The main focus for most players during this event, though, will be evolving their Primeape into Annihilape as it becomes available for the first time. Tying the Fighting\/Ghost-type Rage Monkey into a Battle Week event was also done on purpose since you need to clear battles to evolve your Primeape.\u00a0<\/p>
To evolve a Primeape in Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, you need to have it set as your Buddy Pok\u00e9mon while taking on battles. You need to defeat 30 Ghost or Psychic-type Pok\u00e9mon while Primeape is your active Buddy to get Annihilape. Niantic has specified that you don\u2019t need to use Primeape in the battles at all, it just needs to be set as your Buddy. It also takes 50 Candy to evolve Mankey into Primeape, but Niantic has not provided the amount of Candy, if any, you need to reach Annihilape yet.<\/p>
It is currently unclear if the battles you need to take part in have to be against other players, whether that be custom matches or the Go Battle League, or if battling NPCs like Team Go Rocket or completing raids will count toward that total. Considering Go Rocket Grunts will be spawning more frequently during the event, it seems like they should count. <\/p>
