The community never expected this but it's going to be a fruitful community day in May! The fruit Pokemon Bounsweet is the featured community day Pokemon in May 2024 for Pokemon GO. If you are planning to take part in the harvest, here's everything you need to know about the Bounsweet Community Day in Pokemon Go.
Bounsweet Community Day: May 19, 2024
Bounsweet, alongside the rest of its evolutionary line featuring Stenee and Tsareena, is part of the 81 Pokemon that was introduced back in the seventh generation of the Pokemon franchise. In Pokemon GO, Bounsweet evolves into Stenee using 25 candies and then further evolves into Tsareena, the final stage of Bounsweet's evolutionary line, with 100 candies.
The May 2024 Bounsweet Community Day is set to happen on May 19, 2024, Sunday, from 2 PM to 5 PM local time.
For this event, evolving Steenee during the Bounsweet Community Day results in a Tsareena that knows the charged move High Jump Kick. Players can still evolve Steenee into Tsareena that knows the move High Jump Kick for five more hours past the conclusion of the event.
Bounsweet Community Day Bonuses
Just as with every community day, here is a list of in-game bonuses players can expect to be active during the Bounsweet Community Day:
- Bounsweet has increased wild spawn rates during the event
- Players get 2× candy for catching Pokemon
- Egg Hatch Distance is reduced to 1/4 when eggs are placed into incubators during the event
- There is a 2× chance for Trainers level 31 and up to receive XL Candy from catching Pokemon
- Lure Modules activated during the event will last for three whole hours
- Incense (besides the Daily Adventure Incense) activated during the event will last for three whole hours
- Taking snapshots during the event will surprise players with a Bounsweet encounter
- One additional Special Trade can be made for a maximum of two for the day (active on the day of the event from 2 PM to 10 PM local time)
- Trading Pokemon uses 50% less Stardust (active on the day of the event from 2 PM to 10 PM local time)
Additionally, during the event, Bounsweet Community Day–themed Field Research tasks that require you to catch Bounsweets are available for players to get after spinning PokeStops. The rewards given by those Field Research tasks range from additional encounters with Bounsweets, Stardust, Great Balls, and more.
On another note, players can also choose to complete four-star Raids against Steenee from 5 PM to 10 PM local time for more Bounsweet encounters past the three-hour community day event. After completing Steenee raids, additional Bounsweet will appear around the gym that hosted the raid for 30 minutes with the same community day shiny rates.
Lastly, consider mega evolving a Grass-type Pokemon like Mega Venusaur, Mega Sceptile, and Mega Abomasnow or Primal Groudon for the additional catch candy bonus.
Pokemon GO Community Day Paid Features
Pokemon GO events always have paid features. As such, here are some of the features you can pay for during the Bounsweet Community Day this May 2024 in Pokemon GO.
For a single dollar (or the equivalent pricing tier in a player's local currency), players can unlock an exclusive Bounsweet Community Day Special Research Story.
Besides the exclusive community day special research story, there will also be community day bundles during this event. Here is a list of them:
- For $4.99, players can purchase an Ultra Community Day Box containing ten Ultra Balls, one Elite Charged TM, and one Special Research Story ticket. This is only available through the Pokémon GO Web Store.
- For 1,350 PokéCoins, players can get a bundle that contains 50 Ultra Balls, five Super Incubators, one Elite Charged TM, and five Lucky Eggs.
- For 480 PokéCoins, players can get a bundle that contains 30 Ultra Balls, one Incense, three Super Incubators, and one Lure Module.
Medals to Grind on Bounsweet Community Day
Considering players need to grind for Platinum medals in Pokemon GO, here are some of the medals players can complete during the Bounsweet Community Day event this May 2024:
Pokedex Medals
If you have yet to register Bounsweet and its succeeding evolutions in the Pokedex, doing so will result in adding progress towards the Alola Medal, which requires players to register 86 Alola Region Pokemon in their Pokedex.
Pokemon Type Medals
Catching Bounsweets during the community day event will add progress towards finishing the Gardener Medal. Accomplishing the Gardener Medal comes after a player has caught 2,5000 Grass-type Pokemon in Pokemon GO.
Miscellaneous Medals
There are other medals you can get by simply reaching certain milestones in Pokemon GO. Here are the rest of the medals you can grind for during this event:
- Collector Medal – Catch 50,000 Pokemon
- Scientist Medal – Evolve 2,000 Pokemon
- Sightseer Medal – Spin 2,000 unique PokeStops
- Pokemon Ranger Medal – Complete 2,500 Field Research tasks
- Idol Medal – Become Best Friends with 20 Trainers
- Gentleman Medal – Trade 2,500 Pokemon
- Rising Star Medal – Defeat 150 different species of Pokemon in raids
- Champion Medal – Win 1,000 Raids
- Rising Star Duo Medal – Win 1,000 Raids
- Jumbo Pokemon Collector Medal – Catch 500 XXL Pokemon
- Tiny Pokemon Collector Medal – Catch 500 XXS Pokemon
- Breeder Medal – Hatch 2,500 eggs
- Pilot Medal – Earn 10,000,000 kilometers across the distance of all Pokemon trades
- Cameraman Medal – Have 400 surprise encounter in GO Snapshot
- Backpacker Medal – Visit 50,000 PokeStops
- Jogger Medal – Walk 10,000 kilometers
- Picknicker Medal – Use a Lure Module to help any trainer catch 2,500 Pokemon
- Triathlete Medal – Achieve a Pokemon catch streak or PokeStop spin streak of seven days 100 times
- Mega Evolution Guru Medal – Mega evolve 36 different Species of Pokemon
- Successor – Mega evolve a Pokemon 500 times
- Showcase Star Medal – Win 100 PokeStop Showcases
Everyone's reaction to Bounsweet Community Day's announcement
Prior to the official announcement of the event, Pokemon GO released a teaser video for the Bounsweet Community Day.
At first, a lot of people thought it was going to be a Pikipek Community Day as Toucannon's shadow, the final evolution of Pikipek, was seen hovering at the start of the video. Alas, Bounsweet's obvious silhouette pounced near the end of the video thus confirming it was going to be a Bounsweet Community Day after all.
As it turns out, some members of the community seemed to prefer Pikipek over Bounsweet. Some of them even voiced out their preference online.
“I think I speak for 95% of us when I say we don’t want this. Give us Pikipek instead,” said one user in X (formerly known as Twitter).
“Most horrible community day ever. Sorry Bounsweet lovers 🤣,” said another user.
High Jump Kick over Tsarenaa's signature move Trop Kick
As more details regarding the Bounsweet Community Day soon came to light, the players seemed to be divided as to what to feel with the Bounsweet Communit Day. Specifically, some players had different views regarding the exclusive community day move for Tsareena as the featured move was not its signature move Trop Kick.
Here are some of the reactions of the community regarding Pokemon GO's decision to grant Tsareena High Jump Kick instead of Trop Kick.
“Yeah I'm happy with [High Jump Kick], but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't also hoping for Trop Kick. Could have sprang Tsareena above Roserade potentially,” said one user on a popular Pokemon GO subreddit.
“Seems like this has some potential for PvP. One of the many problems Grass types have is that so many of them are walled by Steel (Victreebell, Venusaur, Serperior, etc.), so a hard hitting Fighting move is helpful. Tsareena doesn’t really have the stat product to be great, but still could be interesting,” pointed out by another user in the same subreddit.
“High Jump Kick it is! That could definitely make Tsareena an interesting Pokemon with Grass, Ice, AND Fighting coverage,” said another user.
A Sweet Community Day
Regardless of whether or not players like it, we are pretty sure players who will participate in the Bounsweet Community Day will have a sweet time catching the featured Pokemon.
As always, we hope you have a fun time this upcoming community day and good luck on catching a lot of Bounsweets.
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