Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons The Series Celebration’ event guide

Pokémon Go’s latest event celebrates the anime, thus the long name: “Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration.” It runs from April 16-22 and features a bunch of the Pokémon that show up in the anime, like a Pikachu in a captain’s hat and a Floragato with a special hat.

The event also has a few neat bonuses: Team Go Rocket balloons will show up more often, halved hatch distance for eggs put into Incubators during the event, and an increased chance to find the special, hat-wearing Pikachu and Floragato shiny.

Tinkatink and its evolutions are also making their debut with this event, but you’ll need to hatch quite a few eggs to source enough to evolve one into a Tinkaton.

Below we list all the Pokémon Go “Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration” event perks, including the free Timed Research, boosted spawns, egg hatches, and more.

Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration’ event Timed Research and reward

If you complete this research before the event ends, you’ll get a special reward. The four-step research we list below is the free research. There’s a separate Tinkatink-themed premium research, “Don’t Tinkatink Twice!,” for $4.99 if you’re interested in that, too.

Step 1 of 4

• Catch 10 Pokémon (500 Stardust)
• Take a snapshot with your buddy (500 Stardust)
• Defeat a Team Go Rocket grunt (500 Stardust)
• Spin 5 PokéStops or gyms (500 Stardust)

Rewards: Sprigatito encounter, 1,000 XP, 500 Stardust

Step 2 of 4

• Catch 10 Pokémon (500 Stardust)
• Complete 3 Field Research Tasks (500 Stardust)
• Explore 2 km (500 Stardust)

Rewards: Fuecoco encounter, 1,000 XP, 500 Stardust

Step 3 of 4

• Catch 10 Pokémon (500 Stardust)
• Defeat 2 Team Go Rocket grunts (500 Stardust)
• Spin 10 PokéStops or gyms (500 Stardust)

Rewards: Quaxly encounter, 1,000 XP, 500 Stardust

Step 4 of 4

• Catch 7 different species of Pokémon (1,000 Stardust)
• Complete 5 Field Research tasks (1,000 Stardust)
• Hatch 2 eggs (1,000 Stardust)

Rewards: Pikachu (Captain’s cap) encounter, 4,000 XP, 2,500 Stardust

Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration’ event Field Research and rewards

Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:

• Defeat 2 Team Go Rocket members (1,500 Stardust)
• Explore 2 km (1,500 Stardust)
• Hatch an egg (Pikachu [Captain’s cap] encounter)
• Trade a Pokémon (Pikachu [Captain’s cap] encounter)

Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration’ event boosted spawns

These Pokémon will spawn more frequently during the event period:

• Pikachu (Captain’s Cap)*
• Quagsire
• Shuckle
• Slugma
• Nosepass
• Snorunt
• Sprigatito
• Floragato (Hat with Liko’s pin)*
• Fuecoco
• Quaxly
• Pawmi

*There is an “increased chance” of finding this shiny in the wild as part of the event.

Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration’ event egg hatches

These Pokémon have a chance to hatch from any 7 km eggs obtained during the event:

• Elekid
• Hatenna
• Charcadet
• Tinkatink

Pokémon Go ‘Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration’ event raid targets

The following changes to the raid schedule will take place as part of the event:

*These Pokémon have an “increased chance” of being shiny when raided.