Pokémon GO brings Water Festival with cool new monsters and a long-awaited costume

On May 12th, the Water Festival will start in Pokémon GO, which will again bring you lots of spawns and bonuses. A few new Pokémon are also making their debut in the game, such as the legendary Pokémon Tapu Kime. We at MeinMMO will show you what event content awaits you.

What kind of event is it? In the coming days it will be wet in Pokémon GO, because the upcoming water festival revolves around the theme of water and the associated monsters. You can look forward to lots of spawns and bonuses as well as one or two Pokémon debuts.

These are the highlights of the water festival (via pokemongolive.com):

• New Legendary Pokémon Tapu Kime
• Araqua and Aranestro make their debut
• The new costumed Pokémon: Lapras with a scarf
• Bithora will be available as Shiny for the first time

When does the water festival take place? The water event starts on May 12, 2022 at 10:00 local time. You then have a good week to take advantage of the new spawns and bonuses until it finally ends on May 20, 2022 at 20:00 local time.

The new monsters for the water festival

Kapu Kime

Tapu Kime is a legendary Water- and Fairy-type Pokémon. It is the patron saint of the Alola island of Poni and has no advancements or advancements. During the Water Festival, you can meet Tapu-Kime for the first time in the level 5 raids. Here you will find the best counters against Tapu-Kime.

You can recognize the Pokémon by its slim, black body, long bluish hair and fin-like hands. Similar to the other patron saints of the Alola Islands, Tapu-Kime protects his delicate body with a purple shell. However, the dazzling variant of the legendary monster will not be available in the game for the time being.

Araqua and Aranestro

Another debut at the Water Festival is celebrated by the water and bug Pokémon Araqua and its evolution Aranestro, which also come from the Alola region. During the event, you can encounter Araqua in the wild and through field research. With the help of 50 candies you can then evolve it into Aranestro.

You can recognize the new Pokémon by its neon-colored, spider-like body. It has a relatively large head surrounded by a bladder.

Its evolution is slightly larger than Araqua, but can also be identified by its distinctive spider-like appearance, neon-colored legs, and bubble on its head. Both monsters will initially not be found as Shinys in the game.

Lapras with Shawl and Shiny-Bithora

In addition to the three new Pokémon from the Alola region, you can also look forward to Lapras with a blue-striped scarf tied as a bow tie. The costumed Pokémon was discovered a few days ago when it was found in the game code and caused a lot of enthusiasm among the trainers.

Some players have been waiting for the special Lapras with the scarf for a long time. It can be found in level 3 raids and in field research. With a bit of luck, you might even encounter a dazzling specimen.

In addition, Bithora will make its Shiny debut in Pokémon GO at the Water Festival. The Rock and Water-Generation 6 Pokémon can be found in the wild and in Field Research during the event, but they can also hatch from Eggs. You can recognize it by its red and white striped body and the green leaves above its head.

All water festival spawns

As you are used to from the events in Pokémon GO, the spawns are also thematically adapted to the water festival. You can encounter the following monsters during the event period:

• In the wilderness:
  • tentacle*
  • Flegmon*
  • Goldini*
  • star you*
  • Magikarp*
  • Marill*
  • Loturzel*
  • walking pond
  • Karnivanha*
  • Waller*
  • Sonic Quap*
  • Bithora*
  • aqua
  • Quaputzi
  • mantax*
  • Mamolida*

• In 7 km eggs:
  • Enton*
  • azurill*
  • mantips
  • hydropi*
  • perch*
  • Bithora*
  • star you*
  • Peru*

• In Raids:
  • Level 1 Raids: Baldorfish*, Wailmer*, Parfi, Equana, Wuffels*
  • Level 3 Raids: Alolan Raichu*, Lapras with Shawl*, Impergator, Azumarill, Kappalores
  • Level 5 Raids: Tapu Kime
  • Mega Raids: Mega Turbotok*

All the Pokémon that you might be lucky enough to encounter in their dazzling form, we’ve got one for you

marked.

All bonuses to the water festival

• In addition to the numerous, thematically appropriate spawns, one or the other bonus awaits you during the event. Here’s what you can look forward to:
• Rain Lure Modules last 2 hours
• Double candies when hatching
• There are more XL candies for hatched eggs
• Special research on the island of Poni
  • Event Field Research
• Rewards: Mega Energy for Blasters and Gyarados, Magikarp encounters*, Karnivanha*, Wailmer*, Liebiskus*, Bithora*, Araqua, Lapras with Shawl*, Marill*
  • Temporary research
• Reward: 50 Mega Energy for Gyarados, 1,000 XP, 1,000 Stardust, and encounter Lapras with Scarf and Araqua
  • Global Challenge from May 11th at 10:00 p.m. to May 21st at 10:00 a.m
  • Objective: Catch 600,000,000 Water-type Pokémon
• Reward: double catch candies

A scarf as a new Avatar item

What do you think of the new Pokemon for the Water Festival? Which bonus are you looking forward to the most? And which monster do you definitely not want to miss at the event? Let us know in the comments and discuss the topic with other trainers here on MeinMMO.