Lunar New Year 2021

Event

Starts:
Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 10:00 AM Local Time
Ends:
Sunday, February 14, 2021, at  1:00 PM Local Time

Our Lunar New Year event is back! From Tuesday, February 9, 2021, to Sunday, February 14, 2021, encounter red Pokémon and celebrate the Year of the Ox! A special Mega-Evolved Pokémon will also be appearing in Mega Raids for the first time at the start of this event!




Features

  • Event-exclusive Field Research tasks will reward encounters with Meowth, Alolan Meowth, Galarian Meowth, Meditite, and Miltank.
  • In celebration of the Year of the Ox, Tauros, the Wild Bull Pokémon, will be featured in Timed Research!
  • Gifts will contain more Poké Balls, so be sure to send lots of Gifts to your friends.
  • You’re more likely to become Lucky Friends with your friends, so be sure to swap Gifts, battle in raids, and trade with them!
  • When you trade a Pokémon, it’ll be more likely to become a Lucky Pokémon.
  • Trading range will be temporarily increased to 40 km from Monday, February 8, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. to Monday, February 15, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. PST(GMT −8).

Spawns

Red Pokémon appearing in the wild.

Red Pokémon

  • shiny
    Krabby
  • shiny
    Goldeen
  • Seaking
  • shiny
    Magmar
  • shiny
    Magikarp
  • shiny
    Gyarados
  • shiny
    Miltank
  • shiny
    Meditite
  • shiny
    Chimchar
  • shiny
    Tepig
  • shiny
    Darumaka
  • shiny
    Fennekin

Eggs

Pokémon representing animals associated with Lunar New Year will be hatching from 5 km Eggs!

In 5 km Eggs

  • shiny
    Rattata
  • shiny
    Ekans
  • shiny
    Mankey
  • shiny
    Ponyta
  • shiny
    Mareep
  • shiny
    Houndour
  • shiny
    Miltank
  • shiny
    Torchic
  • shiny
    Bagon
  • shiny
    Buneary
  • shiny
    Tepig
  • shiny
    Litleo

Raids

Appearing in 1- Star Raids

  • shiny
    Meditite
  • shiny
    Carvanha
  • shiny
    Duskull
  • shiny
    Skorupi
  • shiny
    Darumaka

Appearing in 3- Star Raids

  • Octillery
  • shiny
    Miltank
  • shiny
    Blaziken
  • Camerupt
  • shiny
    Absol

Appearing in 5- Star Raids

  • shiny
    Latias
  • shiny
    Latios

Appearing in Mega Raids

  • shiny
    Mega Pidgeot
  • shiny
    Mega Gyarados
  • shiny
    Mega Ampharos

Shiny

Shiny Gyarados is already available but is mentioned in the event details as available in encounters. Gyarados will be appearing in the wild, raids and Mega raids.

  • Gyarados

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