Pokémon Go will have a Sprigatito Community Day event on January 5 from 2 to 5 pm your local time.
As expected with a Community Day event, Sprigatito will appear in large numbers with a high chance of appearing shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we list below.
How do I catch a Shiny Sprigatito?
According to old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), Shiny's rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, meaning that if you keep playing during the three-year period hours, you should find plenty. Shiny Pokémon.
If you're short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an incense and then quickly tap each Sprigatito to look for the shiny ones and run away from the non-shiny ones. In particular, any Sprigatito you've already touched will be oriented towards where your player is standing, so it should help identify which ones you've already marked.
What Community Day move does Sprigatito's evolution learn?
If you evolve Floragato into Meowscarada from 2 pm to 10 pm your local time, it will learn the charged move. Frenzy Plant.
If you can't evolve it during this period, you'll probably be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Frenzy Plant. If you don't want to wait, you can use Elite TM to perform the move.
How is Meowscarada doing in the meta?
Meowscarada isn't great for PvP, but it's actually a pretty good grass-type attacker for raids and gyms. Configure it with Layer and Frenzy Plant and will cause great damage. It still doesn't outperform the best grass-type attackers like Kartana or some Shadow and/or Mega Pokémon, but it gets the job done.
How do I get the most out of Sprigatito Community Day?
The following bonuses will be active during Sprigatito Community Day:
That being said, you should definitely pop a Star Piece and Incense and try to get a powerful Sprigatito.
If you can Mega Evolve into Venusaur, Sceptile, or Abomasnow, you will get additional Sprigatito Candy per catch. Using Primal Reversion on Groudon will also produce the same effect.