Pokémon Go is having a Sprigatito Community Day event on Jan. 5 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time.
As expected with a Community Day event, Sprigatito will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we’ve listed out below.
How do I catch a shiny Sprigatito?
As per old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), Shiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, which means that if you keep playing throughout the three-hour window, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon.
If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an Incense, then quickly tap each Sprigatito to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Sprigatito you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, so that should help identify which ones you may have already checked.
What Community Day move does Sprigatito’s evolution learn?
If you evolve Floragato into Meowscarada from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. in your local time, it will learn the charged move Frenzy Plant.
If you miss out on evolving it during this period, you will likely be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Frenzy Plant. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get the move.
How does Meowscarada do in the meta?
Meowscarada isn’t great for PvP, but it actually is a pretty good grass-type attacker for raids and gyms. Set it up with Leafage and Frenzy Plant and it’ll dish out some great damage. It still doesn’t top the best grass-type attackers like Kartana or some of the shadow and/or Mega Pokémon, but it gets the job done.
How do I make the most of Sprigatito Community Day?
The following bonuses will be active during Sprigatito Community Day:
- Tripled Stardust for catching Pokémon
- Doubled candy for catching Pokémon
- Doubled chance for level 31+ trainers to get XL candy from catching Pokémon
- Incense lasts three hours
- Lure Modules lasts three hours
- Sprigatito special photobombs when taking snapshots
- One additional special trade
- Stardust cost halved for trading
That said, you should definitely pop a Star Piece and an Incense and try to nab some powerful Sprigatito.
If you can Mega Evolve Venusaur, Sceptile, or Abomasnow, you’ll score additional Sprigatito Candy per catch. Using Primal Reversion on Groudon will also yield the same effect.
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