Pokémon GO is celebrating the start of the Year of the Dragon next week with a special celebration event, Lunar New Year: Dragons Unleashed, to run from Monday February 5th at 10:00am local time, through to February 11th at 8:00pm. Drampa, the Placid Pokémon, will be making its Pokémon GO debut as part of this event.

Event Bonuses and Activities
The following event bonuses will be active during the event period:

• Increased chance for Lucky Pokémon in trades
• Increased chance to become Lucky Friends
• Additional Candy for successfully catching Pokémon with Nice Throws, Great Throws, and Excellent Throws
• Increased chance for Trainers level 31 and up to receive Candy XL for successfully catching Pokémon with Nice Throws, Great Throws, and Excellent Throws

Global Challenge: Dragons Unleashed
A Global Challenge will be taking place throughout the event, in which Trainers around the world will need to work together to throw a combined 1,000 million Nice Throws. If trainers manage to achieve this milestone, the following special bonuses will be unlocked for all Trainers to enjoy for the remainder of the event:

• Festive fireworks will light up the skies
• Trainers will be able to evolve certain Pokémon during the event to get a Pokémon that knows a featured attack. The exact Pokémon have yet to be announced, but will include 2 Ground-types, a Fairy-type, a Dragon-type, and a Normal-type.
• 7 additional Pokémon will be added to wild encounters. The exact Pokémon are yet to be announced, though 6 of these 7 will be available in their Shiny variants.
• 1 additional Pokémon each will be added to One-Star and Three-Star Raids. The Pokémon added to Three-Star Raids will have the possibility of appearing in its Shiny variant.

Paid Timed Research
Trainers will be able to purchase access to event-exclusive Timed Research from the in-game store for US$2.00 (or the equivalent pricing tier in each local currency). Completing these tasks will award Trainers with Stardust, XP, 2 Lucky Eggs, and Encounters with event-themed Pokémon (see below). The tasks associated with this Timed Research must be completed and their rewards must be claimed before February 11th at 8:00pm local time.

As usual, tickets opening access to this Paid Timed Research can also be gifted to any friend with a Friendship level of Great Friends or higher.

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:

• Magikarp ⁂
• Dratini ⁂
• Shuckle ⁂
• Fennekin ⁂
• Skrelp ⁂
• Noibat ⁂
• Jangmo-o

Raids
The following Pokémon will appear in raids during this event:

• One-Star Raids
  • Dratini ⁂
  • Deino ⁂
  • Goomy ⁂
• Three-Star Raids
  • Druddigon ⁂
  • Turtonator ⁂
  • Drampa ⁂

Field Research Task Encounters
Completing event-themed Field Research tasks will award Trainers with encounters with the following Pokémon:

• Dratini ⁂
• Trapinch ⁂
• Swablu ⁂
• Gible ⁂
• Darumaka ⁂
• Druddigon ⁂
• Deino ⁂
• Skrelp ⁂
• Tyrunt ⁂
• Goomy ⁂
• Turtonator ⁂
• Drampa ⁂