Earlier today the Pokemon GO event for Valentine’s Day began, bringing double candy, halfsies on Buddy walking distance, and special event surprises too. Niantic was purposely vague about which Pokemon they’d be making more common in this update, suggesting that it was “Pink” Pokemon that’d be more likely to appear than normal. We’ve been tracking the spawns since the event was turned on, and there are some oddities!
Instead of giving double candy for walking Buddy Pokemon for this event, Niantic is doing the same thing they did with past events. Each Buddy Pokemon will require half the distance that they’d normally require to get one candy, instead. This makes the whole process easier on the system… somehow.
Likelihood of encountering a number of otherwise-rare Pokemon has increased substantially. Users will see “many adorable pink Pokemon,” the likes of which aren’t generally seen in all biomes around the world. This includes a number of Pokemon confirmed by Niantic (*starred) and some we can safely assume by association.
1. Chansey*
2. Cleffa* (in Pokemon Eggs)
3. Clefairy
4. Clefable*
5. Igglybuff* (in Pokemon Eggs)
6. Jigglypuff
7. Wigglytuff
8. Smoochum* (in Pokemon Eggs)
9. Jynx
10. Porygon* (!)
Porygon is one of the rarest Pokemon in the game – at least, in the real world of actual spawns it is. With increased regularity in spawns, it might actually be seen by more than 1 out of every several hundred users! Also note that Mew is a Pink Pokemon, but that’d be one of the LAST Pokemon we’d expect to appear without warning.
Also on the list of possibilities that aren’t yet confirmed as having increased spawn rates – but have historically been considered “Pink” Pokemon:
11. Slowpoke
12. Slowbro
13. Exeggcute
14. Lickitung (!)
15. Mr. Mime
Highly unlikely Pokemon that are Pink and part of Gen 2:
16. Flaaffy
17. Hoppip
18. Slowking
19. Snubbull
20. Corsola
21. Miltank
22. Blissey
Lure Modules will be more valuable this week than at any point in the history of Pokemon GO. Instead of lasting 30 minutes, each Lure Module will last a whopping SIX HOURS apiece! This event began earlier today and will run until the 15th of February, 2017.
