The FASTEST Way for Friendship Evolutions in Pokemon Legends Arceus

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Legend has it that if you like this video, you can find a Shiny Alpha too!

[@thetangycrossing5420]

i found a shiny chimchar while watching this video! full odds! thanks for the shiny luck mr. AJP

[@eyetheforsaken208]

My switch is currently dead

[@uxikaug]

I FAILED A SHINY SPHEAL

[@conman1495]

I found a shiny Crobat within about 20 resets or so, though the Gallade has taken a lot longer.

[@aoi9j451]

I’m gonna need this considering I just found a shiny zorua outbreak

[@tsujan3984]

That perfect cut of the Eevee conversation though...😂

[@qwerty_1946]

My favorite part of this video

[@gwolf7214]

@@qwerty_1946 same

[@Pinkstars1605]

I just got to that part in the video. My favourite also.

[@phantortra9739]

Bruh that had me dying XD

[@huntermc94]

THAT BI-

[@feretiuti2550]

“Oh yeah?…and then what?…oooh how interesting! And what did she say?…THAT BI-“ 😂😂 my favorite part.

[@post_0736]

Everyone in the pokemon community seems to really, really like being right and I love how you aren't upset about being wrong or misinformed about something.

[@elberlopez6574]

Really, this guy is a horrible person, see his twitter

[@RN_STRM]

Is he? Proof??

[@clauteletuby]

@@elberlopez6574 no?

[@JadeAngel1996]

You're right, he's just horrible to people when THEY are misinformed about something lol

[@TheDeej666]

Nothing new huh😔

[@c.j.cummings6894]

Thank you SO MUCH for the help in this game Also at 4:15 that was hilarious

[@shaneepicgmr6695]

THAT BI-

[@jg-memes1109]

Lol tru

[@byksEBM]

this made the video for me 🤣

[@micahstembridge484]

Best part of the video

[@FairyTypeDj]

I feel like I already know what this video is going to tell me, but I'll still watch because I enjoy and appreciate the content Austin's been putting out for this game over the past few weeks.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

you sure there wasn't ONE thing new you learned? cuz I learned something new.

[@FairyTypeDj]

@@AustinJohnPlays i learned that you previously didn't have a shiny alpha ? If that counts 😂😂

[@lord-drakkon4208]

Same lol just like how I can’t get the game but I’m willing to watch almost every video about the game to see what I’m missing lol

[@nanabobo567]

@@AustinJohnPlays i..I... didn't know you could remap the Switch buttons like that. :X

[@caylaminton9388]

I somehow played up to the last Noble pokemon without knowing you can break cracked walls like that.......thanks. 😂

[@SamiiSam128]

That conversation with the Eevee 😂 I did know that having it collect items and breaking things raises friendship, but I didn't know about the exp stuff :) I'm learning all kinds of stuff from this, thanks Austin! My first shiny alpha was Carnivine when I was looking for pokemon I didn't have lol

[@Spiritnick]

What a coincidence, that's how I encountered my shiny alpha Ninetales

[@luketodd6290]

My first was [Insert Pokémon here]

[@thefulld6650]

Rapidash, was my first. I also got a Shiny Wurmple before the set Shiny (Spoiler) Pokemon you encounter.

[@okashiad6930]

Congrats on the shiny alpha! Mine was a shiny alpha Electabuzz when I was exploring Alabaster. I was so hyped because it’s one of my fav Pokémon!

[@trevorcraft6542]

Mine was the mamoswine at the avalugg ice thing

[@cubansupreme]

Ahh man, I would love to have a Shiny Elekid/Electabuzz/Electivire for my current team. I love Electivire from my Pokemon Diamond DS days.

[@tylerpinniger9958]

Mine was a random Croat in wayward

[@truceound5720]

My first static alpha shiny was the Scyther ( of course now kleavor) but my first random alpha shiny was an alpha Gastly while farming spirittomb 😁

[@maxximuspipicus2247]

Mine was the alpha rhyperior in the Coronet Highlands on my first visit to the area after beating Noble Arcanine

[@chucksumicad4424]

im amazed how dedicated austin is. he's like a real life pokemon researcher. love you austin!

[@JaCaBrA144]

I was just trying to build up friendship for my many shiny eevees. This is perfect

[@manguy01]

Another strategy that's slow, but mindless is to just put the pokemon in your party, lead with a lvl 100 pokemon that can beat anything with its first move, and then spam battles by just pressing "A" when talking to Ingo. If you have a turbo controller, you can afk farm experience and friendship. Great for multiple eevees (or those baby evolution research tasks) as you can do 5 pokemon at a time this way.

[@JaCaBrA144]

@@manguy01 I’ve done that strategy for exp, but not friendship. I didn’t know battling gave friendship to your whole party. Thanks!

[@easolstice]

HEY AUTSIN! I was also playing around with friendship evolutions and found that simply NAMING an Eevee also contributes towards increasing the friendship level. It wasn’t a significant increase but it’s something.

[@Chtsht23]

I’m so glad you posted this. I got my first shiny alpha. Chingling. Edit: I just noticed you didn’t mention Chingling as a friendship evolution. I’ll be honest, that’s how much I care the Pokémon, myself.

[@brimstone9602]

chimecho is a great shiny, especially as an alpha! W

[@Chtsht23]

@@brimstone9602 lol thank you, but I personally am not a fan. Glad I got a shiny alpha(my first too), but still not a fan.

[@brimstone9602]

@@Chtsht23 shiny chimecho is great, but to each their own

[@RuthlessPumpkin]

Love these videos, working on friendship right now. Also just had an eevee distortion so now I have all eeveelutions

[@russell43876]

Saving two tumblestones before Eevee evolved would have been interesting because you could check if some methods gave more than 1 friendship point

[@fabianmurillo6681]

This could've been so helpful yesterday that I found a shiny Eevee during a mass outbreak... I was like Austin doesn't have a guide for friendship yet. Anyways, thanks for the awesome videos! I'm just in love with this game... and my shiny Espeon

[@brian_Austin27]

Yeah me too with no shiny charm and evolved it to a shiny Male sylveon

[@valasafantastic1055]

HAH! I was right I found it easy to freindship evolve. My playstyle focuses on gathering all resources and I instinctively used the friendship evolvers on trees/ore etc. Also it seemed that catching pokemon was helping too!

[@totaldramaseries4]

that conversation between you and your eevee i laughed so hard! loved it so much! keep up the funny and great videos!

[@DanielBeall]

From the looks of it, I don't think the actions of breaking rocks or giving candies give friendship themselves, rather a Pokémon gains friendship every time it gets experience or levels up, and the amount of experience doesn't look like it matters. So catching a Pokémon, battling a Pokémon, breaking things, and giving experience candy all give some amount of experience and also raised friendship. However, when you hit the tree but fled the battle, you didn't get any experience, therefore, no friendship. So I'd say the best way to level up friendship is to perform a bunch of actions that give some amount of experience. This does beg the question of how friendship would work for a level 100 Pokémon though.

[@Jaimaylaymii]

The way this game works, i think you can still gather FP from the rocks and stuff and be able to evolve the pokemon at cap SWSH let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon by using a rare candy on them so why wouldnt this game let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon, too? especially since you can evolve them literally whenever

[@MagusAgrippa8]

The game can probably track whether or whatever you did would have given them experience, and thus give them friendship.

[@EveTanooki]

"oh? What did she say?" *Eevee noises* "That bi-"

[@otterlytasty]

I gotta say since I've been watching your Legends Arceus videos, I absolutely LOVE how you talk to your Pokemon if they're out and about. It honestly makes my day/night 10x better.

[@akpsyche1299]

I had a feeling that throwing my Pokémon at rocks and trees gave them friendship points while I was doing my playthrough. It should also be noted that the rocks and trees give experience points in increasing values as you progress to the different areas. If you start out with a low-level Pokémon, the levels you gain from that experience can also help raise your friendship.

[@missingno81]

Exactly, evolution should be achieved with 3-5 level ups.

[@andrewpickett722]

Hell yeah GG on the shiny alpha! My first was heracross randomly. I almost missed it. No idea how I missed a giant pink beetle

[@GunmarTheBlack]

😂 you released this video with the best timing, right as I had been talking to my friend about how I had finally gotten Gabite and Electivire and just needed to find or catch an Espeon and I was good to go challenge God my phone went off with the video, I love your content man, keep it up 👉😎👉

[@reversal]

WELCOME TO THE SHINY ALPHA CLUB!!!

[@meliqweli]

I love how he actually spoke to the ever 😂

[@sharpiefumes]

Just take an immediate left in Coronet Highlands summit camp and break all the breakables. You get free items and exp, and 3 runs guarantee a friendship evo.

[@CoffeeRoo1]

Thanks for all these tutorials man! I love your work a lot. These tutorials and how there well said on how to do these things is great! I’ve been looking at your others as well and I finally got some stuff done. Keep up the great work! ^^

[@theyinyang1103]

That eevee conversation cut-in was funny.

[@rextyrrano5183]

What i found most interesting about this video was that i finally found out how to break the big rocks.

[@cmac8722]

Genius move to remap the Left Stick to the Plus button for fast mount!!!!

[@Rikoyasha15]

2:20 I manged to find an Alpha Zubat, it was really hard to find without the glowing eyes I mostly heard a cry that sounded alpha-ish in 1st area but it looked like a regular Zubat till it knocked me off my mount, really easy to miss

[@tonyslaton3863]

I saw alpha Zubat lvl 29 near the grand tree arena area. Then the normal alpha Golbat lvl 35 spawn by oreburrow tunnel area. I caught both and worked to alpha Crobat x2. Caught the 3rd Crobat in wayward cave area. Was a good bat day 🙂

[@syedasmir]

Man I was waiting for your video I have been waiting for soo long

[@galibrabat4237]

I remember being this happy catching my first ever shiny natural gigantamax before DLC, knowing how awesome that was. And then pokemon said, you know what? SOUP!

[@ZekeStaright]

Austin talking to his shiny Eevee is the best

[@kaeldrarhiannon]

YAY you always manage to provide exactly the guide I need most. 🥰💕 Thank you!!! And congrats on your shiny Alpha!!

[@alucardthespy5539]

16:27 I know that feeling. I was farming grit, so I was going around and catching all the Alphas in the Fieldlands. I went to get the Alpha Scyther behind Kleavor's tree, and I caught the Alpha... but then I heard another Alpha Scyther, turned around, and BAM there was a shiny Alpha Scyther.

[@Silver_Anchor]

Hey, I just had the luckiest day ever today in the game, I caught 16 shinies! All but five of them were random full odds, and the others were in the first bunch of their outbreaks. One of them was an eevee and I love shiny umbreon so I’m really glad that this video got released on my best shiny day ever!

[@Dovahshark]

Nice. I think the most I've ever caught in a day was like 5 from outbreaks lol

[@cryogenic6185]

There's a KZbinr named Tyranitartube and he actually found a glitch where he can't complete the game, and the glitch is basically when he caught the Azelf another Azelf pop up and when he catches it, he can no longer get Mesprit because he already caught 3 lake guardians which is an Uxie and 2 Azelfs because of it he also got a plate to finish the lake guardian mission and now he actually cannot catch Mesprit anymore

[@cryogenic6185]

The video title is something like 'I broke the game"

[@checotaso]

My first alpha shiny was a alpha staravia that I couldn’t catch because of how low I am. I was devastated. My squad of Bidoof and my lvl 7 ace Oshawatt weren’t enough

[@zwillscoopchannel9689]

Don’t you need at least 4 stars to even catch an alpha? Either way you wore unlucky

[@Matty002]

'sylveon will always override the other two' untrue: i evolved an eevee with high friendship at night with baby doll eyes and it evolved into umbreon. i remember because as it was evolving i realized it still had the move and i had autosave on and i freaked out because i wanted an umbreon and didnt want to do another friendship round with another eevee this was before the 1.0.2 patch but i dont think that affects this

[@codyshirley1334]

For whatever reason I like to start my game out with an eveeloution team that isn't over leveled. I caught an evee at level 2 and evolved into Umbreon at 11 and a half by farming with it and only fighting level 2,3, and 4 level wild pokemon. That is lowest level I've had a friendship evolve

[@AceRide]

Something I've noticed about the Pokémon in trees, rocks, and crates; you have to defeat ALL the wild Pokémon in the battle for it to count, not just the one that jumped out. Gligar robbed me of a lot of items before I realized that

[@pogo246]

Perfect timing! Came back to see your shiny trick for an evee outbreak yesterday and I caught one in the first advance :D Now this is exactly what I was looking for my future shiny Umbreon. By far the best pokemon youtuber thanks for all your work.

[@graphitedemon]

The bit of Austin talking to the shiny Eevee made me laugh harder than it should have. 😂

[@Anas-rx1he]

‘That Bitc-‘ 😂😂

[@spencersin8485]

Ive never commented ever, love the videos so helpful, watch and like always, but honestly the genuine happiness on your face for the alpha shiny was amazing! Made my day!

[@bluedart]

I figured out you could grind friendship on the crappy rocks and trees in the first area on my second playthrough when I made an Eeveelution team for fun. In addition, the Eevee I bonked on the head like a jerk took a lot longer to evolve via this method. I didn't know that using experience candy on one Pokémon gives friendship to the other ones as well. That was weird. Did he not notice that?

[@felinecontrolled]

Congrats on your first shiny alpha! I got a shiny alpha Eevee in my first mass outbreak very early in the game so I thought they were more common. Made to the post game last night and my misconception has been thoroughly debunked! 😅

[@sarahuher8358]

"I JUST WANT YOU TO BE MY FRIEND!" yeets Pokemon at rock.

[@TGBMDior]

🔥🔥

[@AustinJohnPlays]

I really don't know how you do this.

[@TGBMDior]

@@AustinJohnPlays You can call me a magician lmao

[@muzz212]

4:03 my favourite part 😂😂😂😂😂

[@minefish]

This is perfect timing!! I got the notification for this when i got an eevee outbreak. Now I got a shiny one and going to Evo it to an Umbreon

[@p0kemasterge0ff]

best thing about this video is austin talking to his eevee like it was spreading the juicest gossip lol

[@Starry-Aries0325]

The conversation between you and eevee at 4:02 is the funniest part of the video 🤣

[@Ash_CartiFan29]

"And what did she say" Eevee: *eevee noises* Austin John: "that bit-" That mad me laugh hard

[@Peeeeencil]

I love how he actually talks to the eevee as if it’s spreading the eevee gossip

[@justvibin9887]

8:20 the zoom your music playing in slow-so (slow sound) was perrrfect lol I love it. That was exciting to see too cause I saw your tweet about it! I’ve done the screen recording to check for the shiny sound too 💀

[@xFINITYXRAGEX]

Omg bro you had me dying when you were talking to eevee 🤣🤣 pure comedy 👏👏👏

[@CONTROLSOLOMON]

Thank you so much Austin, I was playing for hours leveling up my Togepi and after watching your video he evolved in like 10 mins of throwing him at stuff

[@arkangel6281]

I was dieing of laughter at 4:25 when you talked to that shiny eevee!! 🤣🤣🤣 Keep up the good work on the videos man

[@Dovahshark]

4:25 is after the conversation between him and the Eevee. He was talking to it from 4:04-4:21. It was really funny though

[@ShinyTogeticFTW]

Thank you so much for this guide! There is one method that you didn't address however: just walking around with the Pokémon in your party. In previous games this would gradually increase friendship after a certain number of steps, but you didn't mention it among the methods that do still or no longer work...

[@DarkAngelEU]

I'm gonna guess it doesn't, because I did the same, not doing much else bc I wasn't really trying to catch anything, and it took a really long time just to break alot of stuff. It definitely feels alot harder.

[@PeculiarPumpkin07]

Didn't even know that Crobat was a friendship evolution, I got 'em in my second or third day of playing the game before watching this video

[@tonyslaton3863]

Congrats on Red Gyarados. Thanks for the content grinding. Videos are helpful.

[@Umbrellie_]

4:12 "Ooh, how interesting! And then what did she say?" **Eevee noises** "That BI-" I laughed way too much at that, not gonna lie

[@Lycan4]

"See, using items does not work in this--" Eevee can evolve! "... Wait." I burst out laughing. Btw, your video on Shiny hunting via outbreaks worked like a charm for me. I normally have horrible bad luck when it comes to Shinies, but it only took me five resets before I caught my first intentional Shiny (I'd caught previously a Glalie and Magmar just walking around, looking for resources). Thanks for the Shiny Goomy, dude!

[@manguy01]

Another strategy that's slow, but mindless is to just put the pokemon in your party, lead with a lvl 100 pokemon that can beat anything with its first move, and then spam battles by just pressing "A" when talking to Ingo. If you have a turbo controller, you can afk farm experience and friendship. Great for those baby evolution research tasks as you can do 5 at a time this way.

[@thepurpledrink434]

Thank you! while i was using your guide to evolve my eevee into espeon, and right as you found the shalpha staravia, i found a shiny piloswine!

[@daronhybridgaming3165]

I have a shiny alpha Eevee and Pichu really needed this thx!

[@ultimate0727]

I just got this game yesterday and I remembered about your channel

[@PopeyesBiscuitComsumer]

I was on the floor laughing when he was talking to eevee lmao

[@Nova-_-]

simple way to remember it: you gain 1 friendship from ANY source of experience If they implement that in the next 'original formula' games, I'd be up for that. But ONLY if they make the friendship battle bonuses optional (like literally togglable in settings)

[@OurHeroXero]

11:32 It could also be you gain friendship for throwing Eevee at the tree but lost friendship for running away

[@Stealth_Gamer92]

"I've thrown you at 200 trees & rocks Munchlax! Why don't you like me yet!"- Me trying to evolve my Alpha Munchlax I found my first trip back to fieldlands after beating Kleavor

[@layniebear1237]

seeing how excited you get from the alpha shiny makes me happy Q_Q you put some much work into making content for us and with this many hours you still didnt have one... so finally seeing it is so awesome. cant thank you enough for all the work you do and making such incredible guides and stuff!

[@zach6395]

Trainer: We're gonna be best friends! Pokemon: Hopeful smile :) Trainer: *Throws Pokemon at tree*

[@demonichunny]

I love how you talked to your Eevee cause I do the same exact thing to my cats when they meow at me lol

[@greatrandew1536]

Listening to this the first time, I hope you realize you can also throw your new friends at random items on the ground for them to pick up too. Basically, any chance you get a chance to break your friend out, aside from just talking to them, seems to count in some way (at least to my testing)

[@ree-out]

I desperately needed a video on this, thx so much 😊

[@IronPikachu724]

I do like the conversation Austin had with his shiny eevee... but I belive you might have learned this since the video has came out... but if you press A B and Y, it will make your charecter do diffrent stuff, and the pokemon would react to the action (A is a head nod/positive response, B is a head shake/negative response, and Y is a arm pump movement/aggressive response or the battle cry animation, the pokemon does have a chance to not understand/no reaction), I dont know if this raises friendship or not (maybe does, but very slowly)

[@Droub_]

Who needs friendship when you can **find a umbreon in a space time distortion that is somehow shiny on the first time you seen an umbreon outside of battle this legit happened to me WTF**

[@MustasLinked]

I've got this video playing in the background while playing Legends Arceus, and I paused the video at 7:29 because I thought I heard a shiny Pokemon appear, then paused the game and took a capture. I kid you not, I found a SHINY ALPHA Staravia. First ever shiny alpha. What in the WORLD are the chances!? It's too bad this comment is going to be buried, this feels like such a crazy coincidence.

[@altyrrell3088]

Congratulations! I know I'm late, just got Legends Arceus as a gift, and I have so much to learn. Wishing you the best shiny luck!

[@aaronrumph3291]

One thing I find interesting about friendship is that your pokemon will have enough friendship to evolve but then that friendship will go down and I'm not talking about the pokemon dying or something at that level

[@leftygurl]

you know a game’s shiny luck is good when one pops off in a video that wasn’t even about shinies

[@DxDBigbeasty21]

I really enjoyed the simple way of you talking to you shiny eevee just like I do to my animals. And the cut was funny!!

[@flyingfish6903]

Me yesterday: "Ah how does friendship even work in this game? I need to evolve this Eevee to complete the pokedex. I'll do it tomorrow." Austin John: "I got you fam"

[@diggles1196]

Another way to level up friendship fast is to get a strong Pokémon up front, then spam the Ingo fights at the training grounds, gets friendship points from the levels and winning battles, and can be done while focusing on something else. Don’t know if it is faster than grinding rocks/ trees but definitely requires less player input

[@Dovahshark]

4:43 instructions unclear. Threw rock at Eevee. Eevee evolved into Flareon. melted neighbor's pet Bergmite. also congrats on the shiny alpha at 8:18

[@RudyGGames]

Compounding is key! I did this for the past friendship evolutions as I worked on my Pokédex.

[@exzisd]

I am 33 years old and haven't been this excited about Pokemon since Red & Blue as a kid. The last games I really loved were Black & White on DS though I played most of the games up to X&Y and that game and the series progression towards easier repetitive bland 3D just turned me off from the series. The Gameboy, GBA, and DS games are the best in the series though I think GBA titles are my favorite not accounting for Nostalgia. Anyways I love the way you cover the Pokemon series with such fervor and detail. I've been watching for the last 33 hours that I've been playing and your guides have been helpful. I don't have as much time to play games and wander aimlessly as I did as a kid so these help. The polish to your videos is appreciated too. Thanks for all the work you do. -Spike

[@q_dudeq2828]

Congrats on almost 2 mil subs I appreciate how hard you work to inform the Community of thing we don’t find out alone

[@xtremej2575]

Something I've found is that it doesn't have to be rocks, trees, or chests. It can be vivichokes, leaks, and other similar items

[@jannfredryckmatias3545]

AUSTINNNN SO HAPPY FOR YOUR FIRST SHINY ALPHA HAHAHA GOOD JOB MAN!!!

[@manuelj.1146]

Austin talking to eevee was trully wholesome

[@Milotics_Melody]

Not sure if this is accurate, but based on sending Eevee out to gather tumble stones and hitting shaking trees, it should gain friendship if you send it to gather any collectable item, like medicinal leeks or iron chunks.

[@TheAznNin]

You can also have your pokemon to pick up medicinal herbs, caster ferns or anything that is on the ground that you would just press a on and i think that also increases friendship and help get your important materials for crafting

[@aaronrumph3291]

One aspect is pretty cool is fighting with some friendship pokemon will bring down friendship

[@gamergirl2127]

austin " and then what did she say? eevee *sasssy* austin " THAT BIITC"

[@VinaSash]

i just wonna say, you are such a humble, sweet, funny and adorable humanbeeing i'm SO glad i found your channel, your videos just make me very happy and relaxed :) much love

[@rifasclub]

I've found that capturing Pokémon is the best way to increase the friendship. I evolved My Chansey into Blissey with a single outbreak of Zoruas (and the shiny was nice). My Chanssey was of a very low level, so that may have something to do with it.

[@RatEatRat]

really happy I found all pokemon requiring friendship to evolve in the wild. I absolutely despise doing friendship evolutions to complete a pokedex

[@DrasticDzastr]

That eevee conversation with the nice cut at the end really made my day 😂😊 thank you for the content austin! Much love ❤