Pokemon Go: West Sea Shellos Spotlight hour

Last Updated on: 28th July 2021, 07:39 pm

Pokemon Go is having a West Sea Shellos Spotlight hour, making this an excellent time to get plenty of this version of the Sea Slug Pokemon.

If you already have enough West Sea Shellos for your own taste, this event might be better off given the miss, as the bonus is simply doubled capture candy, which is fantastic if you want more Shellos.

When is the Pokemon Go West Sea Shellos Spotlight hour?

The West Sea Shellos Spotlight hour for Pokemon Go will start on August 17th at 6:00 PM local time, and will run as you might expect until 7:00 PM local time, for a duration of one hour.

Standard fare for Spotlight hours, nothing else to say there.

Local time, for anyone unfamiliar, 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 event launch across the world.

What can we expect from the West Sea Shellos 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 West Sea Shellos and an additional bonus.

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 West Sea Shellos, not so much if you’re not really a fan of the little Sea Slug Pokemon.

The event bonus can occasionally go some way to compensating for featured Pokemon that a trainer doesn’t want, but on this occasion, the doubled capture candy only really helps those Trainers who are explicitly looking purely for Shellos and more Shellos items. Again, great for fans, not so much for anyone else.

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Anything else to know?

If you’re still not sold, there is one last thing to consider in favour of Spotlight hours. They make excellent chances in Pokemon Go to farm for the Shiny version of the featured Pokemon, in this case, West Sea Shellos.

Unfortunately for any Shiny hunters and/or Shellos enthusiasts, neither version of Shellos seems to currently be enabled as a Shiny in Pokemon Go.

Here’s how Shiny West Sea Shellos is going to look in Pokemon Go, but sadly it’s simply not accessible yet for any Trainers.

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That’s about everything you need to know about this upcoming Spotlight hour. If you’d like more stories, articles and guides for 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.