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:

There were also five chances per day to be photobombed by Machop:

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
There were several Field Research tasks exclusively for the duration of the event.

Special Research
Straight to the Top, Machop! is a Special Research campaign for Machop Community Day. It cost $1 to access the Special Research, 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
Following items were available from the January Community Day Box item bundle in 2021.