Recently, the leveling system in Pokémon GO has been revamped. An ongoing event can help you fulfill a new requirement more easily.
The second part of the Halloween event 2025 is currently ongoing in Pokémon GO. It started on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 10:00 AM and runs until Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 8:00 PM. In addition to the Cup Pokémon Fatalitee, there are also several costumed and regular monsters in the event.
Two of the monsters in the event can help you if you want to meet the requirements for levels 71 to 80. In addition to experience points, you will need to fulfill other tasks as well.
2 Monsters, 2 Medals
What kind of monsters are they? In the event, there is also Pikachu in a costumed variant and the pumpkin Pokémon Irrbis, which has a unique feature. The monster comes in 4 different sizes. You can easily tell what size an Irrbis is in the game before you click on it.
How can the monsters help? An important new feature in levels 71 to 80 are the Platinum medals. You need a certain number of Platinum medals for each level to advance to the next level. For the new maximum level 80, you even need 50 Platinum medals.
Among these, there are 2 medals where you can make progress more easily during the current event. For the medal “Collector of Giant Pokémon”, you need to catch a total of 500 XXL Pokémon to reach Platinum. So, catch the large Irrbis variants in the event.
As Trainer Time-Relative-5360 reported on Reddit, you can also trade an XXL Irrbis with a friend to gain another progress point in the medal. By trading, you can also trigger the evolution without candy cost and thus gain another point in the medal. Overall, you can achieve 3 progress points per XXL Irrbis with your friend.
The 2nd medal for which you can make progress in the event is “Pikachu Fan”. Here, you need to catch a total of 1,000 Pikachu to obtain Platinum. Since within the event Pikachu is one of the monsters that appears more frequently in the wild, you should catch all specimens you find.
If you use the event to achieve significant progress in the medals, it can save you time later if you have not yet collected enough Platinum medals.
Not only the Halloween event is waiting for you in Pokémon GO in the near future. The coming month is again packed with various events, raids, and other content. If you want to know what they are, feel free to take a look at our overview of all events in November 2025 in Pokémon GO.
