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Pokémon Go’s big yearly event is upon us. Pokémon Go Fest 2025 comes with its usual perks, including rotating spawns and the global debut of the Crowned forms of Zacian and Zamazenta.

The Crowned forms are the main feature here, encouraging all players to hop into raids to score energy to turn their Hero of Many Battles form puppies into big dogs. This event also features the global debut for Volcanion, but only if you have the paid ticket for the event. As usual with these events, there’s a ton of perks (including increased shiny rate for wild spawns) locked up behind the $15 ticket, but free players can still take advantage of fun spawns and Crowned Zacian and Zamazenta.

Below we dive into the perks and rotating spawns for Pokémon Go Fest: Global 2025.

What time does Pokémon Go Fest start and end?

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 will run on June 28 and 29, starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m. in your local time. There are a few ticket-holder bonuses that also last outside of that time window, like the halved Stardust cost for trading, but the bulk of the good stuff will only be available from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Though you are highly encouraged to play throughout the day to make the most of your ticket purchase, and ensure you have plenty of time to complete each habitat’s Collection Challenges, even if you only log in once each day, you will unlock the Special Research to complete at your leisure.

Note that Zamazenta will be in raids on Saturday, June 28 and Zacian will be in raids on Sunday, June 29, so if you want both dogs, you’ll need to raid on both days.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 habitat spawn schedule

Image: Niantic

These habitats will rotate all throughout the event (which is a change from last year, where they only rotated on Saturday), even if you don’t have a ticket. Each habitat will rotate in twice per day and be around for an hour before it rotates out.

This time, each day also has additional spawns that will be around in addition to the rotating habitats.

It should also be noted that the costume-wearing Pikachu and Falinks (as seen in the above image) are not listed as an available spawn on the Pokémon Go website. They are available through other means. Falinks appears to be a raid and Field Research exclusive and Pikachu can be obtained via raids, Field Research, and photobombs.

Moonless Volcano (10-11 a.m., 2-3 p.m.)

Houndour

Numel

Duskull

Gothita

Golett

Fletchling

Flabébé (red)

Skrelp

Fuecoco

Carbink

Torkoal (ticket-holder Incense only)

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny.

Galvanic Dojo (11 a.m.-12 p.m, 3-4 p.m.)

Machop

Electabuzz

Teddirusa

Scraggy

Chespin

Flabébé (yellow)

Pancham

Dedenne

Crabrawler

Mienfoo

Skiddo (ticket-holder Incense only)

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny.

Hypnotic Tundra (12-1 p.m., 4-5 p.m.)

Alolan Sandshrew

Swinub

Spheal

Piplup

Snover

Munna

Elgyem

Flabébé (blue)

Bergmite

Frigibax

Pachirisu (ticket-holder Incense only)

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny.

Fae Swamp (1-2 p.m., 5-6 p.m.)

Clefairy

Tentacool

Mawile

Gulpin

Venipede

Popplio

Mareanie

Morelull

Togetic

Flabébé (orange)

Klefki (ticket-holder Incense only)

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny, except Klefki.

Saturday all-day spawns

Chansey

Skarmory

Larvitar

Shieldon

Shelmet

Vullaby

Oranguru

Goomy

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny.

Sunday all-day spawns

Galarian Farfetch’d

Cubone

Ralts

Karrablast

Pawniard

Deino

Passimian

Jangmo-o

All of the above Pokémon can be found shiny.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025: Global ticket bonuses

If you buy the ticket for Pokémon Go Fest for $14.99, you’ll get the following:

Volcanion Special Research that allows you to catch

Special Research that allows you to power up Zacian or Zamazenta

Access to a global challenge that unlocks special bonuses every hour

Access to Collection Challenges

Special Incense encounters for Unown D, E, H, I, L, S, O, R, and W, as well as Incense encounters for Torkoal, Skiddo, Pachirisu, and Klefki

Increased chance to find shiny Pokémon

Three surprise snapshot encounters per day

Increased heart gains for buddy Pokémon

The ability to open up to 40 gifts per day

The ability to complete up to six special trades per day

Halved Stardust cost for trading

Up to nine free raid passes from spinning gym photo discs

Pokémon gated by real-money tickets usually do release for everyone, just later. If you’re not in a rush to get Volcanion or you don’t care for these other perks, you can always save your money and get the mythical Pokémon later.

Outside of that glorious shiny buff, one of the bigger perks here is access to Torkoal, Pachirisu, and Klefki, three Pokémon that are usually regional exclusives.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 event Field Research

Spinning a PokéStop during the event may yield one of these Field Research Tasks, with some of them being exclusive to certain days or habitats:

Catch 8 different species of Pokémon ( Pikachu [top hat] encounter )

Catch 10 Pokémon (10 Poké Balls, 3 Ultra Balls, or 500 Stardust)

Hatch an egg (1,000 Stardust)

Spin 5 PokéStops or gyms (10 Poké Balls, 3 Ultra Balls, 500 Stardust)

Win a raid ( Falinks [train costume] encounter )

Catch 6 steel-type Pokémon ( 3 Zamazenta Candy ) — Saturday only

Power up steel-type Pokémon 6 times ( 2 Zamazenta Candy XL or 500 Stardust) — Saturday only

Catch 6 fairy-type Pokémon ( 3 Zacian Candy ) — Sunday only

Power up fairy-type Pokémon 6 times ( 2 Zacian Candy XL or 500 Stardust) — Sunday only

Catch 6 fire-type Pokémon (Golett encounter) — Moonless Volcano only

Power up fire-type Pokémon 6 times (Carbink encounter) — Moonless Volcano only

Catch 6 fighting-type Pokémon (Pancham encounter) — Galvanic Dojo only

Power up fighting-type Pokémon 6 times (Mienfoo encounter) — Galvanic Dojo only

Catch 6 ice-type Pokémon (Bergmite encounter) — Hypnotic Tundra only

Power up ice-type Pokémon 6 times (Frigibax encounter) — Hypnotic Tundra only

Catch 6 poison-type Pokémon (Mawile encounter) — Fae Swamp only

Power up poison-type Pokémon 6 times (Togetic encounter) — Fae Swamp only

The information above was compiled with help from Leek Duck.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 event special moves

Quite a few legacy moves are returning as part of Go Fest 2025. Evolving these Pokémon will net them their Community Day or event moves:

Alolan Sandshrew → Alolan Sandslash : Shadow Claw

Clefairy → Clefable : Pound

Machoke → Machamp : Stone Edge

Pupitar → Tyranitar : Smack Down

Prinplup → Empoleon : Hydro Cannon

Quilladin → Chesnaught : Frenzy Plant

Fletchinder → Talonflame : Incinerate

Brionne → Primarina : Hydro Cannon

Crocalor → Skeledirge: Blast Burn

It also seems like caught Pokémon will also know these moves. We can confirm we had a Tyranitar spawn off of an Incense and it knew Smack Down.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 event egg hatches

Eggs you get during the event may have a chance to hatch the following. Keep in mind that all players will have access to these 2 km eggs, but only ticket-holders will get these 5 km eggs:

Karrablast (2 km)

Shelmet (2 km)

Golett (2 km)

Pawniard (2 km)

Vullaby (2 km)

Pancham (2 km)

Flabébé (blue/red/yellow/orange) (2 km)

Oranguru (2 km)

Passimian (2 km)

Togepi (5 km)

Torkoal (5 km)

Pachirisu (5 km)

Mienfoo (5 km)

Skiddo (5 km)

Carbink (5 km)

Goomy (5 km)

Klefki (5 km)

Jangmo-o (5 km)

Frigibax (5 km)

All of the above Pokémon can be hatched shiny except Klefki.

Pokémon Go Fest 2025 event raid targets

The following Pokémon will be appearing in raids during the event:

1-star raids 3-star raids 5-star raids Pikachu (top hat) Falinks (train costume) Crowned Shield Zamazenta (Saturday) Frigibax Crowned Sword Zacian (Sunday)