There’s two Lunar New Year research quests - Catch Challenge and Friendship Challenge - for you to complete and Hisuian Voltorb is still spawning in the wild, so make sure you catch this new regional variant. You can also collect a variety of Lunar New Year field research tasks by spinning PokéStops for the chance to catch more Pokémon and find Mega Energy. On this page: This is a timed research quest, so you only have till the end of the Lunar New Year event - Monday, 7th February - to complete it. If you’re avoiding spoilers, we suggest skipping the information below and the next section. ‘Lunar New Year: Catch Challenge’ Step 1 of 1
Catch 10 Pokémon - 10 Poké Balls Catch 25 Pokémon - 15 Great Balls Catch 25 Fire-type Pokémon - 20 Ultra Balls Catch 10 different species of Pokémon - Litleo encounter
Rewards: 1000 Stardust, 1000 XP and a Espurr encounter Like the quest above, the Friendship Challenge is a timed research quest which means, if you want all of the rewards, you must complete it before the end of the Lunar New Year event. Keep in mind that the details below do contain spoilers, so, if you want to be surprised, we suggest skipping this section. Thank you to redwineandbeer from reddit for the help with this information. ‘Lunar New Year: Friendship Challenge’ Step 1 of 1
Send 5 Gifts and add a sticker to each - Torchic encounter Trade 3 Pokémon with a friend - Corphish encounter Send 15 Gifts to friends - Darumaka encounter Send Gifts 3 Days in a row - Litleo encounter
Rewards: 1000 Stardust, 1000 XP and a Espurr encounter
The Season of Mythical Wishes continues with the Winter Holiday event, which has brought Mega Glalie to Pokémon Go. Don’t forget to partake in the new Go Battle League season.
Elsewhere, be sure to use Daily Adventure Incense for the chance of encountering Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos and Galarian Moltres.
Here are the Lunar New Year field research tasks:
Catch 5 Pokémon reward - 25 Gyarados Mega Energy Catch 12 Pokémon reward - Darumaka encounter Win a raid reward - Espurr encounter Hatch an Egg reward - Galarian Meowth or Alolan Meowth encounter Send 3 Gifts reward - Magikarp encounter Send 3 Gifts and add a sticker to each reward - Litleo encounter Trade a Pokémon reward - Espurr encounter
Thank you to SilphScience from reddit for the help with this information. 2022 is the year of the tiger which means, in Pokémon Go, it’s the year of Litleo and, to celebrate, the shiny form of this Pokémon has been released. Litleo will be appearing more frequently in the wild, which ups your chances of finding this shiny, alongside the following Pokémon:
Paras Meowth Growlithe Voltorb Hisuian Voltorb Electabuzz Magikarp Gyarados Torchic Combusken
Litleo will also be appearing in one-star raids as will Magikarp, Shinx, Darkumaka and Espurr. Meanwhile, Charizard, Flareon and Shuckle are joining the current three-star raid for the event and, in five-star raids, Regirock will be available for battle. Mega Houndoom has also returned to Mega Raids! Finally, the 7km egg pool has changed for the Lunar New Year: Tier 1
Shuckle Slugma Darumaka Scraggy Litleo
It’s important to note, however, that the extra special trade per day bonus will be available till Tuesday, 8th February at the following times:
UK - 9pm (GMT) Europe - 10pm (CEST) East Coast US - 4pm (EST) West Coast US - 1pm (PST)
Hope you enjoy the Lunar New Year event!
