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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

😂 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 👉😎👉

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

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! ^^

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.

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

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

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.

I've been watching a ton of different pokemon videos and KZfaqrs recently and you are handsdown the most informative and entertaining one to watch. Thank you for these awesome regular uploads and please keep it up!

WELCOME TO THE SHINY ALPHA CLUB!!!

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.

I love how he actually spoke to the ever 😂

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 💀

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

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

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.

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

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!

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...

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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! 😅

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!!

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

That eevee conversation cut-in was funny.

🔥🔥

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

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

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

This literally could not have been timed better. Just last night I hit the point in the Pokédex where I need umbreon and espeon and was almost resolved to waiting for a distortion to give them

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

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

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

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

Austin talking to his shiny Eevee is the best

"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!

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

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!

Thanks for all your help! One of the videos that would have been very helpful for me would be how to reset shaking trees and ores to get more spawns. I'm 45 'mons into my Perfect Pokédex Quest, and tree Pokémon need so many encounters, and knowing how to get them as quickly as possible without rezoning over and over would have been nice. From my research, it seems to be that trees (and ore,I suppose) can't spawn new Pokémon if they have berries in them. So the best way is to empty all the trees that have the spawns you want, so that later when the berries repopulate, they can possibly have spawns in them.

"and what did she say?" "Eevee noise" "THAT BI-"

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

Thank you so much and I appreciate these videos as well as the hard work that goes into them. The Wisp videos in particular, and another to help me catch Munchlax was very helpful. You have great advice and its easy to follow along, thanks again!

Just when I am having trouble evolving Eevee you post this,thanks Austin

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

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.

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

Less go. I needed an Espeon so bad but didn’t know how to get friendship or compatibility up. So this helped

4:03 my favourite part 😂😂😂😂😂

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

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

Austin is a real life Pokémon Professor. Thank you for the great content!

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

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

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)

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)

I’m really glad AJP cut in the information from future Austin about XP candies raising friendship because they do but it’s so slight that you feel like they don’t. When I was testing it myself I felt like there was no difference regardless of what size candy you used but I could be wrong.

Amazing! The feels when you were doing recording and get accidental shiny was so satisfying. It happens to me with Shiny Alpha Torterra too. She was Adamant Nature even

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

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?

That clip of you talking to Eevee I will never not laugh at 🤣

Lmfaooooo. I loved the Stream when you talked to Eevee. "That Bi...!"

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

I have never related to Austin more than I did in those last 5 seconds of the video

A good video idea is a guide for people who have beat the post game as in completed the “seek out all Pokémon” quest for post game content

9:13 you think that's crazy? While gathering Sky Tumblestone i have gotten ludicrous hauls like "2 Water Stones, 3 Iron Chunks" and just "5 Iron Chunks"!!!

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

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

Congrats on the shiny alpha staravia! my first(and only) was a shiny alpha zorua that I got during an outbreak. I was freaking out about it

I know this is really old, but thank you so much! Fastest way = buy small candies, use up to 110, done! You are my go-to when I need to know correct information on how to accomplish things in Pokemon. Thank you. :)

I did a new play through and I won’t lie, just running around with Eevee and having it break rocks and stuff had it wanting to evolve really fast to me

Austin talking to his Eevee is how I talk to my cat. I laughed so hard

There's a KZfaqr 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

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

'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

I'm in the middle of working on friendship evolutions for the dex now, thank you so much for this!