Ridiculous methods of evolution

[ocelotlrama jaguar]

^^^ Even then, it isn't worth the trouble for the elemental stones since you can just buy them. I go through the trouble only for the rare stuff like the Shiny and Dusk stones.

As far as ridiculousness goes, Inkay to Malamar takes the cake. I felt silly trying to evolve it. It just went beyond my comfort zone, a lot more than trading to evolve.

 

[Quetsol Melt]

There a lot of Pokémon evolution methods that need to be fixed.

One of them is Wurmple. They could fix it so that Wurmple evolves into Silcoon during the morning/day and into Cascoon during the night. This makes perfect sense too since butterflies seem to be dormant during the night while moths seem to be active at night.

Another one is Azurill evolving via high friendship into Marill, while Marill evolves into Azumarill at level 18. Fix it so that Azurill is the one that evolves into Marill at level 18 and then into Azumarill with high friendship.

Next, a lot of the Pokémon introduced in Unova evolve at absurdly high levels. I mean you get Hydreigon at level 64? Are you crazy Game Freak!? Braviary and Mandibuzz along with Volcarona are big offenders of evolving at very late levels. Also Mienfoo into Mienshao at level 50? Yikes! I mean Hydreigon I can kind of understand since its a pseudo legendary. I'm thinking they could lower the levels some of these Pokémon evolve.

One of the ones I hate the most is Pokémon that evolve via trade while holding a certain item. I mean I guess I can understand it kind of but why not introduce an alternate method where after reaching a certain level while holding that item the Pokémon could evolve instantly. I guess the trading method could be for those who don't want to wait so long.

Evolution methods for Pokémon like Mantyke and Pancham where they require a certain Pokémon in the party don't really bother me I like them and especially the one for Pancham. Inkay into Malamar is also really cool to me and it shows the results of flipping your 3DS upside-down with Malamar's appearance. Sylveon's is okay I guess not all that really but I guess they are kind of smart in making you use Pokémon-Amie to get it. If Pokémon-Amie (or something similar to it) were never to return I could see Eevee evolving into Sylveon if you level it up with high friendship while knowing a Fairy-type move. Sliggoo into Goodra isn't that bad either if they just introduced a place where it rained all the time (like in ORAS) and allowed you to use Rain Dance to activate the evolution.

The methods of getting a Leafeon and Glaceon as well as Magnezone and Probopass are really not that bad. I mean I'm pretty sure Pokémon games will always have some kind of forested area so finding a place to put a Moss Rock is no biggie. The same with an Icy Rock, I think that there will always be some kind of icy/snowy place that will be introduced within the new games. If they ever decided to do away with the Moss and Icy Rocks though then maybe they could fix it so that Eevee evolves into Leafeon if its levelled up while holding a Luminous Moss and into Glaceon if it levelled up while holding a Snowball. Magneton into Magnezone and Nosepass into Probopass if areas for them were to not be implemented they could fix it so that they evolve via level up while holding a Magnet.

 

[SirOni]

(For example, have Onix hold a Metal Coat and do 30-50 Battles while holding that to evolve into Steelix.)

Way too many

Lumiose City sells Water, Leaf, and Fire Stones. but yeah, otherwise i don't understand why the evolution stones are so restricted.

Sorry, completely forgot about that. But this still stands for the Lightning/Thunder Stone, though...

Gamefreak would like us to forget that Pikachu has an evolution.

 

[henrymidfields]

Sorry, completely forgot about that. But this still stands for the Lightning/Thunder Stone, though...

Gamefreak would like us to forget that Pikachu has an evolution.

That does not explain the case for Jolteon or especially that and Elektross in Gen 5. (Remember Pikachu can't be found in the wild at all for either BW1 and 2?)

 

[GhostFingers]

Also, Tyrogue is a chief offender. How the hell does one reasonably get a Hitmontop?!

Hitmontop is easy. First: raise Tyrogue to lv. 19. THEN make its Attack & Defence equal using Protein or Iron (depending on the stat that needs a buff). THEN Save the game before raising him up to lv. 20. If his attack or defence overtakes the other stat you can SR beck to where you were just prior to evolution, and fix what will go wrong. It just takes a bit of planning. ....Yeah, you're right that is a bit much.

I'm surprised no one mentioned ones like Pancham and Mantyke. You actually need another Pokemon on-hand in order to evolve them (Dark-type for the former and Remoraid for the latter), so that makes it rather tricky, especially if you're not sure how/when you can get the "requirements" for them.

I actually find Inkay's evolution method to be rather fitting for its quirky nature. I mean, it isn't that difficult to execute, so it's not really that big of a burden to do.

I don't really mind too much about Glaceon and Leafeon, as Eevee is known to evolve to better suit its environment, but it would be much simpler if they decided on an idea like the weather rocks or usage of other stones, especially in Glaceon's case, as the Ice Rock is usually very late in the game.

Most trade-based evolutions annoy me, as you either need a friend or have two games + consoles to evolve them. Those types of evolutions really bother me. While, yes, trading is all part of the games, it still rather irksome if you don't have access to another player/console.

As for Pancham - that's not really too hard is it? Find a dark-type. ANY dark type. They haven't been rare since Gen II.

Come on, GF. Give us an alternate method other than trading. Keep trade evos, sure, as long as there's some other way, for all of us out there who are 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[Aggron989]

Hitmontop is easy. First: raise Tyrogue to lv. 19. THEN make its Attack & Defence equal using Protein or Iron (depending on the stat that needs a buff). THEN Save the game before raising him up to lv. 20. If his attack or defence overtakes the other stat you can SR beck to where you were just prior to evolution, and fix what will go wrong. It just takes a bit of planning. ....Yeah, you're right that is a bit much.

What I did with my Hitmontop was I turned on the Exp Share and I just went out and battled wild Hypno near Lilycove City until Tyrogue evolved, because I'd bred for the perfect Attack and Defense and its nature didn't boost either of those so I just had to keep it from getting anything but Sp. Def EVs. But that also takes way too much planning to be reasonable in my opinion.

 

[Muur]

So I learned Pancham evolves with a dark type, neat.

whereas using a location means having to switch out a number of times if the Eevee in question isn't levelled up enough to take on the other mon in that area. (Of course Gen VI Exp share fixes that problem, but what about the gens prior to that?)

Rare Candy...

 

[xXMelanie_HimeXx]

Shelmet and Karrablast. To evolve Shelmet, you must trade it with a Karrablast, and vice versa with Karrablast. Kinda annoying >_>

Eevee's evolution into Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon can be really annoying. The method of evolving Mantyke. (You must level it up with a remoraid in your party.)

And Pancham, which requires that you level up at 32 or higher with another Dark-type in your team, and Sliggoo which evolves at level 50 but only in the rain. I personally find most of these methods to be cool but kind of silly

 

[Amante do Mikuri]

Eevee into Sylveon is not ridiculous, is annoying.

Inkay into Malamar is indeed funny.

Feebas into Milotic eating Pokéblocks in Gen III is annoying too!! :banghead:

 

[Zeb]

Personally I like the varied and more unique evolutions. Ones like Pancham, Inkay, Karrablast and Shelmet are cool because they flesh out the world and its interactions more, rather than having another bunch of standard level evolutions where the Pokemon don't feel like they have to (or do) coexist with others. Pancham is essentially a behavioural evolution - a mischievous little panda that hangs around in the wrong crowd (Dark types) and adopts their traits, which is cool imo. Karrablast and Shelmet are a predator-prey scenario of evolution too. And I'd be totally fine with them adding more unique ones too.

Inkay is cool but more for thematic reasons. As far as mechanics go it's probably a little much just because if it hadn't been leaked months prior then I think come release people would have been stuck a fair while trying to figure out how it evolves. (Then again maybe the same could be said for Shelmet, Karrablast and Pancham.)

Tyrogue is probably my only complaint as far as evolution methods go just because you have to be very aware of nature and stats and their effects if you want to evolve it into the right one, and when I was a kid I had no idea how it worked and it frustrated me a lot when I kept getting Hitmonchan instead of Top/Lee. Even though I understand how to do it now I still find it a little bothersome.

 

[PiccoloX]

At some point Unown will get an evolution that requires you to have collected every form, spell out "EVOLVE" in your party, kick a wild Arceus in the gnads, spin around 3 times with an "O" shape Unown named "Vader" and blow up the Death Star.


[Unown has evolved into... Dafuk?]

 

[Elmillia]

So here's my list of Pokémon that have, in my opinion, ridiculous ways of evolving:

Eevee into Leafeon/Glaceon, Nosepass into Probopass, Magneton into Magnezone, etc. etc. - Location-based evolutions require that they come up with a new location for each region.
Eevee into Sylveon - Pokémon-Amie, as well as learning a Fairy-type move? Seriously? A Moon Stone would make a lot more sense here.

Thoughts?

I disagree with you on these two points. I think Sylveon's method makes sense as it is trying to encourage you to use the cool new feature. Learning a fairy move (such as baby doll eyes at level 9) ensures no accidental evolution.

Location based evolutions also make sense. evolution in the real world is affected by environmental conditions. I think Glaceon's evolution is one of my favorite types.

 

[Arceus the Dragon]

Wurmple's random evolution. It made it hard to get the other shiny cocoon pokemon because of the method. I wish that it evolves into Silcoon by morning and Cascoon at night. I had to dexnav chain (I know it doesn't increase chance of shiny pokemon) for a shiny Silcoon because I couldn't get a shiny wurmple to evolve into it.

 

[LeighKetchum]

Like everyone is saying on this thread, Inkay's evolution is yet ridiculous but funny!

 

[Arceus the Dragon]

Inkay's evolution is also ridiculous. What kind of evolution requires us to turn our 3DS upside down?

 

[Four/Tris]

Does Shedinja count as an evolution? It's a little annoying for me to have to have an extra space and (to a lesser extent) extra basic Pokeball in the party after evolving a Nincada in order to get a Shedinja. A bit too specific of an evolution method for me.

 

[Jersey Jimmy]

It's not exactly "ridiculous," but trade evolution needs to die. I know it stems from the whole link-cable thing and it's always been around, but there are some areas where literally nobody plays Pokemon. Trading online to evolve your Pokemon isn't too trusty, to boot.

 

[Shadowlarvitar]

Sylveon's tales the cake, it is a waste of time. Can't wait for it to change later like Feebas did.
Feebas used to be the most ridiculous

 

[SquadalaGuy]

Here's an idea: A Pokemon that evolves after level 20....BUT:

- You need to have at least one specific type of Pokemon in the party

-The Pokemon can only evolve at night if it's male

- The Pokemon can only evolve at day if it's female

- The Pokemon must hold a specific item

- You will need to close the 3DS and put it on Sleep Mode after leveling up

- Get 100 steps on the 3DS pedometer

- Open the 3DS, put it on Sleep Mode AGAIN, then open it again one last time

- Hold it upside down before transitioning to the evolution screen

- Hold L and R as well

- Keep it like that until you see the evolution screen.

Game Freak must be stupid enough to invent a Pokemon who can evolve in such a way.

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

Most standard trade evolutions seems a tad random to ME.
I'm not entirely sure why certain Pokemon need to be traded to evolve. What is the significance of being traded? Does the Pokemon just hate its old trainer so much that it refuses to evolve for him/her?

Item trade evolutions are slightly less confusing, but my main question with those is, again, what is the significance of trading? Why can't I just use my Upgrade on my Porygon like a standard evolutionary stone?

Lastly on this list of trade evolutions, Shelmet and Karrablast. Not only a trade evolution, but a trade evolution with a specific other Pokemon. I get it. Shelmet gives its helmet to Karrablast and they both evolve, but couldn't it be something similar to Mantyke or Pancham? Granted, that's not the best method of evolution either, but it makes more sense.