Pokemon Go Friendship Day announced: date & time, Lucky Pokemon, 100,000 XP, more

Niantic has announced Pokemon Go’s first ever Friendship Day. The new annual event will offer players a boosted chance at trading Lucky Pokemon, as well as a collection challenge worth 100,000 XP! Here is everything you need to know.

Go is celebrating the Pokemon series’ 25th anniversary with itsSeason of Legends.The three-month long event takes a look back at the franchise’s most popular characters and Trainers.

Pokemon Go Friendship Day

FollowingRivals’ Weekin April 2021, Niantic has announced a new annual event will make its debut called Friendship Day. Here is what we know about the special single-day festival.

Pokemon Go Friendship Day date & start time

Since the game’s launch in 2016, Go has put a heavy emphasis on friends playing together – whether that is two players meeting up in real life or your buddy Pokemon which follows you around the map.

It’s fitting then that the mobile title is now getting an entire holiday event dedicated to it. Friendship Day will make its debut on Saturday,April 24from11:00 AMto2:00 PMlocal time.

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The special celebration will feature Grass-type Pokemon spawns. While only three hours long, users will not want to miss out on this as the festivities will give Trainers an easy way to score a mind-blowing amount of XP.

Pokemon Go Friendship Day features

Pokemon Go Friendship Day spawns

WhileNiantichas yet to release the full roster of Pokemon that will have boosted Spawn rates during Friendship Day, we have a short list of  characters that are featured on the event’s promotional image.

As we get closer to the event, we will update this hub with all the ‘mon featured in the celebration.

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