PoGO – Pokémon Go: 2020 Nostalgia Challenge: Johto - Research Guide

The new Temporary Research Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto is live from now until May 15, 2020 at 15:00. We have updated our guide to Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto with all the steps and rewards. Too bad: the rumor beforehand that there might be a Shiny Garados as a reward was not true. Ho-Oh can be Shiny for that.

In Pokémon Go, the 2020 Nostalgia Challenge is currently luring players from behind the stove and keeping them busy with a total of 36 steps of Temporary Research in order to flush lots of rewards into their pockets. The highlight of the Temporary Research is, as the name suggests, that the nine steps of the research can only be completed within a certain period of time – that’s why you don’t receive a “call” from Professor Willow for the Temporary Research in Pokémon Go like you would with a Special Research. However, if you complete all of the 2020 Nostalgia Challenge Temporary Research, you will receive the 2020 Nostalgia Challenge Special Research Champ in early June, which will give you Galar Flunschlik. Galar-Mauzi and Genesect. So there’s no reason to ignore the Temporary Researches!

The Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Kanto is still active until May 8, 2020 at 13:00, so you still have time to complete the first nine steps, which you can find in our corresponding guide. On May 8, 2020, starting at 13:00 and lasting until May 15, 2020 at 13:00, the Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto will be active; another Temporary Research with nine steps that will earn you a Legendary Ho-Oh with the Earthquake attack, among other things. First, we’ll give you an overview of the bonuses that are additionally active during this time, then you’ll find the nine steps for Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto in the guide as well as their rewards. Note: Not all steps are known yet, so we will update the overview as soon as possible! However, the pros among you can already stack reward encounters from field research if they want. Excitingly, a guaranteed encounter with a Shiny Garados supposedly awaits you in Step 7!

Update from May 08, 2020: The rumor of a Shiny Garados as a reward has not been confirmed, instead Skorgla awaits you as an encounter in Step 7. The Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto is already active (as of 08:00), so we have added all steps and rewards to the guide. By the way, you can find out why there are only 5 special candies instead of the expected 10 here.

The following additional bonuses apply during the limited research:

Pokémon from the Johto region, such as Dummisel and Panzaeron, appear more frequently in the wild.
Pokémon from the Johto region can be challenged in Raid battles.
The following Pokémon hatch from 7-km eggs: Lampi, Yanma, Girafarig, Tannza, Dummisel, Skorgla, Pottrott, Panzaeron, and Phanpy.
Since Nachtara won the vote for Pokémon of the Year in the Johto Pokémon category, Pikachu with Nachtara caps are appearing in the wild.
If you’re lucky, you may even encounter Iridescent Dummisel!
Johto Pokémon appear as rewards in event-exclusive field research projects.
There is double Catch Stardust and double Raid Stardust.

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 1/9

Catch 1 Pokémon of the type Flight – Reward: 500 Stardust
Catch 3 Pokémon of the Water, Fire, or Plant type – Reward: 10 x Pokéball
Send a gift to a friend – Reward: Encounter with Dummisel

Reward for completing Step 1: Encounter with Xatu, 2 x Golden Himmih Berry, 1 x Silver Sanana Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 2/9

Catch 1 Beetle-type Pokémon – Reward: 500 Stardust
Play with your buddy – Reward: Encounter with Webarak
Give your buddy 3 snacks – Reward: 5 x Himmihberry

Reward for completing Step 2: Encounter with Tannza, 2 x Silver Sanana Berry, 1 x Golden Himmih Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 3/9

Catch 1 Pokémon of Normal type – Reward: 500 Stardust
Land 3 great throws – Reward: 1 x Charging TM
Hatch an egg – Reward: Encounter with Snubbull

Reward for completing Step 3: Encounter with Miltank, 2 x Golden Himmih Berry, 1 x Silver Sanana Berry.

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 4/9

Catch 1 Spirit-type Pokémon – Reward: 500 Stardust
Evolve 1 Pokémon – Reward: Encounter with Mogelbaum
Catch 5 Pokémon of different types – Reward: 10 x Superball

Reward for completing Step 4: Encounter with Traunfugil, 2 x Silver Sanana Berry, 1 x Golden Himmih Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 5/9

Catch 1 Pokémon of the Battle type – Reward: 500 Stardust
Take 3 snapshots of your buddy – Reward: encounter with Pottrott
Land 4 good curveball throws – Reward: Encounter with Mantax

Reward for completing step 5: encounter with Kapoera, 2 x Golden Himmihberry, 1 x Silver Sanana Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 6/9

Catch 1 Steel-type Pokémon – Reward: 500 Stardust
Catch 1 Pokémon of type Electric – Reward: 1 x Smoke
Level up Pokémon 3 times – Reward: Encounter with Voltilamm

Reward for completing step 6: Encounter with Panzaeron, 2 x Silver Sanana Berry, 1 x Golden Himmih Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 7/9

Catch 1 Water-type Pokémon – Reward: Encounter with Skorgla
Catch 1 Pokémon of the Ice type – Reward: 500 stardust
Evolve 1 Pokémon – Reward: 1 x King Stone

Reward for completing Step 7: Encounter with Keifel, 2 x Golden Himmih Berry, 1 x Silver Sanana Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 8/9.

Catch 1 Dragon-type Pokémon – Reward: 500 Stardust.
Take a snapshot of an Ice-type Pokémon – Reward: 1 x Dragon skin
Fight another Trainer – Reward: 10 x Hyperball

Reward for completing Step 8: Encounter with Donphan, 2 x Silver Sanana Berry, 1 x Golden Himmih Berry

Pokémon Go: Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto – Step 9/9

Automatically fulfilled – Reward: 3,000 XP
Automatically fulfilled – Reward: 3,000 XP
Automatically fulfilled – Reward: 3,000 XP

Reward for completing Step 9: Encounter with Ho-Oh with Earthquake (Shiny possible), 5 x Special Candy.

Activating a star piece isn’t really worth it unless you’re relatively quick at completing the steps of Nostalgia Challenge 2020: Johto. If you still want XP, use the lucky egg only at the last step to turn 9,000 XP into 18,000 XP after all.

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