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Pokemon Go Events for July 2022: Go Fest, Starly Community Day and More

Pokemon Go Events for July 2022: Go Fest, Starly Community Day and More

July is just around the corner, and it’s shaping up to be another busy month for Pokemon Go. The mobile game is holding a variety of events over the next few weeks, including several Pokemon Go Fest gatherings and a Starly Community Day. Here are all the biggest Pokemon Go events happening in July 2022.

Starly Community Day

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Pokemon Go’s July Community Day takes place on Sunday, July 17. The star of this month’s event is the bird Pokemon Starly, which will be appearing in the wild more frequently than usual from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. On top of that, a handful of in-game bonuses will also be active during the event, including increased candy and XP for catching Pokemon.

Pokemon Go Fest Live Events

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Three in-person Pokemon Go Fest events are taking place in select cities in July and August. Attendees will have a chance to enjoy some exclusive content during these gatherings, including a Special Research story that culminates in a chance to catch a new Ultra Beast. You can see which Ultra Beasts will be available at each event below:

  • Pokemon Go Fest Berlin (July 1-3): Pheromosa
  • Pokemon Go Fest Seattle (July 22-24): Buzzwole
  • Pokemon Go Fest Sapporo (Aug. 5-7): Xurkitree

July Research Breakthrough

Pokemon Go will offer a new Research Breakthrough reward in July. Each time you complete a Research Breakthrough next month, you’ll earn a chance to catch the normal-type Pokemon Lickitung.

Research Breakthroughs are tied to the stamps you receive from Field Research tasks. You’ll receive one stamp for the first Field Research you complete each day, and once you’ve earned seven stamps, you’ll achieve a Research Breakthrough.

July raid schedule

A handful of legendary and Mega Pokemon are returning to raids next month. The legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres will appear in five-star raid battles at different points in July, with Pokemon Diamond mascot Dialga closing out the month. 

Meanwhile, Mega Charizard X and Y will return to Mega raid battles during the first half of July, with Mega Pidgeot and Mega Gengar following afterward. You can see July’s full raid schedule below:

July 1-7

  • Five-star raids: Articuno
  • Mega raids: Mega Charizard X

July 7-14

  • Five-star raids: Zapdos
  • Mega raids: Mega Charizard Y

July 14-22

  • Five-star raids: Moltres
  • Mega raids: Mega Pidgeot

July 22-31

  • Five-star raids: Dialga
  • Mega raids: Mega Gengar

July Spotlight Hours

Pokemon Go is spotlighting a different Pokemon and bonus every Tuesday evening from 6-7 p.m. local time. You can see July’s spotlight Pokemon below:

Date

Spotlight Pokemon

Spotlight bonus

July 5

Ledyba

2x catch XP

July 12

Machop

2x catch candy

July 19

Staryu

2x transfer candy

July 26

Meditite

2x evolution XP

Other events

Pokemon Go has a few other activities lined up for July, including an anniversary celebration and a mystery event that promises new Pokemon debuts. Additional details on these will be announced at a later date.

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A New Limited-Time Pokémon Legends: Arceus Distribution Event Has Begun

A New Limited-Time Pokémon Legends: Arceus Distribution Event Has Begun
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Another limited-time Pokémon distribution event has been announced and this time it’s for the latest release, Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Between now and 31st May 2023 (yes, next year), trainers can obtain a shiny variant of the Baneful Fox mask, which ties in with the final episode of Hisuian Snow (thanks, Serebii.net).

To obtain this mask, you’ll need to boot up the game access “Mystery Gift” and “Get via Internet”.

A new limited-time event has also been announced for Pokémon Sword & Shield. Later this week on Friday, players will be able to receive a special Gastrodon based on the one used by the winner of the European International Championships.

Here’s the rundown of it via Serbii.net (note: the code will be revealed later this week):

“It’s Level 50 with the Ability Storm Drain, Leftovers and the moves Earth Power, Ice Beam, Yawn, Protect.”

For all the latest on distributions, make sure to bookmark our guides: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: Full List Of Mystery Gift Codes and Pokémon Sword And Shield: Full List Of Mystery Gift Codes.

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Pokémon Go Fest 2022 event schedule and guide

Pokémon Go Fest 2022 event schedule and guide

Pokémon Go Fest is the game’s big event of the year, boosting Pokémon spawn rates and giving players two days of bonuses. Our Pokémon Go Fest 2022 event guide lists out the rotating habitats for increased Pokémon spawns, bonuses, and other info you’ll need to successfully catch ’em all (or as many as you can) during the event.


Pokémon Go Fest ticket bonuses and perks

Pokémon Go Fest is a paid event where some perks are locked behind a ticket you can buy for $14.99. A majority of the features are available to players even if they don’t have a ticket, but you’ll need a ticket for the following:

Saturday ticket bonuses

  • Special Research that rewards Shaymin (another research to reward Shaymin will be released at a later date)
  • Unown, regional Pokémon (Torkoal, Tropius, Galarian Mr. Mime), and rare Pokémon (Galarian Weezing, Klink, Axew, Pancham, Galarian Darumaka) Incense spawns
  • Specific Collection Challenges for each rotating habitat
  • Global Challenges with hourlong bonuses
  • An increased chance to find Shiny Pokémon via Incense

Sunday ticket bonuses

  • Another Special Research Task set
  • Specific Pokémon attracted to Incense (the same ones from Saturday)
  • Team Go Rocket balloons appear more frequently, doubled Mysterious Component rewards

Bonuses for both days

  • Up to nine free Raid Passes from gyms
  • Special event stickers
  • Special snapshot photobombs

Pokémon Go Fest 2022 rotating habitat schedule

On Saturday, June 4, Pokémon habitats will rotate around throughout the day, featuring different spawns depending on which habitat is featured. All players can take advantage of these increased spawns, regardless if they have a pass.

These spawns will only be active from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. in your local time, but they will all rotate on a global schedule. That being said, they do rotate in the order we list them below repeatedly, and you can also check what hour it is in the “Today’s View” section of the game. We list out the times in Eastern Daylight Time below.

City habitat spawns (12 until 12:59 p.m., 4 until 4:59 p.m. EDT)

  • Magnemite
  • Alolan Grimer
  • Hitmonchan
  • Baltoy
  • Trash Cloak Burmy
  • Bronzor
  • Pidove
  • Trubbish
  • Gothita
  • Golett
  • Litten
  • Flower costume Pikachu
  • Galarian Weezing
  • Unown B, G, O, U (Ticket Incense only)
  • Klink (Ticket Incense only)

Plains habitat spawns (1 until 1:59 p.m., 5 until 5:59 p.m. EDT)

  • Girafarig
  • Dunsparce
  • Larvitar
  • Numel
  • Trapinch
  • Buizel
  • Patrat
  • Drilbur
  • Shelmet
  • Rufflet
  • Litleo
  • Flower costume Pikachu
  • Axew
  • Unown B, G, O, U (Ticket Incense only)
  • Torkoal (Ticket Incense only)

Rainforest habitat spawns (10 until 10:59 a.m., 2 until 2:59 p.m. EDT)

  • Mudkip
  • Seedot
  • Shroomish
  • Slakoth
  • Turtwig
  • Chimchar
  • Venipede
  • Karrablast
  • Binacle
  • Skrelp
  • Rowlet
  • Flower costume Pikachu
  • Pancham
  • Unown B, G, O, U (Ticket Incense only)
  • Tropius (Ticket Incense only)

Tundra habitat spawns (11 until 11:59 a.m, 3 until 3:59 p.m. EDT)

  • Omanyte
  • Swinub
  • Wingull
  • Meditite
  • Wailmer
  • Spheal
  • Piplup
  • Vanillite
  • Cubchoo
  • Bergmite
  • Popplio
  • Flower costume Pikachu
  • Galarian Darumaka
  • Unown B, G, O, U (Ticket Incense only)
  • Galarian Mr. Mime (Ticket Incense only)

Pokémon Go Fest 2022 raid targets

  • Flower costume Pikachu
  • Axew
  • Rockruff (Sunday only)
  • Snorlax (Sunday only)
  • Salamence (Sunday only)
  • Druddigon (Sunday only)
  • Dartrix
  • Torracat
  • Brionne
  • Kyogre (Saturday only)
  • Groudon (Saturday only)
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Pokemon Go May 2022 Events: Tapu Fini, Spotlight Hours and More

Pokemon Go May 2022 Events: Tapu Fini, Spotlight Hours and More

May is just around the corner, and it’s shaping up to be another busy month for Pokemon Go players. The game is closing out its Season of Alola with a variety of events and activities, including the debut of Tapu Fini and the first Mega Legendary Pokemon: Mega Latios and Mega Latias. Here are all the biggest events happening in Pokemon Go next month.

May Research Breakthrough: Alolan Grimer

Pokemon Go will be offering a new Research Breakthrough reward starting May 1. Each time you achieve a Research Breakthrough next month, you’ll earn a chance to catch Alolan Grimer.

Research Breakthroughs are tied to the stamps you receive from Field Research tasks. You’ll earn one stamp for the first Field Research task you complete each day, and once you’ve collected seven stamps, you’ll achieve a Research Breakthrough.

May Spotlight Hours

Every Tuesday evening each month, Pokemon Go holds a Spotlight Hour event. From 6 to 7 p.m. local time, the game will spotlight a particular Pokemon and bonus. Here’s the full Spotlight Hour schedule for May:

Date

Spotlight Pokemon

Spotlight bonus

May 3

Wingull

2x catch candy

May 10

Numel

2x transfer candy

May 17

Magikarp

2x evolution XP

May 24

Seel

2x catch Stardust

May 31

Pikipek

2x catch XP

May Raid Schedule

After Therian Forme Landorus leaves five-star raids on May 3, the island guardian Tapu Fini will make its Pokemon Go debut. The legendary Pokemon will appear from May 10 to May 25, after which point all four island guardians will return for one final hurrah until June 1. 

Mega Kangaskhan, meanwhile, will be the featured Mega Raid boss until May 3. After it leaves the rotation, Mega Latios and Mega Latias will make their first appearance in raids, with Mega Blastoise and Mega Altaria following later in the month. You can see the full raid schedule below:

Five-star raids

Until May 3

May 10 – May 25

May 25 – June 1

Mega Raids

Until May 3

May 3 – May 10

May 10 – May 25

May 25 – June 1

Pokemon Air Adventures

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Pokemon Go is kicking off May with an Air Adventures event, which will mark players’ first chance to get the Mega Legendary Pokemon Mega Latias and Mega Latios. Flying Pikachu and other special Pokemon will also be appearing more frequently during the event, and eggs will hatch at half the distance they typically require.

May Community Day

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Pokemon Go’s May Community Day takes place Saturday, May 21. This month’s featured Pokemon is Alolan Geodude, and if you can earn enough candy to evolve it into Alolan Golem by the end of the event, it will learn the new rock-type Fast Attack Rollout.

Pokemon Go has a few other events lined up for May, including a Water Festival and an “Alola to Alola” celebration. More details about these events will be announced at a later date.

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Pokemon GO – All April 2022 Events

Pokemon GO Research Breakthrough box for the Alola season

The Season of Alola is now one-third over, but there are still plenty of seasonal events on the way to Pokemon GO in the coming two months. April is up next and the official calendar of events is jam-packed with activities and special events that should help keep players busy in the coming four weeks, so get ready to celebrate the beginning of spring…

Now that the April activities have all been confirmed, players can start looking ahead to find out what bonuses, spawns, Battle Raids, and events are on the way. The Pokemon GO activities aren’t wasting any time and will kick April with some find of surprise April Fool’s celebration. After that, it won’t be long before a string of other events begin unfolding to take players through the rest of the month’s planned activities.

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The established Season of Alola spawns and bonuses will continue in April, but there will also be some special events unique to this month. According to the calendar, players should start planning ahead for an early month Team GO Rocket takeover attempt, which means lots of grunts and Team GO Rocket leader battles are likely on the way early next week. Looking further ahead, players will have a few events to help celebrate the offical start of spring and a Sustainability Week event.


Pokemon Go Season of Alola
Pokemon Go’s Season of Alola.

April Fools’ 2-Oh?-22

We’ve heard some odd whisperings that a mysterious event will be happening on Friday, April 1, 2022.

All-Hands Rocket Retreat

Additional sources report the potential for heightened Team GO Rocket activity from Sunday, April 3, 2022, to Thursday, April 7, 2022. Stay alert!

Spring into Spring

From Tuesday, April 12, 2022, to Monday, April 18, 2022, get ready to jump headfirst into spring with this themed event.

Sustainability Week

From Wednesday, April 20, 2022, to Monday, April 25, 2022, Trainers will be able to reflect on the importance of sustainability while another Pokémon originally discovered in the Alola region makes its Pokémon debut!

Spotlight Hours

In the month of April, Pokémon Spotlight Hour will take place every Tuesday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time, and each will spotlight a different Pokémon and a special bonus!

  • April 5: Stunky | 2× Candy for transferring Pokémon
  • April 12: Bunnelby | 2× XP for evolving Pokémon
  • April 19: Oddish | 2× Catch Stardust
  • April 26: Sunshine Form Cherrim | 2× Catch XP

Raid Hours

Every Wednesday in April, a Raid Hour event will occur from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time. The following Pokémon will be featured:

  • April 6: Therian Forme Thundurus
  • April 13: Tapu Bulu
  • April 20: Tapu Bulu
  • April 27: Therian Forme Landorus

This month isn’t quite as action-packed as the last few months, but it may be the calm before the storm. Pokemon GO is known to kick into high gear as soon as the warm weather arrives, so players can expect May and June to be in high gear when they arrive. As always, be sure to keep an eye on the today view to stay up-to-date on an ongoing bonuses or challenges that pop up throughout the month.

That should be just about everything players know about the upcoming month, but we should learn more about other upcoming events during the coming days of the Season of Alola. Be sure to check back in the near future for more Pokemon GO strategy guides, news, and updates. Until then, good luck out there, trainers!

Pokemon GO is available now on mobile devices.

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Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event guide

Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event guide

Pokémon Go is hosting its huge Johto Tour event, adding tons of bonuses and special spawns to the game on Feb. 26 from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. in your local time. The event adds a ton to the game, but it adds even more if you pay $11.99 for a ticket. Our Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event guide details perks for both ticket holders and free-to-play players, lists out the Collection Challenge bonuses, and spawn rotation times.


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Should I buy a pass?

The Pokémon Go Tour: Johto pass includes bonuses like doubled Candy from hatching eggs, Remote Raid Passes, and a lessened hatch distance for Eggs. If you don’t care for the increased Shiny rate or the Masterwork Research Tasks that reward Apex Shadow Ho-oh and Apex Shadow Lugia, or those bonuses, then you should skip out on the pass.


Which pass do I pick, Gold or Silver?

No matter which version you pick, you will get both Ho-oh and Lugia through the Masterwork Research.

Some differences only extend to cosmetic rewards. As pass holders complete their Special Research, they’ll get a player avatar shirt that represents Ho-oh (Gold) or Lugia (Silver).

Different Pokémon will be attracted to Incense for each version as well:

  • Gold version: Spinarak, Gligar, Teddiursa, and Mantine
  • Silver version: Ledyba, Delibird, Skarmory, and Phanpy

In addition to this, each pass has a different pool of Pokémon with increased Shiny odds:

  • Gold version: Spinarak, Igglybuff, Natu, Sunkern, Misdreavus, Wobbuffet, Gligar, Shuckle, Teddiursa, Swinub, Mantine, and Ho-oh
  • Silver version: Ledyba, Cleffa, Sudowoodo, Yanma, Pineco, Delibird, Skarmory, Houndour, Phanpy, Miltank, Larvitar, and Lugia.
  • Both versions: Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, and Hoppip

You should pick the version that you want the Shiny Pokémon from or that you like the cosmetic shirt from.


Pokémon Go Tour: Johto Collection Challenge

Collection Challenges are only available for pass holders.

Pokémon Go Tour: Johto Collection Challenges and rewards

Challenge Required Pokémon Reward
Challenge Required Pokémon Reward
Go Tour: Johto – Incense (Gold) Catch a Spinarak, Gligar, Teddiursa, and Mantine 2,022 Stardust, 1 Incense, 15 Ultra Balls
Go Tour: Johto – Trade (Gold) Trade a Ledyba, Delibird, Skarmory, and Phanpy 2,022 Stardust, 1 Lucky Egg, 15 Golden Razz Berry
Go Tour: Johto – Incense (Silver) Catch a Ledyba, Delibird, Skarmory, and Phanpy 2,022 Stardust, 1 Incense, 15 Ultra Balls
Go Tour: Johto – Trade (Silver) Trade a Spinarak, Gligar, Teddiursa, and Mantine 2,022 Stardust, 1 Lucky Egg, 15 Golden Razz Berry
Go Tour: Johto – Evolve Evolve all evolvable Johto region Pokémon 25,100 XP, 3 Rare Candy, 1 Star Piece
Go Tour: Johto – Special Catch a Dunsparce, Qwilfish, Stantler, Smeargle, Hitmontop, Celebi, and Gyarados 2,510 XP, 1 Incense, 2,510 Stardust
Go Tour: Johto – Raid Catch an Unown, Heracross, Corsola, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Lugia, and Ho-oh 1 Fast TM, Unown encounter, 1 Charged Tm
Go Tour: Johto – New Bark Town Catch a Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Sentret, Hoothoot, Hoppip, Eevee, and Poliwhirl 1 Incense, Politoed encounter, 15 Great Balls
Go Tour: Johto – Violet City Catch a Togetic, Natu, Mareep, Yanma, Wooper, Murkrow, Golbat, and Slowpoke 1 Incense, Togetic encounter, 15 Great Balls
Go Tour: Johto – National Park Catch a Chnichou, Sudowoodo, Sunkern, Girafarig, Pineco, Shuckle, Scyther, and Gloom 1 Incense, Scizor encounter, 15 Great Balls
Go Tour: Johto – Goldenrod City Catch a Marill, Wooper, Wobbuffet, Snubbull, Remoraid, Miltank, Porygon, and Chansey 1 Incense, Miltank encounter, 15 Great Balls
Go Tour: Johto – Mt. Silver Catch a Misdreavus, Sneasel, Slugma, Swinub, Houndour, Larvitar, Onix, and Seadra 1 Incense, Steelix encounter, 15 Great Balls

Pokémon Go Tour: Johto Timed Research and rewards

Raikou, Entei, and Suicune Photo Safari Step 1 of 1

  • Take a snapshot of Raikou in the wild
  • Take a snapshot of Entei in the wild
  • Take a snapshot of Suicune in the wild

Reward: 50 Raikou Candy, 50 Suicune Candy, 50 Entei Candy

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 1 of 11

  • Power up a Pokémon 3 times (1 Fast TM)
  • Evolve 3 Pokémon (1 Charged TM)
  • Use a Charged TM (5 Max Revives)

Reward: 500 XP, 1 Lucky Egg, 500 Stardust

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 2 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Flying (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Gligar encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 3 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Bug (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Heracross encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 4 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Normal (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Jigglypuff encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 5 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Ghost (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Misdreavus encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 6 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Fighting (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Hitmontop encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 7 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Steel (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Steelix encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 8 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Ice (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Lapras encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 9 of 11

  • Defeat the Go Gym Trainer: Dragon (1 Hyper Potion)

Reward: 1,000 XP, Dragonair encounter, 1 Max Revive

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 10 of 11

  • Earn 2,000 Stardust (Battle)
  • Defeat the Johto Battle Challenge Leader (Raikou/Suicune/Entei encounter)

Reward: 3,000 XP, 3 Golden Razz Berry, 3,000 Stardust

The Legendary beast you encounter depends on your Pokémon Go team. Valor players will get Entei, Mystic players will get Suicune, and Instinct players will get Raikou. This information is courtesy of Serebii.net.

Go Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Step 11 of 11

  • Claim reward (2,000 XP)
  • Claim reward (2,000 XP)
  • Claim reward (2,000 XP)

Reward: 3,000 XP, 3 Max Revive, 3,000 Stardust


Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event Field Research and rewards

These Field Research Tasks are available to all players.

Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event Field Research and rewards

Task Reward
Task Reward
Battle in a raid 3 Max Revives
Catch 5 Pokémon 500 XP
Catch 10 Pokémon 500 Stardust
Hatch an egg 1 Lugia or Ho-oh Candy
Hatch 2 eggs 1 Rare Candy
Spin 5 PokéStops or gyms 100 Stardust
Spin 15 PokéStops or gyms 500 Stardust
Walk 1 KM 1 Rare Candy

Complete list of Pokémon Go Tour: Johto event bonuses

There are tons of active bonuses and perks during the event period, such as:

  • Special Pokémon attracted to Incense (pass only)
  • Doubled egg hatching candy (pass only)
  • 14 egg hatch distance (pass only)
  • Free bundle with 3 Remote Raid Passes (pass only)
  • Up to 9 free Raid Passes from spinning gym discs (pass only)
  • Extra catch candy from Johto-region Pokémon (pass only)
  • Unown G, J, O, R, T, and U appearing from Incense (pass only)
  • Ho-oh caught in raids knows Sacred Fire
  • Lugia caught in raids knows Aeroblast
  • Heracross and Corsola appear in raids
  • Baby Pokémon (Pichu, Cleffa, Togepi, etc.) hatching from 2 KM eggs
  • Complete up to six Special Trades
  • Johto-region Pokémon spawning in mass amounts
  • Eevee has no walking requirement to evolve into Espeon or Umbreon until 11 p.m. in your local time
  • Shiny Smeargle can appear from Photobombs
  • Raikou, Entei, and Suicune appear in the wild with a low catch rate

Several Johto-region Pokémon will also learn their Community Day moves when evolved during the event:

  • Eevee → Espeon or Umbreon: Last Resort
  • Bayleef → Meganium: Frenzy Plant
  • Quilava → Typhlosion: Blast Burn
  • Croconaw → Feraligatr: Hydro Cannon
  • Flaaffy → Ampharos: Dragon Pulse
  • Skiploom → Jumpluff: Acrobatics
  • Piloswine → Mamoswine: Ancient Power
  • Pupitar → Tyranitar: Smack Down

Increased spawns and habitat times for Pokémon Go Tour: Johto

Johto-region Pokémon will be spawning in abundance throughout the event, but different habitats will be rotating around. Each habitat will have two one-hour timeslots throughout the day, in your local time:

  • New Bark Town (9-10 a.m., 2-3 p.m.): Poliwhirl, Eevee, Chikorita, Meganium, Cyndaquil, Typhlosion, Totodile, Feraligatr, Sentret, Hoothoot, Hoppip, Espeon, Umbreon
  • Violet City (10-11 a.m., 3-4 p.m.): Golbat, Slowpoke, Crobat, Togetic, Natu, Xatu, Mareep, Ampharos, Yanma, Wooper, Murkrow, Slowking
  • National Park (11 a.m-12 p.m., 4-5 p.m.): Gloom, Scyther, Chinchou, Bellossom, Sudowoodo, Sunkern, Sunflora, Girafarig, Pineco, Forretress, Scizor, Shuckle
  • Goldenrod City (12-1 p.m., 5-6 p.m.): Chansey, Porygon, Marill, Azumarill, Aipom, Wobbuffet, Snubbull, Remoraid, Octillery, Porygon2, Miltank, Blissey
  • Mt. Silver (1-2 p.m., 6-7 p.m.): Onix, Seadra, Misdreavus, Steelix, Sneasel, Slugma, Swinub, Piloswine, Houndour, Kingdra, Larvitar, Tyranitar

From 7-9 p.m., Pokémon from all of the habitats will be spawning.

Poliwhirl, Golbat, Gloom, Slowpoke, Onix, Chansey, Seadra, Scyther, Porygon, and Eevee will be spawning from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. throughout the event.

Girafarig, Tyrogue, Corsola, Phanpy, Mantine, and Remoraid are also appearing Shiny for the first time.

Girafarig, Tyrogue, Hitmontop, Mantine, Corsola, Phanpy, Donphan, Remoraid, and Octillery with their Shiny forms

Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Image sources: Niantic


Event raid targets for Pokémon Go Tour: Johto

  • Unown A
  • Heracross
  • Corsola
  • Raikou
  • Entei
  • Suicune
  • Lugia
  • Ho-oh
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Pokemon Go Is Holding a ‘Poke Ball Pep Rally’ Event Before the Johto Tour

Pokemon Go Is Holding a 'Poke Ball Pep Rally' Event Before the Johto Tour
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The new Poke Ball Pep Rally event introduces Hisuian Electrode and a Ball Guy outfit to the game.


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Pokemon Go’s Johto Tour takes place next weekend, and in the days leading up to it, the game will be holding a Poke Ball Pep Rally. The event kicks off on Feb. 18 and features research tasks, new avatar items and the debut of Hisuian Electrode. Here’s everything you need to know about the event.

Event Hours

The Poke Ball Pep Rally begins on Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. local time and runs until the eve of the Johto Tour event, concluding at 8 p.m. local time on Feb. 25.

Featured Pokemon

As mentioned, the Poke Ball Pep Rally will mark the Pokemon Go debut of Hisuian Electrode. Beginning during the event, players will be able to evolve their Hisuian Voltorb by feeding it 50 Voltorb candy.

If you don’t yet have a Hisuian Voltorb, you’ll have another chance to catch one. Hisuian Voltorb will be appearing in the wild more frequently throughout the Poke Ball Pep Rally, as will regular Voltorb and Foongus. You’ll also have a chance to encounter Electrode, Amoonguss, Galarian Stunfisk and other rotund Pokemon in the wild.

Wild spawns

  • Voltorb
  • Hisuian Voltorb
  • Electrode
  • Jigglypuff
  • Koffing
  • Marill
  • Wailmer
  • Solosis
  • Foongus
  • Amoonguss
  • Galarian Stunfisk

Research Tasks and Rewards

Along with the special Pokemon spawns, new Timed and Field Research tasks will be available during the Poke Ball Pep Rally. Completing these tasks will award you with Poke Balls, Great Balls and Ultra Balls, making this a good chance to stock up on those items ahead of the Johto Tour.

New Avatar Items

In addition to the other event features, Pokemon Go is adding a new clothing set based on the Ball Guy from Pokemon Sword and Shield. The outfit will be available in the Style Shop once the Poke Ball Pep Rally event kicks off.

The Johto Tour event takes place on Feb. 26 and is themed after the original Pokemon Gold and Silver games. Players who purchase a virtual ticket will be able to choose between Gold and Silver “versions” of the event, with some different wild Pokemon appearing depending on which you select. The event is also introducing Apex Shadow forms of Ho-Oh and Lugia.