Challenger (GO)

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Challengers are Pokémon Trainers who can be encountered during certain events in Pokémon GO. Like all Trainer Battles in that game, they use parties of three Pokémon. Research tasks during these events often involve defeating Challengers.

Like Team GO Rocket Grunts, they appear near PokéStops which have an altered appearance in the overworld. Unlike those affected by the Grunts' hacking, PokéStops visited by Challengers do not change color and rotate more slowly.

To date, every such event has featured Challengers that share a unique Trainer class.

GO Tour Challengers

In preparation for the Pokémon Go Tour: Kanto, players were invited to enter a Twitter contest to have their Trainer's likeness and battle team used as Challengers during the event. Entries were judged based on creativity and theming.^[1]. Defeating these Trainers was integral to progression in the Go Tour Kanto: Defeat all Challengers Timed Research.

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Fashion Challengers

Fashion Week 2021

During the Fashion Week 2021 event, Fashion Challengers appeared in the game. These non-player characters were designed to showcase fashion items available to players and had teams featuring Fashion Week Event Pokémon as well as various Trims of the newly released Furfrou. The Fashion Week Timed Research involved defeating Fashion Challengers.

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Fashion Week 2022

The Fashion Week 2022 event brought back certain Fashion Challengers wearing new outfits. They once again used teams based around Fashion Week Event Pokémon as well as various Trims of Furfrou. This event did not feature encounters at PokéStops, instead battles with the Fashion Challengers were listed as rewards for completing each stage of the Fashion Week Timed Research.

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GO Gym Trainers

In preparation for the Pokémon Go Tour: Johto, players were invited to enter a Twitter contest to have their Trainer's likeness and battle team used as Challengers during the event. Entries were judged based on creativity and theming.^[2]. Each team was meant to represent the Type favored by one of the Gyms of the Johto region and would appear to participants in the appropriate order. Defeating these Trainers was integral to progression in the GO Tour: Johto Battle Challenge Timed Research. After completing all the Research tasks, players were given the option to continue encountering the Gym Trainers or to have them stop appearing in order to focus on collecting Pokémon.

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Challengers

Known simply as Challengers, these trainers appeared during the 2022 World Championships and used a party selected randomly from the Pokémon used by the winners of the Pokémon GO Regional Championships. During the event, Timed Research involved players encountering Challengers.

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In other languages

Go Tour Challenger

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Fashion Challenger

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GO Gym Trainers

Language		Title
Japanese		GOジムトレーナー
Mandarin Chinese		GO道館訓練家
French		Dresseur d'Arène GO
German		GO-Arenatrainer
Korean		GO 체육관 트레이너
Spanish		Entrenador de Gimnasios GO
Thai		GO ยิมเทรนเนอร์
Turkish		GO Gym Trainer