Pokémon’s 2025 World Championships has kicked off in Anaheim, which means Pokémon Go’s companion event is also running from Aug. 15-17. During this event, you can score a Pikachu wearing a varsity jacket, themed around the same Pikachu you see in the key art for the World Championships.
During this event, you can complete up to five special trades per day, and run into more Pokémon encounters as you win in PvP. Some Pokémon will know or learn legacy moves when caught as well: caught Lapras will know Ice Beam, evolved Primeape and Annihilape will know Rage Fist, and evolved Clodsire will learn Megahorn.
This event is technically live with the Go Battle Weekend bonus for this season, meaning that alongside the bonuses listed below, you can also gain quadrupled Stardust from playing PvP and you can play up to 100 matches a day (up from 25 per day).
You can see all the bonuses and perks for the Pokémon Go “2025 World Championships Celebration” event below, including the paid Timed Research, Field Research, and boosted spawns.
Pokémon Go ‘2025 World Championships Celebration’ event Timed Research and reward
For $4.99, you can buy a pass that gives you access to this Timed Research, which gives you a handful of PvP-relevant Pokémon. I would only recommend buying this if you love PvP, because the item value (one single Premium Battle Pass) isn’t worth the money otherwise.
There’s also a set of Timed Research that goes alongside the Go Battle Weekend event, which we list under the premium research.
Pokémon Go ‘2025 Worlds Premium Timed Research’ step 1 of 1
- Power up Pokémon 5 times (Claydol encounter)
- Power up Pokémon 10 times (Azumarill encounter)
- Use 5 supereffective charged attacks (Sableye encounter)
- Use 10 supereffective charged attacks (Swalot encounter)
- Win a raid (Carbink encounter)
- Win 2 raids (Lokix encounter)
- Battle in the Go Battle League (Lickitung encounter)
- Battle in the Go Battle League 5 times (Lapras encounter)
Rewards: Guzzlord encounter, 25,000 Stardust, 1 Premium Battle Pass
Pokémon Go ‘Go Battle Weekend’ Timed Research step 1 of 1
- Battle in the Go Battle League 5 times (7,500 XP)
- Battle in the Go Battle League 10 times (7,500 XP)
- Use 10 supereffective charged attacks (7,500 XP)
- Power up Pokémon 10 times (7,500 XP)
Rewards: 3 Rare Candy, 1 Elite Charged TM, Battle Tower Leon-style Boots cosmetic
Pokémon Go ‘2025 World Championships Celebration’ event Field Research and rewards
Spinning a PokéStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:
- Battle in the Go Battle League (Marill or Paldean Wooper encounter, or 1 Charged TM)
- Battle in the Go Battle League 5 times (Pikachu [varsity jacket] encounter)
- Power up Pokémon 15 times (Pikachu [varsity jacket] encounter)
- Spin 5 PokéStops or gyms (5 Poké Balls, 2 Revives, or 3 Super Potions)
- Win a raid (Pikachu [varsity jacket] or Honedge encounter)
Pokémon Go ‘2025 World Championships Celebration’ event boosted spawns
These Pokémon will spawn more frequently during the event period:
- Nidoran-F
- Mankey
- Marill
- Paldean Wooper
- Spoink
- Frillish
- Vullaby
- Inkay
- Rookidee
- Fuecoco
Pokémon Go ‘2025 World Championships Celebration’ event raid targets
The following changes to the raid schedule will take place as part of the event:
| One-star raids | Three-star raids |
|---|---|
| Pikachu (varsity jacket) | Lapras |
| Honedge | Dusclops |
| Diggersby |
*These Pokémon have an “increased chance” of being shiny when raided.
