What Is the Mega Sableye Super Mega Raid Day?

Leek Duck’s event listing confirms the Super Mega Raid Day event will take place on October 31, 2026 from 2 pm to 5 pm local time. Pokémon GO Hub’s October 2026 event calendar lists Mega Sableye as the Mega boss running October 28 through November 3, which lines up this Raid Day squarely in the middle of the Mega Sableye raid window.

That overlap is the whole point of a Super Mega Raid Day: it’s a concentrated three-hour window where Super Mega Raid lobbies fill fast and Niantic layers on bonus Raid Passes and shiny rate boosts on top of the existing Mega rotation. If you’ve read our Staraptor Super Mega Raid Day guide from last month, the format here is identical, just with a Dark/Ghost Mega instead of a Flying one.

Mega Sableye’s Halloween Debut: Why It Matters

Mega Sableye isn’t new to the game, but putting it on the Halloween Super Mega Raid Day slot is a deliberate pairing, it’s a Dark and Ghost type Mega going head to head with the spookiest day of the year. In the GO Fest 2026 Mega Finale tier list, Mega Sableye landed in C-Tier for raw raid power, since its real value is Mega Energy for the dex entry and a genuinely usable Great League pick rather than a PvE powerhouse.

Don’t go in expecting a brutal fight. The challenge on Raid Day isn’t beating Mega Sableye, it’s clearing enough lobbies fast enough to bank Mega Energy and chase the shiny before 5pm hits.

Mega Raid Window vs Raid Day Window: Don’t Mix These Up

Two separate timers matter here and mixing them up wastes passes. The general Mega Sableye raid window runs from October 28 to November 3, 2026, so you’ll see Mega Sableye in standard Mega Raids all week.

The Super Mega Raid Day itself is a narrower three-hour event on October 31 from 2 pm to 5 pm local time, and this is when the bonus Raid Passes, boosted shiny odds and Super Mega Raid lobbies (not regular Mega lobbies) are active. If you spoof in on October 29 expecting Raid Day bonuses, you’ll just get a normal Mega Raid with none of the extra passes or shiny boost.

Mega Sableye Raid Guide: Weakness & Best Counters

Mega Sableye has a double, and only, weakness to Fairy type moves, which makes team building simple. Strong picks include Mega Gardevoir, Mega Diancie (if you own one), Xerneas, Togekiss and Granbull running Fairy Wind or Charm into a Fairy charged move. Because the raid boss caps out around 2-5 trainers for a comfortable win even without a weather boost, you don’t need a maxed-out squad, just a couple of genuinely strong Fairy attackers per lobby.

One thing to flag: you cannot catch the Mega-evolved form from the raid itself. Mega Sableye, like every Mega raid boss, drops back to its base Sableye form at catch, with CP ranging 789-843 without weather and 986-1054 under a Fog boost.

Shiny Mega Sableye: Odds and What’s Confirmed

Shiny Mega Sableye is a real, confirmed shiny in the game, it appeared as a shiny-eligible Mega Raid boss during the Prism Promenade habitat at GO Fest 2026’s Mega Finale. For the October 31 Raid Day specifically, Niantic hasn’t published an exact rate yet, but the pattern from every recent Super Mega Raid Day (Staraptor, Falinks, Skarmory, Raichu) has been a flat increased shiny chance applied across the whole event window, not just a single lucky hour. Treat any shiny rate claims you see on social media before Niantic’s own announcement as guesswork rather than confirmed numbers.

Event Bonuses: What Past Super Mega Raid Days Have Offered

Niantic hadn’t published the full Mega Sableye bonus sheet at the time of writing, but recent Super Mega Raid Days give a reliable template. The free tier typically includes a Remote Raid Pass limit raised to 20 for the Friday evening through Saturday night window, plus up to six free Raid Passes from spinning Gym Photo Discs.

The paid ticket, usually priced around £3.99-£4.99, has consistently added up to 14 free Raid Passes, an increased Rare Candy XL chance, and an extra 5,000 XP and 5,000 Stardust per Super Mega Raid win. Raichu’s Super Mega Raid Day also unlocked Mega Level 1 instantly on capture, so expect something similar for Mega Sableye candy progress.

Best Power Spot Coordinates for Spoofing This Raid Day

The goal on Raid Day is a spot with multiple gyms close enough together that you can hop lobbies without a long cooldown walk between them. UK trainers have had good luck historically around dense public plazas: Trafalgar Square in London (51.5080, -0.1281), Exchange Square in Manchester (53.4838, -2.2426), Centenary Square in Birmingham (52.4796, -1.9090), and Cardiff Bay (51.4648, -3.1649) all sit on top of tight gym clusters from years of tourist foot traffic.

Gym layouts shift over time, so drop a pin and check the live map in-app before committing your whole afternoon to one spot. If a cluster looks thin, jump to the next city centre on the list rather than wasting Raid Passes on a dead zone.

Rooted Android Setup Checklist Before Oct 31

Get your phone sorted the night before, not at 1:55pm. Confirm your spoofing app is on the current game-compatible version, since a stale APK after a Niantic update is the single biggest cause of Raid Day failures.

Check GPS mock location permissions are still granted after any recent reboot, clear app cache if you’ve had drift issues recently, and make sure your cooldown timer settings aren’t set unrealistically low. If you’ve not done basic upkeep in a while, run through our rooted phone maintenance guide first, a flaky root or half-updated Magisk module will cost you more raids than any coordinate choice.

PGSharp Settings for Fast Raid Hopping

Super Mega Raid Day rewards speed between lobbies, so your joystick and teleport cooldown settings matter more than usual. Keep teleport distance jumps realistic between gyms in the same cluster rather than instant-snapping across a city, since large unrealistic jumps in a short time window are exactly the pattern that gets flagged. If your joystick has been stuttering or your teleport has been failing to register lately, sort it before Raid Day rather than during it, our PGSharp joystick troubleshooting guide and teleport troubleshooting guide cover the most common fixes.

Squad Strategy When Spoofing Solo

Super Mega Raids were built around bigger groups, Pokémon GO’s own guidance for these events recommends tackling them with at least eight trainers, each bringing a Mega-evolved Pokémon. If you’re spoofing solo without a Discord raid group, lean on Remote Raid Passes and public raid lobbies rather than trying to solo a Super Mega boss, the group size requirement is real and Mega Sableye’s low raw power doesn’t change that math much.

If you want a deeper breakdown of Mega Energy farming and squad timing across the season, our Mega Squads farming guide covers how to keep Mega Energy flowing without burning through Raid Passes too fast.

Avoiding a Soft Ban During a Three-Hour Raid Window

The single fastest way to earn a soft ban on a busy Raid Day is excessive location jumping in a short span, which is exactly what three hours of raid hopping encourages if you’re not careful. Space your jumps out, use realistic walking speeds between gyms in the same cluster instead of teleporting gym to gym, and build in a couple of minutes of downtime between raids rather than queueing the next lobby instantly.

Check our auto-walk speed settings guide if you’re unsure what counts as a safe pace, since this is one of the easier things to get wrong under Raid Day time pressure.

Day-Of Game Plan: 2pm to 5pm

Log in 15 minutes early to confirm your free Raid Pass is ready and your position is locked at your chosen gym cluster. Spend the first 30 minutes scouting which nearby gyms actually have Super Mega Raid eggs up rather than guessing, since not every gym in a cluster will host one simultaneously.

Rotate through 2-3 clusters across the three hours rather than camping one spot the whole time, this spreads your raid count without pushing teleport frequency into risky territory. Save any paid ticket bonuses for your busiest raiding stretch in the middle hour, when lobbies are fullest and your Stardust and XP bonuses go furthest.

Mega Sableye Super Mega Raid Day: key takeaways

The Mega Sableye Super Mega Raid Day runs October 31, 2026, 2pm-5pm local time, sitting inside the wider Mega Sableye raid window of October 28-November 3. Bring Fairy-type counters, expect a boosted shiny chance based on past Super Mega Raid Day patterns, and pick a gym-dense coordinate cluster rather than a single isolated gym.

Keep your rooted phone’s root, mock-location permissions and spoofing app version current before Raid Day, and pace teleports realistically through the three-hour window to avoid a soft ban.

Buying recommendation

If your current rooted phone has been glitchy on cooldowns or joystick drift lately, Raid Day is the wrong time to find out mid-event, sort it beforehand or pick up a phone that’s already set up and tested for spoofing. We sell rooted Android handsets prepped specifically for this kind of raid-hopping use, pre-rooted, pre-configured, and checked before dispatch so you’re not troubleshooting Magisk modules at 1:55pm on Halloween.

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