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Pokémon Go Detective Pikachu event
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Pokémon GO Announces Detective Pikachu Event

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Published: May 6, 2019 09:54 am

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The first live-action Pokémon movie, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, is set to hit theaters this week on May 10. In celebration of the franchise’s milestone, Pokémon GO is planning an in-game event centered around the movie.

It was recently announced that Pokémon GO will be holding a Detective Pikachu-themed event from Tuesday, May 7 at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST to Friday, May 17 at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST. During this period of time, Pokémon that appear in the movie, such as Charizard, Aipom, and Jigglypuff, among many others, will appear more frequently in the wild and as Raid Bosses. Also, when you’re taking AR pictures with the GO Snapshot feature, there will be a chance that a Pikachu wearing a detective hat will photobomb the picture, allowing players to engage with and attempt to catch their own detective hat-wearing Pikachu.

Additionally, players will earn twice as much XP for successful catches as usual and Detective Pikachu-themed avatar clothing items, including a hat and a shirt, will become available to purchase from the game’s in-game store. There will also be new Field Research available that will be based around the movie, but what rewards players will be able to earn for completing this research has yet to be revealed.

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Dylan Siegler
Dylan Siegler has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. He has copy edited novels and short stories and is the editor of nearly all marketing materials for RoKo Marketing. In addition to his professional work, Dylan is also working on several of his own projects. Some of these projects include a novel that satirizes the very nature of novel writing as an art and a short film that parodies buddy cop movies. His short story “Day 3658,” a look into a future ten years into a zombie apocalypse, is being published in September of 2017 in Microcosm Publishing’s compilation Bikes in Space IV: Biketopia. His political satire "The Devil's Advocates" is currently available for free (the link to this story can be found on his Facebook page).
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