Sinnoh Tour coming to Pokémon GO in February

February will see the return of the Pokémon GO tour, with the Sinnoh region the recipient of the event. There will be both an in person event, and an online event as is customary.

Trainers who wish to attend the in person Sinnoh Tour will have to head to Los Angeles, California. The event is being hosted at the Rose Bowl Stadium and tickets are available now.

Players will be able to pick between a Diamond or Pearl badge. The badge that each trainer pick will determine certain bonuses and rewards. The badge you pick at the in person event will carry over to the global event.

There are two parts to the tour, and the in person and online events take place at different times.

The in person part of the Sinnoh Tour is a ticketed event. Tickets cost $30, but are reduced to $25 if purchased before December 31st.

Tickets will include one day of event gameplay, but you may purchase addons that allow you to play a second day of city wide gameplay.

Event bonuses include boosted shiny odds, 9 free raid passes and half egg hatch distance.

You can purchase tickets (and any additional addons you wish) here.

Currently, the Global Tour will be totally free to play and will not have a purchasable event ticket. In the past, there has been a ticket that gives holders additional bonuses during the event. This has often included boosted shiny odds.

It seems that there will not be any boost to shiny odds for the Global Tour. Those wishing to hunt Shiny Pokémon will have to head to Los Angeles if they want improved odds.

The Global event will feature three bonuses:

Traditionally, a Pokémon GO Tour will release all the remaining shiny Pokémon that have not yet entered the game. For the Sinnoh Tour, that means we are getting shiny debuts for:

As part of the spacial anomalies, we are also getting some Hisuian shiny debuts for:

Of course, all other Pokémon spawning will also be able to be shiny! Wild spawns will work in Habitats, with the online Global event seeing habitats rotate every hour like we saw at GO Fest.

The four habitats will be:

The Boardwalk and Toxic Digs habitat will feature Pikachu wearing Lucas's or Dawn's Hat.

There will be raid bosses at both the in person and global portions of the Tour.

Five Star Raids:

Some trainers spotted an image that showed Dialga and Palkia in their Origin Formes. It was swifty deleted and replaced. It has now been confirmed that these will be in the game.

One Star Raids:

The Global event will also have three star raids:

Three Star Raids:

The last thirty minutes of the in person GO Tour, and the Ancient Grove and Geothermal Lagoon habitat hours during the online GO Tour will feature Spacial Anomaly raids.

Five Star Raids:

Three Star Raids:

One Star Raids:

There will be a range of Sinnoh Pokémon hatching in Eggs, and Incense will attract several letters of Unown to spell Sinnoh.

Incense Unowns:

2km Eggs:

5km Eggs:

10km Eggs:

There will also be a new Masterwork Research coming with the Sinnoh Tour in Pokémon GO. This is an optional paid ticket that leads to an encounter with Shiny Shaymin. Masterwork Research is long and arduous to complete.

Those who attend the in person Sinnoh Tour will get an easier Masterwork Research.