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 September. Trubbish Spotlight Hour takes place on September 5th, 2025, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm local time, with a bonus of 2x Stardust for catching Pokémon.
This Spotlight Hour is the second September 2025 Pokémon spotlight, and it is especially interesting as Trubbish can be shiny and gives bonus stardust on catch!
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!
Trubbish Spotlight Hour
Bonuses
You will get 2x Stardust for catching Pokémon
Shiny Trubbish and its evolution are available in Pokémon GO
Note on Stardust Bonus
Trubbish is one of the rare Pokémon that give extra Stardust on catch, so there is a chance to get huge stardust gains during this event!
Here’s how much Stardust you can get during Trubbish Spotlight Hour in September 2025, thanks to the 2x Stardust bonus:
| Type of catch | Stardust |
|---|---|
| Regular catch | 1500 |
| Weather boosted catch | 1876 |
| Regular catch with Star Piece | 2250 |
| Weather boosted catch with Star Piece | 2812 |
The best possible scenario you can have is to catch a weather boosted Pokémon with an active Star Piece. As Trubbish is a Poison-type they are boosted by Cloudy 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 Pokémon. 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 Cloudy | Stardust |
|---|---|---|
| ❌ No | ❌ No | 90,000 |
| ❌ No | ✅ Yes | 112,560 |
| ✅ Yes | ❌ No | 135,000 |
| ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | 168,720 |
- 90,000 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.
- 112,560 Stardust is your minimal goal if the in-game weather is Cloudy.
- 135,000 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 3,000 Stardust over the baseline.
- and finally… 168,720 Stardust is the amount of Stardust you will get if you catch 60 Pokémon, with a Star Piece active, during Cloudy weather.
The only downside of this event is that Trubbish 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.
Trubbish
Trubbish is a Poison-type Pokémon with a Max CP of 1131 in Pokémon GO. Trubbish’s best moveset is Pound and Gunk Shot. It is weather boosted by Cloudy weather, and it was originally found in the Unova region. Shiny Trubbish is available in Pokémon GO.
Trubbish is weak to Ground and Psychic-type moves. It takes reduced damage from Bug, Fairy, Fighting, Grass, and Poison-type moves.
Trubbish evolves into Garbodor which costs 50 Trubbish Candy.
Shiny Trubbish
Shiny Trubbish has blue colouring as opposed to its usual green. It’s a pretty easy one to spot, good luck Trainers! When evolved, Garbodor takes on a pretty radioactive blue which works really well with the theme.
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Trubbish CP and IV Chart
| LVL | CP | LVL | CP | LVL | CP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 CP | 2 | 44 CP | 3 | 74 CP |
| 4 | 104 CP | 5 | 134 CP | 6 | 165 CP |
| 7 | 195 CP | 8 | 225 CP | 9 | 255 CP |
| 10 | 285 CP | 11 | 314 CP | 12 | 343 CP |
| 13 | 371 CP | 14 | 400 CP | 15 | 428 CP |
| 16 | 457 CP | 17 | 485 CP | 18 | 514 CP |
| 19 | 543 CP | 20 | 571 CP | 21 | 600 CP |
| 22 | 628 CP | 23 | 657 CP | 24 | 686 CP |
| 25 | 714 CP | 26 | 743 CP | 27 | 771 CP |
| 28 | 800 CP | 29 | 828 CP | 30 | 857 CP |
| 31 | 871 CP | 32 | 886 CP | 33 | 900 CP |
| 34 | 914 CP | 35 | 929 CP | 36 | 943 CP |
| 37 | 957 CP | 38 | 971 CP | 39 | 986 CP |
| 40 | 1000 CP | 41 | 1013 CP | 42 | 1025 CP |
| 43 | 1038 CP | 44 | 1051 CP | 45 | 1064 CP |
| 46 | 1077 CP | 47 | 1091 CP | 48 | 1104 CP |
| 49 | 1117 CP | 50 | 1131 CP |
Mega Pokémon that boost Trubbish
The following Pokémon will grant you extra bonuses when catching Trubbish 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.
Is it worth evolving Trubbish?
Shiny Garbodor is worth having, I mean just look at it! However, Garbodor isn’t particularly high up in the meta for PVE or PVP, so at this stage I wouldn’t suggest investing in it.
