Pokemon participates in October 2025: Raid bosses, spotlight hours, community day and more
Blog Andrew Joseph 01 Oct , 2025 0
Go to PokemonThe story about the transformation season will begin in October, with various events lined up in the coming weeks. In addition to the new spotlight time, the game will host some fall-themed events such as Harvest Festival, which will introduce two new Applin forms.
Most importantly, there are also Solisis Community Days that can be expected this month and events to celebrate the latest Pokemon series champions. Pokemon Legend: ZA. Of course, October would be incomplete without the annual Halloween event, which is divided into two parts this year.
You can read more about all the biggest events that have occurred in Pokemon Go below in October 2025.
October raid schedule
Pokemon Go once again chose the new option for this month’s challenge with its new legend and Mega Pokemon.
In the next few weeks, multiple forms of deoxygenation and genes will return to five-star raids, while a large number of large-scale evolutionary Pokemon will stand out in the Mega Raids. You can also encounter some seasonal Dynepax Pokemon in Max battles throughout the month, including Gastly and Woobat.
You can see the full schedule of raids for October below:
Five-star raid
October 7-14
- Deoxygenation (normal formation)
- Deoxys (Defense Group)
October 14-21
- Deoxys (attack group)
- Deoxys (speed group)
October 21-28
- Gene
- Gene (Douse Drive)
- Gene (shock drive)
October 28 to November 4
Giant raid
October 7-14
- Giant
- Giant Braziken
- Giant swamp
October 14-21
- Mega Mawile
- Giant sal
October 21-28
October 28 to November 4
- Giant Gengat
- Mega Sableye
- Giant Banette
The biggest battle
September 29 to October 5
October 6th to 12th
October 13-19
October 20-26
October 27 to November 2
October spotlight hours
Pokemon GO's weekly spotlight hours event will continue in October, with new Pokemon and bonus options.
Every Tuesday evening, from 6 to 7 p.m. local time, a special Pokemon appears in the wild more frequently. Most importantly, you will get extra bonuses when participating in this event, such as the Double Star or XP when you catch Pokemon.
You can see the full spotlight schedule for October below:
October 7
- Featured Pokemon: ferroseed
- bonus: 2x evolution XP
October 14
- Featured Pokemon: Petillier
- bonus: 2x Capture Stardust
October 21
- Featured Pokemon: Gasley
- bonus: 2x Capture XP
October 28
- Featured Pokemon: Simply
- bonus: 2x fishing candy
Steel skyline
Pokemon Go will start in October, with steel skyline activity continuing October 7.
As the name suggests, steel-type and other city-dwelling Pokemons such as Alolan Diglett, Galarian Meowth, Skarmory, Trubbish and Klink will appear in the wild throughout the event. You will also have a chance to meet Dynamax Duraludon; Steel/Dragon Pokémon will appear in the biggest battle of four stars.
In addition to the selected Pokemon, there will be various global challenges during the event, and different rewards are cancelled as players complete these tasks together. There will also be free field and timed research tasks with events-themed events, as well as paid timed research tickets, providing additional challenges and rewards.
Featured Pokemon
Wild encounters
- Alolan Diglett
- magnet
- Grimer
- Alolan Grimer
- California Meow
- Polygon
- Skarmory
- arrive
- Mawile
- Sepia
- trubbish
- Clink
- ax
- Togedemaru
One-star biggest battle
- Dynamax Drilbur
- Dynamax Rookidee
The biggest battle of three stars
The biggest four-star battle
Mega Metagross is making its long-awaited Pokemon Go debut as part of the Mega Raid Day event October 4.
The large-scale evolution of Pokemon will appear in the gym as a large raid boss from 2-5 p.m. local time. Every Metagross you face will know about the ghost type's fast attack Shadow Claw, and if you successfully clean up the raid, you will have more chances to meet the shining people.
During the event, some bonuses will also be active. As usual, the number of remote raid passes you can hold will temporarily increase to 20, allowing you to participate in more combat remotely. Most importantly, you can receive up to five additional free raid passes when you spin a photo disc in the gym.
bonus
- Long-range raid pass limit increased to 20 (October 3-4)
- Get up to five additional free raid passes when you spin a photo disc in the gym
- Increased chances of encountering shiny Metagross in a large raid
Harvest Festival
Pokemon Go celebrates the arrival of autumn with a Harvest Festival event October 10-16.
As part of the celebration, two new Pokemon debuted in the game: Dipplin and Hydrapple. You can also collect a new item: syrup apples. These may appear in PokeStops equipped with active moss bait modules.
During the event, other fall Pokemons (such as Miltank, Combee, and Smoliv) will also appear more frequently, and some bonuses will be active. When you capture Pokemon with Pinap or Silver Pinap Berries, you get the disaccharide and the chances of encountering the shiny version of Pumpkaboo and Smoliv.
bonus
- 2x candy for capturing Pokemon with PINAP and Silver Pinap Berries
- Increased chances of encountering shiny pumpkins and shiny Smoliv
- Apple has an increased chance of active moss bait module appearing on PokeStops
Community Day in October October 12this time the selected Pokémon is the psychological Solosis.
From 2-5 pm local time, Solisos will appear in the wild more frequently than usual, making it a great opportunity to capture some and store Solisos Candy. You will also have a bigger difference in encountering shiny independent inmates due to the increased spawning rate.
As a featured Pokemon, Solisos was also able to learn an attack involving events. If you can evolve a person to reunite by 9pm local time, Pokemon will automatically learn fairytale-type fast attack charm after evolution.
There are some other in-game bonuses to end the event. You will get Level 3 Stardust and Double Candy Capture Pokemon, while players at Level 31 and above will also get twice as much as Candy XL. Most importantly, any aroma you activate will last for three hours, and the bait module will last for one.
bonus
- 3x the Star Dust that Captures Pokemon
- 2X Candy Capture Pokemon's Candy
- 2x chances to get Candy XL from catching Pokemon (for players 31 and above)
- The fragrance lasts for three hours (excluding the fragrance of daily adventure)
- The bait module will last for one hour
- Another special transaction can be made
- Transactions will require a 50% reduction in stardust
Pokemon Legend: ZA Celebration
Pokemon Go is celebrating the release of Pokemon Legends: ZA October 16th to 20th. More information will be announced soon.
Giant Raid Day
Another big raid day is happening October 18. Additional details will be shared near the event.
Halloween 2025 Part 1
Pokemon GO is coming to an end this month through its annual Halloween event. Like in previous years, the celebration will be divided into two parts, the first of which is October 21-27.
Go to fight on weekends
Pokemon Go takes on the weekend’s battle weekend in the first part of this year’s Halloween event October 25-26.
Halloween 2025 Part 2
Pokemon Go's Halloween 2025 event second round October 27 November 2. More details will be announced later this month.