Similar to the previous Fire and Ice event and earlier Grass event, trainers won’t encounter increased numbers of specific Pokémon, but will be able to hatch unusual species like Mareep, Chansey, and Larvitar from special 2km Eggs, as well as earn the various other rewards. On this page:
UK: 9pm (BST) Europe: 10pm (CEST) West Coast US: 1pm (PDT) East Coast US: 4pm (EDT)
It was originally ten days, but after a period of outage developer Niantic announced a one day extension. Between official imagery and press releases, ther’s only a small roster confirmed so far: Confirmed Equiox event Pokémon:
Larvitar Mareep Chansey
So far, those are the only Pokémon mentioned by Niantic, but they did follow that brief list with a teasing “…and more!”, so expect at least a few more unusual Pokémon to be hatching from those special Eggs. We’ll update this page when we know more! The Season of Mythical Wishes continues with the Winter Holiday event, which has brought Mega Glalie to Pokémon Go. Don’t forget to partake in the new Go Battle League season. Elsewhere, be sure to use Daily Adventure Incense for the chance of encountering Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos and Galarian Moltres.
- New Super Incubators and special boxes from the store Niantic has promised players the ability to buy “special boxes from the in-game shop that feature items like Lucky Eggs, Lure Modules, and all-new Super Incubators which hatch Eggs 1.5 times quicker!” It’s not clear how much those will cost just yet, and what the best practice is as for clearing space in your bag and using them, but from the wording it seems that they’ll hatch all Egg types faster - so maybe it’s worth putting these new Super Incubators on any 10km Eggs taking up space, and saving your infinite use Incubator for the 2km ones?
- Increased XP for registering new Pokémon to the Pokédex Registering any new Pokémon to the Pokédex will get you a tasty 3x bonus XP. Unfortunately for long-time players, there aren’t too many Pokémon left ot register, but on the upside this event does cross over with the shift to the next rotation of the Entei, Raiku, and Suicune Legendary Pokémon becoming available from the end of the month. Hop into some Legendary Raids after the change over if you can! Otherwise, the Pokémon like Mareep and Chansey are a good opportity for you to get those trickey Ampharos and Blissey evolutions, or even a Tyranitar from your new Larvitars if you’ve yet to capture one.
- Increased Stardust, at last! Perhaps the most valuable resource for long-time players at this point, Niantic have finally introduced a Stardust bonus with the Equinox event. You’ll get double the Stardust from catching Pokémon and hatching Pokémon, so the long and short if it is the more you play the regular day-to-day game, the more ‘dust you’ll earn. Time to get grinding while you can to power up those Pokes! For an extra hand, you can read up on how to throw perfect Curveballs and get Nice, Great and Excellent bonuses, as well as our egg hatching chart. That’s your lot. It should be noted the similar Water Festival earlier this year also stealth-introduced the concept of Shinies, including a Shiny Magikarp and Red Gyarados. It’s unknown whether another such update will be introduced (or even more Shinies) but as usual, it doesn’t hurt to keep your eyes peeled for anything suspect. Additional reporting by Matthew Reynolds.
