For six hours on Saturday, September 5 Pokémon GO players will have to scramble to complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge. This new event features special spawns while using Incense and players who want to complete the challenge will need to focus on catching them all. But how do you do that? We're here to help with this Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge guide, giving you tips on how to catch them all in Pokémon GO.
Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge Guide
Players will only have six hours to complete this latest Pokémon GO collection challenge, with this one focusing on the Pokémon that appear during the Hoopa's Arrival event. This event features two sets of unique spawns, alternating every hour from 11 a.m. to 17 p.m. If you want to complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge, you need to make sure you know when the required Pokémon appears and how. Here's all the information we have, and we'll update as the event unfolds around the world.
How to Complete Hoopa's Arrival Collection Challenge
To complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge, you'll need to catch all of the required Pokémon before the timer expires. This includes Hoopa himself, who is rewarded for completing the next stage of the current Misunderstood Mischief Special Research. So you have to finish it first, but you will also have to use incense.
The Hoopa's Arrival event offers six hours to catch two sets of Pokémon based on their type. One hour will feature Psychic-type Pokémon and the other will spawn Dark and Ghost-types. You can see what times each type will appear here. We'll explain more below though.
What Pokémon do you need to catch for Hoopa's Arrival Collection Challenge
Here is a list of all the species you need to catch to complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection challenge in Pokémon GO.
- Poochyena
- Twilight
- Alolan rattata
- Sirloin
- Exegcuter
- Jynx
- Natu
- spoink
- Floating
- carvanha
- beldum
- Girafrig
- Hoopa
How to catch Poochyena, Duskull, Alolan Rattata, Purrloin, Drifloon and Carvanha
Poochyena, Duskull, Alolan Rattata, Purrloin, Drifloon, and Carvanha are all spawns you'll see when using Incense during the Ghost and Dark type times of the Hoopa Arrival event. These will be...
12h to 13h
14h to 15h
16h to 17h
So make sure you have Incense active during these hours if you still need it to complete the collection challenge.
How to catch Exeggcute, Jynx, Natu, Spoink, Beldum and Girafarig
Likewise, the other Pokémon on the list will appear in the other times featured for this latest event. Here is the list for Exeggcute, Jynx, Natu, Spoink, Beldum and Girafarig…
11h to 12h
13h to 14h
15h to 16h
So keep using the incense or activate it over the course of an hour if you only need a few of the next. But the star of the show is obviously Hoopa, so here's how to catch him and complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge.
How to Catch Hoopa
Hoopa is offered as a reward for completing Stage 3 of the Misunderstood Mischief Special Research, which was released as part of Mischief Season. The link above in this article will give you all the tasks you need to complete, but once you complete stage 3 of 16 you can meet and catch Hoopa to complete the collection challenge and add another entry to your Pokédex.
What are the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge Rewards
For completing the Hoopa's Arrival Collection challenge, players will receive the following rewards: 7 XP, 200 Hoopa Candy, and the Poké Ball Lift avatar pose.
And this is our complete guide on how to complete the Hoopa Arrival Collection Challenge and what the rewards are in Pokémon GO.
– This article was last updated on September 4, 2021
