This week Spotlight hour is all about the oddly named Pokemon Water Fish, making this the perfect time to catch a perfect Wooper in Pokemon Go.
While this Water/Ground-type Pokemon isn’t particularly sleazy – we expected Water Fish to be one of the fish-shaped Pokemon – Wooper and its evolution Quagsire are seeing use in some Pokemon corners. Go thanks to its impressive mass. However, the real draw of this week’s Spotlight Hour is the special bonus that accompanies the event – the double capture Stardust bonus.
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Wooper 100% perfect IV stats in Pokemon Go
This week’s Spotlight Hour is a great opportunity to catch a Wooper 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 Wooper based on CP alone.
If you are at level 30 (or higher), you will ideally be looking for the following CP for a perfect 15/15/15 Wooper:
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.
Is Quagsire good in PVP?
Quagsire is respectable in Great League, but its usefulness quickly diminishes once you graduate to Ultra League and beyond. Quagsire’s best use is actually gym defensethanks to its high volume and unique weakness to Grass-type attacks, which isn’t a particularly common choice for Gym attackers, thanks to the abundance of Flying-types in most Gyms.
If you want to run a Quagsire in Go Battle League, you’re looking at the following moveset: Mud Shot, Earthquake, and Stone Edge as charged second moves.
Ignoring the fact that there are simply better options for Ground-type attackers, consider Quagsire as a Pokemon. It performs two of Galarian Stunfisk’s attacks, Mud Shot and Earthquake, but ends with a worse Rock-type attack, Stone Edge.
He also has overall stats, meaning all we’re really looking at is a worse G-fisk that has slightly different weaknesses.
So if you find your Galarian Stunfisk taking too much heat and causing you casualties (which seems unlikely since it’s the best Pokemon in the meta for a reason), Quagsire could be a replacement, swapping the list of weaknesses that people try to exploit for the aforementioned mono-Grass weakness.
So what does a big league Quagsire matchup look like? You can expect wins against, believe it or not, Galarian Stunfisk. This means that if the terror of Great League is a pain in the ass, Quagsire suddenly becomes much more appealing. You can also expect to beat Bastiodon, Swampert, Azumarill, and Sableye, which is a nice list of kills.
The flip side is that you’ll lose to Noctowl, Altaria, Medicham, Scrafty, and Alolan Ninetails – none of which are particularly rare.
If this sounds like your cup of Sinistea, keep an eye out for a Wooper 0/15/14, which becomes a CP 1499 Quagsire at level 29.
When it comes to the Ultra League, Quagsire’s volume is lost by the fact that a perfect Quagsire exceeds CP 2252 at level 50. It still beats G-fisk, but fair. Registeel, Talonflame, and Nidoqueen are also wins, but you’ll lose very quickly to some of the more common and powerful meta Pokemon, including Cresselia, Giratina, Scrafty, Walrein, and Swampert.
This means that when it comes to Master League, Quagsire is totally worthless. Do not even think about it.
Currently av ailable is the Astral Eclipse event, which ends the special research quest A Cosmic Companion of the Season of Light. You can finally evolve Cosmoem into Solgaleo or Lunala! Elsewhere, be sure to use Daily Adventure Incense for the chance to encounter Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos, and Galarian Moltres.
Is there a shiny Wooper in Pokémon Go?
Released in December 2020, there is a shiny Wooper in Pokémon Go, as part of the Wooper Watch event. Yeah yeah ! Shiny Quagsire was released at the same time. However, it should be emphasized that Paldean Wooper is not in Pokémon Go, as they only joined the franchise with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet last month. This of course means that there is no shiny Paldean Wooper or shiny Paldean Quagsire in Pokémon Go.
Unlike Community Days, Spotlight Hours not have an increased shine rate, so when you’re looking for a shiny Wooper, you’ll be doing it with this game’s regular shine rates. This means that if you really want a shiny Wooper, you need to make the most of this hour!
What does the shiny Wooper look like?
As you can see at 7:40 in the video below, the shiny Wooper takes on a light pink color, befitting the actual creature it’s based on. If you’ve never seen an axolotl before, they’re weirdly cute, just like Wooper.
Quagsire, meanwhile, takes an excellent dark purple, which makes it look like he’s trying to copy our other Water/Ground-type friend, Swampert. It’s a good look and we don’t hate it!
Thanks to YouTube user LiftingandZombies for the video above!
Other tips for this Spotlight Hour
Besides trying to catch a Shiny Wooper 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 capture Stardust bonus run all the time. This gives you the chance to collect Stardust twice as fast as usual, with each Wooper caught giving 200 Stardust instead of the base 100. If the in-game weather is rainy or clear, this adds an additional 50 Stardust (twice the usual 25), and this stacks with a Star Piece to give a 1.5x multiplier to all Stardust earned. This means that each Weather Boosted Wooper caught while using a Star Piece will be worth 375 Stardust!
- If you’re a newcomer, this Spotlight Hour is a great time to collect enough Wooper Candy to fully evolve this Pokémon and enter all of its evolutions into the Pokédex. Remember that you will need one Unova Stone for each Quagsire you want to evolve.
- Thanks to Wooper being a Water/Ground-type, catching a group during this Spotlight hour will add progress to your respective catch bonus medals.
Spotlight Hour events are only one hour long – 6-7pm (local time). Next week, we’ll get into the Christmas spirit with the first of our trio of Ice-types, featuring Go Battle League star Spheal!
Good luck finding a perfect Shiny Wooper!
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