find a Brilliant Ralts – the Pokémon Feeling – is a draw of the next Spotlight Hour in Pokemon Go.
Whether you’re a Battle League fan or fight in raids, this is going to be an exciting spotlight hour as its final two evolutions, Gardevoir and Gallade, are both very useful in Pokémon Go. So if you’re missing it always a shiny or 4* perfect Pokemon, this is your chance to try and find one, while grinding the Candy and Candy XL you’ll need to max out your Pokemon.
This week’s Spotlight Hour also comes with a double bonus XP capture which runs alongside the event, so be sure to catch as many Pokémon as possible!
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Ralts 100% Perfect IV Stats in Pokemon Go
This week’s Spotlight Hour is a great opportunity to catch a Ralts with perfect IV stats.
“Perfect” means two things in Pokémon Go, depending on how you plan to use a given Pokémon. First, there’s the 100% Max IV build, which is the 15/15/15 you’re after for your 4* Pokédex, Raids, and Master League. Yet, due to the way 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 little research beforehand, you can quickly spot a perfect Ralts based on CP alone.
If you’re at level 30 (or higher), you’ll ideally be looking for the following CPs for a perfect 15/15/15 Ralts:
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 that level, we’ve kept these values for the sake of it. of simplicity. These values will however be different if you are currently below level 30.
The Season of Light has arrived! With it comes the new Special Research quest, A Cosmic Companion. Elsewhere, be sure to use Daily Adventure Incense for the chance to encounter Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos, and Galarian Moltres. There is also a new special research quest – A Mysterious Incense. The Go Fest 2022 finale also brought us two new quests – Willow’s Return and A Radiant Reunion. Don’t forget about new Prime Gaming rewards every fortnight.
Is there a shiny Ralts in Pokémon Go?
Yeah, there is a shiny Ralts in Pokémon Go and it’s better than the original!
Shiny Ralts form was released during the game’s 20th Community Day, August 2019. If you catch one, you can transform it into Shiny Kirlia and Shiny Gardevoir or Shiny Gallade.
If luck is on your side, you may find Shiny Ralts in the wild, but be aware that this is not a community day and Shiny rates are not increased, so the chances of catching some a, let alone a perfect, are very weak. That said, every Ralts you see has the potential to be shiny, so it’s purely a numbers game – hit each one and see what you get. Good luck finding the Ralts you need!
What do shiny Ralts look like?
As you can see, the shiny Ralts and their evolutions take on a beautiful blue instead of the grassy green of the originals. These are the “fins”, for lack of a better word, turned orange instead of red, with Gallade’s fin turning a much darker gray.
Thanks to Reddit user VpWaLL for the handy comparison!
Other tips for this Spotlight Hour
Besides trying to catch shiny Ralts in Pokémon Go, there are a few other good reasons to participate in this week’s Spotlight Hour:
- The best reason is, of course, the double bonus XP capture run all the time. This applies to all caught Pokemon, so do your best to land some excellent curveball throws on a Ralts to rack up XP fast!
- If you’re a newcomer, this Spotlight Hour is a great time to collect enough Ralts Candy to fully evolve this Pokémon and enter all of its evolutions into the Pokédex. This is quite significant as it will take 250 Candies to get all four Pokémon into your Pokédex.
- Thanks to Ralts being a Fairy and Psychic-type, catching a group during this spotlight hour will add progress to your Fairy- and Psychic-type catch bonus medals.
Spotlight Hour events are just one hour long – 6-7pm local time, and next week it’s Aron and double catch candy.
Are Gardevoir and Gallade good in PVP?
How do Ralts Gardevoir and Gallade evolutions perform in PVP, also known as competing against other players in Battle League?
Ralts is one of those Pokémon that can evolve into two different final Pokémon. For 25 Candy, you can evolve your Ralts into Kirlia. From there, you have a choice: any Kirlia can evolve into a Gardevoir using 100 Candies, but a male Kirlia can evolve into a Gallade using 100 Candies and a Sinnoh Stone. Gardevoir is a psychic/fairy type, like Ralts, while Gallade is a psychic/fighter type.
Obviously, the two Pokémon have very different use cases, given their type differences. Gardevoir is generally better in the Great League and Master League, running Charm, Shadow Ball and Synchonoise. Gallade, on the other hand, is slightly better in the Ultra League, running Confusion, Close Combat and Leaf Blade. Interestingly, the Shadow version is almost always recommended, regardless of Pokemon or League, with the exception of Ultra League Gallade, where the regular version outperforms its Shadow equivalent.
But, let’s look at each in turn, a little more in detail.
Gardevoir
In Great League, Shadow Gardevoir is one of the top 10 fairy types and just falls short of the top 5 pscyhic types. While a perfectly decent pick, with wins to Scrafty, Medicham, Sableye, and Trevenant, it loses pretty hard to Galarian Stunfisk and Skarmory, with closer losses (but losses nonetheless) to Lanturn, Azumarill, and Swampert.
The reason for this is simply that even though Charm applies a lot of fast movement pressure, it’s still a slow glass cannon that applies low shield pressure. If you want to increase your defense by running the regular variant instead of the Shadow variant, you’ll pick up wins against Obstagoon, but start losing against Trevenant instead. Not really worth it in the long run.
Looking towards Ultra League, Gardevoir really takes a hit, missing out on the top 15 for Fairies and just entering the top 15 for Psychic-types. It still beats dark types (Scraft and friends), but still loses to Glarian Stunfisk and Swampert, who are both demons in this meta. All in all, you probably don’t want to run Gardevoir in Ultra League.
However, Gardevoir is making a return to the Master League, with rankings similar to the Great League. The reason for this is that dragons are overrepresented in the Master League, and Gardevoir picks up wins against Dragonite, Garchomp, Zekrm, and Dialga, with the sneaky win against Gyarados (who somehow isn’t a dragon) as a bonus.
Fortunately, Gardevoir doesn’t lose as hard (or as quickly) as the lower leagues, with losses to Excadrill, Lugia, Mewtwo, Zacian, and Giratina Origin being relatively close matches (although, again, still losses).
No matter your league, the TL; DR: On Gardevoir is that it is a glass cannon that performs excellent but slow attacks. Looking for a 0/15/15 for the Great League, or a perfect 15/15/15 for the Master League.
Gallade
For all the Gardevoir excitement, Gallade is a bit of a disappointment in the Great League, ranking in the top 15 for Psychics but missing out on the top 30 for Fighting Types. While he still has access to Charm, losing STAB means Confusion becomes the best option. Close combat is quite technical, in that it guarantees a two stage drop in your defense, leaving you with the Grass-type Leaf Blade for cover. All the while, it retains the same issues as Gardevoir in that it’s one big clunky glass cannon.
If you want to run a Great League Gallage, it has kills against Bastiodon, Medicham, Azumarill, Lanturn, and Nidoqueen, which is a good chunk of the top of the meta. However, it also loses pretty hard to Swampert, Glaraian Stundusk, Trevenant, and eveb Scrafty – a Dark-type Pokemon that it really should be able to beat.
It’s really just Ultra League where you’ll want to consider Gallade, where it’s one of the top 10 Psychic-types (and only one of the top 30 Fighting-types). Here he flips the match on both Swampert Scrafty, while also defeating Walrien and Galaran Stunfisk. However, he loses hard against Giratina, Talonflame, Cresselia, and even dark-type Umbreon. It’s mostly for the same reason as before – it’s a technical Pokemon that just doesn’t have the volume you’d want no matter how spammy the fast move is.
Gallade isn’t terrible in the Master League, but he loses to the things Gardevoir beats – namely Dialgo, Garchomp and Gyarados, while also losing to Metagross and Zacian. It scores victories against Galarian Zapdos, Melmetal, Kyogre, and Excadrill, but there are simply better options when you get to the Master League.
The TL; DR here is that Gallade is also a Glass Cannon, but is slightly more spammy when dropping Charm, and has a STAB move that self-debuffs. Looking for a 0/12/15 for the Ultra League, or a perfect 15/15/15 for the Master League.
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