Pokemon GO Announces Free Raid Pass Bundle for Alolan Marowak Raid Day

Niantic sheds light on the upcoming Pokemon GO Alolan Marowak Raid Day, which will feature a free gift box containing Raid Passes.

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Pokemon GO has been treating players to a series of seasonally appropriate arrivals since Deerling and Sawsbuck’s introduction in September, and now that Halloween is on the horizon things have started taking a turn for the spooky. Costumed Gengar and Sableye have been introduced to the game alongside several other ghostly bonuses and events, some of which have yet to take place.

Alolan Marowak Raid Day is one such event. The special day was originally announced in a Niantic post detailing Halloween happenings in Pokemon GO, but aside from a time and date, the event has remained relatively unexplained until today.

Niantic’s official support account has shared two important Alolan Marowak Raid Day details via Twitter:

• Players will be able to receive up to five free Raid Passes from Gyms on Alolan Marowak Raid Day (October 31, 2020).
• A free box containing three Remote Raid Passes will be available in the in-game shop from Friday, October 30 at 1:00 p.m. PT, to Sunday, November 1 at 1:00 p.m. PT.

Using these free Raid Passes alone, Trainers have the opportunity to challenge eight different Alolan Marowak this Halloween, which should provide a fair shot at encountering a Shiny. Although Shiny appearance rates won’t be boosted on Alolan Marowak Raid Day, Alolan Marowak itself features a boosted rate because of its status as a Raid-only Pokemon. While not all Pokemon available from Raids alone feature a boosted Shiny rate, a large portion of them do.

Alolan Marowak is a regional Pokemon variant, like Galarian Ponyta or Alolan Raichu. This means that it’s a distinct version of an existing Pokemon species, in this case from Kanto. These regional variants often feature changes to the original species, like different typing and movesets. Marowak sheds its Ground typing and becomes a Ghost/Fire-type under tropical Alolan conditions.

Players can’t transform Pokemon into their Alolan forms by travel; these are “evolutions” in the real-world sense of the word. An Alolan Marowak must be captured as an Alolan Marowak, or evolve from Cubone who originate in Alola.

Given that Pokemon GO is tied to the actual map of Earth, rather than the Pokemon universe, players are unable to travel to Alola. Instead, Niantic gives players a chance to encounter and capture Alolan Marowak in challenging four-star Raid Battles. Players are also always able to encounter the Shiny form of this Alolan variant at an increased rate.

Independent researchers The Silph Road have confirmed Shiny Alolan Marowak to have an approximately 1-in-60 encounter rate. The usual Pokemon GO Shiny encounter rate is nearly 1-in-300, so players will find Shiny Alolan Marowak relatively frequently when compared to other, more common Pokemon.

Pokemon GO is available now on the App Store and Google Play.

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