This week in Pokémon Go (2nd to 8th March): A new season, and Mewtwo returns

Welcome to the second One More Catch weekly newsletter, offering you a guide to the week ahead in Pokémon Go.

If you were looking forward to a more relaxed few days after the double whammy of 'Road to Kalos' and 'Go Tour Kalos Global', you'd be sorely mistaken. Tuesday sees both a Pokémon 30th Anniversary event, which includes the long awaited return of Mewtwo - for free, no less - and the start of a new season, 'Memories in Motion', which ushers in a significant shakeup to the game's regular event schedule.

Dubbed 'Daily Discoveries', there will now be a different activity or bonus for each day of the week. There's a lot of change, basically, and it sounds like the perfect time to subscribe to a newsletter breaking it all down, if you ask me.

So here's a snapshot of everything coming in Pokémon Go this week, and how to get the most from it.

This week in Pokémon Go (2nd to 8th March)

All times are at your local time, unless otherwise stated.

Monday 2nd March

• Precious Paths Finale Timed Research - 10am to 10am Tuesday
  • New Timed Research with bonus encounters with themed Pokémon from this season
• Fast-Track Monday - midnight to midnight
  • All earned Go Pass points (monthly and event-specific) are doubled
• Max Monday - 6am to 9pm
  • Gone is the 6pm to 7pm hour-long focus on one specific Pokémon, to be replaced by additional Power Spots throughout the day, which will all refresh more regularly
  • Though Rookidee is the highlighted Dynamax this week, "different Dynamax Pokémon" will also appear today

Tuesday 3rd March

• 'Memories in Motion' season starts - 10am to 2nd June
  • New seasonal Special Research 'Pressure Rising' debuts, eventually leading to an encounter with mythical Volcanion
  • New seasonal bonuses, Egg pool refresh, and update to Research Breakthroughs - more details on the official site
  • Other game-wide changes include:
• Any evolved Pokémon in the wild now have a chance to be shiny (if it's already had its shiny debut)
• Weekend events will now be on Saturdays, and events will move away from paid tickets to Go Passes, such as...
• Pokémon 30th Anniversary event begins - starts 10am, ends Monday 9th March at 8pm
  • New Go Pass debuts: features Mewtwo encounter on the free track, while on the paid Deluxe track, there's Mewtwo Candy XL, encounters with Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and more
    • There's also 2x Catch Candy and Catch XP bonuses at certain ranks, which be increased to 3x with a paid Deluxe track purchase
  • Any Kanto Pokémon apart from Mewtwo and Mew can appear in the wild "based on their natural habitat", including (rare) Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres spawns
    • Everything in Kanto has a chance of being shiny
  • Ditto will be disguised as different Pokémon throughout the event
  • Raid refresh (all can be shiny):
    • One-star: Pikachu wearing Red's hat, Leaf's hat
    • Three-star: Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise
• Go Pass: March begins - 10am to 7th April
  • Features a Raikou encounter in the free track, and a Timed Incubator in the Deluxe track
• Showcase Tuesday - 10am to 8pm*
  • Showcases will feature "up to 20 different categories" today
  • * This is based on the start and end of Showcases previously, but hasn't been confirmed at the time of writing.
• Go Battle League change - 9pm UK / 4pm EST / 1pm PST
  • Great League, Kanto Cup: Great League Edition