This week’s Featured Hour is all about the Rock Pokémon, which means it’s the perfect opportunity to catch an Alolan Geodude in Pokémon Go.
Alolan Geodude is a relatively boring Pokémon in the world of Pokémon Go. Not exactly a rare spawn, he’s pretty much useless in raids for all but the newest players, and underpowered in PvP. Still, if you are new to the game or simply missing a perfect Alolan Golem, this is your chance to try to find one.
Speaking of routine, this week’s Featured Hour also comes with a double catch XP bonus that runs alongside the event, so make sure you catch as many Pokémon as you can!
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Alolan Geodude 100% Perfect IV Stats in Pokemon Go
This week’s Featured Hour is a great opportunity to catch an Alolan Geodude with perfect IV stats.
Alolan Geodude.
“Perfect” means two things in Pokémon Go, depending on how you plan to use a given Pokémon. First, there’s the max build, 100% IV, which is the 15/15/15 you’re looking for for your Pokédex 4*, raids, and Master League. However, because of how CP is calculated using three stats, a perfect Pokémon IV is usually just the best version of itself in the Master League.
Of course, you can’t see a Pokemon’s IV without catching it first, but with a bit of research beforehand, you can quickly spot a perfect Alolan Geodude based solely on CP.
If you’re level 30 (or higher), you’ll ideally be looking for the following CPs for a perfect Alolan Geodude 15/15/15:
The wild CP value aligns with your trainer level until you reach level 30, and since the majority of the player base is now above this level, we’ve kept these values for the sake of simplicity. However, these values will be different if you are currently below level 30.
The Season of Adventure Abundance is here! Their first event is A Paldean Adventure, which sees the true release of Gen 9 and the special research mission A Paldean Adventure. You can also work on the Timed Investigation: Master Ball mission and compete in the Go Battle League. Be sure to compete in Shadow Raids, complete routes, use Daily Adventure Incense for a chance to encounter Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos, and Galarian Moltres. This incense can also give you encounters with other rare Pokémon in Pokémon Go.
Is Alolan Golem good at PvP?
Alolan Golem is midway through the Great League and was quickly outclassed in Ultra and Master League, making him an overall poor pick in Go Battle League.
Alolan Golem.
As always, we love spam Pokémon in Go Battle League, and Alolan Golem is certainly that. He is also the only Rock/Electric type in the game at the moment (with the obvious exception of Alolan Graveler and Alolan Geodude). Sadly, it runs three different movesets (charged moves vary by league), in an unfortunate display of just how awkward this Pokemon is to use. It’s clunky with long animation times, volatile with its double weakness to Ground-type attacks, and technically difficult to use thanks to its huge two-stage auto debuff.
Starting with Great League, Alolan Golem runs Volt Switch, Wild Charge, and Rock Blast. Volt Switch is a decent multipurpose move, Rock Blast is spam, and Wild Charge is there for coverage; The problem is that Wild Charge is the only Electric-type charged move on offer and it comes with a massive two-stage guaranteed defense self-debuff. In a meta where Ground-types are quite dominant, this is a major red flag.
So how are you doing? Unsurprisingly, you lose almost instantly to Galarian Stunfisk and Trevenant, while slowly losing to Registeel, Medicham, and Lanturn, all of which are meta-relevant Pokemon. However, you did defeat Walrein, Azumarill, Sableye, Noctowl, and Alolan Ninetails.
In Ultra League, this self-debuff is a big liability, and we recommend swapping Wild Charge for Stone Edge. This nuke will help you cross the line more often. In terms of matchups, this means wins against Pidgeot, Charizard, Talonflame, Walrein, and Tapu Fini, which is pretty reasonable. You lose to Cresellia, Giratina, Obstagoon, Trevenant and Jellicent.
Master League uses the other combination of charged moves: Wild Charge and Stone Edge. This makes it less spammy overall, but not much of a penalty overall, helping you take down Ho-Oh, Yveltal, Togekiss, Lugia, and Kyogre. The casualties, meanwhile, come from Dialga, Zacian, Metagross, Gyarados and Mewtwo. Gyarados is weak to Rock and doubly weak to Electric, which highlights why you shouldn’t consider this Pokemon in this League.
Is there a shiny Alolan Geodude in Pokémon Go?
Yeah! Shiny Alolan Geodude was released in June 2019 as part of the game’s third anniversary, along with many other Alolan forms!
Everything in the Alolan Geodude evolution line swaps the Ground-type for the Electric-type, in what can only be a physics joke from the Pokémon company. (Image via pokemon.com)
What does the shiny Alolan Geodude look like?
As you can see below, the shiny Alolan Geodude is pretty decent. The brilliance is supported by the fact that it dropped Earth for electric writing, with a copper color instead of the boring slate gray! This is preserved as it evolves into the bright Alolan Graveler, which is an even darker shade of coppery brown.
Shiny Alolan Golem completes the theme by swapping out its stony exterior for a warmer brown color. All in all, a very respectable set of shinies!
Shiny Alolan 3rd Anniversary Debut, comparison of shiny models: Rattata, Raticate, Sandshrew, Sandslash, Vulpix, Ninetales, Diglett, Dugtrio, Meowth, Persian, Geodude, Graveler, Golem, Grimer, Muk, and Exeggutor (models via Chrales ) by u/ EgaTehPro at TheSilphRoad To view this content, enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings
Thanks to Reddit user EgaTehPro for the handy comparison of shinies released in June 2019!
Other tips for this hour of attention
In addition to trying to catch a shiny Alolan Geodude in Pokémon Go, there are a couple of other good reasons to participate in this week’s Featured Hour:
- The best reason is of course the double catch XP bonus that runs for the whole hour. This goes for all caught Pokemon, so try your best to get good at excellent Curve Ball casts on an Alolan Geodude to rack up XP quickly.
- If you’re a newcomer, this Featured Hour is the perfect time to collect enough Alolan Geodude Candy to fully evolve this Pokémon and enter all of its evolutions into the Pokédex.
- Since Alolan Geodude is a Rock/Electric type, catching a bunch during this Featured Hour will add progress to your respective catch bonus medals.
Spotlight Hour events only last one hour: from 6 pm to 7 pm (local time). Check back next week for an introduction to Ponyta, galloping onto the scene with a double candy catch bonus!
Good luck finding the perfect Alolan Geodude!
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