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• Catching Fashionable Minccino in Raids
• Obtaining Fashionable Minccino via Research Tasks
• Evolving to Fashionable Cinccino
• Shiny Fashionable Minccino: Possibility and Rarity
• Strategies for Acquiring Shiny Fashionable Minccino

Fashionable Minccino and its evolved form, Fashionable Cinccino, made their debut in Pokémon GO during the 2025 Fashion Week event. Several methods exist to acquire Fashionable Minccino during featured events. This guide outlines the optimal strategies for obtaining both Pokémon, including the chances of encountering a Shiny variant.

Fashionable Minccino appeared in Pokémon GO starting Friday, January 10, 2025, at 10 AM Local Time. It's available as a 1-Star Raid Boss and a reward for completing specific research tasks. The frequency of encounters increases during events featuring the Pokémon.

Catching Fashionable Minccino in Raids

Fashionable Minccino, a Normal-type Pokémon, boasts 98 ATK, 80 DEF, and 146 STA. Its maximum Combat Power (CP) as a 1-Star Raid Boss reaches 986 CP. While powerful, solo players can still conquer these raids with effective counter strategies.

Victorious raids yield an encounter with Fashionable Minccino. Understanding its weaknesses and resistances is crucial for selecting optimal counters.

Fashionable Minccino Weaknesses:

• Fighting-type moves

Fashionable Minccino Resistances:

• Ghost-type moves

Top Fashionable Minccino Raid Counters in Pokémon GO

Fashionable Minccino's vulnerability to Fighting-type moves necessitates counters with powerful Fighting-type moves that leverage the Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB). Here are some top choices:

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 via Research Tasks

Pokémon GO events featuring Fashionable Minccino often include research tasks rewarding encounters with it. Participation in the 2025 Fashion Week event provided access to various research tasks with costumed Pokémon as rewards, some guaranteeing a Fashionable Minccino encounter.

Evolving to Fashionable Cinccino

A captured Fashionable Minccino evolves into Fashionable Cinccino using 50 Candy and an Unova Stone. While Candy is farmable through catching and transferring Minccino, Unova Stones are obtained from Field Research Breakthrough rewards and occasionally from specific research tasks.

Shiny Fashionable Minccino: Possibility and Rarity

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

Strategies for Acquiring Shiny Fashionable Minccino

While Fashionable Minccino raids guarantee an encounter, the chance of it being Shiny is random. Increased raid participation improves the odds of encountering a Shiny variant. Similarly, completing research tasks featuring Fashionable Minccino offers a chance, albeit not guaranteed, of obtaining a Shiny Pokémon.