Vivillon is a caterpillar-into-butterfly Pokémon that has different forms depending on where you catch it in Pokémon Go. The key to collecting Vivillon (and its different forms) is to send and receive postcards with your friends.
Scatterbug is the base Pokémon, and it requires 25 candy to evolve into Spewpa, which requires 100 candy to evolve into Vivillon. Below, we’ve detailed how to catch Scatterbug in Pokémon Go, plus Vivillon’s patterns and locations.
How to catch Scatterbug in Pokémon Go
To find Scatterbug, you need to pin postcards from different locations. Pinning three postcards from the same area will allow you to catch a Scatterbug that will evolve into a specific Vivillon. You can pin your own postcards and the postcards you get from friends. Having friends in different countries will help you collect more types of Vivillon, but you only need one type to fill in the Pokédex entry for it.
You can also pin the gifts you get from Mateo at the end of a completed route, which should help you get non-local gifts.
To catch the Scatterbug, you’ll need to look at your Vivillon medal and tap the “catch!” button that appears. Remember to use a Pinap Berry to catch your Scatterbug to get more candy.
You can also tell which Vivillon your Scatterbug is going to turn into by looking its information screen.
Vivillon patterns and locations in Pokémon Go
Depending on where the postcard comes from, you’ll get a different Scatterbug and Vivillon pattern. Niantic provides this helpful map to show which locations give which patterns. You can access this map yourself via tapping the Vivillon medal on your player info screen or you can take a look below.
It’s a little hard to tell what forms coincide where, as there’s no strict borders shown in the map above. Here are the regions each form can be found in, courtesy of Pokémon Go Hub:
- Archipelago: Caribbean, South Africa, Southern Florida
- Continental: Argentina, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Central Asia
- Elegant: Japan
- Garden: the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand
- High Plains: Western United States, Eastern Europe
- Icy Snow: Greenland, Northern Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden
- Jungle: Colombia, Northern South America, Central Africa, Indonesia
- Marine: Chile, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Spain
- Meadow: France, Italy
- Modern: Eastern United States
- Monsoon: Southeast Asia
- Ocean: Hawaii, Galapagos Islands, Madagascar
- Polar: Alaska, Eastern and Western Canada, Southern Argentina and Chile, Norway, Sweden, Finland
- River: Egypt, South Africa, Southern Australia
- Sandstorm: Middle East
- Savanna: Brazil, Northern Australia
- Sun: Mexico, Madagascar
- Tundra: Iceland, Southern Norway, Sweden, Northern Japan
Note that the Fancy and Poké Ball pattern Vivillon are not available as of writing this.
Can Scatterbug, Spewpa, and Vivillon be shiny in Pokémon Go?
As of the “Scattered to the Winds” event in February 2025, Scatterbug and its evolutions can be shiny in Pokémon Go. You can check out the shiny forms below — though only Vivillon’s body changes, which is maybe for the best, since seeking out even more wing patterns would be quite the grind.
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