How to get Roselia in Pokemon GO, and can it be shiny?

Roselia in Pokemon GO is available through various means, including special events like Spotlight Hour and Community Day. The former is scheduled to run from 6-7 pm local time on January 14, 2025. During this period, Roselia, the Thorn Pokemon, will appear more frequently in the wild, offering the opportunity to encounter and catch it as well as collect Bedew Candies, which can help trigger the creature’s evolution process.

This article covers everything you need to know about getting your hands on Roselia in Pokemon GO. Also, it reveals the creature’s shiny availability.

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How to get Roselia in Pokemon GO

Roselia, as seen in the anime (Image via The Pokemon Company)

Given below are all the ways to add Roselia to your collection:

• Wild encounters
• Raid Battles
• Evolve Bedew
• Trade

1) Wild encounters

In the game, events like Spotlight Hour boost the general wild spawn rate of the featured Pokemon. When Roselia is featured in this event, the creature spawns in all weather conditions. Its appearance rate in the wild increases further in Sunny and Cloudy weather. Using lure items like Lure Module and Incense can help attract Roselia in Pokemon GO.

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2) Raid battles

Roselia's type effectiveness (Image via Sportskeeda)

Roselia can appear in one-star raid battles, which are easy for you to complete without the assistance of your friends. It has a combat power of 5,494, and it knows Magical Leaf, Poison Jab, and Razor Leaf as the Fast Attacks and Dazzling Gleam, Petal Blizzard, and Sludge Bomb as Charged Attacks.

The Pokemon is weak to Fire-, Flying-, Ice-, and Psychic-type attacks. The top five counters to Roselia in Pokemon GO raids are Mega Rayquaza, Mega Y Charizard, Shadow Heatran, Shadow Salamence, and Shadow Moltres.

Use our Pokemon Type Calculator to figure out Roselia's offensive and defensive type effectiveness.

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3) Evolve Bedew

You can evolve a Bedew into a Roselia in Pokemon GO using 25 Bedew Candy. To farm Bedew Candies, you can catch any 'mons in its family, transfer them to Professor Willow, make them your Buddy (and walk with them), and get them via Trade.

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4) Trade

If nothing helps, ask your in-game friends to trade a Roselia with you.

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Can Roselia be shiny in Pokemon GO?

Shiny variation of Roselia (Image via The Pokemon Company)

Yes, the Roselia you encounter in the wild and in Raid Battles can be shiny. Shiny Roselia debuted during the Safari Zone event in Dortmund on June 30, 2018.

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Check out our other guides related to the game:

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• Buddy Evolution Adventure Together guide
• Best Fast Attacks in the game
• Sierra counters
• Cliff counters
• Arlo counters
• Giovanni counters
• Team GO Rocket Grunts
• Pokemon Go Evolution Calculator