{"id":130748,"date":"2022-12-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-142989"},"modified":"2022-12-23T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:30:00","slug":"pokemon-go-new-years-2023-event-adds-new-costumed-pokemon-avatar-items-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/pokemon-go-new-years-2023-event-adds-new-costumed-pokemon-avatar-items-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO New Year’s 2023 Event Adds New Costumed Pok\u00e9mon, Avatar Items And More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>
Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It may well still be very much pre-Christmas as we hear this news, but The Pok\u00e9mon Company is looking to the next big event as it has announced the New Year’s 2023 celebration for Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event will run from 31st December, 2022, at 8:00p.m.<\/strong> through until 4th January, 2023, at 8:00p.m.<\/strong> (local time). During this period, the game is set to really amp up the festivities with special outfits and poses for your avatars, wild Pok\u00e9mon will be appearing in their finery too with hats a-plenty and there are also some familiar faces hatching from eggs.<\/p>\n

We have assembled a list of everything that it going on throughout the event from the Pok\u00e9mon GO website<\/a>, read on to find out the all the details.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon GO New Year’s 2023 event<\/h2>\n

New Pok\u00e9mon<\/h4>\n

The event will see the game debut of Pikachu wearing a party top hat<\/strong> – with some shiny variants being out in the wild.<\/p>\n

On top of this, you will be able to get a Noctowl wearing a New Year’s outfit<\/strong> by evolving Hoothoot wearing a New Year’s outfit during the event.<\/p>\n

Avatar Items<\/h4>\n

The New Year’s 2023 event will bring with it two new avatar items which can each be bought from the in-game shop. Both the Pikachu Party Hat and the Party Popper Pose will appear in the store at the start of the event and will remain there once it is over.<\/p>\n

There will also be themed stickers available during the period. These can be redeemed by spinning Pok\u00e9 Stops, opening gifts, or purchasing them from the in-game shop.<\/p>\n

\"Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>
Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wild Encounters<\/h4>\n

The following Pok\u00e9mon will be appearing in the wild during the celebratory period:<\/p>\n

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  • Hoothoot wearing a New Year\u2019s outfit<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Pikachu wearing a party top hat<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Wurmple wearing a party hat<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Eggs<\/h4>\n

    Each of the following Pok\u00e9mon will be available to hatch from 7km Eggs during the event, with Shiny variants available of each:<\/p>\n

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    • Azurill<\/li>\n
    • Cleffa<\/li>\n
    • Elekid<\/li>\n
    • Igglybuff<\/li>\n
    • Magby<\/li>\n
    • Pichu wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
    • Smoochum<\/li>\n
    • Togepi<\/li>\n
    • Tyrogue<\/li>\n
    • Wynaut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Field Research Tasks<\/h4>\n

      There will be New Year’s-themed Research Tasks available during the event, providing Stardust as a reward for completion.<\/p>\n

      Raids<\/h4>\n

      The following Pok\u00e9mon will be appearing in One-Star, Three-Star, Five-Star and Mega Raids across the event. A Shiny variant is available of each.<\/p>\n

      One-Star Raids<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Bulbasaur wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
      • Charmander wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
      • Hoothoot wearing a New Year\u2019s outfit<\/li>\n
      • Pikachu wearing a party top hat<\/li>\n
      • Squirtle wearing a party hat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Three-Star Raids
        <\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Gengar wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
        • Nidorino wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
        • Raticate wearing a party hat<\/li>\n
        • Wobbuffet wearing a party hat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Five-Star Raids
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          Mega Raids
          <\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • Mega Steelix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Event Bonuses<\/h4>\n

            The New Year’s 2023 event will see two Egg-based event bonuses put in place throughout its runtime. The first of these halves Egg hatching distance for those placed in an incubator, while the second grants a quarter hatching distance for for the first three Eggs hatched in the app widget.<\/p>\n

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            What are you the most excited to see in this year’s event? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company It may well still be very much pre-Christmas as we hear this news, but The Pok\u00e9mon Company is looking to the next big event as it has announced the New Year’s 2023 celebration for Pok\u00e9mon GO. The event will run from 31st December, 2022, at 8:00p.m. through until 4th January, 2023, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}