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Pokemon Go Unown hatching from 10KM Eggs until Sept. 9

How do you find and catch all 26 — make that all 28! — of the Unown Pokémon in Pokémon Go Gen 2? Here are our top tips, from A to Z...?!

Unown is one of the rarest and hardest to find Pokémon in Pokémon Go — period. That's because it doesn't spawn very often in most areas and, when it does, it can manifest as any one of the 28 forms, stylized after the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, as well as the punctuation ? and !. So, how do you catch 'em all?

Unown hatching from 10KM eggs from September 2, 2019 to September 9, 2019

As part of Pokemon Go's 2019 Ultra Bonus event, Unown will be hatchable for the first time — from 10KM eggs.

If you're extraordinarily lucky, you might hatch Unown forms U, L, T, R, and A from 10 km Eggs.

Starts on September 2, 2019, at 1 p.m. and ends on September 9, 2019, at 1 p.m. PDT.

Good luck, I think we're all going to need it!

What's 'Unown' and how many forms does it really have?

Unown is one of the Pokémon introduced into Pokémom Go as part of the Gen 2 update. Gen 2 had 26 distinct forms, one shaped after each letter of the alphabet, from A to Z. Gen 3 adds ? and ! for a total of 28.

Is Unown one Pokémon with 28 different shapes or 28 different Pokémon?

Unown only has one Pokédex entry in Pokémon Go, so it's best to treat it as one Pokémon that has 28 different shapes. So, less like Vaporeon, Flareon, Jolteon, and the rest of the Eevee-lutions and more like Pikachu, Santa Hat Pikachu, and Party Hat Pikachu — just all available at the same time.

Pokémon Go will show you all the versions you've caught in the Pokedex as tabs.

But, are there Unown spawns, or separate Unown A and Unown B spawns?

Only Pokémon Go knows for sure. Based on how people are catching them, though, it seems less likely that each specific Unown spawns on its own and more likely Unown spawns in general and then its specific form is determined at random.

That said, specific Unown have spawned at events with letters corresponding to the theme of the event (more on that in a moment), so it could be determined more specifically. Or it could be both!

Are there nests where you can go to catch Unown?

Sadly, no. Unown, like Snorlax and Lapras, doesn't seem to nest. There have been reports of consistent, if infrequent spawn points but they're thus far very few and incredibly far between.

In my area, they spawn only a few times a week, and randomly throughout the city and suburbs. Never the same place, never the same time, never at any discernable pattern.

Is Unown restricted to events?

Not restricted, no, but Pokémon Go does make it spawn in numbers at events, with letters typically tied to the event. So, if you really want Unown, going to an event where Unown is boosted is the only sure way to get one or several.

At many major Pokemon-related and also gaming events (such as E3, PAX, GDC, and Pokemon GO events), Unown with letters corresponding to the event will appear. So at PAX events, Unown letters P, A, and X will spawn very frequently for the duration of the event in the area near the event's location. If you happen to be attending such an event, look out for Unown, or if you're lucky enough to live near one, consider walking by the venue to see if there are Unown in the area while the event is going on.

Can you track Unown in Pokémon Go?

If you can find a spawn near a PokéStop, you can absolutely track Unown using Nearby.

1. Tap the Nearby Tab at the bottom right of the screen.
2. Tap the holiday Pokémon you want to track.
3. Tap the Footprints button to start tracking.

Once you get to the PokéStop, Unown will spawn and you can catch away!

If Unown isn't at a PokéStop, it might show up on Sightings depending on whether or not you get within 40 meters and there aren't so many PokéStops nearby that Nearby overwhelms Sightings. (Niantic really needs to better balance that, especially for rare Pokémon like Unown...)

How to track Pokémon with Nearby and Sightings in Pokémon Go

Can you get Unown from Incense or Lures?

Unknown! (Sorry, had to!). There's been a report of Unown spawning from Incense but there'll need to be many such reports before it's accepted as fact.

Same for Lures. There have been reports, but until there's more volume it's impossible to say definitively one way or another.

I've seen Snorlax spawn from Incense, though. And while not as rare as Unown, it does show Incense and Lures can pull from a wide range of Pokémon in the system.

So, while you shouldn't waste your money on high volume Lures or Incense just to get Unowns, if you're already using a Lure or Incense, keep your eyes open and fingers ready!

• How to use Incense in Pokémon Go

• How to use Lures in Pokémon Go

Can you hatch Unown from a Pokémon Egg?

Not usually. However, for a week starting September 2, you'll have the chance. This is because Trainers managed to complete several different challenges throughout the summer. To reward everyone, Niantic is running a three-week event with a variety of different "ultra" rewards. One of them is being able to hatch Unown from 10km eggs spelling out U-L-T-R-A.

As far as we know, you'll only be able to hatch Unown from eggs for that week which runs from September 2 -September 9. The event will kick-off at 1 pm PDT on the 2nd and run until 1 pm PDT on the 9th. Just remember that to have a chance to hatch Unown from a 10km egg you'll need to acquire it and hatch it during that week.

Things may change in the future though. Regionals like Taurus and Mr. Mine, and even some base Pokémon like Magikarp, used to hatch but have since been removed from the egg pool. Conversely, the Gen 2 starters, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile initially didn't hatch from eggs but, following the Spring Eggstravaganza event, joined the 5 KM egg pool.

Fingers crossed.

How do you increase your odds of catching Unown when you find it?

Unown seems to be hard to find but it doesn't seem to have an especially low catch rate or high flee rate. So, if you do find it, you should be able to get it. That said, best practices are best practices for a reason:

1. Use a Golden Razz Berry. Unlike other bonuses, it's not dependent on you hitting the target. And there's no point in using a Pinap Berry because Unown doesn't evolve nor does it power up to a significant enough level to be worth hoarding candy.
2. Throw a Curve Ball. A successfully thrown Curve Ball has a higher catch rate than a Great Ball and almost as good as an Ultra Ball.
3. Bonuses stack up, so throw a Curve Ball with an Ultra Ball and a Golden Razz Berry to max out your catch rate.
4. Go for a Nice, Great, or Excellent throw — if you know you can get it reliably — by nailing the center of the target circle. Again, the bonuses stack.

With a little luck, you'll get all the Unown you can find.

How to stack bonuses and to catch tough Pokémon in Pokémon Go

Is there an Unown medal to help make catching them easier? And, yes, fine, to show off with?

There is... but you'll need to catch a lot of Unowns to get the gold. And it only credits you one for each form, so repeats don't count. That means, even if you're in an area where Unown spawns, you're likely to get a lot of dupes before you encounter every different type. According to Silph Road math, it would take an average of 100 catches to get all 26. So, if you encounter one a day, that's a minimum of 26 days, an average of 100 days, and a max of... forever. If you encounter one a week...

• Bronze: Catch 3 Unowns, get a 1.1x bonus.
• Silver: Catch 10 Unowns, get a 1.2x bonus.
• Gold: Catch all 26 Unowns, get a 1.3x bonus.

How to get all the medals in Pokémon Go

Are there any other ways to make finding Unown easier?

Attend a Pokémon Go or related event, if there's one near you. Pokémon Go has had Unown at all its major events, including C H I C A G O at the first Go Fest, and C E L E B I ? at the second. It's also had Unown at Pokémon events, gaming events, even some sports events.

Keep an eye on The Silph Road on Reddit and your local Facebook, Discord, WhatsApp, etc. groups.

Pokémon Go Events: What's coming next

Where have you found Unown in Pokémon Go?

If you have any tips on finding and catching Unown in Pokémon Go, or any questions, drop them in the comments below!

Images and compilation via Reddit, Twitter, Reddit. Some images have been modified or composited because catching Unown is kinda hard, folks.

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Niantic's first big event for Harry Potter Wizards Unite was whimsical

The first big event for Wizards Unite was held in Indianapolis, Indiana and was a great experience overall. Here's our hands-on with the HPWU Fan Festival.

Niantic has hosted the very first Harry Potter Wizards Unite Fan Festival over Labor Day weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana. Like their previous Pokémon Go Fests, this HPWU Fan Festival was a place for all Harry Potter fans and HPWU players to gather, play, and just have some fun.

Unlike the very first Pokémon Go Fest, the HPWU Fan Festival went pretty smoothly, aside from the short thunderstorm that hit the area briefly on Saturday morning, delaying the Early Access attendee start time by around an hour. Niantic did send out a notification to all HPWU players in the area about the thunderstorms, and told everyone to stay indoors. They said that since the start time was going to be delayed, the end time of the event would be extended to make up for it.

However, it's a bit disappointing that those attendees who paid for Early Access (start time of 9 AM instead of 11 AM for general) got their time cut short, so hopefully Niantic does something to compensate for those who got their early access time cut short (thanks nature!).

The Venue: White River State Park

Since this is my first time in Indiana, I was pretty impressed with White River State Park. It's a beautiful and spacious park in the middle of the downtown Indianapolis area, with multiple city attractions surrounding it, such as the Indiana State Museum with IMAX Theater, the Indiana Convention Center (with Indiana Comic Con happening this same weekend), Victory Field, the Indiana Zoo, and the Lucas Oil Stadium.

For the Fan Festival, the park was split up into four major sectors: Magical Games and Sports, Care of Magical Creatures, Hogwarts School, and Dark Arts. When you were in these designated areas, you would find a ton of spawns for that particular Foundable Family, along with a sprinkle of the other families, such as Magizoology in Care of Magical Creatures.

The four dragons in the event (Common Welsh Green, Antipodeon Opaleye, Chinese Fireball, and Peruvian Vipertooth were also spawning in specific sectors. This means you would find one specific type of dragon in each area, rather than all over the place. It encouraged you to walk more and explore the park to get everything, and I'm glad it did. The park is just stunning, and there are some nice sights to see.

To keep people satisfied, there were plenty of tents and sitting space in each area. Plus, there were recharging stations for your phone, charging battery rentals, hydration stations, and generic food stands as well as food trucks.

Every section was properly labeled with the landmark flag and signs. However, as a newbie and tourist to the area, it took me a while before I began to get my bearings of the place. I managed to take in all of the sights of nature while enjoying my HPWU fix.

The Assignments and Tasks

To keep attendees busy and have a purpose of being at the event, there was a special set of assignments for everyone who had a ticket to the festival. Like other special events, it was split up into four different parts, but the second part had a particularly long laundry list of things to do, making it the biggest hurdle in completing the event.

The first part was very easy. It had the usual, Special Assignment kind of tasks like "Dine at an inn 5 times," "Pick up 5 Chinese Fireball Eggs," "Return 7 Foundables of Any Family," etc.

But then you hit the second set of tasks, which was the longest, and (to me) the hardest. You had a section for each Hogwarts house (Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff), and each one had three tasks to do, and then another task to complete the other three tasks for each house. This equates to 15 tasks, and these involved getting a specific number of certain Foundable families, walking distance, performing "Great" spell casts, and more.

This set was the most involved, and required hitting up each sector of the park to complete. It didn't matter which house you chose, as you had to do all of them to move on to the next set of tasks. This was definitely challenging, and took up a good chunk of the day.

The third set of tasks was a bit easier, but still involved walking and exploration. Plus, once you reached this set, you gain access to the last two dragons (Chinese Fireball and Peruvian Vipertooth), because it seems that before that, you will only find Common Welsh Green and Antipodeon Opaleye dragons. This set involved fighting the Chinese Fireball and Peruvian Vipertooth Foundables (as Oddities), and getting some more dragon eggs.

Finally, to finish off the challenges, the fourth set of tasks was super easy. All you had to do was take a self-portrait for your Ministry ID, take a photo of any Foundable, and add a new friend.

The rewards for the Fan Festival assignment was deeply rewarding for those who were able to make it. We got tons of experience, 30 Restricted Books, 300 gold, silver keys, Family XP, stickers, and other freebies. In the end, I felt that the rewards for attending and completing the event tasks was well worth it.

The Gameplay

While the dragons definitely were the big highlight of attending the Fan Festival, there was plenty of other reason to go as well. For one, I've never seen such an insane number of Severe and Emergency level threats pop up at once.

No matter where you turn, you were going to find an Orange or Red level Trace every few minutes. And these were rare Foundables that I usually never see, and I've been playing the game since it launched (I'm level 29 right now).

And it definitely seemed easier to catch these Severe and Emergency level Foundables. I didn't have a lot of Exstimulo and Dawdle Potions, so I didn't use them too much. I was still able to get many hard-to-find Foundables like Albus Dumbledore, Hermione Granger, Firenze, Percival Graves, Newt Scamander, Harry Potter, Tom Riddle, and more, some of them even with just one cast! I was honestly amazed at how easy it was to get them. And if I didn't, I wasn't bothered too much, as I would just find another one in a matter of minutes if I hung around that particular area.

There were also the Dragon Eggs that were all over and able to be picked up like a standard ingredient item. But these free dragon eggs also counted towards your Oddities family rank, and contributed to the "Global Challenge." Even though I already got the necessary amount of egg fragments quickly, I still enjoyed picking them up since they're pretty much free and don't take up inventory space like standard ingredients (and they increase your Oddities rank).

Niantic and Harry Potter Wizards Unite

While HPWU has only been out several months, I'm impressed by all of the work that Niantic has put into the game so far and continues to improve it.

Honestly, I was not expecting too much from the HPWU Fan Festival at first, because it seems that the player base isn't as big as Pokémon Go, and I was afraid of things like server crashes like with the first Pokémon Go Fest. But there was none of that today, and it was a very pleasant experience.

Niantic did a great job picking this park as the location to host it. It was spacious with plenty of room, and it didn't feel like a huge crowd, even though there were thousands attending. Everyone was very friendly and seemed happy to be there, and there were no big issues with the game itself, other than me forgetting to download assets beforehand and taking forever to load the Hogwarts House Portrait reward Foundables. The Niantic staff were also very helpful with answering any questions and even helping take photos against cool props and backdrops.

Future improvements and things I would like to see

For a first time event, I think Niantic did very well with the HPWU Fan Festival. The props set up around the park were amazing and full of incredible detail, and everyone was just having a good time.

I think the only thing that would have improved the overall experience was the addition of more themed food and drink. The food that was offered was pretty standard "muggle" food, like burgers, chicken tenders, pizza, and assorted food trucks. Instead, they should have had things like fish and chips, shepherd's pie, and other food items that you would find in the wizarding world of Harry Potter. I would have also loved to see butterbeer offered, but I'm honestly not sure if Universal Studios has an exclusive for that in their parks.

The bottom line

Overall, as a first-time attendee to an event like this, I was very impressed. The park was beautiful, spacious, and allowed me to see sights I don't normally, which I truly appreciate. The other fans and attendees were friendly, and it was just a great time for everyone who was there. The props were my favorite part, as no detail was skipped over, and I loved finding all of the real-life dragon eggs that were scattered everywhere. The event tasks were challenging but a ton of fun to complete, and it was enough to keep us busy for pretty much the entire day, plus the rewards were great and well worth it.

There were no real complications or issues with the event (other than the Saturday morning thunderstorm, but Niantic doesn't control the weather), which surprised me. If I had the opportunity again, I would attend the next HPWU Fan Festival.

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