Every Pokémon Evolution Method Ever

[Music] what's going on Imperials it's a perk you bone here evolution is the cornerstone of the Pokemon franchise the fact that your monster pals grow and change while you do the same is what makes them so special and for the most part to make things predictable Pokemon will evolve once they reach a certain level usually lower ones for the weaker Pokemon and growing proportionately higher with increasing power levels but not every Pokemon conforms to this standard method in fact there are many forms of evolution other than just heaping on more experience the first alternate method that we were shown was introduced with the evolutionary stones these are items that with one-time use will evolve specific Pokemon always to their final stage and actually the first time we saw it was with the franchise mascot itself in Pikachu maybe just to keep it perpetually locked in it's cute and marketable state Pikachu will only evolve with the use of a thunder stone into Raichu and also a lowland Raichu engine 7 this item of course was also used in June 1 to change Eevee into Jolteon which you already knew but did you know that the only other Pokemon that the Thunderstone works with is electric I just kind of figured an item that's been around since the game started what had more than just three Pokemon to be useful for but there are plenty of other evolutionary Stones out there jin-hwan also gave us the fire stone usable to evolve Vulpix growlithe and Eevee and years later it added Pansear to the club allowing it to evolve into Japan's official least favourite Pokemon the leaf stone evolves gloom weepinbell and executes and also the aloha inform later on and later they brought in nuzleaf as well as pan sage the water stone is used by many Pokemon including Poliwhirl shelter star you and Evie again down the line they also added lombre and pan for and lastly Kanto gave us the moonstone which is just vague enough for it to be useful on whatever they want it to be like both of the neater in lines Pokemon that would later become fairies clefairy and Dibley puff and later adopting skiddy and Munna as well but the johto region added its counterpart with the Sunstone which is equally nondescript and used on gloom for its other evolution as well as the puny sunkern it was then broadened to include Kartini and petal oh and fittingly for helioptile as well we nixed got a group of stones that were introduced in the cinah games starting with the shiny stone this one is usable with Rosalia togetic along with man chino and floette later on and now the opposite of what could be considered as somewhat angelic source comes the demonic in the dust stone used for dark and ghost types such as murkrow mystery this lamp and and even de blade and Cinna also gave us the dawn stone which is used to get the branched evolutions of Kirlia and snorunt but only working with one gender and finally as of right now the less evolutionary stone comes from the Olalla region with the ice stone and was used with the new a lowland forms of Sandshrew and Vulpix which is kind of odd considering the regular Sandshrew is just through level up so the different stones see different amounts of effectiveness but I do wish that they had some other use besides just evolving so few Pokemon like even just powering up their moves as a held item but I digress the only other method of evolution from the first generation was trading the science of why pokemons spontaneously mutate upon moving to another trainer is a bit spotty but it did provide us with some of the strongest Pokemon from Kanto evolved in Kadabra Machoke rattler and hunter and also the a lowland form of the gravel ER line later Pokemon to be included in this are bull door girder pumpkin in phantom but that wasn't all generation two with its abundance of new evolutions also had new trades but with a twist these Pokemon required held items in their trade for evolution to take place starting with the middle coat which was used to change both cypher and onyx into steel types there's also the King's Rock that specializes in creating branched evolutions for both the Poliwhirl and the slowpoke line while being traded there's also the upgrade item that's used to change the technological porygon which makes total sense but then there's the dragon scale that only evolved Sidra now this also does make sense but surely there are other dragons that could have used this item at some point trade evolutions were almost entirely ignored in Hoenn if it weren't for Clamperl pulling double-duty by evolving into two separate pokemons from the deep seed tooth and the deep-sea scale then inch in four they made a whole bunch of new additions to pre-existing Pokemon many of which received their own unique items to trigger these changes mostly because they needed a reason to explain why trading them now would make them evolve when it didn't in the past so they gave ride on the protector electivire the Elector Iser and magma or the magma riser and dusclops got the reaper cloth and just like the previous stage porygon too gets the dubious discs to evolve once more into porygon Z this concept got slightly more convoluted in gin.5 when they had shell mat and car blast evolved via trade but only with each other something happens in the process of trading these two that lets their characteristics transferred to each other and truthfully provide two really great but very different bug types the only other ones since then have been the new theory types added a Kalos with spritzee and swirlix spritzee was given the sachet and swirlix had the whip dream rather on the nose items to morph them into somewhat unfortunate second stages going back a bit again the only other new evolution capability from generation to was friendship once a pokemons happiness stat reached its maximum and it would gain a level it would evolve this was the case for golbat which really is the least they could do for all the hate that its first stage gets but it was also what made the Pokemon Center helper chancy evolve in the new games as well happiness also appears to be a popular method of evolution for the newfound baby Pokemon a Joe - since Pichu evolves this way along with cliff ax igloo buff and even togepi but past the Djinn - crowd friendship is also how Azurill and even munchlax evolve on top of just babies there's Buneary who has to like you to evolve and then in Unova there's also bubut which I totally forgot that's how it evolved and SWAT loon the next Pokemon - one a best friend would be in a Lolo with the regional variant of Meowth changing it up from the standard form and then also the man-made pokemons of type null even though it's really an evolution if just the helmet breaks off and it whatever at this point you might have noticed that there were some Pokemon missing from the list and that's because in addition to happiness it is also required that these Pokemon be leveled up at a certain time of day to achieve a successful evolution Eevee of course being the first example reaching full happiness Eevee takes full advantage of the day/night cycle and will evolve into Espeon during the day and Umbreon at night what I didn't even realize however was that this applied to certain baby Pokemon introduced in Sinnoh as well Badou can only evolve through happiness during the day so that's why it took so long to evolve and my first cental playthrough and it's also the case for riolu being the only way to get a beloved fan favorite and then with chingling what might just be the Pokemon that I forget exists the most it only evolves through happiness but at night instead it's a bit strange to combine two stipulations on evolving certain Pokemon but this is not the only place where we see time-based evolutions for instance the fossil Pokemon from X&Y both evolve at level 39 but tyrunt will only evolve in the date and Amarra will only evolve at night the same is true for fo mantis and it evolving only in the daylight hours for some reason and even more strangely it's the same for young goose only being in the day is well but maybe that's the case for those two just to balance out the new a lowland forms because both Rattata and cubone himself will only evolve into their alone forms in the dark of night which makes a bit more sense than those other ones but of course there's one more denizen of a lola that relies on the time of day with rock rough but it's a little more involved if rock rough levels up in the day and will evolve into the mid day form of lichen rock but only in sun version and the opposite holds true for the midnight form in the night of moon version presumably they will continue to separate it by version but I'd be fine with the being able to evolve rock rough into either form and whatever version I'm in and that's not to mention the dusk form of lichen rock which will only evolve from a rock rough with its hidden ability on tempo and only within the 5 o'clock hour of whatever time zone you're in which might just be the most specific evolution in the entire franchise but there are other combinations of time-based evolutions with items all of which originate from Jun for Sneasel evolves only at nights and only while holding the razor claw which is clearly seen in its sharp second stage gligar is in a similar scenario if you use the razor fang and level it up at night greatly increasing its profile upon evolution and then of course there's the other baby form of Happiny who ironically does not evolve through happiness instead it uses the oval stone while leveling up in the daytime and it's not exactly new evolutions but these later babies did arise through breeding pokémon while holding a special incense because again they had to explain why you couldn't find them while breeding them before sort of like manaphy and its new offspring but while on the topic of breeding there is one baby Pokemon that is like no other that is Ty robe and not just because it has three branches of evolution but how it gets there hi Rach is the only Pokemon that evolves depending on its stats if its attack is higher than its defense it will turn into Hitmonlee if its defense is higher then it's a hitmonchan and if you can somehow get them exactly equal it will be a hitmontop yeah there's probably a reason that they don't do these more often another a completely unique method of evolution belongs to Phoebus that infuriating fishing target from Hoenn this aquatic nuisance takes full advantage of the new contest that started in June 3 and requires the player to max out his beauty appeal by feeding it far too much pokéblock but that's the only way to get a beautiful Milotic at least it was when contests were still around but once they went away in gym 5 they had to create a whole new method of evolution so they changed it to the prism scale as a hold item used through trading however in the remakes the original beauty method was still viable but a simple trade is probably gonna be easier once you find the item anyway we mentioned before about the dawn stone and how it only worked with specific genders but there are pokemons that operate with that same specificity but just through level up as is the case with firming a male berming will always evolve into Mithen and a female will turn into worm Adam with the added distinction of its new typing being determined by whatever cloak it has at the time however other Pokemon are not so lucky since only one gender is able to evolve like poor Combee the female form gets to evolve into a regal vespiquen with its own arsenal of signature moves while the male is stuck in its puny state forever it's a little better for so landed where only the females will evolve into the brilliant soul as all but the male isn't so bad on its own and it is worth noting that even though they're not different Pokemon male and female meowstic have very different level of movesets and abilities another way the massive amount of later evolutions in sin oh god around their previous lack of existence was by moves that these Pokemon had never known before Aipom now leveling up with the move double hit will evolve which is most fitting because it gains a second tail as ambipom the babies mime jr. and pon sly both evolved when they know mimic which also surprisingly makes a lot of sense for a mime and a fake tree like a tongue unfortunately also got an evolution and if for some reason you wanted this atrocity then you would need to teach your lick a tongue rollout which I guess is because of all the extra weight that it put on and actually the remaining three Pokemon from sin o tangela ganma and piloswine all evolved from the same move ancient power the move itself isn't particularly that special having the same stats and effectiveness as some other moves but it's a pretty powerful name so as opposed that sets it apart and this would later be seen in a Lola where steamy will only evolve knowing stomp fully showing off Serena's powerful legs and Popol even got in on the action knowing dragon pulse to evolve see this is another scenario where that dragon scale would have been perfect but of course there's also the location-based evolutions that Sinnoh created as well Eevee got to new potential forms in the fourth generation and the only ways to obtain them is to level Eevee up by the moss rock or the icy rock to get Leafeon and Glaceon respectively which somehow have counterparts in every other region there's also mount Cornett where Magneton and nosepass both evolve however it's really just any place of sufficient electromagnetic power since again you can find suitable locations in subsequent generations and they actually gained a companion in the most recent games with charge of hug also needing these magnetic properties to evolve and Olalla provided one more location evolution with CREB roller evolving at mount Lanakila - it's unfortunate second stage now its availability did change between versions so we don't yet know the finer details but it's likely that it's just a generally cold area and not as specific as say the icy Rock and though it's not exactly a location per se we do have sliggoo revolves at a high level like many dragons but only in the rain and it can't be set up rain either it has to be in the overworld before the battle starts which can be tricky as it's more up to chance than anything for sliggoo to evolve another unique way created to evolve pokemon is with Pancham this cute fighting panda will only evolve into its more intimidating second form after a certain level if there is a dark-type pokémon on the team which is just proof that you can be greatly influenced when hanging around with the rough crowd but even more specific than just any dark tide is the stipulation on little man type this baby kite Pokemon will only evolve if leveling up with a rim raid in the party this of course dims from the fact that the mantain sprites had remoraid attached to the bottom as a symbiotic relationship but by the time this evolution method came around the rim raid was removed from the sprites so that makes a little less sense those are really the only pokemons that evolved based on other Pokemon which just leaves a bunch of miscellaneous outcasts that don't really conform to any established patterns we'll start with the final evolution for now anyway sylveon can only be obtained when Eevee knows a fairy type move which they conveniently added to its moveset but it also has to have at least two levels of affection in Pokemon omid because it just had to be different but since it is required for evolution that either means that we'll be seeing a feature similar to this and pretty much every game from now on or if they do get rid of it they'll have to give it some kind of new item like they did with Phoebus then of course there's Wurmple everybody that's familiar with Hoenn knows that this is the first regional bug with branched evolutions but a longtime question that has plagued many a pokemon trainer is how do I get the one that I want and the answer is you don't there's actually no way to ensure that you get either silcoon or cast and by extension beautifly and dustox it's completely random determined by a complex equation of an arbitrary personality value that's predetermined before you even catch it which can be a bummer especially if your shiny one ball doesn't go the way that you want to do but while we're on branched evolution bugs from Hoenn there's always nincada this unassuming ground bug can turn into two different pokemons that are scary in their own ways however this is the only pair of branched evolutions or you can get them both at the same time when an kata evolves into ninjask the player must have an empty slot on their team and after a while a spare pokeball in your bag was also required and then shedinja would simply appear in your party it does have all the same moves that your new ninjask will but now that you have them both separated you can diversify and play to each of their strengths and then pretty much the opposite of that is the Pokemon where you can't even choose which of the branched evolutions you get in Cosmo this unbelievably dense Pokemon can turn into the mascot Legendary's of generation 7 but their version locked you can only get a salga layout of Cosmo um and son version but if you transferred that same Cosmo on to moon version it would become a loon ala I imagine that this will continue on in future games but we'll just see if sword and shield follow suit or if they'll resort to some items like the Sun shard and moon shard that stood in during Gale of Darkness to me the absolute strangest way - of all the pokemon has got to be the adorable inkay I really like in cape but it can only evolve after reaching level 30 while holding the DES upside down I get the idea I really do malamar is the massive upturned scarier version of its predecessor but will this carry through and all the new generations it can still work on the switch I suppose but I guess that means Pokemon really will never be on a console exclusive system and of course as of right now there's one Pokemon that can't even be evolved in any of the main series games the newest Pokemon Melton can be transferred to Pokemon let's go but if you do you can't have it become a male metal the only way to evolve a Milton is in Pokemon go by spending 400 Melton candy to evolve it that is a hefty investment but assuming they do change it so that it can occur in the core games it will likely be something just as time-consuming or difficult so that is every single different evolution method in the Pokemon series any Pokemon not mentioned here either don't evolve or simply does so through level up which extra means of evolution is your favorite let me know down in the comments also be sure to leave a like share this video and subscribe so that you too can become an imperial today and we'll 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Channel: Emperor Cubone

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Keywords: Pokemon Sword, Pokemon Shield, Let's Go, Gen 8, Alola, Galar, Gen 7, Switch, Nintendo, Video Games

Id: GcMTstRM-XQ

Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2019