Medals



Medals are sort of achievements earned by Trainers for reaching certain milestones, like distance walked, PokéStops visited, Pokémon caught.

Each medal has three levels: bronze, silver, and gold. For achieving some of the medals Trainers are extra rewarded with bonuses - such as an increased chance of successfully catching certain Pokémon type or bonus wardrobe pieces for Trainers are unlocked to be purchased.

Moreover, some of the medals with level lesser than bronze are shown even without any progress, on Trainer profile page with the silhouette image of them, when the other ones are hidden until there's progress for achieving bronze-level medal.

Medals levels
Medals have three different levels that in order to be achieved, require various values for a main task of certain medal.



List of medals
Medals have to kinds the ones for the various general tasks and milestones in gameplay and the others for catching specific-type Pokémon.

General medals
First section with medals on Trainer profile page shows all the currently owned medals for various milestones of general actions in the game. They can be also related to combat, number of each region Pokédex entries and catching specific Pokémon.


 * 1) † The Ace Trainer medal was obtainable by training Pokémon in team-owned Gyms. Training was removed during the Gym rework and it's not longer obtainable, however the medal is still present in game—keeping the progress before the Gym rework.

Specific-type Pokémon medals
Besides the general medals for certain milestones, there are also medals for catching specific-type Pokémon. These medals share same task and value of achieving next level of medal:
 * for acquiring bronze-level medal Trainer is required to catch at least 10 specific-type Pokémon,
 * for acquiring silver-level medal Trainer is required to catch at least 50 specific-type Pokémon
 * and finally, for acquiring gold-level medal Trainer is required to catch at least 200 specific-type Pokémon.

Rewards
For acquiring certain medals, mainly specific-type Pokémon related medals, there are some bonus rewards on each achieved level of such medal.

Catch bonus
Medals for catching specific-type Pokémon grant trainers having them with special catch bonus that highers capture rate of all Pokémon of respective type when it is being captured in wild.
 * +1 catch bonus for Bronze Medal.png bronze-level medal,
 * +1 catch bonus for Silver Medal.png silver-level medal that gives in total +2 catch bonus
 * and +1 catch bonus for Gold Medal.png gold-level medal that finally gives in total +3 catch bonus.

This counts only for capturing Pokémon with type corresponding to the medal. (for instance the Dragon Tamer medal grants a bonus for catching  Dragon-type Pokémon ). If a Pokémon has two types, the game will average the catch bonus trainer has for those two types.