Team GO Rocket Global Take-over

Team GO Rocket Global Take-over is an event in Pokémon GO featuring increased appearance of Team GO Rocket, including their leaders.

Features

 * Poison- and Dark-type, as well as other Pokémon that are related to Team GO Rocket Pokémon appear more often in the wild.
 * Team GO Rocket Grunts drop two Mysterious Components.

Featured Pokémon
Following Pokémon have increased spawn rates in the wild. Absol is in the wild exclusively during this event.

Moreover, these Shiny Pokémon are released with the start of the event.

The following Raid Bosses are available for the duration of the event.

Shop special offer
The following offers were available from the shop from the start of the event.

Global take-over
The event included a global take-over mini-event on March from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time.
 * Every single PokéStop was taken over by Team GO Rocket.
 * Sierra, Cliff, Arlo, and Giovanni were more active.
 * All six of the Shadow Pokémon by the Team GO Rocket Leaders returned, but the majority of Leaders still used their newest set of Pokémon.
 * Charged TM could be used to change a Shadow Pokémon's Frustration to other Charged Attacks that that Pokémon could learn normally.
 * Defeating Team GO Rocket Grunts and Leaders rewarded double Stardust.
 * Team GO Rocket music was playing.

Field Research event tasks
There were several Field Research tasks exclusively available only during the mini-event.

An event box was available during this mini-event.

Trivia

 * Even if the Shadow Pokémon has been taught new attacks, purifying it afterward will still learn Return.
 * Shadow Pokémon can learn exclusive attacks in future events as long as they forget Frustration.