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Pokmon Gos Road to Unova event is a lead-in to the upcoming Go Tour: Unova event, and its 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 Pokmon, 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, weve got your back.Below, weve detailed all the perks and bonuses for Pokmon Gos 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.Pokmon Go Road to Unova event Timed Research and rewardsThere are three sets of Timed Research for this event, with one being free and the other two being paid. Lets 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 rewardsThis is the free research and it pretty much just gives you free legendaries in exchange for doing raids. It doesnt 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 youre 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 1Win a raid (Terrakion encounter)Win 2 raids (Cobalion encounter)Win 3 raids (Virizion encounter)Win 4 raids (Tornadus [Therian forme] encounter)Win 5 raids (Thundurus [Therian forme] encounter)Win 6 raids (Landorus [Therian forme] encounter)Win 7 raids (Genesect encounter)Win 8 raids (Genesect [Burn] encounter)Win 9 raids (Genesect [Douse] encounter)Win 10 raids (Genesect [Shock] encounter)Win 11 raids (Genesect [Chill] encounter)Rewards: 10 Reshiram Candy, 10 Zekrom Candy, 10 Kyurem CandyNote: If you are seeing the above Timed Research duplicated and autocompleted, youre 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!Trainers, thanks for your patience. We resolved the issue preventing Raids from progressing towards Raid-related Timed Research. To make up for this, a free duplicate of the Road to Unova: Raids Timed Research will be granted to all Trainers globally. Trainers who purchase the Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) February 26, 2025Road to Unova: Raids premium Timed Research and rewardsThis 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 Pokmon 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 Pokmon, 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 Pok 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 1Win a raid (5 Terrakion Candy XL)Win 2 raids (5 Cobalion Candy XL)Win 3 raids (5 Virizion Candy XL)Win 4 raids (5 Tornadus [Therian forme] Candy XL)Win 5 raids (5 Thundurus [Therian forme] Candy XL)Win 6 raids (5 Landorus [Therian forme] Candy XL)Win 7 raids (5 Genesect Candy XL)Win 8 raids (5 Genesect Candy XL)Win 9 raids (5 Genesect Candy XL)Win 10 raids (5 Genesect Candy XL)Win 11 raids (5 Genesect Candy XL)Rewards: 10 Reshiram Candy, 10 Zekrom Candy, Black and White Joggers cosmeticRoad to Unova: Hatch premium Timed Research and rewardsThis set of research is also $5 and it focuses on hatching eggs to get regional Pokmon: Maractus, Bouffalant, and Sigilyph. Youll 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 Pokmon as part of your Pokdex and even then, theyll 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 cant genuinely recommend anyone to buy a ticket that relies so heavily on hatching eggs, which are the closest thing Pokmon Go has to loot boxes. Sure, the idea of getting a swath of Charcadet or Larvesta Candy may be exciting, but its 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 1Hatch an egg (Maractus encounter)Hatch 2 eggs (Bouffalant encounter)Hatch 3 eggs (Sigilyph encounter)Hatch 4 eggs (Maractus encounter)Hatch 5 eggs (Bouffalant encounter)Hatch 6 eggs (Sigilyph encounter)Rewards: 4,000 Stardust, 1 Super Incubator, Black and White Hoodie cosmeticPokmon Go Road to Unova event Field Research and rewardsSpinning a PokStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:Hatch 2 eggs (Roggenrola, Timburr, Karrablast, or Shelmet encounter)Spin 10 PokStops or gyms (Snivy, Tepig, or Oshawott encounter)Pokmon Go Road to Unova event boosted spawnsThese Pokmon will spawn more frequently during the event period:SnivyServineTepigPigniteOshawottDewottPokmon Go Road to Unova event egg hatchesThese Pokmon have a chance to hatch from any 2 km eggs obtained during the event:RoggenrolaTimburrKarrablastShelmetLarvestaPokmon Go Road to Unova event raid targetsNote 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 theraid schedulewill take place as part of the event:One-star raidsThree-star raidsFive-star raidsSnivyDruddigonGenesect (Feb. 24)TepigCobalion, Terrakion, Virizion (Feb. 25)OshawottTornadus, Thundurus, Landorus (Therian) (Feb. 26)Reshiram (Feb. 27)Zekrom (Feb. 28)Dont 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.