Pokemon GO’s Celebi Special Research quest, A Ripple in Time, is now live in the game. Here is how to complete each step and catch the mythical Pokemon Celebi.
After months of waiting, Pokemon GO‘s second Special Research quest “A Ripple in Time” is now live in the game, giving players the chance to add the mythical Pokemon Celebi to their collection. Like the quest to catch Mew, the Special Research quest to catch Celebi is broken down into eight steps with multiple objectives that have to be completed if players hope to catch the rare Pokemon.
Here are all the steps and rewards for the Celebi Special Research in Pokemon GO and how to complete each one. Keep in mind that along with the rewards that players earn for completing an entire step, each individual objective will also grant players some bonus XP.
Note that this guide is a work in progress and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The first step is fairly straightforward, but it is one that Pokemon GO players will want to get a jump on if they hope to complete multiple steps as fast as possible. Raids are only available certain times of day, so players that fail to battle in a raid today may have to wait until tomorrow to continue the Special Research. The other objectives are self-explanatory, though players should note that they can power up any Pokemon in their roster – it doesn’t have to be the same Pokemon five times.
Completing this step will net players 10 Pokeballs, one Charge TM, and one Super Incubator.
And right off the bat, anyone hoping to blaze through the Celebi Special Research in Pokemon GO is going to hit a roadblock with the second step. Making three new friends is actually fairly easy; if there is no one that you know in real life to add, just visit a Pokemon GO forum and it shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to add to the friends list. However, catching a Pokemon three days in a row means that players will have to legitimately wait at least three days to get through this step.
As for evolving an evolved grass-type, that simply means evolving a second stage grass-type Pokemon to its final form. Examples of evolved grass-type Pokemon would be Ivysaur or Bayleef, and since there is a Chikorita Community Day coming up, evolving a Bayleef really shouldn’t be all that difficult.
For completing this step, players will earn 1500 stardust, one Sun Stone, and one Premium Raid Pass.
Players can get a Sun Stone from completing the previous step, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to evolve a Gloom or Sunkern. At the time of this writing, Johto region Pokemon are a lot more common in the wild than usual, Sunkern especially, so completing this step should be a lot easier than it would be otherwise.
Rewards for this step are unknown at this time. We also aren’t sure how many Pokemon players need to evolve with evolution items.
The recent Eevee Community Days make this step a little easier, but if players missed out on the event or already transferred and evolved their Eevees, then they may be out of luck.
Completing this objective will actually be easier for players if they have never evolved Eevee into Espeon in the past, as there are reports that the naming trick only works once. To do the naming trick, change Eevee’s name to Sakura, and then restart the app. Open Pokemon GO again and then evolve the Eevee nicknamed Sakura, but be sure to do it during the day time to satisfy the requirements of this particular objective.
Rewards will be listed here once they become known.
As far as we know, this step only has one objective, and it’s one that will either be fairly easy or time-consuming, depending on if one has any spare Eevees they can evolve or not. At any rate, the naming trick is yet again what players should try here, nicknaming Eevee Tamao and evolving it at night to see if it will evolve into Umbreon. Again, there are reports that the naming trick doesn’t work after the first time, but it’s still worth a shot.
Rewards are unknown at this time.
This step seems designed to keep players from completing the Special Research too fast, as it requires them to spin PokeStops and catch Pokemon a certain number of days in a row before they can move on to the next step. While this may end up being one of the lengthier steps of the Special Research, it will at least be easy to complete.
Reward information is unavailable at this time.
We aren’t quite sure the number of grass- and psychic-type Pokemon players will need to catch to complete this step, but the objectives are self-explanatory. Evolving an evolved grass-type Pokemon is the same objective for step 2, so players should be sure to hang on to their second stage grass-type Pokemon until they reach this step. Again, the upcoming Chikorita Community Day could potentially make this step a lot easier.
Rewards are unknown for this step at this time, but we will update this article when more information becomes available.
Presumably this step will be like the Mew Special Research and will just consist of players catching Celebi. Again, we will update this article when more information becomes available.
After completing all eight steps, Pokemon GO players will have captured Celebi and may be wondering what the next Special Research has in store. There are many mythical Pokemon that have yet to be added to the game, and while Niantic may break its pattern and use Special Research for non-mythical Pokemon, the safe bet is players will have an opportunity to catch Deoxys or Jirachi next.
Pokemon GO is out now for iOS and Android mobile devices.
