Halloween 2017


 * For other editions of Halloween, see Halloween 2016 and Halloween 2018.

Halloween in 2017 is the second Halloween event in Pokémon GO.

Features
Similarly to the year-before event, double amount of candies was awarded for catching, hatching, and transfer of Pokémon. Buddy Pokémon found Candy twice as fast.

Moreover, a free Mimikyu’s Disguise Hat became accessible from the Wardrobe.

Featured Pokémon
5 select Ghost-type Pokémon from the Hoenn region were released to be caught in wild and hatched from eggs: Sableye, Shuppet, Banette, Duskull, and Dusclops.

There was also Pikachu family members wearing a witch hat, temporally available to obtain through catching in wild (Pikachu and Raichu), hatching from eggs (Pichu) and evolution from one to another.

Following Pokémon had increased spawn rate in the wild:

Moreover, these Shiny Pokémon were released.

Additionally, there was possibility to hatch Pichu wearing witch hat from 2-km Eggs.

Shop special offer
Special boxes, featuring items such as Raid Passes and Super Incubators, were available from the in-game shop.

Promotional pictures
Following promotional pictures were published by creators of the game across their social media channels.

Trivia

 * During the Halloween event of 2017, there were several Shiny Pokémon released in parts:
 * On October, 2017 - Shiny Sableye began appearing on the first day of the Halloween event of 2017.
 * On October, 2017 - Shiny Duskull and its family Pokémon began to appear six days into the event.
 * On October, 2017 - Shiny Shuppet and its family Pokémon began to appear 11 days into the event.
 * During this event, there were shiny forms of Gastly family members added to game data, although they weren't released to be caught in gameplay.
 * Shiny variants of family members of both Gastly and Misdreavus families were highly anticipated by players to appear during Halloween event in 2017 and later 2018, however neither of these Pokémon's Shiny form were released then.
 * However, shiny variants of Gastly and its evolved forms were released on Gengar Day, and shiny forms of Misdreavus and Mismagius got released on December, 2018 with new Field Research Tasks for that month.