Pokemon GO: How To Get Fashionable Minccino & Cinccino (Can They Be Shiny)

Quick Links

• Catching Fashionable Minccino in Raids
• Obtaining Fashionable Minccino from Research Tasks
• Evolving to Fashionable Cinccino
• Shiny Fashionable Minccino: Availability
• Acquiring Shiny Fashionable Minccino

Fashionable Minccino and its evolution, Fashionable Cinccino, debuted in Pokémon GO during the 2025 Fashion Week event. Multiple avenues exist for encountering Fashionable Minccino throughout featured events. Capturing a Fashionable Minccino allows for evolution into a Fashionable Cinccino.

Beginning Friday, January 10, 2025, at 10 AM Local Time, Fashionable Minccino appeared as a 1-Star Raid Boss and a reward for completing Research Tasks. Events featuring this Pokémon significantly increase your chances of encountering it. Many trainers are also keen to learn about the possibility of encountering a Shiny Fashionable Minccino. This guide clarifies the optimal strategies for obtaining both Fashionable Minccino and Fashionable Cinccino, along with their Shiny encounter rates.

Catching Fashionable Minccino in Raids

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Fashionable Minccino, a Normal-type Pokémon, boasts stats of 98 ATK, 80 DEF, and 146 STA. This costumed Pokémon possesses a maximum Combat Power (CP) of 986, further enhanced as a 1-Star Raid Boss. Despite the CP boost, solo players can still conquer 1-Star Raids with strategically chosen counters.

Victorious Fashionable Minccino Raids reward players with an encounter. Understanding the Pokémon's weaknesses and resistances is crucial for selecting effective counters and securing a quick victory.

Fashionable Minccino Weaknesses

• Fighting-type moves

Fashionable Minccino Resistances

• Ghost-type moves

Top Fashionable Minccino Raid Counters in Pokémon GO

Fashionable Minccino's sole weakness is Fighting-type moves. Prioritize Raid Counters with powerful Fighting-type moves that activate the Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB). Here are some of the best options:

Counter Fast Move Charged Move Lucario Force Palm (Fighting-type) (Legacy) Aura Sphere (Fighting-type) Terrakion Double Kick (Fighting-type) Sacred Sword (Fighting-type) (Legacy) Dusk Mane Necrozma Psycho Cut (Psychic-type) Sunsteel Strike (Steel-type) Keldeo (Ordinary Forme) Low Kick (Fighting-type) Sacred Sword (Fighting-type) Marshadow Counter (Fighting-type) Close Combat (Fighting-type) Conkeldurr Counter (Fighting-type) Dynamic Punch (Fighting-type) Hisuian Decidueye Psycho Cut (Psychic-type) Aura Sphere (Fighting-type) Breloom Force Palm (Fighting-type) Dynamic Punch (Fighting-type) Cobalion Double Kick (Fighting-type) Sacred Sword (Fighting-type) (Legacy) Pheromosa Low Kick (Fighting-type) Focus Blast (Fighting-type)

Obtaining Fashionable Minccino from Research Tasks

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Pokémon GO events featuring Fashionable Minccino often include Research Tasks that reward an encounter. Participants in the 2025 Fashion Week event could complete various Research Tasks with costumed Pokémon as rewards. Certain Fashion Week 2025 Research Tasks guaranteed a Fashionable Minccino encounter.

Evolving to Fashionable Cinccino

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A captured Fashionable Minccino evolves into a Fashionable Cinccino. This evolution requires 50 Candy and an Unova Stone. While Candy can be farmed through catching and transferring Minccino, Unova Stones are obtained as Field Research Breakthrough rewards or from specific Research Tasks.

Shiny Fashionable Minccino: Availability

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Yes, Shiny Fashionable Minccino is available in Pokémon GO. Both standard and Shiny variants were released during the 2025 Fashion Week event.

Acquiring Shiny Fashionable Minccino

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While Fashionable Minccino Raids guarantee an encounter, there's a chance it will be Shiny. While a guaranteed Shiny encounter is impossible, increasing the number of Raids completed increases your chances.

Completing Research Tasks featuring Fashionable Minccino also offers a chance of encountering a Shiny variant, although it's not guaranteed.