Pokémon Masters EX is Fishing Up a Golden New Year with multiple special events and scouts, including the debut of Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode

Pokémon Masters EX is launching a whole host of new content today in celebration of the New Year. This includes a New Year's Battle Special Co-op Event, the Fishing Up a Golden New Year Story Event, the debut of Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode in an EX Fair Scout, and a selection of New Year's Exclusive Scouts offering high rattes for 5★ Sync Pairs. A full letter from the game's general producer, Tetsuya Iguchi has also been released today, including information on today's launches, plus a preview on upcoming events and content coming to the game over this year.

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Story Event: Fishing Up a Golden New Year
In this first Story Event for the new year, Lear asks for everyone's help in rounding up some water Pokémon that were accidentally released onto Pasio by Hoopa. Meanwhile, Galar's famous Ball Guy learns about making handcrafted Poké Balls from Akari and Rei together with Furisode Girl Linnea. This event will run through to January 18th, at 9:59pm (PST)

This event follows the simplified format for Story Events, where players will collect Event Points as they complete battles, earning rewards based on the total amount of event points acquired instead of trading for specific desired rewards. Players will need to collect a total of 10,000 Event Points for this event in order to receive all possible rewards.

Finishing the Clothes to Remember Forever story stage or earning 500 Event Points in this event will allow players to team-up with an exclusive 3★ Sync Pair, Linnea (Furisode Girl) & Aromatisse, a Fairy-type Tech Role Sync Pair with an expanded sync grid. Additional copies of Linnea (Furisode Girl) & Aromatisse can be unlocked at 1,000, 2,000, and 3,600 Event Points, while 3★ Custom Power-Ups ×20 for them can be unlocked at 1,500 Event Points, and 4★ Custom Power-Ups ×20 can be obtained at 2,300 Event Points.

Other event rewards include 5★ Scout Tickets, Skill Items, a Field Move Candy Coin, 5★ Power-Ups, Event Medals. Other rewards able to be obtained include Special Skill Feathers 111 and 112, Custom Sync Orbs for Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode and Lana (New Year's 2026) & Dondozo, and Lucky Cookies for Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode, Lana (New Year's 2026) & Dondozo, and Nessa & Drednaw. Players will need to collect a total of 10,000 Event Points for this event in order to receive all possible rewards.

As usual for events of this type, players will receive 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:

• Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode: +60% (×1.6) Bonus Rewards
• Lana (New Year's 2026) & Dondozo: +60% (×1.6) Bonus Rewards (from January 3rd)
• Linnea (Furisode Girl) & Aromatisse, Raihan (New Year's 2025) & Sandaconda, Poppy (New Year's 2025) & Steelix, Clair (New Year's 2024) & Drampa, Wallace (New Year's 2024) & Blacephalon, Lisia (New Year's 2023) & Rapidash, Dawn (New Year's 2023) & Oricorio, Volkner (New Year's 2022) & Electivire, Sabrina (New Year's 2022) & Chingling, Lance (New Year's 2021) & Gyarados, Lillie (New Year's 2021) & Ribombee: +40% (×1.4) Bonus Rewards
• All other Sync Pairs with the Alola or Galar Theme Skills: +20% (×1.2) bonus rewards

These bonuses stack additively, so having a team consisting of Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode, Linnea (Furisode Girl) & Aromatisse, and any past New Year's sync pair would grant a combined +140% (×2.4) 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.
• All Event Points collected during this event will be automatically deleted once the event is over.

Special Co-op Event: New Year's Battle
In this latest co-op event, which is running through to January at 9:59pm (PST), Trainers will join together to face off against Lisia & Galarian Rapidash, Victor & Spectrier, and Leon & Calyrex in exclusive co-op battles.

The New Year's Battle stage can only be completed once, while Daily New Year's Battle can, as the name suggests, be attempted once per day for the length of the event. Players will receive Brand New Year Tickets for completing each of these battles, which can be traded for two of each type of Move Candy Coin and Roll Cake Coin, a 5★ Power-Up, and 4★ Level-Up Manuals. Players will also receive Gems as First-Time Rewards for both the New Year's Battle and Daily New Year's Battle battles.

Completing the Daily New Year's Battle 5 times will earn players a total of 5,000 Gems from special missions for this event. An additional 800 Gems, as well as 15 Gym Scout Ticket A, can also be earned from completing both Group and Solo Gym Missions associated with the event.

Players wanting to participate in this event should note the following:

• To participate, players must have completed Main Story Interlude 1: Let the Tournament Begin! in single-player. This interlude can be completed after players complete Main Story: Chapter 10 in single-player.
• The sync pairs that appear as opponents in battle have different capabilities than those which can actually be obtained by players.
• Players cannot take on this event area with teams comprised of only their own Sync Pairs.
• Leftover Brand New Year Ticket 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.

Limited-Time Expedition Areas and Locations in the Trainer Lodge
Until January 18th, at 9:59pm (PST), limited-time locations will be available during interactions at the Trainer Lodge, along with a Limited-Time Expedition Area.

Players will also be able to form a Special Team in this Expedition Area that can receive substantial amounts of Expedition Awards. New Year Seasonal Sync Pairs added to this Special Team will grant an additional +1 Rare Cache bonus to Discovery Level in addition to the normal change based on Expedition Skill. Drop-In Events will not appear for Special Teams on Expeditions. Once the limited-time expedition area disappears, Special Teams will be automatically disbanded, with any unclaimed items able to be received by going to the expedition screen.

Photo Frame and Background Missions
A special set of 3 missions are available until January 18th, allowing players to earn a special summer Photo Frame and Background to use in the Photo Creator.

• Mission 1: Use stamina (/100) - Gems ×200
• Mission 2: Use stamina (/200) - Gems ×400
• Mission 3: Use stamina (/300) - Frame: No. 46

Completing all 3 missions will also award players with Background: No. 126. Players who have previously received either Frame: No. 46 or Background: No. 126 will receive a 3★ Power-Up Instead.

Sygna Suit Ball Guy EX Fair
Galar's Ball Guy debuts his Sygna Suit Sync Pair with Hisuian Electrode in this limited-time EX Fair Scout available in-game now, and running through to January 18th, at 9:59pm (PST).

EX Fair Scouts are effectively the Poké Fair equivalent of the EX Master Fair Scouts, with an offering rate of 2% for the featured Sync Pair, 1% for additional featured 5★ Fair-Exclusive Sync Pairs (0.5% each), and 10% for other 5★ Sync Pairs, which may include other Fair-Exclusive Sync Pairs. Like with normal Poké Fair Scouts, EX Fair Scouts require 400 scout points before players are able to get a free selection of any one Sync Pair available in the Scout.

The two Fair-Exclusive Sync Pairs who will join Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode in this scout are Sygna Suit Leaf & Venusaur, and Milo & Eldegoss.

The Sygna Suit Ball Guy EX Fair includes a daily discount, where players can perform a single scout for ×100 paid gems. This daily discount can be used 1 time per day during the entire length of the scout. The first twelve times players perform a Sync Pair Scout ×11 for this scout, they will also receive the following bonus presents:

• 1st-4th Scout: Field Move Candy Coin ×1
• 5th Scout: Superawakening Candy ×1
• 6th-9th Scout: Field Move Candy Coin ×2
• 10th Scout: Superawakening Candy ×1
• 11th-12th Scout: Field Move Candy Coin ×2

In addition, players who team up with Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode in this scout will also receive Sprint Roll Cake ×4 and 5★ Power-Up ×4 each time they scout the pair, up to 5 times.

Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode are a 5★ Grass-type Field Role Sync Pair with an unlockable Sprint EX Role and a Superawakening. Raising them to 6★ EX Status changes their outfit from the normal Hisuian Poké Ball inspired design to a Hisuian Great Ball design.

Sygna Suit Ball Guy & Electrode have an incredi-ball set of moves and skills to rapidly set up your team for victory. Between their Galar Rush and MAX Countdown 3 Passive Skills, and their Remarka-ball Fireworks! Status move, they could reduce your team's sync move countdown by 7 within just 2 moves at the start of battle! When they faint, they'll also activate their INCREDIBALL!!! Passive Skill, which among other effects also reduces the sync move countdown by a full 9!

Sygna Suit Ball Guy Gem Emote
A special Gems with Gym Emotes offer is available from the in-game shop alongside the Sygna Suit Ball Guy EX Fair, allowing players to obtain a Sygna Suit Ball Guy Gym Emote as a present. This offer, which comes with 250 paid gems, can be purchased under the With Emotes tab in the Purchase Gems menu of the in-game shop until January 18th, at 9:59pm (PST).

Elio Mix Scout
A new Mix Scout exclusive Sync Pair, 5★ Elio & Decidueye, make their debut with the Elio Mix Scout. As with previous Mix Scout exclusive pairs, Elio & Decidueye use the same Trainer Costume as Elio & Popplio/Brionne/Primarina, and the pair do not have a unique EX Style when raised to 6★ EX, nor a Sync Pair story. This Mix Scout will remain available until April 30th, at 9:59pm (PST).

Mix Scouts are a form of long term scout, whose lineup will change roughly every six months, allowing players to accrue Scout Points in many scouts over time. The Mix Scout can only be used up to three times a day, one each for each of the following options, which all require Paid Gems:

• Sync Pair Scout ×1: 100 Paid Gems
• Sync Pair Scout ×3: 300 Paid Gems
• Sync Pair Scout ×5: 500 Paid Gems

In addition to the featured pair, a wide variety of other 5★ pairs can also be found in the Mix Scout, including several pairs previously exclusive to Costume, Seasonal, and Poké Fair Scouts. The full list of pairs, including their offering rates, can be found in-game.

Monthly Poké Fair Scout Vol. 41
The Fair-Exclusive 5★ Lance & Dragonite are the featured Sync Pair for Monthly Poké Fair Scout Vol. 41 in Pokémon Masters EX. This scout will remain available until January 31st, at 9:59pm (PST). Teaming up with the pair will unlock Lance as a Guest for the Trainer's Lodge. Lance & Dragonite last appeared in the Monthly Poké Fair Scout in Vol. 25, back in September 2024.

As normal for Poké Fair Scouts, 5★ sync pairs have a 10% chance of appearing in this scout. The first five times players perform a Sync Pair Scout ×11 for the Monthly Poké Fair Scout Vol. 41, they will receive a bonus present of 3★ Friend Key ×15. These keys allow players to increase the Friendship Level Cap for a single Guest in the Trainer Lodge by 10. This Monthly Poké Fair Scout also includes a daily discount, where players can perform a single scout for ×100 paid gems. This daily discount can be used 1 time per day during the entire length of the scout.

New Year's Exclusive Scouts
A set of three separate scouts are running specifically as part of the game's New Year's celebration, offering players opportunities to scout 5★ Sync Pairs. All three of these scouts will run through to January 8th, at 9:59pm (PST).

New Year's exclusive! Daily Lucky Poké Fair
This ×11 Scout requiring a mere 100 gems can be used one time per day until the end of the scout, and functions like a Poké Fair Scout with no specific featured Sync Pair. As normal for Poké Fair Scouts, 5★ sync pairs have a 10% chance of appearing in this scout.

New Year's exclusive! 5★-only Lucky Scout
This ×11 Scout requiring 3,000 paid gems can only be used a single time. As the name suggests, only 5★ Sync Pairs are included in the pool for this scout, with the pool including Master Fair-exclusive, Fair-Exclusive, Seasonal, Costume, and Variety Sync Pairs.

New Year's exclusive! Select Master Fair Lucky Scout
This whopping ×25 Scout requiring 10,000 paid gems can only be used a single time, and allows players to receive their choice of 5★ Master Sync Pair in addition to the regularly scouted Sync Pairs. All Master Fair-exclusive Sync Pairs released to date apart from Ash & Pikachu are included in the scout's pool, and will be available for selection.

New Year's Gem Giveaway
All players who log-in to Pokémon Masters EX before January 8th, at 9:59pm (PST) will be entered into a draw to receive a share in a giveaway of 200 million Gems. All players who log-in during this period will receive a minimum 300 gems, with 10 First Prize winners taking away a whopping 60,000 gems each.

The amount of gems and prizes for this 2025 draw are identical to that offered for 2024 and 2023. The prizes available are as follows

• First Prize: Gems ×60,000 - 10 winners
• Second Prize: Gems ×12,000 - 50 winners
• Third Prize: Gems ×6,000 - 7,000 winners
• Fourth Prize: Gems ×3,000 - 9,000 winners
• Fifth Prize: Gems ×1,000 - 10,000 winners
• Sixth Prize: Gems ×600 - 200,000 winners
• Consolation Prize: Gems ×300 - All players who log-in during the period but do not win another prize

Prizes will begin to be sent to player's Present Box starting from January 15th, at 10:00pm (PST), and all prizes must be claimed by February 15th, at 9:59pm (PST). All Gems from this giveaway will count as Non-paid Gems.

Trainer Lodge Update
Players who have teamed up with Ball Guy & Amoonguss can now invite Ball Guy to the Trainer Lodge. This sync pair is exclusive to Variety Scouts, and to other scouts featuring Variety Sync Pairs, including this year's New Year's exclusive scouts.

Happy New Year Gem Special
As part of the New Year's celebrations, the following four Gem Specials will be available in the purchase gems tab of the in-game shop until January 20th, at 9:59pm (PST), offering discounted prices on paid gems. Check in game to find the prices for your region.

• Happy New Year gem special 1: Gems ×300
• Happy New Year gem special 2: Gems ×1,300
• Happy New Year gem special 3: Gems ×4,000
• Happy New Year gem special 4: Gems ×14,000

Future Events and Updates
Daily Battle Move Candy Challenge coming soon
A new Daily Battle Event will begin on January 6th, offering players the opportunity to obtain 5★ Tech Move Candy by completing various missions.

Shop updates coming later this month
The in-game shop will be getting a refresh later this month to improve the value of various shop offers. Following this update, players will receive stamps when purchasing the new offers, which can be exchanged for rewards such as Fair-Guaranteed Scout Tickets, and Superawakening Candy.

More Trainer Gym Content in February
New content is being added to the game next month which will see players working together with their fellow Trainer Gym members to challenge Gym Leaders, competing against other Trainer Gyms for rewards.

Academy Event Improvements
Improvements have been promised for the core gameplay loop of Academy Events, including the ability for players to skip certain battles. This should make the event much less time consuming to engage with and complete, and make it easier to repeat the event to make more attempts at raising the perfect Sync Pair.