Pokémon GO’s Most Impossible Evolutions

[@tkcom]

Not an evolution, getting zygarde complete is just as hard as those evos.

[@Retroactive93]

Facts. I’m at 173 cells!

[@startheangel9760]

Im on 140 cells, it sucks when you don't find cells 100% on routes and end up walking the entire town

[@Retroactive93]

@@startheangel9760 true! Cells should be guaranteed! Especially on routes longer than 1 kilometers

[@Goofyahh41]

Routes ar confusing and I'm under 16 so my parents driv me and they dontunderstand how to do it an Frankfurt neither do i

[@startheangel9760]

@Goofyahh41 Your lucky you have routes you can drive a car around. The way towns are designed in the UK most routes are pathwalk only

[@aldrianspalding4157]

I just came back to this vid as a nostalgia trip. I remember i used to watch him when i played pokemon go in 7th grade, im about to be a junior now in college. 8 years whipped past and I didnt even notice, crazy how fast time moves if you dont take a second to enjoy the moment.

[@nicd7946]

I would add Zygarde to the list. Feels impossible to change form

[@Wailmur]

It's not an evolution though

[@nicd7946]

@@Wailmurthanks forgot it was just changing form

[@A.n.TBenTrill]

I would have def added this to the video as a special mention cuz sheesh I'm @ 195 cells rn and trying to 100% it for my birthday on Aug 15th 😅 I would have also special mentioned ones that you can't even trade like Zygarde

[@DerLinoDino]

I have the complete form since last december (2023). Only took ~350 routes lol 😂

[@jasonmetcalfe4695]

@@Wailmur may as well be with the effort needed

[@ZhadTheRad]

Ah, Pokémon Go, the grindiest Pokémon game there is

[@boredgames9555]

For the defeat 30 pokemon the tip is to find a rocket grunt of the type, defeat the first 2 mons and then back out. Do this 15 times. It counts

[@Mat_Blackout]

Wait, realy?

[@evilras]

Mother of god...

[@M4TTYN]

holy crap! ain't no way!

[@jasonwrightjr1374]

That’s what I’ve done for the longest time for anything research quests or evo requirements like this

[@BestAnden4200]

Yes this is exactly what I did to like 5 or 10 min

[@speedcreatureYT]

For a mainstream professional Pokémon GO player, you're great at finding the gripes of casuals! Thank you Brandon!

[@danb9665]

No way you actually missed the hardest by a landslide. Grinding 250 zygarde cells is the hardest.

[@stryfehyppo5755]

Yeah he didn’t really think when making this vid

[@PlanetaryGuineaPig]

He didn’t miss it. It’s not an evolution dude.

[@anklewanker2095]

@@PlanetaryGuineaPig- 🤓

[@JustJoshIsUnavailable]

@@danb9665 Actually he’s a genius. It’s so hard to get that he actually forgot about it!

[@vermontvoice13]

NOT an evolution. Too many comments about this non evo Pokemon

[@donaldtNS]

Evo items (barring Sinnoh and Unova stones) also drop if you can get to an area with a bunch of Poke Stops (low-percent chance, but spinning enough should trigger it) and a couple of them actually can be in gifts. The hard ones for me were Sinnoh Stones (at one point I needed six or seven of them and it felt like they had a 1% drop rate from 2 win GBL sets), but now I'm rebuilding my Unova Stone supply. Someone else might've mentioned this but Charcadet was only in all three egg tiers during its launch event; it's been confined to 10km eggs since. Though Scorching Steps did make it seemingly the most common hatch from 10km eggs. Also, thank you for reminding me to use my coin bag. Forgot to pop it on the way to work this morning and want to have a Golden Lure in bag and the ability to pull a second for Go Fest weekend (need 317 coins and that was after the 8/88 drops for the anniversary event).

[@Houndlock643]

I feel like recently Frigibax got a spawn boost in the wild, because I’ve been encountering them a LOT more recently.

[@Houndlock643]

At least compared to when they were first debuted.

[@XenoVR..]

6 minutes ago is unholy

[@Houndlock643]

@@XenoVR.. nah; like, since the Rediscover Kanto Event.

[@MintLemur9367]

me too bro!! I thought it was just me. In fact, it seems like all the paldea pokemon are spawning more.

[@kyleanstey1244]

I only started playing again a couple months ago and I already have enough candy for a full evolution. Just gotta find one with decent IVs first.

[@Goldwinner69]

finally a video. felt like i was waiting 3 days for one

[@johndinhopowell]

Want a mad collection challenge?? Show us your Vivillion collection. That's a grind 🙈

[@graham999]

Have the 18 in game at moment with enough candy when the last 2 get put in

[@johndinhopowell]

@@graham999 impressive, take a bow 👏👏👏

[@redtitan9120]

I need 2 to have them all

[@startheangel9760]

I was shocked to find out Spewpa needs 100 candies to evolve

[@johndinhopowell]

@@startheangel9760 I was shocked to find Spewpa. I thought it was a 2 stage evolution🙈

[@dlanightfury]

0:21 coincidental timing, I just evolved my arctibax today, I always had decent egg luck with them though

[@dcarvalho6144]

I just hate the evolutions that require the pokemon to be your buddy. I already need my buddy to farm candies, and the need to switch it 50 times to complete tasks just to evolve a ton of different pokemon, is annoying.

[@A.n.TBenTrill]

I just committed to making it a best buddy if it has to be my buddy to evolve 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@dcarvalho6144]

@@A.n.TBenTrill I had to make a choice, I either do that, or stick with the things I need candy/XL candy, like Frigibax, and/or pokemon that are meta relevant. I don't even bother with best buddying pokemon, unless I really really need it.

[@startheangel9760]

@dcarvalho6144 Feebas is the worst for it, you need 100 candies and walk 20 km with it

[@InsaneSquiddy]

​@@startheangel9760 easiest buddy evolution by far

[@famousashtray]

Remember when pseudos were MUCH rarer in the wild when they were released? Like Gible and Deino

[@jimmygibson7045]

...I get the evolution items from pokestops, from gifts with friends, from route rewards, from field research 7 day reward... I delete regularly because I don't need more than 10 of any each one.

[@SpiritWolf209]

I get lots of everything except sinnoh stones

[@gusi4474]

I throw away evo items all the time. You just realistically need 1 or 2 tops, ever. They're, also, not that rare

[@aloysiusmak-yk1dy]

Agreed

[@uxiaintxausti6512]

Me too, I have too many, but that's because I am a hoarder. If they go over 30, I throw them. The funny thing is that I never evolved Seadra to Kingdra even if I have 30 scales. Waiting for good IVs.

[@toruto0972]

You forgot one, the special Rockruff that can evolve into dusk form Lycanroc

[@A.n.TBenTrill]

Still haven't gotten this one and hatched like 5 since the event even raided a few 😒

[@startheangel9760]

The stupid 50 KM eggs just gives me Emolgas

[@rjpd09]

I have a Rockruff that is able to evolve during sunset

[@Gamethin]

I remember when I got lycanroc I was so happy because it was my dream pokeomon

[@ThePumpkin_God]

i evolved two of my coseom into lunala and solgaleo in march, then necrozma was released. i remember telling my friends watch me cook, once necrozma comes out ur dead and now i have dusk mane and dawn wings necrozma

[@DARKLIF12345X]

Me: just going to evolve my larves- Larvesta: yeah yeah 😂

[@CRJ08]

Lar… who?

[@sgandlbl]

larvesta

[@Baredeng8]

real

[@ericDGAF]

My friend I just dumped 200 rare candies into that spicy bug so now I ONLY have to walk 1000km...

[@Dark_heroboy]

7:00 I HAVE SHADOW SHINY URSALUNA!

[@niranjans8401]

something to say here is that u can actually guarantee evolution items by spinning a pokestop for ur 7 day streak, although u can't guarantee which one u can get

[@rollercoaster478]

True and the ones you need the most - Sinnoh and Unova - are the rarest to get. I actually have received more Sinnoh stones from PVP than from 7-day pokestop streak.

[@startheangel9760]

@niranjans8401 Spin a gym your team colour gives you a high chance of evolution items too

[@niranjans8401]

@@startheangel9760Yes, thx for pointing that out

[@ajsgodlike310]

@@rollercoaster478Bro, I ONLY have sinnoh and unova stones (plus a kings rock) i NEED a metal coat or a sun stone

[@mooganify]

Didn’t he say that

[@IronPikachu724]

Commmunity day really saved me some dex entries I believe. Also, it is a little sad that Solgaleo and Lunala were only research Pokémon (at the moment. Who knows if Go Fest would release them into the raids so the Necrozma fusion mechanic could actually be used), I casually have a cosmog rotting in the box along side my Solgaleo, just waiting for its time to evolve into the moon bat that is Lunala.

[@ginopietermaai7944]

I didnt have a bewear in my dex. 288 stufful candy. Then a bewear spawned on my daily incense😂

[@greenbrix6113]

Yo same thing happened to me yesterday

[@hunterwilkes8484]

Same but happened like a few months ago for me

[@foozyslapstick2797]

Lucky! I got two Altaria on incense

[@hunterwilkes8484]

@@foozyslapstick2797 that is even better I feel like

[@foozyslapstick2797]

@@hunterwilkes8484 like, ever, not on a single one

[@the_reader63]

Yeah I quit the game for like 6 years and only came back in spring 2023, so I have no Cosmogs. Makes the Necrozma debut at GO fest kinda underwhelming for me tbh...

[@josecalvo9730]

Why? There was a free research and they gave you a Cosmos and huge amount of candies

[@bezosbaldhead]

Frugibax been spaening everywhere recently

[@TheRealSithEmperor]

I’m sorry, I just had to say how freakin proud of myself I am right now. You, the man, only have one Salazel and you’ve been grinding for years. I just started 10/11/24, 2 months ago, and I just evolved mine! I thought it was no big deal but now I’m stoked! Thanks man.

[@mrsLenusek]

The frigibax is kinda funny for me XD I have 30 caught in my dex. They just spawn every other day in front of my building xD

[@joshthegoose6182]

the dusk mane and dawn wings raids today gave 10 cosmog candy per raid so you dont need to worry about cosmog candy now

[@patrickdonovan2323]

it is worth saying that evolving isn't too hard for candy, if you are too worried about candy just do gbl, I've got hundreds of candy for most legendaries when im a rural player due to the battle league giving rare candy, but you aren't getting them past level 40 without walking for xl candy. The biggest challenge for most of these is getting a good one worth evolving or getting the evolutions tasks/items for them.

[@frankieg60]

Cosmog candy wasn’t hard to get if you grinded the necrozma raids. Ive got both necrozma forms with a shiny of each, and had enough candy to power one up.

[@dowz-]

1:51 Finland mentioned!!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@luxrqz]

About the cosmos thing, I remember I evolved my cosmoen Pokémon thingy to solgaleo

[@doubletheprotogen6536]

I have larvesta and lunala and hopefully naganatal and dusk lycanroc eventually

[@Mat_Blackout]

I hope i can evolve my second cosmog into solgaleo at somepoint and same with the lycanrock dusk form lol

[@doubletheprotogen6536]

@@Mat_Blackoutwhen I get my second cosmog I probably will too turn it into solgolo or turn it into another lunala and lucky trade for a solgolo

[@nenadaigle8734]

Love your videos so much! Ty

[@lenproenings8003]

I have a shundo bewear but i didn't now i had one after 3 months i found it in my pokemon storage

[@PokeartPlaysPianoYT]

A SHUNDO😭 I HAVE THE 2 STAR VERSION IF BEWEARS SHINY

[@fearless_roblox5]

Kingdra is even harder for me because Horsea doesn’t spawn near me so I can’t get kingdra as I don’t have enough candy

[@WillCopeman]

Funny timing of the video. This week I’ve now started my daily Gimmighoul boxes and gold lures which will be a grind. Also starting the journey of getting daily Zygarde cells on my dog walk route. Slowly but surely will get there

[@LennyJardine]

Its not an ego line it’s just forms

[@D.H.1987]

​@@LennyJardine nothing to do with ego

[@PlanetaryGuineaPig]

But it’s not an evolution lol

[@LennyJardine]

@@D.H.1987 I mean evo

[@zoedekker6574]

That cosmog i got hundo and had it for a long time until a few days ago when i evolved it i didnt know what i can do with it

[@gamingfnatix5218]

Me here with 2 baxcaliburs with one being a wild hundo

[@maranatha9924]

Good day! I hit at 96% on a windy daily incense. I am about 100 candy away from level 40. Feels great, eh? I stick him in gyms to show off lol

[@you2c05]

Caught 17/17, but have a random lucky hundo with 52/100 candy before final evo.

[@brucenh9076]

Ursaluna may be annoying, but there's a full moon (checks math) once a month. I'm mostly annoyed by the cosmog family, because I'd like to keep a living dex, but no chance of this. Also or course female salandit, varoom, and larvesta.

[@junrycalvo]

Even though not an evo. Zygarde bro. It took me almost 6 months.

[@alanmcgill6332]

Frigibax seems be more common in wild on average I see 2 to 5 a day and I’ve evolved my gimmighoul multiple times I’ve evolved 5 of them and have over 4,000 coins can use to evolve more

[@Olive48484]

Me with gimmighoul as my buddy with 6 coins and a broken switch 😢

[@SackRice77]

In go fest I’m pretty sure that cosmos will be given out as a research quest same with it’s last evolutions

[@Foxtrot3996]

Yes most of these Pokémon hard to get candies for, but what about rare candies? FROM THE GO BATTLE LEAGUE! I literally got like 200 rare candies or more from just grinding the GBL

[@dcarvalho6144]

In what timeframe? 200 rare candies aren't that many, specially if you already use most of them to power up/second move legendaries, ultra beasts and mythicals. I only use them on those, the "normal pokemon" get to be a Buddy to farm candies.

[@SRPSKIGANG]

​@dcarvalho6144 I do same thing but is really annoying to play battle league for me so u don't do it that much

[@Unnamedchannel5321]

But to guarantee those rare candies, you have to win 4 battles. That’s not always easy.

[@Wombat_Gaming]

7:00 who needs a shadow shiny when I have a shiny nundo

[@WalterN34]

Gonna get my 100 % Zygarde tomorrow

[@R0oki3626]

i got poipole but didnt realise the special research ended and thought it was mid so i didnt get the candy for naganadel

[@Eliotah]

0:53 bro i have like 5 or more of each evo item huh

[@hugosavstrom4548]

I appreciate how the game caterrs to casual as well as hardcore players. As a casual player I don't have most of these evolutions, but it's not essential for my game play. For those who are up for the challenge and spending the resources it's fun working hard to get these pokemon, while us others can go on perfectly well without them

[@hugosavstrom4548]

I have no relation to any of these pokemon, if I did I'd work my hardest to get them. It can suck if one has a favorite pokemon which is released in pogo and it turns out to be ridiciolously hard to obtain

[@johnnytucker8240]

Wow! I am speechless. Until now, I considered myself to be a basic or novice player that had a whole bunch of nothing. After watching your video I now feel like I have been exceedingly so obsessed with the game. I started playing a couple months after it was released. A few friends referred it to me. I got bored and stopped playing in early 2018. In late 2019 or early 2020 I started playing again. A coworker mentioned a lot of new features. I have played consistently since. Surprisedly, I have at least one of all of the Pokémon mentioned in the video, and all except for two of the evolutions. For some of them I have 10+. I am a little embarrassed to admit my level of commitment to the game. But on the other hand, it is the only game I play period. I have played it while working, while working out, (ellipticals or treadmill). Oh and I have have spent more on this game than any game I have ever owned on the home consoles. If anyone who would like to trade, let me know.

[@johnnytucker8240]

Evolving an ursaring is easier if you google "full moon." Then set a reminder in the calendar on a cell phone and evolve when reminded.

[@Ashfallen]

Bro, love you video, but go 2k, 4k pls. ty

[@Blaze-jl7pj]

10:03 "for no reason" what do you mean no reason, it's literally Gimmighoul's gimmick, they evolve by gathering coins, it's like that in Scarlet and Violet too, it wouldn't make sense to be able to evolve one without using any coins

[@feIon]

good vid, definitely wouldve mentioned zygarde as a special mention since it's technically not a standard evolution. would be cool if you did a similar video for the hardest platinum medals to achieve!

[@loneliestpotato1535]

I got a 14/15/14 Shiny Larvest after about 30 eggs, with 8 hatched. 6 Charcadet And enough Goldhengo coins to evolve 3 more gimmighouls, thanks to the recent event that gave 8 or 88 coins, by hosting a golden lure party that lasted for an hour

[@krystalfan135]

The evo items can be easy to get, but my god, the dragon scale barely exists! It took me like 4 years of play before I finally got it, and it was from a research task! Evolved my Seadra right away and plunked the Kingdra right onto my Switch. I have no one to trade with, so Kingdra was my biggest evolution obstacle for all the dexes I was working on.

[@Cinccino777]

Ive been grinding magicarp halfway to getting mew

[@skywalkerv420]

Thanks for the shout on gloom to bellosom had so many sun stones and wow bellosom is an amazing shiny ✨ stay awesome everyone!

[@Toby_Da_Big_Boi]

You should add zygarde to the list

[@marcuslee7453]

i got a fused 95 IV shiny necrozma

[@Youtubefan567]

10:53 Gholdengo is still within the top 5 best overall Ghost type attackers for PVE outside of Mega's and Shadow's so it's not bad.

[@Notmyname-qi5gt]

Should i get solgaleo or lunala

[@DjVanillaGuerilla]

Nice knowing how hard it is to get the evolution items. I have a bunch from when I started in 2016. I stopped playing and started again this month. I threw away a bunch, I remember that. But I always kept 10 of each item in my bag. So happy I did.

[@UwU.Gacha0425]

I've gotten tons of all the special items except for a sunstone I've been trying to get for my helioptile for like 6 months 6:18 I got lucky and just caught 20 noibat immediately😂

[@ilovekazuhagenshincutscene]

I hatched 1 12km egg first try got salandit. It was female too 😂

[@valorum131x6]

I'm not sure if it is new, but I have noticed that when you use the coin bag incense for gimmighoul, they drop coins on occasion too when you catch them. That helps if you don't have a ton of golden lures. I have heard that having gimmighoul as your buddy increases the chance and amount they drop too. Not confirmed, just heard that's the case.

[@rexamai4982]

I didn’t realize Frigibax was as uncommon as it is. I have enough for Baxcalibur, all which I’ve found around my apartment the past few months since I started playing Go again.

[@KraylenRichmond]

I have a couple of these, Baxcalibur, Naganadel, & a perfect shadow Ursaluna.

[@aedenyt22playzneditz]

100 zygarde, gholdengo,400 candy evos,sogaleo and lunala, melmetal,volcarona,salandit

[@kelving420]

I mean, what Im doing to evolve my volcarona is to consistently get it excited (half distance candy) and leave another in a gym to always be giving it berries for candy, but it's being quite a pain lol

[@sharkman23]

8:02 I hatched a female saldent idk how to spell it traded it to get a lucky female one and I got the lucky

[@ItsZombiefied]

I swear getting Gholdengo is just getting Melmetal but harder. I've done Melmetal in GO, and I'm very proud of it, but that took close to a month. I am not repeating that especially since I'm not an active Go player who would care.

[@christophereijman9828]

Playing for less than a year now and have Ursaluna, Bewear, Solgaleo and Naganadel. Hope I don't miss out on the other rarities!

[@Government_of_iroqi]

4:37 whays this guy on the left doin

[@chaoticyheti6604]

The shiny magearna you get for completing the Pokédex on pokemon home is arguably the hardest imo not for an evolution but to obtain. Cause you also have to go through the pain of evolving or obtaining mons that are already difficult to get (if you want to make it easier pokemon home is a thing just transfer)

[@possumplaysroblox]

3:40 for Bewear u can get it on the daily Incense

[@Left4Cake]

Also you can grind candy from the buddy system. It takes a while but its also passive and works with adventure sync.

[@greatemu6837]

From my experience gholdengo is pretty good in master league.

[@KamenRiderAliks]

My first female Salandit turned out to be on the 2nd one I ever hatched, granted it took forever to even get those two. I was very happy that all the candy you get from hatching meant I could evolve her into a Salazzle right away!

[@FilenameTesty99]

7:07 I've got a Shiny Shadow Ursaluna. I believe it has perfect attack and HP stats, but very low on defense stats.

[@chsu915]

Lucky me hatched a female salandid with only 5 hatches. Still working on that complete Zygarde though. Also, I'm aiming for all 18 vivillon patterns.

[@thoumi96]

Wait what, when gen 2 released with evolution items, they were ridicilously rare to find.. but now they are much easier to find

[@brynngragg6462]

Hatched a shiny larvesta not too long ago at King's Island. I was just letting my pokeball plus+ catch everything to generate stardust and gain buddy hearts while I was on vacation since I'm burnt out on playing at the moment. My jaw dropped and immediately sent the screenshot to my coworker who cussed me out for hatching it. 😂

[@Gamma_Hydra]

Frigibax is way more common now. I get multiple spawns a day.

[@LunarPriestessYT]

Haven't seen sinnoh stones for so long.

[@ItsToXley]

I've gotten so many Frigibax from eggs. Was smooth sailing to get a Baxcalibur.

[@Leni_BarDeChocolat]

I had the Shadow Shiny Ursaluna,but what is worst that can happen to a shadow pokemon ? 💀

[@jsmit5635]

-Frigibax was super rare when it first came out, but I’ve definitely been finding them a lot more in the wild in the last few months when there’s not an event happening. -You probably don’t need to have like 70 of each evolution item 😂. I usually keep like 6 just in case. Of course if you have your bag space maxed then whatever. -Thankfully evolving to Ursaluna isn’t completely like in Legends Arceus where you also need a Peat Block which was very difficult to find outside of the quest line that gave you one guaranteed. -They have at least made Salandit much easier to hatch since release probably because they just put the next 12km egg Pokémon in the rarest tier and made the others more common. I’ve hatched at least a few female Salandit since then, but it’s still pretty hard. -For Gholdengo I remember doing Golden Lure parties after Community Days and stuff to get those coins. I brought my Switch to those events to give other people Coin Bags and Golden Lures. I have a Lucky 96% Gholdengo that I evolved after swapping a bunch of Gimmighoul with a friend which was great because if I was going through all the trouble to get all of those coins I wanted a really high IV one to evolve!

[@andrewsanderson3905]

I never had a problem with any of these!

[@xcostanza]

I guess I can feel really lucky owning hundo Salazzle :D

[@kitsumiii]

4:50 so how does brandontan have like 6 duskmane necrozmas? If you could only get solgaleo twice, you can only have 2 of them

[@kloooohh]

I got cosmog from go fest 2024, and started during said go fest so I had a hard time going through the research. I’ve been grinding candy for cosmog using rare candies and keeping it as my buddy. It truly is a pain

[@teamdoodle7174]

I got a salazzle in 6 eggs is that good?

[@thekingofnot8453]

I transfered my poipole on accident 💀

[@DungeonRaptor-k1x]

Don’t forget to add the shiny odds to salandit too

[@infinitepizza]

8:24 Bros gone Insane 😭

[@Jurtaani]

best part of the whole golden lure bs is, how stellar job Niantic has done making that feature. not only did it take them around 7 months to make that thing eve work on many newer phones. but then they randomly break it again for few days out of nowhere. on the initial 7 months, hitting the "connect to Nintendo Switch" button in the menu, would make certain phones just to "emit a Bluetooth jamming signal" meaning that as long as certain phone models users were hitting the "connect to Nintendo Switch" even Switches that you never have seen before, would just say "no Pokemon Go accounts could be found to pair with" the latest trick form that feature is that Pokemon Go and Scarlet or Violet on Switch will see each other just fine. But when you go and try to send the postcard, the Switch game never sees it and Go says that "your postcard failed to send" again and again. needed to spend extra hour to bring up my old phone back online and on that the feature finally worked again.

[@junkai95]

NGL, I personally feel that Zygarde would be harder to evolve considering the amount of time you have to put in to to find all the cell.

[@jeremyhyten7140]

I like the comments about including Zygarde because it's hard to get to its final form, but it's not really an evolution, so I get why it's not included. The one Pokémon I would add to this list is Gogoat. You had to either be at one of the city events or have someone to trade you. Like a few other 'Mons in the video, it's just nearly impossible to get a Skiddo which makes Gogoat one of the rarest evolutions in the game

[@SamidhaTaishete-yz3kb]

Me hatching female salandit in 2 eggs

[@PernilleFromHansen]

Yes, I evolved the Gholdengo, thank God!!! The community came together and everyone with a Switch helped every one that didn't :-)