Kanto Celebration 2018

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

Featured Pokémon
Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region were seen more frequently, so Trainers had the perfect opportunity to earn a gold Kanto medal and complete their Kanto Pokédex.

The following Raid Bosses would be available for a time of this event:

Shop special offer
The following offers were available from the shop from the start of 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.
 * It is one of four events that revolved around the Kanto-region Pokémon in particular, the other ones are Ultra Bonus Event 2018, Let's Go Celebration and Pokémon Day 2019.