Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ 2024 event guide

As part of the Pokémon Go “Holiday Part 1” event for 2024, festive Dedenne and shiny Sandygast makes their debut. We list the bonuses in our guide.

By Julia Lee

This article references relevant content from the polygon.com website. Original article link: [https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-go-guide/497604/holiday-part-1-2024-dedenne-timed-research]

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ 2024 event guide
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Pokémon Go is kicking off the festive season with part one of its yearly holiday event from Dec. 17-22 — called, suitably, “Holiday Part 1.”

The event also features two pretty good bonuses: doubled XP from catching Pokémon and halved hatch distance for eggs put into incubators during the event. Shiny Sandygast also makes its debut during this event, alongside a special Dedenne in a holiday outfit.

Below we list all the perks and bonuses for Pokémon Go’s “Holiday Part 1” 2024 event.

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ event Timed Research and reward

If you complete this research before the event ends, you’ll get a special reward. The research branches between two choices: helping Spark or finding Sierra. If you help Spark, you’ll focus more on ice-type Pokémon and you’ll get an Alolan Vulpix. If you look for Sierra, you’ll focus on fire-type Pokémon and you’ll get a shadow Kantonian Vulpix.

Which branch should you pick, Spark or Sierra? It largely doesn’t matter. If you like collecting shadow Pokémon, you may want to grab the Shadow Vulpix from Sierra, but neither versions of these Vulpix (nor their evolutions, Ninetales) are used for any meta, so it doesn’t particularly make a difference.

Rewards: 1,000 Stardust, 1,000 XP

Rewards: Alolan/shadow Vulpix encounter, 2,000 XP

Rewards: Sandygast encounter, 3,000 XP, 2,000 Stardust

Rewards: 2,500 Stardust

Pokémon Go Holiday Part 1’ event Collection Challenges

The following Collection Challenges will be live throughout the duration of the event:

Rewards: 2,000 Stardust, 15 Great Balls

Rewards: 2,000 Stardust, 15 Great Balls

Rewards: 10 Poké Balls, 10 Great Balls

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ event Field Research and rewards

Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ event boosted spawns

These Pokémon will spawn more frequently during the event period:

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ event egg hatches

These Pokémon have a chance to hatch from any 7 km eggs obtained during the event:

Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ event raid targets

The following changes to the raid schedule and Max Battle schedule will take place as part of the event: