Pokémon Go ‘Scorching Sands’ event, Timed Research guide

Pokémon Go is hosting a fire-type event that encourages you to walk around and hatch eggs called “Scorching Steps” from June 21-25.

You’ll get doubled candy from hatching eggs throughout the event. Eggs put into Incubators during the event will also have a halved hatch distance. The first three eggs you hatch using the Pokémon Go egg hatching widget will also be cut to ¹⁄₄ the usual distance.

Notably, Larvesta can appear as shiny for the first time, alongside its evolution Volcarona. There’s also an increased chance to find and hatch Slugma and Litleo shiny.

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Below, you can see all the event perks for the Pokémon Go “Scorching Sands” event, including the Timed Research and event Field Research.

Pokémon Go ‘Scorching Steps’ event Timed Research and rewards

This research is free for all players and just needs to be completed before the end of the event.

Step 1 of 1

• Hatch an egg (Slugma encounter)
• Hatch 2 eggs (Litleo encounter)
• Hatch 3 eggs (Slugma encounter)
• Hatch 4 eggs (Litleo encounter)
• Hatch 5 eggs (Slugma encounter)

Rewards: 2,000 XP, 1,500 Stardust, Turtonator encounter

Pokémon Go ‘Scorching Steps’ event Field Research and rewards

Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:

• Hatch an egg (Slugma encounter)
• Hatch 2 eggs (Litleo encounter)
• Hatch 3 eggs (Turtonator encounter)
• Explore 3 km (Slugma or Litleo encounter)

Pokémon Go ‘Scorching Steps’ event egg hatches

These Pokémon have a chance to hatch from any eggs obtained during the event:

• Growlithe (2 km)
• Slugma (2 km)
• Houndour (2 km)
• Magby (2 km)
• Hisuian Growlithe (5 km)
• Darumaka (5 km)
• Litwick (5 km)
• Litleo (5 km)
• Larvesta (2, 5, or 10 km)
• Turtonator (10 km)
• Charcadet (10 km)