Field Research

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Field Research are small goals that can be completed in Pokémon GO which initially introduced by Professor Willow to aid him in his discoveries. Research tasks involve a range of objectives, such as catching Pokémon, or battling in Gyms, and allow the player to earn rewards, including items, Pokémon, or Stardust. Pokémon obtained from Field Research tasks will have a minimum IV of 10 in each stat.

Tasks can be obtained by spinning PokéStops, and a maximum of three active tasks can be held at one time. A player can choose to discard a task to free up space for another. A single PokéStop will provide the same task for all players for a single day, and the task cannot be obtained again if the task from that PokéStop was completed for the day. Completing a Research task will earn the player a Stamp. Only one Stamp can be obtained per day, and once the player earns seven Stamps, the player will receive a Research Breakthrough along with additional rewards.

Separate Field Research tasks have been available on special events, including during Community Days.

List of Field Research tasks

The following is a list of all Field Research tasks that have been available to players. Tasks colored in gray are tasks which are currently available.

Catching Pokémon

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokémon	Lickitung Girafarig	500 / 5 / 6	July 2018 (Lickitung) August 2018 (Girafarig)
Catch 10 Pokémon	Magikarp	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
	/ Voltorb / Exeggutor	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	April 2018
Catch a Dragon-type Pokémon	Dratini	1500 / 10 / 2 / 2	Since April 2018
Catch 2 Ice-type Pokémon	Jynx		June 2018
Catch 3 Bug-type Pokémon	Pinsir	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Dark-type Pokémon	Houndour	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Electric-type Pokémon	Pikachu	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Fire-type Pokémon	/ Ponyta / Magcargo	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Flying-type Pokémon	Doduo	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Poison-type Pokémon	/ / Bulbasaur / Grimer / Gastly	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April-June 2018 (Grimer) April 2018 (Bulbasaur, Gastly)
Catch 5 Fire-type Pokémon	Flareon	1	April 2018 (Flareon) September 2018 (Silver Pinap Berry)
Catch 5 Flying-type Pokémon	Gligar		May 2018
Catch 5 Electric-type Pokémon	Mareep		August 2018
Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon	Krabby		October 2018
Catch 5 Normal-type Pokémon	Pinsir		November 2018
Catch 5 Bug-type Pokémon	Nincada		November 2018
Catch 10 Normal-type Pokémon		1000 / 5 / 6 / 2	Since April 2018
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire-, or Ground-type Pokémon	Numel		April 2018, December 2018
Catch 3 Water-, Electric- or Bug-type Pokémon	Electrike		May 2018
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire- or Water-type Pokémon	Pikachu		July 2018
Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost	/ Vulpix / Poliwag	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Catch 10 Pokémon with Weather Boost		500 / 5 / 6	Since April 2018
	Poliwag	500 / 5 / 6	April 2018
Catch 20 Pokémon with Weather Boost	Ninetales		April-June 2018
Catch a Ditto		1500 / 10 / 2 / 3	Since April 2018
Catch 3 Oddish or Bellsprout	Tangela	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 4-6 / 1-2	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Swablu		200-500 / 5 / 5 / 4-6 / 1-2	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Pidgey or Murkrow	Ekans	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 4-6 / 1-2	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Treecko or Mudkip	Torchic	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 4-6 / 1-2	April-June 2018
Catch 3 Meowth or Skitty	Growlithe	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 4-6 / 1-2	April-June 2018
Catch a Meowth or Growlithe	Electrike		August 2018
Catch a Skitty or Poochyena	Snubbull		August 2018
Catch a Rattata or Pikachu	Phanpy		September 2018

Evolving Pokémon

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Evolve a Pokémon	Eevee		Since April 2018
	Vulpix		April 2018
Evolve a Grass-type Pokémon	Bulbasaur		July 2018
Evolve a Fire-type Pokémon	Charmander		July 2018
Evolve a Water-type Pokémon	Seel Squirtle		June 2018 (Seel) July 2018 (Squirtle)
Evolve 5 Fire-type Pokémon	Flareon Ninetales		April 2018 (Flareon) September 2018 (Ninetales)
Evolve 3 Electric-type Pokémon	Jolteon		May 2018
Evolve 10 Water-type Pokémon	Dratini		October 2018
Evolve an Electric-, Fire- or Water-type Pokémon	Eevee		July 2018
Evolve a Meowth	Houndour		July 2018
Evolve 2 Pidgey	Caterpie		November 2018

Throwing Poké Balls

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Make a Nice Throw	Slowpoke		June 2018
Make 3 Nice Throws	Voltorb		April 2018
Make 5 Nice Throws	Voltorb	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Make 2 Nice Throws in a row		500 / 3	Since April 2018
Make 3 Nice Throws in a row		500 / 5 / 2 / 2	Since April 2018
Land a Nice Curveball Throw	Gastly		October 2018
Make 2 Nice Curveball Throws	Spinda		October 2018
Make 3 Nice Curveball Throws	Spinda		November 2018
Make 2 Nice Curveball Throws in a row		200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
	Electrode	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	May 2018
Make 3 Nice Curveball Throws in a row		3	Since April 2018
Make 3 Great Throws	Gastly	200 / 5 / 3 / 3	Since April 2018
	Onix	200 / 5 / 3 / 3	April 2018
Make 5 Great Throws		5	Since April 2018
Make 10 Great Throws		500 XP	Since April 2018
Make 3 Great Throws in a row	Onix	1000 / 5-10 / 9 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Make 5 Great Throws in a row	Flaaffy Wigglytuff		Flaaffy (May 2018) November 2018 (Wigglytuff)
Make a Great Curveball Throw	Spinda		September 2018 December 2018
Make 3 Great Curveball Throws		1000 / 5 / 9 / 2	Since April 2018
Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row		5	Since April 2018
Make 3 Great Curveball Throws in a row		1500 / 1 / 3	Since April 2018
	Charmeleon	1500 / 1 / 3	April 2018
Make an Excellent Throw		500 / 5 / 2 / 2	Since April 2018
Make 3 Excellent Throws in a row	Larvitar		Since April 2018
	Onix		April 2018
Make an Excellent Curveball Throw	Absol		June 2018
Make 3 Curveball Throws in a row	Golduck		June 2018, December 2018
	Spinda		August 2018
Make 5 Curveball Throws in a row		5 / 6 / 6 / 1-2	Since April 2018

Gym battles

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Battle in a Gym	Mankey	200 / 5 / 2 / 5 / 1	Since April 2018
	/ / / / Bulbasaur / Charmander / Poliwag / Houndour / Numel Minun Horsea	200 / 5 / 2 / 5 / 1	April 2018 (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Poliwag, Houndour, Numel) May 2018 (Minun) June 2018 (Horsea)
Battle in a Gym 5 times	Machop	500 / 5 / 3 / 2-4 / 10	Since April 2018
	Bulbasaur	500 / 5 / 3 / 2-4 / 10	April 2018
Win a Gym battle	/ / Bulbasaur / Charmander / Squirtle	5 / 4 / 10	Since April 2018
Win 3 Gym battles	Jynx	3 / 6 / 1 / 1	Since April 2018
	Kingler	3 / 6 / 1 / 1	June 2018
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle		500 / 3 / 4 / 10	Since April 2018
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 5 Gym battles		1	May 2018
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 7 Gym battles	Electabuzz	1000 / 3 / 3 / 6 / 1 / 1	Since April 2018

Raid battles

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Battle in a raid		200 / 5 / 2	Since April 2018
	Minun	200 / 5 / 2	May 2018
Win a raid	Porygon	500 / 3 / 4 / 10	Since April 2018 (items) December 2018 (Porygon)
	Pineco	500 / 3 / 4 / 10	November 2018
Win 2 raids	Quilava		April 2018
Win 3 raids		1500 / 3 / 8 / 3	Since April 2018
		1500 / 3 / 8 / 3	June 2018
Win 5 raids	Typhlosion		April 2018
Win a level 3 or higher raid		1000 / 3 / 1 / 1	Since April 2018
	Dratini	1000 / 3 / 1-3 / 1	July 2018

Miscellaneous

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Spin 3 PokéStops you haven't visited before	Ponyta		April 2018
Spin 6 PokéStops you haven't visited before	Aerodactyl		May 2018
Spin 10 PokéStops or Gyms		200 / 5-10 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Hatch an Egg	/ Exeggcute / Lanturn	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018 (Exeggcute, items) August 2018, December 2018 (Lanturn)
Hatch 2 Eggs	Wailmer		October 2018
Hatch 3 Eggs	Magmar	1000 / 10 / 5 / 9 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Hatch 5 Eggs	Chansey		Since April 2018
Power up a Pokémon	Plusle		May 2018
Power up Pokémon 3 times	Staryu Koffing		June 2018 (Staryu) September 2018 (Koffing)
Power up Pokémon 5 times	/ / Bulbasaur / Charmander / Squirtle		Since April 2018
Power up Pokémon 7 times	Magneton		May 2018
Power up Pokémon 10 times		3	December 2018
Earn a Candy walking with your buddy	Swablu Krabby Numel Octillery Clefable		May 2018 (Swablu) June 2018 (Krabby) September 2018 (Numel) October 2018 (Octillery) November 2018 (Clefable)
Transfer 10 Pokémon	Misdreavus		August 2018, December 2018
Use 10 Berries on Pokémon	Growlithe		September 2018
Use 5 Pinap Berries		1	October 2018
Send 5 Gifts to Friends	Roselia Golbat		September 2018 (Roselia) November 2018 (Golbat)
Trade a Pokémon	Feebas		October 2018, December 2018

Event specific tasks

Certain events have had their own set of Field Research tasks available for players during the event period.

Community Day

Task	Potential rewards	Availability
Catch 3 Mareep	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	April 15, 2018
Catch 3 Charmander	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	May 19, 2018
Catch 3 Larvitar	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	June 16, 2018
Catch 5 Squirtle	Sunglasses Squirtle	July 8, 2018
Catch 3 Eevee	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	August 11-12, 2018
Catch 3 Chikorita	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	September 22, 2018
Catch 3 Beldum	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	October 21, 2018* October 28, 2018*

Adventure Week 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Hatch 2 Eggs	1 /           Omanyte
Hatch 3 Eggs	Omanyte
Earn 3 Candy walking with your Buddy	Kabuto
Spin 2 PokéStops you haven't visited before	Onix
Spin 6 PokéStops you haven't visited before	Aerodactyl
Evolve an Omanyte or Kabuto	Aerodactyl

Water Festival 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 2 Water-type Pokémon	Magikarp
Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon	Wailmer
Battle in a Gym 3 times	Kingler
Win a Raid	1
Evolve 2 Shellder	Lapras
Catch 5 Magikarp or Wailmer	Luvdisc

GO Fest 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Pokémon	1
Earn a Candy walking with your buddy	1
Hatch an Egg	1
Visit 10 PokéStops	1

Johto Festival 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 3 Sunkern	1 / 1 File:GO Up-Grade.png / 1 / 1 / 1
Evolve 3 Sunkern or Natu	Pineco
Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon	/ Poliwhirl / Seadra
Win a Raid	Porygon
Make 3 Excellent Throws	/ Onix / Scyther
Make 4 Great Curveball throws in a row	Miltank

Pokémon World Championships 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Pokémon	Corsola

Psychic Spectacular 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Psychic-type Pokémon	1000
Catch 5 Abra or Drowzee	Jynx
Evolve 3 Slowpoke or Exeggcute	Girafarig

Halloween 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 5 Dark-type Pokémon	500
Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon	Sableye
Catch 5 Poochyena or Houndour	Sneasel
Evolve 3 Duskull or Shuppet	1
Transfer 10 Pokémon	Misdreavus

Let's GO 2018

Task	Potential rewards
Make an Excellent Throw	Ditto
Evolve 2 Anorith	Scyther
Hatch 2 Eggs	Aerodactyl

Research Breakthrough

Research Breakthrough rewards have rotated every month, and enable players to catch some Legendary Pokémon which had only been available through Raids, or other rare Pokémon. Players are also rewarded with the items: 3000 XP, 2000 Stardust, Sinnoh Stone* and one of: 3 Rare Candy, 20 Poké Balls, 5 Ultra Balls and 5 Pinap Berries.

Time	Pokémon encounter
April 2018	Moltres
May 2018	Zapdos
June 2018	Articuno
July 2018	Snorlax*
August 2018	Raikou
September 2018	Entei
October 2018	Suicune
November 2018	Shedinja
December 2018	One of: Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, Raikou, Entei, Suicune

In other languages

Language Title Korean 필드리서치 Field Research

See also

• Special Research