How the Pokémon Go Pass June works and should you buy premium?

After a few months of testing, Pokémon Go’s monthly “Go Pass” is out globally for everyone to try. It’s similar to the pass we saw as part of the Unova Tour, with a few differences, but it is a battle pass in the fact that you will just need to play the game to earn rewards.

Below we explain how the Pokémon Go battle pass, the “Go Pass,” works, how to earn points for it, and if it’s worth buying.

How does the pass work in Pokémon Go?

Just like other battle passes in other games, you just need to play the game to accrue points in this new pass. You can earn points by doing the following:

• Winning a raid (100 points)
• Hatching an egg (40 points)
• Catching a Pokémon (5 points)
• Completely daily tasks (200 points)
• Completing weekly tasks (100-200 points depending on the task)

You can see the list of tasks in your “events” tab in-game. Outside of the daily and weekly tasks, you can only earn up to 250 extra points per day from raiding, hatching eggs, or catching Pokémon, thus limiting your progression somewhat.

As you rank up to new tiers, you’ll get rewards. Half the rewards are locked to a premium track, which you can pay $7.99 to upgrade to.

Some of the ranks also have bonuses that will unlock for the rest of the time the pass is active, like a increase in friendship XP gained or increased XP or Stardust from specific actions.

Pretty much you just need to play the game and you’ll get some sweet bonuses along the way, even if you don’t pay for the premium track.

Since the pass is still being tested, some players may have different rewards. According to the Pokémon Go team, these differences are only XP rewards and “Pokémon encounter visibility.”

Is the Go Pass worth buying in Pokémon Go?

Here’s a total of the shop items you can get from the current premium track if you max it out:

• 50 Poké Balls
• 2 Incenses
• 2,000 Max Particles
• 1 Lucky Egg
• 2 Lure Modules
• 1 Poffin
• 2 Premium Battle Passes
• 1 Incubator
• 1 Super Incubator

If you tally up the above in terms of coin value, then yes, you get your money’s worth in coin value.

However, most of the value for the pass comes from the Lucky Trinket.

As previously stated in our other pass guides, the Lucky Trinket has no direct value — its value weighs solely on how badly you want to force a Lucky Friend to do a Lucky Trade.

If you’re really desperate to maybe trade that recently-obtained Gigantamax Charizard to possibly yield better stats, it could be worth it — but there’s also no guarantee that you’ll get phenomenal IVs (though the minimum will be a 80% IV Pokémon). The Lucky Trinket itself also expires on July 6 at 11:59 p.m. in your local time, so make sure you use the trinket before then. You don’t necessarily have to complete the trade by then, but you need to use the trinket.

All of this said, you can wait until you hit rank 100 in the pass before shelling out the money to upgrade. You’ll get all the items retroactively, so if you’re worried about getting the most bang for your buck, then this is probably the way to go. I would personally only buy this pass if you know you’ll hit rank 100 (or you’ve already done so).

Pokémon Go Pass June rewards

Very genuinely, I just recommend looking at the track in game via your events page, which presents the information better than I can.

The big Legendary Pokémon offered for the month of June is Articuno, and the Articuno will come with a special themed background for the season.

The in-game list unfortunately doesn’t show what the rest of the encounters are. You can assume what some of them are based on the candy rewards around the encounter, but there are some tricky regional forms in here, too. So here they are, courtesy of Leek Duck:

• Rank 3: Grookey
• Rank 7: Rattata
• Rank 9 (premium): Clamperl
• Rank 12: Inkay
• Rank 17 (premium): Chimecho
• Rank 22: Helioptile
• Rank 24 (premium): Sneasel
• Rank 27 (premium): Passimian
• Rank 32: Nymble
• Rank 37: Shinx
• Rank 39 (premium): Pawniard
• Rank 42: Nickit
• Rank 47: Darumaka
• Rank 52: Rufflet
• Rank 54 (premium): Vullaby
• Rank 57: Galarian Stunfisk
• Rank 62 (premium): Galarian Farfetch’d
• Rank 67: Gible
• Rank 69 (premium): Turtonator
• Rank 72: Raichu
• Rank 77: Dynamax Rookidee
• Rank 82 (premium): Hisuian Decidueye
• Rank 84 (premium): Hisuian Sneasel
• Rank 87: Frigibax
• Rank 92: Dreepy
• Rank 94 (premium): Salandit
• Rank 100: Articuno