Lunar New Year 2025

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Shiny Ekans and Nosepass slither their way into Lunar New Year!

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 Our yearly Lunar New Year event is slithering it's way into GO again, featuring snake like Pokemon this year. While we were expecting to see a Sandaconda or Dundunsparce release, Niantic seems to have other plans for those releases. Definitely try to take advantage of the increased Lucky odds if you have trading partners. Otherwise, this event has not much to offer.
Lunar New Year
StartEnd
Wednesday January 29, at 10:00 amSunday February 2, at 8:00 pm local time
Event Bonuses
Increased chance to get Lucky Pokémon in trades.
Increased chance to become Lucky Friends.
Event Features
PokeStop Showcases.
Collection Challenge.
Featured Pokemon
Wild Encounters
Ekans will have an increased chance of being shiny.
Ekans
Onix
Snivy
Darumaka
Dunsparce
Gyarados
Dratini
2KM Eggs
Nosepass will have an increased chance of being shiny.
Makuhita
Nosepass
Meditite
Duskull
Skorupi
Meta Relevance
Dragonite 
 Dragonite has always been a great Pokemon. While it's no longer at the absolute top as a Dragon type attacker for raids, it still manages to hold its own  dealing respectable damage. On the PvP side, Dragonite proves itself to be an absolute menace in the Master League. It's definitly worth going after if you don't have one already. 
 
Darmanitan
 
Darmanitan is a good Fire type raid attacker, having a good attack stat and a competitive moveset. While it's not near the absolute top, it's one of the better Fire types not acounting for Shadow or Legendary Pokemon.