Pokémon GO: Memories in Motion Week

Pokémon GO players in Provo are in the middle of a week built around local play, with Sustainability Week ending and Gigantamax battles returning on Saturday. (pokemongohub.net) The current in-game schedule runs from Monday, April 20, at 12:00 a.m. local time through Sunday, April 26, at 11:00 p.m. local time. This week’s headline events include Tapu Koko in Raid Hour on Wednesday, April 22, and “Replay: GO Bigger” on Saturday, April 25, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time. (pokemongohub.net) Saturday’s three-hour event brings back Gigantamax Venusaur, Gigantamax Charizard, Gigantamax Blastoise, and Gigantamax Gengar in G-Max battles. Dynamax Regirock is also the featured Max Battle Pokémon for April 20 through April 26, with a Monday spotlight hour from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time. (pokemongohub.net; pokemongohub.net) The week sits inside Pokémon GO’s “Memories in Motion” season, which runs from March 3 to June 2, 2026. That season shifted the game to a steadier event calendar, moved weekend events to Saturdays, and leaned on GO Pass tracks instead of more paid event tickets. (pokemongohub.net) Those changes push more activity into fixed weekly windows. Max Mondays now refresh Power Spots more often, Tuesdays host PokéStop Showcases, and Raid Boss rotations now change at the start of each Wednesday before the 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Raid Hour. (pokemongohub.net) Sustainability Week itself ran from Tuesday, April 14, at 10:00 a.m. to Monday, April 20, at 8:00 p.m. local time. It added Silicobra and Sandaconda to Pokémon GO, introduced Galarian Corsola wearing pink sunglasses, and made Shiny Toedscool available for the first time. (pokemongo.com) That event also tied bonuses to Routes and a temporary GO Pass. Players could earn 2× experience points for spinning a PokéStop at Tier 1 and half Egg Hatch Distance at Tier 2, while Route spawns rotated across three date windows between April 14 and April 20. (pokemongo.com) The April calendar around this week is crowded even by Pokémon GO standards. Tapu Koko replaced Groudon in five-star raids on April 22, Mega Sharpedo replaced Mega Alakazam in Mega Raids on the same date, and Shadow Latios remains in weekend Shadow Raids through early May. (pokemongohub.net; pokemongohub.net) Niantic has spent the past several years tying high-value raid rewards and social tools more closely to in-person play. In a 2022 update, the company said local raid battles would get extra incentives and said it wanted to make it easier for players to “discover new communities” and play together nearby. (pokemongolive.com) For players in Provo, that means the busiest window left this week is Saturday afternoon. The season’s new Saturday cadence puts the return of Gigantamax battles at the center of a local-play week that closes Sunday night. (pokemongohub.net; pokemongohub.net)