Pokemon GOis constantly introducing and rotating events in-game through the live-service format, with a huge range of different celebrations and opportunities occurring throughout Dual Destiny. While some of these events tend to be one-off opportunities based on certain themes or Pokemon Types, many others are recurring events, such as Spotlight Hours, weekly Max Monday events, and even yearly celebrations such as the likes of Halloween, Christmas, and Lunar New Year events.
InPokemon GO, the 2025 Lunar New Year eventcelebrates the Year of the Snake, featuring serpent and snake-like monsters such as Ekans, Snivy, Onix, and more. During this event, there is plenty for Trainers to participate in, such asField Research Tasks and Collection Challenges, event bonuses, and a variety of wild Pokemon to encounter and collect. However, some of these Pokemon featured throughout the eventhave received a temporary boost to their shiny rate,meaning Trainers have increased chances at such encounters. Everything you need to know about these Pokemon has been included in the guide below.
All Shiny Boosted Pokemon in Pokemon GO’s 2025 Lunar New Year Event
The2025 Lunar New Year eventinPokemon GOis available in-game for players to participate in between the dates ofJanuary 29, 2025, at 10 AM local time and July 12, 2025, at 8 PM local time. Throughout this limited-time duration, players can make the most out of many beneficial features, such as unique event bonuses, Field Research Tasks and Collection challenges to participate in and complete for handy rewards, and of course, a series of themed Pokemon that can be obtained through wild encounters, Egg hatching, research encounters, and more.
However, some of the Pokemon featured during the event have also received boostedshiny ratesfor this limited time. This means that Trainers just may be lucky enough to encounter one in the shiny variant, making it a great time to try and go shiny hunting.
The first of these Pokemon receiving boosted shiny rates isEkans, which makes sense both regarding the Year of the Snake theme, as well as the red-and-gold theme that Lunar New Year entails, as many of the other Pokemon featured throughout the event happen to have red and/or gold colored shiny palettes. During the event,Ekans can be captured in wild and research encounters, so players will need to utilize these methods for the best chance of catching a shiny variant. Lastly, if players do manage to get their hands on shiny Ekans, they may choose to evolve it into a shiny Arbok through the use of50 Candy.
The second Pokemon receiving boosted shiny rates throughout the 2025 Lunar New Year event isNosepass, which, much like Ekans, features a golden color palette in its shiny variant.Nosepass can be obtained during this event both through research encounters or by hatching 2 km Eggs,so players should maximize their opportunity of obtaining a shiny variant by utilizing both of these methods.Shiny Nosepass can be evolvedinto shiny Probobass with 50 Candy while under a Magnetic Lure Module.
