Pokémon Go’s “Water Festival” event for 2025 has kicked off, running from July 15-20. Obviously this event focuses on water-type Pokémon, but there’s also a few notable bonuses, including the debut of Tatsugiri, the sushi-like Pokémon from Paldea. You will need to raid for Tatsugiri if you want one of these little fishies — though note that the different forms of Tatsugiri are locked to specific regions.
There’s a few other bonuses, such as Rainy Lure Modules lasting for two hours rather than 30 minutes and increased candy for nice throws or better. Staryu and Tirtouga also have an increased chance to be found shiny and catching the scarf-wearing Lapras from raids can yield a special seasonal background if you’re lucky.
Below we list all the perks for Pokémon Go’s “Water Festival” 2025 event, including the premium Timed Research, Collection Challenges, and boosted spawns.
Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival’ 2025 premium Timed Research and reward
As part of the event, there’s a premium research for $4.99 that gives you a bunch of encounters, as well as a special pose that makes your character eat ice cream.
Is the “Happiness in Every Scoop” premium research worth buying? It’s only worth buying if you want the pose. The rest of the rewards are pretty meh.
‘Happiness in Every Scoop’ step 1 of 1
- Catch 5 water-type Pokémon (Staryu encounter)
- Catch 10 water-type Pokémon (Feebas encounter)
- Catch 15 water-type Pokémon (1 Premium Battle Pass)
- Evolve a Pokémon (Clamperl encounter)
- Evolve 3 Pokémon (1 Rainy Lure Module)
- Send a gift with a sticker (Azumarill encounter)
- Explore 1 km (Kingler encounter)
- Spin 5 PokéStops or gyms (Gyarados encounter)
Rewards: Ice Cream Pose cosmetic, Lapras (scarf) encounter, 3,000 Stardust
Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival’ 2025 event Collection Challenges
The following Collection Challenges will be live throughout the duration of the event:
‘Water Festival: Fishin’ Mission’ Collection Challenge
- Catch a Magikarp
- Catch a Barboach
- Catch a Finneon
- Catch a Gyarados
Rewards: 5,000 XP, 2,500 Stardust, Lapras (scarf) encounter
‘Water Festival: She Sells Seashells’ Collection Challenge
- Catch a Staryu
- Catch a Krabby
- Catch a Clamperl
- Catch a Kingler
Rewards: 5,000 XP, 2,500 Stardust, Lapras (scarf) encounter
‘Water Festival: Fishin’ Mission’ Collection Challenge
- Catch a Slowpoke
- Catch a Marill
- Catch a Buizel
- Catch a Azumarill
Rewards: 5,000 XP, 2,500 Stardust, Lapras (scarf) encounter
Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival’ 2025 event Field Research and rewards
Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:
- Catch 5 Pokémon (Slowpoke, Staryu, or Magikarp encounter)
- Catch 10 Pokémon (Squirtle, Buizel, or Finneon encounter)
- Catch 10 water-type Pokémon (20 Mega Blastoise Energy or 20 Mega Gyarados Energy)
- Catch 15 Pokémon (Lantern, Palpitoad, or Tirtouga encounter)
- Evolve 2 water-type Pokémon (Wimpod encounter)
- Win a raid (Lapras [scarf] encounter)
Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival’ 2025 event boosted spawns
These Pokémon will spawn more frequently during the event period:
- Squirtle
- Slowpoke
- Krabby
- Staryu*
- Magikarp
- Lanturn
- Marill
- Barboach
- Feebas
- Clamperl
- Buizel
- Finneon
- Palpitoad
- Tirtouga*
- Wimpod
*There is an “increased chance” of finding this shiny in the wild as part of the event.
Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival’ 2025 event raid targets
The following changes to the raid schedule will take place as part of the event:
‘Water Festival’ 2025 raid line-up
One-star raids |
Three-star raids |
|---|---|
| Shellder | Kingler |
| Ducklett | Gyarados |
| Tatsugiri | Lapras (scarf) |
| Azumarill |