Pickup (Lv. 31-100)Secret Super Training (Drag Down Hydreigon!), Route 18 (from Psychic Inver)Held by wild Solrock (5% chance)
ORAS
Mossdeep Space Center
Pickup (Lv. 31-100)Mauville City (Inverse Battle Stop), Secret Super Training (Drag Down Hydreigon!), Route 115 (rematch with Expert Timothy), Secret Base ("Pick up stones" with Secret Pal)Held by wild Solrock (5% chance)OR
Pickup (Lv. 11-100)Bridge Field (Digging Duo)Poké Job reward (Tiers V, VI, and IX)Held by wild Solrock (5% chance)Sw
SwShIA
Fields of Honor
Hidden recurring item (Potbottom Desert)
SwShCT
Hidden recurring item (Ballimere Lake)
BDSP
Grand UndergroundHeld by wild SolrockBD (5% chance)
LA
Jubilife Village (reward for completing Request 85: "At Home under the Eaves")
Trading post (1,000 MP)Ginkgo Guild cart (randomly sold by Ginter, as "Sunlike Rock")Space-time distortions
SV
Area Zero, East Province (Area Three), West Province (Area One)Artazon (Sunflora Hide & Seek reward)
Porto Marinada auctionSparkling overworld item (Asado Desert)Pickup (Lv. 11-100)
SVTM
Paradise Barrens
SVID
Item Printer
ZA
South Boulevard (reward for completing Side Mission 093: "Finding a Place for Heliolisk")
Stone Emporium
Distribution
Games
Event
Language/Region
Distribution period
SV
November 2024 Nintendo newsletter items
All
November 18, 2024 to December 31, 2025
As a held item
Games
Event
Language/Region
Distribution period
RS
Evolution Stone Promotion Gloom
United States
August 30 to September 4, 2003
Gallery
Artwork
Artwork fromScarlet and Violet
Artwork fromLegends: Z-A
Sprites
Underground sprite fromDiamond, Pearl, and Platinum
Grand Underground sprite fromBrilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Bag sprite fromLegends: Arceus
In the spin-off games
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.
Price
Games
Cost
Sell price
MDRB
3000
1
MDTDS
1000
1
MDGtI
?
100
Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon by offering it at the Luminous CaveRB or Luminous SpringTDS or by using it in a dungeonGtI. This consumes the Sun Stone.
Causes Gloom to evolve into Bellossom
Causes Sunkern to evolve into Sunflora
Causes Cottonee to evolve into Whimsicott
Causes Petilil to evolve into Lilligant
If thrown, it will deal 1RBTDS/2GtI 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.
Description
Games
Description
MDRB
It enables certain kinds of Pokémon to evolve. Give it to the Pokémon when it's ready to evolve.
MDTDS
An odd stone that glows with sunny warmth. It allows certain kinds of Pokémon to evolve.
MDGtI
An odd stone that glows with sunny warmth. It helps certain kinds of Pokémon to evolve.
Acquisition
Games
Finite methods
Repeatable methods
MDRB
Solar Cave (1-20F) Unknown Dungeon (Mystery Dungeon)
In Pokémon Conquest, Petilil and Cottonee evolve into Lilligant and Whimsicott, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Sun Stone.
A Sun Stone can be purchased from the traveling merchant for 5000 gold, and sold for 2500-3250 gold.
Description
Games
Description
Conq.
Enables certain Pokémon to evolve.
Pokémon GO
Sun Stone in Pokémon GO
The Sun Stone is required to evolve certain Pokémon in Pokémon GO:
Gloom requires 100 Oddish Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Bellossom.
Sunkern requires 50 Sunkern Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Sunflora.
Cottonee requires 50 Cottonee Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Whimsicott.
Petilil requires 50 Petilil Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Lilligant.
Helioptile requires 50 Helioptile Candy and a Sun Stone to evolve into Heliolisk
The Sun Stone was added to Pokémon GO on February 16, 2017.
Description
Games
Description
GO
A peculiar stone that can make certain species of Pokémon evolve. It burns as red as the evening sun.
Acquisition
Starting at level 10, Sun Stones can be rarely obtained from:
Spinning PokéStops or Gyms
Opening a Gift
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".
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
In Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, the player gets three Sun Stone symbols in order to evolve a Gloom into Bellossom.
Gallery
Sprite fromPinball: Ruby & Sapphire
In animation
A Sun Stone in Pokémon the Series: Black & White
Pokémon the Series
Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver
Ash obtained a Sun Stone as a prize for winning the Bug-Catching Contest in The Bug Stops Here. He later used it to evolve a wild Sunkern 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 Gloom's evolutionary line.
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
Mystery on a Deserted Island! featured the Sun Stone along with all of the other Evolution stones available as of Generation V.
Pokémon the Series: XY
A full set of Evolution stones was seen on display in a stone shop in Geosenge Town in The Cave of Trials!. In addition, a Trainer used a Sun Stone purchased from the shop to evolve his Helioptile into Heliolisk. Clemont then revealed he had also once used a Sun Stone to evolve his own Helioptile into Heliolisk.
Pokédex entries
Episode
Subject
Source
Entry
EP187
Sun Stone
Ash's Pokédex
The Sun Stone enables Evolution in several Pokémon, changing Gloom into Vileplume and changing Sunkern into Sunflora.
Gallery
The Sun Stone that Ash won in The Bug Stops Here
A Trainer with a Sun Stone in The Cave of Trials!
In the manga
A Sun Stone in Pokémon Adventures
Pokémon Adventures
Gold, Silver & Crystal arc
In The Last Battle VI, Gold's Sunkern, Sunbo, evolved into a Sunflora due to the harsh sunlight made by her usage of Sunny Day reflecting off the rocks near Ilex Forest and replicating the Sun Stone's effects.
Ruby & Sapphire arc
In Ring Ring Goes Beldum, Steven found a Sun Stone while he and Ruby escaped from a group of wild Mawile in Granite Cave.
In the TCG
The following gallery is of cards mentioning or featuring the Sun Stone.
Bellossom (Undaunted 1/90)
Pokémon Collector (HeartGold & SoulSilver 97/123)
Merchandise
The Sun Stone has been featured along with the other Evolution stones in the merchandise collection of the same name.
A Sun Stone is also seen on the illustration for the "Old Amber" pack of card sleeves.
Evolution Stone replicas
Evolution Stone Petilil plush keychain
Evolution Stone message cards
Evolution Stone embroidery
Evolution Stone Sleeves
Old Amber Sleeves (upper-left corner)
Trivia
The Sun Stone shares its name with an actual gemstone.
In other languages
Language
Title
Chinese
Cantonese
日之石 Yaht jī Sehk*
Mandarin
日之石 Rì zhī Shí*太陽之石 Tàiyáng zhī Shí*
Czech
Sluneční kámen
Danish
Solsten
Finnish
Aurinkokivi
French
Pierre SoleilVI+PierresoleilI–V
German
Sonnenstein
Hindi
सन स्टोन Sun Stone
Indonesian
Batu Mentari
Italian
Pietrasolare
Korean
태양의돌 Taeyang-ui Dol
Norwegian
Solstein
Polish
Kamień Słońca*Słoneczny Kamień*
Portuguese
Brazil
Pedra Solar*Pedra do Sol*Rocha Solar*
Portugal
Pedra Sol
Russian
Солнечный камень Solnechnyy kamen'
Spanish
Latin America
Piedra Solar*Roca Sol*
Spain
Piedra Solar
Swedish
Solsten
Thai
หินพระอาทิตย์ Hin Phraathit
Turkish
Güneş Taşı
Vietnamese
Đá mặt trời
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The Sun Stone that Ash won in The Bug Stops Here 
A Trainer with a Sun Stone in The Cave of Trials! 
Bellossom (Undaunted 1/90) 
Pokémon Collector (HeartGold & SoulSilver 97/123) 
Evolution Stone replicas 
Evolution Stone Petilil plush keychain 
Evolution Stone message cards 
Evolution Stone embroidery 
Evolution Stone Sleeves 
Old Amber Sleeves (upper-left corner) 
Fire Stone 
Water Stone 
Thunder Stone 
Leaf Stone 
Moon Stone 
Sun Stone 
Shiny Stone 
Dusk Stone 
Dawn Stone 
Ice Stone Other directly usable Evolution items 
Sweet Apple 
Tart Apple 
Syrupy Apple 
Cracked Pot 
Chipped Pot 
Galarica Cuff 
Galarica Wreath 
Scroll of Darkness 
Scroll of Waters 
Linking Cord 
Black Augurite 
Peat Block 
Auspicious Armor 
Malicious Armor 
Metal Alloy 
Unremarkable Teacup 
Masterpiece Teacup Evolution-inducing held items 
King's Rock 
Metal Coat 
Dragon Scale 
Upgrade 
Dubious Disc 
Deep Sea Scale 
Deep Sea Tooth 
Oval Stone 
Protector 
Electirizer 
Magmarizer 
Razor Claw 
Razor Fang 
Reaper Cloth 
Prism Scale 
Sachet 
Whipped Dream 
Berry Sweet 
Clover Sweet 
Flower Sweet 
Love Sweet 
Ribbon Sweet 
Star Sweet 
Strawberry Sweet Evolution stones exclusive to Pokémon GO 
Sinnoh Stone 
Unova Stone See also: Everstone • Sun Shard • Moon Shard • Leader's Crest • Gimmighoul CoinsMystery Dungeon evolutionary items • Candy (GO) 