Pokémon Presents July 2025 – All The Big Announcements & Mega Dragonite Takes Flight!
While today is not Pokémon Day, The Pokémon Company scraped together a slew of new announcements to share with fans regarding the latest developments in the Pokémon franchise. Typically, for the past three years Pokémon Presents showcases would land on February 27, the same day Pokémon Red and Green was released in Japan in 1996.
But that's not the case for 2025, as Pokémon Day has come and gone (alongside a Presents showcase), and The Pokémon Company took the time in between February's showcase and today to reveal the Pokémon Legends: Z-A release date in a small announcement alongside this second dose of Pokémon Presents July 2025. While May revealed Pokémon Legends: Z-A's release date, today's presentation brought much more with it. But without further delay, here are all of the developments revealed at the Pokémon Presents July 2025 showcase.
Pokémon Presents July 2025 Announcements
Pokémon World Championships 2025
The dates for the upcoming Pokémon World Championships 2025 have been revealed as well as the promo card guests will receive for attending. Each player who competes in the world championships event will receive a world championships Parardise Resort 2025 promo.Fans who aren't attending in person will be able to watch all of the Pokémon World Championships 2025 action directly on the official Pokémon Youtube or Official Twitch channel. The Pokemon World Championships will take place from August 15 until August 17.
Pokémon Concierge
A trailer for the upcoming season of the Netflix Original, Pokémon Concierge was revealed, and it puts Haru face to face with her mysterious ex that she fled from by coming to the Pokémon Resort.The heartwarming series returns in 2025, bringing a brand new group of stories and new Pokémon to the island. Pokémon Concierge returns in September 2025.
Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd and Pichu
A brand new Pokémon stop motion series was then announced from the previously revealed Wallace and Gromit stop motion studio, Aardman x Pokémon collaboration. A small teaser trailer was shown of a Wooloo eating an apple while other rowdy Pokémon antics proceeded in the background, but what that has to do with Sirfetch'd or Pichu remains a mystery.
The series is set to launch in 2027.
Poképark Kanto
To fulfill the wish of bringing a new area for people and Pokémon to exist together, The Pokémon Company unveiled PokéPark Kanto. This new area in Japan brings an actual Pokémon enclosure to the real world, and allows people to co-exist alongside their favourite creatures. The park will be located on in a forest behind Yomiuriland in the Tama area of Tokyo, Japan. PokéPark Kanto will feature a range of Pokémon-themed attractions and events designed to immerse visitors in the Pokémon world.
Ticket sales are planned for Poképark Kanto at the end of 2025, with a grand opening scheduled for 2026.
Pokémon Friends
A new puzzle game was revealed at the Pokémon Presents July 2025 showcase, and it features a new brain teasers to give fans that 'Aha!' moment when you figure it out. After solving puzzles, you can snag a nifty new plush to decorate your base with in the new brainteaser title filled with Pokémon, Pokémon Friends.Pokémon Friends is available today on Nintendo Switch, iOS and Androids.
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
A new tera raid event will kick off, featuring the treasures of ruin in their shiny variants: Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao,Ting-Lu, and Chi-Yu. This time there's a catch, the global Pokémon community has to work together to defeat these shiny creatures one million times each to obtain the ability to catch these shiny variants. The raid event schedule is as follows:
Shiny Wo-Chien: July 22, 2025, to August 3, 2025.
Shiny Chien-Pao: August 3, 2025, to August 17, 2025.
Shiny Ting-Lu: August 17, 2025, to August 31, 2025.
Shiny Chi-Yu: August 31, 2025, to September 14, 2025.
Fans can also grab a nifty new tracksuit in Scarlet and Violet by entering the following Mystery Gift code: STRACKSU1T for Pokémon Scarlet, and VTRACKSU1T for Pokémon Violet. After players defeat each shiny legendary Pokémon, they will then be obtainable via mystery gift just like the tracksuit later on.
Pokémon Champions
The upcoming Pokémon Colliseum successor, Pokémon Champions revealed you can link the title to Pokémon Home and bring beloved creatures from any title into the game. Pokémon Champions allows player to engage in single, and double battles for a variety of different strategies to face opposing trainers with.
Pokémon Champions allows trainers to easily train individual stats, making EV training a sinch, and customizing Pokémon for the battlefield has never appeared simpler. The new Pokémon Champions title will launch sometime in 2026.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A
As the final announcement in the Pokémon Presents July 2025 presentation, a new trailer was shown for Pokémon Legends Z-A, showcasing Mega Evolution in action and revealing brand new story beats for what trainers will be able to accomplish in Lumiose City. After arriving in Lumiose City, you will be invited to join Team MZ, the self proclaimed protectors of Lumiose City.
Trainers will notice Luimiose City is different on its day and night cycle. In the daytime, trainers can find and catch new Pokémon, and by night, trainers will have to contend with other battlers. Lumiose City offers many ways to have fun outside of Pokémon Battling, as a character from Pokemon X and Y's post-game story, Emma, was shown in her best Looker cosplay (a detective outfit), and Professor Mabel (a name shared with an admin of the villainous Team Flare from Kalos) will provide research opportunities. Listening to fans frustration with the lack of customization options in Scarlet and Violet, Pokémon Legends: Z-A will feature a wealth of fashion options, letting fans dress their character how they please.
Trainers can also travel around the confines of Lumiose City and help inhabitants with problems and net sweet rewards by doing so. Trainers will learn Rogue Mega-Evolved Pokémon will litter the city, demanding the player deal with these creatures with your own Mega Evolution and recruit Team MZ to help out. Mega Dragonite has been revealed for the first time, and it features Dragonair design traits, such as wings on its head and a blue orb on its tail. This confirms what fans have thought, there will be new Mega Evolutions in Legends Z-A. Pokémon Legends Z-A releases on October 22, 2025.
That wraps the entire Pokémon Presents July 2025 presentation. Fans looking for more information can head to the official Pokémon site for more details on any of the announcements.
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