Tinkatink arrives in Pokémon Go as part of April 2025’s “Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration” event.
The Paldea fairy- and steel-type can evolve into Tinkatuff and Tinkaton with enough Candy available.
Unlike recent new Pokémon such as Gossifleur and Nickit, Tinkatink is not available in the wild on its debut — but there is one (paid) source that makes acquiring some fairly straightforward.
How to get Tinkatink in Pokémon Go
First appearing in April 2025’s “Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration” event, on its debut, Tinkatink is found:
- By hatching 7 km eggs (moving to 10 km eggs once the event ends on Tuesday, April 22)
- “Don’t Tinkatink Twice!” Premium Timed Research Ticket rewards (two encounters by completing “Take a snapshot with your buddy” and “Hatch 2 eggs”)
Tinkatink can only be found in 7 km eggs — which are received by opening gifts from friends — during the event, unless you decide to pay $5 (or the regional equivalent) for the event’s Timed Research Ticket, which will guarantee two pretty painless ways to encounter one.
Tinkatink is going to be tricky to source, in other words. The good news is once the event ends on Tuesday, April 22, Tinkatink will still be available, albeit switching to the 10km egg pool.
A small silver lining from Tinkatink being only found in eggs and Timed Research is these sources have higher IVs than wild catches, meaning they will have at least 10/10/10 stats every time.
How to get evolution Tinkatuff and Tinkaton in Pokémon Go
To get evolutions Tinkatuff and Tinkaton in Pokémon Go, you must evolve a Tinkatink with 25 Candy followed by 100 Candy.
Outside of the two paid Timed Research event encounters, Tinkatink can only be sourced from eggs, so the usual recommendation of using Pinap Berries and a related Mega Evolution active to give you an easy Candy boost doesn’t apply.
Instead, you just have to grind those eggs out. We’d highly recommend not buying incubators specially for this purpose, as discovering Tinkatink isn’t guaranteed. Instead, consider it a goal to work towards over a long period of time — your free, infinite-use incubator will churn through eggs faster than you think — especially when you factor in Tinkatink being more accessible in future events, such as a possible Community Day (which, admittedly, might be years away.)
If you’re particularly keen to get evolving, however, then it’s not a huge amount of Rare Candy to spend — though we’d always advocate in reserving these for Legendary and Mythical Pokémon.
Can Tinkatink be shiny in in Pokémon Go?
Tinkatink cannot be shiny in Pokémon Go. This is likely to change over time — it’s a fan favourite Pokémon after all — but know that it might be a while before that happens.
Until then, you can see what shiny Tinkatink looks like thanks to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and this video from Toda & Hoody on YouTube.
