Pokémon GO’s Most Impossible Evolutions 

I remember in a Uber car ride, my driver said that there was a full moon out tonight. So I got on and evolved my shadow ursaring into ursaluna. I gave him a big tip that day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frugibax been spaening everywhere recently

...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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Me here with 2 baxcaliburs with one being a wild hundo

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

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

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

1:51 Finland mentioned!!!!🔥🔥🔥

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

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

Why do you have to wait six years to evolve a Pokémon?

Oddly enough, I've found 4 wild Frigibax in the last week. Larvesta took me about a year to get because I play super casual and mostly used rare candies and walking to evolve it.

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

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

I have from this video Armarouge, Ceruledge, Baxcalibur,Lunala, Solgaleo, Cosmog,Charcadet ×3,Salandit (male×2),1 Salazzle,and 3 or 4 Larvesta

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

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. 😂

“You can’t even get poipel anymore because the research expired” that’s wrong I was playing yesterday for the first time in months randomly doing research and I got poipel out of research.

I would say full form zygrade is hands down the hardest Pokemon to evolve!! 250 zygrade cells to fully evolve it

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

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...

I HAVE LUNALA AND I'M ABOUT TO GET SOLGALIO IF I HAVE 20 MORE CANDY WHICH IS EASY TO GET

Gonna get my 100 % Zygarde tomorrow

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.

It's not a random system. Gholdengo is number 1000 in the dex & requires 999 coins in SV. I have a hundo Gholdengo, and it's one of the best ghost & master league pokemon I own. You saying it's not useful is completely false

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.

Hatched a hundo Salazzle not too long ago. I was super excited when that happened.

With the exception of Ghouldengo, I have all of the other ones. I hatched my Shiny Larvesta literally yesterday. I have 11 Larvesta hatched in my Pokedex. I didn't know it was so rare so I transferred all of them except the 15-15-14 that I currently have. Yesterday I caught a shiny Fennekin and opened my pokemon bag to show it to my wife just to see a shiny Larvesta as the most recent pokemon. I was like "WHAT?!" So yeah... Nice surprise. Also, Frigibax is literally everywhere in my zone. Not anymore but back in April I caught a bunch. Including 2 hundos. I also did the research and evolved my only Poipole into naganadel. The cosmog one is literally absurd. Thank god I went to Go Fest Madrid and got my Lunala. Hahahaha

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

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

I see at least three wild frigibax daily now lol and I hatch once every 2 weeks so it’s not too rare for me lol I just can’t wait until the shiny release! And hatched a Hundo Charcadet 🎉

No way the poipole research expired just a few days after I started playing again! I did catch it and it was 3 ⭐️ unlike most of my mythical or shadow legendaries…

Larvester and shiny larvester. Evolved the normal one as it was a 98%. Still working on charcadet. Need to battle a friend.

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.

Which evolution of Charcadet is the best?

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

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)

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

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

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.

Got every evo listed here. Was a grind but thats the game :)

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

Why does pokemon Go just decide that every so often they are going to drop a pokemon that's literally impossible for casuals to evolve like zygard.

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.

If you grind daily, nothing is difficult to evolve except Gimmighoul. If you only play POGO, you are forced to purchase other platforms & games just to get a single dex entry

Probably there should be Wiglett in this list.. it’s hard to find in general because of the beach biome, it’s not guaranteed to be there when you play there anyway , and some people don’t live near beaches. Now find more than 1 to get candy is not the easiest thing to do. Well I personally made it my buddy , 3km per candy and be manageable if you don’t wanna use rare candy to get 50 candies to get Wugtrio.

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.

Haven't seen sinnoh stones for so long.

They should really make Gimmighoul be able to spawn around Golden Lure Modules, for those of us unable to play Newer console games.

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.

I have Gholdengo😂, took 1 ½ month every day grinding. And i have a shiny larvesta and a shiny shadow teddiursa but refuse to evolve it, because it just looks sooo good

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

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).

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

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!

I'm having so much trouble evolving my second cosmog, my darumakas, my porygon, my gimighoul, my arctibax and my hoopa tho i think that might be changing forms not evolving. I'm also having trouble changing the form of my zyguard doggo ;_;

I have a hundo baxcalibur, I got lucky with a hatching it also my best buddy now!

From my experience gholdengo is pretty good in master league.

I got larvesta from my first ever 10km egg when I first started playing pokemon go and my friend was begging me for it

-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!

"you can't even get poiple anymore" how do you catch 'em all then

Ursaring to ursaluna in Pokemon go is meant to be a reference to Pokemon legends Arceus's same evolution method

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.

Even worse for Gimmighoul, but you can't send two postcards from the exact same place to have several bags. That's just insane.

I guess I'm a nut cause I actually have all of these pokemon and evolved forms except shiny vesta😂

Hardest one for me personally rn is Sylveon, it’s so hard 😭 also my dad almost has Gholdengo, he’s just been using my account on Scarlet though because he only plays go and let’s go eevee, and I’ve already finished all of scarlet

Why zygarde is not here for me it is toughest to evolve bcz u have to burn calories for it

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.

Bro forgot: -zygarde -dusk lycanrock -party of 3 mousehold And also gholdengo is an absolute beast in master leauge. This guy is a crackpot

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

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

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

I know zygarde is a form change but that’s easily the most challenging. You’re not even guaranteed cells if you walk a route 😵‍💫

imagine hoarding over 300 evo items, you aint gonna use them...

Funny thing about Larvesta. I just redownloaded Go a couple days ago, and the first egg I hatched had one.

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.

I did indeed save up rainbow candy’s to evoke my cosmog because of the fusion but the sad part is I don’t have a necrazma yet got to wait a few days for them to come back to raids

Idk why but my only frixibax is said caught in wild 12-7-2024. For other ppl 7-12-2024

I have all but 2. I have a 98% larvesta that I'm currently dumping rare candy into, but I've never bothered with gimmigoul 😂

Dishonorable mention: Zygarde.

I can count myself lucky, as I have a Baxcalibur (and I am not a professional, lol). I see on average 1 Frigibax a day as a wild spawn around where I live. The rest, well, I lucked out on Poipole/Naganadel, but everything else will just be a slow, slow grind XD

I just quit getting Snuffle. Like 50 spawn a day for me. It’s dumb but it’s annoying for shiny spawns to be wasted on snuffles