Pokémon GO now has 9 new quests and a new raid challenge

In Pokémon GO there are 9 new quests and a new raid challenge available starting today, June 8, 2021. We show you how they look and what rewards you get for completing the quests.

What’s new? As part of the event “A Very Slow Discovery” starting today, Niantic has released 9 new quests and a new raid challenge. You receive the quests as field research tasks when you spin the Pokéstop. Based on information from Leekduck (via reddit), we have summarized the new tasks for you.

What do the 9 new quests look like?

Notes: Pokémon marked with an (*) can be obtained as shiny variants with a bit of luck.

What does the new raid challenge look like?

In connection with the new quests, a new raid challenge has also emerged. As data miners discovered a few days ago, Pokémon GO now has for the first time a time-based challenge for completing raids.

In addition to the already time-limited raids, especially the quest “Win a raid in under 60 seconds” is supposed to provide trainers with a new challenge. This is meant to give you an even greater incentive to win raids within the actual time limit.

While the quest “Win a raid in under 10 minutes” is more of a thematic task that relates to the many slow Pokémon of the event, the second raid quest is already a bit more demanding.

Especially in Mega or 5-star raids, you need multiple trainers to defeat the raid boss in this time. However, this time requirement can also be met relatively easily in smaller raids alone.

Whether there will be more quests of this kind in the future remains uncertain.

Feel free to let us know in the comments what you think of the new quests. What do you think of the new raid challenge? Are you also looking for the best attackers against Mega-Dewgong? We have put together a counter guide to Mega-Dewgong for Pokémon GO that informs you well for selecting your team.