Field Research

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Field Research (Japanese: フィールドリサーチ Field Research) are small goals that can be completed in Pokémon GO, which were 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 reward players with items, Pokémon encounters, or Stardust.

Pokémon obtained from Field Research tasks will have a minimum of 10 IVs in each stat and an initial Power Up level of 15. Weather bonuses are not applied for these types of encounters. Field Research Pokémon are guaranteed to never flee. If the player runs from the encounter, the Pokémon will be saved into a queue that can be later accessed by a "Claim Reward!" button above the Field Research tasks.

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. A PokéStop that has had its task completed will have a blue Research completion icon on the top-right of the screen when viewed.

Completing a Research task will earn the player a Stamp once per day. Once the player has earned seven Stamps, the player will receive a Research Breakthrough, which includes various rewards and an encounter with a special Pokémon.

Separate Field Research tasks have been temporarily 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 and rewards colored in gray are no longer available.

Catching Pokémon

Task	Potential rewards		Availability
Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokémon	Lickitung	500 / 5 / 6 / 2	July 2018
	Girafarig		August 2018
	Growlithe		Since January 2019
Use 5 Razz Berries to help catch Pokémon	Cubone		Since January 2019
Use 10 Pinap Berries while catching Pokémon	Magikarp		Since January 2019
Catch 10 Pokémon	Magikarp	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018*
	/ Voltorb / Exeggutor		April 2018
	Houndour		Since January 2019
Catch a Dragon-type Pokémon	Dratini	1500 / 10 / 2 / 3	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 / Gastly	200-500 / 5 / 5 / 3-6 / 1-3	April 2018
	Grimer		April-June 2018
Catch 5 Fire-type Pokémon	Flareon		April 2018
		1	September 2018
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 5 Fighting-type Pokémon	Magnemite		Since January 2019
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire-, or Ground-type Pokémon	Numel		April 2018
Catch 3 Water-, Electric- or Bug-type Pokémon	Electrike		May 2018
Catch 3 Grass-, Fire- or Water-type Pokémon	Pikachu		July 2018
	Numel		December 2018
		5	Since January 2019
Catch 5 Normal- Electric- or Poison-type Pokémon	Starmie		Since January 2019
Catch 7 Flying- Psychic- or Dark-type Pokémon	Anorith		Since January 2019
Catch 10 Normal-type Pokémon		1000 / 5 / 6 / 2	Since April 2018
Catch 10 Ground-type Pokémon	Sandshrew		Since January 2019
Catch 10 Ice-type Pokémon	Kabuto		Since January 2019
Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost	/ Vulpix / Poliwag	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018
Catch 10 Pokémon with Weather Boost		500 / 5 / 6 / 2	Since April 2018
	Poliwag		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
	Sunkern		Since January 2019
Evolve a Grass-type Pokémon	Bulbasaur		July 2018
Evolve a Fire-type Pokémon	Charmander		July 2018
Evolve a Water-type Pokémon	Seel		June 2018
	Squirtle		July 2018
Evolve 5 Fire-type Pokémon	Flareon		April 2018
	Ninetales		September 2018
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
Use an item to evolve a Pokémon	Aerodactyl		Since January 2019

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
	Bidoof		Since January 2019
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		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		April 2018
	/ Lileep / Anorith		Since January 2019
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		May 2018
	Wigglytuff		November 2018
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		April 2018
Make 5 Great Curveball Throws in a row	Spinda		Since January 2019
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		500 / 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		April 2018
	Minun		May 2018
	Horsea		June 2018
	Machop		Since January 2019
Battle in a Gym 5 times	Machop	500 / 5 / 3 / 2-4 / 10	Since April 2018
	Bulbasaur		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		June 2018
Win 5 Gym battles	Lapras		Since January 2019
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		May 2018
	Drowzee		Since January 2019
Win a raid		500 / 3 / 4 / 10	Since April 2018
	Pineco		November 2018
	Porygon		December 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
	Aerodactyl		Since January 2019
Win a level 3 or higher raid		1000 / 3 / 1 / 1	Since April 2018
	Dratini		July 2018
	/ Omanyte / Kabuto		Since January 2019

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
		5	Since January 2019
Hatch an Egg	Exeggcute	200 / 5 / 3 / 1	Since April 2018*
	Lanturn		August 2018, December 2018
	Snubbull		Since January 2019
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
		3	Since January 2019
Power up a Pokémon	Plusle		May 2018
Power up Pokémon 3 times	Staryu		June 2018
	Koffing		September 2018
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		May 2018
	Krabby		June 2018
	Numel		September 2018
	Octillery		October 2018
	Clefable		November 2018
Earn 5 Candies walking with your buddy	Tentacruel		Since January 2019
Transfer 3 Pokémon	Vulpix		Since January 2019
Transfer 10 Pokémon	Misdreavus		August 2018, December 2018
Use 10 Berries on Pokémon	Growlithe		September 2018
Use 5 Pinap Berries		1	October 2018
Send 2 Gifts to Friends	Gastly		Since January 2019
Send 5 Gifts to Friends	Roselia		September 2018
	Golbat		November 2018
Trade a Pokémon	Feebas		October 2018, December 2018
	Manectric		Since January 2019

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*
Catch 3 Totodile	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	January 12, 2019* January 13, 2019*
Catch 3 Swinub	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	February 16, 2019* February 17, 2019*
Catch 3 Treecko	500 / 5 / 2 / 2	March 23, 2019

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

Hoenn Celebration 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Evolve 3 Wurmple	Trapinch
Hatch 2 Eggs	Nosepass
Catch 10 Zigzagoon or Taillow	1000

Feebas Research

As Limited Research, these tasks were only available for a 3 hour window akin to the Community Day tasks.

Task	Potential rewards
Earn 1 Buddy Candy	Feebas
Hatch 1 Egg	Feebas
Make 15 Nice Throws	Feebas
Make 10 Great Throws	Feebas

Lunar New Year 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Trade 10 Pokémon with a friend	Chimchar

Valentine's Day 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Catch a Chansey	3
Catch 20 Luvdisc	Chansey

Clamperl Research

As Limited Research, these tasks were only available for a 3 hour window akin to the Community Day tasks.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch a Magikarp or Wailmer	Clamperl
Catch a Psyduck or Krabby	Clamperl
Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon	Clamperl
Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon	Clamperl
Make 5 Nice Throws	Clamperl
Make 3 Great Throws	Clamperl
Make 5 Curveball Throws	Clamperl
Make 3 Nice Throws in a row	Clamperl
Make 2 Great Throws in a row	Clamperl
Evolve 2 Water-type Pokémon	Clamperl
Battle in a Raid	Clamperl
Battle in a Gym	Clamperl
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle	Clamperl
Spin 2 PokéStops	Clamperl

Pokémon Day 2019

Pikachu and Eevee will have a flower crown only if the reward is claimed within the event's time window.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 5 Pidgey or Rattata	Pikachu
Evolve 1 Meowth	Eevee

Battle Showdown 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 3 Makuhita or Meditite	Combusken
Catch 5 Fighting-type Pokémon	Machoke
Make 2 Excellent Throws in a row	Hitmonchan
Win 3 raids	1
Use a Supereffective Charged Attack in 7 raids or Gym Battles	1

Equinox 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 3 Bulbasaur or Chikorita	Turtwig
Catch 10 Grass-type Pokémon	1000
Evolve 2 Grass-type Pokémon	Tangela
Evolve 5 Grass-type Pokémon	Venusaur

Lotad Research

As Limited Research, these tasks were only available for a 3 hour window akin to the Community Day tasks.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch a Castform	Lotad
Catch 3 Pokémon with Weather Boost	Lotad
Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost	Lotad
Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon	Lotad
Make 5 Nice Throws	Lotad
Make 3 Great Throws	Lotad
Make 5 Curveball Throws	Lotad
Make 3 Nice Throws in a row	Lotad
Make 2 Great Throws in a row	Lotad
Battle in a Raid	Lotad
Battle in a Gym	Lotad
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle	Lotad
Spin 2 PokéStops	Lotad

Bug Out 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 2 Wurmple	Caterpie
Catch 5 Ledyba or Spinarak	Yanma
Catch 10 Bug-type Pokémon	Scyther
Catch 15 Bug-type Pokémon	1500
Evolve 3 Bug-type Pokémon	Nincada

Eggstravaganza 2019

Task	Potential rewards
Hatch an Egg	Buneary
Hatch 3 Eggs	Azumarill
Hatch 5 Eggs	Chansey

Research Breakthrough

Reward box for Research Breakthrough

Collecting seven Field Research stamps awards players with a Research Breakthrough that includes an encounter with a special Pokémon, which rotates every month. The Pokémon encountered has either been exclusive rare Pokémon or Legendary Pokémon that were previously available in raids. Along with the Pokémon encounter, Players are also rewarded the following:

• 3000 XP
• 2000
• One of:
  • 3 Rare Candies
  • 20 Poké Balls
  • 5 Ultra Balls
  • 5 Pinap Berries
  • 1 Sinnoh Stone (Since November 16, 2018)

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	/ / Articuno / Zapdos / Moltres / / Raikou / Entei / Suicune
January-February 2019	/ / Articuno / Zapdos / Moltres / / Raikou / Entei / Suicune / Lugia / Ho-Oh
March-April 2019	/ / Raikou / Entei / Suicune / Lugia / Ho-Oh / / Regirock / Regice / Registeel
May-June 2019	/ Lugia / Ho-Oh / Latias / Latios

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 田野調查 Tìhnyéh Diuhchàh Mandarin 田野調查 Tiányě Diàochá French Étude de terrain German Feldforschungsprojekte Italian Ricerche sul campo Korean 필드리서치 Field Research Brazilian Portuguese Pesquisa de campo Spanish Investigación de campo

See also

• Special Research

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