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Pokémon GO Lunar New Year 2019

Pokémon GO Starts Lunar New Year Event

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The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, starts tomorrow, February 5. But we can’t have a holiday celebration without a corresponding Pokémon GO event, so that’s exactly what we’re getting.

Niantic recently announced that an in-game event celebrating the Lunar New Year is set to take place over the course of the next few days. The event began today (February 4) at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST and will continue until next Wednesday, February 13, at 1:00pm PST/4:00pm EST. During the event, certain Pokémon representing the twelve Chinese Zodiac signs, namely Rattata, Ekans, Mankey, Ponyta, Electabuzz, Dratini, Mareep, Miltank, Torchic, Poochyena, Spoink, and Buneary, will spawn more frequently than normal. And since 2019 is the Year of the Pig, Shiny Spoink will start appearing as well.

In addition to these increased spawn rates, players will earn twice as much XP as usual when catching or evolving Pokémon during the event. Lastly, trading with other trainers during the event will make the traded Pokémon more likely to become Lucky than normal. For those unfamiliar with the term, trading will sometimes result in the traded Pokémon becoming Lucky, meaning they’ll likely have better IVs and will also require less Stardust to level up than they usually would.


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Dylan Siegler has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. He has copy edited novels and short stories and is the editor of nearly all marketing materials for RoKo Marketing. In addition to his professional work, Dylan is also working on several of his own projects. Some of these projects include a novel that satirizes the very nature of novel writing as an art and a short film that parodies buddy cop movies. His short story “Day 3658,” a look into a future ten years into a zombie apocalypse, is being published in September of 2017 in Microcosm Publishing’s compilation Bikes in Space IV: Biketopia. His political satire "The Devil's Advocates" is currently available for free (the link to this story can be found on his Facebook page).