Pokemon GO details its Crackling Voltage event and news from Team GO Rocket

During the Crackling Voltage event there will be a lot of Pokemon to catch that they will go out more often. In general they will appear More Electric-type Pokemon wild and you can meet again in level 5 raids with the Legendary Pokemon tapu koko (which will also appear for the first time in a shiny version together with Helioptile).

Here below we show you the featured Pokemon (all those marked with an asterisk have a chance to spawn shiny):

These Pokemon will be able to find in the wild while the event lasts:

• ekans*
• Magnemite*
• Grimmer*
• Electrike*
• Stunky
• Blitzle*
• Ferroseed*
• Helioptile*
• Grubbin
• Beldum*
• Dedenne*

These will be the Pokemon that will appear in raids of the event:

• 1 Star Raids: Alolan Grimer*, Shinx*, Bronzor*, Klink* and Helioptile*.
• 3 Star Raids: Venomoth, Galar Weezing*, Jolteon and Mawile*.
• 5 Star Raids: Tapu Koko* (until February 1) and Registeel* (until February 8).
• Mega Raids: Mega-Gengar* (until February 8) and Mega-Aerodactyl* (until February 1).

These will be the Pokemon that will be able to hatch from 7 km eggs during the event:

• Alolan Sandshrew*
• Skarmory*
• Blitzle*
• Stunfisk
• Galarian Stunfisk*
• Helioptile*
• Dedenne*

Upon completing the field research tasks of the event you can find the following Pokemon:

• Voltorb*
• Hisui’s Voltorb
• Plusle*
• minun*
• emolga
• Helioptile*

Following the Crackling Voltage event, Niantic has also confirmed that since February 1 we will have one available new takeover of Team GO Rocket in the game, which means that the evil organization will renew its Dark Pokemon.

The February 2023 Takeover event of Team GO Rocket will have the following duration:

• The event starts: on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 0:00 (local time).
• The event ends: on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. (local time).

During this Takeover event we will be able to enjoy the following bonuses and features specials:

• Team GO Rocket will appear: more often at PokStops and in balloons.
• You can use a charged attack TM: so that the dark Pokemon forget the charged attack Frustration.
• A new field research task: that will grant you a mysterious component.

During the Takeover event the boss Giovanni begin to have one new special investigation story along with the final reward of capturing his Dark Registeel.

• Giovanni’s Special Investigation: be available until the end of Season 9 of Odd Wishes (i.e. until March 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. local time).

The recruits of Team GO Rocket with their leaders Sierra, Cliff and Arlo they will also start using different dark Pokemon. It has been confirmed that Team GO Rocket has turned the following Pokemon into dark pokemon:

• Dark Alolan Vulpix
• dark spoink
• dark blitzle
• dark joltik

These will be the new dark Pokemon that will be able to hatch from 12 km eggs during the event:

• larvitar*
• absolute*
• Skorupi*
• Sandile
• scraggy
• Pawniard*
• Vullaby*
• name*
• pancham
• skrelp
• Salandit