Pokémon Go Rings in New Year's 2025

Pokémon Go rings in 2025 with a New Year's event! Niantic is kicking off the new year with festivities, including the New Year's 2025 event, followed by the Fidough Fetch event and the Sprigatito Community Day. January also brings the Eggs-pedition Access, a month-long paid event (January 1st-31st, $4.99) offering numerous bonuses for Pokémon trainers. This includes increased Gift storage (up to 40), daily Gift opening limits (up to 50), and increased Gift acquisition from PokéStops (150).

What's in Store for the New Year's 2025 Event?

The Pokémon Go New Year's 2025 event runs from December 30th, 2024, at 10:00 am to January 1st, 2025, at 8:00 pm. While there aren't any new Pokémon, Shiny variations, or costumes, there's still plenty of celebratory action.

Expect increased wild spawns of festive Pokémon including Jigglypuff (with ribbon), Hoothoot (New Year's outfit), and Wurmple (party hat), all with boosted Shiny rates. Event bonuses include 2,025 XP for Excellent Throws and celebratory fireworks.

Raids feature a snowflake-hatted Pikachu (Tier One), and party-hat-wearing Raticate and Wobbuffet (Tier Three), also with increased Shiny chances. Themed Pokémon will also appear in Field Research tasks and PokéStop Showcases.

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