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Sinistea Spotlight Hour (October 2025): Last Minute Guide

On Oct 27, 2025 1:40 pm, by NuclearCoffee

Pokémon Spotlight Hour will feature a different Pokémon and a special bonus for one hour at 6:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday during the month of October. Sinistea Spotlight Hour takes place on October 28th, 2025, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm local time, with a bonus of 2x catch candy.

This Spotlight Hour is the final October 2025 Pokémon spotlight!

Trainers who plan to participate should be prepared with a Mega Pokémon to maximise candy gains per Pokémon caught. Here’s everything you need to know!

Sinistea Spotlight Hour

Bonuses

You will get 2x Candy for catching Pokémon

Note on Catch Bonus

If you do not want to catch the featured Pokémon, you can make use of the 2x Catch Candy bonus by catching any saved Scatterbug, or opening a Mystery Box or Coin Bag! You can stock up field research or leave any special or timed research encounters until Spotlight Hour to make use of this bonus. If you aren’t interested in Sinistea candy, you could even use this bonus to get extra candy from catching raid bosses!

Sinistea fact sheet

Sinistea

Sinistea is a Ghost-type Pokémon in Pokémon GO. As a Ghost-type Pokémon, Sinistea is weak to Dark and Ghost-type moves.

Sinistea’s maximum Combat Power stat is 1287 CP, and its best Pokémon GO moves are Sucker Punch and Shadow Ball. Sinistea encounters are boosted during Fog weather. Shiny Sinistea is available thanks to the Halloween event!

Sinistea	50 Candy	Polteageist Phony Form
Sinistea	400 Candy	Polteageist Antique Form

Sinistea has two different forms, Phony, and Authentic. The Antique form has a stamp of authenticity under the cup. Normally, both look the same in the encounter screen as well as the Pokédex, but the stamp (if available) is viewable in AR.

Antique form Sinistea has a higher evolution cost, at 400 Sinistea Candy to evolve! On appraisal, your Team Leader will tell you whether the Sinistea you caught is the Phony or Authentic Form.

	Authentic Form	Phony Form
Sinistea
Polteageist

Sinistea Sprites

	Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite
Sinistea
Polteageist

Sinistea CP and IV Chart

LVL	Max CP	LVL	Max CP	LVL	Max CP
1	16 CP	2	50 CP	3	84 CP
4	119 CP	5	153 CP	6	188 CP
7	222 CP	8	256 CP	9	291 CP
10	325 CP	11	358 CP	12	390 CP
13	423 CP	14	455 CP	15	488 CP
16	520 CP	17	553 CP	18	585 CP
19	618 CP	20	650 CP	21	683 CP
22	716 CP	23	748 CP	24	781 CP
25	813 CP	26	846 CP	27	878 CP
28	911 CP	29	943 CP	30	976 CP
31	992 CP	32	1009 CP	33	1025 CP
34	1041 CP	35	1057 CP	36	1074 CP
37	1090 CP	38	1106 CP	39	1122 CP
40	1139 CP	41	1153 CP	42	1168 CP
43	1182 CP	44	1197 CP	45	1212 CP
46	1227 CP	47	1242 CP	48	1257 CP
49	1272 CP	50	1287 CP

Mega Pokémon that boost Sinistea

The following Pokémon will grant you extra bonuses when catching Sinistea if they are Mega/Primal evolved.

A Note on Mega Catch Bonus

While a Pokémon is Mega-Evolved, additional XP and Candy is granted when catching a Pokémon that shares a type with it, or for any raid boss caught. These do not stack with each other. Additionally, High and Max Level Mega-Evolved Pokémon grant an increased chance to obtain Candy XL when catching a Pokémon that shares a type with it.

Is it worth evolving Sinistea?

PVP

Great League

Polteageist has no niche in the Great League, suffering from low bulk and lacking a reliable way to bait shields.

Ultra League

Ghost-types are highly common in the Ultra League, and most of them are far superior to Polteageist in every possible way. Avoid using it if you want to secure wins.

Master League

Absolutely not!

PVE

The cup of (Sinis)tea turns into a full-blown teapot… Polteageist!

And to everyone’s surprise, Polteageist has a 248 ATK stat! Oh my!

But to no one’s surprise, it’s a glass cannon as well.

That said, Hex + Shadow Ball is meta and makes Polteageist a very usable Ghost-type attacker!

Raids

There’s a legion of Ghost-type Pokémon better than Polteageist in DPS and TDO. That said, you can still use this Pokémon in Raids as long as you dodge well. Not a premier pick, but capable for sure!