Friday: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Tera Raid Battle Events & Mass Outbreak Events + Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Ranked Battle + PokéToon - New Episodes + Pokémon30
31-07-2026 00:20 BST / 19:20 EDT by Serebii.
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
The next 7 Star Tera Raid Battle event and Outbreak Events have been announced for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. There are four events that will run weekly from August 7th 2026 through to September 3rd
From August 7th at 00:00 UTC through August 13th at 23:59 UTC, Glimmora will be in 7 Star Raids with the Grass Tera Type. There will be a Mass Outbreak Event where you can find Glimmet in Paldea and Glimmet & Glimmora in Kitakami. The Mass Outbreak event features a boosted Shiny Chance
From August 14th at 00:00 UTC through August 20th at 23:59 UTC, Annihilape will be in 7 Star Raids with the Ghost Tera Type. There will be a Mass Outbreak Event where you can find Mankey & Primeape in Paldea and Mankey, Primeape & Annihilape in Kitakami. The Mass Outbreak event features an increased chance to find these Pokémon with the Angry Mark
From August 21st at 00:00 UTC through August 27th at 23:59 UTC, Farigiraf will be in 7 Star Raids with the Fairy Tera Type. There will be a Mass Outbreak Event where you can find Girafarig in Paldea and Girafarig and Farigiraf in the Blueberry Academy. The Mass Outbreak event features an increased chance to find these Pokémon with the Intellectual Mark
From August 28th at 00:00 UTC through September 3rd at 23:59 UTC, Kingambit will be in 7 Star Raids with the Dark Tera Type. There will be a Mass Outbreak Event where you can find Pawniard & Bisharp in Paldea and Pawniard, Bisharp and Kingambit in Kitakami. The Mass Outbreak event features an increased chance to find these Pokémon with the Charismatic Mark
As always, all 7 Star Tera Raid Battle Pokémon can be battled multiple times but only caught once per save file
In The Games Department
Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Ranked Battle Season 15
Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Ranked Battle Season 15 has been announced. This season will run from August 6th at 06:00 UTC to August 27th at 01:59 UTC. It allows for use of only Water-type Pokémon
As with the past few seasons, players will be able to get the Greninjite at Rank Y, the Delphoxite at Rank X, Chesnaughtite at Rank W, Baxcalibrite at Rank V, Sceptilite at Rank U, Swampertite at Rank T and Blazikenite at Rank S.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sleep
The next Pokémon Sleep event has been revealed. This is the Summer Festival 2026 event and runs from August 10th at 04:00 local time through August 17th at 03:59 local time. This event adds Hawlucha into the game
During this event, all Dishes will be Curries/Stews and Final Strength from dishes will be increased by 50%
The Candy Cram-o-matic will return
Shiny Pokémon will appear more often
Hawlucha, Squirtle, Caterpie, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Farfetch’d, Doduo, Pinsir, Totodile, Wooper, Shuckle, Heracross, Delibird, Mudkip, Swablu, Piplup, Dwebble, Rufflet, Grubbin, Cramorant, and Quaxly will spawn more
There will also be two new recipes added
In The Anime Department
Pokémon Horizons
The latest episode has aired in Japan today. This episode features Liko send Ult and Navi out on an errand to help stop them fighting. The AniméDex has been updated with the contents of this episode. Click the picture to go to the section but be warned however as it contains spoilers.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters EX - Academy Event
The "Pasio Academy Fair - Prep" Academy Event has begun a run in Pokémon Masters EX. This event is the latest Academy Event where you get given a Sync Pair, in this case Juliana & Chimecho, and have to battle through stages to earn Orbs in order to power them up. It runs until August 18th 2026
To tie in with that, a new EX Fair Scout is available to get the Sync Pair of Florian & Yanmega. A second EX Fair Scout is also live to get Carmine & Mightyena.
We're currently compiling all details in our Pasio Academy Fair - Prep event section
In The Games Department
Pokémon 30
Continuing the Pokémon 30th Anniversary Celebrations, The Pokémon Company has released dozens more logos for various Pokémon forms that didn't have logos prior to now. This includes Pokémon such as Furfrou, Vivillon, Floette, Ogerpon and more.
We have added these to our Pokémon30 section alongside more promotional logos found in various other areas so be sure to check our section
In The Games Department
PokéToon
It has been confirmed that two new episodes of PokéToon are to be coming soon as part of Pokémon's 30th Anniversary celebrations. This includes one episode themed around Wartortle and another themed around Mabosstiff and Whimsicott. We'll provide full details upon their release
In The Games Department
Pokémon TCG Pocket - Summer Event Missions
The latest Pokémon TCG Pocket event is now live. This event is a special Summer Event Missions event which has a variety of passive missions to complete to get a variety of rewards including Hourglasses and booster packs.
We're currently compiling all details in our Summer Event Missions event section
