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The Gold Bottle Cap (Japanese: きんのおうかん Gold Bottle Cap) is a type of exchangeable item introduced in Generation VII. It is a more valuable version of the Bottle Cap.

In the core series games

Price

Effect

Can be traded to Mr. HyperSMUSUMPE, a League Staff attendantSwSh, a VeteranBDSP, or a man with an AbomasnowSV to maximize all of a Pokémon's IVs in Hyper Training.

Description

Games Description
SMUSUMPE
SwShBDSPLA 		A beautiful bottle cap that gives off a golden gleam. Some people are happy to receive one.
SV A lovely gold bottle cap, which is even rarer than a silver bottle cap. Certain people are delighted to be given one of these.

Acquisition

Distribution

As a held item
Games Event Language/Region Distribution period
SM Japanese Aether Silvally Japanese September 22 to November 16, 2017
Taiwanese Aether Silvally Japanese, American, PAL English, Taiwanese September 22 to December 16, 2017
Aether Silvally Korean October 14 to November 30, 2017
Aether Silvally American, PAL October 23, 2017 to February 13, 2018
USUM Legendary Pokémon Celebration American, PAL Various
Korean League Season 1 Pokémon South Korea December 22 to 23, 2018
Korean League Season 2 Pokémon South Korea February 16 to 17, 2019
Korean League Season 3 Pokémon South Korea May 4 to 5, 2019
Korean League Final Season Pokémon South Korea June 8 to 9, 2019
SMUSUM Eclipse Shiny Pokémon PAL October 1 to November 15, 2019
Eclipse Shiny Pokémon American October 21, 2019 to January 15, 2020
Eclipse Shiny Pokémon Korean November 15 to December 31, 2019
7-Eleven Shiny Legendary Pokémon Japanese December 19, 2019 to February 3, 2020

Gallery

Artwork

Trivia

  • The Japanese name of おうかん ōkan can mean "crown" or "bottle cap". The Korean and Chinese translations retain the "crown" meaning despite having different words for "bottle cap", since the item names in those languages were directly transcribed from Japanese.

In other languages