Psychic Spectacular Taken Over event Guide | Pokémon Go

Sept. 16 marks the start of the Pokémon Go Psychic Spectacular Taken Over event, and we have plenty of content to explore.

The new event sees specific Pokémon spawn in the game. Almost all of them also offer Shiny variants you can discover, if you’re lucky. This guide has all the essential information to remember if you plan to max out the rewards.

All Pokémon Go Psychic Spectacular Taken Over event highlights

The Pokémon Go Psychic Spectacular Taken Over event will occur between Sept. 16 and Sept. 21. We can already grind out most of the event’s content, and have the next few days to get unique spawns and hatches from eggs.

Increased Pokémon spawns

The following Pokémon will have higher rates of spawning in the wild and will have shiny variants available. The egg hatches that follow will also have the chance to hatch shinies.

• Abra
• Slowpoke
• Lunatone
• Solrock
• Beldum
• Gothita
• Elgyem
• Inkay

Specific Egg hatches

• Smoochum (5 km)
• Chingling (5 km)
• Espurr (5 km)
• Indeedee (5 km)

New event Pokémon

Indeedee (Male and Female) will spawn during the event, and you can also get their shiny variants. There will be new Shadow variants during the event.

• Tornadus
• Qwilfish
• Swablu
• Altaria
• Baltoy
• Claydol
• Feebas
• Milotic
• Deino
• Zweilous
• Hydreigon

The event will also have the following Pokémon feature in Raid battles.

• Raichu
• Braviary
• Wyrdeer

Research

The event features an exclusive Field Research for all to complete. You also get to complete Timed Research and a Special Research.

Task	Rewards
Catch 3 Solrock or Lunatone	Starmie encounter
Defeat 1 Team GO Rocket Grunts	1 Mysterious Component
Purify 3 Shadow Pokémon	1 Fast TM 1 Charged TM

Timed Research

Task	Reward
Explore 1km	Abra encounter
Catch 15 Pokémon	Ralts encounter
Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket members	Solosis encounter
Purify 3 Shadow Pokémon	Slowpoke encounter

Task	Reward
Explore 1km	Drowzee encounter
Catch 15 Pokémon	Hatenna encounter
Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket members	Gothita encounter
Purify 3 Shadow Pokémon	Slowpoke encounter

Special Research

Task	Reward
Catch 15 Pokémon	5 Pinap Berry
Purify 2 Shadow Pokémon	10 Poke Ball
Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket Grunts	1 Mysterious Component

Task	Reward
Catch 20 Pokémon	5 Pinap Berry
Purify 5 Shadow Pokémon	10 Great Ball
Defeat 6 Team GO Rocket Grunts	3 Mysterious Component

Task	Reward
Defeat Arlo	2500 XP
Defeat Cliff	2500 XP
Defeat Sierra	2500 XP

Task	Reward
Find Team GO Rocket Boss	10 Hyper Potion
Battle Team GO Rocket Boss	10 Ultra Ball
Defeat Team GO Rocket Boss	6 max Revive

Task	Reward
Claim the rewards	1500 Stardust
Claim the rewards	1500 Stardust
Claim the rewards	1500 Stardust

Here’s a list of your group rewards from completing the Special Research.

• 15000 XP
• 10000 Stardust
• Inkay Encounter
• Wobbuffet Encounter
• Hypno Encounter
• 1 Super Rocket Radar
• 3 Fast TM

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