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April Fools' Day 2005

April 1, 2005 was an that fell on a Friday.
==Hoaxes==
* A new Pokémon, Korechū (Japanese: これュウ and これちゆぅ, sic) was revealed in a magazine page scan also depicting a DS port of Hey You, Pikachu!. PokéLord later admitted he had composed it as a joke.Filb.de The Pokémon appears to look similar to this Pokémon.
* Chance (Japanese: チャーンス Chānsu), believed to be a pre-evolutionary form of , is revealed as a new card.Pokébeach 1Pokébeack 2 Its only attack is "April Fool". This Pokémon resembles , which evolves into Chansey.
* Pokemopolis posted a cease and desist letter from a law firm representing Nintendo that claimed the site had tarnished Nintendo's image.
* The PokéMasters forums faked a database error.
* Serebii.net forums had an elaborate custom avatar prank which angered many.
* showed a fake magazine page scan (actually about ), revealing the shadow of a Pokémon named エイプリルフール — a katakana rendition of April Fool.
* The Cave of Dragonflies claimed on the splash page to be shutting down.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools
Korechu magazine page.jpg|A magazine page scan depicting Korechū
Chance TCG card.jpg|A Chance TCG card
Pokemopolis on April 1 2005.png|Pokemopolis
PokéMasters forums on April 1 2005.png|The PokéMasters forums
Legendary Pokemon April Fools.png|A scan showing April Fool
==Aesthetic changes==
* Bulbagarden forums forced all users to adopt a skin for a day, parodying the scheme of Serebii.net forums.
* Bulbapedia was taken over by a cabal, and various texts were changed to reflect this.
* Serebii.net used the classic -for-Pokémon substitution.
* Pokedex.jp also changed its appearance to focus on Digimon.
BMGf on April 1 2005.png|Bulbagarden forums
Serebii.net on April 1 2005.png|Serebii.net
Bulbapedia on April 1 2005.png|Bulbapedia
==Content changes==
* Haruka Fanclub turned into a crudely done fan site for the day.
* Dogasu's Backpack changed into 's Backpack, a site.
Haruka on April 1 2005.jpg|Haruka Fanclub
Dogasus Backpack on April 1 2005.png|Dogasu's Backpack
==Non-hoaxes==
Real announcements misinterpreted as hoaxes included:
* Pokémon CasewrapsCasewraps - not a joke - lets consumers customize consoles with Pokémon images, but as the information was released on April 1, there was confusion as to whether it was real.
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2006

April 1, 2006 was an that fell on a Saturday.
==Hoaxes==
Pokémon-related hoaxes this year included:
* A special edition of Bulbacast was released, breaking the news about 10 newly discovered Pokémon names, as well as other 'information' about , such as a true cross-breeding feature and the name of the new region. The Pokeani hoaxes were also discussed.
* Pokeani made its first April Fools' Day hoax, announcing a spin-off anime based on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, where the main character is a boy-turned-. Also reported was a new ending, Takeshi's Paradise 2.Pokeani 
* Dogasu's Backpack published a fake comparison of Mean with Envy, illustrated with doctored screenshots.Dogasu's Backpack
* The creator of The Cave of Dragonflies pretended to have given up on the then-monthly crossword out of annoyance that no one got it right.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools
==Aesthetic changes==
A fairly predictable joke that recurs each April Fools' Day is an aesthetic change:
* SPP expanded its initials as .
* Pokécommunity set the default color scheme to black-on-black.
* Bulbapedia set the interface for logged-in users to Finnish, then later, Japanese.
* Pokémon Emerald MA imitates the new, 'girl-oriented' Slashdot look, OMG!!! Ponies!!, including the pink color scheme.
* Psypoke celebrated Seizure Awareness Day, with a new banner and bright new flashing color scheme. The forums were also modified to have a similar flashing-color effect within each table cell on the index page.
==Miscellaneous==
* <sc>pkmn.net</sc> set up the profanity filter on their forums to change various common words:
** Poké → 
** → Soot
** Egg → Infant
** → 
** Member → Peasant
** Admin → Base jumper
** Left ↔ Right
** Up ↔ Down
* <sc>pkmn.net</sc> also announced that was obtainable in .
* #pocketmonsters released a parody translation of AG160.
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2007

April 1, 2007 was an that fell on a Sunday.
==Hoaxes==
* Sunain announced her departure from #pocketmonsters and the community in general on March 26, then returned on April 1 itself.
* #pocketmonsters also released a fake episode of School Rumble falsely labeled as a subtitled DP024.
* Pokecharms.com was taken down impending action over the Copyright Infringements taking place on domain: Pokecharms.com under a claim by Plaintiff: Nintendo United Kingdom; relating to the franchise: Pokémon.
* Pokemopolis announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
* Legendary Pokémon announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
* Pokémon.Marriland.com claimed to have unearthed information about the third game in the Generation IV series, which they called Pokémon Zircon. Before the real boxart was revealed, many people thought that this "Zircon" boxart was that of Platinum. Ironically, much of the "information" Marriland provided turned out to be true.
* The front page of The Cave of Dragonflies instead redirected users to a fake website called "TCOD Solutions," produced by a company called "DRAG Productions, ltd." located on "Flyc Avenue," to justify why the URL would be 'dragonflycave.com'. It included an "Our Products" page, offering three different products but providing no hints as to what they actually did. There was also a "Customer Testimonials" page which vouched for the brilliance of said products while again not indicating what they did. The "About TCOD" page then admitted it was a joke and gave a link to the real home page.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools
File:2007-04-01 Pokecharms.png|Pokecharms: shut down?
File:2007-04-01 Serebiimopolis.net.png|Serebiimopolis
File:2007-04-01 Legendary Pokémon.png|Legendary Pokémon
==Meta-hoax==
* Serebii.net revealed a number of English names for towns, attacks, Abilities and items, which many incorrectly believed to be a hoax.
==Miscellaneous==
* Bulbagarden forums became Bananagarden, which was followed by a mock civil war, "Operation Desert Salmon", between the League of Neutral Posters led by Evil Figment (Damian Silverblade), and the rest of the staff and members led by Pie.
* SPPf removed all avatars and custom user titles due to "server errors". Some forums were also deleted.
* Dogasu's Backpack was changed to Satoshi's Orenospace (a play on ) page. Pages for Takeshi and Harley were also created.
*This date marked the tenth anniversary of .
File:2007-04-01 Bananagarden.png|Bananagarden
File:2007-04-01 Dogasu.png|Satoshi's Orenospace
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2008

April 1, 2008 was an that fell on a Tuesday.
==Hoaxes==
===Fan sites===
====Bulbagarden====
* Bulbagarden forums changed the default font on some of the forum skins to .
* Bulbapedia deleted its User: .
* Bulbanews ran a story based on Game Freak's hoax. (see below)
====Other fan sites====
* PokéCommunity Forums changed every user's status to moderator.
* PKMN.NET announced a new administrator. The administrator would be the person viewing the announcement.
* The Pokémon Times changed their theme for the episode to .
* Psypoke made several edits to their website.
** Visitors either saw a dancing - hybrid (named Psypoke) at the bottom of the screen, or would have a burst through the top of the page.
** The forums were completely shuffled out of order. Furthermore, the icons and descriptions did not match up with the forum listed, and clicking the link to enter a forum would send the visitor to a random forum.
** An interview with an exclusive story on a supposed Pokémon Opal version was posted to the site.
** After the interview was posted, the site instead displayed a notice of closure following a cease-and-desist notification in relation to the interview. After 15 seconds, the visitor was returned to the real main page.
===Others===
* Game Freak announced it was moving to the to save the elusive snow together with a "new" Nintendo DS game, Seasan.
* deviantART changed the avatar of all of its users to an animated sprite.
* Feminist Gamers ran a story about police busting an illegal Pokémon fighting ring.
==Gallery==
File:4-1-08 BMGf.png|Bulbagarden forums
File:4-1-08 Bulbapedia.png|Bulbapedia
File:4-1-08 Bulbanews-front.png|Bulbanews front page
File:4-1-08 Bulbanews-story.png|Bulbanews story
File:4-1-08 Game Freak.png|Game Freak
File:Snow Pikachu.png|Game Freak's snow Pikachu
File:4-1-08 Feminist Gamers.png|Feminist Gamers
File:4-1-08_deviantART.png|deviantART avatar
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2009

April 1, 2009 was an that fell on a Wednesday.
==Hoaxes==
All of the hoaxes shown below are from fan sites:
* On Bulbanews, an article reported that a clan of had been found along the coast of , as "reported by" Pokettari Monsutari, the "official Pocket Monsters Blogspot", and was currently held captive at . Also reported were two fake episode titles for DP126 and DP127, and .
* Actually "announced" the day earlier, announced that Nintendo had sued all Pokémon-fansites, due to these sites "leaking out" event Pokémon such as before the events were actually announced.
* Dogasu's Backpack was "opened" and reflected .
* PKMN.NET announced the Pocket Pikachu.
* The Pallet Tribune announced that another one of 's formes has been leaked out, and that people who call a phone number starting with will be greeted by a message from Team Galactic asking them to reveal their Friend Codes for a chance to win one of 100 Cell Phone Rotoms. This would coincidentally later become official in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
* At The PokéMasters forums, one of the supermoderators pretended to be disgruntled, and moved private threads which attacked certain members into the public Miscellaneous forum. The threads in question were fake, but sparked outrage from some of the offended members. The prank was cut short and was followed by an apology from the staff.PokéMasters
* Collectorviper posted a flyer 'scan' which revealed four new LV.X Collection Packs, featuring , , and as new Level X cards set for release in late June.Collectorviper 
* Smogon claimed to introduce a new feature on its Shoddy server that overturned wins if it determined that the winner only won due to hax, although in actuality it just made battle results a coin flip if the winner had only one or two Pokémon remaining. The prank was very elaborate, with the "new feature" being "suggested" nearly a month earlier, and many staff arguing (from a script) for or against the clause, with unwitting ordinary users being caught in arguing about is as well, before it being announced March 27 that it would be implemented on a new ladder.
* Psypoke turned the visitor's cursor into a small black dot while drawing a classic pointer icon moving contrary to mouse movements.
==Notes==
* Due to server errors, Bulbapedia did not submit any joke material.
* Serebii.net decided not to partake in anything special regarding to April Fools', unlike previous years.
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2012

April 1, 2012 was an that fell on a Sunday. In the Pokémon fandom, many websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Fansites===
====Bulbagarden====
* Bulbanews posted which included Pokémon Battrio for the Nintendo 3DS and a "demake" of for the original Game Boy, along with a fake trailer for the game created by Pokémon hacker Koolboyman.
* The Anime Forum also released a list of fake episodes which included the return of and a battle between him and .
* Bulbagarden forums were redesigned to become NOT Bulbagarden, with the forum taking on a look and theme of as though the fake announcement of the Bulbagarden forums moving away from Pokémon talk had just recently taken place.
====Other fan sites====
* Psypoke had shaking rainbow-colored text on the front news page along with a constant line of marching down the page.
* Pokémon Database replaced all sprites with those of MissingNo. and styled the header to look glitchy. Regular sprites could be seen by clicking the "restart your game" link.
* PKMNcast.com followed last year's example and became distorted with images and signs of MissingNo. The banner had an image of MissingNo. on it, with various parts of the website missing, and the colors were changed.
* Pokécharms was rebranded as "KyruemCharms" with the slogan "We're PINGAS and proud of it".
* Pokecardex was taken over by , with the site transformed into Panini's imagery.
* Dogasu's Backpack took on the look and theme of 1997 as though the airing of the first episode of the was about to take place.
* Pokémon Marriland changed "Pokémon" to "Pocketmon" on every page of the site. Also, many icons and sprites were replaced with those of Bidoof, but the names of the Pokémon remained the same. In addition, a supposed event that began April 1st was announced on the site.
* Pokeboard, a lesser known forum, made the mods appear to be banned. This was easily seen through as the mods could still post.
* The Cave of Dragonflies claimed to be permanently translating into Icelandic.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools
==Miscellaneous==
*This date marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Pokémon animated series.
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2013

April 1, 2013 was an that fell on a Monday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Fansites===
====Bulbagarden====
* Bulbanews posted .
* Bulbagarden forums were once again changed to become Bananagarden Forums, returning from 2007, with the forum taking on an appearance based on bananas. Along with that:
** Some forum sections were replaced with non-Pokémon related sections, and some were replaced with sections about the Generation III related topics like Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire and speculation on .
** Team Aqua and Team Magma used the Video Games section to recruit members for their cause.
** The Fun&Games section was announced to be closing.
====Other fan sites====
* Psypoke featured a crawling across the bottom of the site and forums with the message "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" on April 2, 2013 after not running a prank on April 1.
* PokéCommunity made all of their user's posts have a random Pokémon for their avatar, username and the custom user title to that of the random Pokémon. The Pokémon would change upon every time the page is refreshed, and the Pokémon may become a Shiny Pokémon, signified by a sparkling effect on the username and the avatar would show a Pokémon's shiny sprite. Also, the fifth generation gaming moderator "Forever" claimed that she would be leaving the site, but was later revealed to be a joke.
* Pokémon Database changed the header to use "Disapprovalmon", turned all images upside-down, and changed the font to .
* Project Pokémon changed the forum name to Project .
* PKMNcast.com, which normally features a Pokémon of the Week on Mondays, instead featured an article about .
* Smogon and Pokémon Showdown! changed all the sprites on Pokémon Showdown to various fan-drawn sprites.
* The Cave of Dragonflies posted a fake Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow Safari Zone Mechanics page, claiming, among other things, that holding down the A button at precisely the right time could get a Safari Ball to act like a Master Ball, that the likelihood of a Pokemon running away is partially based on a "nervousness factor" estimating how jittery the player is acting and thus how wary the Pokemon would be, and that encounters in the Safari Zone are systematically biased towards Pokemon the player has already caught.
===Others===
* The official Pokémon Facebook account posted news that revealed several colleges would be offering courses in Pokémon mastery.
==Gallery==
File:4-1-13-Pokémon-Facebook.png|Pokémon's Facebook
File:4-1-13-Pokémon-OnSite.png|The link from Pokémon's Facebook post
File:4-1-13-BannanGarden.png|Bulbagarden Forums Skin
File:PokemonDb_April_Fools_2013.png|PokemonDb's April Fools design
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2015

April 1, 2015 was an that fell on a Wednesday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Fansites===
====Bulbagarden====
*The Bulbagarden forums had its sections replaced with and –themed sections, one section for each nation in the series. Unlike previous years, there was no enforced forum skin, although the custom skin did appear when browsing the themed forums.
====Other fansites====
*Marriland announced Pokémon Zero and Infinity, and had an accompanying trailer.
*PokéJungle.net announced Pokémon Temporal Diamond and Spatial Pearl with an accompanying trailer.
*The Cave of Dragonflies announced the site had been acquired by Daybreak Recreation & Activities Group Productions, Ltd., a fictitious corporation, as a revival of a previous joke from 2007.
*Pokémon Showdown changed all sprites and models to various fan-drawn sprites like the previous two years, with the exception of Cosplay Pikachu, Primal Reversions, and Mega Evolutions introduced in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (though and already had their fan-drawn sprites).
* changed Ubers to a tier based on usage rather than a banlist, which resulted in many Pokémon notoriously banned to Ubers being brought to OU, while many common OU Pokémon were banned to Ubers.
===Others===
*The Udon Journal released a news story about 800 escaping a research center.
*The YouTuber TamashiiHiroka made a video about how to find all Mega Stones in . The gag was that Tamashii would say a lookalike to a Pokémon upon saying the name instead of saying the real Pokémon's name.
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2016

April 1, 2016 was an that fell on a Friday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Fansites===
* Bulbagarden's Fun and Games forum was renamed the Woobat Cave, the Mafia subforum renamed Zubat Caverns, and an extra Random Messages thread was created. Most of the moderators changed their usernames to bat-related ones.
* On Reddit, subreddits /r/pokemon and /r/CFB switched themes for the day turning /r/pokemon into a sub on College Football and /r/CFB into a Pokémon themed sub.
* On Pokémon Showdown created by Smogon, a theme was adopted for the battle simulator. Similar to previous years, all sprites and models were replaced with various fan-drawn sprites, with the exception of some sprites that were introduced in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
** Several of these sprites seemed to be mutilated versions of the actual sprites, but other were arbitrary drawings created largely as a joke (such as sprite looking like a tic-tac-toe board).
** Changes were also made in the text displayed to the user. A few of many examples follow.
*** When the move was used, the flavor text "Mischievous Pebbles" or "Discrete Bricks" was shown.
*** When the move was used, the text displayed was "*Pokemon name* said "Yo momma so stupid, she makes her special attack go down when she uses !"
*** When the move was used, the browser window would shake and the text displayed was "*Pokemon name* used ! Just kidding, it was Earthquake!"
*** When the move was used, a wooden billboard with "Pay no attention to what is behind this board" written on it would appear instead of the substitute doll.
** Smogon also released false information for Pokémon Sun and Moon.
*On The Cave of Dragonflies, webmaster Dragonfree claimed to be replacing every image on the website with their own art. To back up the claim, the top banner and sprites of and used on the front page were replaced by their drawings.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools April Fools' Jokes Archive
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2019

April 1, 2019 was an that fell on a Monday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Pokémon GO===
* Available until April 3rd, or a Pikachu wearing Ash's hat can appear as a photobomb as part of a cross-promotion including a GO Snapshot challenge held by TV Tokyo.アプリ『Pokémon GO』と連動したフォトコンテストを開催中！
===Pokémon Duel===
* A [UX] figure was added which appeared in opponent decks in a special Queen's Cup as part of an "AI-generated rebalancing" due to [C] 's low win rate.Pokémon Duel: [UX Bidoof, Forward March! - YouTube]https://twitter.com/pokemoncomaster/status/1112634313680392194 Players who had started the game prior to the end of the event were given as a Commemorative Figure from April 2, 2019 to April 5, 2019.
==Aesthetic changes==
* The Bulbagarden forums were changed to display googly eyes on the forum skin and staff badges.
* Pokémon Central Wiki changed its homepage saying that Scraggy would have become its mascothttps://web.archive.org/web/20190401220854/https://wiki.pokemoncentral.it/Home.
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2020

April 1, 2020 was an that fell on a Wednesday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
==Hoaxes==
===Fansites===
* Smogon shut down the social forum for the day and made the bogus announcement that Finchinator (the leader of the OU tier) would be retiring.
===Pokémon GO===
===Pokémon Masters===
* The background music for the Pokémon Center and other locations was changed to play music from .Background Music Changes | News | Pokémon Masters official site
==Aesthetic changes==
* The Bulbagarden forums were changed to be lightbulb-themed.
==References==
Category:Events
April Fools' Day 2021

April 1, 2021 was an that fell on a Thursday.
==Hoaxes==
===The Pokémon Company===
*The Pokémon Company International changed their account mascot to and posted pictures and fragments from , as well as a YouTube video dedicated to the Pokémon.
==Events==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
* The special event was held, where Team Break members occupied the Pokémon Center.Special Event: Happy Team Break Day! | News | Pokémon Masters EX official site
===Fansites===
The Cave of Dragonflies put up a supposed 1st chapter of a Morphic rewrite, which eschewed the original's deconstruction of Pokémorph fanfiction in favor of a more straight-laced take. Also, the site's Favorite Pokémon Picker feature was changed to only display pictures of instead of other Pokémon, in reference to a internet meme.https://www.dragonflycave.com/april-fools April Fools' Jokes Archive
==Aesthetic changes==
* Bulbapedia was taken over by Team Rainbow Rocket, becoming Rocketpedia, with the front page redesigned. This lead to the site having to be 'rebuilt' as a cover for a major server and MediaWiki update.
==References==
Category:Events