How To Find A Sun Stone In Pokemon Sword

Pokemon Sword and Shield Sun Stone evolutions: How to evolve Gloom, Cottonee, and Helioptile

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If you've got green fingers and dearest to capture Pokemon that await like garden plants, then yous may well be looking for the Pokemon Sword and Shield Sun Stone. The Sunday Stone lets you evolve a certain sect of pocket monsters in Pokemon Sword and Shield, oftentimes the monsters that look like they're fractional to a fleck of photosynthesis. In this guide, nosotros're going to tell you how to get a Sun Rock and how to utilize it, also every bit showing you which specific Pokemon can be evolved with it: Gloom, Helioptile, and Cottonee.

How to get a Sun Stone in Pokemon Sword and Shield

For a simple route to a Lord's day Rock, caput out to the Lake of Outrage in the Pokemon Sword and Shield Wild Area. You lot should spot a sea on the left with a Watt Trader standing out in the open. If you can listen the Gyarados lurking, cantankerous this patch of water with your Rotom Bike upgrade that y'all earn during Route 9. Once you're over at that place, avoid the critters and await nether each stone in the circle for eight evolutionary stones. Hopefully, i of them is the Sun Stone. If non, they exercise respawn somewhen!

Beyond the brilliant circle, there's an like shooting fish in a barrel 1 you lot tin pick upward in the Dusty Basin section of the Wild Area. Yous'll see a cluster of trees around some wheatgrass and a big rock with an arch. Within the curvation, you lot'll find the relevant Pokeball.

If you're feeling lucky, speak to the Excavation Duo in the Bridge Field part of the Wild Area and they'll attempt to dig one upwards for if y'all pay them in Watts. It'due south a randomized process so keep your fingers crossed.

How to evolve Gloom, Cottonee, and Helioptile in Pokemon Sword and Shield

One time you've pocketed this precious stone, open your pocketbook, head to the 'Other Items' tab and employ the item with one of the relevant Pokemon. Make sure you don't give information technology to your critter, as that won't amount to anything.

Once you get your hands on a Gloom (evolves from Oddish, found in Wild Surface area), a Sun Rock will evolve it into Bellossom. A Cottonee (Stony Wilderness region of the Wild Area) volition evolve into Whimsicott, meanwhile Helioptile (Road 6, Giant's Mirror region of the Wild Area) will evolve into Heliolisk.

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