5 Pokemon That USED to Be Hard to Evolve

[@gavinaaric]

The worst one in my opinion is trade evos especially for people without friends

[@Un_Italiano_Qualunque]

At least Legends Arceus fixed that issue

[@rikmetz4720]

Same, especially if you also don't use switch online. Trade pokemon is the only thing I would need switch online for, luckily I have pokemon home so I can still trade on gts, but trade evolve with items is impossible there.

[@aidanmctiernan7439]

That's why I never got gengar alakazam or golem in pokemon yellow growing up lol

[@gavinaaric]

@@aidanmctiernan7439 same

[@ekonic9189]

the fact that i still can't get a gengar without social interaction is criminal

[@charleskent2566]

To those who don't know, in oras feebas has a 100% encounter rate under the bridge by the weather institute

[@GhostintheMachine25]

You said it before me. This also still exists in ORAS

[@exaltedfalcheon1793]

They acknowledged their mistake. Good

[@ivanbluecool]

Wish they'd just give us a trade item to evolve trade mons directly in base games. The haunter trade will always be the biggest slap in the face ever compared to the trade Machamp Or just give us a direct evolution for them

[@KootenaiKing]

Lol I forget which game it us, but somebody trades us a Haunter, but it's holding everstone

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

Gotta get them to buy that online subscription somehow.

[@TheShadow1347]

They did give us a trade item to evolve trade mons, but it's only in Legends Arceus 😅

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

@@TheShadow1347 Yeah, spinoff games tend to do that. Mystery dungeon games do the same thing.

[@jean-pierrebenzenique]

@@illdoittomorrow2368Legends Arceus is a mainline game, not spin offs

[@connorwood9211]

Here's hoping they bring back the evolution mechanics for Trades from Legends Arceus

[@JM-fr5ge]

That would be great but Nintendo can’t sell those online subscriptions if u can just evolve them without trading

[@bacd-nn2lg]

This game fixed those annoying trade evolutions.

[@macwelch8599]

I am happy for Vikavolt fans for getting the opportunity to use a Thunder Stone instead of the usual evolution method. That looked extremely difficult

[@TKnHappyNess]

It was worse in Sun and Moon compared to the Ultras where you could also evolve at Blush Mountain

[@macwelch8599]

@@TKnHappyNess yeah, I can’t imagine trying to evolve my Vikavolt in the Alola games

[@rockowlgamer631]

I'd rather deal with evolving Feebass with contest Beauty than deal with another stupid trade evolution.

[@axels3188]

I think that Milotic was the hardest Pokemon to evolve back in the old games.

[@Kali_Krause]

Yeah, Feebas was a pain to capture and evolve

[@TheElectricSheep]

It was- i did it and it sucked

[@zinc2zinc2]

i used Milotic for every playthrough i did of gen3. Honestly....id rather do all that, then have an impossible trade evolution blocking a whole pokemon line completely.

[@TheElectricSheep]

@@zinc2zinc2 i just bought both versions of the game and had 2 systems so i could trade with myself. You are dedicated

[@zinc2zinc2]

@@TheElectricSheep as a kid i didnt have the option of buying 2 systems and 2 games..i was just desperate. and Milotic is one of my favorite pokemon. it was either doing all of the fishing tiles things, contest, beauty, feeding poke blocks...or nothing.

[@nintendolife25]

I really applaud anyone who manages to get a Hitmontop honestly.

[@spricko28]

its actually not that hard in later games.. you just breed right parents.. if you have high IV ditto from ultra sun then itry kinda easy to get egg with rights stats and then just kill pokemons that give hp or speed(pidgey) and done

[@cgyh68748]

use Iron or the other one

[@RockLucena]

One time, in pokemon shield, I just bred a bunch of Tyrogs, and leveled them up until one of them eventualy turned into Hitmontop. 😂

[@deathblowringo4168]

Tyrogue is not that hard to evolve, in Generation 6 ownards, a parent Holding Destiny Knot, will make any Egg belonging to the Pokémon that are found will inherit 5 of their individual values from both their parents, rather than 3. This means only 1 IV will be random. Use a 5-6 IV Ditto holding a Destiny Knot and Hitmonlee / Hitmonchan / Hitmontop to breed it until you see a Tyrogue egg with both perfect Attack and Defense IVs (31 to be exact), don't let Tyrogue get any EVs in Attack and Defense until it reaches Level 20 or higher. It has to be a not in a Minus or Plus Defense or Attack Nature, Jolly can be an example to make it evolve to Hitmontop.

[@SoulKingBrasil]

​@@deathblowringo4168u say "not that hard" then procedess to give a long strategy that requires a lot of knowledge and requires trial and error 😂😂😂😂

[@deathblowringo4168]

@@SoulKingBrasil I know Tyrogue is the "No eggs discovered" Egg Group, that's shared with all baby pokemon, it's like you have to evolve an baby pokemon so it can be compatible since it's on a egg group now.

[@frankiecandelaria2694]

Thank Arceus that in PLA they introduced the Linking Cord to actually evolve trade evolutions without trading.

[@jeffreybyrd2081]

They would fix the problem if they simply do what they did in Legends Arceus

[@ScatteredCollector]

1:26 Only child here. Trade evolutions were horrible for me. I had a friend who sort of helped me but that as only in Gen 3. For Gens 1-2, I was absolutely out of luck. I had Machoke and Haunter and Kadabra and Graveler and just accepted it. I knew the evos existed, I just could never get them until Sw/Sh

[@LisaAnnOberbrunner]

Trade evolutions and version exclusives are the reasons why I've always had 2 systems and bought both games. No need to find anyone to trade with, no worrying about someone trading your pokemon back to you, etc..

[@themister.s-1st]

It’s a cold hustle honestly, look at how things are today. Can you imagine any other franchise making people buy the same game but with few changes? Unheard off!

[@TheShadow1347]

That's very big brain

[@CosmicCorviknight]

Post Gen 2 I don't think I ever bothered trying to evolve Hitmontop as I snagged a Shadow Hitmontop in Coliseum which I've traded up through the generations - it's too much work to evolve one. There were also those random item evolutions to evolve Espeon and Umbreon at the start of XD Gale of Darkness which were very helpful but have never returned since

[@thatmlguy9889]

Also one thing you didn't mention about Umbreon and Espeon in gen 3 is that in RSE you can't get Eevee at all, so you'll need to trade it from FRLG and then grind friendship and evolve it

[@ASoulphoenix]

Location based evos were the bane of my existance: Icy rock is unreachable before the 7th gym in Sinnoh, you need a specific season to access the icy rock (BW) or both rocks locked until postgame in B2W2; and you have to get into the league to get snow weather/electric field in Sun/Moon. Now you only need thunder/ice/leaf stone to evolve Eevee/Charjabug/Magneton/Crabrawler

[@michaelgunnels9694]

Espeon especially if you want confusion or psybeam early before you face morty and in my most recent playthrough of crystal it took me to level 40 and the elite four to finally get one thankfully there are berries to help with it

[@roahir]

I do have a Gen 3 Milotic, before the battery ran dry.

[@thousandyeargems4360]

Playing Silver last month.. My eevvee didnt evolve until umbreon until level 46. Never fainted, and went to raise happiness at goldenrod. Painful

[@bacd-nn2lg]

I remember back in a day that putting Eevee as the first pokemon in a party help a lot to grind out this evolution, and it finally evolved at level 24.

[@veghesther3204]

About that the last time I played Gold/SIlver by the time I had it become the Dark or Psychic type its was pretty much AFTER you have access to Red/Mt Silver and his Way OVER LEVELED pokemon ie the last battle of the game.

[@JVreemer]

I remember finding Deino in my first black playthrough and spending a full night grinding it out. Just kept leveling up in victory road till it evolved. Never recaptured that feeling but that's a good thing too.

[@ihaveanopinion888]

I don’t mind trade evos, what I do mind is hackers spamming the trading spaces with their shiny legendaries when I’m just trying to evolve a freaking Machoke to complete my dex.

[@faraheumann4046]

I had a milotic in emerald back in the day. It took hours and hours. I fished at each title 6 or so times before I moved on to the next one. I found out also that if you didn’t have certain berries that maxed the beauty stat faster, you needed to have a nature where your feebas liked dry poke blocks, and/or you had to be really good at making them. My first feebas didn’t work out. Good thing the tile was seared into my memory

[@anonlonewolf7874]

ive always hated friendship evos.

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

When I got my first feebas I got ultra mega lucky and found one without even trying and while I didn’t evolve it until gen 4 I got all the beauty ribbons while it was still a feebas and would’ve gotten all the sinnoh ribbons if my brother didn’t accidentally trade it away after mishearing me

[@Scuba4Steve]

I used to make feebas eggs to trade for good stuff back in the day. Having a brother and friends that played Pokémon, I could usually get my trade evos pretty easy.

[@roxannwinslow6730]

I misunderstood how the prism scale worked after I played Detective Pikachu in which the only on screen evolution was a wild Feebas into Milotic after it saved a boy who had a prism scale on his bandana it's was friends with from a Crawdant.

[@deathblowringo4168]

In Generation 2, it's quite hard to raise friendship in that generation from the few methods to raise it. Vitamins are quite expensive and give out some friendship when used on a pokemon. From generations 2 to 7 some Pokémon will evolve from friendship when they have at least 220+ friendship, in Generation 8 ownards just 160+ friendship is needed making it easier to evolve those pokemon. Any pokemon hatched from an egg will start with 120 friendship, just only having to get 100 more friendship points for it to evolve (in Gens 2 to 7) or 40 more friendship points in gen 8 ownards. The Soothe bell and Luxury Ball were introducced in Generation 3, making friendship evolutions a little easier. The friendship increasing berries were introduced in Emerald, you can even harvest lots of them (In Emerald, Generation 4, 6, 7 and Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl) to make friendship evolutions even more easier.

[@veghesther3204]

Feebas to Milotic but ONLY IN the first game in WHICH it shows up ie the Beauty Contests are still NOT worth doing and Feebas ITSELF is already HARD enough to capture In the first game in which is shows up at.

[@derekvega1270]

This video is dedicated to all of us that were absolutely tormented by feebas/milotic as a child

[@msutter117]

Now you can find hitmontop in the Scarlett and Violet dlc in the overworld. In a way that specific mon is extremely easy find in the wild vs evolution.

[@alexanderrobertson9297]

I lucked out big time with evolving hitmontop. I hade no idea how it evolved so I just levelled up my tyroge until it evolved at level 30. I just assumed hitmonlee from level 20-29 and then hitmontop at 30. then got stuck on hitmonchain and then worked out how hard it actually was to get hitmontop.Only took a couple of hours if I remember we were on a long car trip so I had nothing better to do.

[@DeathcakesXZ]

I have to comment that i was that kid who got Espeon, and Dragonite in my play through of gold multiple times because i learned that grind made beating lance breeze, game corner drainti anybody. I also taught it ice punch to deck lance's dragonites . And Milotic i become obsessed with Pokémon to the point where every play through of gen three i did search it out and save the blue poke block and even optimized its nature to get the perfect water tank. I know i was a weird kid with too much time on my hands lol loved the vid brought back great memories.

[@PlayStationGMR]

Magicarp said I’m sorry for being useless. Feebas said you are not useless because I’m useless. Magicarp and Feebas say I guess we’re both useless. Trainer said I love useless Pokémon!

[@slider229]

The trade ones were the worst for me. My brother and I each had a copy of Red/Blue and Gold/Silver but that was where we stopped being synced. I did manage to get a Feebas and Milotic! Basically JUST as I was about to give up searching I found one of the tiles and made sure to catch like, 5. Hitmontop was fairly easy for me but that was just because I bought the stat adjusting items as needed once I stopped caring about the money aspect.

[@BelovedAngel18]

Yes you right trading evolution is easy today. Unless the trade evolution is a shiny and the random player you met online wanting to help evolve it will more likely to steal it plus paying $20 or more for Nintendo online😮‍💨

[@animefan8591]

And item trading further as can't request it to have the item I swear the times id give scyther metal coat and request a scyther or along those lines

[@BelovedAngel18]

@@animefan8591 Yes That too! I am still upset they remove the messages that we can do in online X&Y and OR&AS from future pokemon games it was so helpful!😭

[@shadowdragonlord2295]

The clone glitch helped out a lot for the Hitmon evos. Just check out Tyrouge stats, give it the vitamin needed to boost the stat you want, clone it and bam! You got all three Hitmons!

[@RoyDavis-e2t]

Milotic was always my favorite to get and evolve. It’s a bit harder to evolve now without trading unless you are raising its beauty in BDSP and then sending it to another game.

[@typemasters2871]

Tyrogue evolution method should have been “which of these three stats determines the evolution” Defence for Hitmonchan Attack for Hitmonlee Speed for Hitmontop

[@bacd-nn2lg]

I would put trade evolutions above all else, since is can be impossible to evolve certain pokemon if you don't have friends, or the online service for nintendo console generation was closed.

[@youngtoneski7868]

glad pokeMMO is playable when i wanna play the good games

[@nemo_8689]

yes - I did the milotic grind in my first emerald playthrough... safe to say I called it at the start of the video when you said you'd save the worst for last.

[@joltx9909]

Unova has amazing mons, but some of them require too much work. pokemon such as braviary, mandibuzz, even bisharp - to train something like rowlet or vullaby until level 50 is insane

[@porg-fv8vi]

Trade evos that require a certain item. Like kings rock for slowbro and poliwhirl

[@shawngallagher8764]

I tried soldering my Ruby cartridge and when I go to start a new file and/or save I still get the message about timed events not working 🙃

[@liamgran506]

Nah back then you wouldnt even know they had to be traded to be evolved, you'd prob evolve them to lvl 100 and be severely disapointed

[@AznYunHou]

Me realizing my male Feebas did not have enough beauty stats due to bad Pokeblocks and it cannot evolve and now I need to get a new Feebas cause it's Ruby and cannot get Ditto

[@corbinesterak7837]

Fully agree with the trade evo. Loved the link cable item in arcues

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

I definitely got Milotic in my copy of Ruby. Such a pain in the butt but it was worth it. I think i still have it on home

[@JoshuaDDales]

The one good thing with the odd egg is that non-shiny Tyrouge had 0 in each iv.

[@ABSYTC]

Don’t forget feebass had to have the right nature too, hopefully you didn’t take the time to max out its beauty only to figure you had to have a feebass with the right nature.

[@pokenerd8175]

Omg i did miraculously find a Feebas back in Ruby having no clue about those 6 tiles. Asked my friends how to evolve it. Gave it every beauty berry and pokeblock possible, it got to a point i couldn’t feed it anymore AND THIS MF REFUSED TO EVOLVE!!! I got it to like lvl 50-something and just gave up. Never found another one.

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the awesome work and videos love the video

[@kylebrandon4556]

In my original rse games I had every pokemon but feebas and milotic. I spent hours looking for that darn fish. And never got it

[@sarahgomez1976]

Eevee n Milotic were my hardest to evolve back in my day.

[@jermainedouglas7301]

I still have my li k cable. How much are they worth nowadays

[@tyrant-den884]

honestly, raising Milotic's beauty is easier for me than trading.

[@armorbearer9702]

You do not need to apologize for putting trade evolutions on the list. It was difficult to find someone to trade with. I wish they gave the player one freebie trade in game.

[@emilyhopemeechem4183]

Finizen should have a new evolution method where you can get a special item instead of multiplayer mode in a new generation Also in next generation, Meltan should evolve in the core series by getting at least 2000 steps in the over world by letting it walk outside the poke ball (that would be the only way Meltan evolves outside of Pokémon Go) Like starting in Generation 5 (except for BDSP) evolves by trade holding a prism scale instead of max beauty

[@neicosilkwood4978]

I always thought you had to win all the beauty contests with feebas and level up in the originals

[@tyrant-den884]

nah, I AM counting ALL friendship evolutions in gen 2. Got my Umbreon and Crobat around Cerulean City last time I played.

[@souleblade32790]

I once managed to get an Espeon in Sword after Eevee reached level 10.

[@GoldenWind30]

The link cable item in Legends Arceus should be available for all future games.

[@nicholasgabriel9231]

Tbt when doubles battels were literally 2v2 I had gba link cables running all over the place 😂😂😂

[@onetallpheeesh]

Link Cable item from PLA needs to be mainstay.

[@TKnHappyNess]

Porygon is a real annoying one because to get Porygon-Z, you have to item trade twice

[@dionmcintosh9554]

Inkay gets an honorable mention.

[@LRussell1994]

lol I remember wanting umbreon and my eevee didn’t evolve until after i beat lance I was so hot lol

[@Spenerico]

I still remember as a kid first evolving Eevee into Espeon on Gold sat in the back of the car (While not as difficult as the reasons mentioned here, still felt difficult the time 😂)

[@Midasrex229]

S/o to Scott Steiner math making a cameo 😂😂

[@TheElectricSheep]

Feebas is definitely the first to come to my mind

[@mprp2348]

I thought golem was a legendary as a kid because I couldn't find a way to get him. Can we please get some more rom hack best team please

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Trade only with friends or family only, note you may loose said pokemon due to a greedy player so use caution Note: ive lost some of my precious pokemon doing random trading with traners, now i hv trust issues

[@bluemaru2437]

Did you know guy's that besdi

[@Kali_Krause]

Feebas new method of evolution is a lot better than the Generation 3 games

[@theduskullsociety8095]

I miss the gen 4 Eeveelutions

[@otakueve117]

I was never able to get Milotic, slurpuff and other cute trade pokemon because of the stupid trade evolutions. I DONT HAVE FRIENDS I CAN TRADE WITH GAMEFREAK AND THE STUPID INTERNET NEVER WORKED

[@Sicnesses23]

F yall I still have never had Gengar or Alakazam on any of my teams 😅

[@shadowdragonlord2295]

I'm going to beg SmithPlays to make Feebas easier to catch and evolve for Emerald Legacy.

[@sunofabob]

Is your voice AI?

[@jonahflores1147]

I can hitmontop all day long now on SWSH but bsck in the day.... no chance.

[@thedarthbear]

Tradevolutions are still legit annoying and belong on the list! Just give us the link cable item from PLA in the main series already GF! That said, was always worth it for Alakazam or Gengar! ^^

[@Cyberelf85]

I liked the video... I was Like 666 😂

[@Gurugsv713]

He is so under eated

[@your_god_lucifer2386]

Straight off the fking bat being horribly wrong eh? Idk what copium youve been huffing but trade evos are still just as annoying as back in the day

[@Frostsuu]

already finished watching