Pokemon GO Wild Area: Schedule, event bonuses, and more

Pokemon GO Wild Area is due to start worldwide in less than a day and trainers are gearing up to face its challenges and reap the rewards. The occasion will mark the global debut of Toxtricity, Dynamax Toxtricity, and Gigantamax Toxtricity. Trainers will also have a chance to encounter Mighty Pokemon in Pokemon GO during the event.

We have gathered all the available information regarding the upcoming Pokemon GO celebration in the article below.

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Pokemon GO Wild Area event overview

Toxtricity arrives in all its glory (Image via Niantic)

Schedule, event bonuses, and Pokemon debuts

Wild Area will be active on Saturday, November 23, 2024, and Sunday, November 24, 2024, from 10 am local time to 6.15 pm local time. The event bonuses are as follows:

General

• Lure Modules activated will last for two hours
• Chance to catch Pokémon with a Special Background after winning Max Battles against Toxtricity or winning four-star, five-star, and Primal Raids
• Field Research themed around the different Pokémon habitats
• One GO Snapshot surprise event encounter per day—when taking snapshots during the event, you never know who might show up!
• Daily limit for collecting Max Particles increased to 1,600
• No Remote Raid limit from Friday, November 22, to Sunday, November 24, 2024

Trainers can pick up a Wild Area Global ticket from the in-game shop. You can learn more about it here.

Ticket-exclusive

• 2× Catch Candy
• 1/2 Hatch Distance for Eggs placed in Incubators during the event
• 2× Hatch Stardust
• 2× Hatch XP
• 2× Hatch Candy
• Up to 5 Raid Passes per day by spinning Photo Discs at Gyms
• 5,000 Additional XP from completed Raids
• 3 Additional Candy XL from Pokémon in four-star, five-star, Mega Raids, Ultra Beast Raids, and Primal Raids
• Up to 6 Special Trades can be made each day
• Reduced Stardust cost for trades
• Three GO Snapshot surprise event encounters per day—when taking snapshots during the event, you never know who might show up!
• Increased Max Particles from Power Spots and exploration
• Daily limit for collecting Max Particles increased to 3,200
• Increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon
• Level up your Elite Collector medal by completing themed Collection Challenges!

Toxtricity will make its global debut in Pokemon GO with this event. Its Dynamax and Gigantamax forms will also be available in Max Raids. During Wild Area, trainers will also be able to hatch Toxel (shiny variant available) from 10 km eggs.

Mighty Pokemon are coming (Image via Niantic)

Mighty Pokemon and Safari Ball

Mighty Pokemon will be available during Pokemon GO Wild Area, with the following traits:

• More likely to have high Attack, Defense, and HP ratings
• More likely to be XL or XXL
• More difficult to capture
• Encounters will show “!!!” instead of CP

Shiny encounters of these Mighty Pokemon will also be available to lucky trainers. The new Pokemon GO Safari Balls will make things significantly easier for players to capture these unique variants of pocket monsters.

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GO Safari Ball: Extra Access Ticket (costing US$2.00) can be purchased from the webstore. It provides one Timed Research task every hour rewarding trainers with four extra GO Safari Balls.

Pikachu unique costumes (Image via Niantic)

Snorlax and Pikachu in unique cosmetics

The following will be making their global debuts during the Wild Area event:

• Snorlax Studded Jacket: How to get Snorlax Studded Jacket in Pokemon GO, and can it be shiny?
• Pikachu Pop Star: How to get Pikachu Pop Star in Pokemon GO, and can it be shiny?
• Pikachu Rock Star: How to get Pikachu Rock Star in Pokemon GO, and can it be shiny?

Electric- or Poison-type (Image via Niantic)

Wild encounters and raids

The following event-themed pocket monsters will appear in two unique habitats that will rotate hourly during Wild Area:

Electric Hour

• Alolan Geodude (shiny encounter available)
• Magnemite (shiny encounter available)
• Voltorb (shiny encounter available)
• Hisuian Voltorb (shiny encounter available)
• Electabuzz (shiny encounter available)
• Electrike (shiny encounter available)
• Shinx (shiny encounter available)
• Blitzle (shiny encounter available)
• Joltik (shiny encounter available)
• Tynamo (shiny encounter available)
• Stunfisk (shiny encounter available)
• Helioptile (shiny encounter available)

Poison Hour

• Bulbasaur (shiny encounter available)
• Bellsprout (shiny encounter available)
• Tentacool (shiny encounter available)
• Spinarak (shiny encounter available)
• Paldean Wooper (shiny encounter available)
• Qwilfish (shiny encounter available)
• Hisuian Qwilfish (shiny encounter available)
• Skorupi (shiny encounter available)
• Croagunk (shiny encounter available)
• Venipede (shiny encounter available)
• Skrelp (shiny encounter available)
• Mareanie (shiny encounter available)

The following Mighty Pokemon have a chance of spawning:

Saturday

• Pidgeot (shiny encounter available)
• Golem (shiny encounter available)
• Gyarados (shiny encounter available)
• Luxray (shiny encounter available)
• Scolipede (shiny encounter available)
• Galvantula (shiny encounter available)
• Tyrantrum (shiny encounter available)
• Toxapex (shiny encounter available)

Sunday

• Venusaur (shiny encounter available)
• Poliwrath (shiny encounter available)
• Dragonite (shiny encounter available)
• Feraligatr (shiny encounter available)
• Electivire (shiny encounter available)
• Mamoswine (shiny encounter available)
• Eelektross (shiny encounter available)
• Dragalge (shiny encounter available)

The following Wild Area raid bosses will be available in-game:

3-star raids

Saturday

• Studded Jacket Snorlax (shiny encounter available)
• Luxray (shiny encounter available)
• Scolipede (shiny encounter available)

Sunday

• Venusaur (shiny encounter available)
• Studded Jacket Snorlax (shiny encounter available)
• Electivire (shiny encounter available)

4-star raids

• Toxtricity in Amped Form (shiny encounter available)
• Toxtricity in Low Key Form (shiny encounter available)

5-star raids

• Origin Forme Dialga (shiny encounter available)
• Origin Forme Palkia (shiny encounter available)

Primal Raids

• Primal Kyogre (shiny encounter available)
• Primal Groudon (shiny encounter available)

Max Battles

• Dynamax Drilbur (shiny encounter available)
• Dynamax Toxtricity in Amped Form (shiny encounter available)
• Dynamax Toxtricity in Low Key Form (shiny encounter available)
• Gigantamax Toxtricity in 6-star Max Battles (shiny encounter available)

Wild Area cosmetics (Image via Niantic)

Other features

Featured Attacks for specific evolutions, Special Backgrounds, and plenty more await in Wild Area for Pokemon GO trainers. Furthermore, Niantic is testing a new feature, where trainers can remotely join raid battles that their in-game friends are a part of.

The following are also available:

• Wild Area Timed Research and Field Research
• Wild Area Collection Challenges
• Wild Area Special Research An Accomplished Trainer

Stickers, avatar items, and more such cosmetics will also be present in the Pokemon GO Wild Area. Readers are advised to keep a close look at Sportskeeda's coverage to keep abreast of whatever's happening.

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