Niantic has recently rolled out a research quest that would give trainers the opportunity to catch the so-called time travel Pokemon – Celebi. However, some players are beginning to complain about a bug that won’t allow them to progress in these sets of quests.

“Pokemon GO” trainers are very much acquainted by now about the Celebi Special Research Tasks’ eight stages as a lot of them are now on its second stage. The issue begins though on its third quest where the requisite is catching a Pokemon for three straight days. As mentioned, the bug is somewhat not registering the players’ catch streak as they remained at 1/3 albeit the fact that they’ve already caught three monsters in a row.

Redditor u/Crakkerz79 is just one of many trainers that have been experiencing the issue as he already brought this to light to both Pokemon GO and The Silph Road subreddits. Fellow trainers then advised him several workarounds to fix the bug but to no avail.

He even created a ticket for this bug to Pokemon GO Support to which they replied stating that if the catch streak is not registering, it might take some and assured the Redditor that it does get registered. The game’s support team also advised him to log out from his account, clear his cache, force stop the game, and restart his device if the issue persists.

Niantic’s response

At the time of writing, Niantic has finally addressed the progression issue as they took to Twitter to state that they are aware of the so-called “A Ripple in Time” quest bug.

They also assured its player base that there’s no time limit in completing the Special Research adding that they are now working on a fix for the ongoing bug.

Celebi Special Research Tasks

For the uninitiated, Comicbook has detailed the quests for trainers to encounter and catch the second mythical Pokemon in the AR title:

Stage 1:

  • Power up Pokemon (5X) (1,000 XP)
  • Battle in a Raid (1,000 XP)
  • Gym battle (2X) (1,000 XP)

Stage 2:

  • Make new friends (3X) (1,500 XP)
  • Evolve an evolved Glass-Type Pokemon (1,500 XP)
  • Catch a Pokemon three days in a row (1,500 XP)

Stage 3:

  • Reach level 25 (2,000 XP)
  • Using Sun Stone to evolve Sunkern/Gloom (2,000 XP)
  • Hatch eggs (9X) (2,000 XP)

Stage 4:

  • Walk 10 kilometers with Eevee as a buddy to earn a Candy (2,500 XP)
  • Evolve Eevee to Espeon during the day (2,500 XP)
  • Send gifts to friends (20X) (2,500 XP)

Stage 5:

  • Walk 10 km with Eevee again to earn a Candy (3,000XP)
  • Evolving Eevee to Umbreon at night (3,000 XP)
  • Trade a Pokemon (3,000 XP)

Stage 6:

  • Visiting PokeStops seven days in a row (3,500 XP)
  • Using Pinap Berries while catching Pokemon (25X) (3,500 XP)
  • Using items to evolve Pokemon (2X) (3,500 XP)

Stage 7:

  • Catch Grass/Psychic-Type Pokemon (40X) (4,000 XP)
  • Earn a Gold Johto medal (4,000 XP)
  • Make an excellent curveball throw (4,000 XP)

Stage 8:

  • Catch Celebi at the end of Stage 7 (3X4,500 XP)
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