After a five-year, two-month wait, and with amazingly small fanfare, Pokémon Go developer Niantic has yet brought Kecleon to the mobile gotta-catch-’em-all game. Kecleon is disposable to drawback successful Pokémon Go aft the decision of Saturday’s Chespin Community Day, which runs from 2-5 p.m. section time.

Players successful countries similar New Zealand and Australia, wherever Chespin Community Day has already travel and gone, reported being capable to drawback Kecleon aft the lawsuit concluded. Kecleon appears to beryllium somewhat uncommon successful Pokémon Go, appearing lone astatine immoderate PokéStops.

The accomplishment of Kecleon is simply a large woody for Pokémon Go completionists, who person not been capable to implicit their Hoenn Pokédex to date. Kecleon has been an antithetic holdout, adjacent by Pokémon Go standards. Pokémon from the Hoenn portion — introduced successful Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire — were originally added to the mobile crippled starting successful October 2017. Since then, 134 Pokémon from Hoenn person been rolled retired successful Pokémon Go, with players waiting 1,908 days for the 135th to implicit their determination Pokédex. No longer volition players spot that giant, glaring “352” successful their Pokédex.

Pokémon Go players person pestered Niantic astir Kecleon, aka the Color Swap Pokémon, for years. The developer has typically responded to questions astir Kecleon’s lack by saying it was waiting for the close clip and the close implementation to bring the Normal-type Pokémon to Go. Just past year, unrecorded crippled manager Michael Steranka told USA Today, “In the main bid games Kecleon has a precise unsocial ability. There are definite Pokémon that we privation to marque definite we privation to bash right. Before we present Kecleon to the world, we privation to marque definite that the mode we present it is special.”

So, however did Niantic marque Kecleon’s debut successful Pokémon Go... special?

How to drawback Kecleon successful Pokémon Go

After Chespin Community Day wraps, players volition find Kecleon astatine PokéStops, seemingly randomly. Players volition person to pat connected a PokéStop to spot if Kecleon is there; the Pokémon volition beryllium hardly visible, but its signature jagged reddish marking is unmistakable. When players effort to rotation a PokéStop disc with a Kecleon connected it, they’ll person the message, “There’s an invisible obstacle successful your way. It’s preventing you from collecting items…” Kecleon volition past “hop off” the PokéStop disc and look connected the game’s satellite map. Kecleon tin past beryllium caught similar immoderate different Pokémon Go encounter.

Now that we tin (and cognize however to) drawback Kecleon, the different evident question is... what took truthful long? That’s thing Niantic has yet to remark on, but Kecleon’s long-awaited quality successful Pokémon Go arrives astatine a seemingly unusual time. Kecleon skipped the Hoenn Throwback Challenge successful 2020 and the Hoenn Celebration event successful 2021, and immoderate players were expecting the Pokémon to amusement up astatine Pokémon Go Tour Hoenn next period successful Las Vegas. But summons holders and attendees for that lawsuit whitethorn get entree to different coveted catch, Shiny Kecleon, which is not yet confirmed to beryllium successful Pokémon Go.