The yearly Psychic Spectacular event in Pokémon GO has started today and will last until September 13 at 8 pm local time. Inkay, the Revolving Pokémon, and its evolution Malamar, the Overturning Pokémon, have been added to the game with this event. They were first discovered in the Kalos region. It has a unique way of evolving, Trainers who've journed through the Kalos region might have an inkling as to how to evolve it.
Other Psychic-type Pokémon like Abra, Drowzee, Slowpoke, Gothita, Solosis, Woobat and Elgyem will also be appearing more in the wild.
Staryu (its evolved form Starmie has Psychic-typing), Chimecho, Bronzor, Espurr and Inkay will be in 1-star Raids.
Alolan Raichu, Wobbuffet, Medicham and Metagross will be in 3-star Raids.
Lugia continues to appear in 5-star Raids.
Mega Slowbro continues to appear in Mega Raids.
Event Field Research tasks can lead to the following Pokémon encounters:
-- Catch 10 Psychic-type Pokémon : Abra, Ralts or Drowzee
-- Earn 3 candies walking with your buddy : Woobat
-- Evolve one Inkay : Inkay
There are also Event Field Research tasks for 3 and 7 Nice Curveball throws in a row that reward Stardust.
I've walked around during Raid Hour and afterwards as well. So I caught a few Inkay today, here you can see the Pokédex registry.
You can also receive Inkay as an surprise snapshot encounter once a day throughout the event.
This Psychic Spectacular event features Limited Research quests under the Today view. I've completed 3 of these steps so far today. Here is a screenshot of the 3 steps that I've completed so far and including the fourth that I have to work on now. I'm not sure how many steps there will be as there is no indication.
Speaking of steps, the next part in the Misunderstood Mischief Special Research has been released with this Psychic Spectacular event. Hoopa is a Psychic- and Ghost-type Pokémon and is now likely the cause of the uptick in Psychic-type Pokémon.
Professor Willow also gives out a hint on how to evolve Inkay for those who may not be familiar with is.
As in my previous blog post, I will now be adding the text and tasks for part 5 of Misunderstood Mischief, so beware for spoilers if you haven't continued yet yourself.
After completing part 5 we have a bit of text with Professor Willow again for part 6.
Professor Willow is now continuing his research so we will have to wait some more until the next part of Misunderstood Mischief will be released.
During this event I definitely hope to get some better Slowpoke to have a good one to Mega Evolve into Slowbro once I have the sufficient Mega Energy. I don't have Gothita and Solosis Lucky yet, so I'll definitely try to trade some of these with friends throughout the event. The same goes for Inkay. I'm not sure if there's any others that are appearing more in the wild that I don't have Lucky yet, I'll have to check that.
What are you looking forward to during this event?