Pokemon GO Announces Power Plant Event, Debut of Helioptile

Niantic has announced that the next event called the Power Plant Event in the Season of Heritage for Pokemon GO will take place on Wednesday, January 19th, 2022, at 10am to Tuesday, February 1st, 2022, at 10am local time. This will be the debut of Helioptile and Heliolisk, too!

The event includes the next step in Spark’s journey in the Season of Heritage story. It is inspired by the power plants found in the Kanto and Kalos regions, and it lets players get involved with the following features:

• Helioptile and Heliolisk will appear for the first time in Pokémon GO.
• Trainers can encounter the following Pokémon more frequently in the wild:
  • Magnemite
  • Grimer
  • Voltorb
  • Electrode
  • Electabuzz
  • Porygon
  • Jolteon
  • Trubbish
  • Helioptile
• Five-Star Raids and Mega Raids will feature the following:
  • Genesect with a Shock Drive (January 15–24)
  • Regice and Mega Aerodactyl (January 24 – February 1)
• Trainers can complete Field Research tasks to encounter the following:
  • Voltorb
  • Magnemite
  • Joltik
  • Helioptile
  • Electrike
  • Alola
  • Grimer
  • Trubbish
  • Emolga

More details can be found in Niantic’s most recent blog post, so head there for more!

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