Fashion Week: Taken Over 2025
Team GO Rocket and Giovanni return. Give it your all and rescue Shadow Palkia during Fashion Week: Taken Over!
Bonuses
* Team GO Rocket balloons are every 2 hours during this event.
Features
Pokémon Debuts
The Toxic Mouse Pokémon, Shroodle, and its Evolution, Grafaiai, will make their Pokémon GO debuts!
Starting with this event, Shroodle will be available to hatch from 12 km Eggs.
- Shroodle
- Grafaiai
*You can use 50 Shroodle Candy to evolve Shroodle into Grafaiai.
Surprise Encounters
Smile! You might have a surprise encounter with Croagunk wearing a fashion week costume when you take a snapshot during the event!
Trainers can get up to 5 snapshot encounters per day.
- Fashionable Croagunk
Save Shadow Palkia!
Special Research will be unlocked at the beginning of this event. Progress through it to receive a Super Rocket Radar and chasedown Giovanni!
You can claim this Special Research until the end of Pokémon GO: Dual Destiny on March 4, 2025, at 9:59 a.m. local time.
- Palkia
PokéStop Showcases
Be on the lookout for Showcases at different PokéStops where you can enter event-themed Pokémon!
Shadow
Team GO Rocket Grunts—as well as their leaders Sierra, Cliff, and Arlo—are using different Shadow Pokémon.
In addition, Team GO Rocket has also turned the following Pokémon into Shadow Pokémon. Defeat Team GO Rocket Grunts to save them!
Also, Pokémon rescued from Team GO Rocket Grunts may be Shiny Pokémon—if you’re lucky.
You can find updated Team GO Rocket lineups here on Leek Duck. Information is still being collected so the page isn’t complete.
New Shadow Pokémon
- Taillow
- Snivy
- Tepig
- Oshawott
- Trubbish
- Bunnelby
Team GO Rocket Leaders
Team GO Rocket Leaders Sierra, Cliff, and Arlo are using the following Pokémon in their lineups:
- Sierra - Skorupi
- Cliff - Cubone
- Arlo - Alolan Grimer
- Skorupi
- Cubone
- Alolan Grimer
Spawns
The following Pokémon will appear more frequently in the wild.
- Fashionable Wooper
- Fashionable Sneasel
- Fashionable Absol
- Stunky
- Fashionable Croagunk
- Gothita
- Mareanie
Fashion Week Pokémon
These Pokémon are also expected to continue appearing as part of Fashion Week.
- Fashionable Diglett
- Fashionable Kirlia
- Skitty
- Buneary
- Fashionable Blitzle
- Furfrou (Natural)
- Bruxish
Eggs
In 12 km Eggs
The following Pokémon will hatch from 12 km Eggs in addition to other Pokémon.
- Larvitar
- Sandile
- Pawniard
- Vullaby
- Pancham
- Salandit
- Shroodle
- Varoom
Raids
Shadow Raids
The following Pokémon will appear in Shadow Raids! Gyms not under Team GO Rocket control may still host other raids.
For the first time in Pokémon GO, Remote Raid Passes can be used to participate in Shadow Raids during the event.
Pokémon caught via one-star and three-star Shadow Raids during the event will have a wider variance of Attack, Defense, and HP.
Pokémon caught via five-star Shadow Raids during the event may have higher Attack, Defense, and HP.
Appearing in 1-Star Shadow Raids
- Nidoran♀
- Nidoran♂
- Totodile
- Ralts
Appearing in 3-Star Shadow Raids
- Electabuzz
- Magmar
- Wobbuffet
Research
Field Research Tasks
Event-themed Field Research tasks will be available! Field Research rewards include the following.
- Defeat 1 Team GO Rocket Grunt REWARD×1Mysterious Component ×1
- Purify 3 Shadow Pokémon POSSIBLE REWARDS×1Fast TM ×1×1Charged TM ×1
Fashion Week: Taken Over
Event-exclusive Special Research
Special Research will be unlocked at the beginning of this event.Progress through it to receive a Super Rocket Radar and chase down Giovanni!
You can claim this Special Research until the end of Pokémon GO: Dual Destiny on March 4, 2025, at 9:59 a.m. local time.
Collection Challenge
An event-themed Collection Challenge is coming!
Complete a catch-focused Collection Challenge to receive Stardust and an encounter with Trubbish.
Sales
Event Bundle
A Team GO Rocket Box will be available during this event.
For 300 PokéCoins, you will get one Incubator, one Rocket Radar, and one Premium Battle Pass.
Check it out in the in-game shop