Pokémon GO: Max Mondays Schedule (January 2025)

Throughout January 2025, you can participate in Max Monday events in Pokémon GO to challenge several different Gigantamax Pokémon. These Max Battles only occur one day a week for a limited time, making them hard to do unless you know when they appear. With many Max Mondays having a chance to feature a Shiny Pokémon, you'll want to know how to join these events before they happen.

Max Mondays are similar to Raids in Pokémon GO, featuring super-powered Gigantamax Pokémon who are hard to defeat. For a Max Battle, you slowly build up Max Energy to fill your Max Meter, which in turn allows you to Dynamax your Pokémon. The Max Moves your Dynamaxed Pokémon can use are oftentimes crucial to winning a Max Battle, especially against tougher opponents.

Max Mondays Schedule For January 2025

Prepare To Fight Multiple Strong Pokémon Each Week

There are ​​​​​​four weeks of Max Mondays for January 2025, with the first one starting where the last weekly event in December 2024 left off. Pokémon such as Dynamax Cryogonal in Pokémon GO may be available on a Max Monday for multiple weeks, while others are only featured once during the month. Max Battles featuring rarer Pokémon are typically harder to win, especially against starters from various regions.

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The table below showcases all the different Max Mondays for January 2025, the Pokémon featured in them, and whether you can find them as Shiny encounters or not:

Date Time Pokémon Type(s) Weaknesses Can It Be Shiny? Monday, January 6th 6PM until 7PM (local time) Machop

Ghastly

Cryogonal

Wooloo

Krabby Fighting

Ghost/Poison

Ice

Normal

Water Fairy, Flying, Psychic

Dark, Ghost, Ground, Psychic

Fire, Steel, Fighting, Rock

Fighting

Electric, Grass Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes Monday, January 13th 6PM until 7PM (local time) Krabby

Ghastly

Squirtle

Machop

Cryogonal Water

Ghost/Poison

Water

Fighting

Ice Electric, Grass

Dark, Ghost, Ground, Psychic

Electric, Grass

Fairy, Flying, Psychic

Fire, Steel, Fighting, Rock Yes

Yes

No

No

No Monday, January 20th 6PM until 7PM (local time) Charmander

Beldum

Scorbunny

Cryogonal Fire

Steel/Psychic

Fire

Ice Ground, Rock, Water

Dark, Fire, Ghost, Ground

Ground, Rock, Water

Fire, Steel, Fighting, Rock Yes

Yes

No

No Monday, January 27th 6PM until 7PM (local time) Bulbasaur

Wooloo

Grookey

Cryogonal Grass/Poison

Normal

Grass

Ice Fire, Flying, Ice, Psychic

Fighting

Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison

Fire, Steel, Fighting, Rock Yes

Yes

No

No

Some of these Dynamax Pokémon in each Max Monday have already appeared before, such as Dynamax Charmander in Pokémon GO. This means you should already have a strategy or favored Pokémon to defeat these returning foes. However, the interesting Pokémon in these Max Mondays are the ones you've never seen before, so try to prepare for ones you haven't had the opportunity to fight yet.

How Do Max Mondays Work?

Explore Areas To Find Dynamax Battles At The Right Time

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Unlike the hidden battles against Team Rocket leaders like Giovanni in Pokémon GO, Max Mondays will showcase Dynamax Battles clearly at the right times. All Max Mondays take place starting at 6PM local time and last until 7PM. This single hour doesn't give you much time to find a Dynamax Pokémon battle, but you can re-match them as many times as you want once you do find them.

Max Battles should be extremely familiar to anyone who has participated in a normal Raid battle in Pokémon GO​​​​​​. Dynamax Pokémon show up at Power Spots, which are important locations on your in-game map similar to PokéStops or other landmarks. You need at least one Dynamax Pokémon to participate in a Max Monday event, so don't forget to double-check your collection to ensure you have the right Pokémon on hand.

During a Max Monday battle or any fight against a Dynamax Pokémon, you can have a party of up to four different Trainers who can have up to three Dynamax Pokémon each.

The featured Pokémon of Max Monday may shift throughout the window in which the event takes place. For example, Dynamax Machop could switch to Dynamax Ghastly at different points, making it even harder to anticipate the timeframe when your preferred Pokémon will appear. Watch Power Spots carefully so you don't miss the one Dynamax Pokémon you want to encounter the most.

Gather your friends to help you during Max Battles if you can, unless you have Dynamax Pokémon powerful enough to defeat featured opponents. Every Max Monday in January 2025 for Pokémon GO offers something new, making it a recurring event you won't want to miss.