Pokémon GO’s feature Party Play rolled out globally on October 17th 2023! A feature that brings you and your Community together, with a mode of play called ‘Party Play’.
With Party Play, Trainers can play and complete challenges together—all in one shared in-game experience.
Party Play lets four total Trainers—level 15 and above—adventure as a party together. You’ll even get to see your friends’ avatars on your in-game map. Whether you’re looking to represent your team, take on new challenges, or capture memories while catching Pokémon, Party Play makes it possible.
You’ll be able to work together in Party Play to complete Party Challenges together, gain access to Party Play Power to help you defeat raids with new boosted power, share your success with activity summaries and experience a whole new way to play with your friends and fellow trainers.
How to Host a Party:
- Open Pokémon GO and navigate to your Trainer profile.
- Tap the new Party tab.
- Tap Create.
- You’ll be given a numerical code or QR code that you can share with up to three nearby Trainers.
- Tap Start and let the party begin!
How to Join a Party:
- Open Pokémon GO and navigate to your Trainer profile.
- Tap the new Party tab.
- Tap Join Party. You will be prompted to either scan the host’s QR code or manually enter a numerical code.
- Wait for the host to start the party! Once the party begins, you’ll be returned to the map.
Work to complete Party Challenges as you play together in Party Play!
- After a party is formed, the party will receive a pop-up asking which Party Challenge they want to take on.
- Party Challenges can be focused on spinning PokéStops, battling in raids, catching Pokémon, and more. What other challenges await your next party?
- Completing Party Challenges get you in-game rewards.
- When a challenge is completed, the party leader will be prompted to choose another Party Challenge
- Tandemaus is a featured Party Challenge reward for Party Play!
- During special events such as Pokémon GO Fest, the encounter rewards may be altered to come from a special pool. For example, for Global GO Fest 2024, the Costume Pikachu were featured
- It is also possible to encounter other Pokémon as encounter rewards, including Combee, Magnemite, Koffing, the Eeveelutions, Cherubi, Galarian Weezing and Diglett
| Party Challenge Task | Reward |
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| Make 10 Nice Curveball Throws (Party of Two) | |
| Make 15 Nice Curveball Throws (Party of Three) | |
| Make 20 Great Curveball Throws (Party of Two) | |
| Make 30 Great Curveball Throws (Party of Three) | |
| Walk 2km | |
| Make 10 Excellent Curveball Throws | |
| Catch 20 Pokémon in Ultra Balls | |
| Catch 25 Pokémon in Ultra Balls |
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| Catch 25 Pokémon |
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| Catch 14 Pokémon with Weather Boost |
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| Catch 20 Different Species of Pokémon |
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| Make 25 Nice Throws |
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| Make 30 Great Throws |
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| Make 20 Excellent Throws |
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| Use 20 Berries to help catch Pokémon |
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| Win 2 Raids |
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| Walk 3km |
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| Spin 20 PokéStops or Gyms |
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| Battle 4 Team GO Rocket Grunts |
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As of August 2024, item sharing is available during a party.
- On the ‘Party’ screen you will see a box saying ‘Share items with your party!’
- Click on the green ‘SHARE’ button, which will prompt you to choose which items and how many to share.
- The summary will show you the duration each trainer will get the shared item effects. The item will be half its usual duration, no matter how many people are in the party.
- Here, you can increase the duration by using more items. The maximum of the same item you can share is 4 (1 hour total for most items, 2 hours for incense).
Here’s some other tips and tricks:
- Anyone can share items in a Party.
- If the party is disbanded before the item duration is over, the trainers each keep the item until the timer ends.
- Roar of time can be used but only works for the individual trainer that applied it – whether they shared the items or not.
- It only works for Lucky Eggs, Star Pieces and Incense. This will not apply to Meltan Box or other effects with a timer.
- When tested on a Community Day, a shared incense gave everyone in the party three hours of incense.
- Starting a party does not count as an interaction for purposes of friendship level-ups.
- There appears to be a sharing limit of 4 of each item per day. This is assumed to be for each player (rather than the party as a whole).
Things that need confirmation:
- It is unclear whether shared items in a Party will override previously applied individual effects, such as Necrozma’s adventure effects or Palkia’s Spacial Rend – or whether the trainer can have both running.
- It is unclear what happens if another trainer joins the party after the item is split. Based on the behaviour of known effects (ie once the item is split, the connection to the “original” item is lost – the lucky egg is now two partial lucky eggs), the assumption is the newly joined trainer would not get any of the item bonuses/effects.
When challenging a raid with your party, a new bonus will be available: Party Power.
- Party Power doubles the damage of your next Charged Attack and charges with every Fast Attack.
- More party members means that your Party Power charges faster!
Activate Party Power by clicking on the blue circle in the bottom left of the raid screen when it is fully charged.
You can check your party’s progress and details via the Party tab of your Trainer profile or via the PokéStop icon displayed on the map.
Your party’s Activity Summary has the following categories: Pokémon, Throws, Adventure, Battle, and General.
Bookmark your favourite activities to quickly view them via the Favourite section of your Activity Summary.
A Party will typically last for an hour. For events the length of time that Parties exist for can be extended, such as at Sinnoh Tour when the Party didn’t expire after an hour.
