How to Get the Sinnoh Stone in Pokémon GO: Beginner’s Guide

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Are you trying to figure out how to get a Sinnoh Stone in Pokémon GO? Sinnoh Stones are necessary to evolve quite a few Pokémon in Pokémon GO, but they are relatively rare items to find. Sinnoh Stones are most often found as rewards for battles, though you can also get them from Field Research breakthroughs. In this article we'll go through all the ways you can get a Sinnoh Stone as well as outline all the Pokémon that need this special stone to evolve, so you know which ones to save for.

Things You Should Know

Win trainer battles or GO Battle League battles to have a chance at getting a Sinnoh Stone.
If you do your daily Field Research task, every seven days you have a chance to get a Sinnoh Stone.
For the Pokémon that need a Sinnoh Stone to evolve, you'll also need 100 candies to evolve them.

Trainer Battles

Go to the main menu and click on Battle. If you complete battles, there's a chance you can get a Sinnoh Stone as a reward.

Scroll down and select Training. While Training isn't the best chance to get a Sinnoh Stone, there's still a chance. For Great League Training you have a 5% chance of getting a Sinnoh Stone, Ultra League Training is 6%, and Master League Training is 10%. For a 15% chance to get a Sinnoh Stone, you must do PvP battles. For PvP you must be near other players, and you can find nearby trainers to battle from the Nearby menu.

GO Battle League Wins

Go to the main menu and click on Battle. If you win battles in the GO Battle League, one of the random items you can get is a Sinnoh Stone.

Join either the Basic or Premium tier. You must have a Premium Battle Pass to compete in the Premium Rewards tier, but you can get the Sinnoh Stone with the Basic Rewards tier as well. The Premium tier doesn't have any better chance of getting a Sinnoh Stone than the Basic tier.

Win battles. In order to get a chance to get a Sinnoh Stone you must win battles. You only need to win the amount of battles necessary to get to the "random item" reward, which looks like a berry silhouette with a question mark over it. After you complete the five rounds of battle, you can enter the tier again to try for more Sinnoh Stones.

Research Breakthrough

Get tasks by spinning PokéStops. When you spin a PokéStop you can get a Field Research task, and you can have up to three active tasks at a time. These tasks can lead to you getting a Sinnoh Stone, though it takes time. One PokéStop will provide the same task for all players in a single day, and if you've already completed the task from a particular PokéStop for the day you can't claim it again.

Complete a task per day to get stamps. Completing a task will get you a stamp once per day. You can complete more tasks in a day but you won't get stamps.

Get 7 stamps to get a research breakthrough. On the 7th day of getting a stamp, you'll get a research breakthrough—it's the brown package on the Field Research screen. One of the rewards you can get for getting a research breakthrough is a Sinnoh Stone.

Pokémon That Evolve via Sinnoh Stone

A number of cross-generational evolutions require the Sinnoh Stone. These evolutions require 100 candies of the base Pokémon type and one Sinnoh Stone each. Lickitung into Lickilicky Rhydon into Rhyperior Tangela into Tangrowth Electabuzz into Electivire Magmar into Magmortar Porygon2 into Porygon-Z Togetic into Togekiss Aipom into Ambipom Yanma into Yanmega Murkrow into Honchkrow Misdreavus into Mismagius Gligar into Gliscor Sneasel into Weavile Piloswine into Mamoswine Kirlia (male) into Gallade Roselia into Roserade Dusclops into Dusknoir Snorunt (female) into Froslass