Before things are lost even further and need to be found, there is the rollup of Pokémon Go events for this month to be made. As the events that kick off a season called "Precious Paths", they could be considered to start to pave those paths and bring forth a few appreciable things for those who still play the game. Yet it also comes at the end of the year, so there is that fact to be factored into the events - and therefore the paths and appreciation as well, which this rollup serves to unfold in some way.
Starting off the month and this season was a path into a familiar recent region, as the Journey to Paldea event from December 2 to 9. The highlight of this event was the debut of the Nacli species family, a rocky and salty one. With double XP bonuses for raids and evolving, selected species appeared on alternate days to be caught for two Collection Challenges rewarding Larvitar and Bagon, with these two Shiny boosted. Other Pokémon of the region also appeared in raids and Field Research encounters, while the paid extra had small bonuses and even more encounters. This event was also complemented by a Go Battle Week from December 4 to 7, as well as the separately explained Community Day; with that, it becomes a culmination to and mingling of several paths.
In this month, it was also time to pep up and prep up, and that came by the Well Armed event from December 11 to 16. That's because the event featured Fighting types, along with the debut of the Clobbopus family. That had to occur by way of completing a Global Challenge about Max Battles, which also rewarded other species in the wild and Candy bonuses from those battles, complementing the event's double Candy bonus. Meanwhile, those Max Battles also offered Dynamax Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan, with an associated Shiny boost. Other Pokémon in the wild and Field Research encounters were of the Fighting and occasional Water types, and the paid extra had Candy and Max Particle bonuses among others. Once pepped and prepped, Trainers could also take on Gigantamax Snorlax again in a Max Battle Day on December 14 with all the usual perks. Of course, the pep and prep could be construed to be in more than one way for the present time.
As is expected of this time of the year, the holidays are at hand and so is the Winter Holidays event, of which Part 1 took place from December 17 to 24. For this year, Sudowoodo and Charjabug come to enliven things, the former with a tree costume and the latter with a tree costume, able to evolve to Vikavolt. They can be raided for and in this part also caught in the wild, along with a bevy of seasonal and Ice-type Pokémon. In the Egg department, 7 km Eggs also have seasonal(-costumed) Pokémon, some of which in this part also got a Shiny boost. A few of the seasonal Pokémon also appear in Field Research encounters. This first part also introduces a Go Pass with the usual free and premium tracks to last through the entire holiday period, with lots of encounters, items, and bonuses, especially for those who pay for the premium track, as well as new avatar items with the new costumed Pokémon. Complementing this first part was a Celestial Research Day on December 20 featuring Solrock and Lunatone. All told, there was a certain brightness to this part.
Part 2 of the Winter Holidays event continued where Part 1 left off from December 24, with its end coming later on December 29. This part retains the Eggs, Field Research encounters, Go Pass, and avatar items from Part 1; it also rewards coal... in the form of the Rolycoly species family making its debut in the wild and raids. This time, Pokémon may also drop items when caught, and some wild costumed Pokémon get a Shiny boost. More seasonal and Ice-type Pokémon also join the festivities in the wild and raids to make this part even livelier, and the liveliest part is its peak, the Winter Weekend on December 27 and 28 (that's today and tomorrow), with a special feature on holiday costume Eevee through a Timed Research set, and the opportunity to level up the Go Pass as much as possible on these two days. It may be a little less bright in this part, but it's still quite festive.
The end of the year often (also) represents the end of many paths that have been traversed throughout the year, but for Pokémon Go this season, the paths are already getting started. And that start comes at a bit of an appropriate time for the usual festivities at the end of the year, which have their own appreciable paths to follow. With that, it's time to end the year and get the next one started so that, in turn, the paths of that one can start.
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