Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global
For the brave, adventure awaits around every corner—are you ready to venture into the Wild Area?
Trainers around the world can gear up for a worldwide adventure during Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global, available in-game for two days only!
Looking to enhance your GO Wild Area weekend with exclusive Special Research, additional bonuses, and an increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon? Purchase a global event ticket from the Pokémon GO Web Store!
Event Tickets
Tickets for Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global are available now in the in-game Shop and Pokémon Go Web Store for $11.99 USD.
Purchase your ticket on the Pokémon GO Web Store for a new avatar item!
Trainers who purchase their Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global ticket on the Pokémon GO Web Store will receive a special avatar item—the Flower Crown!
You can purchase your ticket on the web store until the last day of the event to receive this avatar item.
Pokémon GO Wild Area: Nagasaki
For details on the in-person event in Nagasaki, Japan, click here.
Bonuses 
General Bonuses
These bonuses are available for all Trainers between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m local time on event days.
Ticketed Bonuses
These bonuses are available only for ticket holders between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m local time on event days.
All-Day Ticketed Bonuses
Ticket holding Trainers will also receive the following bonuses and rewards between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m local time on event days.
* Ticket-holding Trainers will have an increased chance to encounter Shiny Pokémon. Shiny Pokémon are not guaranteed by purchasing a ticket.
** For this bonus to apply, Trainers must first collect all Max Particles available in the Nearby menu. Trainers can collect Max Particles via the Nearby menu each day by exploring. Adventure Sync can help make sure your distance counts! Keep an eye on the Nearby menu for the icon that shows when Max Particles are ready to collect.
Features 
Grimmsnarl makes its Pokémon GO debut!
Ready for a little mischief? This year’s GO Wild Area event will feature the global Pokémon GO debuts of Impidimp, Morgrem, and Grimmsnarl!
On both event days, Impidimp, the Wily Pokémon, will appear in the wild and hatch from 5 km Eggs!
You can use 25 Impidimp Candy to evolve Impidimp into Morgrem and 100 Impidimp Candy to evolve Morgrem into Grimmsnarl.
Rescue Shadow Darkrai from Team GO Rocket!
They’re at it again! Team GO Rocket is venturing into the GO Wild Area this year, and they’ve brought Shadow Darkrai with them for the first time in Pokémon GO!
On Saturday, Shadow Cresselia will appear in Shadow Raids. On Sunday, Shadow Darkrai will appear in Shadow Raids. Plus, you can encounter Shiny Shadow Cresselia and Shiny Shadow Darkrai—if you’re lucky!
Cresselia
Darkrai
Introducing mighty Pokémon!
Trainers may also find themselves in encounters with unusually powerful opponents known as mighty Pokémon! All mighty Pokémon have some shared traits:
- More likely to have high Attack, Defense, and HP ratings
- More likely to be XL or XXL
- More difficult to capture
- Encounters will show “!!!” instead of CP
Trainers may even encounter Shiny versions of these mighty Pokémon, if they’re lucky! Using the event-exclusive GO Safari Ball when trying to capture these Pokémon will greatly improve your chance of success.
Different mighty Pokémon will have a chance to appear on each day. Mighty Pokémon are mighty rare, so make sure you have your GO Safari Balls ready—you never know when one might appear!
Look forward to exciting Shiny Pokémon global debuts!
Fortunate Trainers might just find the following Pokémon making their global Shiny debuts during the event: Shiny Unown W, Shiny Hatenna, and Shiny Impidimp!
Unown W
Hatenna
Hattrem
Hatterene
Impidimp
Morgrem
Grimmsnarl
Trainers who purchase the global event ticket will have an increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon during the event!
Choose your path
Ticket holders will have access to an exclusive branching Special Research story—select between a Dark- or Fairy-type path and become an expert Trainer of your chosen type!
Choose Dark
- Encounter with Dark-type Pokémon
- Dark Expert medal upon Special Research completion
Choose Fairy
- Encounter with Fairy-type Pokémon
- Fairy Pro medal upon Special Research completion
GO Snapshot
Take some snapshots while you explore for surprise encounters!
All Trainers can get up to 3 photobomb encounters per day.
Ticket holders can get up to 6 photobomb encounters per day.
Find even more Pokémon on Routes!
Trainers who explore Routes during Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global will encounter Pokémon more frequently and earn additional Buddy Candy!
Spawns 
In the Wild
For all Trainers, event-themed Pokémon will appear in two rotating hours. Lurking Dark Hour will run first, followed by Fanciful Fairy Hour. Plus, mighty Pokémon will be appearing throughout the day, regardless of habitat hour.
Lurking Dark Hour
Alolan Meowth
Alolan Grimer
Gastly
Hoothoot
Murkrow
Sneasel
Houndour
Poochyena
Galarian Zigzagoon
Seedot
Nincada
Cacnea
Kricketot
Stunky
Skorupi
Scraggy
Zorua
Foongus
Deino
Inkay
Phantump
Impidimp
Dreepy
Fanciful Fairy Hour
Clefairy
Alolan Vulpix
Jigglypuff
Galarian Ponyta
Chansey
Togetic
Marill
Snubbull
Ralts
Skitty
Swablu
Feebas
Cherubi
Audino
Cottonee
Espurr
Dedenne
Klefki
Popplio
Cutiefly
Hatenna- Impidimp
Smoliv
Mighty Pokémon - Saturday
Wigglytuff
Galarian Rapidash
Tyranitar
Mawile
Absol
Golurk
Hatterene
Obstagoon
Meowscarada
Mighty Pokémon - Sunday
Alolan Ninetales
Galarian Weezing
Granbull
Houndoom
Gardevoir
Honchkrow
Garchomp
Drapion
Weavile
Incense Encounters
For all Trainers, the following mighty Pokémon will be attracted to Incense (excluding Daily Adventure Incense) during both event days:
- Alolan Ninetales
- Galarian Rapidash
- Tyranitar
- Mawile
- Absol
- Garchomp
- Drapion
- Weavile
- Hatterene
- Meowscarada
Ticket Holder Exclusive - Incense Encounters
For ticket-holding Trainers, the following Pokémon will also be attracted to Incense (excluding Daily Adventure Incense) during both event days, in addition to the mighty Pokémon available to all Trainers! Also, for the first time in Pokémon GO, ticket-holding Trainers will be able to encounter Shiny Unown W from Incense—if they’re lucky!
Unown
Unown D
Unown I
Unown L
Unown W
Mighty Pokémon
- Alolan Ninetales
- Galarian Rapidash
- Tyranitar
- Mawile
- Absol
- Garchomp
- Drapion
- Weavile
- Hatterene
- Meowscarada
Special Mighty Pokémon from Incense
Some Trainers might even encounter the following mighty Pokémon!
Uxie
Mesprit
Azelf
Eggs 
In 5 km Eggs
Mime Jr.
Sandile
Pawniard
Carbink- Impidimp
Tinkatink
Raids 
Shadow Raids
The following Pokémon will appear in Shadow Raids during GO Wild Area: Global!
Saturday
- Cresselia
Sunday
- Darkrai
Research 
Field Research Tasks
All Trainers will have a boosted chance of receiving event-themed Field Research during the event! You can encounter event-themed Pokémon when you complete Field Research tasks.
Ticket Holder Exclusive - Special Research
Ticket-holding Trainers can claim an exclusive Special Research story when Pokémon GO Wild Area: Global begins on November 15, 2025! In this branching research, you’ll choose a path and become an expert on Dark- or Fairy-type Pokémon to earn one of two in-game medals.
Shiny 
Shiny Debuts
These Pokémon will be released in their shiny variant with the start of the event.
- Unown W
- Hatenna
- Hattrem
- Hatterene
- Impidimp
- Morgrem
- Grimmsnarl
Sales 
Web Store Exclusive Avatar Item
Purchase your ticket on the Pokémon GO Web Store for a new avatar item—the Flower Crown!
You can purchase your ticket on the web store until the last day of the event to receive this avatar item.
New Avatar Items
New avatar items will be available to purchase in the in-game shop and will continue to be available after the event ends!
New Stickers
All Trainers will be able to get Pokémon GO Wild Area–themed stickers in the in-game shop! These stickers will also be available for ticket holders via PokéStops and Gifts during event hours.
