Roselia 100% perfect IV stats, shiny Roselia in Pokémon Go
Everything you need to know about Roselia’s Spotlight Hour.
This week’s Spotlight Hour is all about the Thorn Pokémon. That’s right, as spring... springs, it’s obviously time to catch a perfect Roselia in Pokémon Go! Yeah, thorns aren't what we think about when we think about roses, either, but there you go.
Roselia is one of those awkward middle Pokémon. It's technically a stage-one evolution, evolving from a Pokémon that is only available in Eggs in Pokémon Go: Budew. Since you can't catch that, we'll just be focussing on Roselia and Roserade for the purposes of this article.
For those less keen on Pokémon that bop you with their flowers – not their thorns unless Roselia headbutts everything – the other bonus to this Spotlight Hour is the double evolution XP bonus that runs alongside this event. It's time to crack a Lucky Egg and go to town evolving your spare Pokémon!
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Roselia’s 100% perfect IV stats in Pokémon Go
This Spotlight Hour is the perfect opportunity to find a Roselia with perfect IV stats in Pokémon Go.
For Roselia, the CP values which correspond to perfect 15/15/15 stats are as follows:
- Level 30 (wild CP maximum) - 1603 CP
- Level 35 (weather boosted CP maximum) - 1736 CP
Roselia’s wild CP value aligns with your current Trainer Level until you reach Level 30, so, since the majority of the player base is above this level, we keep to these values for the sake of simplicity. If you’re currently beneath Level 30, however, these values will be different.
Perfect stats in Pokémon Go, however, depend entirely on what you want to use your Pokémon for.
A Pokémon that is perfect for the Master League and raids means exclusively 15/15/15 - the best possible stats that a Pokémon can have. Meanwhile, perfect for Great League and Ultra League are completely different, as the goal is to get the lowest attack for the highest defence, and getting that CP as close to the league’s cap as possible.
Roselia evolution chart: What does Roselia evolve into?
The Thorn Pokémon, Roselia, is actually a middle-evolution.
Budew, the Bud Pokémon, evolves into Roselia, which in turn evolves into Roserade, the Bouquet Pokémon. Just to make life difficult, their Pokédex numbers are 406, 315 and 407 respectively.
Unfortunately, Budew cannot be caught in the wild - it is only available in Eggs. To make this line even more obnoxious, Roselia evolves using 100 Candy plus a Sinnoh Stone.
Is it worth all this effort, though? Not really - once they're in your Pokédex, that's pretty much it. Roserade used to be decent in Raids, but it is long since outclassed. As for PVP, its stats lean into attack rather than defense, which is the opposite of that you want. So yeah, it's a pretty Pokédex page, but much like throwing a rose at someone in real life, it's virtually useless in a fight...
You can read more about all three Pokémon below:
- Budew - This Pokémon is highly sensitive to temperature changes. When its bud starts to open, that means spring is right around the corner. The pollen it releases contains poison. If this Pokémon is raised on clean water, the poison’s toxicity is increased.
- Roselia - Its flowers give off a relaxing fragrance. The stronger its aroma, the healthier the Roselia is. It uses the different poisons in each hand separately when it attacks.
- Roserade - After captivating opponents with its sweet scent, it lashes them with its thorny whips. The poison in its right hand is quick acting. The poison in its left hand is slow acting. Both are life threatening.
So, Budew is the hay fever Pokémon? Cool. Now we like it even less...
Remember, if you’re hurting for Candy, use Pinap Berries and Silver Pinap Berries to double the amount of Candy you earn from catching, and make sure to have a Grass or Poison-type Pokémon Mega Evolved - Mega Venusaur, Mega Gengar or Mega Sceptile for example.
Is Roserade good in PVP?
Nope, it is pure awful. Its stats are the wrong way round to be useful and its Grass-based moveset is pretty naff. Its Poison-type moves are better, but it doesn't hold a petal candle to the better/meta Poison-types.
If you are really keen to try it, Roselia runs Bullet Seed, Weather Ball (Fire) and Leaf Storm in Great League. The first two are Legacy moves, so you'll have to waste use an Elite TM to unlock them. This will allow you to beat Azumarill, Annihilape, Gastrodon, Malamar and Diggersby, but there are much cheaper and more effective ways of doing this. You'll lose to Clodsire, Mandibuzz, Shadow Drapion, Shadow Feraligatr and Galarian Corsola.
As for Ultra League, Roserade uses Poison Jab, Weather Ball (Fire) and Grass Knot. This will bring you wins against Virizion, Clefable, Swampert, Galarian Weezing and Cobalion. Losses will come from Skeledirge, Giratina Altered, Corviknight, Talonflame and Tentacruel.
Finally, we have Master League, where Roserade uses yet another combo: Poison Jab, Weather Ball (Fire) and Leaf Storm. This will beat Zacian, Primarina, Xerneas, Kyogre and Rhyperior, but lose to Zygarde Complete, Dialga Origin, Palkia Origin, Ho-Oh and Dusk Mane Necrozma.
The Might and Mastery Season has arrived. The Festival of Colors is currently running in Pokémon Go. You can now catch Dynamax Pokémon through Max Battles. First, however, you need to visit Power Spots to collect Max Particles and complete the To the Max! quest. Don't forget to try out Routes, Gift Exchange and Party Play while you're hunting down rare Pokémon, fighting in the Go Battle League or competing in PokéStop Showcases.
What do shiny Roselia and Roserade look like?
The opportunity to catch a shiny form of the highlighted Pokémon is one of the biggest draws of any event. However, unlike Community Day, a Pokémon's shiny odds aren't increased during a Spotlight Hour event.
To find a shiny Pokémon, you need to either start a catch encounter with a Pokémon in the wild or earn said encounter by completing an activity, like a beating a Raid boss, hatching an Egg or completing research task. From there, it’s easy to see if you’ve encountered a shiny Pokémon due to its alternative colouring, the sparkles which shine when the encounter begins and the shiny icon next to the Pokémon’s name.
Shiny Budew was released on November 6th 2018, while shiny Roselia was released a few months earlier in June 2018. Just because nothing is straightforward with this Pokémon, shiny Roserade was released a just over a week after shiny Budew, on November 14th.
[Gen8] Budew, Roselia, Roserade
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Thanks to Reddit user Senatorange for the preview!
As you can see, shiny Budew is slightly sun-bleached, but with a purple sepal. Shiny Roselia is equally bleached, but swaps its flowers from red and blue to indigo and black. Shiny Roserade simply swaps its flowers from red and blue to purple and black.
These are truly awful shinies. It's such a shame - we love roses. We love Pokémon and we love shiny things. The shiny rose Pokémon are just disappointing...
Other tips for this Spotlight Hour
Aside from trying to build a squadron of Roserades in Pokémon Go, there are a couple of other good reasons to partake in this week's Spotlight Hour:
- The best reason is, of course, the double evolution XP bonus running throughout the hour. This gives you the chance to gather a lot of XP very quickly, so you can raise your Trainer Level. The best way to do this is to have two Tags in your Pokémon storage dedicated to this hour. The first is stuff you want to evolve and keep - generally strong Pokémon and Pokémon you need to evolve to update your Pokédex - and thing you want to evolve and transfer. This second box should contain all of the 12-candy Pokémon. The search string to quickly find all of these at lower than 3* rating is: 0*,1*,2*&10,13,16,265,293,519&!shiny.
- If you’re a newcomer, this Spotlight Hour is the perfect time to collect enough Roselia candy to fully evolve this Pokémon and register its evolutions in your Pokédex.
- Thanks to Roselia being a Grass/Poison-type Pokémon, catching a bunch during this Spotlight Hour will add progress to your respective catch bonus medals.
Remember - Spotlight Hour events only last for an hour - 6pm to 7pm (local time). Come back next week for a primer on Shellder, with its double catch Stardust bonus!
Good luck finding a perfect Roselia in Pokémon Go!