How To Get A Sinnoh Stone In Pokemon GO

The Sinnoh Stone is an item exclusive only to the Pokemon GO game. Who knows? It may make its way to the other games, but probably not based on its usage. Before we get into the details on how to get a Sinnoh Stone in Pokemon GO, we have to know what it is.

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To summarize, it is a type of evolution stone that evolves certain Pokemon.

The gimmick is that this Stone will evolve certain Pokemon to their Gen 4 evolutions. This makes sense since Sinnoh is the Region for Gen 4. One other thing is that the player has to be level 10 in order to use the stone.

Related: Sinnoh Gym Leaders – Information & Battling Guide

Let’s get into the details of how you can get this stone, as well as other things you need to know.

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Ways on How to Get a Sinnoh Stone

There are several ways for you on how to get a Sinnoh Stone in Pokemon GO. We’ll divulge into all of them so that you can partake in getting one or more for yourself. After all, you can get as many Sinnoh Stones if you’re capable enough.

Getting it Through Trainer Battles

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Trainer battles are a good way of getting Sinnoh Stones. All you need to do is to play against other players and hope that a Sinnoh Stone will drop. The drop rate varies depending on what Trainer Battle you are doing.

You could be participating in the Great League, Master League, Ultra League, or just regular PVP, you have a chance of getting a Stone.

Tip: PVP has the highest chance of getting a Sinnoh Stone as a reward, so some people will PVP their friends repeatedly until they get the Stone.

In fact, some people will lose on purpose to end the battle quicker and have more chances to get the Stone.

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Getting it Through Research Breakthroughs

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The other way on how to get a Sinnoh Stone is by doing the daily Research is necessary because you need to collect the daily stamps signifying that you researched for that day. You need to do this for the week because if you miss one, then you cannot collect the 7 Day reward, which may include the Sinnoh Stone.

That’s the keyword there which is might. The rate of getting a Sinnoh Stone is low, so it might take you weeks to get one compared to just doing Trainer Battles on a daily basis.

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You may need to spend long periods of time doing the research. They can be very demanding but if you don’t have anyone to PVP against or you just don’t like doing that, then you can do the research.

Pokemon Evolves Using the Sinnoh Stone

We pretty much covered the two procedures on how to get a Sinnoh Stone. The next question is what Pokemon evolves using this Stone. Before you look at the list, it is important once again to state that you need to be level 10 to use the Stone, otherwise it will be just a blank.

You also need 100 Candies for the specific Pokemon to evolve (i.e., 100 Magmar Candies to evolve Magmortar). Then, you need just one Sinnoh Stone to evolve it.

Sinnoh Stone Evolutions

  • Aipom – Ambipom
  • Dusclops – Dusknoir
  • Electabuzz – Electivire
  • Gligar – Gliscor
  • Kirlia (Male) – Gallade
  • Lickytung – Lickilicky
  • Magmar – Magmortar
  • Misdreavus – Mismagius
  • Murkrow – Hunchkrow
  • Piloswine – Mamoswine
  • Porygon 2 – Porygon Z
  • Rhydon – Rhyperior
  • Roselia – Roserade
  • Sneasel – Weavile
  • Snorunt – Froslass
  • Tangela – Tangrowth
  • Togetic – Togekiss
  • Yanma – Yanmega

In Closing

Now that you know the steps on how to get a Sinnoh Stone in Pokemon GO, you might want to plan ahead. Planning ahead on which method you want to use, but you can always do both if your time allows it.

It would help if you also planned which of your Pokemon would get the first Sinnoh Stone, assuming you have a couple of them that needs it.

Planning is crucial in case you want to have a good Pokemon evolved from the Stone. People have reasons, such as finding a good Pokemon for Gym Battles or  Raids. Then, some just do it for collection purposes.

These Stones won’t drop easily, so you better plan ahead before you waste time using them.



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