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 event that was scheduled to March 2020 had been rescheduled to April. 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 with 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:

There were also five chances to be photobombed by Abra:

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
There were several Field Research tasks exclusively for the duration of the event.

Special Research
Investigating Illusions is a Special Research campaign for Abra Community Day. It cost $1 to access the Special Research. The Alakazam in this research would know Counter if it was caught during event hours. This research granted an exclusive medal.

Shop special offer
Following items were available from the April Community Day Box item bundle in 2020.