Pokemon Go: Dragonspiral Descent, Druddigon release

ByAdam B Hours
Dragonspiral descent event banner

Pokemon Go is starting the season of heritage off with a new Pokemon release, Druddigon, as part of the Dragonspiral descent event.

When does Dragonspiral Descent begin in Pokemon Go?

Dragonspiral Descent launches on the 7th of December at 10:00 AM local time, and it’ll be with us until December 12th at 8:00PM local time.

As always, Local time means that these times are in your timezone, so don’t worry about awkward cross-regional timing.

What’s in Dragonspiral Descent?

Quite a few things, new wild encounters, a collection challenge to complete, a new set of raids and even a new discount bundle for raid passes in the shop.

And of course, the introduction of Druddigon, a colourful dragon=type to say the least.

Druddigon in the Pokemon Anime
Credit: the Pokemon Company, Bulbapedia

Wild spawns

As a reminder from this point onwards, Pokemon that can be found as Shiny variants will be presented in bold text.

  • Vulpix
  • Seel
  • Dratini
  • Mareep
  • Sneasel
  • Trapinch
  • Blitzle
  • Darumaka
  • Dragonair
  • Vibrava
  • Deino

Raids

1* raids will feature Tynamo, Litwick, Cubchoo, Golett and Deino, while 3* raids host Electabuzz, Magmar, Lapras, Dragonite and Druddigon.

5* raids meanwhile will contain Reshiram and Zekrom, alongside Mega Steelix for mega raids.

Dragonspiral descent event banner
Credit: Leekduck

Special event bundle

The event also contains a one-time purchase bundle for 175 Pokecoins, granting three total remote raid passes – extremely good value that anyone with the spare space and coins should be taking advantage of.

Is there anything else?

Druddigon will be encounterable as a shiny variant immediately on launch, so if you’re a fan you should use this event to try to farm for it.

That’s all for Dragonspiral Descent, a Dragon-themed event that’s a bit light on the wild dragon-type spawns honestly, Dratini is welcome – but surely Gible could have made it as well, given the semi-recent community day has meant many trainers have plenty of them already?

Now, if you’d be interested, you can find more Pokemon Go articles, stories and guides on The Click right here, and more pieces written by me personally here.