Pokemon Go: How to get Heracross with Ultra Unlock

ByAdam B Hours
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Heracross Gender Difference in the Pokemon anime

Last Updated on: 30th July 2021, 01:14 pm

Heracross has long been a regional exclusive in Pokemon Go to Central and South America, but now trainers in the rest of the world finally have an answer for how to get Heracross for themselves without trading.

Ultra Unlock part two is giving us all a rare chance to get both Kangaskhan and Heracross without trading in Pokemon Go, providing trainers around the world answers to how to finally get these elusive regional Pokemon.

How to get Heracross in Pokemon Go

Heracross is a region-restricted Pokemon, exclusive to Central and South America, as is listed on its fandom wikia page here.

However, this will temporarily be changing with Ultra Unlock part 2. Other Trainers around the world will soon get a few shots at getting Heracross in Pokemon Go for themselves, finally answering the question of how you’re meant to get Heracross without relying on trading with other Trainers who you might not have the luck of so much as meeting.

In particular, if you want a Heracross for yourself as a Trainer from somewhere else in the world, you’ll have to defeat the strong Bug-Type Pokemon in a raid battle during the event and manage to capture it. Luckily, we’ve already got a guide for how to bring down the big bug, so feel free to make use of that for the best chance of leaving the event with your very own Heracross.

Heracross in the Pokemon anime
Credit: The Pokemon Company, Bulbapedia

For context, this is quite a rare chance indeed, given that the same wiki page mentioned above lists that Heracross has been in the game since early 2017, but still hasn’t been featured in a global event before now.

In other words, make sure not to miss the Ultra Unlock part 2 event Trainers, you really don’t want to miss this chance.

READ MORE: Pokemon Go: How to defeat Heracross, weakness and counters

Anything else to be aware of?

That’s about it for this really, the raids for Heracross are bundled in as part of Ultra Unlock part 2, so if you’d like to know more about the overall event you’d have to read about that here.

In the meantime, If you’d like more stories, articles and guides for Pokemon Go, you can find them right here on The Click, and if you’d instead like to see more by me specifically, a list of my articles is available here.