Monday: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Tera Raid Battle Event + Pokémon World Championships - Activities, Merchandise & Promo Card + Pokémon GO - Hyper Training
16-06-2025 00:10 BST / 19:00 EDT by Serebii.
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Edit @ 02:05: Pokémon World Championships | Edit @ 07:00: Pokémon Café ReMix | Edit @ 07:13: Pokémon World Championships | Edit @ 18:00: Pokémon GO
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 Baxcalibur with the Ice Tera Type and the Mightiest Mark. It can only be caught once per save file.
This event will run from 00:00 UTC on June 20th through 23:59 UTC on June 22nd and again from June 27th through June 29th with Blissey joining it for the second run
In The Pokémon Championship Series Department
Pokémon World Championships
Following the North America International Championships, various details have been released for the Pokémon World Championships in Anaheim, California on August 15th - 17th
Pokémon Center sign-ups are scheduled to start soon. It will be open from Wednesday August 13th 2025 through Sunday August 17th 2025 and be located in Hall D
There will be various fan activities that will take place in the tournament hall and around the venue, they are as follows
There will be a Cosplay Showcase where players can showcase their created cosplay and will be able to show them off. You need to apply by July 28th 2025
There will be a Collect & Trade corner where players can trade items such as play mats and cards. For these first time, there will also be a Pokémon TCG Pocket trade area
Pin Trading will have a dedicated area where you can go and trade offiial pins with other attendees. There will also be staff with pin lanyards to trade
There will be various panels featuring TCG artists, Pokémon Center lines and more. An official schedule will be released soon
There will be Special Guests at the event including VIPs from The Pokémon Company, Pokémon TCG artists, Pokémon Partners and more. There will be autographs in an autogoraph room where you can meet them as well.
There will be creator meet and greets where you can meet the various Content Creators all weekend long. There will also be character meet and greets to meet Pokémon such as Pikachu
There will be some Merchants in the tournament hall who will be selling various items and Pokémon products.
Finally there will be an Activity Zone which features fun and games for attendees of all ages. These include Workshops
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Scopely have put out the full detials for Hyper Training in Pokémon GO following its tease during NAIC yesterday. Starting with the Pokémon GO Fest 2025 Global Pass, which goes live during the Ancients Recovered event on June 23rd, Gold Bottle Caps will be available in certain events, passes and more in the future.
With the bottle caps, you can select which stats you want with a slider and by completing tasks, you will be able to hit those new IV stats
Attack tasks require you to battle with it while it's your buddy
Defense tasks require you to play, explore and catch with it as your buddy
HP requires you to explore by spinning Pokéstops, earning candy and more as your buddy
Once you start the training, you have 365 days to complete it. Shadow Pokémon cannot be Hyper Trained
The GO Pass will feature a random encounter with Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Regieleki or Regidrago with a special background, encounters with dapper Pikachu and other Pokémon, experience, Stardust, Poké Balls, Candy and more .
Players who pay for the Deluxe pass will get the Gold Bottle Cap, a Zacian Mask, a Zamazenta Mask, more items including Incense, Lucky Egg, Incubators, Lure Modules and more, as well as Candy XL
There are milestones for every 10 levels of the the pass and as soon as you buy the Deluxe version you get 50% Egg Distance
Rank 10: +1 Raid Pass from Gyms
Rank 20: 2× Hatch Candy
Rank 30: One Candy XL from 5 Star Raid Battles.
Rank 40: 2× Hatch Stardust.
Rank 50: Three additional Candy awarded for completing 5-star Raid Battles.
Rank 60: 2× Hatch Experience.
Rank 70: 5,000 additional XP from Raid Battles.
In The Pokémon Championship Series Department
Pokémon International Championships
During the North American International Championships livestream, the first look at the Worlds competitor kit, which all qualified competitors will receive. The Pikachu plush will also be available through the Pokémon Center store at the Pokémon World Championships. We'll provide more details as they come so be sure to keep checking back
In The TCG Department
Pokémon International Championships
During the North American International Championships livestream, a new promo card was revealed. This Promo card is of a Pikachu with special artwork based on the 2024 World Championships winning deck and will be released to players through various means and through stores throughout the world with details coming at a later date
In The Games Department
Pokémon Café ReMix
The Pokémon Café ReMix Scraggy's Rush event is now live. This is a Team event that focuses around the Pokémon Scraggy, offering a means to obtain it and power it up with cookies by earning points by completing stages. It runs until June 23rd 2025
Alongside this, a new paid pass is now live to get Squirtle's Rain Coat costume
