The Memories in Motion season is winding down, and the game is loading its final week with some familiar raid bosses.

Tapu Fini rotates back into five-star raids on Wednesday morning, the last of the four Tapus to cycle through this season's rotation, a chance for collectors still working on the set. Mega Medicham returns to Mega Raids the same morning. Blanche's Quest begins this week with a shiny-eligible Incense pool that should keep dedicated shiny hunters busy through the no-cap GO Points weekend.

Under all of it, Memories in Motion closes June 2. More on that and the new season to come in the next issue.

Blanche kicks off the first of three team-leader quest events, bridging Memories in Motion's final stretch. Expect a research-focused week leaning on Water and Ice types, Team Mystic's signature combo. The event runs alongside Tapu Fini's debut, so your Water-type Pokédex gets a workout from both directions.

GO Pass: Blanche's Quest for Knowledge is auto-distributed when the event starts. Deluxe upgrade is $4.99; Deluxe + 6 Ranks is $6.99.

No-cap GO Points window: From Saturday, May 30 at 12:00 AM to Monday, June 1 at 7:59 PM local, the daily GO Points cap is removed. Earn as many as you can in that nearly-3-day window — the only way to push past Rank limits without spending.

Sources: LeekDuck Blanche's Quest for Knowledge | Pokémon GO Hub event guide

GO Fest 2026: Tokyo kicks off Niantic's three-city in-person GO Fest series this year (Tokyo May 29–June 1, Chicago June 5–7, Copenhagen June 12–14). Its citywide features are already live as of today, May 25, for trainers in Tokyo with a Citywide Gameplay add-on or City Explorer Pass — the Park Experience itself follows May 29.

Live now in Tokyo (May 25 – June 1, citywide ticket-holders only):

Park Experience exclusives (May 29 – June 1):

For non-ticket-holders in Tokyo: Citywide raids are still accessible, but catches won't carry Location or Special Background photo treatment, and Shiny Aqua Tauros is gated behind ticket access.

Sources: Pokémon GO Fest 2026: Tokyo | Pokémon GO Tokyo Gameplay details | LeekDuck GO Fest 2026: Tokyo | Pokémon GO Hub: GO Fest 2026: Tokyo

GO Fest Global on July 11-12 is free and worldwide. If you're hoarding PokeCoins for Remote Raid Passes for a big Legendary Pokémon event, that's your target date. Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y both debut there.

The Memories in Motion GBL season enters its final stretch this week. Great League, Ultra League, and Master League (open formats, no themed cup) run through June 2. There are two more GO Battle Thursday windows left in the season: Thursday, May 28, and Thursday, June 5 (which falls outside this newsletter's window but is worth knowing).

Sources: PvPoke GL Rankings | PvPoke UL Rankings | LeekDuck GBL schedule

GO Battle Thursday this week (May 28) is one of the last two full Thursday windows before the GBL season ends. Get your rank grinds in while you can! Also, be sure to run your 10 battle sets with a Star Piece active to take advantage of Thursday's 4x Stardust from wins.

Tapu Fini: Wednesday, May 27, at 6:00 AM through Tuesday, June 2, at 10:00 PM

Tapu Fini is Water/Fairy-type. The final member of the Alolan guardian quartet to arrive in five-star raids. It's weak to Electric, Grass, and Poison-type attacks. Compared to Tapu Bulu, it's a tougher fight because none of its weaknesses overlap for double super effective, and its Defense stat is noticeably higher.

Shiny odds: 1/20

Premium counters:

Budget counters:

Raid Hour: Wednesday, May 27, 6:00–7:00 PM local.

Mega Medicham returns Wednesday, May 27 at 6:00 AM through Tuesday, June 2 at 10:00 PM

Mega Medicham is a Fighting/Psychic type, weak to Ghost (×2), Flying (×2), and Fairy (×2). No double weaknesses, but three exploitable types means you have options. After the raid, you catch a regular Medicham.

Premium picks:

Budget picks:

With a chance to be shiny: Medicham shiny is available with boosted shiny odds in Mega raids.

Ongoing through Tuesday, June 2.

Shadow Cresselia continues its run from May 6.

Shadow Cresselia is a pure Psychic type. Bug, Ghost, and Dark all deal 2x damage against it.

Shiny odds: 1/20

Premium picks:

Budget picks:

Sources: LeekDuck Mega Medicham | Pokebattler MEDICHAM_MEGA | db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/308 | LeekDuck Tapu Fini raids | Pokebattler TAPUFINI | db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/788 | LeekDuck Shadow Raids schedule | db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/488

Combee is a Bug/Flying type, putting it in the lower tiers for Max Battle difficulty. It's a manageable fight for any level of Max Battle experience. Bring a couple of Fire-type or Rock-type Dynamax attackers, and you'll clear it without trouble.

After defeating a Dynamax Combee in the Max Battle, you get a chance to catch it. Combee is one of the few Pokémon in the game with a significant gender difference: only female Combee can evolve into Vespiquen (Bug/Flying). Male Combee has no evolution path.

Shiny Combee is available with a chance to be shiny from Max Battles.

Sources: LeekDuck Max Monday May 25 | db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/415

Pokémon GO Hub’s Max tier lists put Dynamax Vespiquen E Tier as an attacker (don't bother) and D Tier as a healer (also don't bother), but C Tier as a defender, Bug Bite and Fury Cutter both fire at 0.5 seconds, which charges your team's Max Meter quickly. Not a top defender pick, but a legitimate sleeper if your Max Battle bench is thin (no Registeel, no Crowned Shield Zamazenta yet, etc.). Newer trainers especially get one investment's worth of value. For everyone else, Vespiquen is still primarily a Pokédex / shiny collection play.

For the 10-year anniversary, Pokémon GO is doing something it's never done: GO Fest Global, July 11–12, 2026 (10:00 AM–7:00 PM local each day), is free for every trainer worldwide. No ticket, no $5 add-on.

The headliners: Mega Mewtwo X debuts in Super Mega Raids on Saturday, Mega Mewtwo Y on Sunday.

As if that wasn’t enough, Pokémon GO just dropped the full raid list on May 16, and it's massive. Both days rotate three 3-hour habitats, each with its own Mega and 5-Star pools. Over 50 distinct bosses across the weekend.

Check out the list below and start to plan which raids you will be doing during Global GO Fest weekend.

Saturday habitats:

Sunday habitats:

The community sentiment around a massive weekend seems to be a mix of thrilled and a little worried. Reactions to the lineup reveal a split sharply along two lines. The first is excitement at the sheer scale and the Mega Mewtwo X/Y debuts. Gamerant called the leak "absolutely stacked," and trainers are genuinely hyped that the 10-year-anniversary event is free for everyone.

The second is concern about dilution. GO Hub's own raid-reveal post flagged it directly: with 50+ bosses spread across two days and rotating habitat pools, finding a specific raid (or even a consistent Mega Mewtwo lobby) could be harder than at a more curated event.

Comicbook.com's headline read "Fans Are Immediately Overwhelmed," and Pocket Tactics went further with "there can be too much of a good thing." Ultimately, the lineup is the most generous Niantic has ever offered, AND it's likely to feel chaotic on the day for trainers chasing specific targets.

Sources: Pokémon GO Hub — Global GO Fest Raids Revealed | Pokémon GO Hub — GO Fest 2026 Global Event Guide | ComicBook — Fans Immediately Overwhelmed | Pocket Tactics — Too Much of a Good Thing