Yungoos 100% perfect IV stats, shiny Yungoos in Pokémon Go
Everything you need to know about Yungoos' Spotlight Hour.
This week’s Spotlight Hour is all about the Loitering Pokémon, which means it’s the perfect time to catch a shiny Yungoos in Pokémon Go.
Yungoos and its evolution Gumshoos are two terrible Pokémon in the world of Pokémon Go. They’re awful in Go Battle League and worthless in raids — its only redeeming feature is that, at the right angle, Gumshoos looks kinda like US ex-president Donald Trump.
Poetic justice aside, the real draw for this week’s Spotlight Hour is shaking the cobwebs out of our Pokémon storage. When you see those Yungoos and think 'I don’t want any of these', take the opportunity to get rid of everything else you don’t want, and reap that double transfer candy bonus reward that runs alongside the event!
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Yungoos 100% perfect IV stats in Pokémon Go
This week’s Spotlight Hour is a great opportunity to catch an Yungoos with perfect IV stats.
'Perfect', of course, means two things in Pokémon Go. First, there’s the maxed out, 100% IV version, which is the 15/15/15 you’re looking for your 4* Pokédex, raids and Master League. Yet, because of how CP is calculated using these three stats, a perfect IV Pokémon is usually only ever the best version of itself in the Master League, raids and Go Rocket battles.
Of course, you can’t see the IV of a Pokémon without catching it first, so it helps to know the CPs that a perfect Yungoos will spawn at.
If you’re at Level 30 (or above), you’ll ideally be looking for the following CPs for a perfect 15/15/15 Yungoos:
The wild CP value aligns with your Trainer Level until you reach Level 30 and, due to the majority of the player base now being above this level, we’ve kept to these values for the sake of simplicity. These values will, however, be different if you’re currently below Level 30.
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Is there a shiny Yungoos in Pokémon Go?
Yes, there is a shiny Yungoos in Pokémon Go!
Shiny Yungoos was released in March 2022, as part of the Welcome to Alola event, along with Rockruff and Lycanroc.
What does shiny Yungoos look like?
The long and short of it is that, shiny Yungoos and shiny Gumshoos both went to the hairdresser and got matching pink washes.
If there’s any change in colouration between the brown hair/fur, it’s so subtle it’s not worth covering. The most startling difference is that the golden locks of both regular Yungoos and Gumshoos are replaced by a bright pink. We low-key love it.
Thanks to Youtuber Twothless for the above video showing the evolution in the main series games.
Other things to know about Yungoos Spotlight Hour
Spotlight Hour always brings a bonus for you to exploit, and this week it’s double transfer candy. As always, this runs throughout the hour and affects more than just the Pokémon in the spotlight.
This is a very important bonus to make the most of, especially for lower-level trainers looking to fill out their Pokédex. The smartest way to maximise do this is to have a Tag in your Pokémon storage just for this purpose.
We recommend creating one called 'Transfer', where you can place Pokémon you don’t want or need. Instead of transferring them as and when you catch them, hold them back for events like these, when you can bulk transfer them. All that Candy adds up very quickly, and is especially useful when transferring something like a Mewtwo for double candy, or after a huge event like Hoenn Tour!
It’s also good to note that, thanks to Yungoos being a Normal-type, catching a bunch during this Spotlight Hour will add progress to your respective catch bonus medal.
Spotlight Hour events only last for an hour — 6pm to 7pm (local time). Check back next week to see which August Pokémon takes the first spotlight hour next month!
Good luck finding a perfect shiny Yungoos!