PoGO – Pokémon Go Water Festival: Catch Challenge rewards with two new Mon!

In Pokémon Go, trainers are celebrating the Water Festival event, and it comes with a Global Challenge, three new Pokémon … and a catching challenge, where you can get two of the new Pokémon! In this guide, we’ll tell you what you need to do to get Lapras with Scarf and Araqua.

Update as of May 12, 2022: Water Festival 2022 has kicked off in Pokémon Go, and as of now, at 3:00 p.m. on May 12, 2022, more than 100,000,000 Water Pokémon have already been caught – so the Global Challenge bonus should unlock pretty quickly. And besides, you can now find the new Pokémon Araqua and Lapras with Scarf in the wild… or you’re guaranteed to snag them by completing the five steps of the Water Festival: Catch Challenge! Because then you’ll be rewarded with Araqua and Lapras with Scarf! You’ll need to complete the following tasks:

Water Festival: Catch Challenge

Catch 15 Pokémon – Reward: 20 x Pokéball
Catch 50 Pokémon – Reward: 25 x Superball
Catch 25 Water-type Pokémon – Reward: 25 x Hyperball
Land 25 Curveballs – Reward: Encounter with Araqua
Catch 10 different types of Pokémon – Reward: 50 x Garados-Mega- Energy

Reward for completing all tasks: Encounter with Lapras with scarf, 1,000 stardust 1,000 XP.

Original news from May 10, 2022: It’s slowly getting warm outside and a sparkling refreshment comes just in time: starting on May 12, 2022, the Water Festival event will be active in Pokémon Go. It brings a new Shiny into the game, namely Bithora. Lapras will also be appearing with a scarf. You can also enjoy the fact that the two Pokémon Araqua and Aranestro are new to Pokémon Go! You can also welcome the legendary Kapu-Kime in the raids of Pokémon Go! And then you can expect a Global Challenge as well as Limited Research! Below is the overview of all the details!

Water Festival 2022 in Pokémon Go.

The event starts on May 12, 2022 at 10:00 am and goes until Friday, May 20, 2022 at 8:00 pm, so it will be active for eight days. The following news awaits you in the game.

Lapras with scarf, Araqua and Aranestro will make their debuts in Pokémon Go! Araqua will appear in the wild with luck; Aranestro can be evolved with 50 Araqua candies. Lapras can be Shiny with luck. Also with luck Shiny can be Bithora, which is newly brought into the game as Iridescent.
In Tier 5 raids, you will encounter Kapu-Kime.
Rain Lock Modules last for two hours during the event.
During the event, you’ll get double candy for hatching eggs and more XL candy for hatching eggs.
During the event, there’s a Global Challenge for all Pokémon Go Trainers: catch 600,000,000 Water Pokémon to activate the Double Catch Bonuses bonus. The Global Challenge starts on May 11, 2022 at 10:00 PM and ends on May 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM.
The special research “A Poni Adventure” is available – go here for the guide.
A Temporary Research is activated that revolves around catching Pokémon. You can earn 50 Mega Energy for Garados, 1,000 XP and 1,000 Stardust, as well as an encounter with Lapras with Scarf and with Araqua. When we know the steps of the Temporary Research, we will update this guide.
In the wild, Tentacha, Flegmon, Goldini, Sterndu, Karpador, Marill, Loturzel, Walkingweiher, Kanivanha, Wailmer, Schallquap, Bithora, Araqua, Quaputzi, Mantax and Mamolida will appear.
From 7km friendship eggs hatch Enton, Azurill, Mantirps, Hydropi, Barschwa, Bithora, Sterndu and Perlu.
Through field research, you’ll encounter Karpador, Kanivanha, Wailmer, Liebiskus, Bithora, Araqua, Lapras with Scarf, and Marill, among others.
In the store there are new avatar items, which you can see in the picture above: Water Festival Scarf.

Pokémon GO

Pokémon Go is the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game series for Android and iOS. It is a so-called “location-based game”, i.e. a game that uses the player’s immediate surroundings. It is based on the principle of augmented reality.

Pokémon Map: Between landmarks and sights

Pokémon Go uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine the player’s location and displays it on a map that also represents the playing field. The map is based on OpenStreetMap maps. The game is played mostly outdoors and uses landmarks, landmarks and other notable or eye-catching objects in the world to position either PokéStops or arenas there for you to battle for supremacy. Join either Team Intuition (Team Yellow, Zapdos), Team Wisdom (Team Blue, Arktos), or Team Daring (Team Red, Lavados). Under their flag you can then fight for the arenas, which are placed at hotspots like churches or similar. Pokémon can appear anywhere, though.

Pocket monsters visible on the Pokémon Go Map are randomly loaded into the game’s virtual map by the game server. If several players are playing in the same location, each player can see and catch the Pokémon independently of the others.

Pokémon Go Updates, News, Raids and More

The developers at Niantic regularly provide Pokémon Go with new updates or special raids that should only be tackled in a group of several people. The Pokémon Go Raids are therefore very popular, as they also offer the prospect of particularly rare Pokémon. For example, in the past, legendary Pokémon could always be caught on special occasions (Pokémon Go events). For particularly eager mobile or smartphone Pokémon trainers, there is also an external IV calculator, such as the online tool from Pokemon.gameinfo.io or on Pokefans.net, to check the values of your Pokémon.