Black Kyurem and White Kyurem Joining Pokemon GO

Niantic and The Pokemon Company International announced we will be able to catch Black Kyurem and White Kyurem in Pokemon GO. While everyone will eventually get a chance to catch them as part of the Global Unova tour between March 1-2, 2025, they will first appear at the events in Los Angeles, California and New Taipei City in Taiwan between February 21-23, 2025.

Both Black Kyurem and White Kyurem will appear through the new Fusion phenomenon being introduced to Pokemon GO. The Special Research Story will also involve them. These forms first appeared in Pokemon Black Version 2 and White Version 2. Black Kyurem is a combination of Kyurem and Zekrom. Meanwhile, White Kyurem appears when you put together Kyurem and Reshiram. Kyurem will appear after taking part in Raids for the two fusion forms during the Pokemon GO Unova Tour. There is a slim chance it could be Shiny. Reshiram and Zekrom will also appear in raids and could possibly be shiny.

Once you have Kyurem and either Reshiram or Zekrom, you can start the fusion process. You need 30 Kyurem Candy in either case. For Black Kyurem, you also need 30 Zekrom Candy and 1,000 Volt Fusion Energy. White Kyurem needs 30 Reshiram Candy and 1,000 Blaze Fusion Energy. The Fusion Energy is earned from winning Raids with these new additions as the bosses during the tour. If you have all the materials, you can fuse them. When you do, Black Kyurem’s Glaciate becomes Freeze Shock, while White Kyurem’s turns into Ice Burn. You can turn them back into their separate Pokemon after fusing them, and that doesn’t cost any additional materials. However, know that you can only use these fused versions in this game and can’t transfer them to Pokemon Home to use in other titles.

In addition to Kyurem being shiny, other shiny forms were confirmed. Bouffalant, Deerling, Maractus, Meloetta, and Sigilyph will be shiny in-game for the first time starting with the Los Angeles and New Taipei City Pokemon GO Unova Tour. 

Here’s the list of some of the event Pokemon who will also appear. All of them have a chance of being shiny.

• Axew
• Cubchoo
• Cryogonal
• Deerling (Winter)
• Drilbur
• Joltik
• Karrablast (in eggs)
• Klink
• Larvesta (in eggs)
• Minccino
• Oshawott
• Pikachu in Hilbert Hat
• Pikachu in Hilda Hat
• Pikachu in Nate Visor
• Pikachu in Rosa Visor
• Roggenrola (in the wild and in eggs)
• Shelmet (in eggs)
• Timburr (in eggs)
• Tirtouga
• Tynamo
• Vanillite
• Woobat

The U, N, O, V, and A Unown will also be attracted by Incense during the event.

Pokemon GO is available on Android and Apple iOS devices.