PokeBonk season guide: dates, prizes, clans and medals

A PokeBonk season is a ranked period with its own leaderboards, clan race and Time Attack medals. The current one, Season 2, runs from October 21, 2026 at 17:03 UTC to November 4, 2026 at 17:30 UTC according to the game server, about two weeks. When a season closes, the top trainers on the KO, Survival and Time Attack boards get badge frames and Stardust, and the highest-ranked clans win prizes for their members. We checked this guide against the game files (version 0.8.59) and the game server on October 27, 2026.

How a PokeBonk season works

Each season has a number and its own maps. Season 2 uses four: Viridian Forest, Rocky Desert, Storm Coast and Celestial Glacier, and it covers the 151 Pokémon of Kanto. The schedule comes from the game server, which also reports whether the season is live.

While a season is running, the developer says no core game mechanic will change: only bugs and obvious exploits get fixed, and runs that gained an advantage through an exploit are removed from the boards. Co-op runs stay outside the season race and only count on their own co-op leaderboard.

Since version 0.8.85, co-op runs also count toward clan missions. The game’s co-op leaderboard notice says they do not earn clan points. Version 0.8.84 also removed the leaderboard review wait introduced in 0.8.82: map and Global scores appear as soon as the run ends, and runs flagged by the anti-cheat count first and are reviewed afterwards. Only runs confirmed as cheating are removed.

Season 2 dates

The developer’s news post says Season 2 lasts 15 days and gives the same end time, November 4 at 17:30 UTC (18:30 in Spain). Why about 14 and not 15? The game does not say. Version 0.8.7 restarted Season 2 from zero on its launch day, and our guess is that the server start time comes from that restart.

Players of Season 1 received the Kanto Pioneer avatar and the PokéBonk Pioneer title in their mailbox when Season 2 opened.

The Halloween event “Lavender Tower Night” ends at the same moment as Season 2, so save your last Tower climbs and ranked runs for the final days. See the Lavender Tower guide for Candles and prizes.

PokeBonk season prizes and leaderboards

When a season closes, the KO, Survival and Time Attack leaderboards hand out tier badges. You receive the frame of your tier and of every lower tier. The Stardust depends on the board:

Some boards also pay avatars. The Global KOs board gives Veteran to the top 50, Ace to the top 10, Elite to the top 3 and Champion to first place. Region boards give Ranger to the top 50 of Viridian Forest and Explorer to the top 50 of Rocky Desert. Each Pokémon also has its own board, which pays its top 3: a Specialist frame for second and third place, and a Pokémon Master frame plus a title with the Pokémon’s name for first.

Time Attack and medals

Every Classic win gets a time medal. Any win earns Bronze; a faster win earns Silver, Gold or Champion. The game takes a base time (21:00 for Silver, 15:00 for Gold, 10:30 for Champion), adds 3 minutes on a map with a shrine, and adds 5% per difficulty step. All four Season 2 maps have a shrine, so the limits are:

The official news says the medals were recalibrated for Season 2 and that nobody loses medals already earned.

There are two kinds of Time Attack board. Each map + difficulty pair has a board for its fastest wins, and its top 25 get prizes. The Global Time Attack adds up your fastest win in each of the four regions on any difficulty: it ranks first by how many regions you have won in, then by the total time. Its top 50 get prizes when the season ends, and first place also gets the title Kanto Speedster. So a trainer with wins in all four regions ranks above one with a faster total in fewer regions.

Clans

Clans compete for the whole season. The numbers below come from the game code of version 0.8.59.

Founding and size. Founding a clan costs 2,000 Stardust. A clan can grow to 200 slots, 10 at a time; one expansion costs 500 Stardust plus 250 for every 10 slots the clan already has above 30, so 500 at 30 slots and 4,500 at 190, or 42,500 in total from 30 to 200. Renaming costs 1,000 Stardust and is allowed once every 14 days.

Clan level. Levels go from 1 to 30, and level 30 needs 44,950 experience in total. The clan earns 1 experience per member run (at most 10 per member and 200 per clan a day), 11 to 40 per streak day, 100 per mission star and 300, 150 or 75 for a rivalry win, draw or loss. Every level adds 2% to mission Stardust, up to ×1.58 at level 30, and levels 3 to 30 unlock 12 emblem items, six decorations and six symbols.

Weekly missions. Each mission star pays Stardust and an item to every member who contributed to the mission and also played 2 runs for the clan that week:

The Stardust is multiplied by the clan level bonus, and each star gives the clan 100 experience.

Weekly rivalry. Each member run adds its clan points to the rivalry, up to 10,000 per run, and a rivalry needs 2 or more members. Members who played 2 runs get 1,500 Stardust, 2 Bonkoins (if at least 3 members play) and a Master Ball for a win, 900 Stardust and 1 Bonkoin for a draw, and 400 Stardust for a loss.

Streaks, records and frames. A streak counts the days in a row on which enough members play; the clan screen shows how many have played today against the number needed, which the server sets. Clans keep six records: most points in one run, most KOs in one run, fastest win, fastest win in Nightmare, longest Survival and most Legendaries in one run. Three avatar frames come with a title: Clan Star (earn the third star of a mission), Unbeaten Rival (win 3 weekly rivalries) and Legendary Clan (help your clan earn 7 or more stars in one mission week).

Season prizes for clans. When the season ends, the top 50 clans win, counted separately on the KOs and Survival boards. Every member still in the clan who scored enough gets Stardust by tier: 150 (top 50), 250 (top 25), 400 (top 10), 650 (Elite) and 1,000 (Master). Since version 0.8.58, “enough” means at least the higher of 500 points and a quarter of the average score of the members who scored. Before, you needed 2% of the clan total. The clan also gets the emblem decoration of its tier and of the tiers below.

Leadership. If the leader does not log in for 7 days, leadership passes to the officer with the most clan points who logged in during the last 3 days, or to a member if there is none. Leaders can set join requirements: League size, wins, account age and global rank. More on clans and co-op on the multiplayer page.

What happens when a PokeBonk season ends

1. Boards pay out. Tier frames and Stardust go to the top trainers of the KO, Survival and Time Attack boards, some KO boards also give avatars, per-Pokémon boards pay their frames and titles, and the top 50 clans get their prizes.
2. The race starts over. When Season 2 began, leaderboards, clan points, rivalries, missions, streaks and clan records were reset. We expect the same pattern when the next season starts, but the game has not said so for Season 3.
3. Your collection stays. Medals already earned are kept, according to the official news. Nothing we read in the game says your League, looks or Lab are reset; the looks guide covers the cosmetics you keep chasing between seasons.
4. Season 3. The official news says Season 3 is planned to bring all of Gen 2. The developer’s news now gives the date: version 0.9 starts Season 3 on November 4, with Gen 2, a rebalance of all Gen 1 and legendary Pokémon, reworks for Pokémon that have fallen behind, a Fusion rework, a new seasonal event and 4 new maps (the last 2 maps of Kanto and 2 new maps of Johto). Until then, the developer is slowing down updates and still fixing major bugs.

Check the updates page after the end date: the patch notes are where a new season shows up first. To play your ranked runs, start the game from our home page.