Pokémon Go Boosting Level Cap and Rebalancing Experience, In First Major XP Change for 5 Years

Pokémon Go is introducing a new, higher level headdress and rebalancing the XP requirements for existing levels — though nary subordinate volition spot their existent level reduced.

The game's existent level 50 cap, introduced backmost successful 2020, volition emergence to level 80, giving players a important caller milestone to purpose towards.

But the game's levelling curve should beryllium smoother, developers told IGN successful a pre-announcement briefing, meaning XP levels wide should beryllium deed much frequently. This volition beryllium achieved by a rebalance of each XP levels to date, and the removal of additional, time-consuming levelling tasks betwixt levels 41 to 50.

Indeed, players who person already earned the indispensable XP volition beryllium boosted up to the caller level system's requirements erstwhile they spell unrecorded connected October 18 — though the nonstop XP amounts required post-rebalance are yet to beryllium confirmed.

Cruically, Pokémon levels, which are presently tied to your subordinate level, volition not beryllium expanded oregon rebalanced, with level 50 remaining the headdress there.

Don't expect hitting the caller level 80 subordinate headdress to beryllium easy, however. Alongside the indispensable XP requirements, a caller acceptable of levelling tasks volition beryllium added for the last ascent from level 71 to 80, ensuring lone the toughest Trainers deed the game's caller apical level (and there's inactive plentifulness to grind for).

New rewards for levelling up volition see caller avatar items, positive accrued retention capableness for Pokémon, items and gifts — upgrades you would different wage for. (And if you're already astatine the game's maximum bounds for 1 of these, developers confirmed you'll inactive beryllium boosted supra that.)

There's adjacent a caller boost for friends astatine level 70 and above, who volition person an increaed accidental of becoming Lucky Friends with different players.

Pokémon Go's existent level 50 headdress has stood since 2020. What bash you mean you're not determination yet?

For those keen to sphere their bequest of levelling up anterior to the October 15 update, existing avatar items volition beryllium retired and made exclusive to those who already earned them (for example, the Level 50 Jacket item). A brace of caller illustration medals volition besides beryllium available, if you reached up to Level 49 anterior to the caller headdress being introduced, and different if you made Level 50.

To assistance players connected their mode to the caller milestone, XP volition beryllium boosted in-game from contiguous until October 14 with treble XP for catching, and an further 3,000 XP for winning raids and Max Battles. Timed Research volition connection further rewards, with a tasty 7 cardinal XP connected the table.

It's a engaged clip for Pokémon Go, which is besides present teasing its adjacent in-game season. A video released yesterday included confirmation that Meta Metagross would debut successful the coming months, alongside the long-awaited instrumentality of Keldeo — a Mythical carnal lone made disposable erstwhile via a premium acquisition for a little clip backmost successful 2022.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social