21 Most Annoying Pokémon to Evolve 

Wow! How long ago was the original I've been watching your channel for about 4 years now and thought this was an original vid. 😅

Actually with gimmieghoul I had a chest form only give me 10 coins. I was very miffed about that

so that's why this video felt old

MandJTV Galarian Farfetch'd could learn Air Cutter at 25. That's a high Crit move

Fixing bad shinys

Yeah. These others are annoying but at least possible. The trades are not possible at all without somebody else.

Or you don't want to pay Nintendo to be able to trade even if you have friends

Not to mention when they make getting the item aggravating or late in the game.

Especially if you do it through random link trades and the fucker cancels before testing back I lost a doodling because if that and just bought the other version (also that fucking union circle trade that can only be done through link codes)

Because of this fact I'd like to add Finizen/Palafin to this list. It was the last pokemon I obtained for the SV dex because, I had like, one friend who played the game, and it has to be a certain level, and said friend has a job, so actually finding a time to friend circle was ridiculous

Why are people complaining about baculegen? I just spammed strong style wave crash on the alpha blissy

It's still annoying

Why did I both get galaran yamask and basculegen first try Ps can't spell that good

I love that actually. The word puns in Japanese. It reminds me a lot of One Piece bounties bc their bounties relate to something about the character. 56 = Go Mu which is Luffy's thing

That's pretty interesting

Making the link cable expensive or difficult to aquire would also stop whining over that option being availible - if you don't want to bother grinding currency or something, buy Nintendo Online and work out a touch trade.

@@serenaleone722 or instead of that nintendo can just make online features that don't require servers (like trading pokemon) free, and then the paid service is only needed for things that use servers (Like splatoon for example)

They should add it n, but make it either a rare item to find or expensive.

@@Gothic7876 I think the Link Cable should be something you can find on the ground, like other items. Maybe even as a "Drop" when you battle certain Pokémon. Would probably make sense if you get the said item from Pokémon that are Trade Exclusive only. Not just the Pokémon in S/V, but the ones from the DLC as well or any Pokémon that you transfer from the past Pokémon games.

​@Gothic7876 Maybe you have to go to a specific store in game to buy it. Maybe a giant department store like Celadon from red and blue.

Oh damn I never even thought of that, yeah all my physical batteries are dead in the old games too.

If it helps, even if you can't grow berries, you can still get them from wild Pokémon. Chesto Berries, which are good for making blue Poke blocks, are sometimes held by wild Whismur and Spinda.

And there's actually around 9 berries you can get from various NPC's daily

​@atonofspiders You can't get them daily if the battery runs dry. Clock based events no longer occur. If an NPC relies on a day-to-day schedule for giving out berries, then they won't restock and give you another berry.

Never mind the fact that it was nigh impossible to find a Feebas in the first place due to the random fishing tile mechanic they set in place for it. Eventually just gave up on it.

I am with you there. I think that the beauty stat requirement was unique and could be done with other Pokémon too. If they were going to change it they could have made it so Feebas evolves just using the Prism Scale

the beauty stat wasn’t annoying it was more annoying just finding a feebas in the sinnoh games lol

Same. I got a feebas from trade in BDSP and evolved it before the 3rd gym. Never made poffins before, but it’s actually really easy

​@@Jonathan-us1quLike, seriously, you will find and catch a Shiny Magikarp before you find a Feebas. In the first five generations, the odds of finding a Shiny are 1 in 8,192. That is a 0.01220703125% chance of finding one in the wild. The odds are so low. Feebas is also stupidly hard to find in the Hoenn games. And do you want to know what else sucks about Feebas in the Hoenn and Sinnoh games? The way it evolves. They could have had it evolve through leveling up, leveling up with high friendship, reaching a certain level with its Special Attack and/or Special Defense being higher than its Attack and/or Defense, trading, or even trading while holding an item. Honestly, the last one I mentioned is how it evolves as of Generation 5, and it should have been that way from the start. Trading while holding an item is annoying, but at least it's better than having to raise Feebas's Beauty condition. Feebas will only evolve once its Beauty condition reaches 170 or higher and then levels up, and you raise this metric by either making dry tasting PokeBlocks or Poffins. You can't just make them whenever, you have to go to Contest Halls in order to use the Berry Blender or the Poffin House to make the Poffins. Then, you have to play a minigame in which you need to do well to get good level, and with other people to get good feel. You better hope your Feebas doesn't have a nature that dislikes the dry flavor, because if it does, it will get less of a Beauty benefit from each snack. And the worst part is that feeding PokeBlocks or Poffins to a Pokemon increases its Sheen, and once that value maxes out, it won't eat anymore, so if you don't get your Feebas's Beauty condition high enough before it stops eating, you have to release that Feebas into the wild, catch another one, hope it has a nature that likes the dry flavor, and try again. I haven't even mentioned Berries yet, as Gen 3 relies on a battery for clock based events to occur, but if your battery runs dry, Berries can't grow in your game anymore, unless you replace the battery. Oh, except for the fact that doing that resets the clock, and no new clock based events can occur until the battery gets to where the previous one left off, meaning you won't be able to grow Berries until that happens anyway. There are so many factors as to how evolving Feebas works, and I'm probably making it sound next to impossible, but God, does everything surrounding getting Milotic suck balls.

You’re just lonely 😅

thats actually really cool

Ikr

Personally I think it just looks like string cheese

I actually somewhat like it’s design. And the sting cheese thing makes me love it even more than before.

When I first saw Gholdengo after I evolved my Gimmighoul, I thought it was kinda weird and not at all what I expected it to look like. But after seeing its volume image and how it moves around, by riding a SKATEBOARD MADE OF GOLD COINS, I instantly liked it a lot more and think it actually looks really cool, even with the dreadlocks and the low belt, like a cool skater dude. Also, it low key reminds me of the robots from Stray, coz they are robots that think and act like humans, wear clothes and even play sports and some even have "hair cuts", made of like metal or wires which is pretty creative. Plus their interactions with the cat are adorable. So I was thinking of them when looking at Gholdengo's dreadlocks, belt and skateboard, plus being a Steel-type (actually a *Gold*-type) and robots are made of metal, so... yeah.

Actually, that's only Kantonian Farfetch'd.

Also Dire Hit items help

@@MarshtompGames is it? I was going by the move set chart he showed in the video. It shows that it learns air cutter

@@wingedcrim7489 that's the ideal way then since you need to do it in the same battle aka you need to not kill the enemy

@@squishvgc Just checked on Bulbapedia, and it is only Kantonian Farfetch'd that learns air cutter.

Welcome to the club, compadre.

IMPOSSIBLE

@@blazefromhoenn it actually is possible

@@Random_Hooman it seems that you are correct in that statement

@@blazefromhoennbro ur such an npc

Wow! I didn't know you could find a Spiritomb in Los Angeles! Thats so intresting!

Kids would go back to schoolyard rumors like we did when I was a child.

How many people do you think knew about the milotec’s evolution

Makes a lot of sense since its a spinning top fighter.

But Hitmontop specializes in Special Defense, though.

@@omnimentaltv2507 I don't know what to tell you, all pokemon stats were kinda never make sense since a fat cat is faster than the living embodiment of time itself.

@@Radish.com.0 True, I’m just pointing out that if you want to make the stat the evolution specializes in to be the one that needs to be higher, it would be Hitmontops base 110 special defense and not its base 70 speed. Which, side note, I don’t really get why Hitmontop has any stat that’s higher since it’s based on the concept of equilibrium.

@@omnimentaltv2507 that also makes sense

You also have to go to a specific location where you can see the full moon.

They added it in gen 7

@@robynbrown1154 sweet thanks for that

You are a LIFESAVER thank you

Also... a Feebas will like blue blocks .... if it has a +SpAttack nature. If it dislikes bvlue... WHY ARE YOU EVOLVING IT!!?!?!? Seriously, a Milotic with a - SpAttack nature sucks.

Thank you so much I did not want to do the freaking minigame just to get Milotic. I sucked at it as a kid and I'm confident that hasn't changed. You my friend have saved me hours of my life

I am crazy and grinded way to much in my first play through of scarlet, I grinded to lvl 80 on lvl 50s

@@eclipseplayz3842in scarlet and violet grinding felt too much fun with the addition of the let’s go mode. It so funny watching your pokemons just demolish an entire ecosystem

I trained my deino to hydreigon when I was at 6th gym in scarlet. it was worth it

I think scarlet is the only game where u can have valid hydreigon

@mommyword5064 gurl, the shade 💀💀 (still one of my favs designwise, tho)

yeah I ended up doing a touch trade to get one, I thought it was annoying that it only evolves from a union circle

I found one in a six star raid but I gave up and after months on end my dumbass got rid of my save data.......and I also lost my shiny donphan.......but I it's fine cause I caught a shiny lechonk and evolved it and caught a shiny swablu

Yea, I just went to the first area of the game, used it on a Lechonk ten times, KO’d it, ran home and healed and then did it again.

@@Gothic7876 Rage Fist does not need to deal damage for it to count. Not executing the move due to flinching, paralysis, etc. does not count

Rage fist is honestly not annoying at all. 1: rage fist a good move especially for tera raids. 2. Even if you dont do tera raids its a more balance version of roll out. 3. Its only 20 times. Rage fist is primeapes signature move. And i will die on that hill.

It has to do with its dex entry. The "so angry it dies" part

With leek

@@beef3442 In Scarlet violet not i believe

Also you can teach it False Swipe and with the Leek you don't need that much time

I don’t think megapod is in either game

Also Focus Energy from Motostoke makes it a lot easier.

If you want to evolve it quick just use the meltan as your buddy and you get candy from walking

Melmetal isn't weak though? Or are you talking about the specific shiny melmetal

@@avaluggglazer445 Pokémon go, stats are often randomized, so even though melmetal could be good in other games, because of its low stat count in Pokémon go, people could be hesitant to evolve it.

​@meowmeowcatfish Tried it and resorted to boxes. To gain 400 candy, you would have to walk with your buddy Meltan for 8000 km with the speed not greater than 12 km/h (or around 5600 miles with the speed of around 7,2 mph)

Easy way I found was to go to the top of the lighthouse at the start of the game, let the pokemon out and then run at least 7 laps round it

Ok

Isnt lechonk a normal type

@@abhishikthkarthik1111 my guy read the whole comment

@@abhishikthkarthik1111 Yes, and that's the point. You can't hurt it, but each time you try to attack it still counts, so you can just attack it 20 times without having to get into 20 fights. You can evolve Primeape in like 3 minutes doing this.

@@annienunyabiz6627 oh I didnt know it counts

6 tiles fortunately, not one

@@jesuschristisyhwh True but still - insanity!

I recently caught one in Emerald. It helped that I was emulating it. I could fast forward the pre-battle cut scene that plays when you fish out the wrong Pokemon, and I could just suspend it using the savestates if I had to do something else. I can't imagine how tough it would have been to go through this slog in the original game. One would've needed like two hours to scan the entire stretch of river. I caught mine within half an hour.

@@sumit92artist Feel lucky, my dude. Because it is painful to get it normally.

it’s like friendship evolutions but harder

help i have a level 30 pawmo, im pissed

@@incognitomode178 make it the front of your party, hit ZR, and walk around with it for a while. Just keep walking.

@@CraftingGummi ive been doin that since it evolved when it was a pawmi and it wont fricken evolve again, so i caught an orthworm and put the pawmo in the box

Pawmo -> Pawmot: Training its legs to actually stand upright and run.

i like in arceus they just turned trade evo into an item obtainable just like the other evo items. found a full odds shiny abra, was worried about evolvoling it, then found out about the link cable evo item.

@@DarthZ01 and they turned the held item trade evolutions like the protector and electrizer basically into evolution stones. I wish they kept them like that in Scarlet and Violet

@@DarthZ01I found a full odds remoraid and thought it would be a cool Pokémon and got a mustard yellow ocotillory then lost my scarlet and legends arceus game cards

Feebas evolves with a Beauty condition of 170 or higher, and 255 is the max. Also, even if you make a PokeBlock or Poffin with good feel and level, if your Pokemon doesn't like the flavor you're going for, it will be 10% less effective. What determines whether your Pokemon likes or dislikes a given flavor? Its Nature, which is random. Let's say your Feebas has a Careful, Adamant, Impish, or Jolly nature. It's going to hate PokeBlocks or Poffins it needs in order to evolve, meaning it takes more Berries to make it evolve. Inversely, even if you make a trash PokeBlock or Poffin with bad feel and level, if your Pokemon likes the flavor you're going for, it will be 10% more effective. Again, using Feebas, let's say it has a Quiet, Modest, Mild, or Rash nature. It's going to enjoy PokeBlocks or Poffins it needs in order to evolve, meaning it doesn't take as many Berries to make it evolve.

@@greninjamariokartpokemonfan You forgot something... it's the +SpAttack natures that LIKE blue! Milotic is a special attacker! Soo... the game is actually hinting at how to min-max Natures!

​@@greninjamariokartpokemonfani mean Why would you evolve a -spattack feebas?

Legend

same bro it wasnt as hard as people made it seem the small ones if your luckygive like 10 coins and by the ice type gym without the tower ones i had 500+

It isn't hard the first time, the problem occurs when you need a second one, 'cause the chests don't respawn oftenly...

The problems I had with Gimmeghoul were about finding a decent one to Evolve - Weakening a Chest Form Gimmeghoul can be *a pain,* when none of your _False Swipers_ have *Scrappy or Enemy-Identifying Moves,* the little Ghost faints to a Strong Breeze (because unless you're running _Victory Road,_ you can only *Command Lv.20 or lower without question,* and Gimmeghoul is better to aquire Early while you're collecting Coins), and you have to _keep Catching Gimmeghoul_ until you get one you're *willing* to _Evolve into a Gholdengo!_

Yeah, as long as you're diligent about hitting those chests, which are fairly easy to find, getting 999 is not that bad. I got it around midway into my playthrough, evolved Gimmighoul, and then found another 999 coins before finishing the game. I spent the last 4-5 hours just ignoring Gimmighoul because I literally couldn't carry their coins.

@@moggie269 you can get a chest's worth daily at the normal gym city.

Or pay like 200 quid to do it for a new switch

It doesn't HAVE to be online. You need to be in Union Circle. That means you can do it locally

I love the idea of buying Switch Online just to evolve a stupid overpowered dolphin

@@BearWith_You do you still need the help of a friend?

@@teeweezeven luckily I always have a second switch on hand either one of my family members or some randoms switch I stole for a week

The annoying part for me is in Pokemon GO. Even though I got mine during the events, at any other time it is not shown as an evolution when looking at Teddiursa or Ursaring unless the full moon is really in progress. Why hide the information even when the evolution can't happen?

@@MagnakayViolet that’s so lame I didn’t know that!

Also if you know the moon cycle (unless it’s random)

I got two block and they were when I wasn't looking for them in the Alabaster Iceland

I had a full moon the moment I caught my ursarang, and already had a peat block, so I could evolve it immeatly.

You can just use rage fist on a low level normal type 20 types to get easily

@@pokefan9194 You can't though bc it's a ghost type move ~

That’s oddly terrifying. An absolute rage monster that will not only kill itself from its own rage, but will still come after you as a spirit. It will put itself in the grave just to kill you.

@@presst4rt that's why its good. You can easily spam rage fist on a normal type like lechonk 20 types. You only need to use the move

He’s not the spirit of a Primeape. The ones that don’t die of anger are capable of harnessing that power and energy, and that causes them to evolve. Most of them die of anger, but the remainder transcend.

Seriously, idk why he had souch trouble with finding three Bisharp leading a group of Pawniard. I just went into the bamboo forest, ate a sandwich to increase steel encounters (since it's the only steel type in the area), and they were popping up like weeds. I targeted three of em and evolved my Bisharp in like ten minutes.

​@MsTheCommentator Working smarter, not harder lol. I looked for two minutes then thought wait, let's just use the encounter power for steel types, and it was a breeze.

Plus it doesn’t rely on other people And other people are the worst

True but goddamn I hated that grind

Agreed on

So confused why he didn't mention it in the video

That's not really evolving though. That's to obtain the Pokemon in the first place. More comparable to the Ruinous Treasures in SV than to Gimmighoul and Gholdengo. This video is specifically about difficult Pokemon to evolve, not obtain. Otherwise Munchlax would be on the list, as would Zygarde, Spiritomb, and even the Ruinous Treasures

@@Kahadi Rewatch/Relisten to 19:05 "Adding collectibles that have a Pokemon as a reward." so for a moment there he didn't talk about the topic of the video. Spiritomb *is* on his list of examples.

@@orangutan8125 Spiritomb *is* on his list of examples.

I was surprised how difficult it was for Mikey to get Gholdengo bc it was super easy for me. Literally, Gimmighoul is everywhere. I racked up so many coins without even trying

I know, it’s so annoying to do that eventually I gave up and got one from a Tera raid Someone had

I AGREE, RELATIBLE!!!!!!!!

I have a similar story. Hundreds of fishing encounters looking for Carvhana, but only a shiny Wailmer and no Carvhana after all these years. The wiki said it was possible, but I guess it lied. Quick question: Can Carvhana be caught in Pokemon Moon?

@@sleeplesswhipdcreme_nosleep I believe not but it might in UsUm, don’t take my word for it though cause I’m not sure

3 words: encounter power steel

Just go to sleep to midnight a couple of times until its usable

Yeah i didnt even know you can only evolve him on full moon until now

Jo u

You can find HEART Scales and Prism SPHERES in the Grand Underground, but not Prism Scales.

The Prism Scale is not available in Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl. I wish that holding the Blue Scarf contributed to the Beauty level for evolution.

@@JCDragon2819 It can be found. If you use bulbapedia, the info for BDSP isnt there. pokemondb has bdsp listed, and serebii sort of has it. Bulbapedia just doesn't have it.

Its very easy to do though

I actually remember figuring it out by myself! I was playing it above my head so it was upside down and it evolved

guh?? it's pretty intuitive though

Wonder what the evolution method is these days. Assuming Inkay even made it to Gen 8/9, I honestly don’t know. I know in Pixelmon, you had to level it up while at an absurd height to evolve it.

@@isenokami7810 the method is the exact same, it just means you're robbed from Malamar if you play exclusively on docked lol

yeah Ash used that strategy when he battled a trainer using Gallade. I watched it on Pokemon Master Journeys last night.

you can also use dire hit 3x

The Leek isn't exclusive lol. It's in Shield, any wild Farfetch'd has a chance to be holding one that you can either Thief/Covet from or catch to get it

@@monstermayhem4367 and i found one as a random item

@@monstermayhem4367 well the main problem with that is that Farfech'd isn't able to be found in shield, it's exclusive to pokemon sword, and can only be obtained in shield via trading, which is also true of the leek.

Oooooooooh... Nice!

They made it so hard for the sake of a fucking *pun*

Pretty much the same for me it was weirdly easy

My best friend discovered that evolution method by accident

I don't remember it that much but I think it took me 1-2 tries to get it right.

But it's still extremely stupid

Same here

I had my Sliggoo evolve at 65 because the rain was not happening much.

@@timhiltz6323 F

I appreciated Pawmo's evolution for this exact reason - there's an NPC trainer in S/V who gives you a hint about the new method. Wish more Pokemon games did this...

Pawmo to pawmot*

I ultimately didn’t find that evolution method that bad. Mainly because I’ve been doing the exact same thing for friendship evolutions, which even with this easier method to raise friendship, I would say is more time consuming than just walking 1000 steps.

You could just fircefeed them sandwiches with the sootbell

I'm kinda jealous cause it took me SO LONG to evolve my pawmo. it kept going back into its pokeball cause it can't keep up with me. and I had to go walk extra slowly around mesagoza because if I ran into any wild pokemon on a route it'd reset pawmo back into its ball. I never want to do it again

@@ArthurTRead for the future use the mesagosa stairs they are 200 steps each way so go up and down each way and you should get it To ensure it was right I walked to thenpokecenter but just use some XP candies and it should work fine

It was actually really easy to evolve my Pawmo I just crouch-walked around the circular area in Artizan for like 10 minutes and used a rare candy on it… boom instant evolution you don’t have to have it walk around where there’s Pokémon running around just find a nice circular area and crouch walk there for a extended period of time and your sorted

I just went from the front gate up to the academy which is between 400-500 steps so you just need to do one round trip plus a little extra

Yeah, that's what I did for all three of those Pokémon. Six laps around there will do it for each of them.

I just ran up and down Alfornada's street for, like, 5 minutes

Honestly though, I used a Pawmot on my initial playthrough team and it really doesn't take that long

boy i used bramble ghast and rabessca i just went around a circle hole near the place where you get armarouge armor and guess what you have to do it 10 times i nailed sure but god was it time consuming

Thanks for the tip

Plus you can also just run around in circles in a town plaza, I did that and it was quite quick, had no issues.

I personally find 3 laps around the Ruchbah star base works well for me

3 laps around Los Platos works really well too

Another one: if you can jump on top of a Pokémon center on Miraidon or Koraidon (I did it in Casscarrafa) and crouch, it will run in circles if it’s already out of its Pokeball because it’s trying to reach you. Let it run around for about 30 minutes and give it a rare candy and it should evolve. If not you can always jump back up and let it run around some more :)

I mean, I had my Bisharp, Oberon, evolve I think even while fighting a Girafarig in between, so I don’t know about the first point. But I used Low Kick to my advantage if you wonder how I got my Kingambit.

6000 IQ

Also, I haven't confirmed this, but it would be logical if the moon was on a cycle, right? So you only have to check a handful of times

That is exactly that what I did.

@@teeweezeven the moon is on a cycle

I didn’t realize that

Nope. Pokemon can't eat rare candies in Scarlet and Violet after reaching level 100

@@D3__ yes it does from gen 8 onward, to evolve lv 100 mons

@@bobetten4908 And in Gen 9, unlike Gen 8, this doesn't consume the Rare Candy.

@@robertlupa8273 damn, imagine if this kind of quality of life was across the entire game

In ORAS specifically there is an easy method of getting feebas, by fishing directly under the bridge in route 119, it’s 100% guaranteed that feebas shows up, thats how I got mine. :)

its encounter rate is ridiculously low too when you have to fish the entire river. It can take up to 60 hours to just encounter one

Evolving Feebas in Diamond and Pearl is also pretty brutal especially by yourself. Need to do the berry mini game perfectly several times and have the right nature for your feebas. Thankfully there’s an NPC who helps raise the beauty stat.

Omg yes same. I just picked up my copy of Sapphire and tried it again and tbh it didn’t take as long as I had remembered. 412 squares to fish through seemed more daunting back then but it only took 30 minutes before the first tile encounter. Still involved with the Popularity phrase piece and then spamming pamtre/Oran/sitrus based pokeblocks to reach that maxed beauty.

I got a Milotic old school style in Sapphire as a kid. Worse yet, it had Jolly Nature and hated dry food. Took almost a whole weekend to do.

Or xp

Once a Pokemon hits Lvl. 100, XP doesn’t work anymore. Silly goose.

Regarding Hisuian Basculin - some media refer to it as Hisuian regional Form while some refer as White Striped Form. I think Hisuian Basculin is the more appropriate terminology because of how it's treated by its Dex entry, Pokémon Home, and TCG cards

Walk them around the top of Cabo Poco lighthouse for a few minutes

@@ryuuou07 That doesn't solve any of the problems I described

@@calvinallen3424 No, it doesn't solve anything in terms of making the problem go away. But it makes it easier because it's a circle, so you can't get too far away from them that they'll go back in the ball. Also, you can use candy after you've gotten the steps. I've evolved a Pawmo in both Scarlet and Violet.

@@ryuuou07 I've evolved them all but candy didn't work. I had to do a battle

Yea, the melmetal you get from home can't be shiny, but when you open the box in PoGo its a very small chance. Still normal shiny odds, but you only have an hour, which makes it 20x harder.😅

Why don’t people just evolve Pokémon while traveling?

Yesss. Black and white had a huge problem with this.

And what happens if, during the trade, a -birdseed bandit- -tree rat- squirrel blunders into a power substation at one end in the real world?

@KororaPenguin i'm assuming you're asking what happens if there's a disconnect, and the answer is to have the game make a save state right before the trade begins. If connection is severed before the trade is fully completed, then the game will just revert to before the trade took place

@@Thund3rDrag0n12 And what happens at the end without the power outage?

@@KororaPenguin The trade is successful...