Will Shiny Beartic be available in upcoming Pokemon GO Spotlight Hour on December 27?

Spotlight Hours is one of Pokemon GO's most anticipated monthly events besides Community Days. These events highlight some of the more overlooked creatures in the franchise by significantly increasing their spawn rates by an hour and doubling one of many different effects like catch candies or profile experience.

December 27 marks the Cubchoo Spotlight Hour event. With such a drastic increase in any pocket monster's spawn rate, players will be attempting to get their hands on one of the rare variations of the creature, its shiny form. These types of Pokemon sport a slightly altered color pallet compared to the common species.

However, some players may want to turn their attention to Cubchoo's evolution, Beartic. You may want to get a new battling companion out of Pokemon GO's upcoming Spotlight Hour event. For this reason, skip Cubchoo and go for its evolution.

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Finding Shiny Beartic in Pokemon GO - The beginning of a long grind

Beartic as it appears in the anime (Image via The Pokemon Company)

Sadly, the answer to the question of "Can players find Shiny Beartic in Pokemon GO" is far less cut and dry than many people would expect. In short, players cannot find a wild Shiny Beartic, but rather players can evolve one. This means players can only get a Shiny Beartic by evolving a Shiny Cubchoo.

With this in mind, we can look into how you can find and evolve the Shiny Cubchoo. With the impending Spotlight Hour being the best time to do so, players will want to get all the potential resources around beforehand to maximize the time they can spend hunting for this rare variation.

First, check the weather in the area where you will go hunting. While the Spotlight Hour has already boosted the spawn rate of Cubchoo, playing in snowy weather will grant the creature a weather boost, thus giving it an even higher spawn rate. This tip works for all occasions, so it is helpful to know even outside of Spotlight Hours.

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Players will also want to get their hands on as many Lure Modules and Incenses as possible. These items can increase spawn rates around Pokestops and Gyms while setting up patrols to increase spawn as players walk. The items can be purchased from Pokemon GO's in-app store with Pokecoins or found by spinning Pokestops and Gyms' phot disks.

Once players have their Shiny Cubchoo, they can grind for the required candies in two ways. Since you will get double the transfer candies during the Spotlight Hour, you can catch duplicate Cubchoo and get five candies without berries by transferring the duplicates. Shiny Cubchoo can be set as a Buddy Pokemon, and you can walk with it.

Players will need 50 Cubchoo candies in Pokemon GO to evolve one into Beartic. You can catch 10 Cubchoos and transfer them during the Spotlight Hour or set one as their Buddy Pokemon to walk three kilometers.