Grabbin’ Grubbin on Grubbn Community Day! September Community Day

Welcome back, Trainers! An exciting Community Day is upon us! Not our first Alolan Spotlight star, but a neat one all the same!

The date and time are Saturday the 23rd, 2:00pm till 5:00pm.

Let’s check out those bonuses:

3X XP for Catching Pokemon.

2X Catch Candy, including the chance for 2X XL Candy if you’re a Trainer level 31 and above.

Photobombs!

Keep an eye out for Pokestop Showcases! Submit your catch and see if it’s the grandest Grubbin of them all!

Both Timed and themed Field Research will be available on the day.

Lure Modules and Incense launched during event times will last for 3 hours.

Grubbin themed Stickers will be available in all the usual ways you get Stickers.

For $1:00 or your local equivalent you’ll gain access to a Special Research quest: Plugging Along (You may gift these Tickets to other Trainers with whom you are Good Friends or better.)

A Community Day Ultra Box will be available in the Shop.

Trades will cost 50% less Stardust.

You may perform an extra Special Trade for a total of 3 up till 10:00pm.

4 Star Charjabug raids will launch after 5:00pm – beat one and Grubbin will spawn within 300 meters of the gym for a half hour with the same Shiny odds as during the event proper.

Grubbin will be spawning in massive numbers with the possibility of a Shiny!

Evolve your Grubbin or Charjabug into Vikavolt and they will have the Community Day exclusive Attack Volt Switch.

And now, let’s take a look at the star of the show!

Grubbin is the early route Bug Type of Alola. The Pokedex tells us that it sometimes hangs out with Electric Types to avoid its natural predators: bird Pokemon like Hoothoot and Rookidee. It’s a master of its environment, able to not only swing through the trees on lines of strong silk like Spider-Man, but able to use those huge jaws to dig burrows underground.

Charjabug looks like a car battery and a little van all in one. One kind of cool thing about it is that in the anime, Sophocles had one that he’d put in a little car exoskeleton to race against other Charjabug trainers. Not of often the cocoon middle stage bug gets that kind of spotlight!

Charjabug evolves into Vikavolt using a magnetic Lure and 100 Candy. It’s a beast-mode Bug and Electric Type that can use beams of electricity to zap bird Pokemon right out of the sky! If it collects a Charjabug to use as a portable battery, the rate of fire increases!

But can it zap down foes in Pokemon GO?

With a Max CP of 3524, Attack of 254, Defense of 158 and Stamina of 184 it’s an extremely solid Bug Type. It edges out Heracross but is outclassed by all Bug Type Mega Evolutions as well as Genesect, Buzzswole and Golisopod. It’s a Bug/Electric Type meaning it’s weak to Fire and Rock only, and resists Electric, Grass, Fighting and Steel Type attacks.

For Fast Attacks you get Mud Slap, Bug Bite and Spark, the latter two of which are STAB. For Charged Attacks, you get Crunch, X-Scissor and Discharge, the latter two of which are STAB.

Shiny Grubbin has a red face and so is pretty easy to spot!

And that’s all I’ve got for you, Trainers! Be safe, have fun and as always, I’m wishing you the best of luck!