When Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day Actually Starts

On September 19, 2026, Staraptor Super Mega Raid day will take place from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time, so the exact start depends on whatever region your spoofed GPS is set to, not GMT or BST directly. This will be a Super Mega Raid which will have shields, so you will need to play with other trainers, meaning a single account sat in a lobby alone won’t get anywhere. If you’re planning a multi-account run, stagger your accounts’ local time zones in mind, because the three-hour window is fixed to whatever coordinates you’re spoofed into, not your real location. Set reminders around both the 2pm start and the 5pm hard cutoff for catching Staraptor itself, separate from the wider remote raid pass bonus window that runs longer either side of it.

The 20-Raid Remote Limit and Free Passes

Remote Raid limit increased to 20 from Friday, September 18, at 5:00 p.m. to Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. PDT. That’s a big jump from the usual daily cap and it’s the single biggest reason this event is worth prepping multiple accounts for. On top of that, you can receive up to six free Raid Passes from spinning Gym Photo Discs, and keeping the previous day’s pass allows up to seven raids from free passes alone before you even touch coins. If you’re running several rooted devices, spin Photo Discs on each account the night before so nothing goes to waste when the window opens. Paid players get more: for US$4.99 you can purchase the event ticket offering eight additional Raid Passes from spinning Gym Photo Discs, for a daily total of 14.

How Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day Spoofing Works With a Rooted Phone

Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day spoofing on a rooted phone comes down to a GPS joystick app faking your location to sit on top of a gym showing the raid, then joining remotely through a Remote Raid Pass. The catch with Super Mega Raids specifically is you can’t just teleport and solo it. You’ll need to band together with at least seven other Trainers who all have at least one Mega-Evolved Pokémon in their battle party, and some Pokémon, like Legendary Pokémon, may require more Trainers to defeat. That means your spoofed account needs its own Mega Evolved Pokémon slotted in before you even queue, or the lobby won’t count you as a valid participant. A rooted setup also needs Link Charges topped up, since you use the new Link Holder, collecting and using Link Charges to enter Mega Raids, including Super Mega Raids.

Finding Raid Coordinates Without Guessing

There’s no fixed list of Staraptor Super Mega Raid coordinates because Niantic controls which gyms host them, and it changes by region. Super Mega Raids will take great teamwork and may only appear at certain Gyms, so Niantic is making it easier to find both these raids and other Trainers to help take them on, and you can visit the Map to see the locations. Practically, that means checking the in-game Nearby map or a live raid tracker before you set your spoofed GPS, rather than teleporting blind to a random park. Dense gym clusters in city centres and university campuses tend to get more Super Mega Raid spawns simply because there are more gyms packed into a small radius, giving you more chances to land on one within teleport range. Move your spoof to a cluster first, scan for active raids, then commit to the exact gym once you see one on the map.

Bringing Your Own Mega Pokémon Into the Lobby

Since you’ll need to work together with at least seven other Trainers in order to defeat these Raid Bosses, and you will all need to use a Mega Pokémon in your Raid team, your account needs a Mega slot filled before the raid even starts, not scrambled together mid-battle. If you’re spoofing on multiple accounts, make sure each one has cycled through at least one Mega Evolution recently, because Mega Energy expires from your active roster if you don’t keep evolving. Flying or Fighting-type Megas pair well against Staraptor’s own Flying/Fighting typing for damage output, but the main requirement is just having any Mega Evolved Pokémon active, since the game checks for participation, not type matchup, to let you into the lobby.

Farming Mega Energy Toward Super Max

Now you’ll be able to increase Mega Staraptor’s Mega Level all the way up to Super Max Level for the first time in Pokémon GO. Getting there isn’t automatic. Participate in Mega Raids to help your Pokémon reach Super Max Level as Mega Evolving alone won’t be enough, you’ll need to use that Pokémon’s Mega Energy to power it up. Certain species can level up to Super Max Level once they have reached Max Level, and progressing to Super Max Level requires spending 5,000 of that species’s Mega Energy. Before that though, you must increase a Pokémon’s Mega Level to the third level, Max, before you can increase it to Super Max. Reaching Max level itself takes repeated Mega Evolutions, so the fastest route on a spoofed account is stacking as many Staraptor Super Mega Raid wins as your 20-raid limit allows, since each win drops Mega Energy toward that pool.

The New Charged Attack Payoff

The reason Super Max is worth the grind: Pokémon that are eligible to unlock Super Max level can learn an additional Charged Attack while they’re Mega Evolved. For Staraptor specifically, Staraptor will now be able to use an additional Charged Attack, Brave Bird+, when it’s Mega Evolved. In PvP terms it hits for 70 power and decreases the user’s Defense by three stages, and the power of this attack will increase with the Pokémon’s Mega Level. That scaling is exactly why farming extra Mega Levels on a spoofed account beyond the minimum Mega Level 1 unlock actually matters, rather than just catching one Staraptor and moving on. A Super Max Staraptor hits noticeably harder than one sitting at base Mega Level.

Shiny Odds and What You’re Catching For

You can get a Shiny Staraptor and all Staraptor caught from these raids will have Mega Level 1 unlocked. Odds are boosted for the event: you can look forward to Mega Staraptor in Super Mega Raids, with the potential to be shiny, with boosted odds of 1 in 10 encounters. That’s a meaningfully better rate than a standard raid boss, which is part of why stacking raid attempts across multiple spoofed accounts during the 20-raid window pays off. Every catch also starts with Mega Level 1 already unlocked for free, saving you the first chunk of evolutions you’d otherwise need to grind manually. For full official event details, Niantic’s own event page has the complete breakdown: Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day announcement.

Timed Research and the Gardevoir Bonus

Timed Research will be available to Trainers during the event, and completing the research tasks earns a Premium Battle Pass and an encounter with Gardevoir. Don’t ignore this if you’re running multiple accounts, since Timed Research expires, and the tasks associated with it must be completed and their rewards claimed before it ends. On a rooted multi-account setup, knock out the research tasks early on each device before you start burning raid passes, so a slow raid queue near the 5pm cutoff doesn’t cost you the Gardevoir encounter on top of a missed Staraptor.

Setting Up a Rooted Phone for the Event

A phone prepped for spoofing needs Developer Options unlocked, a mock-location app granted system-level permissions, and Google Play Integrity checks either passed or bypassed via Magisk modules, otherwise the game flags the account before you get near a raid. For an event with this many moving parts, battery and thermal stability matter too. Three hours of continuous GPS teleporting, raid joins, and Mega Evolving will heat up a mid-range phone fast, and a device that throttles or reboots mid-raid can drop you from a lobby and waste a pass permanently. Devices sold pre-rooted and pre-configured for this exact use case skip the setup risk of bricking a phone yourself the night before a major event.

Coordinating Enough Trainers for the Lobby

The seven-plus trainer requirement is the part most solo spoofers underestimate. Team up with other Trainers to take on powerful Mega-Evolved Pokémon during select in-game events, which in practice means either joining a public Discord raid channel that coordinates remote joins at the same gym and timestamp, or running enough of your own accounts simultaneously to fill part of the lobby yourself. Public raid Discords tend to post exact gym names and start times a few minutes ahead, which pairs well with spoofing since you can teleport the moment a lobby is called rather than waiting on a real commute. Joining a couple of these communities before the event starts saves a lot of wasted passes on empty lobbies.

What Multi-Account Botting Realistically Gets You

With the raid limit raised to 20 and free passes stacking to seven per account before spending anything, a handful of well-prepped rooted phones can realistically run through 40-60+ raid attempts across the three-hour window. That’s a lot of shots at the 1-in-10 shiny rate and a fast track to the 5,000 Mega Energy needed for Super Max, but it only works if every account has a Mega Evolved Pokémon ready and a lobby to join. Spreading accounts across different active raid lobbies rather than piling them all into one gym also reduces the chance of an entire batch failing together if one lobby doesn’t fill in time.

Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day: key takeaways

Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day runs 2-5pm local on September 19, 2026, with the remote raid limit temporarily at 20 and up to seven free passes stacking beforehand. Super Mega Raids need at least seven other trainers each running a Mega Evolved Pokémon, so spoofing here is about coordination through Discord raid groups or multiple prepped accounts, not just teleporting solo. Shiny odds sit at roughly 1 in 10, and pushing Mega Energy toward Super Max Level unlocks the stronger Brave Bird+ attack.

Buying recommendation

If you’re going to run several accounts through this event, the phone matters more than usual since a crash or a failed location spoof mid-lobby burns a pass you can’t get back. Our rooted, pre-configured Android handsets come with GPS spoofing tools and Play Integrity workarounds already set up, so you’re not debugging Magisk modules an hour before the 2pm start.

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