Top 10 HARDEST Pokémon to Evolve in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

[@hiromitailor8075]

That Haunter with an Everstone trade feels like the biggest slap to the face from Nintendo.

[@boze7180]

I never played the original diamond or pearl when they came out, and I got baited by that trade. I was so mad

[@RAC00NFANGIRL]

As I kid I didn’t know gengar was trade evolution I thought level haunter enough that I would get gengar! I wasn’t very smart as kid.

[@oDogg0206]

@@RAC00NFANGIRL I kinda did too

[@RAC00NFANGIRL]

@@oDogg0206 I’m glad I’m not only one! I feel like idiot when I was kid! Gengar and haunter were my favorite Pokémon

[@Nephalem2002]

It should have been taken off in the remakes.

[@PansyPops]

I feel like all the level up evolutions (or at least most) became a lot easier in this game, especially in post game. You can literally find level 60 Pokémon in the underground, so the previously hardest to evolve (Salamance, Dragonite, Garchomp) became much easier.

[@EeveelutionLover22]

Not to mention you can easily over level in the underground even before the post game im at the team galactic building and after catching 6 or so pokemon in the underground my team is in the high 40s to early 50s

[@aligaming6778]

@@EeveelutionLover22 same I just caught dialga and my team is very over leveled

[@gaminggod8861]

lets just hope their is an easy way to level up evolutions in the unova remakes. we all know that unova has the worst level up evos in terms of levels.

[@kareemgabareenmokhtar3717]

Yup Hydreigon was one of the most annoying Pokémon to evolve and if it was in bdsps underground it would be too easy

[@ravindupadmanath2802]

the only problem is that most of these pokemon are often past it's evolution levels. meaning they wouldn't have access to their best moves. so you would have to go out and find a heart scale to relearn them. a good example was during the post game I wanted to get myself a gallade so I was looking for either a male kirlia or ralts. but because most of them were lvl 55 and beyond I had to spend 15 MINUTES theifing heart scales from luv discs to reteach it psyhco cut...... it was a nightmare

[@DungForever]

Feeding Feebas poffins isn't nearly as annoying as finding it. The stats are color coordinated and it's very easy to figure out blue berries increase beauty.

[@JCE-yo1er]

This. It's not that hard at all. You can make finding Feebas incredibly easy using the tile-finding tool online as well. It involves entering your daily lotto number (from the Jubilife TV building receptionist) into the online tool, which then tells you the exact 4 tiles that can be fished for Feebas. It cuts out all the guesswork. Maxing the beauty stat also requires specific levels of poffins too, not just any old dry poffin. Again, this isn't hard with a quick read online.

[@benjamincuevas9627]

I just got it in a random trade. Then I just saw a walkthrough of how to make high level puffins. Apparently the method of spinning can affect the levels.

[@malvavarela4343]

Actually the best combination for high level dry poffins is a chesto and a razz berry and razz berries are orange

[@JCE-yo1er]

@@benjamincuevas9627 x1 Chesto and x1 Razz - don't spill or burn and you'll have level 18 dry poffins every time. You need around 10-12 of these.

[@benjamincuevas9627]

@@JCE-yo1er yeah that's about right. It's been awhile since I done it and I'm not doing it again.

[@slimeplayz164]

Honorable mention: every mon that's pretty evolution is in the base game but its final evo is locked to the post-game looking at you gliscor

[@elementertainmentstudios]

And dusknoir

[@SkyTom64]

I really wanted to use Rhyperior, but the Protector is locked to postgame and that made me really sad

[@yorecf9641]

They didn’t even give us an Eviolite to compensate either.

[@ljnkrabby]

@@SkyTom64 If you really want to use one, man up and use Rhydon for the main game. That’ll make getting Rhyperior all the more rewarding.

[@shadycactus7896]

@@yorecf9641I got one from a Geodude

[@cassandraspoelhof3752]

The hardest friendship based evolution to obtain is definitely Buneary into Loounny. It literally hates you when you first catch it and won’t warm up to you for quite a while.

[@skidMark_69]

Use soothe bell, feed it poffins, battle with it. Might take two days

[@davyt0247]

@@skidMark_69 soothe bell doesn't help when it has Klutz

[@foxycraft1234]

@@davyt0247 no lmao quick google search shows that bulbapedia says it doesnt affect soothe bell

[@cassandraspoelhof3752]

@@skidMark_69 Will using it in Contests also increase it’s friendship like the way ORAS Contests raised a Pokémon’s affection?

[@davyt0247]

@@foxycraft1234 they must have changed it then, it didn't before

[@silversalamence10]

I feel like Number 10 should've specifically highlighted Buneary as it's harder to evolve than the other friendship-based evolutions given it starts at 0 upon capture, whereas the rest (bar the gift Riolu and Happiny) start at 70.

[@Coy.Rug22]

I’ve had better luck evolving riolu

[@ButterflyBlitz]

Well, it does help that you can get one super early on. I've never had too much trouble keeping in mind that I shouldn't let it faint if possible and such when I've used one. I've raised quite a few as it's one of my favorite early route normal types and hi jump kick is so fun. Heh.

[@TheAuron32]

oh shit really?! i did not know that, no wonder i lost my mind!!

[@RockmanZeroModernDay]

@@TheAuron32 I didn't lost my sanity while evolving Buneary in Pokemon Black 2.

[@archerestarcher]

Why does it specifically start at a different value?

[@Joe-cp5ud]

That Haunter with the everstone is going to haunt people for a long time

[@RedDragonForce2]

You say that like those to played the original Gen 4 games aren’t haunted to this day already!

[@yorecf9641]

Screw Mindy.

[@RedDragonForce2]

@@yorecf9641 I captured a Medicham for this trade and nicknamed it “Troll” because that’s exactly what she is!

[@srmlkj]

she said a HAUNTER, and you received it, what's the deal?

[@yorecf9641]

@@RedDragonForce2 a much nicer term than what I would use.

[@showerpwner]

To avoid the trade stealing problem, look for someone looking to do a similar trade. Example, had a guy wanting to evolve Kadabra and I wanted to evolve my machoke. Even if he steals it, I have an alakazam.

[@yorecf9641]

5,000 IQ move.

[@ultimatefirecracker1486]

There’s always a trustworthy person in a discord server that will help you out I always ask moderators to trade with me

[@jermainespeid4934]

Well you have a power alakazam

[@burn5500]

Unless they put an Everstone on that Kadabra, Mindy style. Now you don’t have a Machamp or Alakazam.

[@nintendogamingchannel7937]

@@burn5500 kadabra bypasses Everstone

[@Gzilla313]

Friendship-based evolution can bugger all the way off. It's not hard, but having to grow the berries/use one massage per day is so time consuming. Just let me go back to the old mechanics where I could raise happiness by running in a circle for an hour lol

[@ParasaurolophusZ]

I'm surprised Gliscor isn't named here. Held item that's only found postgame on top of time-of-day-based.

[@TheOriginalMinx23]

Yeah I was also thinking that. But hey, leveling a gabite to level 48 is clearly harder.

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

For me, the inclusion that was left off this list that surprised me the most was the evolutions that require a dawn stone. It's honestly kinda baffling that it was omitted from this list given that both the requirements needed for this (those being needing a certain gender as well as a hard to obtain stone) were both included separately, so the dawn stone, in my opinion, should also have been mentioned

[@Mrpovea]

Getting a Milotic in this game is as horrible as in normal 3rd or 4th gen games, but you will actually sweep the entire elite four and cynthia's entire team except for her milotic with your milotic. Yes, even that garchomp with it's anti-ice berry (well, due to that thing it will take you 2 turns, but milotic should be able to withstand a dragon rush)

[@malvavarela4343]

I taught my milotic dragon pulse so to not deal with the berry and it worked perfectly as a OH-KO, that pokemon is a beast, a hassle to get but it's totally worth it. I even got 4 pokemon on this list on my team. Two shiny stone pokemon in roserade and togekiss, a heart scale in mamoswine, and a milotic. This is my personal revenge on not being able to figure out how to evolve these pokemon or obtain them back in the gen 4 games.

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@Dariel povea rojas: I think the term you're looking for is something to the effect of "withstand" or "endure" rather than "resist". The reason I say this is because a Pokemon resisting a certain move implies that it takes half damage (or one quarter damage for certain dual typed Pokemon) because of it's type; the problem here is that the only type that resists dragon is steel (fairy doesn't count, btw, since that would be an immunity, which is *technically* different from a resistance), which is a type that Milotic is not

[@awesometoadultimate8562]

I'd also add evolving Murkrow and Misdreavus. You can get them before the second gym, but without Pickup, you can't get the Dusk Stone until after the sixth gym, which requires you to backtrack to Wayward Cave. However, you can wait a bait later until the Galactic Warehouse when you can easily find a Dusk Stone. Fortunately, Murkrow and Misdreavus (at least Misdreavus can since it's a bit bulkier than Murkrow and I actually used it myself) can hold their own until then. There's also Sneasel in that you can't evolve it until Victory Road since the Razor Claw is there and you have to evolve it at night.

[@dereksnelling3005]

I don't remember which games it was, maybe black and white, but it had a call mechanic in the game where you could just ask the local professor how a Pokemon evolved. They should bring that back in game so we don't have to look it all up on Serebii.

[@ethnictendo]

It was Black 2 and White 2, but yes.

[@rad_dish_]

When you have both a Roselia and Togetic on your team, getting a second shiny stone in main story was a nightmare- had to rely on luck and have a team of pokemon with pickup. but my luck sucks and so to get 1 shiny stone, i had to get like 5-6 dusk stones-

[@yorecf9641]

I feel your pain. I had both of them for my second run and I got the Iron Island Shiny Stone before a pickup one. Took me an extra hour of running around and KOing level 2 Bidoofs before I got a second one. Had three Dawn Stones that I didn’t need, though.

[@judithd7560]

Literally only got dawn stones for hours 🙃

[@22Arcana]

Just a tip, but higher lvl pokemon with pickup have higher chances for a stone. Lvl 1-10 = 1% Lvl 11-20 = 2% Etc until 91-100 for 10%

[@yorecf9641]

@@22Arcana I'm well aware. Still, my Pachirisu was in its 40's by the time it gave me a second Shiny Stone but it had no issues with getting me three Dawn Stones before then.

[@prestongreene2663]

Grand underground, idk if I'm lucky or what but I have 20+ most of the evolution stones at the moment.

[@badger8472]

You forget about Gliscor, it needs razor fang which is post game only and evolve at night.

[@frenzykingmagala7436]

Same with reaper cloth. Its post game too

[@sergiomessias3691]

True! Super annoying locking evolution items in the post game

[@Coy.Rug22]

There’s a razor claw somewhere in victory road

[@CormacThunderStar]

@@Coy.Rug22 thats for Sneasel

[@deciduous_reaper]

@@Coy.Rug22 yeah it’s for Sneasle but I’m not going to evolve to a Weavile since I despise Weavile so I always use Razor claw for my Honchkrow

[@vanguardluard8334]

There is a way to change the gender of burmy and combee gender to get the one you want if you getting by honey tree. It's save in front of the tree battle it if it's not the gender you want restart the game since the Pokemon you will encounter is determined when you put the honey on the tree and stuff like it's gender ivs and it being shiny is when you battle so it's possible to restart the game till you get the gender you want

[@Chronal-Rend]

You can visibly see if Combee is female in the grand underground

[@vanguardluard8334]

@@Chronal-Rend but I saying if your getting from honey trees only

[@derekhansj]

I find it easier to get a female by honey tree this way

[@romeonantenaina2067]

Well Just beat the third gym, and my togepi has evolved, wasn't that difficult Friendship evolutions aren't too annoying so I think newer players will be fine

[@nismomikey]

Facts, my golbat evolved into crobat at level 26 lol. But that was because i caught a zubat early in the game and its friendship got high from leveling

[@danquaza9275]

I can still totally see his point, if your a younger or newer player and had no idea of this function you could be left wondering what’s going on. If your just running with togepi first in your party and it getting knocked out over and over it’s going to take a longgg time to max that friendship. Especially if you weren’t taking any measures to speed up the process. When I was a kid I hated friendship evolutions

[@lunakidd0730]

I caught a budew on the route above jubilife and it didn’t evolve until level 34. 😭

[@romeonantenaina2067]

@@lunakidd0730 Jwez damn that's tough, should have just got a roselia

[@RedDragonForce2]

Number 2: I got super lucky my first capture of a Magby had a Magmarizer on it. And this was on my first, casual, playthrough and randomly finding Magby before my 3rd Gym.

[@xReezoh]

have you used johncenamon?

[@Coy.Rug22]

I have a Murkrow and I know where the dusk stone is but I think aipom and gligar are a pain to evolve that’s my opinion

[@xReezoh]

@@Coy.Rug22 you need to catch johncenamon

[@Matthew-xe9xs]

I couldn't wait until the 6th gym to evolve my togetic so I went back to valley windworks from veilstone to catch 4 patchirisus with pickup ability. I managed to get a shiny stone pretty easily and a dawn stone for gallade

[@RAMSBR001]

I did this as well but I managed to find 6 Dawn stones before I got a shiny stone…

[@Flugzeugdreger]

In my opinion, all Pokémon whose final Evolutions are locked in the post game should have shared the highest spot. Yes, getting Milotic is annoying, but at least you can use one against Cynthia. Not so much for Dusknoir, Gliscor, Rhyperior and (to a lesser extend) the Eveelutions and Rotom forms.

[@MrMarcus2190]

For anyone who would like a feebas to take with you on your journey without needing a good rod or super rod. I did breed a bunch of feebas when a friend traded me one. I know how hard it is to not be able to raise one on their journey. Wanted to give back 😁

[@zerone6671]

I dunno if I have something of equivalent value to give back, but may I ask for one?

[@TheTobsters]

You’re a good man, mad respect

[@danielcastaneda6239]

That would be nice 👀🤧

[@MrMarcus2190]

UPDATE: I’m not asking for anything special. You guys can always send me something random. I just want you guys to enjoy your feebas

[@danielcastaneda6239]

How can I get one?

[@ragingraichu219]

Can't forget Gligar into Gliscor. While it's easy to evolve, you can't get the Razor Fang until way later, plus it evolves at night.

[@k2basior]

Remember Bird Keeper Toby was lost with Snom for whole Sword/Shield as it evolved either around Champion Cup or Post-Game as he didn't know it evolves by happiness at night.

[@JJ-kc2nx]

'We don't even encounter Gible until after defeating Byron' *laughs in Platinum*

[@jaycomplexkidrandle1889]

You can find Gabite in the Underground as well at near whatever level your Pokemon are. I just caught a Gible and a Gabite around the 50lvl range.

[@florenciolumbrera3275]

I caught a Gible at lvl 16 and raised it to lvl 50 in half a day and now heading to the 8th gym, Pokérus helped out with raising my Pokémon so fast.

[@desertfox1378]

With a main team including Electivire, Magmortar, Togekiss, and Spiritomb, I can attest

[@prestongreene2663]

Someone is a glutton for punishment lol good news though! Now that you've gone to hell and back now you can play the game! ;)

[@vitanus]

They did so many Pokemon dirty in this game ... Gliscor, Garchomp and Eevee to just name a few ...

[@devantezephir2161]

You can raise the percentage of a wild pokemon holding a item to 20 percent by using a pokemon with super luck or compound eyes.

[@samfordmagnus7774]

There's a method that makes feebas less of a nightmare to find in this game. There's videos about the method here on KZbin.

[@Hero_of_Comedy]

I found out that if you save right before checking a honey tree, and you get a male combee, you can reset and check the tree again until you get a female.

[@tybell4949]

When i got a shiny stone on my first ambipoma pickup :D loved it also when i got feebas on my 20th cast and found the square and caufht 50 of them lolol

[@MARC-VICTAL]

I'm going to the 3rd gym now with all my 6 Pokémons level 40, houdoom gives you 1000 exp per battle so the grind is real, plus I already got 133:06 hours played.

[@Itsmeofcource]

me: how many more videos can u make on a single game mystic: yes

[@platoniclogic5877]

That haunter in game trade pissed me off so much

[@nicopaolosales3065]

Friendship is kinda better unlike trade only evolutions especially if you dont have one to trade with

[@zigazav1]

Your Eevee to Umbreon to post evolution, list countdown animation is so cute! ^^ Good job to whoever made those.

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

I've always preferred the classic Milotic evolution method over the modern method so I'm glad to see it back even if just for 1 game.

[@LegoReader12345hello]

Well it was also in oras

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

@@LegoReader12345hello Yeah but that was 2 gens ago now

[@anthonyanglemyer]

Man, you got this down pat. Some of these CAN be stress-inducing, even to veteran players like you and me. I hope the newer players can appreciate this list. Oh yeah, Merry Christmas! :)

[@the_clawing_chaos]

Sad there was no specific call out for porygon Z. Not just one item trade evolution but two... Also all late game stuff. I miss my platinum porygon Z, can't wait to trade it over

[@VexKingYoutube]

I actually got BDSP today

[@charyxard5086]

Congratulations. Have fun playing! And a happy new year.

[@jasonreyes5767]

Hurry up get that manaphy egg todays the last day i think

[@dragonite6497]

Have fun! They’re great

[@gioanysgonzalez3396]

Just to warn you, the elite 4 and especially Cynthia are no joke so I hope you have a good team.

[@nperez0547]

Ah yes the classic Christmas gift

[@andrewkatz5689]

I caught my Togepi at Lv 22 just before Gardenia's Gym. I knew I could not let it faint, but it shocked me that after just three levels of battling opponents (including Gardenia), I had a Togetic. From there, it was pretty easy to wait for my Shiny Stone.

[@archflamingo9156]

Where you get the shiny stone at

[@andrewkatz5689]

@@archflamingo9156 Iron Island

[@archflamingo9156]

@@andrewkatz5689 where at in lron island

[@andrewkatz5689]

@@archflamingo9156 There are walkthrough videos like this one that show you how to quickly get one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5fbgZuhhrKIZtU

[@archflamingo9156]

@@andrewkatz5689 thanks fir helping me

[@darrellmurray4928]

The happiness ones are easy when you get the happiness berries. Just farm those up and you cam force feed them to your pokemon.

[@edawg5159]

I got the game yesterday and chose to shiny hunt my starter and guess what I ended up getting? A shiny starly that you have to fight while I’m still looking for the shiny starter.

[@georgedooley8247]

Took me around 25 Elekid encounters before I caught one holding the electirizer. This was also just before crasher wake, which made it’s encounter rate really low. But it was worth, cos electivire is an absolute beast in this game

[@dcred123]

Murkrow with superluck ability and thief. It was surprisingly easy

[@danih.5675]

You do not need a good rod to catch feebas. Just caught mine last night with an old rod. In fact I recommend using an old rod because it reduces the number of Pokemon you can encounter

[@masteroogway6660]

The trade haunter holding an everstone is just pure cruelty

[@DrRo93]

Honestly I wish they’d get rid of trade evolutions. It’s more tedious than it’s honestly worth.

[@frostxs6869]

Trading Pokemon is the pain in the butt cuz they KEEP ON CANCELING THE TRADE

[@AndrewJohnson-is3xj]

I just got the game and it’s downloading on my switch I cannot wait this is going to really help me map out my team

[@magicfoxsocks]

I have been playing Pokémon since the original, but stopped playing for a long time after Fire Red and Leaf Green. I never even knew there were move based evolutions! A lot of this stuff was completely new to me. Thank you!

[@crushingon]

if you have a male jigglypuff with Cute Charm you can use it to boost the female combee encounters to 66%. I used to do that to farm female combees for trades on the GST back in the day

[@Dani.G_German]

I’d argue that dusk stone evolutions are more difficult than shiny stone evolutions since it’s only available later in the game compared to its counterpart and it can’t be acquired through pickup

[@deadcoffin008]

Love how i dig up the heart scale while he was talking about the difficulty for it lol

[@blorblor2024]

I’m suing Nintendo 10,000,000 PokéDollars for making us mega punch our Nintendo because of *CINDY* the trader that trades us the haunter…WITH A LITERAL EVERSTONE

[@karpsquad6993]

If the newer players knew the Pokémon evolved beforehand then they should already know how to evolve it. If they don’t then tough shit learn like we all did when we 1st started playing back in the days.

[@asiaticlilly7830]

right, they literally have google😭

[@Benevolent710]

I was in middle school when Gen 4 came out. I had no idea most of the new evos for older Pokémon existed until I saw them in Pokémon Go over like 10 years later. Now I know why.

[@richardkenan2891]

The worst thing about friendship evolutions is that the friendship checker Poketch app is just broken, at least for some people. I've had my Budew running away from the cursor - which means it hates me - and then level up in the very next fight and evolve to Roselia. And no pokemon that actually evolves with friendship has ever shown any hearts in the app. I kind of wish they'd stop with the fixes to exploits until they can actually fix stuff that's flat out broken like this.

[@bobbysmith8095]

Yeah took me forever for pichu cuz I couldn't get the app to show the heart. Finally at like almost 30 or 40 it finally evolve. I thought I was crazy so the app is broken. It never show the hearts on mine until after evolution.

[@angsfeatheredfriends]

11 minutes for a shiny stone? It took me 8 hours to finally get one (using 6 pickup pokemon) I refused to continue the game will I had my level 2 Togakiss lol. Oh well, I now have a ton of potions , revives, repels, power herbs, mental herbs, nuggets, dusk stones, dawn stones, destiny knots, and of leftovers though..... O.o I did run into a list of how rare this shiny stone is using Pickup. Depending on YOUR pokemons level - ・Levels 1-10: None ・Levels 11-20: Super Rare ・Levels 21-30: Super Rare ・Levels 31-40: Super Rare ・Levels 41-50: Super Rare ・Levels 51-60: Super Rare ・Levels 61-70: Super Rare ・Levels 71-80: Super Rare ・Levels 81-90: Very Rare ・Levels 91-100: Rare

[@BrandonClaridge]

6:18 Mothim might be better suited for in-game play than Wormadam, however. It's probably the best Quiver Dancer available for an in-game playthrough. Beautifly is also an option, but Mothim gets Quiver Dance much earlier (upon evolution from Burmy). The downside is Mothim's lack of special attacking options right off the bat; you get Confusion at Lv. 23, followed by Gust at Lv. 26. Mothim's base Attack is equal to its Special Attack, so you can still use physical attacks like Bug Bite until you can start filling your special movepool with attacks. Yes, Wormadam also learns Quiver Dance, but it just seems too slow to use it well (despite the extra bulk and better typing options). Unfortunately, better Quiver Dancers, like Venomoth, don't become available in BDSP until after the National Pokédex. In terms of what remains, Mothim and Beautifly are almost the same Pokémon, aside from some minor stat differences, different level-up movepools, etc. Their speed and bulk are pitiful regardless (base 50 defenses), but Mothim does just slightly better in these areas (base 70 HP over base 60 for Beautifly; Mothim also has 1 extra base point in speed). In other words, you will want to set up Quiver Dances in front of a slow special attacker; something like Cynthia's Spiritomb could make good set-up bait.

[@jjsponge1202]

This makes me wonder if the next few games should add evolution methods to the Pokedex.

[@asiaticlilly7830]

although it would be helpful so you dont have to pull out google, the pokemon community/fanbase would complain as they always do, claiming nintendo is making the games "too easy" lol.

[@Wololo528]

Nitendo made my little bro cry because of that traid

[@stefanjamel5735]

I caught a cleffa who was holding the moonstone the first time lol 😂 I got lucky

[@frstack3006]

The struggles of being old and refusing to pay for switch online as well as ps4 😅

[@6sixtysix]

Cynthia has crazy Pokémon. How did she find and bread them…. If you think about it??!!

[@downbeatdialga1341]

I could’ve sworn there was an additional factor to evolving Feebas into Milotic that it had to have 1 of the 4 Special Attack boosting natures (Modest, Mild, Rash or Quiet). Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I recalled that in Gen 3’s games that if a Feebas you fed dry poké-block to wasn’t one of those natures, it’s Beauty meter wouldn’t complete fill up and you’d have wasted all those resources and time on a Feebas that was destined to never evolve. Shoutout to all of us that evolved Feebas prior to Gen 5’s inclusion of the Marvel Scale!

[@VeggehGaming]

It's not a requirement to have those natures but it is easier since I think all of those (I know Mild does for sure) have a preference for dry food. If you make decent enough poffins though you can max the beauty stat out well before the sheen maxes out. I'd do some practice with poffin making and experiment with recipes before feeding Feebas first though.

[@barbatoslol9650]

the point that you need to pay to trade pokemon isn't new because of nintendo online. you have always had to pay to trade pokemon because of the game link cable.

[@jayyquizzlevods6049]

You always show up right around the time i start watching pokemon content. Here's a subscribe for you good sir 👍🏾

[@Judgementday3010]

11 minutes for a shiny stone? It took my 6 hours!

[@jackscott1496]

Any youtuber that uploads on Christmas Day needs an award

[@KuroJOkami]

Merry Christmas, Mystic. I love your videos and I hope you have a good start to 2022!!!

[@moseskuria1234]

You know the gts was a godsend to obtain most of these

[@markmagician2471]

Dragonite is definitely hard to evolve into

[@ultragamer8816]

Fun fact: if you stab a bowl of cereal you will be a cereal killer

[@cainwallace]

Should have done buneary with her 0 friendship. Mine took til lvl 50+ even with following me and soothe bell

[@kaelinjefferies9267]

My kadabra was stolen from me when I traded it in order to have it evolve.

[@wintertheampharos4725]

The friendship also used to reset if you trade the Pokémon away, though I’m not sure if it still does.

[@dethtroy2185]

the only pokemon i disagree with it is Garchomp cause i'm pretty sure you can find a lucky egg in the underground area around snowpoint city, where gible can be obtained after getting the icicle badge, it'll pretty much become a gabite after 1 level, and with the lucky egg shouldn't take much longer to reach Garchomp.

[@yorecf9641]

I had Garchomp well before Sunnyshore even without the Lucky Egg. I found my Gible at level 42 and they can be found up to level 47.

[@jordynisboredyn]

Immediately dropped my beduw when I found a roselia in the underground

[@DokkanSDBHCelebrationEnjoyer]

Merry Xmas mystic

[@ultragamer8816]

Fun fact: if you fall out of a plane without a parachute you will fall for the rest of your life

[@vashi18]

TO get garchomp I recommend saving 2 rare candies, beating Candice, and catch a gible in grand underground, and use the 2 rare candies.

[@vulpixle9659]

Also you can get a lucky egg in the grand underground in a icy cave near lake acuity

[@Reck-i5o]

I find a shiny stone and dusk stone through Ambipom pickup.

[@IAmCannedTuna]

I had Crobat by level 24.. it was crazy

[@dimeetrikford6006]

Same here I barely used my golbat

[@Matsuna13]

It’s not as bad as you think if you catch Zubat very early. Crobat is a good Pokemon.

[@quocanhdy7733]

I definitely agree with clefairy moonstone because I'm doing it right now and it is a big pain in the butt

[@gioanysgonzalez3396]

God trade evolution was a mistake and shouldn’t be a thing. For starters how does trading make your Pokémon evolve when you see wild fully evolved Pokémon like Gengar and Machamp in the wild. It makes absolutely no sense! Why not just give players a special item that aloud Pokémon to evolve normally without this tedious process.

[@TheNadroj10]

Agreed, trade evolution was always a dumb mechanic

[@ultragamer8816]

Fun fact: swimming is just flying in water and flying is just swimming in the air

[@happyfrown6614]

Me and my 6 squirrels picking up bottlecaps and evolutions stones 😎

[@yorecf9641]

In my second run, I kept finding Dawn Stones when I needed a Shiny Stone XD

[@maximus1720]

Combee and other Pokémon can change gender and stats if you reset the encounter. Like if you save before a honey tree encounter, you can keep resetting until you get the desired gender and ability. The Pokémon won’t change if you reset it, but the stats will!

[@mdpgaming6889]

I struggled most with getting togepi to evolve 😂 shiny stone was already in my inventory

[@RaynmanPlays]

One more thing that makes Milotic difficult is if you get a Feebas with a nature that decreases Sp Atk. It becomes even _more_ difficult then because it requires more poffins. IIRC, shine isn't a thing anymore (which would make it near impossible to evolve those Feebas), so that's not _as_ bad as it used to be, but it still makes it more difficult.

[@shadytip2329]

the reason i won't evolve my scyther is bc I'm scared that one it evolves they won't give it back so now I'm stuck with there lvl 20 starly while they on the other hand will be running around fighting with MY scizor

[@asiaticlilly7830]

my tip for you is to find someone who also needs a scizor, so that you can both trade scythers and be happy with the outcome :)

[@shadytip2329]

@@asiaticlilly7830 But what if there scyther was lower level bc mine is lvl 47

[@asiaticlilly7830]

@@shadytip2329 i guess you'd just have to hope that this person understands the struggle. if you cant feel like you can trust a random, i could probably help you out if you tell me where to find a scyther :)

[@shadytip2329]

@@asiaticlilly7830 I found it in a big grassland cave (btw you need metal coat for trade evo but i haven't got one )

[@DaakkuuYRS]

As for Comby, while the honey tree is terrible mechanic, you can use it to your benefit actually. Because yes, the Pokemon is determined while you put the honey and wait. However, its data isn't. Stats, ability, gender, nature etc are only determined when you acounter it. Meaning you can save beforhand and try again by restarting the game.

[@cyanrose0712]

I fell for the Cleffa trap in my 1st Sun and Moon play through

[@396dog8]

Trade evolutions can still exist but they should make an alternative method. Make thr alternative method harder if needed but it they need to fix it.

[@Thund3rDrag0n12]

Honestly, now that you can access the PC boxes from almost anywhere in the overworld, the Pickup strat is stupidly easy for the literal hundreds of thousands of Pokedollars worth of free stuff you can get over the course of a game. You're never going to need a full team of 6 throughout the main story, so have 3 Pokemon you're actually using and 3 Pachurisu and just play the game switching Pokemon in and out of the PC as needed. Using this method I managed to get a Togekiss, Honchkrow, Roserade, and Gallade all before Veilstone Gym. The most time consuming part for me was finding a good Togepi lol

[@Kannadiga2301]

Nice video mystic happy 😊 holidays

[@michaelaburns734]

Hard to evolve? No, just time consuming pain. Trust me and Mystic that it's worth it in the end.

[@manelpallas9481]

I had a piloswine lvl 60 or so as a kid, and i never knew how to evolve it untill i grew up. My brother had a lvl 100 sneasel becouse we did know how to evolve it too. We were too little to search for the evolving method

[@abelmunoz6422]

You also might wanna add the fact that Feebas has to be a certain nature to like dry flavored poffins . You can’t just catch any feebas and expect it to eat dry pollens when it likes sweet ones . Also , certain berries make beauty levels much higher than other (Kelsey, and Chesto). That’s what i learned when I evolved my feebas in ORAS .

[@abelmunoz6422]

*poffins