r/TheSilphRoad • u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester • Jul 02 '25
PSA I made AR close-ups of the two different gimmighoul coins to show the difference
Seen a few people commenting that they can’t tell the difference between the coins, and that’s fair, because they are so small that it’s hard to tell that they even are different, let alone what the differences are.
So I set these two little dudes as buddies and used AR to get a better look. Not everyone can or wants to use AR, and now you don’t have to 😊
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u/FreezeShock Jul 02 '25
At least they could have made the coin a different color or at least the 9 could have been more visible.
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u/Jerb22 USA - Midwest Jul 02 '25
Bro gimmighoul is microscopic how would you have seen it better than how it is now
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u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester Jul 03 '25
By doing what I did to create the images in the original post.
But making the coin a different colour would have been more sensible. Niantic missed a trick there.
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u/DaRk_ViVi iTALY | TL50 | ❄MYSTiC | ItalianLeague Jul 02 '25
It's crazy to think how in 30 days we had one of the best costumes ever (train Falinks) and one of the worst (if not THE worst: this one).
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u/Emotional-Pack-456 Jul 02 '25
Costumed Elekid still worse
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u/I_forgot_my_opinion Jul 02 '25
Elekid could evolve at least
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u/I-am-a-cardboard-box Jul 03 '25
The lati’s had a completely invisible costume during hoenn tour while they spawned in the wild so that you’d see them unregistered on your nearby radar.
Until you caught one, and then the “costume” would be registered and they’d disappear from the radar again.
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u/TheRealPitabred Denver/L46 Jul 02 '25
Worst costume to go with the worst shiny (when evolved)
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u/DaRk_ViVi iTALY | TL50 | ❄MYSTiC | ItalianLeague Jul 02 '25
You can't even evolve this one with costume
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u/s4m_sp4de don't fomo do rockets Jul 03 '25
I would say this one is one of the best. A coin with a number is something great. A coin as a memorabilia for the 9th birthday… I think this fits better than any partyhat or other costume we got yet.
Yes, it‘s nearly not visible. But that‘s the great thing. It‘s not a hugh train, it‘s a small detail which makes it special. I really really like this costume and I’m hoping to get a shiny one.
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u/MarkusEF Jul 02 '25
It’s such a minor difference, why can’t we evolve it???
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u/ScottaHemi USA - Midwest Jul 02 '25
cause they didn't want to bother putting a 9 on goldengo's chest pouch thingo.
wouldn't surprise me if he can evolve next year though.
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u/Sea-Outside-9028 Jul 03 '25
I think Pokemon Go will make it evolvable on the 1000th year anniversary, to coincide with the Pokédex number 🤣
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u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester Jul 02 '25
A lot of costume mon couldn't be evolved when they were first released. It's to get you excited to go out and hunt for more when they do eventually release the evos.
Or possibly they don't want to put the work into creating an extra set of assets for the evolved form right away.
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u/Glycell Jul 02 '25
Noooooooo, this was my first and only way to get a gimmighoul and it can't evolve. God damnit.
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u/VanishedVanness Jul 03 '25
I haven't got the 9999 dust task yet. Does that encounter evolve?
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u/Glycell Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25
Does that task reward a gimmighoul?
Edit: i juts checked through some threads because this got me excited, but they've been dashed quite expertly. The 9999 dust task only give the costume variant, so the one that can't evolve.
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u/curtneedsaride Jul 02 '25
If these special coin ones are a different costume, why aren’t they listed that way in the dex?!
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u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester Jul 02 '25
It's a bug.
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u/_zhero_ Jul 02 '25
Are there any ways to get a gimmighoul that can evolve without using the coin bag? I don’t know anyone who has scarlet or violet and I certainly don’t want to spend $70 on a whole other game just to get a single dex entry in pogo
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u/guy1138 Jul 02 '25
Go to a golden lure (not a gold stop from this event,but an actual lure placed by someone) and get lucky
Or trade
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u/sadean87 Jul 02 '25
Right, I have a switch but I really don’t want to pay $60 to download the game just for this event.
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u/Mafklappert Netherlands Jul 02 '25
Is there a way to know whether a ghimmigoul has a costume or not, without having to do an AR closeup? Is it the lack of an evolve button, or is there a better way to spot?
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u/FreezeShock Jul 02 '25
Evolve button is one way. I think the costumes always have a background as well, I haven't seen any reports that say otherwise
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u/Omnizoom Jul 02 '25
The background since all the 9 anniversary ones have a background as well as the different coin
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u/Icy-Independence-130 Jul 02 '25
Keeping the theme of incredibly subtle differences in gimmighoul designs
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u/Zealandus Jul 02 '25
I haven't seen 1 at all...
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u/TheMadJAM Mystic | Level 50 Jul 02 '25
It feels like the color or texture of Gimmighoul's skin is slightly different in the catch screen, but it's probably my imagination
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u/ryuzero NJ Jul 03 '25
Does getting a background Gimmi mean i get a 9coin Gimmi, or its a chance of a 9coin Gimmi?
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u/ABoutDeSouffle Jul 03 '25
Outside the research task (which gave me the costumed one) and golden lured stops (Which don't exist where I live), is there another way to find a Gimmighoul?
I'd really like to have one, but none of my friends have enough to trade and all golden stops are duds.
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u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester Jul 03 '25
The main way is to get a coin bag, which needs you to connect your game to Pokemon Scarlet/Violet on the Switch. So you'd need to know someone who has that and is willing to meet you for a few minutes.
The coin bag is a type of incense that only spawns gimmighoul.
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u/ABoutDeSouffle Jul 03 '25
Thanks, not an option for me. Oh well, it's just a game.
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u/ThisNico Kiwi Beta Tester Jul 03 '25
Yeah, true.
If it helps, meltan in Pogo was locked behind a Switch game at first, but then they made it possible to get the meltan box by connecting to the Pokemon Home app. So maybe they will do the same with gimmighoul in a couple of years.
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u/la-marciana Jul 02 '25
If I'm understanding correct, they're guaranteed to have a background if they're costumed?