Fire and Ice Clash With Shiny Vulpix Options! – February Community Day

Welcome back, Trainers! Welcome to the second month of 2026, we made it! Now, let’s get back into the swing of things by catching the infamous Vulpix and Ninetails from the first generation, and it’s later generation Alolan variants!

Date and time are February 1st, 2:00pm till 5:00pm local time!

The bonuses you can expect are:

3X Catch Stardust.

2X Catch Candy.

2X chance for Candy XL to be awarded during catches so long as you’re Level 31 or Higher.

Incense launched during event hours will last for 3 hours

Lure Modules, though, will last for one hour. They can draw in Vulpix and Alolan Vulpix between 2:00pm and 9:00pm with the same shiny odds as during the event proper. These Vulpix and Alolan Vulpix may have a special background!

Photobombs.

1 additional Special Trade may be performed. (2:00pm till 9:00pm)

Trades will cost 50% less Stardust. (2:00pm till 9:00pm)

For $1.99 or your local equivalent, you can take part in a Special Research story. (You can gift these passes to Great Friends for the same price.) Rewards include Vulpix(s) with a special background amongst other things. (Rare Candy XL and a Premium Battle Pass!)

Evolve Vulpix/Alolan Vulpix to Ninetails/Alolan Ninetails between 2:00pm and 5:00pm and it will learn the Community Day exclusive move, Weather Ball.

Spotlight on Vulpix

Vulpix was a favorite of mine back in the day. Such an adorable Pokemon! I also really dig the Alolan version.

Vulpix is said to be born with one, white tail which splits into six as it grows. More, in especially old and well cared for examples. This Pokemon is always warm, with an everlasting flame in its body. It’s a pure Fire Type.

Alolan Vulpix is said to be able to breathe air that’s up to -56F! That’s well below freezing! It travels in a skulk (That’s a group of Foxes, in case you didn’t know.) of many individuals who help one another hunt. Before eating they freeze their prey solid. The skulk is usually led by a Ninetales who tends to be protective of the group and will challenge you if you approach.

Ninetales is said to be a particularly vengeful and spiteful Pokemon unable to take a joke – tug on one of its tails, even as a goof, and it will curse you and your descendants for a thousand years. Lighten up, ‘Mon! Anyway, it will know that the curse worked because it’s said this Pokemon can live longer than a thousand years. It’s said that this Pokemon was formed when nine revered saints performed a rite and merged into one being.

The Alolan variant is way more… chill than its Kantonian cousin. In personality as well as temperature! It creates ice crystals in its coat that it uses to flash-freeze prey for later consumption. It was once revered as a deity in the snowy mountains it called home until modern Pokemon Professors discovered its more mundane origins. It will happily escort lost travelers to safety down the sides of the mountains that it calls home, but this isn’t exactly altruistic. It just wants to make sure you leave.

In Pokemon GO, this Pokemon has two sets of Stats, depending on which version you’re dealing with:

Kantonian Ninetales Max CP 2577, Attack 169, Defense 190 and Stamina 177. It’s a pure Fire Type so it’s weak to Water, Rock and Ground. It resists Ice, Fire, Steel, Grass, Fairy and Bug.

Fast Attacks are Feint Attack and Fire Spin. Fire Spin is, of course, STAB. Legacy Attack is Ember. For Charge Attacks it has Psyshock, Solar Beam, Heat Wave and Overheat. Latter two are STAB. Legacy Attack, you ask? Why yes! Flamethrower.

Alolan Ninetales Max CP 2610, Attack 170, Defense 193 and Stamina 177. It’s an Ice and Fairy Type, meaning it’s weak to Steel especially, but also Fire, Rock and Poison. It resists Dragon, Bug, Dark and Ice Type Attacks.

Fast Attacks are Feint Attack, Powder Snow and Charm. Latter two are STAB. Charge Attacks are Psyschock, Ice Beam, Blizzard and Dazzling Gleam. Latter three are STAB.

Neither one of these is a Pokemon to set the world on fire. Or ice. The only reason you’re using either one of these is because they’re a favorite. In terms of Stats and Attacks, they’re only okay. Weather Ball isn’t exactly going to remedy this, though the fact that they’re STAB Attacks is nice.

As always, Trainers, I wish you the absolute best of luck out there! Stay safe, be kind, have fun and catch ’em all!