Pokemon Go: Plusle Spotlight hour, doubled Catch Candy

ByAdam B Hours
Plusle in the Pokemon anime

Last Updated on: 27th December 2021, 05:37 pm

This week’s Spotlight hour in Pokemon Go will feature Plusle, the Cheering Pokemon, as well as a doubled Catch Candy bonus.

If you’re not personally interested in Plusle either for yourself or for trading them around, you probably want to give this event a miss, given the Doubled Catch Candy bonus will only help you out with Plusle and not any other Pokemon.

What can we expect from Plusle Spotlight Hour?

Just in case you’re unfamiliar with Pokemon Go’s Spotlight hours, I’ll give you a quick summary of what you’ll get.

These events are effectively one-hour bursts of what you’d expect from a Community day – or at the very least, the spawns part of one. To be specific, they’ll replace because all the usual wild Pokemon spawns you’d encounter with the featured Pokemon for the duration of the event.

With that in mind, that’ll mean a lot of Plusle for this event. Great if you like Plusle, not so much otherwise.

Fortunately for Non-Plusle fans, these events pretty much always have an added bonus thrown in to prevent them getting too boring or generally useless if you don’t need the specific featured Pokemon that week.

Unfortunately the bonus this week undoes that entirely, as doubled Catch Candy really only doubles down on Plusle.

Plusle in the Pokemon anime
Credit: Bulbapedia, the Pokemon Company

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

When is the Pokemon Go Plusle Spotlight hour?

The Plusle Spotlight hour in Pokemon Go will start on January 18th at 6:00 PM local time and as you may expect, runs for one hour until it ends at 7:00 PM local time.

If you’re not familiar with local time – don’t worry about it, just turn up at the time above and you should catch the event just fine, it’s designed to allow Trainers to not need to worry about timezone conversion or anything along those lines.

Is there anything else worth mentioning?

The only other thing really worth considering with these events is whether or not they can be used as an easier way to farm for a specific Shiny Pokemon or not – and luckily for you, Trainer, Plusle is enabled as a Shiny at all times right now, so you can encounter them as a Shiny version rather than the regular appearance during the Spotlight hour.

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