Pokémon GO’s Festival of Colors returns from March 13, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. to March 17, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. local time, bringing with it a pageant of prismatic Pokémon. Over the course of the event, Trainers will find colorful surprises nearby when approaching PokéStops. And that’s not all! As some Trainers may recall, Bruxish made its Pokémon GO debut in 2023 during the Festival of Colors—which makes it all the more fitting that it’ll be making its Shiny debut in Pokémon GO during the 2025 Festival of Colors!

A bouquet of colorful Pokémon will be appearing in the wild during the event!

• Red Flower Flabébé (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)

• Blue Flower Flabébé (Asia-Pacific region)

• Yellow Flower Flabébé (Americas)

• White Flower Flabébé

• Orange Flower Flabébé

• Drowzee

• Magikarp

• Natu

• Aipom

• Meditite

• Dwebble

• Bruxish

These event bonuses will leave you tickled pink (and probably other colors, too).

• Lure Modules activated during the event will last for three hours

• Bruxish will appear more frequently when Trainers use Incense

• Take a few snapshots during the event for a surprise—lucky Trainers may even encounter a Shiny Smeargle

• Incense (excluding Daily Adventure Incense) activated during the event will last for two hours

Paint the town red (and orange and yellow and so on) with these event raids.

• Three-Star Raids

  • Vaporeon

  • Jolteon

  • Flareon

• Five-Star Raids

  • Tapu Koko

• Mega Raids

  • Mega Swampert

Research Rainbow

You’ll want to make the most of all the research opportunities coming in the Festival of Colors, including Field Research, Timed Research, and Paid Timed Research. Complete event-themed Field Research tasks to earn Stardust and encounters with event-themed Pokémon. Trainers will have access to free Timed Research to earn one Incense, four Rare Candies, encounters with event-themed Pokémon, and more. And Paid Timed Research is available for US$2.00 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency). By completing the Paid Timed Research, Trainers will earn rewards, including two Lure Modules, four Incense, 2,000 Stardust, and encounters with Bruxish.

Enjoy the green light to adventure, Trainers!