Pokémon GO Announces Halloween Event Details

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While datamining has given us a preview of what to come in Niantic’s Pokémon GO Halloween event, official details have been revealed along with a trailer to celebrate the spooktacular holiday!


From October 20th to November 2nd trainers can take advantage of the following bonuses:

  • Gastly, Drowzee, Cubone have increased encounter rates along with some other Ghost-type Pokémon
  • Sableye, Banette and Duskull (and the latter two’s evolutions) from Hoenn are able to be found!
  • Candy rewards from catching, hatching, and transferring Pokémon will be doubled
  • Your buddy Pokémon will find Candy twice as fast
  • Witch-hat Pikachu can be caught
  • New Mimikyu Hat available for player avatars

In addition, the developers have said that other Hoenn Pokémon will be rolling out soon, with some coming as soon as December!

Are you looking forward to these treats from Pokémon GO?!

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839 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Announces Halloween Event Details”

  7. The universe is making joke with me …..my internet was crashed when I need just for an attack to win in my battle……….fuccck u universe I will challenge u and I will fucking beat u.

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  8. So, since I’ve been writing and editing my PMD fanfics for most of today (As well as watching the anime specials), I have a question that I’ll probably regret asking later on: If you were sent the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon world, what (non-legendary) Pokemon would you think you’d be? It doesn’t have to be your favorite Pokemon (though it probably will be), but in my case, it is. As in Riolu/Lucario.

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  13. Bah!!! I wasn’t paying enough attention and killed the Smeargle I was chaining…..oh well I suppose luckily I had just finished a chain and needed to build back up to 70 anyway. Only thing is now I gotta find another so I can keep hunting.

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  14. As much as I hate bringing up this since I’m not so negative towards anything pokemon related. I feel like I need to get this off my chest. I was against pokemon games making its transition to the Switch. I’m so used to playing on a small handheld console since the beginning. But now I have to buy a Switch in order to continue playing the franchise I love so much.The thing I loved about the 3DS is that I can easily carry it around in a small purse but now I can no longer do that with the bigger handheld device. I like the simplicity of a smaller console in my hands despite being an old relic for so long.

    I don’t hate the Switch by any means, it’s a great new home console with great games coming later on in the coming years. I’m just….upset about the sudden changes. I’ll just hang my head low about this process until I see for myself what the upcoming pokemon Switch will be like

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    • This irritates me. I don’t have a switch right now either mostly because it’s approx $500 and the games are about $80. But I’m happy that Pokemon is moving forward. The 3ds is extremely underpowered for a device in 2017, it struggles to run sun and moon and if gf had stuck with the 3ds Pokemon wouldn’t​ get a chance to evolve like Mario and zelda did. Our first Mainline pokemon rpg on a big screen, and in HD, and on something that isn’t underpowered is something to be excited about.

      Also, it was confirmed that a Mainline pokemon game was being developed at e3. And the switch is portable as well so that’s not an issue

      (And isn’t not like Pokemon is the only game you’re getting with the switch)

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      • Well yeah, stuff costs money, and once you get older money is a lot easier to obtain, the feel of ‘having to’ buy new stuff will get better.

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      • Yes yes I am aware of this. I am aware of the technological limits of the 3DS because of how old it is. I’m old fashioned about handheld consoles, that’s all it is. I like them small enough to fit in my small hands and small purses. I may be a sourpuss when it comes to this controversial topic but I just feel I need to express my attitude towards the situation at the current moment. In the future I’ll calm down about this and be chill about things again

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    • This is the most tired complaint I ever heard. “Why do I have to buy new stuff for my other new stuff to work.” That’s how companies, the market and technology works. You can’t expect company to support products that have long been on the downturn forever. If they don’t make Pokémon on Switch, there wouldn’t have been a Pokémon anymore. The console is fine. It won’t feel too big when holding it, and I usually carry a backpack wherever I have to take my console to.

      It’s a bit like the complaint that smartphones got bigger compared to old dumbphones, in the end nobody complains anymore because the added benefits far outweigh the inconvenience of a larger phone.

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      • Look, I’m not trying to pick up a fight or anything, it’s going to take me a while to get used to this idea. I’m someone who takes things slowly, I’m not fast paced like everyone else here of the world. In time I will embrace the future of pokemon consoles, just meddling things over right now

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        • It’s a console, not moving to the other side of the world :P. You’ll get used to it in approximately five hours of using it.

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          • I mean the only other game that interests me other than pokemon is Mario Odyssey and Kirby Star Allies, I have never handled a Switch, let alone touched it so I don’t know how it feels or plays

  16. So apparently you can pet and interact with overworld Pokémon in USUM. Definitely seems this Gen is prepping us for walking Pokémon, like Sinnoh prepped us for walkers in HGSS. I’m not annoyed for the feature not being in USUM, because if they wanted to make it meaningful it could’ve conflicted with the other changes they want to make, but I do blame everything after HGSS for dropping the feature – including the original SuMo

    Unova had literally no excuse though, they already had most of the sprites they needed and the whole storyline was about the bonds between people and Pokémon. At least Kalos and Alola were massive graphic overhauls (transition to 3D and then transition out of the chibiesque overworld)

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  18. Jesus fucc it’s actually really fun portraying Deci as a ghost! There’s so much that doesn’t get shown in the games and especially now that I know what Spirit Shackle is based off of it makes him like 20 gazillion times cooler

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