The Trade Challenge might be the most difficult of the Evolving Stars Challenges in Pokemon GO – here’s how to complete it!
A new Pokemon GO event means some new Challenges to compete and there are 4 of them to finish in the Evolving Stars event.
As well as the new Cosmog evolution, Cosmoem, the Evolving Stars event has added 4 different Challange for players to complete, including one about trading.
Although to finish the Evolving Stars: Trade Challenge, you’ll need to know how to complete it first!

How to Complete Evolving Stars: Trade Challenge in Pokemon GO
To complete the Trade Challenge, you will need to evolve Haunter into Gengar and Kadabra into Alakazam. Here’s how to do it:
- Catch a Kadabra and a Haunter, if you don’t have one already
- Both of these Pokemon are part of the wild Pokemon spawns in the Evolving Stars event so they should be easy to find
- Once you’ve done this, you will need to evolve Kadabra and Haunter. This can be done in two ways
How to Evolve Haunter into Gengar & Kadabra into Alakazam in Pokemon GO
There are two methods to evolve Haunter into Gengar and Kadabra into Alakazam Pokemon GO. You can either trade them with a friend or use Candy.
- If you choose to get a friend to trade you a Kadabra and Haunter:
- Meet up with a Pokemon GO friend in real life
- Go to the Friends tab in Pokemon GO
- Select the friend you want to trade with
- Press the Trade button
- Trade a Kadabra and a Haunter with them
- Any Kadabra or Haunter you receive through a trade will cost 0 Candy to evolve
- Press the Evolve button to evolve your Haunter into Gengar and Kadabra into Alakazam for 0 Candy
- Alternatively, you can evolve Haunter using 100 Gastly Candy and Kadabra using 100 Abra Candy
- Here’s how to boost the amount of Candy you earn in Pokemon GO to speed this up
- Doing this means you won’t have to trade Pokemon with anyone
- Press the Evolve button to evolve your Haunter into Gengar and Kadabra into Alakazam
Evolving Stars: Trade Challenge – All Tasks
Task | Candy Needed | Image |
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Evolve Haunter into Gengar | 100 Gastly Candy (0 if you got Haunter through a trade) | ![]() |
Evolve Kadabra into Alakazam | 100 Abra Candy (0 if you got Kadabra through a trade) | ![]() |
Evolving Stars: Trade Challenge – All Rewards
For completing the Trade Challenge, you will get 3 Evolution Items:
- Dragon Scale
- Sun Stone
- King’s Rock

Now that you know how to complete the Trade Challenge, you’ll want to know how to complete the other 3 active challenges before 8 PM local time on November 11:
- How to Complete Evolving Stars: Eevee Challenge
- How to Complete Evolving Stars: Sinnoh Challenge
- How to Complete Evolving Stars: Unova Challenge
Also, don’t forget to finish the limited-time Field Research Tasks in the Evolving Stars event! Completing these gives players some great rewards.