Pokemon Go is celebrating Christmas by introducing players to a new Fiery Pokemon known as “Heatran” as a raid boss over the holidays. According to Niantic’s post on Twitter, Heatran, the legendary fire and steel type lava dome Pokemon will be rolled out as a raid boss from now until 15 January 2019.
One more legendary surprise is coming to Pokémon GO in 2018! The Fire- and Steel-type Lava Dome Pokémon, Heatran, will join Raid Battles across the world from December 18 at 1:00 p.m. PST to January 15 at 1:00 p.m. PST! #BeLegendary pic.twitter.com/hd9d6cG293
— Pokémon GO is ready to #GOBattle❗ (@PokemonGoApp) December 18, 2018
Raid battles in Pokemon Go are special challenges that require a groups of players to work together in order to defeat a boss Pokemon to earn a chance to capture the rare creature. Other than that, Niantic have also announced that there will be ice-type Pokemon along with several other new species of Pokemons that will become more common which will appear in the game from now until 2 January 2019.
According to Niantic, there’ll also be holiday-ready Pokemons making an appearance in the game such as Pikachu wearing a Christmas hat. Besides that, the delivery Pokemon Delibird will also make a return to the game.
To top it all off, there’s also bonuses included such as double candy for catching and transferring Pokemon from 18 to 22 December, double stardust when catching a Pokemon from 22 to 26 December, double experience points when catching a Pokemon from 26 to 30 December, and egg incubators will be doubled from 30 December 2018 to 2 January 2019.
