Sun Stone
The Sun Stone (Japanese: たいようのいし Sun Stone) is a type of Evolution stone introduced in Generation II.
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In the core series games
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In the Generation V games, the Sun Stone can be sold to an item maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center for $3000.
Effect
Manual activation
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon. This consumes the Sun Stone.
- Causes Gloom to evolve into Bellossom
- Causes Sunkern to evolve into Sunflora
- Causes Cottonee to evolve into Whimsicott
- Causes Petilil to evolve into Lilligant
- Causes Helioptile to evolve into Heliolisk
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Acquisition
Appearance
This is the appearance of the Sun Stone in the Sinnoh Underground.
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In spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
The Sun Stone appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky.
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Effect
If the player offers a Sun Stone at Luminous Cave or Luminous Spring, Gloom and Sunkern can be evolved into Bellossom and Sunflora, respectively. This consumes the Sun Stone.
If thrown, it will deal 1 damage (2 if sticky). Using this item in a dungeon will consume it, with no effect.
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Sprite from Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky |
Pokémon Conquest
In Pokémon Conquest, Petilil and Cottonee evolve into Lilligant and Whimsicott, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Sun Stone.
A Sun Stone can be purchased from the traveling merchant for 5000 gold, and sold for 2500-3250 gold.
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Pokémon GO
The Sun Stone is required to evolve certain Pokémon in Pokémon GO:
- Gloom requires 100 Oddish Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Bellossom.
- Sunkern requires 50 Sunkern Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Sunflora.
Sun Stones can be obtained starting at level 10 by searching PokéStops or Gyms. While normally rare, from March 21, 2017 onward, the player is guaranteed to find an Evolution item when obtaining the bonus for spinning a Photo Disc for the seventh day in a row.
The Sun Stone was added to Pokémon GO on February 16, 2017.
In the anime
Ash won a Sun Stone in the Bug-Catching Contest during The Bug Stops Here, later using it to evolve a Sunkern in Moving Pictures.
A Sun Stone, along with a Leaf Stone, appeared in Whichever Way the Wind Blows during an explanation of the branch in Gloom's evolutionary line.
Mystery on a Deserted Island! featured the Sun Stone along with all of the other evolutionary stones available as of Generation V.
A full set of evolutionary stones was seen on display in a stone shop in Geosenge Town in The Cave of Trials!. In addition, an unnamed Trainer used a Sun Stone purchased from the shop to evolve his Helioptile into Heliolisk. Clemont then revealed that he had also used a Sun Stone to evolve his own Helioptile into Heliolisk.
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Gallery
The Sun Stone that Ash won in The Bug Stops Here
A Trainer with a Sun Stone in The Cave of Trials!
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In The Last Battle VI, Gold's Sunkern evolved into a Sunflora because the sun's energy reflected off of the rocks near Ilex Forest replicated the Sun Stone's effects.
Trivia
In other languages
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This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items. |