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Pokémon Go’s Festival of Colors brings Mega Medicham, Bruxish debuts

Here’s everything you need to know about Festival of Colors 2023

Marco Wutz

Pokémon Go’s Festival of Colors brings Mega Medicham, Bruxish debuts
Pokémon Go’s Festival of Colors brings Mega Medicham, Bruxish debuts /

Contents

  1. Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: start time
  2. Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: bonuses
  3. Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: wild encounters
  4. Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: raids
  5. Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: research and challenge

Niantic has announced the Festival of Colors 2023 event for Pokémon Go, which will follow up on this weekend’s Catch Mastery. It’s the second outing for this event, which first debuted last year, and will have two Pokémon’s first appearances in the mobile game in store: Bruxish and Mega Medicham enter the stage.

As usual, it features a variety of bonuses, boosted Pokémon spawn rates, and raid battles as well.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Festival of Colors 2023 in Pokémon Go.

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors header.
Mega Medicham celebrates its debut during Festival of Colors 2023 / Niantic

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: start time

Festival of Colors 2023 begins on March 8, 2023, at 10am local time. It’ll run for just under a week until March 14, 2023, at 8pm local time.

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: bonuses

Festival of Colors 2023 has the following bonuses in store:

  • Lure Modules remain active for three hours.
  • Shiny Smeargle may appear during snapshots.
  • Friendship levels increase twice as fast.
  • PokéStops have a colorful surprise in store.

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: wild encounters

Festival of Colors 2023 features boosted spawn rates for the following Pokémon:

  • Paras(s)
  • Krabby(s)
  • Koffing(s)
  • Natu(s)
  • Wobbuffet(s)
  • Shuckle(s)
  • Wingull(s)
  • Burmy (Plant Cloak)(s)
  • Burmy (Sand Cloak)(s)
  • Burmy (Trash Cloak)(s)
  • Stunky
  • Bruxish
  • Lickitung(s)
  • Galarian Zigzagoon(s)

Pokémon marked with (s) may be encountered in their Shiny version.

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: raids

Festival of Colors 2023 has the following raid battles in store:

  • 1-Star Raids:
    • Espurr(s)
    • Rockruff(s)
    • Mareanie
    • Bruxish
  • 3-Star Raids:
    • Exeggcutor
    • Alolan Exeggcutor(s)
    • Cryogonal
    • Druddigon(s)
  • 5-Star Raids:
    • Ho-Oh(s)
  • Mega Raids:
    • Mega Medicham(s)

Pokémon Go Festival of Colors: research and challenge

Festival of Colors 2023 will feature exclusive Field Research Tasks, which we’ll give you a detailed overview of once the event has begun. For now, here are the Pokémon you’ll be able to encounter as a reward:

  • Alolan Grimer(s)
  • Castform(s)
  • Castform (Sunny)(s)
  • Castform (Rain)(s)
  • Castform (Snowy)(s)
  • Burmy (Plant Cloak)(s)
  • Burmy (Sand Cloak)(s)
  • Burmy (Trash Cloak)(s)
  • Oricorio (Baile)
  • Oricorio (Pom-Pom)
  • Oricorio (Pa’u)
  • Oricorio (Sensu)

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to encounter all Oricorio styles in Field Research Tasks. You will only find the style that’s “natural” to your respective region.

A Collection Challenge is also available during the event, allowing you to earn a Lure Module as well as 20,000 XP for completing it.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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