Pokemon Go: Drifloon Spotlight hour, ft. doubled Evolution exp

Last Updated on: 25th September 2021, 02:31 pm

This weeks Spotlight hour in Pokemon Go will feature Drifloon, the Balloon Pokemon, as well as a doubled experience boost for evolutions.

If you don’t particularly care about Drifloon in Pokemon Go, it might be worth skipping this one given that the doubled evolution experience bonus is one of the worst boosts available.

What can we expect from the Drifloon Spotlight hour?

For anyone who isn’t used to this particular Pokemon Go event type, Spotlight hours are basically a one-hour long event consisting of all spawns being replaced by a single Pokemon, in this case, that means Drifloon. A whole lot of Drifloon.

The spawn replacing effects are quite similar to what you’d expect from a Community day, but Spotlight hours do not come with all the other extras, they are very simple affairs comparatively.

This is all great if you like Drifloon, not so much if you’re not really a fan of the Balloon Pokemon. Fortunately, there is also typically an additional bonus. The event bonus can occasionally go some way to compensating for featured Pokemon that a trainer doesn’t want – unfortunately, doubled evolution experience is just about the worst bonus the events can offer, so this might be a skip on both counts for some of us.

At the very least it’ll make for an excellent chance to get yourself a few Drifblim, but that’s about the only thing commending this spotlight hour.

READ MORE: Pokemon Go: Does Shiny rate change during Spotlight Hours?

When is the Pokemon Go Drifloon Spotlight hour?

The Drifloon spotlight hour for Pokemon Go will start on October 5th at 6:00 PM local time and will run until 7:00 PM local time, for a total duration of one hour.

This is the usual length of spotlight hours as the name indicates, and exceptions to this are extremely rare if they ever occur.

Additionally, for those unfamiliar with Pokemon Go’s Local time, it means that you don’t need to worry about timezones because the game event will take place at that time in every timezone, so it’ll be a staggered out event launch across the world.

What else is there to know?

The only other thing really worth considering with spotlight hours is using them as a chance to gather Shiny versions of the featured Pokemon, and as it happens, Shiny Drifloon is available in Pokemon Go, so you can use this to farm it if you’re looking for one.

Good luck on that Shiny hunting, Trainers.

That’s about everything as far as the Drifloon spotlight hour is concerned, though if you’d like more guides or articles about Pokemon Go, you can find them right here on The Click, and if you’d instead like to see more by me specifically, a list of my articles is available here.