
This week's massive Pokémon GO update brings 80 new monsters, enhanced customisation options for player avatars and new items - one of which is Evolution Items.
These new items are fairly rare but can be obtained at PokéStops, and they're integral to getting some of the better evolutions in the game.
At the time of writing there are five different stones, and we've outlined what they are and what they do below.
- Dragon Scale: Evolves Seadra into Kingdra
- King's Rock: Evolves Poliwhirl into Politoed / Slowpoke into Slowking
- Metal Coat: Onix into Steelix / Scyther into Scizor
- Sun Stone: Gloom into Bellossom / Sunkern into Sunflora
- Upgrade: Porygon into Porygon2
Have you managed to get hold of any of these items and evolve new monsters? Let us know by posting a comment below.
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@Damo The King's Rock evolves Slowpoke, not Slowbro, into Slowking...
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@Markiemania95 Don't know what I was thinking there - thanks for the save
Ugh, I have enough candy to evolve nearly all of these but finding these arbitrary items is going to take forever. I mean, I understand why they made items to distinguish branches evolutions, but why do we need an item for all of them?
People still post "first"? Haven't seen that in years hahahaha ridiculous.
I like how they've based this a little more on the main games evolution techniques. I was kinda gutted there weren't elemental stones in the original launch.
Weird that they didn't implement the fire/thunder/water stones for Eevee, but I also wonder if the Espeon/Umbreon evolutions require you to do it during the day or night.
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I like this last update for the game now where is the sharing and friends battle update.
Okay, so basically the news is spin pokéstops. Obviously something I haven't been doing so far....lol, sorry, this is actually a good article as not everyone are long time pokémon players like myself.
@Damo I have tens of thousands of pokémon hours under my belt & I made the slowbro/slowpoke evolution mistake as well. It's easily done as you don't evolve them often (I think I still have my Gen 3 in my Sun pokébox).
@thesilverbrick It's likely just to artificially slow things down as this Gen hasn't got quite as many new pokémon as Gen 1. It's going to take them quite a while to make Gen 3 a reality. It's frustrating, but it does buy them time to add in updates like trading etc. as well as Gen 3 down the line.
Can you trade Pokemon yet?
Hoped Eevee had evolution items as well. Random it is then...
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@carlechu Like with the three Gen I 'eon' evolutions, you can determine whether Eevee evolves into Espeon or Umbreon by naming it 'Sakura' or 'Tamao' respectively prior to evolution.
Wish they'd had a system where you can use the candy for that Pokémon to buy the evolution items, then evolve it. Rather than need both at once and rely on finding the item. It's gonna be very hard to get them I would think.
Cool! I will still need to get the candy but now I can finally evolve a Scyther I caught around launch and an Onix I hatched last week. Steelix and Scizor are some of my favorites
These items are so hard to find... Good guide though!
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