When Is Pawniard Community Day and Why It Matters for Spoofers

The event is confirmed for Saturday, November 21, 2026, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time, making it the 125th Community Day and the last one of the Twilight Trails season. Pawniard, a Dark/Steel type, gets boosted spawn rates and increased shiny odds for the full three hours, plus a chance at Pawniard with a Special Background. For anyone doing Pawniard Community Day spoofing, the three-hour wild window is actually the smaller part of the event.

The bigger deal is a separate evolution window that runs until 9pm local, six hours later than the catch window closes, which is what most of this guide is built around. If you’re spoofing, you don’t need to physically stand anywhere, but you do need to track two separate clocks: the 2-5pm catch window and the 2-9pm evolution window.

Pawniard, Bisharp and Kingambit Shiny Odds

Shiny Pawniard swaps its usual red colouring for a deep blue, and the shiny carries through the full evolution line into Bisharp and Kingambit. Community Day shiny rates are boosted well above the wild base rate for the duration of the event, roughly in the same range as past Community Days, though Niantic doesn’t publish an exact number.

If you want the full math on how Community Day boosts stack with other shiny bonuses, our Community Day Shiny Rate 2026 guide breaks down how to combine spoofed catch sessions with stacked bonuses for the best shundo odds. For Pawniard specifically, since it’s not nest-locked, any high-spawn-density coordinate works just as well as a low one, so don’t waste time hunting for a dedicated Pawniard nest that doesn’t exist.

The Kingambit Kowtow Cleave Evolution Trick, Step by Step

This is the actual headline for Pawniard Community Day spoofing. Normally, evolving Bisharp into Kingambit costs 100 Pawniard Candy plus defeating 15 Dark- or Steel-type raid bosses. From 2pm to 9pm local time on November 21, that raid requirement drops to just 1 Dark- or Steel-type raid win. Evolve Bisharp into Kingambit anywhere in that same 2pm-9pm window and it learns the exclusive Charged Attack Kowtow Cleave (75 power in Trainer Battles, 85 power in raids and gyms), which can’t be taught later with a TM.

The discount applies to every Bisharp you own individually, not as a one-time unlock, so each Bisharp still needs its own single raid win, and it doesn’t need to be set as your buddy to qualify. Once you’ve banked that raid win on a given Bisharp during the window, the evolution stays unlocked even if you evolve it after the window closes.

Full Event Bonus Breakdown (2pm-5pm vs 2pm-9pm)

Two separate bonus windows run on November 21. From 2pm to 5pm local time you get increased Pawniard spawns, boosted shiny chance, 2x Candy for every catch, 2x chance at Candy XL for trainers level 31+, 1/4 Egg Hatch Distance for eggs placed in an incubator during the event, and 3-hour Incense. A second, longer window runs from 2pm to 9pm covering 1-hour Lure Modules with extended Pawniard attraction, 50% less Stardust on trades, one extra Special Trade (two total for the day), and the reduced Kingambit evolution requirement.

Spoofers should plan catch sessions inside the 3-hour window but save raids and evolutions for whenever suits in that longer 7-hour stretch, there’s no rush to do it all by 5pm.

Is the £1.59 Special Research Ticket Worth Buying?

The Community Day-exclusive Special Research costs $1.99 (roughly £1.59-£1.65 depending on exchange rate at purchase), and gets you 3 encounters with Special Background Pawniard, extra Pawniard encounters, a Premium Battle Pass, and a Rare Candy XL. For £1.59 that’s a reasonable amount of Stardust and candy value even before you factor in the shiny chances baked into the extra encounters. If you’re running multiple spoofed accounts, the ticket is cheap enough per account that it’s usually worth buying on your main farming account at minimum, skip it on throwaway accounts you’re not actively levelling.

Best Power Spot Coordinates for Pawniard Community Day Spoofing

Pawniard isn’t nest-restricted, so any coordinate with dense PokeStops and high foot traffic in the game’s spawn data works fine. Popular high-density anchor points used widely in the spoofing community include Vatican City, Rome (41.9029, 12.4534), Civic Center Park in San Francisco (37.7793, -122.4193), Yoyogi Park in Tokyo (35.6716, 139.6949), and Centennial Park in Sydney (-33.8930, 151.2320).

These areas stack dozens of PokeStops and gyms into a small radius, which matters more for raid access (you need that single Dark/Steel raid win for Kingambit) than for Pawniard catches specifically. Drop a joystick point near a gym cluster, clear a quick Dark or Steel raid, then walk the spoofed route between stops to rack up catches during the 2-5pm window.

PGSharp and Joystick Setup for the Catch Window

Set your walk speed conservatively during the 2-5pm rush since spawn density will be higher than