Shiny Carvanha, Shiny Sharpedo Shiny Barboach and Shiny Whiscash make their Pokémon GO debuts on August 23 at 1 p.m. PDT

Niantic has announced this year’s Water Festival event announced for Pokémon GO. Read on below for all the details:

Date + Time

• Friday, August 23, 2019, at 1 p.m. PDT until Friday, August 30, 2019, at 1 p.m. PDT

Features

• Water-type Pokémon like Magikarp, Wooper, Wailmer, and more will appear more frequently in the wild.
• The following Pokémon will be appearing more frequently in the wild around water: Wartortle, Poliwhirl, Seaking, Lapras, Qwilfish, Mantine, Lotad, Feebas, Piplup, Buizel, and Finneon.
• Water-type Pokémon will hatch more often from Eggs.
• Kingler and Crawdaunt will be able to learn Crabhammer, a Water-type Charged Attack that is newly available in Pokémon GO.
• If you manage to surf the waves of luck, you might encounter Shiny Carvanha or Shiny Barboach! This means that Shiny Sharpedo and Shiny Whiscash will also make their Pokémon GO debuts!

Raids

• Water-type Pokémon like Blastoise, Vaporeon, Lapras, and more will appear in raids.
• On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. local time, you’ll be able to encounter Uxie, Mesprit, or Azelf in five-star raids in their respective regions!

Bonuses

• 2× Hatch Candy
• If you have a Water-type Pokémon as your Buddy, the distance to earn Buddy Candy will be halved.

Source: Official Pokémon GO blog