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 October. Shroomish Spotlight Hour takes place on October 15th, 2024, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm local time, with a bonus of 2x Stardust for catching Pokémon!
This Spotlight Hour is the second October 2024 Pokémon spotlight, and it is especially interesting as Shroomish can be shiny, and is one of the few Pokémon who reward more Stardust when caught!
Trainers who plan to participate should be prepared with a Mega Pokémon to maximise candy gains per Pokémon caught. Here’s everything you need to know!
Shroomish Spotlight Hour
Bonuses
- You will get 2x Stardust for catching Pokémon
- Shiny Shroomish is available in Pokémon GO
Note on Stardust Bonus
Shroomish is of the rare Pokémon that give extra Stardust on catch, with a base rate of a whopping 500 Stardust per catch which increases with weather-boost and a Star Piece.
Here’s how much Stardust you can get during Shroomish Spotlight Hour in October 2024, thanks to the 2x Stardust bonus:
Type of catch | Stardust |
---|---|
Regular catch | 1000 |
Weather boosted catch | 1250 |
Regular catch with Star Piece | 1500 |
Weather boosted catch with Star Piece | 1876 |
The best possible scenario you can have is to catch a weather boosted ‘mon with an active Star Piece. As Shroomish is a Grass-type they are boosted by Sunny weather.
To maximise Stardust caught you’ll likely want to use Great Balls to ensure the catch and use a quick catch technique. Otherwise, you could be spending too much time attempting to catch, rather than just catching.
We believe that the baseline for calculating potential Stardust during this hour should be 60 ‘mon. You should be able to get 60 Pokémon during one hour, regardless of if you are using the Fast catch trick, or just catching slowly.
Here’s how much Stardust you should be able to earn during the Spotlight Hour:
Star Piece active | Weather is Rainy or Snow | Stardust |
---|---|---|
❌ No | ❌ No | 60,000 |
❌ No | ✅ Yes | 75,000 |
✅ Yes | ❌ No | 90,000 |
✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | 112,560 |
- 60,000 Stardust is your minimal Stardust goal. This means you caught 60 Pokémon, but there was no weather boost and you did not activate a Star Piece.
- 75,000 Stardust is your minimal goal if the in-game weather is Sunny.
- 90,000 Stardust is the minimal amount you are looking for with a Star Piece activated. This should be easy to get if you activate two Star Pieces, regardless of in-game Weather. Star Piece increases your Stardust gain by 50%, which is an additional 30,000 Stardust over the baseline.
- and finally… 112,560 Stardust is the amount of Stardust you will get if you catch 60 Pokémon, with a Star Piece active, during Sunny weather.
The only downside of this event is that Shroomish is relatively difficult to catch, and you will probably want to use Great Balls or Ultra Balls during the event. Otherwise, you could be spending too much time attempting to catch, rather than just catching.
Shroomish
Shroomish is a Grass-type Pokémon in Pokémon GO, with a maximum Combat Power of 916 CP. Shroomish best moveset in Pokémon GO is Tackle and Grass Knot. Shiny Shroomish is available in Pokémon GO. Shroomish is boosted by Sunny weather.
Shroomish is weak to Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, and Poison moves. It is strong against Electric, Grass, Ground, and Water moves.
Shroomish | 50 Shroomish Candy | Breloom |
Shiny Shroomish is easy to spot – its usual green colouring turns orange!
— | Regular | Shiny |
Shroomish | ||
Breloom |
LVL | CP | LVL | CP | LVL | CP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 11 CP | 2 | 35 CP | 3 | 60 CP |
4 | 84 CP | 5 | 109 CP | 6 | 133 CP |
7 | 158 CP | 8 | 182 CP | 9 | 207 CP |
10 | 231 CP | 11 | 254 CP | 12 | 277 CP |
13 | 301 CP | 14 | 324 CP | 15 | 347 CP |
16 | 370 CP | 17 | 393 CP | 18 | 416 CP |
19 | 439 CP | 20 | 463 CP | 21 | 486 CP |
22 | 509 CP | 23 | 532 CP | 24 | 555 CP |
25 | 578 CP | 26 | 601 CP | 27 | 625 CP |
28 | 648 CP | 29 | 671 CP | 30 | 694 CP |
31 | 706 CP | 32 | 717 CP | 33 | 729 CP |
34 | 740 CP | 35 | 752 CP | 36 | 764 CP |
37 | 775 CP | 38 | 787 CP | 39 | 798 CP |
40 | 810 CP | 41 | 820 CP | 42 | 830 CP |
43 | 841 CP | 44 | 851 CP | 45 | 862 CP |
46 | 873 CP | 47 | 883 CP | 48 | 894 CP |
49 | 905 CP | 50 | 916 CP |
The following Pokémon will grant you extra bonuses when catching Shroomish if they are Mega/Primal evolved:
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.
Breloom is a strange Pokémon in GO’s meta, as its hybrid Grass and Fighting type provides very little coverage in GO Battle League, and it’s currently available moves are not that great either.
Breloom’s best charged move is Grass Knot, which is (unfortunately) a legacy move that can only be obtained by using an Elite Charged TM. We strongly recommend you do not waste your Elite TMs on Breloom, since there is a metric ton of better raid attackers and better PvP Pokémon in the current meta.
So… is it worth evolving a Breloom? Well, given you will be farming Shroomish for Stardust, and given that Shroomish Spotlight Hour does have a 2x EXP bonus for evolving Pokémon, we say yes, go ahead and evolve.
Don’t waste Stardust on powering up Breloom, but do evolve and keep them. If you catch weather boosted Shroomish, you will have a good bench of high CP defenders that you can easily deploy and forget at your local Gyms.