Monday: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Salamence Raid Battle
14-04-2025 00:10 BST / 19:11 EDT by Serebii.
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Edit @ 06:10: Pokémon GO | Edit @ 09:43: Timed Research
In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
The next 7 Star Tera Raid Battle event has been announced for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. This event will feature a battle against a Salamence with the Flying Tera Type and the Mightiest Mark. It can only be caught once per save file.
This event will run from 00:00 UTC on April 18th through 23:59 UTC on April 20th and again from April 25th through April 27th with Blissey joining it for the second run
In The Games Department
Pokémon NAIC
It has been confirmed that sectator pass registration for the Pokémon North America International Championships in New Orelans will open at 00:00 UTC on April 23rd 2025. Player registration will also begin at the same time in two waves, with the second wave coming at 14:00 UTC on April 23rd 2025
In addition to that, some elements have been confirmed for the event. The Play Lab and Pokémon Center will both make a return, with registration for the PokémonCenter coming soon.
There will be a Collect and Trade Corner and Activity Zone, as well as merchants in the venue
The commentators have also been confirmed:
TCG: Chip Richey, Kyle Sabelhaus, Shai Burton, Alex Dao, Shelbie Bou, Kyle Sucevich and Adam Watson
VG: Lou Akcos-Cromie, Len Deuel, Rosemary Kelley, Jake Muller, Evan Latt, Scott Glaza & Joe Brown
GO: Martihn Versteeg, Jim Lawson, Caleb Peng, Sophia Mei, Martin Galderisi, Steven Sanders
UNITE: Jake Sprague, Kirb Dubé, Joshua Hiebery, Evan Hasimoto, Kelly Wilson, D'Andre Alejandro
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Timed Research has gone live for the Pokémon GO Gigantamax Snorlax Day event. This Timed Research is designed to help players prepare for the Gigantamax Snorlax event with a focus on Dynamax Machop. It is available from 18:00 local time today until the end of the event on April 19th at 17:00 local time
We have added full details into our Gigantamx Snorlax Max Battle Day section
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced a new event in South Korea to celebrate Ditto. This event, "1, 3, 2! It's Ditto Time!" is part of a big Ditto celebration held by Pokémon Korea and runs from 10:00 April 25th to 20:00 April 27th in Seoul and on May 9th - May 11th for all of South Korea.
During this event, at the top of every hour for three minutes Ditto will appear in large numbers
There will be event stickers at Poké stops
You will get 2* Catch Stardust and 50% Trade Stardust Cost
There will be free Timed Research to get rewards including Stardust and encounters with Ditto. This runs only in the second half of the event
