Pokémon GO New Year's 2023 Event: Date, Encounters, Bonuses And More

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Pokémon GO New Year's 2023 Event

As 2022 comes to an end, Pokémon GO is welcoming its first-ever in-game event in 2023. Running from December 31, 2022 until January 4, 2023, the Pokémon GO New Year's 2023 Event will add tons of new things to the game, such as Pokémon in party hats and festive outfits to encounter, rare Pokémon eggs to hatch and legendary Pokémon to catch, new cartoon stickers to purchase from Pokéshop and many more.

New Costumes & Wild Encounters

Pokémon Debuts

Trainers are able to get two new Pokémon costumes in this new event: One is the Pikachu that will be seen in a party top hat, and the other is the flying-type Pokémon, Noctowl in a bright yellow hat with a matching bow tie.

Pokémon in wild

Players from all around the world can enjoy an increased encounter rate of Pikachu and two evolutions Hoothoot and Wurmple in park. The Hoothoot will appear in wild with an outfit as same as the Noctow's, but only have a little difference in the size of their hats. The Bug-type evolution form. You will also encounter Wurmple wearing a mini-sized celebratory hat with a pom-pom on top of it. If you're lucky, you may come across shiny Pokémon in wild.

Hatching-eggs & Raid Battles

7km Eggs

Ten Pokémon eggs in total are available to hatch in this new eventful year of exploration, including the Pichu with a tiny colorful party hat, and the nine unique Pokémon revolutions, including Cleffa, lgglybuff, Toogepi, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, Azurill and Wynaut.

Raid Bosses

Trainers can do solos against the following one-star and three-star raid bosses in the 2023 new year event:

One-star Raids:

Bulbasaur wearing a party hat
Charmander wearing a party hat
Squirtle wearing a party hat
Pikachu wearing a party top hat
Hoothoot wearing a New Year’s outfit

Three-Star Raids:

Raticate wearing a party hat
Nidorino wearing a party hat
Gengar wearing a party hat
Wobbuffet wearing a party hat

To smoothly complete the challenges of five-star raids and mega raids and get rich rewards from extremely intense battles against legendary Pokémon bosses, we suggest trainers do it in duos or trios. Here're the two high-level raids bosses that are hard to tackle during battles:

Five-Star Raids:

Reshiram

Mega Raids:

Mega Steelix

Field Research & Event Bonuses

Event-themed Field Research

Gamers will encounter three catching Pokémon below when they complete all of the easy Field Research tasks and missions:

Bulbasaur wearing a party hat
Charmander wearing a party hat
Squirtle wearing a party hat

Event Bonuses - Egg Hatch Distances

Once Pokémon trainers log into their accounts, they can access the two following egg-hatching items:

1/2 Egg Hatch Distance when Eggs are placed in an Incubator during the event period.
1/4 Hatch Distance for the first three Eggs hatched during the event using the Pokémon GO Egg hatching widget.

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