Pokemon GO: Halloween Event | Everything You Need to Know

Pokemon GO is kicking off its Halloween season with its Part 1 Halloween event. As with most events in this game, it’s best to get into them with as much information as possible. Event details, Wild Spawns, Best raids, and more. Several players have a lot of questions going into this event.

This guide is going to list down everything you need to know before dipping your toes into this event. So if you want to be prepared for the anticipated Halloween event, read on further below!

Everything You Need to Know

There’s honestly a lot to go through at the event. Below are the most important highlights most Pokemon GO players need to know before diving into Halloween.

Event details

The Halloween event will be held on October 20th at 10 am and will last until October 27th at 8 pm. The event will include bonus candies which are:

• 2x cash candy
• 2x hatch candy
• 2x transfer candy
• XL candy, when you’re walking with your buddy

Event visuals and cosmetics

The map will be updated to include some Halloween visuals that will look something similar to the illustration below.

Not only that, but it will also include the iconic Lavender town music. It’s a fan-favorite BGM for being one of the spookiest soundtracks in the franchise

There will also be new spooky poses and mummy outfits that you can buy in the shop. Also included in the shop will brother Halloween-themed cosmetics.

Event Wild Spawns and Raid Bosses

Event Wild Spawns

• Ghastly
• Zoobat
• Hunter
• Sableeye
• And more

Tier 1 Event Raid bosses

• Sableeye
• Purrloin
• Phantom

Tier 3 Event Raid bosses

• Gengar
• Umbreon
• Drapion

The legendary Raid boss is Giratina and Mega raids will be the new Mega Banette. Make sure to pick up Zoobat, Ghastly, and Hunter since they are the best wild spawns. They evolve into very powerful pokemon you can use for leagues.

Special Research Tasks

Pokemon Go’s Halloween event also includes research tasks that require catching several ghost types for several ghost types like procuring berries and catching ghost-type pokemon.

Make sure you stay on your toes for the event, so you can extract as much value as you can during the Halloween event.