Pokemon Gois hosting anotherIncense Day, an event that offers several bonuses revolving around the game’s Incense item and mechanic. This edition of the Incense Day will featureSkorupi,the Bug and Poison dual-type Pokemon, adding additional bonuses specifically tied to this Pokemon.

Like past Incense Days, Skorupi’s will be a one-day event, taking place during the six hours of11am local time to 5pm local time on Saturday, Jul 20, 2025.With this event only being active for a short window of time and offering tons of valuable bonuses, we’ve put together complete guide to answer all your questions regarding this Incense Day.

Shiny Skorupi from Pokemon with the Pokemon Go battlefield as the background

As mentioned previously, this Incense Day will feature Skorupi. This means that you will have ahigher chance of encountering Skorupi when using an Incenseduring the hours of this event.

Additionally, Skorupi encountered during this Incense Day will haveincreased odds of being Shiny.With this combination of bonuses, this is a great opportunity to encounter and catch the rare Shiny Skorupi.

A Pokemon Go Trainer walking through a forest with the Daily Adventure Incense activated

Additional Event Bonuses

Mentioned above, the majority of the event bonuses for this Incense Day will have to do with Skorupi. In addition to these, there will be one more bonus active during the hours of this Incense Day.

During this event,Daily Adventure Incensewill have twice as long of a durationwhen activated. This means that it will be active for 30 minutes instead of 15, giving you a great opportunity encounter and catch several rare Pokemon.

Images of Skorupi, Pinsir, Scyther, Alolan Grimer, Croagunk, and an Incense with a purple and orange background

Incense Encounters

Because of Skorupi’s Bug and Poison dual-typing, you will have anincreased likelihood of encountering specific Pokemon of these two typeswhen using an Incense during this event. Below you may find information about both the Poison and Bug-type Pokemon being featured in this Incense Day.

Bug-Type Encounters

When an Incense is active from11pm to 12pm local time, 1pm to 2pm local time, and 3pm to 4pm local time,specific Bug-type Pokemon will be attracted to your incense. The eight Bug-type Pokemon you may expect to encounter are provided for you below.

Scyther

Poison-Type Encounters

Similarly, there will be specific hours when you’ll encounter certain Poison-type Pokemon when using an Incense. These times are from12pm to 1pm local time, 2pm to 3pm local time, and 4pm to 5pm local time.

The eight Poison-type Pokemon you can encounter as an Incense encounter can be found below.

Professor Willow with Pikachu on his shoulder, with Mew and the Pokemon Go logo on the right

Stunky

Event Field Research

Spinning PokeStops during this Incense Day will have a chance of providing you withevent-exclusive Field Research Tasks.These tasks will require you tocatch different Bug and Poison-type Pokemon,rewarding you withStardust, Ultra Balls,andSkorupi encounters.

Event Shop Bundle

There will be anEvent Bundleavailable to purchase at the in-game shop during the Skorupi Incense Day. This Bundle will onlycost one PokeCoin,and will containone Incense.This is an excellent deal, so make sure you take advantage of it.

Image of a PokeCoin from Pokemon Go next to the Pokemon Go logo