Pokémon Go: Your Santa Pikachu can evolve and become Santa Raichu

19 Dec 2016

Steve Wright

Pokémon Go developer Niantic took to Twitter to confirm that the Santa Pikachu inside the game can evolve to become Santa Raichu.

Well, technically Niantic calls the character Holiday Pikachu, but to-may-toes, to-mah-toes, eh?

Trainers, Raichu will have a festive hat if evolved from #HolidayPikachu, and both will keep the hat permanently even after Dec. 29, 2016.

— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) December 15, 2016

You have until 29 December to nab the festive character.

Pokémon Go is available on iOS and Android. It was recently updated to include generation two Pokémon characters.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.