Pokémon GO Announces Halloween Event Details

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”

  1. While it was obvious the 3DS was dying, it’s nice to know that whenever we get DPPt remakes they’ll be on the Switch in all its glory 😉

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  2. Earlier this morning I had a test in my hardest class and the desk that I sat in had this written down. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bb704b6f3e8ca2d58a133dda62ea89dd20129a4335056f9a74f5ec2f6dc22fe5.jpg

    This prophetic chicken scratch could either mean that I have failed my test and that I am destined to join Team Rocket due to what my be first grade that is not an A in college. Or it is a sign that Team Rocket is making a return in USUM. And if the hints in SM, the USUM wishlist, the Chinese Riddler, and Masuda’s recent retweets (I believe one of them tweeted about the sun before SM’s announcement) are anything to go off of then I think they will be making a return.

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    • Cerulean Cave but turned into a corridor

      I could see full dungeons but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were just a small area with the legend in it

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  3. Y’know how I was considering buying FE Warriors a few days ago? Well, turns out that the developers have locked some already-in-the-game content behind a DLC wall. Ugh, ridiculous. Nothing new, but gamers shouldn’t have to put up with this. :/

    Guess I’ll be waiting on this one for a bit, but at least I have Odyssey in a week and a day!

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      • It goes deeper. The characters they want people to pay for, the ones already in the game, are just clones of already existing ones, for the most part.

        On the bright side a bunch of new XC2 came out! 😀

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          • Ugh, who knows. I want the game eventually, but this has definitely swayed my day one vote. Heck, maybe they’ll eventually release a version with all the DLC as a middle finger to the early fans.

          • Not in the same sense though. The extras weren’t there when the game was released, I mean physically in the game’s files. I’ll admit, they do it to an extent, but it’s nothing like HW -> HW:L.

            On that note, though, split versions is an outdated idea IMO, and it’s just there for routine at this point.

          • That came out wrong, let me re-phrase. I’m not talking about the game’s files with HW, bad example. But that being said, early fans could get the game for 60 bucks, then DLC for 20 bucks, where the Legends people could get it all and more for 40 bucks.

            Though I love Emerald and Platinum to death, they aren’t great consumer practices. USUM shows promise not to fall into that hole though.

        • -On disc DLC (what you said) except the NOT ONLY had a shitty roster, they straight up ADMITTED they did it for money
          -When asked about not having Xmen, they responded by asking “who remembers the xmen”
          -200 dollar pre order edition with low quality figures and infinity stones that literally looked like low quality colored eggs
          -when asked about character, the company made a response about the characters being “just functions” and how they could just be replaced by someone else who can do the same

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  4. THEORY TIME!! So I’ve been thinking about the Ultra Recon Squad since they’ve been revealed. It’s currently a mystery who they really are or if they’re good or bad. I’d say they still have a 50/50 shot at being either one, but I had a thought since the arrival of the new rumors that I think makes sense. So one part of the new rumors states that Team Rainbow Rocket takes over the Aether Paradise and (at least try to) steal Nebby (or at least that’s what people are gathering from it) What if the shot of the URS stopping someone isn’t a direct link to the beginning of SM? When we all saw that scene most of us assumed it was the URS in place of the regular AF grunts when trying to stop Lillie from stealing Nebby. This however has bugged me as we’ve since then seen scenes of them talking to the player and being friendly about how Nebby is actually safer with you and Lillie. So here’s my theory! What if that scene is actually the URS trying to stop Team Rainbow Rocket from taking Nebby? Nebby would ultimately escape with Lillie in the end, but I think that makes way more sense then them trying to stop Lillie when they seem chill about it later. It would be the red herring I assumed it was plus it would change even more about the game.The rumors are making the AF out to be way more altruistic in these games so if the AF and the URS are actually good guys then there would be a gap for a new villainous team. And no Team Skull doesn’t fit the bill. Not only have we seen that Guzma is also chill, but they also just don’t have the vibe or aspirations of a super evil team. What peeps think?

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      • Idk I don’t think our boi has it in him. Also I think that one shot of him talking friendly is at the end of the game (or close to it) I also am not sure about the URS being evil either. I feel like them pulling the old “Look they’re good guys!! Oh wait they aren’t…..” trick wouldn’t be all that creative..

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      • I don’t think Recon’s gonna be evil at all, I think they’ve just got Nebby as their number one priority because it’s the only thing that can stop Necrozma from repeating what it did to UM in Alola

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    • Team Skull was never really an evil team. They were more like the boyz (and galz) from the hood. Who happened to look up to Guzma as their leader. Lusamine was one of the few adults that showed interest in Guzma and made him feel valued. Thus the actions he did in service to the Aether Foundation and to the detriment of your and your friends was ultimately to feed this feeling. With the different direction of things, Lusamine on top of Guzma when she said that thing was a monster; and the leaked image of Lusamine, Guzma, and the URS just chilling at the Sun/Moon plaza, it makes me think that either another force is making Necrozma acting this way or Necrozma is independently causing this mess. Considering how Gamefreak has handled the behavior of Legendary Pokémon, it seems unlikely that they would have a Legendary Pokémon carry out this behavior. This reasoning is reinforced by the marketing such as the poster of Necrozma gently holding Nebby. Thus, I do believe that another organization has to be in this storyline, and Rainbow Rocket fits the bill.

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      • Yeah I completely agree. As much as I’d like to finally see an actually evil Pokemon it’s more than likely they’ll continue the trend of it being the humans that are really evil instead of the Pokemon. But yeah I think RR is a real contender for the new evil team spot. Especially given the new interviews of them saying USUM are really a culmination of everything they’ve done up til now.

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        • I’m not sure if they were hinting at RR when they mentioned that, but if you scroll down you can see Masuda’s tweets that I posted and why I think they hint at RR.

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          • Maybe they were maybe they weren’t, but everything seems to becoming together like that………wait ….IT ALL COMES TOGETHER!!! teehee

          • Prolly to the point it becomes meaningless. I can wee people two gens from now saying “Back in gen 7 they said it was all coming together!! I bet they meant Blank space game!!!!” lol

    • Joe Merrick is the last person that should lecture people on being negative. If you aren’t dying for whatever Pokemon/Nintendo game he is you automatically are the enemy. He’s basically negative against negative people . He’s such a hypocrite. If it wasn’t for his vast knowledge of Pokemon and his site he’d be insufferable.

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      • He has a point to a certain extent.
        This has been proven especially over the last few months and with certain people you find here for example.

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        • To be fair I felt much of the criticism was warranted. Luckily they’ve stepped up the marketing and most major concerns for the game have died off. I’m assuming Joe is talking about the reaction to pokemon officially being done on the 3DS though. I’m not sure what he expected. Yes, it is absolutely a good move for the franchise, but of course people were going to be upset that they have to buy a new system to play future titles. They’ll get over it though when they see how great the move is (hopefully)

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  5. Any of you ever wonder how governments work in the world of Pokemon? are the regions essentially their own countries or do they they have some kind of umbrella government that reigns over them all. Do some regions work under a single government while others do’t? How do they all have the same currency? Is there a single language in the world or are kids and people just taught from an early age to learn all or most languages that are prominent in the world?

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    • An actual really good theory is that the E4 rule and the champion (with the help of Gym Leaders) rule the region. In Alola there wasn’t a league, but Kahunas are shown as the leaders from the start.

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      • That makes sense I suppose. It would keep things relatively simple. Seems like a HUGE responsibility for them tho hahaha

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  6. Well Seraph and Earthen since your hear I want you two to look at my OU tier team that’s been doing quite well.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/122a2c5b115db41201b26ce4df6e14ac5cc212482acb13287c407c6401376098.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/59bbb8eb714dfdf2aa4d3e9e46bca84e16e338706e377ccf5a86c5798d44585e.jpg

    It actually has a pretty good win rate, that or someone hates they are losing to it (Yes this team actually can take on some decent teams)

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  7. I really want someday to see the Kalos Trio visit Alola (Fairy gave me the idea) in a way. I really would like to see something like this:
    First, a little older Bonnie with this team:
    Chestnaught (given from Clemont)
    Diggersbt (also from Clemont)
    Dedenne (of course)
    Tyranitar (from that episode)
    Then she invites Serena and Clemont to make a full reunion. Serena’s plane is late, so Clemont arrives first. He’s better at being a gym leader now, he has a more advanced team:
    Luxray
    Emolga
    Magnezone
    Heliolisk
    Manectric (that can Mega evolve)
    Then, in a dramatic scene, Serena appears. She has a career in Hoenn and her team changed:
    Delphox
    Pangoro
    Sylveon
    Gardevoir
    Beautifly
    In the end of the special, as the bond between Delphox and Serene is pushed to its limits, they’re in perfect sync, Serene-Delphox is shown, an awesome prettier version of Delphox, and it kicks some butt!

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  8. Kind of want to watch the XY anime again. It really was a very good series. Even the more meh episodes were still pretty good in mind. My only criticism would be that I wish they didn’t dick around as much in the beginning with Serena and her true goal, but ultimately she found herself and everything was good.

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    • The battles were excellently choreographed and visual spectacular but I can’t tell if the episodes are crummy because of their plots or the dumbed down dialogue

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  9. Starting tomorrow
    One week until Super Mario Odyssey and Four more until USUM
    Do you think that’ll be enough time to 100% it?

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    • I’m guessing this is ORAS? B/c 2000 isn’t really a whole lot. I mean even with the shiny charm you’re still not over odds.

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    • took me 3555 SRs before getting mine. But it was glorious when this Shiny dragon darker than darkness itself shone upon me. Don’t give up!

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        • honestly Soft resetting doesn’t feel nearly as long as Masuda Breeding.
          Especially for pseudo-legendaries @.@
          It all depends really.
          Zekrom took me 3555 with shiny charm
          Lugia took me 112 with charm
          Type:Null took me about 1250 without charm
          I tried Soft Resetting for Shiny Rayquaza in Sapphire once but gave up after 1 full month of non-stop SR X.x

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          • Depends on which thing you’re soft resetting for. A single moment of inattention could cause you to Soft Reset over a shiny!
            Zekrom is a good example of that since his shiny is not very very obvious at first.
            Though after seeing him 3554 times, you jump up when you notice the difference. I swear though sometimes I would hallucinate going like “Is this one slightly different?! O_o” XD

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