PokeBonk Lavender Tower guide: floors, Candles and rewards

The PokeBonk Lavender Tower is the Halloween 2026 event mode: you climb seven floors of the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town, clear three waves of ghosts on each floor, and collect Candles for event prizes. It only opens during the event “Lavender Tower Night”, which is set to end on November 4, 2026 at 17:30 UTC. This guide is based on the game files of version 0.8.46 (October 25, 2026), with the Tower fixes up to version 0.8.59 added on October 27, 2026.

How to enter the Lavender Tower

While the event runs, the PokeBonk Lavender Tower is one tap away: the main menu shows an event tile with a countdown (“Event! Ends in…”). Open it and press Enter the Tower. The next screen asks you to choose who climbs: one Pokémon from your League. There is no difficulty setting in the Tower.

You can start as a guest and still earn Candles. To appear on the event leaderboard you need an account. If you want to try the game first, it is free in your browser from our home page.

The seven floors, one by one

Every floor works the same way: beat three waves and the stairs open. Clearing a floor heals 30% of your max HP and drops a free Poké Ball, and an Offering altar opens with a blessing. Here is what changes from floor to floor in the PokeBonk Lavender Tower.

Hidden ghosts, the Silph Scope and candles

From floor 3 on, some ghosts are veiled. An unidentified ghost barely takes damage, so you need to reveal it first. Every 5 seconds a Silph Scope pulse goes out around you with a radius of 9, plus 3 for each Silph Scope item you carry, and reveals the ghosts inside it. Revealed ghosts take more damage. Picking up Silph Scopes is the easiest way to make the climb less tiring.

Candles are your second tool. Candlelight reveals ghosts and slowly heals you. On floor 4 the whole room is dark until you light them, and on floor 6 the three candles of the memorial are how you calm Marowak’s ghost. Gengar’s tombstones also offer a “Trick or Treat”: Treat is the safe pick (a Rare Candy, +25% HP and experience), Trick is the gamble.

Bill’s Machine, Meowth and offerings

Bill’s Machine fuses two moves at max level into one, which frees a move slot. In the Tower it shows up on floors 3 and 6 and on the rooftop, about every third floor, so have two maxed moves ready by floor 3. Meowth sells items on floors 2, 5 and 7. Each cleared floor also opens an Offering altar for one blessing, so check it before you take the stairs.

The rooftop and the Beyond

Beating Gengar on floor 7 ends the main climb and takes you to the rooftop. There you choose: leave the Tower and end the run with the victory, or cross the gate to the Beyond. Since version 0.8.59 the way-down stairs ask you to confirm before they end the run. The Beyond is the endless part: floor 8 onward, with no last floor.

Before each Beyond floor the game offers two random curses. You can accept one or turn both down. A curse makes the next floor harder and gives you more Candles. Here are the six curses you can meet:

In the Beyond, a boss floor comes every 5 floors counted from floor 7 (floors 12, 17, 22 and so on). Bill’s Machine appears on Beyond floors divisible by 3, and Meowth on even ones.

How Candles are counted

Candles are the event points. The game adds them up per run like this:

• 10 Candles for each floor you clear, up to floor 7.
• 15 Candles for each Beyond floor you clear, multiplied by 1 + 0.25 for every curse you accepted in that run.
• 3 Candles per wave on the floor where the run ends, if you did not clear it.
• 25 Candles for calming Marowak and 60 for beating Gengar.

So a run that reaches the summit and beats Gengar earns 155 Candles (70 for the floors, 25 for Marowak, 60 for the win). A Beyond floor is worth 15 Candles, and each curse you accept adds 25%. With two curses that is 22.5 per floor, and the run total is rounded at the end. Runs in other modes give 1 Candle per 250 KOs, at most 10, so the Tower is where most Candles come from.

Your Candles, from the Tower or any other mode, fill the Book of Candles:

The event also has seven quests, each worth Stardust and a title: calm Marowak on floor 6 (200 Stardust), reveal 300 ghosts with the Silph Scope (200), survive 10 tombstone tricks (200), beat Gengar on floor 7 (400 and the Lavender Tower frame), reach floor 15 (400), clear floor 4 without lighting a candle (300), and reach floor 25 (800).

Leaderboard and prizes

The PokeBonk Lavender Tower leaderboard ranks trainers by floor reached, then waves, then the fastest time. If the event ends with you in the top 100 you get the Spectral Crown frame; top 25 adds the King of the Night title, top 10 the King of the Night avatar, and first place the Mr. Fuji avatar. Clans have their own board, scored as the sum of each member’s best floor, and the top 10 clans win the Cubone Skull symbol and the Candelabra decoration for their emblem.

Long runs and fixes since launch

Since version 0.8.26, very long runs can be finished and saved, and later patches fixed the stairs and wrongly rejected runs. Version 0.8.47 fixed floors that stayed stuck unfinished and players getting trapped inside the boss, and version 0.8.59 added the confirmation on the rooftop stairs. Save and quit, added in version 0.8.63, does not work in the Tower: the game says “You can’t save in Lavender Tower.” If something in the Tower looks different from this page, check the updates page.

For move choices that suit a long climb, see the builds guide.