite being in his early 20s)
      My regular self often sends his current team to his home and fills up with natives but his walkabout team consists of

      Emboar his trusted first Pokemon
      Rhyperior his faithful powerhouse
      Heracross a prized fighter whom he met in Johto
      Aerodactyl his primary mode of transportation he revived from old Amber
      Aggron one of his favorites from touring the Hoenn region
      And lastly a Pangoro all the way from Kalos
      (But in the sunshine of Alola he meets a cowardly Wimpod that evolved into the extremely powerful Golisopod)

      But Earthen is fairy similar but sets out to be the greatest Ground type user and considers starting up a organization to acquire rare Pokemon

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    • Just finished finals so I am able to comment on this wonderful question. I would be a trainer from the Sinnoh region that is aspiring to become the professor of that region. (Professor Rowan is a little bit advanced in age and someone will need to succeed his research on evolution). I am currently abroad at the Alola region to look at the endemic species of Pokémon there while improving myself as a trainer. There is much to this world to explore and the best way to experience it is first-hand like Kukui had. After Alola I will then traverse other regions in the world.

      My team would consist: Alola Raichu, Infernape, Roserade, Wishiwashi, Mimikyu, and Mega Lopunny

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        • Yea I went with Mega Lopunny because I wanted to feel unique to other prominent trainers who had Megas in the game or anime, I am going to pursue the field of evolution so Mega Evolution kind of falls under that, and I have only been in Sinnoh and Alola so far so I am keeping my Pokémon region specific to that location and Gen-specific for what Megas are available to me. Also Mega Lopunny is pretty cool for a Mega evolution. So I apologize to Star ahead of time but Mega Lopunny just fits.

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          • My fave is Mega Abomasnow… which would be on my team but I wanted to get a feel for more Alola Ice type Pokemon while on my journey. Plus moving to the Alola region would have meant I already have a handle on the Mega evolution and it’d be time to focus on Z Power. And I can’t ever get rid of Samurott (my very first Pokemon I picked from Professor Juniper) and Beartic. And Glaceon and I have been together forever so he’s a staple on my team as well.

    • I would live in Alola (moved from Unova) and i would be a traveller/explorer. My would be visiting every region(only the regions im interested) between gaseous and solid and discover every kind of trainer and every kind of Pocket Monsters

      I wouldnt have a fixed team because i would try every Pocket Monster(only the ones i care) but i will always have Chandelure, my light fixture

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  2. Guys remember how i was thinking about a Poison/Fairy Cat fakémon?

    I’ve thought of adding the Cheshire Cat (disappearing and appearing, but this Fakemon would be able to switch between gaseous and solid to accomplish this) and Cait Sith (cat fairy) as aspects of it! 😮

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      • BRB actual away to look it up
        Still fine for a fan idea that’ll likely never go anywhere tho

        Also, it’s Poison/Fairy due to being a Fairy prankster based off of Cait Sith, and being poisonous gases. It’s said to be born from vengeful nature spirits when pollution infects their domain, and a spirit’s domain and the spirit itself are tightly connected

        CAn see where you’re coming from though

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        • Yeah because a while back I made a beautiful little fakemon based on a Mimic aka Treasureous a Steel and Dark type
          And in case you’re not familiar with a Mimic, they are delightful demons that take the shape of nearly anything but most preference is treasure chests or lockboxes where a unknowing adventurer opens it they are rewarded with a gaping maw of teeth ready to feed,

          http://www.aidedd.org/dnd/images/mimic.jpg

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  3. Kinda inspired by Cosimo’s question below

    For those of you with Pokémon OCs, a random trainer assortment!

    1) Would you have a Mega Accessory? What is it, and how did you get it (and the Key Stone if they aren’t obtained together).
    2) What Mega Stone would you have? How did you get it?
    3) Would you have a Z-Accesory? What is it, and how did you get it?
    4) What Z-Crystal(s) do you use? Where did you get it/them?
    5) Starter Pokémon and how you got it?
    6) Newest member of your team?
    7) What regions have they travelled to?
    8) What’s their favourite place in the whole Pokémon World?
    9) If they’re a type specialist, what type is it? If not, what’s their favourite type?

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    • 1) Well, looking at my team below, I’d have a Garchompite I got from my grandpa who was a Dragon-type specialist as well. The Accessory is a ring that I got from his wife when I became 18. Garchomp, however, is not my main Pokémon (it’s just that it’s the only one that can mega evolve).
      2) Oops answered that already.
      3) It’s another stone in my ring.
      4) I’d have a Dragonium Z I use on my Haxorus.
      5) Empoleon, it’s a partner Pokémon I don’t use in Gym/E4-battles, but is one of my most precious Pokémon.
      6) Newest member is Silvally, whom I stole from Aether. It carries the Dragon Memory Disk.
      7) I come from Unova and travelled straight to Alola afterwards.
      8) I guess the Unovan Victory Road because they like to train, or my E4 chamber because of all the victories there.
      9) Dragon.
      I guess you mean ‘you’ in all the ‘they’-questions

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    • 1) The Z-Mega Band, a modified Z-Ring made of gold that goes around the right wrist. Key Stone is set in the middle.

      2) Audinite, set in the middle. Altarianite, set on the other side. Inherited from parents-he has neither of these Pokémon, but wants to catch them.

      3) Same Z-Mega Band. Six Z-Crystals are between the two Mega Stones.

      4) Has all the Type Z-Crystals due to the Island Trials, with a Z-Crystal hunt after it. He alternates between the Primarium, Pikachunium (both gifts, just like in-game from the same NPCs), Waterium, Fairium, Firium, Poisonium, Grassium, Electrium, Normalium, Icium and Ghostium. He feels a variety is important to test trainers who come to his future establishments.

      5) He met a Popplio along the coasts of the Poni Wilds, and he took it back to the Seafolk Village and befriended it for a while before its mother (the leader of the troupe) saw it off. They’ve been inseparable since. Her name is Venus. She’s a performer type and a bit of a diva with a heart of gold.

      6) Newest member is a Furfrou he caught in Kalos, who is extremely proud and snobby.

      7) Alola and Kalos. Unova for a tourney for two weeks.

      8) Seafolk Village, his home.

      9) Fairy and Poison, which he specialises in in his establishment

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    • 1)Nope
      2)I would have a sablenite(got it from some random NPC that gives you valuable stuff for free) and a galladenite( given by a weird kid with an unnatural green hair)
      3)A Z-Ring given for completing a trial
      4)Z-teleport
      5)A bulbasaur that i found in a trash can
      6)Its a secret
      7)I lost count
      8)Johto’s ice cave
      9)Ghost type would be my favourite

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    • While I’m currently in Alola and the focus there is Z Power, I wouldn’t show off my Mega training with Abomasnow, But I would have a Mega accessory while I did my time in Kalos. My accessory would be a bracelet but not the big clunky one in the games. It’d look more like a sleek watch. I received it from Wulfric training under him in the Kalos region. I’d have Abomasite which was given to me after I showed the bond I had with Abomasnow and my love for Ice types.

      Being in Alola currently I’d have a Z Accessory now. I’d probably have the same type of accessory as the Mega accessory. Since I feel you dance for each one and it should be on your hand or wrist. I got mine from Kuikui when I arrived on Melemele. I would have Waterium Z (Samurott), Icium Z (Crabominable), Darkium Z (Glaceon, who knows a Dark type move), Ghostium Z (Beartic, who knows a Ghost type move), and Incinium Z (Torracat but not able to use yet). I would receive them from the various trails and people I meet on my journey.

      My first starter Pokemon would be Oshawott (now a Samurott). I picked it from Professor Juniper when I started my adventure. Reaching the Alola region, Kuikui along with my Z Bracelet, gave me Litten (now Torracat) that I bonded with in his lab.

      My newest member of the team would be Alola Vulpix, Being obsessed with Ice type Pokemon and seeing a different version of Vulpix that is Ice has me entranced and spellbound and full of excitement (Vulpix was my very first favorite Pokemon ever).

      I’d start in Unova and traveled all over.

      While I have a Fire/Dark and a Water type on my team, my forte would be Ice type, and that is also my favorite.

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  4. Hey everyone. I don’t mean to sound like a dick or anything, and I”m sorry in advance if I bring out any Earthen brand salt, but I’ve had a really bad day and I wanted to ask to see if anyone has had a happier day then I. I’m just going to crawl into a corner and stare at the dancing Cutiefly gif for awhile.

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      • Its fine. No worries about it. I was more or less fired from my job today, that I really loved, as a measure to save money for the company. This apparently isn’t anything new for them. a few years back they fired like eight people for virtually no reason a week before Christmas. But in the end they more or less made up a reason that covered them well and didn’t sound bad for me when looking for another job, and my boss did say he went above and beyond to keep me in the company. So I’m probably going to be a little salty for awhile. Never a good feeling to be fired before the holiday.

        I really can’t blame them though. It makes sense from a business perspective. It still just cuts a bit deep is all given I’ve never been warned of the reason why they terminated them and did kind of call them out on it. Their official reason was I wasn’t very good at sounding confident when engaging with people, which is kind of bull. The real reason is most likely money. No sense paying someone when my workload is virtually null and I’ve been mostly doing busywork for the last few weeks.

        Ah well. Just saying sorry in advance if I sound rude or anything. I’m going to have a double rum a coke and bake some Christmas cookies.

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          • Not so much now as in the future days. I’m kind of in shock still now and a bit depressed. From here I come back, but usually pretty angry, and I might project that at someone else by accident. Then after a week or so I stabilize and will be back to my usual mellowed cynical self.

  5. Daily question from me: Does anyone have a Porygon-Z they will be more than to send to me for just a registration you know this is inevitable, I’ll keep on asking until I get it so end it while you can!

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  6. “Failed to connect with the other Trainer please start again from the beginning” Omg this person is also Japanese what is up with the Bad luck of the Japan? I need that Lucky Cat.

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  7. So, apparently the chain after 255 resets. Now I’m at 355 bounsweet. Does it mean it’s like I’m at 100? And if the shiny does not show up in the next 155 pokemon I should better end the battle and start over?

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  8. Pro tip if you are trying for stamp in book for pokefinder go to melemele meadow. Its the easiest place for perfect pictures.

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  9. I thought they were IP banned, but once again they are here and it’s difficult to ignore them when everybody is feeding them.
    To add to my disappointment still don’t have my shiny Feebas orz

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