January 3rd is going to be a big day for Pokemon Masters EX

Summary

  • Pokemon Masters EX is launching its new “Friend-Making Battle” event on January 3rd at 1:00 AM EST with new characters and rewards.

  • The 2025 New Year versions of popular Pokemon Trainers Raihan and Poppy will appear in new sync pairs.

  • The New Year Rally 2025 campaign continues with several free rewards, including gems and New Year's tickets.

The Pokemon Company and DeNA have confirmed that the new “Friend-Making Battle” event for Pokemon Masters EX will begin on January 3rd with new characters, limited time events and much more. Pokemon Masters EX also celebrates the start of the new year with a great reward for a limited time.

Originally released as Pokemon Masters in August 2019, Pokemon Masters EX brings many of the franchise's most popular Pokémon Trainers to one place for the Champions League. In the Masters League, trainers form sync pairs with their favorite Pokémon and participate in 3-on-3 tournament battles to determine the best in the world. As a result, players are incentivized to team up with and befriend Pokémon trainers as they strive to become champions. The game regularly receives new Pokemon trainers and variants of fan-favorite characters along with new events every month. The new Friend-Making Battle event kicks off another year of support Pokemon Masters EX.

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The Pokemon Masters EX The Friend-Making Battle event begins on Friday, January 3rd at 1:00 AM EST and will feature Raihan's “New Year 2025” variants from Pokemon Sword and Shield on January 3 and Poppy from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet January 4th. Both of these Pokemon Trainers will be featured as Seasonal Sync Pair Explorers until Tuesday, January 21st at 12:59 AM EST. Paired with Sandaconda, Raihan serves as a ground-type support sync pair that can passively cause a sandstorm when hit and increase allies' evasiveness by two stages. Poppy and her Pokémon Steelix form a Steel-type sync pair that can create a steel zone when entering battle. Poppy and Steelix can also lower the opponent's attack and special attack stats while increasing allies' defense and special defense stats.

The Pokemon Masters EX Friend-Making Battle Event starts on January 3rd

The Friend-Making Battle event also includes a new story in which Raihan and Poppy participate in a friendly competition Pokemon Masters EX. Players who complete the story event will receive the Pokémon Trainer Blossom (Furisode Girl) who is paired with Kirlia. Blossom and Kirlia form their own sync pair, but it is unclear if they form a support or field sync pair.

Before the start of the event, players can log in Pokemon Masters EX get free rewards as part of the New Year Rally 2025 campaign. Similar to the past Pokemon Masters EX event, up to 5,000 free gems are distributed to all players who log in each day before January 12th at 0:59AM EST, and a total of 20 million gems are distributed to the community by January 9th at 0:59AM EST. Players who logged into the game before January 9th will receive their share of gems as a “New Year Gem Gift” item in their box starting January 14th. In addition, all players who sign up early are being distributed brand new year tickets. Jan 16 at 12:59 AM EST. These tickets can be used in the Brand New Year Ticket Exchange to get Movement Candy and Cake Coins.

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