April 2020 Community Day

The April 2020 Community Day was the twenty-seventh Community Day event, featuring Abra.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this originally scheduled event in March 2020 had been rescheduled to April, 2020. Niantic called it as Community Day: Play at Home Edition. This format has been used for all subsequent Community Days.

Featured Pokémon
These Shiny Pokémon were released at the start of the event: PS Abra PS Kadabra PS Alakazam

Abra had increased spawn rates in the wild and from Incense or Lure Modules:

These Pokémon could photobomb five times during the event:

Exclusive move
In order to obtain Counter, Trainers had to evolve Kadabra into Alakazam after the start of event and up to 2 hours after the end of event. Trainers cannot use TMs to obtain the attack.

Field Research event tasks
These Field Research tasks were available during the event:

Special Research
Investigating Illusions Special Research was available during the event costing $1. The Alakazam in this research would know Counter if it was caught during event hours. This research granted an exclusive medal.

Shop special offer
These offers were available from the shop during the event: