Throughout this Pokémon Go event, you’ll be able to collect exclusive New Year’s field research tasks and certain Pokémon are spawning more frequently in the wild. The New Year’s Celebration event also sees the release of a new signature move for the fan-favourite legendary Pokémon Reshiram!
Here, we cover everything you need to know about the New Year’s Celebration event in 2023, including all of the new spawns, the debut Pokémon and how to complete the Collection Challenge.
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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 New Year’s Celebration field research tasks:
Hatch 2 eggs reward – 2023 Stardust Hatch an egg reward – 1000 Stardust
Thank you to SilphScience from reddit for the help with this information! Catch a Reshiram before January 4, 2023 at 8pm (local time) and it will know its signature fire-type Charged Attack, Fusion Flare. Fusion Flare has the following Power in Pokémon Go:
Trainer Battles – 90 Power Gyms and Raids – 140 Power
This is a nice buff to Reshiram, as it will do a lot of damage for its energy cost. It’s also a lot better than Overheat, Reshiram’s only other Fire-type Charged move, as it doesn’t come with a guaranteed two-stage debuff to your attack. Your optimal moveset now looks like this: Dragon Breath (Fast), Fusion Flare (Exclusive Charged) and Draco Meteor (Charged). Wild spawns The following Pokémon are appearing more frequently in the wild throughout the New Year’s Celebration event:
Pikachu wearing a party top hat Hoothoot wearing a New Year’s outfit Wurmple wearing a party hat
All three of these can be shiny, and Hoothoot in this costume can now evolve! Egg pool and hatch bonuses The 7km egg pool will have the following Pokémon in them:
Pichu wearing a party hat Cleffa Igglybuff Togepi Tyrogue Smoochum Elekid Magby Azurill Wynaut
Again, all of these can be shiny, so if you’re missing one of them, this may be your chance to get it. Incidentally, there will be a half hatch-distance bonus running alongside the event, along with a quarter hatch-distance bonus for your first three eggs hatched using the Widget. This means if you can get a 12km egg into an incubator using the Widget on your phone’s home screen, it should hatch after just 3km! A new collection of stickers and avatar items, including a very cute Pikachu sticker and Party Popper avatar pose, can now be purchased from the in-game shop. Collection Challenge Finally, there is a Collection Challenge that you must complete before 8pm (local time) on Wednesday, January 4th 2023. If you miss this deadline, the challenge will expire and you won’t be able to earn all of the rewards it offers or add to your Medal collection. The challenge is a relativey easy one – simply catch a party top hat Pikachu and a New Year’s outfit Hoothoot, and then evolve said Hoothoot into a New Year’s outfit Noctowl. The rewards for the Collection Challenge are, unsurprisingly, 2023 Stardust. Several other Pokémon Go events are running throughout the New Year’s Celebration event. Costumed Pokémon New Year’s outfit Noctowl will be making its Pokémon Go debut – catch a similarly costumed Hoothoot and evolve it to get add this Pokémon to your collection. Pikachu also makes a new debut, this time with a star-spangled party top hat. If jazzy Pikachus are your thing, here’s one to look forward to. Hope you enjoy the New Year’s Celebration event!
