Pokémon GO Fest 2025: Jersey City, United States

Attendees can purchase optional bonuses to enhance their gameplay. It’s possible to add these to your ticket after your initial order, so if you can’t decide right away, you can always come back to purchase an add-on later!

• 1/4 Egg Hatch Distance*
• 3× Hatch XP
• 3× Hatch Candy
• 3× Hatch Stardust

• Up to 18 daily Raid Passes by spinning Photo Discs at Gyms
• Additional 5,000 XP from completed raids
• 6 additional Candy awarded for catching Pokémon in five-star raids
• 3 additional Candy XL awarded for catching Pokémon in five-star raids (Trainers level 31+)

Extend the GO Fest fun and enjoy a city experience throughout the host city and it’s surrounding area on the extra event day—or days—of your choice! This add-on provides an additional day of the citywide gameplay experience that is available on your primary event day, with a few restrictions.

These add-ons only enable additional citywide gameplay. The Park event experience is only available on your primary event day at the time indicated on your ticket.

• Event-themed Pokémon appearing in the wild
• Increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon
• Up to 6 Special Trades per day
• 1/2 Stardust Cost for all trades
• 1/2 Hatch Distance
• Up to 9 daily Raid Passes by spinning Photo Discs at Gyms
• Event-themed Field Research tasks

Restrictions for the Citywide Gameplay add-on apply. Trainers will only receive the ticketed event Special Research once per in-person GO Fest event.

Who goes there? It’s Volcanion! For the first time in Pokémon GO, Trainers will be able to encounter the elusive Steam Pokémon.

Ticket-holding Trainers will be able to complete exclusive Special Research to learn more about the Steam Pokémon—and have an opportunity to encounter it!

Ticket-holding Trainers will only encounter Volcanion once no matter how many Pokémon GO Fest 2025 Special Research stories they acquire and complete. If you obtain more than one Special Research story that leads to Volcanion by attending multiple GO Fest events, all of the Special Research stories after the first one will award Volcanion Candy instead of an additional encounter with Volcanion.

Trainers may encounter Shiny Carbink and Shiny Frigibax during GO Fest 2025 in-person events—if they’re lucky! Don’t let the pressure get to you—the Jewel Pokémon Carbink will appear in the Sunken Treasure habitat at in-person GO Fest events.

And stay cool! The Ice Fin Pokémon Frigibax will appear in the Carnival Grounds habitat at in-person GO Fest events.

Ticket holders for 2025’s in-person Pokémon GO Fest events will get the first chance to discover Zacian and Zamazenta’s different forms in Pokémon GO!

Hawlucha—usually found only in Mexico and areas near the Mexico–United States border—will make a special appearance in each habitat at all in-person GO Fest events.

Take some snapshots while you explore the park for a cooling surprise!

Fan Rotom may appear in snapshots as a surprise encounter during in-person Pokémon GO Fest events.

Trainers can get up to three event-themed GO Snapshot surprise encounters per ticketed event day, including Citywide Gameplay add-on days.

Event-themed Pokémon will appear in unique habitats during the event! Also, for the first time in Pokémon GO, you’ll be able to encounter Shiny Carbink and Shiny Frigibax in the wild—if you’re lucky!

A map of the venue, including the habitat locations, will be available closer to the event.

Outside of Liberty State Park, Trainers playing throughout Jersey City and New York City’s five boroughs during their ticketed event hours (including Trainers with a Citywide Gameplay add-on) can encounter wild Pokémon from all habitats.

Note: Some Rockruff that Trainers hatch or encounter will be able to evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc instead of Midday Form or Midnight Form Lycanroc.

At each habitat in the park, some Trainers might even encounter the following!

They spell out SWORD and SHIELD.

Don’t confuse them! Spinda will appear at each habitat. Take a close look to see which pattern you’ve found! You can check Spinda’s Pokédex entry to see which ones you’ve caught.

• Mechanical Marvels: Spinda #5
• Carnival Grounds: Spinda #2
• Sunken Treasure: Spinda #4
• Noble Fields: Spinda #7

The Spinda in the Mechanical Marvels Habitat is only available at GO Fest 2025: Jersey City.

The following Pokémon will appear in Five-Star Raids.

Spin PokéStops to collect event-exclusive Field Research tasks and earn rewards.

Level up your Elite Collector medal by completing Collection Challenges—one for each of the four habitats!