Long-time Pokémon GO Dataminer Chrales has revealed all the new research quests required to unlock Celebi in the game. These have just gone live as well, alongside the Johto event which makes generation two (Johto) Pokémon more common. This latter effect is expected to last a week.
Celebi quests 1/2
Make {0} new friends
Evolve an evolved Grass-type Pokémon
Catch a Pokémon {0} days in a row
Use a Sun Stone to evolve Gloom or Sunkern
Walk 10 km with Eevee as your buddy to earn Candy
Evolve Eevee into Espeon during the day
Send {0} Gifts to friends
— Chrales (@Chrales) August 20, 2018
While maybe not as hard as earning 400 Magikarp Candy, quests have minimum time limits on them – e.g. “Catch a Pokemon 3 Days in a row”. Therefore you shouldn’t expect to get Celebi ASAP. The quests are as follows (numbers not yet known):
Quests in order
Power up Pokémon 5 times, Battle in a Gym 2 times, and Battle in a raid
Rewards: 10 Poké Balls, TM, Super Incubator
Make 3 new friends, Evolve an evolved Grass-type Pokemon (E.g. Gloom, Weepinbell), Catch a Pokemon 3 Days in a row
Rewards: 1500 Stardust, 1 Sun Stone, 1 Premium Raid pass
To be confirmed
Total new quests list
Note this does not include pre-existing quests, e.g. Power up Pokémon [X] times.
Make 3 new friends
Evolve an evolved Grass-type Pokémon
Catch a Pokémon 3 days in a row
Use a Sun Stone to evolve Gloom or Sunkern
Walk 10 km with Eevee as your buddy to earn Candy
Evolve Eevee into Espeon during the day
Send [?] Gifts to friends
Evolve Eevee into Umbreon at night
Trade Pokémon [?] times
Trade a Pokémon
Visit PokéStops [?] days in a row
Use [?] Pinap Berries while catching Pokémon
Use items to evolve Pokémon [?] times
Catch [?] Grass- or Psychic-type Pokémon
Earn a Gold Johto medal
Rewards known so far include a Sun Stone, Super Incubator, Silver Pinap Berries (a new item – both increases candy earned from catching by 2, and the catch rate by 1.8), and of course Celebi by the end.
New Field Research quests are also live, mostly featuring Johto Pokémon. They are all labelled as “Johto Festival”, and are as follows:
Johto Festival: Evolve 3 Natu or Sunkern – Pineco reward
Johto Festival: Catch 3 Sunkern – Evolution item (e.g. Metal Coat, Upgrade, etc.)
Johto Festival: Catch 5 Water Pokémon – Poliwhirl or Seadra
Johto Festival: Make 3 Excellent Throws – Scyther or Onix
Johto Festival: Make 4 Great Curveball Throws in a row – Miltank
Johto Festival: Win a raid – Porygon
New sale boxes have also been released, featuring a mix of Incubators, Raid Passes and Incense.
We’ll update as further details become clear.