Sun Stone


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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 Generation V games, the Sun Stone can be sold to an item maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center for 3000.

Manual activation
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon. This consumes the Sun Stone.
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Acquisition

 * Bug-Catching Contest first prize
 * Mossdeep Space Center
 * Held by (5% chance)
 * Ruin Valley
 * Valor Lakefront
 * The Underground, held by (5% chance)
 * (gift from Tanner), Bug-Catching Contest first prize, Pokéathlon Dome (post-National Pokédex) (3000 Pts.), held by  (5% chance)
 * Nimbasa City, Relic Castle
 * s,, Black City/White Forest (Lena), held by (5% chance)
 * Nimbasa City, Relic Castle, Giant Chasm, Pinwheel Forest
 * , Join Avenue, held by (5% chance) s (Chargestone Cave, Mistralton Cave, Clay Tunnel, Twist Mountain, Underground Ruins, , Wellspring Cave, Seaside Cave, Giant Chasm), Hidden Grottoes (Routes , ; Abundant Shrine), Pokémon Dream Radar (regular areas after catching )
 * , Anistar City, Shalour City
 * , (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (from Psychic Inver), held by  (5% chance)
 * Mossdeep Space Center
 * , Mauville City, (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (rematch with  Timothy), Secret Base ("Pick up stones" with ), held by  (5% chance)
 * (Lv. 2)
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
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 * Nimbasa City, Relic Castle
 * s,, Black City/White Forest (Lena), held by (5% chance)
 * Nimbasa City, Relic Castle, Giant Chasm, Pinwheel Forest
 * , Join Avenue, held by (5% chance) s (Chargestone Cave, Mistralton Cave, Clay Tunnel, Twist Mountain, Underground Ruins, , Wellspring Cave, Seaside Cave, Giant Chasm), Hidden Grottoes (Routes , ; Abundant Shrine), Pokémon Dream Radar (regular areas after catching )
 * , Anistar City, Shalour City
 * , (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (from Psychic Inver), held by  (5% chance)
 * Mossdeep Space Center
 * , Mauville City, (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (rematch with  Timothy), Secret Base ("Pick up stones" with ), held by  (5% chance)
 * (Lv. 2)
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
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 * , Anistar City, Shalour City
 * , (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (from Psychic Inver), held by  (5% chance)
 * Mossdeep Space Center
 * , Mauville City, (Drag Down Hydreigon!),  (rematch with  Timothy), Secret Base ("Pick up stones" with ), held by  (5% chance)
 * (Lv. 2)
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
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 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
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 * Blush Mountain, Haina Desert
 * Poké Pelago (Isle Aphun - Brilliant-Stone Hunting, Interesting-Item Hunting),
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Appearance
This is the appearance of the Sun Stone in the Sinnoh Underground.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
The Sun Stone appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, and Gates to Infinity.

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Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon by offering it at the Luminous Cave or Luminous Spring or by using it in a dungeon. This consumes the Sun Stone.
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If thrown, it will deal 1/2 damage (2 if sticky). In Red Rescue Team, Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky, using this item in a dungeon will consume it, with no effect.

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Acquisition

 * Solar Cave (1-20F)
 * Golden Chamber (Deluxe Box) Treasure boxes, Job requests (★3-★9) Mystifying Forest (Kecleon Shop: 5F, 7F, 9F, 11F, 13F), Lake Afar (Kecleon Shop: B3F, B5F, B7F, B9F, B11F, B13F, B15F, B17F, B19F, B21F, B23F), Midnight Forest (Kecleon Shop: B5F, B7F, B9F, B11F, B13F, B15F, B17F, B19F, B21F, B23F)
 * Treasure boxes Pokémon Paradise (Sunken Treasure, Beartic Slide, Prize Palace) Skill Treasury, Treasure Trove
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 * Golden Chamber (Deluxe Box) Treasure boxes, Job requests (★3-★9) Mystifying Forest (Kecleon Shop: 5F, 7F, 9F, 11F, 13F), Lake Afar (Kecleon Shop: B3F, B5F, B7F, B9F, B11F, B13F, B15F, B17F, B19F, B21F, B23F), Midnight Forest (Kecleon Shop: B5F, B7F, B9F, B11F, B13F, B15F, B17F, B19F, B21F, B23F)
 * Treasure boxes Pokémon Paradise (Sunken Treasure, Beartic Slide, Prize Palace) Skill Treasury, Treasure Trove
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 * Treasure boxes Pokémon Paradise (Sunken Treasure, Beartic Slide, Prize Palace) Skill Treasury, Treasure Trove
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Pokémon Conquest
In Pokémon Conquest, and  evolve into  and, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Sun Stone.

A Sun Stone can be purchased from the 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:
 * requires 100 Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into.
 * requires 50 Sunkern Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into.

The Sun Stone was added to Pokémon GO on February 16, 2017.

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Acquisition
Starting at level 10, Sun Stones can be obtained by searching PokéStops or s. 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.

Additionally, the player receives a Sun Stone when completing part 2 of the Special Research "A Ripple in Time".

In the anime
won a Sun Stone in the Bug-Catching Contest during The Bug Stops Here, later using it to evolve a 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 '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 into. then revealed that he had also used a Sun Stone to evolve his own Helioptile into.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In The Last Battle VI, 's evolved into a  because the sun's energy reflected off of the rocks near Ilex Forest replicated the Sun Stone's effects.

In Ring Ring Goes Beldum, found a Sun Stone while he and  escaped from a group of   in Granite Cave.

Trivia

 * The shares its name with an actual.

In other languages
Sonnenstein Piedra solar Pierre Soleil たいようのいし 日之石（道具）