Field Research/Event-exclusive tasks
The following is a list of all Field Research tasks and possible rewards available temporarily and exclusively during special in-game events.
Global events
Community Day
During the three hour time window on each Community Day, all PokéStops will have tasks requiring players to catch the featured Pokémon.
| Task | Availability | Potential rewards | |
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| Catch 3 Mareep | April 15, 2018 |  ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Charmander | May 19, 2018 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Larvitar | June 16, 2018 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 5 Squirtle | July 8, 2018 |  
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| Catch 3 Eevee | August 11 - 12, 2018 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Chikorita | September 22, 2018 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Beldum | October 21, 2018* October 28, 2018* |
×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Totodile | February 16, 2019* February 17, 2019* |
×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Swinub | February 16, 2019* February 17, 2019* |
×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Treecko | March 23, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Bagon | April 13, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Torchic | May 19, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Slakoth | June 8, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Mudkip | July 21, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Ralts | August 3, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Turtwig | September 15, 2019 | ×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
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| Catch 3 Trapinch | October 12, 2019* | 
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×500 ×5 ×2 ×2 ×1
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Limited Research
Limited Research events focused on players completing Field Research tasks that all awarded the same featured Pokémon, with significantly boosted Shiny rates. These tasks were available on the following dates:
- Feebas Research: January 19, 2019*; January 20, 2019*
- Clamperl Research: February 23, 2019*; February 24, 2019*
- Lotad Research: March 30, 2019
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Make 15 Nice Throws | 
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| Feebas Research: Make 10 Great Throws | |
| Feebas Research: Hatch 1 Egg | |
| Feebas Research: Earn 1 Buddy Candy |
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Clamperl Research: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon | 
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| Clamperl Research: Catch a Psyduck or Krabby | |
| Clamperl Research: Catch a Magikarp or Wailmer | |
| Clamperl Research: Make 5 Curveball Throws | |
| Clamperl Research: Make 5 Nice Throws | |
| Clamperl Research: Make 3 Nice Throws in a row | |
| Clamperl Research: Make 3 Great Throws | |
| Clamperl Research: Make 2 Great Throws in a row | |
| Clamperl Research: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon | |
| Clamperl Research: Battle in a Gym | |
| Clamperl Research: Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle | |
| Clamperl Research: Battle in a raid | |
| Clamperl Research: Evolve 2 Water-type Pokémon | |
| Clamperl Research: Spin 2 PokéStops |
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Lotad Research: Catch 3 Pokémon with Weather Boost | 
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| Lotad Research: Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost | |
| Lotad Research: Catch a Castform | |
| Lotad Research: Make 5 Curveball Throws | |
| Lotad Research: Make 5 Nice Throws | |
| Lotad Research: Make 3 Nice Throws in a row | |
| Lotad Research: Make 3 Great Throws | |
| Lotad Research: Make 2 Great Throws in a row | |
| Lotad Research: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon | |
| Lotad Research: Battle in a Gym | |
| Lotad Research: Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle | |
| Lotad Research: Battle in a raid | |
| Lotad Research: Spin 2 PokéStops |
Adventure Week 2018
These Field Research tasks were available from May 24 to June 5, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Adventure Week: Hatch 2 Eggs |   ×1
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| Adventure Week: Hatch 3 Eggs |
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| Adventure Week: Evolve an Omanyte or Kabuto | 
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| Adventure Week: Earn 3 Buddy Candies | 
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| Adventure Week: Spin 2 PokéStops you haven't visited before | 
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Water Festival 2018
These tasks were available from June 7 to 21, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Water Festival: Catch 2 Water-type Pokémon | 
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| Water Festival: Catch 5 Magikarp or Wailmer | 
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| Water Festival: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon | 
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| Water Festival: Battle in a Gym 3 times | 
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| Water Festival: Win a raid | ×1
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| Water Festival: Hatch an Egg | 
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| Water Festival: Evolve 2 Shellder | 
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Johto Festival
These tasks were available from August 20 to 28, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Johto Festival: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon |  
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| Johto Festival: Catch 3 Sunkern |  ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
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| Johto Festival: Make 4 Great Curveball Throws in a row | 
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| Johto Festival: Make 3 Excellent Throws | 
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| Johto Festival: Win a raid | 
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| Johto Festival: Evolve 3 Sunkern or Natu | 
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Psychic Spectacular 2018
These tasks were available from October 5 to 14, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Psychic-type Pokémon | ×1000
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| Catch 5 Abra or Drowzee | 
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| Evolve 3 Slowpoke or Exeggcute | 
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Halloween 2018
These tasks were available from October 23 to November 1, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon | 
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| Catch 5 Dark-type Pokémon | ×500
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| Catch 5 Poochyena or Houndour | 
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| Evolve 3 Duskull or Shuppet | ×1
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| Transfer 10 Pokémon | 
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Let's Go Celebration
These tasks were available from November 16 to 27, 2018.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Let's Go: Make an Excellent Throw | 
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| Let's Go: Hatch 2 Eggs |
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| Let's Go: Evolve 2 Anorith |
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Hoenn Celebration
These tasks were available from January 15 to 29, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Hoenn Celebration: Catch 10 Zigzagoon or Taillow | ×1000
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| Hoenn Celebration: Hatch 2 Eggs | 
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| Hoenn Celebration: Evolve 3 Wurmple* |
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Lunar New Year 2019
This task was available from February 4 to 13, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Trade 10 Pokémon with a friend | 
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Valentine's Day 2019
These tasks were available from February 13 to 21, 2019. Although the task rewarding Spinda is not exclusive to this event, it will reward an event-exclusive, heart-shaped pattern if the reward is claimed within the event period.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Valentine's Day: Catch a Chansey | ×3
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| Valentine's Day: Catch 20 Luvdisc | 
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| Make 5 Great Curveball Throws in a row | 
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Pokémon Day 2019
These tasks were available from February 26 to 28, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Pokémon Day: Catch 5 Pidgey or Rattata | 
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| Pokémon Day: Evolve 1 Meowth | 
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Battle Showdown 2019
These tasks were available from March 5 to 12, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 5 Fighting-type Pokémon | 
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| Catch 3 Makuhita or Meditite | 
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| Make 2 Excellent Throws in a row | 
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| Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 7 raids or Gym battles |  ×1
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| Win 3 raids |  ×1
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Equinox 2019
These tasks were available from March 19 to March 26, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Grass-type Pokémon | ×1000
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| Catch 3 Bulbasaur or Chikorita | 
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| Evolve 2 Grass-type Pokémon | 
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| Evolve 5 Grass-type Pokémon | 
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Bug Out 2019
These tasks were available from April 2 to 9, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Bug-type Pokémon |
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| Catch 15 Bug-type Pokémon | ×1500
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| Catch 2 Wurmple | 
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| Catch 5 Ledyba or Spinarak | 
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| Evolve 3 Bug-type Pokémon | 
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Eggstravaganza 2019
These tasks were available from April 16 to 23, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Eggstravaganza: Hatch an Egg | 
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| Eggstravaganza: Hatch 3 Eggs | 
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| Eggstravaganza: Hatch 5 Eggs |
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Detective Pikachu
These tasks were available from May 7 to 17, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Detective Pikachu: Catch the Seed Pokémon that is seen walking in the river | 
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| Detective Pikachu: Catch the Water-type Pokémon carried in a backpack |
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| Detective Pikachu: Catch the Fire-type evolution of Eevee* | 
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| Detective Pikachu: Catch 10 Jigglypuff, Aipom, or Snubbull |
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Extraordinary Raid Week
These tasks were available from May 21 to 28, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Win a raid | 
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| Win 3 raids | 
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| Win 5 raids | ×1
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Adventure Week 2019
These tasks were available from June 4 to 11, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Adventure Week 2019: Catch 5 Aron | ×1
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| Adventure Week 2019: Catch 5 Omanyte or Kabuto |
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| Adventure Week 2019: Hatch 2 Eggs |  ×1
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| Adventure Week 2019: Evolve a Lileep or Anorith |
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| Adventure Week 2019: Spin 25 PokéStops | 
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| Adventure Week 2019: Spin 2 PokéStops you haven't visited before | 
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| Adventure Week 2019: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy | 
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GO Fest 2019
In celebration of GO Fest 2019, these Field Research tasks rewarding featured Pokémon were available worldwide within the duration of the real-world events.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| GO Fest Global: Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row |   
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| GO Fest Global: Win 3 Gym battles | |
| GO Fest Global: Win a raid | |
| GO Fest Global: Hatch an Egg | |
| GO Fest Global: Evolve 3 Pokémon |
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| GO Fest Global: Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row |    
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| GO Fest Global: Win 3 Gym battles | |
| GO Fest Global: Win a raid | |
| GO Fest Global: Hatch an Egg | |
| GO Fest Global: Evolve 3 Pokémon |
Water Festival 2019
These tasks were available from August 23 to 30, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Water Festival: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon | 
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| Water Festival: Catch 10 Water-type Pokémon | ×1000
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| Water Festival: Evolve 3 Carvanha or Barboach |
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| Water Festival: Hatch 5 Eggs | 
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| Water Festival: Win 2 raids |
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| Water Festival: Defeat a Team GO Rocket Grunt | 
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| Water Festival: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy | 
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| Water Festival: Take 5 snapshots of Water-type Pokémon | 
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World Tourism Day 2019
These tasks were available from September 26 to October 1, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| World Tourism Day: Make a new friend |
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| World Tourism Day: Send 25 Gifts to friends |
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| World Tourism Day: Trade Pokémon caught 10,000 km apart (Western hemisphere) |
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| World Tourism Day: Trade Pokémon caught 10,000 km apart (Eastern hemisphere) |
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Halloween 2019
These tasks were available from October 17 to November 1, 2019.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Halloween: Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon | ×1000
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| Halloween: Catch 5 Gastly or Shuppet |
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| Halloween: Make 3 Excellent Throws in a row | 
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| Halloween: Defeat a Team GO Rocket Grunt | 
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| Halloween: Evolve 3 Drifloon or Stunky | ×1
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| Halloween: Take 5 snapshots of Ghost-type Pokémon |
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Local events
GO Fest
These Field Research tasks were available exclusively to attendees of GO Fest.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| GO Fest: Catch 10 Pokémon | ×1
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| GO Fest: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy | |
| GO Fest: Hatch an Egg | |
| GO Fest: Visit 10 PokéStops |
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| GO Fest: Catch 10 Pokémon | ×3
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| GO Fest: Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost | |
| GO Fest: Battle another Trainer | |
| GO Fest: Hatch an Egg | |
| GO Fest: Send 3 Gifts to friends |
Safari Zone
These Field Research tasks were available exclusively at Pokémon GO Safari Zone.
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Safari Zone: Catch 15 Pokémon | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Use 5 Nanab Berries to help catch Pokémon | 
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| Safari Zone: Use 5 Pinap Berries to help catch Pokémon | 
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| Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg | 
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| Safari Zone: Hatch 5 Eggs |
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| Safari Zone: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Earn 5 Candies walking with your buddy |
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| Safari Zone: Send 2 Gifts to friends |
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| Safari Zone: Send 10 Gifts to friends |
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| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Safari Zone: Catch 10 Pokémon |
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| Safari Zone: Catch 15 Pokémon | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokémon | ×1000
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| Safari Zone: Use 5 Nanab Berries while catching Pokémon |
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| Safari Zone: Use 5 Pinap Berries while catching Pokémon |
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| Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg | 
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| Safari Zone: Hatch 5 Eggs | 
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| Safari Zone: Spin 10 PokéStops |
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| Safari Zone: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy | ×1
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| Safari Zone: Earn 5 Candies walking with your buddy |
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| Safari Zone: Send 2 Gifts to friends |
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| Safari Zone: Send 10 Gifts to friends |  ×1
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| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Safari Zone: Catch 10 Pokémon | 
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| Safari Zone: Use 10 Berries to help catch Pokémon | ×1000
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| Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg | ? |
Pokémon World Championships
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Pokémon | 
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| Task | Potential rewards |
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| Catch 10 Pokémon |
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| Send 2 Gifts to friends | 
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GDC
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| GDC 2019: Catch 25 Pokémon | ×3
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Ticketed events
A Colossal Discovery
| Task | Potential rewards |
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| A Colossal Discovery: Win a raid | 
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| A Colossal Discovery: Win a Trainer Battle against another Trainer | |
| A Colossal Discovery: Trade a Pokémon with a friend | |
| A Colossal Discovery: Make a new friend |