February 7, 2022

Pokémon GO Valentine’s Day 2022 Event: Flabébé appearing, Valentine’s Day–themed Collection Challenges, and more!

Pokémon GO Valentine’s Day 2022 Event:  Flabébé appearing, Valentine’s Day–themed Collection Challenges, and more!

Valentine’s Day Event

Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. to Monday, February 14, 2022, at 8:00 p.m. local time

Pokémon Debuts

Flabébé, Floette, and Florges make their debuts in Pokémon GO!

These Pokémon come in five different colors: red, yellow, orange, blue, and white.

Flabébé can evolve into Floette with 25 Flabébé Candy. Floette can evolve into Florges with 100 Flabébé Candy after you earn 20 hearts with it as your buddy.

Flabébé
Floette
Florges

Event Bonuses

Lure Module
2× Lure Module duration
Buddy Gift Icon
Your Buddy Pokémon will bring you items more often
Candy Icon
2× Catch Candy

A Global Valentine’s Challenge!

Available from Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. PST (GMT -8), to Tuesday, February 15, at 12:00 a.m. PST (GMT -8)

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, a global challenge will be ongoing throughout the event! Work with other Trainers around the world by sending Gifts to your friends. Once Trainers send enough Gifts, they’ll unlock a bonus for all Trainers for the remainder of the event!

Global Challenge Bonus: 3× Transfer Candy

Global Challenge Goal: Send 70,000,000 Gifts

A New Form Change Available

For the duration of the Valentine’s Day event, you’ll be able to change your Natural Form Furfrou to Heart Trim Furfrou!

Heart Trim Furfrou

Follow these steps to change Furfrou’s Trim.

  • Furfrou begins in its Natural Form.
  • Select Furfrou in your Pokémon storage, and then tap the Change Form button to bring up a menu that lists the available Trims.
  • Select your preferred Trim.
  • Changing your Furfrou from one Trim to any other Trim will cost 25 Furfrou Candy and 10,000 Stardust.

Collection Challenges

The event will feature two Valentine’s Day–themed Collection Challenges!

Complete the Collection Challenges to encounter a female Frillish and a male Frillish !

Special Attacks

During the event period, the following attacks will be available.

Evolve Kirlia during the event to get a Gallade or Gardevoir that knows the Charged Attack Synchronoise. Gallade and Gardevoir encountered after raids will also know Synchronoise.

Gallade
Gallade will be able to learn the Charged Attack Synchronoise.
Gardevoir
Gardevoir will be able to learn the Charged Attack Synchronoise.

Wild Encounter Icon Wild Encounters

The following Pokémon will be appearing more frequently in the wild.

Flabébé with differently colored flowers will be appearing in the wild depending on where you are in the world:

  • Red Flower Flabébé: Appearing in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
  • Blue Flower Flabébé: Appearing in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Yellow Flower Flabébé: Appearing in the Americas

If you’re lucky, you might encounter White Flower Flabébé and Orange Flower Flabébé, no matter what region you’re in.

Chansey
Plusle - Shiny Icon On
Plusle
Minun - Shiny Icon On
Minun
Volbeat
Illumise
Luvdisc
Woobat - Shiny Icon On
Woobat
Red Flower Flabébé
Blue Flower Flabébé
Yellow Flower Flabébé
Natural Form Furfrou
If you’re lucky, you might encounter the following.
Miltank
Audino
Alomomola
White Flower Flabébé
Orange Flower Flabébé
If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one!

Raid Icon Raids

The following Pokémon will be appearing in raids.

One-Star Raids Egg One-Star Raids
Miltank
Roselia
Audino
Natural Form Furfrou
Three-Star Raids Three-Star Raids
Nidoqueen
Nidoking
Lickitung
Gardevoir
Gallade
Five Star Egg Five-Star Raids
Registeel*
Mega Egg Mega Raids
Mega Houndoom - Shiny Icon On
Mega Houndoom
If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one!
*Registeel caught during this time will know the attack Zap Cannon.

Field Research Task Encounters

The following Pokémon will be available to encounter when you complete Field Research tasks!

Pikachu
Eevee
Luvdisc
Ralts
If you’re lucky, you might encounter the following.
Frillish
Frillish
Alomomola
Spinda with a heart pattern
If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one!

New Avatar Items, Stickers, and Bundles

A one-time-purchase bundle will be available in the shop for 300 PokéCoins that contains three Premium Battle Passes, 20 Poké Balls, three Lure Modules, and a Poffin.

The following new avatar items will be available to purchase in the in-game shop during this event and will continue to be available after the event ends!

  • Flabébé Hair Pin
  • Flabébé Shirt
  • Flabébé Shorts

You’ll be able to get event-themed stickers by spinning PokéStops, opening Gifts, and purchasing them from the in-game shop.

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—The Pokémon GO team