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In Pokemon Pokopia, we can play a jump rope minigame with Bulbasaur after building a habitat for the character, and now there’s a special contest tied to that coming to the game. Starting on April 19, 2026, we can play with the character to earn items. We have one week to do our best and earn everything in the game’s minigame.
Nintendo shared three images to show how the Bulbasaur’s Jump Rope Contest event will work in Pokemon Pokopia. You can tell if the event started in-game by finding and talking to Bulbasaur. The character will mention an actual jump rope contest is in effect. Normally, playing the minigame is just a dialogue option after approaching the Pokemon. You then need to jump as many times as possible. So far, the only confirmed reward to earn is the trophy. We don’t know what other prizes we can get.
Here are the official photos:
As a reminder, if Bulbasaur isn’t immediately showing up, it is easy to make the character appear. Head to the area where they live, then use Honey on the habitat to summon the Pokemon. Honey is acquired from investigating glittering flowers or gathering ones dropped by Combee. As Bulbasaur is one of the first characters you meet, odds are they live in the Withered Wasteland area unless you moved them.
It seems we’ll regularly see these sorts of limited time events in Pokemon Pokopia. In March 2026, one appeared starring Hoppip, Skiploom, and Jumpluff. All three aren’t normally available in the game, but by going to Dream Islands you could collect Cotton Spore items to trade for furniture and flower seeds you could use to set up certain habitats for those characters. Once the event ended, you could also create a home for Hoppip and move that character in.
This was followed by a one-day April Fools’ event. During that one, we needed to talk to Pokemon on April 1, 2026. If we completed their quizzes, we could claim an Inflatable Sudowoodo item.
Pokemon Pokopia is available for the Nintendo Switch 2, and the Bulbasaur’s Jump Rope Contest event runs between April 19-26, 2026.
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