How to get Mienfoo in Pokemon GO, and can it be shiny?

With five different methods for getting your hands on Mienfoo in Pokemon GO, you may be wondering which is the straightforward one. This Fighting-type pocket monster doesn’t commonly make its appearance in the wild, so it is a rare variant to come upon in the game. Shiny Mienfoo is now available to encounter, thanks to the launch of the 2024 Pokemon World Championship event, which introduced it to fans via one-star raids.

It is easy to defeat Pokemon GO Mienfoo raids solo since it is a one-star Raid Boss. In this article, we will review all the approaches that you can take to obtain Mienfoo and Shiny Mienfoo in Pokemon GO.

Mienfoo in Pokemon GO: How to get, weaknesses, counters, and more

Mienfoo as seen in the anime (Image via The Pokemon Company)

If you wish to add Mienfoo to your Pokemon GO collection, you’ll have to accomplish one of the following activities:

Catch Mienfoo in the wild
Hatch Pokemon eggs
Beat Raid Battles
Win GO Battle League matches
Trade

1) Catch Mienfoo in the wild

You should know that this Pokemon doesn’t appear normally in the overworld, making it an entity that is hard to find. The one time when Niantic featured Mienfoo as a wild spawn was during the Stadium Sights event on Jun 2024.

Mienfoo is weather-boosted by Sunny weather conditions, so if you visit areas that experience this weather during events, you are more likely to encounter it in Pokemon GO. You can activate the effect of the Lure Module and Incense in these environments to further the spawn boost.

2) Hatch Pokemon eggs

This way of encountering and hatching Mienfoo in the game is unreliable because the critter has not been featured in eggs since Dec 2022. However, we may see the return of this fighter via eggs in the forthcoming future.

3) Beat Raid Battles

To win Mienfoo one-star raids in Pokemon GO, you can exploit its attack weaknesses of Fairy-, Flying-, and Psychic-types. Below are the best counters to use against it:

Shadow Mewtwo with Confusion and Psystrike
Mega Alakazam with Confusion and Psychic
Staraptor with Wing Attack and Brave Bird
Incarnate Forme Enamorus with Fairy Wind and Fly
Shadow Exeggutor with Confusion and Psychic
Shadow Honchkrow with Peck and Brave Bird

4) Win GO Battle League

The fourth way to obtain Mienfoo in Pokemon GO is to secure GO Battle League wins. Whenever the creature returns to the Raid Battles, a provision allows the creature to become encounterable to trainers when they beat GO Battle League matches. That said, Niantic discards this temporary arrangement as soon as Mienfoo disappears from raids.

5) Trade

If nothing works for you, you can tell your GO friend to trade their Mienfoo with you. The receiver and the giver must be within 100 meters range to start the trade process.

All ways to get Shiny Mienfoo in Pokemon GO

Shiny Mienfoo in Pokemon GO (Image via The Pokemon Company)

Shiny Mienfoo debuted in Pokemon GO at the start of the 2024 Pokemon World Championship Celebration event. As of writing, you can only get this creature by winning one-star Raid Battles.

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Edited by Abu Amjad Khan