Team GO Rocket Global Take-over

Team GO Rocket Global Take-over was an event in Pokémon GO featuring increased appearance of Team GO Rocket Grunts and their leaders.

Features

 * Poison- and Dark-type, as well as other Pokémon related to Team GO Rocket appeared more often in the wild.
 * Team GO Rocket Grunts dropped two Mysterious Components.
 * Team GO Rocket music was playing.

Featured Pokémon
Following Pokémon had increased spawn rates in the wild. Absol was in the wild exclusively during this event.

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

The following Raid Bosses were 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.

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.