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Pokemon GOcontinues to keep its player base engaged with a variety of themed event and in-game celebrations, such as theSweet Swarm event. This event is taking place during the Delightful Days season, with a theme around ‘sweet’ Pokemon, featuring Buy Types and candy-related monsters. Sweet Swarm features a number of unique event bonuses, wild spawns, and research task encounters and rewards.
Sweet Swarm provides a good opportunity for players to stock up some extra XP, focus on encounters with targeted featured Pokemon, and utilize the event bonuses to their benefit. If you’re wondering about event specifics such as research specifics andpossibility of shinies, then everything you’ll need to know has been explained in the guide below.
Pokemon GO Sweet Swarm August 2025 Event Guide
InPokemon GO, the Sweet Swarm event will begin onAugust 3, 2025, and will be available in-game for players to participate in untilAugust 6, 2025. During this time, players will be able to witness encounters with the two featured Pokemon,SwirlixandCombee, through wild encounters influencedby Lure Modules, and through Field Research and Timed Research reward encounters.
There is a small arrangement of event Bonuses that players can benefit from during Sweet Swarm, all related to Combee and Swirlix. This enables players to farm encounters with these two monsters to hunt for the ones with the best stats, or even for a shiny variant, considering the event has boosted shiny rates for both Swirlix and Combee.
Sweet Swarm Event Bonuses in Pokemon GO
The Timed Research for Sweet Swarm involves extra tasks that players can complete to earn additional encounters with Combee and Swirlix. These tasks involve spinning PokeStops, catching Pokemon, and more. During the event, these Timed Research opportunities will be split into two halves. The first set will take place betweenAugust 3 at 12 AM local time and August 4 at 11:59 PM local time. The second half will occur onAugust 5 at 12 AM local time and conclude on August 6 at 11:59 pm local time.
Timed Research Part 2 Rewards (August 5–6)
All Sweet Swarm Research Tasks & Rewards in Pokemon GO
The Sweet Swarm event Field Research Tasks and rewards are now live! The section below has been updated to reflect this.
Spin 5 PokeStops or Gyms
Power up Pokemon 3 times
Send 2 Gifts to friends
Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokemon
Send 3 Gifts to friends
