Pokémon Go’s Halloween Update

 Gastly, Drowzee, Cubone, and other spooky Pokémon are back again this Halloween, and this time, they’re bringing some special friends! Sableye, Banette, and a few other Ghost-type Pokémon originally discovered in the Hoenn region will be making their first-ever appearance in Pokémon GO. The rest of the Pokémon first seen in the Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire video games will gradually arrive starting as early as December! We hope Trainers enjoy this special Halloween treat. The Halloween celebration will start on October 20 at 12:00 P.M. PDT and run until November 2 at 1:00 P.M. PDT. A special Pikachu will be out celebrating Halloween in an all-new costume, and you can, too! Dress up your avatar for the occasion by wearing Mimikyu’s Disguise Hat. You’ll also earn extra Candy while you’re out trick-or-treating with your Buddy Pokémon: Candy rewards from catching, hatching, and transferring Pokémon will be doubled, and your buddy will find Candy twice as fast during the Halloween celebration! Last but not least, you’ll have the opportunity to stock up for your upcoming adventures with special boxes from the in-game shop, featuring items such as Raid Passes and Super Incubators.

The first Generation 3 Pokémon should start showing up as early as tomorrow, October 20th, at noon Pacific. As we figured initially, though, we’re not going to see the entire Gen 3 collection land at once; instead, it’ll just be some of the spooky Ghost-type stuff. So far we’ve seen confirmation (be it from leaked images or Niantic’s blog post) of Sableye, Duskull, Banette, and Dusclops. The full Gen 3 is made up of over 100 new Pokémon, so this rollout is but a sliver of that but hey, new Pokémon! Niantic says the rest of Gen 3 will “gradually” show up starting in December.

Meanwhile, tomorrow also marks the beginning of a Halloween event that’ll run until November 2nd. The Halloween event also includes:
Another hat-wearing Pikachu: witch hat Pikachu. This one joins Santa hat Pikachu, Ash hat Pikachu, and Party hat Pikachu on the list of “Special Pikachu that only appeared for a little while”
Increased spawns of other ghost-type Pokémon, like Gastly, Misdreavus, and Cubone.
A Mimikyu-themed hat for your avatar.
Double candy for all transfers, catches, and hatches. Buddy Pokémon will also find candy twice as fast.


The news comes a year after Pokémon Go introduced in-game events with its first Halloween celebration. Since then, the augmented reality game has continued to grow and expand in an attempt to keep players coming back. In the summer Niantic debuted new co-operative raids, and the developer has also added hard-to-catch legendary pokémon like Mewtwo to the game.