Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Launches First 2025 Event, Celebrating Year of the Snake

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will celebrate the start of 2025 with a new snake-themed event. As the current «main series» game, has diligently kept players entertained with a series of different events. Typically, these events fall into one of two categories — Mass Outbreak events or Raid events. The former adds Mass Outbreaks of various Pokémon species to the game's three maps (often with a higher chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon), while the latter adds challenging raid battles like the recently concluded Shiny Rayquaza event.

This weekend, will host a new Mass Outbreak event to celebrate 2025 as the Year of the Snake. Mass Outbreaks will appear in all three of's regions, with Silicobra appearing more often in Mass Outbreaks in Paldea, Ekans appearing in Kitakami, and Seviper appearing in the Blueberry Academy. All three Pokémon species will have a higher likelihood of being Shiny while appearing in Mass Outbreaks. The new Mass Outbreak event will run from 00:00 UTC on January 10th (7 PM ET on January 9th) through 23:59 UTC on January 12th (7 PM ET on January 12th).

Currently, the Year of the Snake Mass Outbreak event is the only event announced for in 2025. However, several events willlikely take place at some point in the future. For one, we'll likely get some kind of raid event featuring the Legendary Paradox Pokémon featured in the, similar to the Paradox Pokémon raids that took place in 2023. We could also see events featuring Pokémon from, especially in the lead-up to the upcoming game.

The latest Pokémon event in Scarlet and Violet is now live, with the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza leading the charge with more shiny Pokémon to catch.

While will be released at some point in 2025, expect to see events similar to the Mass Outbreak events continue in. Assuming that has a similar build/battle system to, will continue to use as their official game for competitive events, which means that more events will continue until the release of Gen 10 games sometime in the future.

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