January 2021 Community Day

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

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 costing $1, or for free if the Trainer had bought the Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto ticket before January, 2021, 11:59 p.m. PST. 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: