Gimmighoul Coins are scattered across Paldea like loose change after a particularly energetic picnic. At first, collecting 999 of them may sound like an elaborate prank created by a Ghost-type Pokémon with accounting experience. Fortunately, the hunt becomes much faster once you understand where Gimmighoul appears, which form provides the most coins, and how its respawn system works.
The fastest way to get Gimmighoul Coins in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet is to battle Chest Form Gimmighoul at watchtowers and ruins. Roaming Form Gimmighoul provides smaller bonuses while you explore, and connecting the game to Pokémon GO offers another repeatable source. Combine these methods, and reaching the required 999 coins becomes a manageable treasure hunt rather than a second career.
What Are Gimmighoul Coins Used For?
Gimmighoul Coins are special materials used primarily to evolve Gimmighoul into Gholdengo. You must have exactly 999 or more coins in your Bag and then level up a Chest Form Gimmighoul. The evolution begins automatically, and 999 coins are consumed in the process.
You do not need to give the coins to Gimmighoul manually, use them from the Bag, visit a particular landmark, or level up at a certain time of day. Once the coin requirement is satisfied, any normal level-up method works. You can battle a wild Pokémon, use a Rare Candy, or apply an Exp. Candy.
The coins are listed with other Pokémon materials, but they are not ordinary crafting scraps. Although they can technically be sold, doing so is rarely worthwhile. Selling several hundred coins and later deciding you want Gholdengo is the sort of financial decision that makes even Meowth shake its head.
How to Get Gimmighoul Coins Quickly
There are four practical ways to collect Gimmighoul Coins in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
- Catch or defeat Chest Form Gimmighoul.
- Interact with Roaming Form Gimmighoul.
- Receive coins by sending a Postcard from Pokémon GO.
- Collect an initial gift and stored overflow coins from an NPC in Medali.
Chest Form encounters should be the foundation of your farming route. Roaming Form encounters are useful additions, while Pokémon GO rewards and the Medali NPC help shorten the final stretch.
Method 1: Battle Chest Form Gimmighoul
Chest Form Gimmighoul is the best source of Gimmighoul Coins because one encounter generally provides far more coins than a Roaming Form encounter. These Pokémon resemble ordinary treasure chests until you approach and interact with them.
After the battle starts, catch or defeat the Gimmighoul to receive coins. Either result works, so you do not have to fill several storage boxes with identical haunted furniture. Catch at least one good Gimmighoul for evolution, then defeat the others if you want to save Poké Balls and time.
How Many Coins Does Chest Form Gimmighoul Drop?
A Chest Form Gimmighoul can award between 10 and 777 coins. Most encounters provide a much more modest amount, commonly around 30 or 50 coins. Rewards of 100 or 200 are uncommon, while the 777-coin jackpot is extremely rare.
The initial fixed encounters around Paldea are especially valuable and often provide approximately 50 to 80 coins each. Finding a collection of unopened chests is therefore much faster than tapping hundreds of Roaming Form Gimmighoul one at a time.
The number of coins is not determined by the Gimmighoul’s level. A higher-level chest is not necessarily hiding a larger retirement fund.
Where to Find Chest Form Gimmighoul
Chest Form Gimmighoul is most commonly found in three kinds of places:
- At the top of watchtowers
- Inside or near ancient ruins
- On isolated cliffs, islands, and elevated structures
Watchtowers are the easiest targets because they are visible from a distance and often appear as small circular structures on the map. Climb each tower, activate its fast-travel point, and check the upper platform for a chest. Once the location is registered, future farming runs become considerably faster.
There are 14 major watchtowers across Paldea and approximately two dozen fixed Chest Form locations in total. Visiting the towers and nearby ruins is usually enough to produce most or all of the 999 coins required for your first Gholdengo.
Unlock Your Ride Abilities First
Some Gimmighoul chests sit on high ledges, offshore rocks, or terrain that is awkward to reach early in the story. Completing the Path of Legends storyline upgrades Koraidon or Miraidon with abilities such as swimming, higher jumping, climbing, and gliding.
You can begin collecting coins immediately, but a dedicated farming run is more efficient after unlocking most ride upgrades. Otherwise, you may spend ten minutes staring at a chest on a cliff while your legendary motorcycle performs the Pokémon equivalent of shrugging.
Method 2: Find Roaming Form Gimmighoul
Roaming Form Gimmighoul is the tiny version carrying a single coin on its back. You cannot normally battle or catch this form in the wild in Scarlet and Violet. Instead, approach it and press the A button. It will drop coins and disappear.
Roaming Gimmighoul can give between 1 and 200 coins, but most encounters award only one, three, or five. Larger amounts are possible but rare. Treat these encounters as helpful bonuses rather than your main farming method.
Common Roaming Form Locations
Roaming Gimmighoul loves perching on objects that players normally sprint past without examining. Check the following places:
- Road signs and map signs
- Bridge railings and stone walls
- Rocks, tree stumps, and fence posts
- Ruined buildings and broken pillars
- Crates, barrels, farm equipment, and machinery
- Pokémon Center structures and nearby corners
- The base and top of watchtowers
Listen carefully while exploring. Roaming Form Gimmighoul makes a distinctive metallic cry when you are close. If you hear the sound, stop moving, rotate the camera, and inspect nearby objects. Because the Pokémon is tiny, the audio cue is often more useful than your eyes.
Make a habit of checking signs whenever you enter a new area. One interaction may provide only a few coins, but dozens of small pickups collected during the main story can save a lengthy farming session later.
Method 3: Farm Gimmighoul Respawns
Gimmighoul encounters are renewable. After a Roaming or Chest Form disappears, the game periodically gives that location a chance to repopulate.
Each Roaming Form location has approximately a 50% chance to respawn at the start of a new in-game day. Chest Form locations have a much lower chance of roughly 5%. One in-game day lasts a little over an hour in real time, so a missing chest may require several cycles before it returns.
This distinction matters when planning a route. Roaming Form locations refill relatively quickly, while Chest Form locations are unreliable on any single revisit. Do not repeatedly reload the same tower expecting the chest to pop back into existence. Instead, activate every watchtower fast-travel point and inspect all of them in a loop.
A Simple Repeatable Watchtower Route
- Open the map and fast-travel to a previously visited watchtower.
- Check the upper platform for Chest Form Gimmighoul.
- Collect nearby Roaming Form Gimmighoul from signs, rails, and ruins.
- Move to the next tower rather than waiting at the same location.
- Repeat the route after another in-game day has passed.
This approach turns random respawns into a predictable routine. Even when most chests fail to return, the numerous Roaming Form encounters along the route continue adding coins.
Method 4: Connect Pokémon GO
Players with Pokémon GO can connect the mobile game to Scarlet or Violet and send a Postcard to the Nintendo Switch. Receiving a Postcard provides a bundle of Gimmighoul Coins in Scarlet or Violet, along with other rewards, and changes the Vivillon pattern appearing in Paldea based on the Postcard’s region.
A Postcard can be sent once per day. This makes the feature a useful low-effort source of coins, especially for players working toward a second Gholdengo after the original 999 coins have been consumed.
How to Connect Pokémon GO to Scarlet or Violet
- Open the Poké Portal in Pokémon Scarlet or Violet.
- Select Mystery Gift.
- Choose Connect to Pokémon GO.
- Select Pair with a Pokémon GO Account.
- Open Pokémon GO and enter the Connected Devices and Services settings.
- Pair the mobile game with your Nintendo Switch.
- Select a saved Postcard in Pokémon GO and send it to the connected game.
Coins collected in Pokémon GO and coins stored in Scarlet or Violet are separate inventories. Sending a Postcard grants rewards to the Switch game, but it does not transfer your entire Pokémon GO coin balance into Paldea.
Visit the Gimmighoul Coin NPC in Medali
Medali contains a helpful NPC who acts like a surprisingly trustworthy supernatural bank teller. He stands in the western plaza area near the food stands and initially gives the player approximately 20 Gimmighoul Coins.
More importantly, this NPC stores coins collected after your Bag reaches its normal limit of 999. Once you evolve Gimmighoul and the coins in your Bag are consumed, return to the NPC. He will give you the excess coins he has been holding.
This system means you do not have to stop opening chests just because your Bag says 999. Extra rewards are not wasted. They are quietly deposited with the Medali NPC and can contribute toward your next Gholdengo.
The Fastest Strategy for Reaching 999 Coins
For the most efficient Gimmighoul coin farming route, use the following plan:
- Catch one Chest Form Gimmighoul. Choose the one you eventually want to evolve.
- Unlock Paldea’s watchtowers. Climb each one and activate its fast-travel location.
- Clear every fresh chest encounter. Search nearby ruins before leaving each province.
- Collect Roaming Form Gimmighoul along the way. Focus on signs, bridges, Pokémon Centers, and ruined structures.
- Visit the Medali NPC. Claim the initial coins and remember that he stores overflow.
- Send a Pokémon GO Postcard daily when available. Use this method to close any remaining gap.
- Repeat the watchtower circuit after respawns are checked.
Fresh Chest Form encounters can carry most of the workload. A player who thoroughly explores Paldea can often reach 999 without deliberately waiting for many respawns. The repeatable methods become more important when collecting a second or third set of coins.
How to Evolve Gimmighoul into Gholdengo
After collecting 999 Gimmighoul Coins, place the Chest Form Gimmighoul you want to evolve in your party. Level it up once through battle, a Rare Candy, or an Exp. Candy. The evolution should begin immediately.
All 999 coins will be removed from your Bag. Check the Gimmighoul’s Nature, ability, Tera Type, nickname, and other details before leveling it. Evolving the wrong specimen does not destroy your save file, but it does create another 999-item shopping list.
Gholdengo is a Ghost- and Steel-type Pokémon with the Good as Gold ability and the signature move Make It Rain. Its unusual defensive typing, strong Special Attack, and resistance to status moves make it useful in story battles, Tera Raids, and competitive formats. The coin hunt is lengthy, but the reward is considerably more useful than a commemorative Paldean piggy bank.
Common Gimmighoul Coin Mistakes
Ignoring Watchtowers
Searching only for Roaming Form Gimmighoul makes the process unnecessarily slow. Chest Form encounters provide the largest reliable rewards, and watchtowers make them easy to locate.
Expecting Every Chest to Respawn Immediately
Chest Form Gimmighoul has a low respawn chance. A tower can remain empty through several in-game days. Check multiple locations instead of camping beside one chest.
Selling the Coins
The sale value may look tempting early in the game, but ordinary money-farming methods are much easier to repeat. Save the coins unless you are certain you never want another Gholdengo.
Forgetting That Evolution Consumes the Coins
One collection of 999 coins produces one Gholdengo. A second evolution requires another complete set, although stored overflow coins from the Medali NPC can provide a head start.
Trying to Auto-Battle Chest Form Gimmighoul
Approach Chest Form Gimmighoul and begin a normal battle. Do not rely on the Let’s Go auto-battle feature to handle the encounter or award its normal coin reward.
A Practical Coin-Hunting Experience in Paldea
A typical Gimmighoul coin hunt begins innocently. You check the Bag, discover that you have 184 coins, and briefly wonder whether the remaining 815 will require a spreadsheet, three energy drinks, and permission from the Paldean Department of Finance. The good news is that the first dedicated route usually moves much faster than expected.
Start at a watchtower you unlocked during the story. The chest at the top provides a healthy bundle of coins, and a Roaming Form Gimmighoul is sitting on the railing nearby. That second encounter adds only a few coins, but it also teaches the most important lesson of the hunt: always look around the tower before fast-traveling away.
At the next location, the chest is missing because you battled it earlier. This is where many players become discouraged. The empty platform can make the respawn system feel broken, but the location has simply failed its latest respawn check. Rather than waiting, move to another tower. Paldea is large, and staring angrily at an empty wooden platform does not improve its probability calculations.
Ruins create a different rhythm. They are less convenient than towers because some are tucked into mountains, fields, or isolated corners of the map. However, they often contain both forms of Gimmighoul. Search broken walls, pillars, rocks, and nearby signs before leaving. The Roaming Form’s cry may lead you to a tiny figure that would otherwise blend into the scenery.
After several towers, the coin total may jump from fewer than 200 to more than 600. At this stage, the goal suddenly feels realistic. The route also becomes smoother because each tower functions as a fast-travel point. What began as a cross-country expedition turns into a sequence of short inspections.
The final 100 coins are often the strangest part of the experience. You may find several Roaming Form Gimmighoul that each provide a single coin, followed by one chest that drops enough to finish the entire hunt. Alternatively, a Pokémon GO Postcard or the Medali NPC may push the total across the line. The game does not care whether the 999th coin came from an ancient ruin or a tiny ghost hiding on agricultural equipment.
Before evolving, it is worth pausing to inspect the Gimmighoul you selected. Many players spend so much time watching the coin counter that they forget the actual Pokémon. Save the game, confirm the correct Gimmighoul is in the party, and use an Exp. Candy. Watching the little chest turn into Gholdengo is satisfying partly because the evolution feels earned. You did not merely use a stone or reach a level requirement; you audited every suspicious road sign in Paldea.
A second coin hunt feels different. Most fixed chests have already been cleared, so respawns, Roaming Form encounters, Pokémon GO rewards, and overflow coins become more important. This is when an established watchtower circuit pays off. A quick loop performed occasionally is far more pleasant than attempting another 999-coin marathon in one sitting.
The best overall experience comes from treating Gimmighoul Coins as an exploration reward rather than a single enormous grind. Collect them while completing the Pokédex, challenging trainers, gathering TMs, and visiting landmarks. By the time you actively decide to evolve Gimmighoul, you may already have most of the required total. Paldea rewards curiosity, especially when that curiosity involves checking whether a fence post is secretly carrying money.
Conclusion
The fastest way to get Gimmighoul Coins in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is to clear Chest Form encounters at watchtowers and ruins, collecting Roaming Form coins during the journey. Unlocking watchtower fast-travel points creates an efficient repeatable route, while Pokémon GO Postcards and the Medali NPC provide useful additional rewards.
Once your Bag contains 999 coins, level up a Chest Form Gimmighoul to evolve it into Gholdengo. The coins will be consumed, so choose your Gimmighoul carefully. With a planned route and a willingness to inspect suspicious signs, bridges, and treasure chests, the famous 999-coin requirement is demanding but entirely achievable.
