Pokémon - April Fool's Day 2022

For April Fool's Day, for one day only, a special Raid event was held in Pokémon Sword & Shield that gave raids of Bonsly and Sudowoodo, with a chance of getting a shiny Sudowoodo

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The annual Pokémon GO event featured increased spawns of Ditto in the game with unique Special Research where Professor Willow was replaced by a Ditto

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The Pokémon Masters EX April Fool's Day event featured trainers in the Pokémon Center getting replaced by Ditto and Looker having to find them. All players were given 1000 gems as a log-in Bonus

Pokémon Café ReMix also focused on Ditto for the April Fool's Day event and had a special Points event begin to give players a chance to get Ditto. This changed the title screen and more

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On social media, as soon as it hit April Fool's Day, a dramatic trailer for a Puppet Pokémon story, Mirror Lake & Ditto's Tears went live. This showed a dramatic trailer different in tone to the previous shorts that had been released and would be released in theaters. The film itself was then released on April 20th as a short on the Pokémon Kids TV YouTube channel