Part 2 of the GO Holidays includes two temporary researches: a Catch Challenge and a Friendship Challenge. They each consist of five tasks and completing them guarantees you an encounter with Galar mimes. This regional form of the Kanto original celebrated its debut in “Pokémon GO” in 2020 – albeit in an event with a payment barrier. Now it can be caught for free for the first time. Research on the GO holidays will run until December 31, 2021 at 8 p.m., all tasks on Galar pantimos can be found here.
Pokémon GO Holidays: Catch Challenge
- Catch ten Pokémon: ten pokeballs
- Catch 25 Pokémon: 25 Poké Balls
- Catch ten Ice-type Pokémon: ten great balls
- Catch 40 Ice-Type Pokémon: 25 great balls
- Catch nine types of Ice-Type Pokémon: 25 hyperballs
- Complete all challenges: an encounter with Galar pantimos
GO Holidays: Friendship Challenge
- Send five gifts to friends: an encounter with Pikachu with Santa hat (s)
- Trade three Pokémon with friends: an encounter with gelatini
- Send 25 gifts to friends: an encounter with Christmas Botogel (s)
- Send a gift three days in a row: a surprise encounter
- Add a new friend: three silver sanana berries
- Complete all challenges: an encounter with Galar pantimos
GO Holidays Part 2: Field Research Tasks
- Catch five Ice-Type Pokémon: an encounter with Christmas Seemops (s)
- Take three snapshots of Ice-Type Pokémon outdoors: 25 mega energy for Rexblisar
- Open five gifts: an encounter with Christmas Damhirplex (s), Christmas Petznief (s) or Pikachu with Santa hat (s)
- Hatch an egg: an encounter with Galar-Flampion (s)
- Catch seven different types of Pokémon: an encounter with Alola-Sandan (s)
- Spin the photo discs of three PokéStops or arenas: an encounter with Quiekel (s)
- Send three gifts to friends: three pokéballs, three raspberries or three sanana berries
- Incubate five eggs: a glacier lure module
All pocket monsters marked with the (s) symbol can be found in their shiny variants. Overall, there are no bad catching opportunities during the GO holidays: Be sure to get Galar pantimos and see whether a strong specimen of the Seemops jumps out – Community Day in January 2022 is dedicated to the chubby creature and delivers its final Walraisa developed a set of very powerful PvP attacks. Alola-Sandan can also be very useful in coaching matches. As for raids, Galar-Flampion’s final development is one of the strongest ice attackers and is a lucky catch.
You can find out what else is up this week in “Pokémon GO” in the weekly preview.