Celebrate the holidays with new events in Pokémon Sleep

Christmas and the new year are right around the corner and Pokémon Sleep has prepared some special events to for players to celebrate!

Holiday 2025 event details

New Pokémon will be coming to Sleep with this year’s week-long holiday event: Togedemaru, Cetoddle and Cetitan, as well as a costumed Spheal. Players can participate from December 22 until December 29 on Greengrass Isle, normal and Expert.

Dream Gifts for players will be delivered on December 24 and 25, so make sure you check under the tree Snorlax for your gifts!

Pokémon spawn rates

The following Pokémon will have boosted encounter rates:

Event bonuses

While the holiday event is active, players can take advantage of:

• Each time an Ice- or Steel-type helper Pokémon brings you ingredients as it regularly would, it will have 1 extra.
• The chance of any Ice- or Steel-type helper Pokémon’s main skill being triggered will be multiplied by 1.25.
• Main skill levels of Ice- or Steel-type helper Pokémon will be boosted by 3 when they trigger.
• Main skill Dream Shard Magnet S effect ×2
• The Snorlax in the event areas will have Rawst Berries (Ice type) and Belue Berries (Steel type) set as 2 of its favorite Berries. The other Berry is chosen at random.
• Certain Pokémon will be more likely to appear during sleep research.
• A few Pokémon of different sleep types will appear during sleep research regardless of your sleep type for that day.
• The limited-time Candy Boost function will be available.
• You may even meet Shiny Pokémon!

Dream Shards from sleep research will be doubled, except on December 25 and 28, when they will be tripled.

New Year 2026 event details

Pokémon Sleep is ringing in the new year with a highlight of Pokémon that were introduced in 2025! It will take place over two weeks, December 29 through January 5 and then January 5 through January 12.

Any area can be selected for Sleep Research to take part in the event and you may want to check out the official blog post for all the boosted Pokémon appearance rates if you want to plan in advance.

Event bonuses

Bonuses active on all days

• • A few Pokémon of different sleep types will appear during sleep research regardless of your sleep type for that day.
• • Certain Pokémon will be more likely to appear during sleep research.
• • You can obtain event items through sleep research once per day.
• • A limited-time Event Exchange will be available.

Bonuses for week 1

• • Candies gained from the first sleep research of the day will be multiplied by 1.5.
• • The chance of each helper Pokémon’s main skill triggering will be multiplied by 1.25.
• • Main skill levels of all helper Pokémon will be boosted by 1.

Bonuses for week 2

• • Dream Shards from sleep research ×1.5.
• • Final Strength gains from dishes will be multiplied by 1.25 (or 2.5 for Extra Tasty dishes or 3.75 for Extra Tasty dishes on Sunday only).
• • The limited-time Candy Cram-o-matic function will be available.

As a special bonus, players will get triple Drowsy Power on January 1!

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