Pokémon Go Lunar New Year 2024 event guide

Pokémon Go is celebrating Lunar New Year with an in-game event from Feb. 5-11. Since it’s the Year of the Dragon, we’re focusing on dragon-type Pokémon, as well as Pokémon with red and gold color schemes.

During the event, there’s an increased chance to get lucky Pokémon from trades and lucky friends from exchanging gifts. You’ll also get more candy for landing nice, great, or excellent throws.

In addition to this, Drampa (yes, the dragon grandpa Pokémon) is making its debut and can be found shiny.

Below we list out all the perks and bonuses that are part of the Pokémon Go Lunar New Year 2024 event, including the paid Timed Research.

This is a paid research, meaning that if you want to do it, you’ll need to pay $1.99 for a ticket from the shop. The research expires when the event does, so make sure you complete it if you buy it.

Is the “Dragons Unleashed” Timed Research worth it? If you still don’t have high-IV versions of the pseudo-legendary dragons, then yes, it’s worth it to get a shot at these guaranteed decent IVs. Do you really want a Drampa now and you don’t want to raid? Then also yes! If you have a bundle of dragons already and you don’t care about Drampa, then you’re good to ignore this pass.

Rewards: 2 Lucky Eggs, 2,000 Stardust, 4,000 XP

Rewards: Drampa encounter, 4,000 Stardust, 8,000 XP

Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these research tasks:

These Pokémon will spawn more frequently throughout the event:

These Pokémon will appear in raids during the event period: