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Pokémon Go’s “Road to Unova” event is a lead-in to the upcoming Go Tour: Unova event, and it’s a big one. The event runs from Feb. 24 until March 1 (until Go Tour: Unova starts at 10 a.m. in your local time) and features a whole ton of Legendary Pokémon, Timed Research, and other perks to help hype up the weekend.

Notably, any eggs put into Incubators during the event will get halved hatch distance and the remote raid limit has increased to 20 until Feb. 28. (During Go Tour: Unova, the remote raid limit will be removed entirely.)

All of this stuff is launching alongside the shiny Meloetta Special Research and the new Go Tour Pass feature, so it can be overwhelming, but as usual, we’ve got your back.

Below, we’ve detailed all the perks and bonuses for Pokémon Go’s “Road to Unova” event, including the free and paid Timed Research, boosted spawns, raids, and more.

Update (Feb. 26): Added mention of the free duplicate research giveaway in the ‘Timed Research and rewards’ section.

Pokémon Go ‘Road to Unova’ event Timed Research and rewards

There are three sets of Timed Research for this event, with one being free and the other two being paid. Let’s go over them one by one! As usual, all of these research sets expire when the Go Tour: Unova hype is over on March 2 at 6 p.m. in your local time.

‘Road to Unova: Raids’ free Timed Research and rewards

This is the free research and it pretty much just gives you “free” legendaries in exchange for doing raids. It doesn’t have to be a legendary raid or anything, so you should use your two free passes a day to at least do some easy soloable raids (if you’re not heading out to nab the five-star targets), just to get some freebie Legendaries and candy.

‘Road to Unova: Raids’ (free) step 1 of 1

Rewards: 10 Reshiram Candy, 10 Zekrom Candy, 10 Kyurem Candy

Note: If you are seeing the above Timed Research duplicated and autocompleted, you’re not alone, as Niantic has compensated all players with the giveaway due to a bug at the start of the event. Just make sure you grab the free 11 (!) legendary encounters before Go Tour: Unova Global starts on Friday!

‘Road to Unova: Raids’ premium Timed Research and rewards

This is the paid research, though confusingly enough it has the same name as the above free set. This pass costs $4.99 and gives you a whole ton of XL candy for Legendary Pokémon featured during the event. It also gives you a few bonuses including bonus 5,000 XP per completed raid, an additional candy and candy XL from Legendaries caught in raids, doubled Stardust from raids, and an additional free raid pass from spinning gym discs (up to three from two).

Is the raid premium pass worth it? Yes, but only if you are trying to power up the featured Legendary Pokémon, you care about the “Black and White Joggers” cosmetic, and/or you plan on taking advantage of the raid bonuses. The free passes you get are worth 500 coins, which is less than $5 worth of Poké Coins, so the value here mainly would come from the candy, joggers, and raid bonuses.

You can see the steps below.

‘Road to Unova: Raids’ (premium) step 1 of 1

Rewards: 10 Reshiram Candy, 10 Zekrom Candy, Black and White Joggers cosmetic

‘Road to Unova: Hatch’ premium Timed Research and rewards

This set of research is also $5 and it focuses on hatching eggs to get regional Pokémon: Maractus, Bouffalant, and Sigilyph. You’ll also get some egg-related bonuses, including doubled hatch XP, doubled hatch candy, and doubled hatch Stardust.

Is the hatch premium pass worth it? No, unless you really need these Pokémon as part of your Pokédex — and even then, they’ll be obtainable via 10 km eggs during the Go Tour: Unova event.

I would only buy this ticket if you plan on hatching a lot of eggs this week or if you really like the “Black and White Hoodie” cosmetic. (Even so, I can’t genuinely recommend anyone to buy a ticket that relies so heavily on hatching eggs, which are the closest thing Pokémon Go has to loot boxes. Sure, the idea of getting a swath of Charcadet or Larvesta Candy may be exciting, but it’s all fun and games until you end up with a bunch of Carbink.)

You can see the steps below.

‘Road to Unova: Hatch’ (premium) step 1 of 1

Rewards: 4,000 Stardust, 1 Super Incubator, Black and White Hoodie cosmetic

Pokémon Go ‘Road to Unova’ event Field Research and rewards

Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:

Pokémon Go ‘Road to Unova’ event boosted spawns

These Pokémon will spawn more frequently during the event period:

Pokémon Go ‘Road to Unova’ event egg hatches

These Pokémon have a chance to hatch from any 2 km eggs obtained during the event:

Pokémon Go ‘Road to Unova’ event raid targets

Note that the five-star line-up will change every day and each day will have a raid hour that takes place from 6-7 p.m. in your local time featuring said Legendary. The following changes to the raid schedule will take place as part of the event:

Don’t forget to also redeem free Volt Fusion Energy and Blaze Fusion Energy codes, as well as free Incarnate Forme research codes, ahead of the Go Tour: Unova Global event starting over the weekend.