A Detailed Guide to All Festival of Lights Event Features in Pokemon GO

The Pokemon GO Festival of Lights event is offering a delightful array of Shiny encounters, in-game items, and additional bonuses for players. This event introduces new wild spawns, egg hatches, and Research tasks to keep trainers engaged. Additionally, players can anticipate the debut of new Shiny Pokemon, with Shiny Morelull and its evolution, Shiny Shiinotic, making their first appearance.
Starting on November 7, 2023, at 10:00 AM and running until November 12, 2023, at 8:00 PM local time, the Festival of Lights brings an exciting roster of Electric and Fire-type Pokemon. Notably, EleTadpole Pokemon Tadbulb and its Evolution, Bellibolt, will make their debut during this event. The event will feature a variety of Fire and Electric-type Pokemon as Incense encounters, Egg hatches, and wild spawns. Here’s a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the Festival of Lights event and the highlighted Pokemon.
Pokemon GO Festival of Lights – All Incense Encounters

The Festival of Light event provides players with opportunities to encounter various Pokemon through different methods. While some Pokemon, along with their Shiny variants, can be found as wild spawns and Egg hatches, others are accessible through Pokemon GO Incense. By using Incense during the event, trainers can increase the spawn rate of specific Fire and Electric-type Pokemon. Below is a list of all the Pokemon you can encounter through Incense during the event.
All Incense Spawns
- Alolan Geodude (Shiny available)
- Hisuian Voltorb (Shiny unavailable)
- Slugma (Shiny available)
- Volbeat (Shiny available)
- Illumise (Shiny available)
- Blitzle (Shiny available)
- Litwick (Shiny available)
- Litleo (Shiny available)
- Dedenne (Shiny available)
- Morelull (Shiny available)
- Tadbulb (Shiny unavailable)
Pokemon GO Festival of Lights – All Wild Spawns

In addition to Incense encounters, Festival of Lights participants can also discover a range of Fire and Electric-type Pokemon in the wild. Since these Pokemon appear as wild spawns, you can utilize Pokemon GO Lure Modules at PokeStops or Gyms to attract more of them. The boosted spawn rate during the event provides an excellent opportunity to encounter Shiny Pokemon. Trainers also have a chance to encounter the debutant Pokemon, Tadbulb, in the wild. Here’s a list of all the Pokemon available through wild spawns.
Wild Spawns
- Pikachu (Shiny available)
- Vulpix (Shiny available)
- Ponyta (Shiny available)
- Magnemite (Shiny available)
- Voltorb (Shiny available)
- Chinchou (Shiny available)
- Mareep (Shiny available)
- Slugma (Shiny available)
- Electrike (Shiny available)
- Litwick (Shiny available)
- Morelull (Shiny available)
- Tadbulb (Shiny unavailable)
Pokemon GO Festival of Lights – All 7 KM Egg Hatches

During the Festival of Lights event, players can hatch a variety of Fire and Electric-type Pokemon from 7 KM Eggs. Additionally, there’s a chance of hatching a Shiny Pokemon from these eggs. Notably, Morelull hatched from in-game Eggs have a higher likelihood of being Shiny compared to wild Morelull. Here’s a list of all the Pokemon that can be hatched from 7 KM Eggs during the event.
Egg Hatches
- Elekid (Shiny available)
- Magby (Shiny available)
- Dedenne (Shiny available)
- Morelull (Shiny available)




