Sinistea

Ghost · Black Tea Pokémon — first seen in Generation VIII.

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Base stats

Stat	Base	Min	Max
HP	40	190	284
Attack	45	85	207
Defense	45	85	207
Sp. Attack	74	137	271
Sp. Defense	54	101	227
Speed	50	94	218
Total	308

Min and max are at level 100: the minimum is 0 IVs, 0 EVs and a hindering nature, the maximum 31 IVs, 252 EVs and a beneficial nature. Shedinja's HP is always 1 whatever the formula says.

Type defences

Damage Sinistea takes from each attacking type.

×2

GhostDark

×½

PoisonBug

×0

NormalFighting

×1

FlyingGroundRockSteelFireWaterGrassElectricPsychicIceDragonFairy

Evolution

Sinistea#0854

Use Cracked PotUse Chipped Pot

Polteageist#0855

Methods are the current official ones. A ROM hack may change them — trade evolutions especially; the guide table below says which do.

In the ROM hacks it evolves differently

Each guide's own line, in the words its creator published.

In Unbound

Sinistea

Evolves into Poltegeist with a Cracked Pot

Poltegeist

In Pokémon Emerald Squared

Sinistea

Sinistea (Antique)

Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked PotEvolves into Polteageist (Antique) with a Chipped Pot

Polteageist

Moves

Sinistea is not in any of the 16 official games this site covers (Red & Blue through Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon), so there is no learnset here yet.

Where to find it in the official games

Not obtainable in the wild in any of the 16 official games this site covers. In those games it has to be evolved, traded or bred — or it belongs to a game whose data is not here yet.

Where to find it in the ROM hacks

12 guides on this site put it somewhere you can catch it. Areas link to that guide's own route page, with its own rates and levels.

Guide	Where
Pokémon Soulgold	Lost WoodsGrass · Lv 28-35 · 5%rare Kitakami BorderGrass · Lv 42-48 · 30%
Pokémon R.O.W.E	Mt. PyreGrass · Lv Scales · 5%rare
Sword and Shield Ultimate Plus	Wild Area 2 (Bear)Raid Den · Lv — · 2 Wild Area 4 EastRaid Den · Lv — · 2 Wild Area 4 WestRaid Den · Lv — · 2 and 5 more areas
Radical Red	Pewter CityGrass (Day) · Lv 7-9 · 5%rare
Elite Redux	Route 101Grass · Lv — · 1%rare Route 111Gift · Lv —
Pokémon Emerald Imperium	Route 115Grass · Lv 6-8 · 1%rare
Pokémon Exceeded	Mt. PyreGrass · Lv 24-29 · 20%
Pokémon Emerald Squared	Rusturf TunnelLand · Lv 6-12 · 5%
HeartGold Generations	Mt. MortarGrass (Waterfall room, night) · Lv 13 · 21.3% Mt. MortarGrass (Waterfall room, night, Hoenn Sound) · Lv 13 · 21.3% Mt. MortarGrass (Waterfall room, night, Sinnoh Sound) · Lv 13 · 21.3%
Pokémon Saiph 2	Desert RuinsWalking · Lv 16-21 · 5%
Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald	Mt. PyreGrass · Lv 47-53 · 4%rare Mt. PyreGrass · Lv 47-53 · 4%rare Mt. PyreGrass · Lv 47-53 · 4%rare and 3 more areas
Pokémon Mirror Gold	Bell Tower 10FGrass (Night) · Lv 31 · 20% Route 2 South Below Viridian ForestGrass (Night) · Lv 66-68 · 26% Sprout Tower 3FGrass (Night) · Lv 5 · 10% and 1 more area
Unbound	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Emerald Rogue	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Heart & Soul	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Inclement Emerald	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Overcomplicated	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it

Compare official Sinistea with the ROM hacks →

In the 19 guides that include it

Changed in 17 of 19 guides: retyped in 1, stats in 2, abilities in 4, evolution in 16.

Every ROM hack on this site that has Sinistea, and what it did to it. Guides that changed something are first. Click one for that version's full page — locations, moveset and TMs.

Guide		Type	Total	Abilities
Unbound Evolves into Poltegeist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Soulgold Evolves into Polteageist — By Using Specific Item (Cracked Pot) Evolves into Polteageist (Polteageist Antique) — By Using Specific Item (Chipped Pot)	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Heart & Soul Evolves into Polteageist with a Dusk Stone Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon R.O.W.E Evolves into Polteageist at Level 34	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Sword and Shield Ultimate Plus Evolves into Polteageist — use a Chipped Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Radical Red Evolves into Polteageist with a Moon Stone	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Heatproof + Heatproof − Cursed Body
Elite Redux Evolves into Polteageist at level 36	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Dancer, Aroma Veil
Inclement Emerald Evolves into Polteageist with a ????????	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition Evolves into Polteageist — use Cracked Pot	Changed		0 -308 -40 HP, -45 Attack, -45 Defense, -74 Sp. Atk, -54 Sp. Def, -50 Speed	—
Pokémon Emerald Imperium Evolves into Polteageist with a Moon Stone	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Heatproof + Heatproof − Cursed Body
Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Exceeded Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Curse Surge
Pokémon Emerald Squared Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost→GhostFairy	308	Weak Armor, Oblivious, Cursed Body + Oblivious
HeartGold Generations Evolves into Polteageist — with Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Saiph 2	Changed		0 -308 -40 HP, -45 Attack, -45 Defense, -74 Sp. Atk, -54 Sp. Def, -50 Speed	—
Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald Evolves into Polteageist with a Cracked Pot	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Mirror Gold Evolves into Polteageist — at level 32	Changed	Ghost	308	Weak Armor − Cursed Body
Emerald Rogue	Unchanged	Ghost	308	Weak Armor, Cursed Body
Pokémon Overcomplicated	Unchanged	Ghost	308	Hospitality

Names in other languages

Japanese	ヤバチャ
Japanese (Rōmaji)	Yabacha
German	Fatalitee
French	Théffroi
Spanish	Sinistea
Italian	Sinistea
Korean	데인차
Chinese (Simplified)	来悲茶
Chinese (Traditional)	來悲茶

Official data here is present-day reference data from PokéAPI, not a snapshot of any one game's era — the Fairy type and hidden abilities arrived partway through the series, so a difference against an older game can belong to the series rather than to that ROM hack.