Curious Tea Party event returns to Pokémon Masters EX alongside Costume Scouts, Bruno Variety Scouts

The Curious Tea Party Costume Event is making a return to Pokémon Masters EX, together with Super Spotlight Costume Scouts for its four costume wearing sync pairs. Both event and scounts will be available until May 7th, at 10:59pm (PDT). Also launching today are Variety Scouts featuring Kanto Elite Four member Bruno together with his new sync partner Onix, in association with the ongoing Trainer Files: Kanto Elite Four (Part 1) event. These Variety Scouts will remain available until May 13th.

Costume Event: Curious Tea Party and Solving Wonderful Mysteries
This pair of Costume Events offer players a unique multi-part event centered around riddles, and tea party being hosted by the costumed characters of Lillie, Sonia, Ingo, and Emmet. The Curious Tea Party event originally ran from March 31st to May 4th, 2022, following a different format to this year's version of the event. In 2023, Curious Tea Party will follow the event's main storyline, while individual sub-stories for featured Sync Pairs are now part of the linked Solving Wonderful Mysteries event. The Individual Sub-story event missions differ from regular missions, and include special riddle missions which don't explicitly state how the requirements to clear them to players. Both events are available in-game now, and will be running until May 7st, at 10:59pm (PDT).

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Both events offer players the opportunity to complete special missions to earn Gems. 5★ Move Candy Coins, and 5★ Alola, Galar, and Unova Scout Tickets are also available as mission rewards solely in the Curious Tea Party event. All rewards can be claimed even if players previously completed the original Curious Tea Party Costume Event.

By completing battles for Solving Wonderful Mysteries, players can earn Event Voucher I items, which can be exchanged for a variety of valuable items, including 5★ Scout Tickets, and a Support Move Candy Coin. 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:

• Lillie (Special Costume) & Polteageist, Sonia (Special Costume) & Tsareena, Ingo (Special Costume) & Accelgor, and Emmet (Special Costume) & Escavalier: +60% (x1.6) bonus rewards
• Wallace & Milotic, Nessa & Drednaw, Darach & Staraptor, Piers & Obstagoon, and Marnie & Morpeko: +40% (x1.4) bonus items
• All other sync pairs with the Alola, Galar, or Unova Theme Skills: +20% (x1.2) bonus rewards

These bonuses stack additively, so having a team consisting of Lillie (Special Costume) & Polteageist, Sonia (Special Costume) & Tsareena, and Ingo (Special Costume) & Accelgor, would grant a combined +180% (x2.8) rewards.

Players should also note the following when playing these paired events:

• The number of plays available for Daily Extreme Battle 1 are reset every day at 11:00pm (PDT).
• 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 Event Voucher I 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.

Costume Scouts
The Super Spotlight Costume Scout, Costume Tiered Scout, and Costume Featured Ticket Scout offer players an opportunity to scout the featured sync pairs from the Curious Tea Party event.

• Lillie (Special Costume) & Polteageist
• Sonia (Special Costume) & Tsareena
• Ingo (Special Costume) & Accelgor
• Emmet (Special Costume) & Escavalier:

More information about each of these sync pairs can be found via the Bulbapedia links above. Each of these Costume Sync Pairs only appear during Costume Sync Pair Scouts.

The Super Spotlight Costume 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 Costume 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 A, which can be used in the Costume 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 Costume Scout and Costume Tiered Scout will both run until May 7th at 10:59pm (PDT). The associated Ticket Scout meanwhile runs through to May 14th, at 10:59pm (PT). All tickets must be used prior to this scout ending.

Bruno Variety Scout
This Variety scout offers players to scout Bruno in his brand new 5★ sync pair with Onix. The pair makes their debut with an expanded sync grid, and the ability to be raised to 6★ EX. Bruno & Onix uses the same costumes as those from Bruno's regular sync pair, and does not have their own individual sync pair story.

In addition to the regular Variety Scout, Trainers can also take advantage of a Presents! Limit 3! Bruno Variety Scout, a special Sync Pair Scout requiring paid gems, that, as the name implies, can be used up to 3 times. Players will receive a 50% discount on their first Sync Pair Scout x11 for this special Spotlight Scout, making it 1,500 Gems rather than the usual 3,000. As an added bonus, players will also receive bonus items every time they do a Sync Pair Scout x11 for this special Spotlight Scout. The bonuses that are received are as follows.

1st Time (50% off)

• Custom ★ Power Up for Bruno & Onix x5
• Custom Sync Orb for Bruno & Onix x200

2nd Time

• Custom ★ Power Up for Bruno & Onix x5
• Custom Sync Orb for Bruno & Onix x200

3rd Time

• Custom ★ Power Up for Bruno & Onix x10
• Custom Sync Orb for Bruno & Onix x200
• 5★ Master Scout Ticket Z x1

The 5★ Master Scout Ticket Z allows Trainers to use the Bruno Guarenteed Ticket Scout, ensuring they scout the Fighting-type Master from Kanto.

Both the Variety Scout and Variety Scout + Present! Limit 3! will be available until May 13th, at 10:59pm (PDT). The associated Ticket Scout will be available until May 20th, at 10:59pm (PDT).