'Road to Kalos' is a week-long event building up to Pokémon Go’s ‘Go Tour: Kalos Global’ on 28th February and 1st March.
Running between Monday, 23rd February and Friday, 27th February (midnight to midnight local time), 'Road to Kalos' is a “rewind” of Go Tours of years’ past, with each day of the week revisiting previous Pokémon generations.
With wild spawns, Raids, featured attacks and Special Backgrounds changing each day - and in some cases, multiple times per day - it’s a busy and slightly overwhelming week. But we can help! Below is an easy-to-digest breakdown of what is happening and when.
If you want to also weigh it up against other events in the week (Max Monday, Spotlight Hour, and more) our Pokémon Go newsletter with a guide to the week ahead can help.
'Road to Kalos' schedule
What follows is a day-by-day breakdown of each day’s Pokémon, featured attacks, and their Special Backgrounds.
Important notes about 'Road to Kalos's daily rotation
From Monday to Friday, a new generation will get the spotlight, with new wild spawns, Raid encounters, featured attacks and Special Backgrounds coming into rotation. A detailed schedule that breaks down the event day-by-day follows this section, but here’s some notes before we begin:
- All mentioned wild spawns and Raids are shiny eligible.
- The wild spawns listed are only those which have been confirmed by Niantic ahead of time: there’s a decent chance other Pokémon from each generation will appear on their respective day.
- Each set of five-star Pokémon will feature in a Raid Hour that day between 6pm to 7pm. Currently active legendary Lunala is also showing up on Wednesday as part of the usual Raid Hour slot.
- For the Thursday and Friday Raid rotations, encounters will swap every hour, with the exception of the Raid Hour (6pm to 7pm) which change at the half hour mark.
- Featured Attacks from Raid Pokémon are guaranteed, apart from Roar of Time (Origin Forme Dialga), Spacial Rend (Origin Forme Palkia), and Charged Attack Glaciate (Kyurem).
- For Special Backgrounds, remember it’s only a chance you’ll receive them. Good luck getting both a shiny and a background on your desired Pokémon this week, let alone one with Roar or Time, Spacial Rend, and Glaciate. (And if you get one with poor stats after that, well, that’s what Hyper Training is for.)
- If you’re simply after new catches and aren’t worried about Special Backgrounds this week, Monday and Tuesday’s one-star raid encounters (Pikachu wearing Red’s hat, Leaf’s hat, Ethan’s hat and Lyra’s hat) are all new debuts to Pokémon Go.
- Each costumed Pikachu will also appear in Timed Research and Field Research for that given day, but will not have a chance of having a Special Background - those are Raid Pikachu exclusive.
Monday, 23rd February (Kanto / Gen 1)
- Confirmed wild spawns
- Common: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle
- Uncommon: Pikachu, Clefairy, Meowth
- Raids
- One star: Pikachu wearing Red’s hat, Pikachu wearing Leaf’s hat
- Five star: Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres
- Featured attacks when caught in Raids (all guaranteed)
- Articuno: Charged Attack Hurricane
- Zapdos: Fast Attack Thunder Shock
- Moltres: Charged Attack Sky Attack
- Special Backgrounds from Raids
- Team Mystic: Articuno or either Pikachu
- Team Instinct: Zapdos or either Pikachu
- Team Valor: Moltres or either Pikachu
Tuesday, 24th February (Johto / Gen 2)
- Confirmed wild spawns
- Common: Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile
- Uncommon: Marill, Hoppip, Teddiursa
- Raids
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Ethan’s hat, Pikachu wearing Lyra’s hat
- Five-star: Shadow Lugia, Shadow Ho-Oh
- Featured attacks when caught in Raids
- None today!
- Special Backgrounds from Raids
- Pokémon Silver: Shadow Lugia or either Pikachu
- Pokémon Gold: Shadow Ho-Oh or either Pikachu
Wednesday, 25th February (Hoenn / Gen 3)
- Confirmed wild spawns
- Common: Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip
- Uncommon: Poochyena, Taillow, Nincada
- Raids
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Brendan’s hat, Pikachu wearing May’s bow
- Five-star: Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon
- Featured attacks when caught in Raids (both guaranteed)
- Kyogre: Charged Attack Origin Pulse
- Groudon : Charged Attack Precipice Blades
- Special Backgrounds from Raids
- Pokémon Sapphire: Kyogre or either Pikachu
- Pokémon Ruby: Groudon or either Pikachu
Thursday, 26th February (Sinnoh / Gen 4)
- Confirmed wild spawns
- Common: Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup
- Uncommon: Bidoof, Shinx, Snover
- Raids (first rotation)
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Lucas’s hat, Pikachu wearing Dawn’s hat
- Five-star: Dialga, Palkia
- Raids (second rotation for ‘Space-Time Anomalies’)
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Rei’s cap, Pikachu wearing Akari’s kerchief
- Five-star: Origin Forme Dialga, Origin Forme Palkia
- Featured attacks when caught in Raids (only a chance, not guaranteed)
- Origin Forme Dialga: Charged Attack Roar of Time (also an Adventure Effect)
- Origin Forme Palkia: Charged Attack Spacial Rend (also an Adventure Effect)
- Special Backgrounds from Raids
- Pokémon Diamond: Dialga, Origin Forme Dialga, or any Pikachu
- Pokémon Pearl: Palkia, Origin Forme Palkia, Groudon or any Pikachu
Friday, 27th February (Unova / Gen 5)
- Confirmed wild spawns
- Common: Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott
- Uncommon: Lillipup, Darumaka, Gothita
- Raids (first rotation for ‘Black Kyurem’)
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Hilbert’s hat, Pikachu wearing Hilda’s hat
- Five-star: Reshiram, Black Kyurem
- Raids (second rotation for ‘White Kyurem’)
- One-star: Pikachu wearing Nate’s visor, Pikachu wearing Rosa’s visor
- Five-star: Zekrom, White Kyurem
- Featured attacks when caught in Raids
- Reshiram: Charged Attack Fusion Flare (guaranteed)
- Zekrom: Charged Attack Fusion Bolt (guaranteed)
- Kyurem: Charged Attack Glaciate (only a chance, not guaranteed)
- Special Backgrounds from Raids
- Pokémon Diamond: Dialga, Origin Forme Dialga, or any Pikachu
- Pokémon Pearl: Palkia, Origin Forme Palkia, Groudon or any Pikachu
'Road to Kalos' Special Backgrounds
One of the more appealing features of the 'Road to Kalos' event is an array of Special Backgrounds unique to each generation (or in the case of Kanto on Monday, Pokémon Go’s three teams Mystic, Instinct, and Valor) that have a chance of being appearing behind any caught one-star or five-star Raid Pokémon during the week.
The full schedule of when they appear is in the previous section, and you can see what all Special Backgrounds look like in the following image:
If you want an idea of how they will appear in-game, GoodMornEveGoodNight on reddit pulled together this image based on early datamines:
'Road to Kalos' event bonuses
The following bonuses will be active for the entire 'Road to Kalos' event, which runs midnight to midnight between Monday, 23rd February and Friday, 27th February:
- ½ Egg hatching distance
- Remote Raid Pass limit increasing to 30, and will be lifted entirely over the ‘Go Tour: Kalos Global’ weekend on Saturday, 28th February and Sunday, 1st March
- New Timed Research and Field Research refreshes each day (at 5am and midnight respectively)
- Additional bonuses appear as part of the 'Road to Kalos' Go Pass, which has both Free and Deluxe tracks, running through to the end of the ‘Go Tour: Kalos Global’ weekend:
- As well as the above bonuses, the Go Pass for 'Road to Kalos' will also offer the likes of:
- Free track rewards: Lucario with Mega Evolution Special Background encounter, a Go Tour 2026 T-shirt avatar item, and more
- Premium track rewards: Hoopa Unbound encounter, a Lucky Trinket, Zygarde Cells, Zygarde Jacket avatar item, Mega Energy for Victreebel, Malamar, and Mega Dragonite
'Road to Kalos' 2km Egg pool
During 'Road to Kalos', 2km Eggs will feature the following Pokémon. All having a chance of being shiny:
- Bagon
- Beldum
- Gible
- Larvitar
Phew, that’s a lot. As mentioned, you can also weigh up what’s happening on other events with our weekly Pokémon Go newsletter:
Also, paid One More Catch subscribers can also get more bonus articles and features for as little as £1 a week, or even less with a 10% off launch promotion across all tiers until 9th March.
