Sweet Shenanigans Story Event returns to Pokémon Masters EX alongside Seasonal Poké Fair Scouts - Kalos Challenge battles added to Champion Stadium

Palentine's in Pokémon Masters EX is bringing with it some returning seasonal content, with last year's Sweet Shenanigans Story Event making a return, together with Seasonal Scouts featuring Pallentine's Sync Pairs from the past two years. Palentine's Day is just like Valentine's Day, only instead of celebrating romantic love, it's for celebrating your love for your friends and pals. The Champion Stadium is also receiving an update, with the debut of the Kalos Challenge.

Story Event: Sweet Shenanigans
This event, which originally ran from January 31st to February 26th, 2022, focusus on Marnie and Bea, as they work to solve problems being caused throughout Paiso by Team Heartbreak, a group of heartbroken Team Break members. The event is available in-game now, and will be running until February 22nd, at 9:59pm (PST). While participating in event battles, players will be able to earn Sweet Ticket B and Sweet Ticket B+ items, which must be used exchanged for items which are needed to unlock each part of the event's story. Players can also exchange these items for a range of special rewards, including 5★ Scout Tickets, 3★ and 4★ Power-Ups, and Strike and Support Move Candy Coins. Players can also obtain Event Medals and Gems for completing special missions during the event. All rewards can be claimed even if players have previously completed the event during its original run.

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As usual for events of this type, players will have an increased chance of receiving bonus rewards if they take on event battles using teams that feature specific sync pairs. The more of these sync pairs that players place in their lineup, the greater the bonus received. The applicable Sync Pairs and reward rates are as follows:

• Bea (Palentines 2022) & Vanilluxe, Marnie (Palentines 2022) & Mawile:+60% (x1.6) bonus rewards
• Mallow (Palentine's 2023) & Appletun, Elsea (Palentine's 2023) & Togetic, Dawn (Palentines 2021) & Alcremie, Serena (Palentines 2021) & Whimsicott: +40% (x1.4) bonus rewards
• All other Ice- and Steel-type Sync Pairs: +20% (x1.2) bonus rewards

These bonuses stack additively, so having a team consisting of Bea (Palentines 2022) & Vinnilluxe, Marnie (Palentines 2022) & Mawile, and Dawn (Palentines 2021) & Alcremie would grant a combined +160% (x2.6) rewards.

Players should also note the following when playing this event:

• The number of plays available for Daily Extreme Battle 1 are reset every day at 10:00pm (PST).
• To participate, players must have completed Main Story Chapter 1: The More the Merrier (Normal) in single-player.
• The sync pairs that appear as opponents in battle have different capabilities than those players can actually obtain.
• All mission completion rewards must be claimed within three days of the mission period ending.
• Certain items obtainable from this story event, such as Marnie's Letter, will remain in your stock and will remain available for viewing even after the event ends.
• Leftover Sweet Ticket B and Sweet Ticket B+ items will be automatically converted to coins at a rate of 10 coins per item at the end of the event, and sent to players' Present Boxes.

Seasonal Scouts
The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout, Seasonal Tiered Scout, and Seasonal Featured Ticket Scout offer players an opportunity to scout the featured sync pairs from the Sweet Shenanigans story event, along with other past Palentine's Seasonal Sync pairs.

• Bea (Palentines 2022) & Vanilluxe
• Marnie (Palentines 2022) & Mawile
• Dawn (Palentines 2021) & Alcremie
• Serena (Palentines 2021) & Whimsicott

More information about each of these sync pairs can be found via the Bulbapedia links above.

The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout includes a daily discount, where players can perform a single scout for x100 paid gems. This daily discount can be used up to 3 times per day during the entire length of the scout.

The Seasonal Tiered Scout has five tiers, each of which is a Sync Pair Scout ×11. Players are able to scout once on each tier by using Paid Gems, with the amount of gems increasing with each tier. Additionally, Tiers 2 through 5 grant the player additional in-game rewards.

• Tier 1: 1,000 Paid Gems
• Tier 2: 1,500 Paid Gems - 5★ Power-Ups ×3
• Tier 3: 2,000 Paid Gems - 5★ Great Scout Ticket N, which can be used in the Seasonal Featured Ticket Scout.
• Tier 4: 2,500 Paid Gems - 5★ Power-Ups ×7
• Tier 5: 3,000 Paid Gems - Player's choice of 5★ Sync Pairs from those included in the scout

The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout and Seasonal Tiered Scout will both run until February 22nd at 9:59pm (PST). The associated Ticket Scout meanwhile runs through to March 1st, at 9:59pm (PST). Tickets must be used prior to this scout ending.

Champion Stadium: Kalos Challenge
The Champion Stadium has added a brand new Kalos Challenge, giving players the opportunity to challenge Kalos Elite 4 members Malva, Siebold, Wikstrom, and Drasna, as well as the Champion Diantha. Successful Trainers will gain access to Master Mode, which allows players to face more challenging battles against the Elite Four, an in-game badge that signifies their accomplishment, and other special reward items including Champion Spirit, which can be used to raise sync pairs up to 6★ EX.

This initial Kalos Challenge will remain available in game until March 5th, at 9:59pm (PST), after which it will join the regular regional rotation for the Champion Stadium.

To participate in the Champion Stadium, Trainers must have completed Main Story Chapter 10: A Reason to Battle (Normal) in single-player. To attempt the Kalos Challenge, players must also have completed the Kanto Challenge on Normal difficulty. The Normal difficulty of the Kanto Challenge is always available, regardless of the current regional rotation of the Champion Stadium.