The Pokémon Unite Halloween event begins on October 20th

This week Pokémon Unite is having its inaugural Halloween Festival! The event begins on Wednesday and adds new stuff to the competitive online game, including a new playable Pokémon, Halloween-themed costumes, and more.

Pokémon Unite is a free-to-play Pokémon spinoff that is available for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. In the game, two teams of five compete in lane-based combat to see who can score the most points. It also allows for cross-play and cross-save functionality. The event was announced on the game’s official Twitter page early this morning.

Attention Trainers! The #PokemonUNITE Halloween Festival is now live! Relaunch your game to jump into the festivities, and check out the new Costume Party Style Holowear for Lucario while you're there! pic.twitter.com/peykZXTbCX

— Pokémon UNITE (@PokemonUnite) October 20, 2021

The new Pokémon being added to the roster is Greedent, a melee defender that can drop restorative berries for its teammates, is the latest playable Pokémon. This is on top of plenty of new Holowear clothes options for other Pokémon, such as Bandit Style Lucario and Bonfire Style Charizard.

Along with the new Pokémon, the Halloween Festival event provides scary new trainer attire like as a candy bag and a Pikachu-shaped pumpkin mask. Mer Stadium, the fighting arena, is also getting a Halloween revamp for the occasion.

The Pokémon Unite Halloween Festival is open till November 7th. The trailer in the Tweet above shows some of the new content that will feature while the event is ongoing.

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