There is a new Buddy Up Event, which begins on April 21, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. to Monday, April 27, 2020, at 10:00 p.m. This article introduces everything we know about the Buddy Up Event.

 
 

The Buddy Up Event is set to begin this week and bring players some rare Pokémon and chances to catch some of the mobile game's most popular Buddy Pokémon. As the coronavirus pandemic persists, Pokémon Go is making it easier to play from home and this event continues the trend by making it more beneficial to play with your Buddy Pokémon. Pokémon such as Alolan Meowth, Chansey, Eevee, Feebas, Lillipup and Joltik will appear in the wild more often. They will also hatch from 5km Egg at a higher rate. Woobat, once an event-exclusive Pokémon, will also return and start to hatch from 2km Eggs once the event is over. Typically, Illumise is only available in Africa, North America, and South America, whereas Volbeat can only be found in Asia, Australia, and Europe.
 
Not only will both Illumise and Volbeat be spawning in Pokemon GO around the world, but they will be available through other methods as well. There will be a couple of Pokemon GO Buddy Up Field Research tasks that players can get during the event where the reward is a Volbeat or Illumise encounter. To trigger a Volbeat encounter, Pokemon GO players need the Field Research task to take a snapshot of their buddy, and to get the Illumise encounter, players need to get the Field Research task to play with their buddy Pokemon.
 
While the chance to catch a region-exclusive Pokemon is plenty exciting for many Pokemon GO players, Niantic is sweetening the pot even further. As of today, both the shiny variants of both Illumise and Volbeat will be available, so fans will have a chance to expand their collection of shiny Pokemon in the game by participating in the event.
 
Bonuses
Buddy Pokémon will be bringing you more surprises more often! Look out for more items and Souvenirs. Your buddy might even bring you a new kind of gift!
The distance to earn Buddy Candy and hearts with your buddy will be halved.
It’ll be easier for your buddy to get excited!
Feed your buddy Berries and Poffins, and it’ll join you on the map for twice as long.
Earn twice the XP for evolving Pokémon, your buddy or otherwise!
 
There’ll be an Abra Community Day on April 25, which overlaps with this event. Using Lucky Eggs as you evolve a ton of Abra will give a juicy amount of XP if you’re still on the grind to level 40. That is the guide for Pokemon Go Buddy Up Event, hope this guide will help you to know this update in details.