Can Spheal be Shiny in Pokémon Go?

Spheal is the 363 Pokemon and its type is ice and water. It only takes about 25 candies to evolve Spheal into a Sealeo. From Sealeo it would take 100 candies to evolve into Walrein. This pokemon has 3 evolutions in total, making Spheal a good pokemon to invest in. But what if you want Spheal as a shiny pokemon, is it possible?

Spheal / Photo courtesy by Niantic, Inc.

Can Spheal be Shiny in Pokémon Go?

Spheal as a shinyPokemon do exist and possible to catch, this Pokemon can be found in the wild. To increase a player's chance of encountering a Spheal, weather conditions must be snowing or raining to increase the spawn rate. Other methods of obtaining a Spheal are hatching eggs, they appear in:

  • 2-km egg
  • 5-km egg

If a player successfully encounters a shiny Spheal their fur coat will be a light-purple color. It is possible to evolve the shiny Spheal on all three evolutions without losing its purple color.

The maximum stats for this Pokémon each evolution are:

Spheal

  • MAX CP of 876
  • ATK of 95
  • DEF of 90
  • HP of 140

Sealeo

  • MAX CP of 1607
  • ATK of 137
  • DEF of 132
  • HP of 180

Walrein

  • MAX CP of 2606
  • ATK of 182
  • DEF of 176
  • HP of 220

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