Pokémon GO’s latest summer event, Phantom Ruins, debuts a powerful new Max Battle raid boss while creating many special encounters with rare Pokémon for you to catch. Lasting for a limited time, this event allows you to earn several rewards, including more interactions with featured Pokémon. With far more Pokémon roaming around compared to previous events, Phantom Ruins is one you don’t want to miss.
Beginning after theInstrumental Wonders event inPokémon GO,Phantom Ruins is the fourth event of Summer 2025for the game. Like other seasonal events, Phantom Ruins is completely free to play, with only some rewards being locked behind Paid Research missions. Once the event starts, unique bonuses will be applied to all aspects of the game, allowing you to take advantage of unique benefits while they last.
Phantom Ruins Schedule
Earn Rewards And Catch Pokémon Before The Event Ends
The Phantom Ruins eventstarts on June 01, 2025, at 10:00 AM local time, lasting until July 12, 2025, at 8:00 PM local time. This gives you roughly five days to experience everything the event has to offer, whether that includes challenging the new debuting Max Battle boss or hunting for Shiny versions of featured Pokémon. This event begins on a Saturday, lasting until the Wednesday of the next week.
The moment the event starts, the following bonuses will be active inPokémon GOuntil the end date and time for Phantom Ruins:
Unlike Instrumental Wonders,Incense plays a bigger role in Phantom Ruins, giving players more opportunities to encounter rarer pocket monsters. These alterations do not just affect content tied to the event, but many different activities you would normally do inPokémon GO. For example, catching any Pokémon, not just the featured ones from the event, comes with a higher Catch XP bonus because the event is live.
All Wild Spawns & Debuts During The Phantom Ruins Event
Encounter Spooky And Ancient Pokémon As You Travel
Going around PokeStops and traveling while the Phantom Ruins event is active will lead to you encountering rarer Pokémon than usual.Certain wild encounters appear more often during the event, with a much larger variety of Pokémon in Phantom Ruins than in past events. While some Pokémon you’ll run into are common within the event, others are much harder to find.
Every Pokémon found from wild spawns in Phantom Ruins has a chance to be a Shiny variant. This should encourage you to go after as many encounters as you can while the event lasts to get Shiny versions of rarer Pokémon.
Although it is a matter of chance that determines what Pokémon you run into,some of the featured creatures in the event will appear more often in specific location types. Once you have an idea where certain Pokémon might spawn, you might find these wild spawns appearing often in Phantom Ruins:
Sableye and Chimecho are the rarest Pokémon you’ll find during Phantom Ruins, despite at least one of these Pokémon showing up in past months as aRaid Boss inPokémon GO.The variety of typings on each featured Pokémon gives you plenty of creatures to add to your collection, with many having strong potential of evolution. Many of the final forms of the Pokémon you catch in the event can be used to defeat other trainers or raid bosses later.
Some Pokémon from wild spawns in the event are exclusively tied to Incense, only appearing when you use a fragrance to attract them. While some of the Incense Pokémon are also encountered normally throughout the event, Incense makes them more likely to show up in an encounter. Here are all the Pokémon you can catch by using Incense to lure them into encounters:
As you can see,both Rufflet and Greavard are only encountered through Incense; they do not show up through any other normal event encounter. While Rufflet can be encountered as a Shiny Pokémon, Greavard doesn’t have a variant you can find.
All Pokémon Raid Bosses During The Phantom Ruins Event
Challenge One New Gigantamax Starter Evolution
There aren’t as many raid bosses in the Phantom Ruins event, but there is one new Max Battle Pokémon you can challenge.Gigantamax Inteleon makes their debut in the event as a 6-star Raid Boss, becoming the last of the Galar region starter evolutions to have aGigantamax battle inPokémon GO.
Like all Max Battles,you can only face off against Gigantamax Inteleon with Dynamax or Gigantamax Pokémon of your own. Max Monday events that take place weekly give plenty of chances for players to pick up an extra-large-sized companion. In fact, during the Phantom Ruins event, it will continue on a Monday where another Pokémon will be available for you to catch and use against Gigantamax Inteleon.
As a pure Water-type, Gigantamax Inteleon has a few type weaknesses that you can exploit to beat it quickly.Having a Gigantamax Rillaboom on your team is a great choice against this boss, as Inteleon is weak to Rillaboom’s Grass-type attacks.
Youneed at least three other trainers to fight Gigantamax Inteleon, as only teams of four can go up against a Max Battle boss. Once you collect enough Max Particles to activate a Gigantamax Inteleon Power Spot, you and your friends will build Max Meter to take down this foe. verify to organize your team into specific roles to help you win the battle and capture Gigantamax Inteleon for yourself.
All Phantom Ruins Rewards
Gain More Currency And Encounter Chances
Completing different Field Research goals during the Phantom Ruins event will grant you increased interactions with featured Pokémon, giving you more ways to encounter rarer pocket monsters. Only four of the many Pokémon found during this event are found via Field Research quests, including:
Those with a Phantom Wilds Ticket purchased during the event gain additional bonuses while participating. Trainers with Wild Tickets gain 2x Catch Stardust, increasing the amount of currency they receive with successful wild catches.
Once again, only Greavard cannot be Shiny through these Field Research encounters.Players can get even more encounters with Gothita and Phantump by paying real-world money to unlock Paid Time Research, which adds more quests for you to complete. Although Timed Research expires, it gives you more chances to find Shiny versions of two event Pokémon.
Purchasing Paid Research also gives you a chance to gain 5 Incense, giving you a valuable tool for attracting some of the event’s rarest Pokémon. No matter how you approach the Phantom Ruins event inPokémon GO, it has plenty to offer whether you spend money or not.
