Gather Up! Dream Duo! story event returns to Pokémon Masters EX, alongside Seasonal Scouts featuring past New Year-themed Sync Pairs

The New Year is finally here, and with it comes another returning story event in Pokémon Masters EX, with the re-run of last year's Gather Up! Dream Duo! event. A collection of past New Year's Seasonal Sync Pairs are also making their return in a set of Seasonal Scouts.

Story Event: Gather Up! Dream Duo!
This event, which will run through to January 19th, at 9:59pm (PST), focuses on Lisia and Dawn, as they partner up with Kali for a special New Year Live concert. This event originally ran from January 1st to January 18th, 2023.

By completing battles during this event, players can earn New Year Ticket B and New Year Ticket B+ items, which can be exchanged for a variety of valuable items including Song Key No. 00036, 5★ Scout Tickets, Power-Ups, Move Candy, and Strike and Tech Move Candy Coins. Players can also obtain Gems, 5★ Scout Tickets, and Event Medals for completing special missions during the event.

Completing the New Year, New Show story stage in this event will allow players to team-up with an exclusive 3★ Sync Pair, Kali (Furisode Girl) & Azumarill, a Fairy-type Support Role Sync Pair with an expanded sync grid. After unlocking Kali & Azumarill, players will be able to exchange their New Year Ticket B and New Year Ticket B+ for items to improve the pair's potential and move level, as well as Custom Sync Orbs for the pair.

All rewards, with the exception of the Song Key, can be claimed even if players have previously completed the event during its previous run.

As usual for events of this type, players will have an increased chance of receiving bonus rewards if they take on event battles using teams that feature specific sync pairs. The more of these sync pairs that players place in their lineup, the greater the bonus received. The applicable Sync Pairs and reward rates are as follows:

• Lisia (New Year's 2023) & Rapidash, Dawn (New Year's 2023) & Oricorio: +60% (x1.6) Bonus Rewards
• Clair (New Year's 2024) & Drampa, Wallace (New Year's 2024) & Blacephalon, Volkner (New Year's 2022) & Electivire, Sabrina (New Year's 2022) & Chingling, Lance (New Year's 2021) & Gyarados, Lillie (New Year's 2021) & Ribombee: +40% (x1.4) Bonus Rewards
• Fairy- and Ghost-Type Sync Pairs: +20% (x1.2) bonus rewards

These bonuses stack additively, so having a team consisting of Lisia (New Year's 2023) & Rapidash, Dawn (New Year's 2023) & Oricorio, and Volkner (New Year's 2022) & Electivire would grant a combined +160% (x2.6) rewards.

Players should also note the following when playing this event:

• The number of plays available for Daily Extreme Battle 1 are reset every day at 10:00pm (PST).
• To participate, players must have completed Main Story Chapter 1: The More the Merrier (Normal) in single-player.
• The sync pairs that appear as opponents in battle have different capabilities than those players can actually obtain.
• All mission completion rewards must be claimed within three days of the mission period ending.
• Leftover New Year Ticket B and New Year Ticket B+ items will be automatically converted to coins at a rate of 10 coins per item at the end of the event, and sent to players' Present Boxes

Seasonal Scouts
The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout, Seasonal Tiered Scout, and Seasonal Featured Ticket Scout offer players a limited-time opportunity to scout the featured sync pairs from the Gather Up! Dream Duo! event, along with other past New Year's Seasonal Sync pairs.

• Lisia (New Year's 2023) & Rapidash
• Dawn (New Year's 2023) & Oricorio
• Volkner (New Year's 2022) & Electivire
• Sabrina (New Year's 2022) & Chingling
• Lance (New Year's 2021) & Gyarados
• Lillie (New Year's 2021) & Ribombee

More information about each of these sync pairs can be found via the Bulbapedia links above.

The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout includes a daily discount, where players can perform a single scout for x100 paid gems. This daily discount can be used up to 3 times per day during the entire length of the scout.

The Seasonal Tiered Scout has five tiers, each of which is a Sync Pair Scout ×11. Players are able to scout once on each tier by using Paid Gems, with the amount of gems increasing with each tier. Additionally, Tiers 2 through 5 grant the player additional in-game rewards.

• Tier 1: 1,000 Paid Gems
• Tier 2: 1,500 Paid Gems - 5★ Power-Ups ×3
• Tier 3: 2,000 Paid Gems - 5★ Great Scout Ticket V, which can be used in the Seasonal Featured Ticket Scout
• Tier 4: 2,500 Paid Gems - 5★ Power-Ups ×7
• Tier 5: 3,000 Paid Gems - Player's choice of 5★ Sync Pairs from those included in the scout

The Super Spotlight Seasonal Scout and Seasonal Tiered Scout will both run until January 19th, at 9:59pm (PST). The associated Seasonal Featured Ticket Scout meanwhile runs through to January 26th, at 9:59pm (PST). All tickets must be used prior to this scout ending.