5 Things We Want in a Pokemon Go Easter Event

Pokemon Go tends to play coy about upcoming events, but popular speculation is that we could see an event coinciding with Easter later this month. Although Easter is a religious celebration, Pokemon Go could easily use the weekend to launch a spring event involving eggs, candies, and babies, all of which are associated with both spring and the holiday.

If Pokemon Go does pull the trigger on a Easter/Spring holiday event, here are five things we'd like to see:
[Note: The following slideshow is purely speculation and shouldn't be construed as either confirmation of a Pokemon Go holiday event or confirmation as to what the event entails.]

Double XP or Candies

Two of Pokemon Go's most popular events were the Halloween and Thanksgiving events, which offered double candies and experience points respectively. Fans have clamored for another double XP event for months, but recent events have steered more towards increased spawns.
Since gameplay almost definitely dropped during the cold winter months in the US, a double XP or candies weekend could be just what Pokemon Go needs to shake fans out of their hibernation. If Pokemon Go wants to make fans happy without putting a lot of effort into the next event, turn Easter weekend into a double XP event and watch players come out of hibernation to try to catch everything they can.

Decreased Egg Distances

Since Easter is often associated with Easter eggs, it makes a lot of sense to incorporate eggs into an Easter-themed event. The easiest way to do this is to decrease the distance needed to hatch eggs for a week, which would allow players to quickly churn through dozens of eggs. Halving the distance needed to hatch Pokemon eggs would be the most obvious choice, but reducing it by 75% would really get players out and walking all weekend.

Hatchable Johto Starters

Last month, we reported that several Gen 2 Pokemon were inexplicably unable to be hatched in Pokemon Go. We still don't know why the Pokemon weren't added to the egg pool, but it's made some Pokemon impossible to get for players who live in rural and Pokemon-lite areas.
The egg pools are in desperate need of an overhaul anyways, and an Easter event would be the perfect time to do it. Adding the Johto Starter Pokemon to the egg pools (especially in conjunction with the aforementioned decrease in egg hatching distances) would be a great way to breathe new life into the hatching mechanic of the game.

Spawnable Baby Pokemon

The Baby Pokemon were the first group of Gen 2 Pokemon introduced to Pokemon Go, but they've largely haven't had much of an impact on the game, as they can only be obtained via hatching eggs. Now that the other Gen 2 Pokemon have been added to Pokemon Go, there's really no reason the Baby Pokemon haven't been added to the wider spawn pools.
Adding the baby Pokemon would make the notoriously hard to catch Togetic a little easier to obtain and tie into the Easter theme of cute babies.

More Chansey and Exeggute

If Pokemon Go chose to go with an "increased spawn" themed event for Easter, the game can still tie into Easter's egg theme. Chansey and Exeggcute are both technically classified as "Egg Pokemon" and are useful Pokemon to have in Pokemon Go. Exeggcute evolves into Exeggutor, the most powerful Grass-type Pokemon in the game, while Chansey evolves into the ultimate damage absorber Blissey.
The only problem with increasing Chansey and Exeggcute spawns is that both were recently used in the Valentine's Day event, which boosted "pink" Pokemon. Fans might get a little upset if Chansey and Exeggcute both spawned with increased frequency so quickly.