Field Research

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Field Research (Japanese: ) 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. 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 (Japanese: ) along with additional rewards.

Special Research Tasks have been available on special events, including during Community Days.

List of Research Tasks

Catching Pokémon

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokémon
Catch 10 Pokémon	Magikarp	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Exeggutor (April 2018)
Catch a Dragon-type Pokemon	Dratini
Catch 3 Dragon-type Pokemon
Catch 3 Bug-type Pokemon			Pinsir (April-June 2018)	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3 (April-June 2018)
Catch 3 Dark-type Pokemon			Houndour (April-June 2018)
Catch 3 Electric-type Pokemon
Catch 3 Fire-type Pokemon
Catch 3 Flying-type Pokemon
Catch 3 Poison-type Pokemon
Catch 10 Normal-type Pokemon
Catch 5 Fire-type Pokémon		1	Flareon (April 2018)
Catch 5 Electric-type Pokémon
Catch 2 Ice-type Pokémon			Jynx (June 2018)
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire-, or Ground-type Pokémon
3 Water-, Electric- or Bug-type Pokémon
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire- or Water-type Pokémon
Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost	/ Vulpix / Poliwag	200 / 5 / 3 / 1
Catch 10 Pokémon with Weather Boost
Catch 20 Pokémon with Weather Boost			Ninetales (April-June 2018)
Catch a Ditto
Catch 3 Oddish or Bellsprout			Tangela (April-June 2018)
Catch 3 Swablu
Catch 3 Pidgey or Murkrow			Ekans (April-June 2018)
Catch 3 Treecko or Mudkip
Catch 3 Meowth or Skitty
Catch a Meowth or Growlithe
Catch a Skitty or Poochyena
Catch a Rattata or Pikachu	Phanpy

Evolving Pokémon

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Evolve a Pokémon
Evolve a Fire-type Pokémon
Evolve 5 Fire-type Pokémon
Evolve 3 Electric-type Pokémon
Evolve a Grass-type Pokémon
Evolve a Fire-type Pokémon
Evolve a Water-type Pokémon
Evolve an Electric-, Fire- or Water-type Pokémon
Evolve a Meowth

Throwing Poké Balls

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Make a Nice Throw
Make 3 Nice Throws??
Make 5 Nice Throws
Make 2 Nice Throws in a row
Make 3 Nice Throws in a row
Make 2 Nice Curveball Throws in a row
Make 3 Nice Curveball Throws in a row
Make 3 Great Throws
Make 5 Great Throws
Make 10 Great Throws
Make 3 Great Throws in a row
Make 5 Great Throws in a row
Make a Great Curveball Throw
Make 3 Great Curveball Throws
Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row
Make 3 Great Curveball Throws in a row
Make an Excellent Throw
Make 3 Excellent Throws??
Make 3 Excellent Throws in a row
Make an Excellent Curveball Throw
Make 3 Curveball Throws in a row
Make 5 Curveball Throws in a row

Gym battles

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Battle in a Gym
Battle in a Gym 3 times??
Battle in a Gym 5 times
Win a Gym battle
Win 3 Gym battles
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 5 Gym battles
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 7 Gym battles

Raid battles

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Battle in a raid
Win a raid
Win 2 raids
Win 3 raids
Win 5 raids
Win a level 3 or higher raid

Miscellaneous

Task	Current potential rewards		Previous potential rewards
Spin 3 PokéStops you haven't visited before
Spin 6 PokéStops you haven't visited before
Spin 10 PokéStops
Hatch an Egg
Hatch 3 Eggs
Hatch 5 Eggs
Power up a Pokémon
Power up Pokémon 3 times
Power up Pokémon 5 times
Power up Pokémon 7 times
Earn a Candy walking with your buddy
Transfer 10 Pokémon
Use 10 Berries on Pokémon
Send 5 Gifts to Friends

Community Day

Adventure Week 2018

Water Festival 2018

Johto Festival 2018

Research Breakthrough

Research Breakthrough rewards have so far rotated every month. The Research Breakthrough enables players to catch some Legendary Pokémon which had only been available through Raids. Item rewards have so far always been 3000 XP, 2000 Stardust, 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