January 2021 Community Day

The January 2021 Community Day was the thirty-seventh Community Day event, featuring Machop.

The Straight to the Top, Machop! Special Research was for free if the Trainer had bought the Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto ticket before January, 2021, 11:59 p.m. PST.

Features
From Friday, January 15th, 11:00 a.m. PST (GMT −8) to Monday, January 18th, 11:00 a.m. PST (GMT −8):

Featured Pokémon
Machop had increased spawn rates in the wild and from Incense or Lure Modules:

These Pokémon could photobomb five times during the event:

Exclusive move
In order to obtain Payback, Trainers had to evolve Machoke into Machamp after the start of event and up to 2 hours after the end of event. Trainers cannot use TMs to obtain the attack.

Field Research event tasks
These Field Research tasks were available during the event:

Special Research
Straight to the Top, Machop! Special Research was available during the event. The Machamp in this research would know Payback if it was caught during event hours.

Shop special offer
These offers were available from the shop during the event: