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Pokémon Go Team Rocket event

Team Rocket Event Featuring Shiny Ekans and Koffing Starts in Pokémon GO

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The original villain team from the first Pokémon games, Team Rocket, has recently infiltrated Pokémon GO as Team GO Rocket. As part of the villainous team’s introduction to the game, a new in-game event has started.

Niantic recently announced a new event that focuses on Pokémon traditionally owned by members of Team Rocket. This event is currently underway as of today (July 25) at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST and will continue through next Thursday, August 1, at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST. During this time, players will be able to find Shiny Koffing and Shiny Ekans in the wild, in Eggs, and in Raids. This, of course, is a nod to the fact that the two most famous members of Team Rocket, Jessie and James from the anime, originally owned an Ekans and a Koffing respectively. Also during this event, a number of specific Pokémon that have been owned by various Team Rocket members in the first and second Generation mainline games will hatch more frequently from Eggs, including Rattata, Ekans, Sandshrew, Zubat, Meowth, Machop, Magnemite, Grimer, Gastly, Drowzee, Cubone, Koffing, Murkrow, Sneasel, Houndour, and Poochyena. Raids will also “feature Pokémon that we believe are significant to Team GO Rocket.”

With Team GO Rocket’s inclusion in the game, Shadow Pokémon have also been introduced – you can find out more about how to catch and purify them from our guide by clicking here.


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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).