Magnemite Spotlight Hour (August 2024): Last Minute Guide

Pokémon Spotlight Hour will feature a different Pokémon and a special bonus for one hour at 6:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday during the month of August. Magnemite Spotlight Hour takes place on August 27th, 2024, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm local time, with a bonus of 2x XP for evolving Pokémon. 

Magnemite

This Spotlight Hour is the fourth and final August 2024 Pokémon spotlight. It’s a great time to evolve any trash ‘mon in your storage before you transfer them.

Trainers who plan to participate should be prepared with a Mega Pokémon to maximise candy gains per Magnemite caught. Here’s everything you need to know!

• If you want further information about Spotlight Hours, check out our comprehensive guide.

Magnemite Spotlight Hour

Bonuses

Note on XP Bonus

If you do not want to catch the featured Pokémon or do not have enough Magnemite candy saved, you can make use of the 2x Evolution XP bonus by evolving any saved Scatterbug, or opening a Mystery Box or Coin Bag and evolving those!

The old-school grinders will remember the days of saving Pidgey and other low-cost evolutions for this sort of spotlight hour, and it can be a good way to grind XP with a lucky egg on.

This Spotlight Hour takes place during the Triumph Together event, which does not have any wild spawns. This is your chance to evolve all the seasonal spawns sitting around in your storage. As these have been around for the entire season, you’ll likely have plenty of each candy to evolve enough!

Magnemite Fact Sheet

Magnemite

Magnemite is a Electric and Steel-type Pokémon in Pokémon GO, with a maximum Combat Power of 1540 CP. Magnemite best moveset in Pokémon GO is Thunder Shock and Thunderbolt.

Magnemite is weak to Ground (2x), Fighting, and Fire moves. It is strong against Bug, Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Rock, Flying, Poison, and Steel moves. Magnemite is boosted by Rain and Snow weather.

Evolutions

Magnemite	25 Magnemite Candy	Magneton
Magneton	100 Magnemite Candy Magnetic Lure Module	Magnezone

Shiny Magnemite

There are no gender differences to look out for. Shiny Magnemite turn gold with silver and black magnets – an easy one to spot!

—	Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite
Magnemite
Magneton
Magnezone

Magnemite CP and IV Chart

Mega Pokémon that boost Magnemite

The following Pokémon will grant you extra bonuses when catching Magnemite if they are Mega/Primal evolved. It is best to use a Ground type mega so that it will boost both forms of Magnemite!

A Note on Mega Catch Bonus

While a Pokémon is Mega-Evolved, additional XP and Candy is granted when catching a Pokémon that shares a type with it, or for any raid boss caught. These do not stack with each other. Additionally, High and Max Level Mega-Evolved Pokémon grant an increased chance to obtain Candy XL when catching a Pokémon that shares a type with it.

Is it worth evolving Magnemite?

PVP

While Magnezone’s typing does grant it some very useful resistances, it also comes with some very exploitable weaknesses. The biggest one being a double weakness to Ground.

More importantly, it can spam Mirror Shot to cripple the ATK of its opponents, something that renders the opponent weaker and possibly makes it switch out. 

Defensively, Magnezone’s set of resistances gives it favorable match-ups against some of the meta’s biggest superstars. 

It excels in the right match-ups and is underwhelming in the bad ones. However, in the right team comp and with bait and switch style play, Zone can be absolutely devastating as it is just so powerful, even when dealing resisted damage! Keep it away from Fighting and Ground types and let Zone go to work. Magnezone is also more than decent in the Master Premier format, particularly as an answer to Gyarados and Metagross.

PVE

Magnezone’s typing can be useful as a budget raid attacker too! Magnezone’s Steel typing offers it a very niche use in raids and gym battles: resistance to the Ice typing

Trainers tend to use Electric and Grass types to take down Water types. But how many times has that Kyogre OHKO’d your Electric and Grass types with a hard-hitting Blizzard? For that matter, Zapdos and Zekrom would take super-effective damage from that Blizzard!

Add the fact that Water types tend to be inherently bulky, you need an Electric type that can reliably tank Ice type hits and hit back with super-effective damage. 

Enter Magnezone. 

Magnezone can definitely take on nuke Ice type attacks and use an absolutely amazing Electric type moveset to zap out chunks of the opponent’s HP.