Pokemon Go: December Research Breakthrough ft. Deino

ByAdam B Hours
Pokemon Go december research breakthrough

Last Updated on: 4th December 2021, 08:51 pm

Pokemon Go’s Research Breakthrough for December has been revealed, you’ll be finding the Pokemon Deino in your breakthrough boxes.

When does the Pokemon Go Research Breakthrough update for December?

The Research breakthrough in Pokemon Go will update on the 1st of December at 9:00 PM (GMT) and will stay the same until January 1st at 9:00 PM (GMT). – If you’re reading this, this research breakthrough is already live – or it might have ended if you found this months later.

As you might expect, this is pretty standard fare for the duration, given the research breakthrough change is a monthly occurrence.

Pokemon Go Research Breakthroughs

For those not familiar with Research breakthroughs, when you do a research task for the first time each day, you earn a research “stamp”, each of these adds towards a total for that month.

For every 7 of these you gather, you activate the research breakthrough for the current month.

Among other things, this means that you encounter the Pokemon featured as the research breakthrough shortly after you gain the 7th stamp – that means a Deino, in this case. The process then resets, allowing you to potentially repeat it multiple times a month, provided you can clear enough research on different days in that space of time.

For December 2021, the Pokemon Go Research Breakthrough will be Deino, the Pokemon shown below.

Deino in the Pokemon anime
Credit: Bulbapedia, the Pokemon Company

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Typically, research breakthroughs such as this come with an additional bonus or two – August had two separate EXP bonuses for example.

In this case, there seemingly isn’t any particular extra, though you will be able to obtain a Shiny Deino through these breakthroughs, which goes some way towards compensating for that.

Is there anything else?

That’s really about everything you could possibly need to know about the upcoming Research breakthrough change for December in Pokemon Go.

Additionally, If you’d be interested, you can find more Pokemon Go articles, stories and guides on The Click right here, and more pieces written by me personally here.