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A Rogue Monkey Returns

The first hints of autumn are starting to show—the air is crisp, and the trees are just beginning to trade their green for vibrant shades of gold and orange. Though summer is behind us, it’s not quite time to retreat indoors just yet! What’s that sound coming from outside? Could it be... a Monkey?

Zarude comes back to Emera Town!
Yes, the long-awaited return is here: the mythical Pokémon Zarude has arrived in Emera Town for the month of September! This elusive creature is eager to meet daring trainers and is known to offer special gifts to those who manage to impress it. How do you catch its eye? Word has it that interacting with a variety of Pokémon might just do the trick!

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Meeting Zarude
The requirement to meet Zarude is very simple: Interact. Interact a lot!
There is no set interaction requirement - it appears randomly. Maybe after 100 interactions, maybe after 1,000 interactions - or, if you're pretty unlucky, maybe after 100,000 interactions.
When Zarude wants to meet you, a small icon pops up in your Userbar:
You can't miss it. Zarude stays there until you claim its gift.
Notice: It's not possible to have multiple Zarude in your Userbar at the same time. You have to accept Zarude's gift in order to meet it again.

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Zarude's Gift
Zarude will offer you two different gifts:
A legendary Zarude Egg and a Zarude Plushie (which has a 20% of being shiny). Tough choice!



Increase Zarude's shiny chance
You can actively increase the odds of receiving a Shiny Zarude egg by first accepting Zarude Plushies as the gift you receive. Every time you claim the plushie gift, the shiny chance for the next Zarude egg you'll claim increases. Your current shiny chance is always displayed below the Zarude egg option on the event page.
As soon as you claim a Zarude egg, however, the chance resets back to normal and you'll have to "shiny chain" the plushies again. So it might be advisable to stay patient until the odds are high enough!
And if you are superduper patient and want to reach a 100% shiny chance, then there's good news: The shiny odds are carried over to the next year, so you can continue to raise it year by year - however long it will take you.

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Zarude stays until September 30th, 2024.

"Zarude Evet"

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Omg yesss

Why does the event ends so fast bruhhhhhh

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Title: Zarude!!!

YESSSSS. wait bruh intrrsctin time

Riako, will the Dada form be available someday? Or is it already?

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i have a questionb

after u claim zarudes first gift after that do u encounter it again ?
since its my first time doing this event

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@Yummy~ yea i think you can encounter it again as long as you make interaction

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so u can keep accepting the plushie every time

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@yummy~ yea you can just claim the plushie every time you encounter it if you don’t want the pokémon, there’s no limit (i think)

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Nice, shame you have to click so much for 1 zarude's gift

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Yay

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I claimed a zarude egg but it is not in my party. Am I doing something wrong?

I just claimed a plushie, and Riako, what is this text? It looks sad about my decision? Did I just steal the monkeys favorite plush? That’s emotional manipulation. Now I feel guilty.

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Fixed a bug where claiming the Zarude egg sometimes failed (new server issue). Those who were affected by it should now have had a new Zarude encounter triggered, where you can claim the egg again.

Send me a PM if you were also affected by this but still haven't gotten a new encounter. Please also tell me at what time you tried to claim the egg, so I can properly verify it in the logs.



@Csoxi: The alternative form might be added in the future, but currently there are no plans. So not this year, no.

Thank you so much @Riako.. I got it now.

ooooo this will be a interesting event

will getting the egg break my shiny chain??

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@_snoms_ No it will not break your chain.

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