Kanto Celebration 2018

Kanto Celebration in 2018 was the first Kanto Celebration event in Pokémon GO that was dedicated for Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region.

Featured Pokémon


Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region had increased spawn rates in the wild and from Incense or Lure Modules:

These Raid Bosses were available during the event:

Shop special offer
These offers were available from the shop during the event until 8:00PM UTC on April, 2018:

Trivia

 * It was the second event to feature temporal changes of Raid Bosses. The first one was Pokémon GO Park in Yokohama, Japan.
 * It was the first to feature this worldwide.
 * Between April and, players started noticing that 2D sprites of Kanto- and Johto-region Pokémon had changed, thus they started speculating that during this event some or even more of shiny variants of these Kanto Pokémon might be released.
 * Moreover, Reddit user u/Chrales through the data-mining found and revealed that in fact plenty of 2D sprites for shiny variants of Kanto- and Johto-region Pokémon had been added to the game server. However none of these Shiny Pokémon had their in-game 3D models added.
 * Despite all of these 2D sprites of Shiny Pokémon being added to the game, none of Pokémon had their shiny variant released during this event.