Hawlucha makes its Pokémon Sleep debut in the Summer Festival 2026 event on August 10th, alongside two new Curry/Stew recipes

Pokémon Sleep's Summer Festival event returns for 2026 (if a little late this year), commencing next month on Monday August 10th at 4:00am local time, running through until Monday August 17th at 3:59am local time. This year's event once again features a fresh Pokémon species for Sleep Research, with the Wrestling Pokémon Hawlucha set to make its debut alongside this event.

To mark this year's event, two brand new Curry/Stew recipe will be added to the game alongside the start of the event. These recipes will use:

• Dish 1: Firey Herb, Pure Oil, Warming Ginger, and Grassgrass Soybeans
• Dish 2: Tasty Mushroom, Firey Herb, Bean Sausage, and Warming Ginger

The Summer Festival 2026 event will allow Researchers to participate and gain bonuses regardless of where they conduct their sleep research, with the following bonuses active throughout the event period:

• Dishes will be set to Curries/Stews for all Researchers.
• Strength gains from dishes will be multiplied by ×1.5
  • This bonus is multiplicative, so Extra Tasty dishes will receive a ×3 total bonus through most of the week, and a ×4.5 total bonus on Sunday August 16th
• Researchers will have access to the limited-time Candy Cram-o-matic Function up to four times per day
  • This event-limited function allows Researchers to effectively gamble with their unwanted Pokémon Candy, allowing them to spend an amount of Dream Shards plus 40 Pokémon Candy to get one M-sized candy of a random type. Rarely, Researchers will get a Great Success and receive two M-size candies of a random type instead.
  • Researchers will have only a limited ability to influence the type of Type Candy they receive, with the type being slightly biased towards the types associated with the Pokémon Candy consumed, however there is no guarantee that the type received will correspond to these types.
  • The amount of Dream Shards increases for each use, resetting at the end of each day.
• Researchers can encounter a few Pokémon of different sleep types regardless of their own sleep type for the day.
• Certain Shiny Pokémon may appear.

Hawlucha will make its Pokémon Sleep debut alongside the start of this event, from Monday August 10th at 3:00pm (UTC). Players who are in the middle of Sleep Research at the time it debuts should have a chance of seeing them when they complete their sleep.

As with other Flying-type Pokémon,Hawlucha collects Pamtre Berries. Hawlucha has the Slumbering sleep type, which corresponds to non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM sleep), especially its Stage 3, also known as deep sleep. Hawlucha will appear at Greengrass Isle, Cyan Beach, Lapis Lakeside, Greengrass Isle (Expert), and Cyan Beach (Expert). Information on its main skill has not yet been officially revealed as of the time of writing.

Hawlucha Incense items will also be able to be used from the instant this Pokémon goes live. As with previous Pokémon debuts, it's likely that Hawlucha Incense will become available in special bundles available for purchase in-game from shortly before the event.

Additionally, the following Pokémon will appear more frequently during sleep research throughout the event:

• Greater Appearance Rate
  • Greengrass Isle, Cyan Beach Lapis Lakeside, and Greengrass Isle (Expert)
    • Hawlucha
  • Cyan Beach (Expert)
    • Hawlucha (more likely to appear here than in other areas)
• Slightly Greater Appearance Rate
  • Greengrass Isle
    • Squirtle, Caterpie, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Farfetch’d, Doduo, Pinsir, Totodile, Wooper, Shuckle, Heracross, Delibird, Mudkip, Swablu, Piplup, Rufflet, Cramorant, and Quaxly
  • Cyan Beach
    • Squirtle, Caterpie, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Farfetch’d, Pinsir, Totodile, Wooper, Shuckle, Heracross, Piplup, Rufflet, and Cramorant
  • Taupe Hollow
    • Shuckle, and Mudkip
  • Snowdrop Tundra
    • Delibird, Swablu, Piplup, and Cramorant
  • Lapis Lakeside
    • Doduo, and Quaxly
  • Old Gold Power Plant
    • Caterpie, Farfetch’d, and Grubbin
  • Amber Canyon
    • Pinsir, Heracross, Dwebble, and Rufflet
  • Greengrass Isle (Expert)
    • Squirtle, Caterpie, Farfetch’d, Doduo, Pinsir, Totodile, Shuckle, Heracross, Delibird, Mudkip, Swablu, Piplup, Rufflet, Cramorant, and Quaxly
  • Cyan Beach (Expert)
    • Squirtle, Psyduck, Farfetch’d, Pinsir, Totodile, Shuckle, Heracross, Mudkip, Piplup, Rufflet, Hawlucha, Grubbin, and Cramorant

Researchers should also note the following for this event:

• The daily rollover for the Summer Festival 2026 event is at 4:00am local time.
• Event bonuses for this event apply regardless of which site players conduct their sleep research in.
• Event bonuses apply only for sleep tracking that begins within the event period, and do not apply to sleep tracking during the tutorial, or to sleep data tracked before the event, even if the researcher waits to review their sleep research after the event has started.
• Sleep data tracked during the event will receive event bonuses, regardless of if the researcher waits to review their sleep research until after the event has concluded.
• Event bonuses cannot raise main skill levels beyond the max main skill level. For Pokémon already on a player's team at the start of the event, if their main skill had procced but had not yet been triggered prior to the start of the event, the trigger of the main skill may not include the bonus effect.