New Year of the Ox Max Raid Battle event with Tauros, Shiny Tauros, Bouffalant and Miltank now underway in Pokémon Sword and Shield until January 24 at 23:59 UTC

Read on below to learn about the latest Max Raid Battle event in Pokémon Sword and Shield:

From now until January 24 at 23:59 UTC, you’ll find Pokémon such as Tauros, Shiny Tauros, Bouffalant and Miltank much more frequently in Max Raid Battles in celebration of the Year of the Ox.

For an opportunity to encounter these Pokémon in a Max Raid Battle, you’ll need to connect your Nintendo Switch system to the internet through Y-Comm or by selecting Mystery Gift in the X menu, then selecting Get the Wild Area News. After that, whenever you see a pillar of light shining from a Pokémon Den, you can walk up to the Pokémon Den and interact with it to start a Max Raid Battle with a Dynamax Pokémon. Usually, there’ll be an extremely small possibility a Gigantamax Pokémon will appear instead of a Dynamax Pokémon, but during an event, certain Gigantamax Pokémon are more likely to appear. This event does not affect the Pokémon encountered within Dynamax Adventures.

Source: Pokemon.com