This year's event will see the Pokémon GO debuts of Tadbulb and Bellibolt. Tadbulb can be evolved into Bellibolt using 50 Tadbulb Candy. Shiny Morelull will also be making its debut, with the non-shiny version of this Pokémon having made its debut back during 2022's Festival of Lights event.
A separate Raid Day event will be held on November 11th, while the Festival of Lights event is ongoing. No details have yet been released about which Pokémon will feature during this event.
Event Bonuses and Activities
The following bonuses will be active during the event period:
- 2× Stardust for hatching Pokémon
- 2× Candy for hatching Pokémon
- Incense (excluding Daily Adventure Incense) activated during the event will last twice as long
- 2× Candy for catching Pokémon
- An exclusive Collection Challenge, awarding Stardust, XP, and an encounter with Tadbulb.
Event-exclusive Timed Research, focused on exploring and catching Pokémon, will be available throughout the event. When these research tasks are completed, Trainers will earn an event-exclusive shirt avatar item and encounters with event-themed Pokémon.
In addition to the event-exclusive shirt from Timed Research, a separate new Shirt avatar item will be available for purchase in the in-game shop during this event. This shirt will
continue to be available from the store after the event ends.
Pokémon Encounters
All Pokémon listed below with a ⁂ next to their name can also be encountered in their Shiny variants.
Wild encounters
The following Pokémon will appear more frequently in the wild during this event:
- Pikachu ⁂
- Vulpix ⁂
- Ponyta ⁂
- Magnemite ⁂
- Voltorb ⁂
- Chinchou ⁂
- Mareep ⁂
- Slugma ⁂
- Electrike ⁂
- Litwick ⁂
- Morelull ⁂ (uncommon)
- Tadbulb (uncommon)
The following Pokémon will hatch from 7 km Eggs as part of this event:
- Elekid ⁂
- Magby ⁂
- Dedenne ⁂
- Morelull ⁂ (increased Shiny rate from Eggs)
The following Pokémon will appear more frequently when Trainers use Incense:
- Alolan Geodude ⁂
- Hisuian Voltorb
- Slugma ⁂
- Volbeat ⁂
- Illumise ⁂
- Blitzle ⁂
- Litwick ⁂
- Litleo ⁂
- Dedenne ⁂
- Morelull ⁂
- Tadbulb
Festival of Light–themed Field Research tasks will be available. The following Pokémon will be available to encounter when Field Research tasks are completed:
- Darumaka ⁂
- Morelull ⁂
- Tadbulb