Mantyke evolves in the most anime way possible: ✨THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP✨

As of Legends Arceus, Nosepass can evolve via Thunder Stone - it’s the only one of all Pokémon that evolve through a stone tied directly to a specific type which isn’t that type before or after the evolution

Mantyke evolving only if a Remoraid was in the battle was always funny to me. Like it could evolve but it refuses to until it has its favourite friend's support.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned but I love Karrabast and shelmet's evolution method, it's built into the design of the Pokemon while also taking inspiration from hermit crabs. I'm generally not a fan of trade evolutions bc it's restrictive, especially if you're going back and replaying older games, but this is an exception

I do actually really like all of the ancient power evolutions. Tangela becoming a giant swamp beast, Yanmega becoming a griffinfly/ and piloswine becoming an ancient mammoth.

I wish they would retroactively change Slowpoke's evolution method to involve Shellder. Maybe it could be like the Mantyke method, but if Shellder is above it in the party list you get Slowking or below it you get Slowbro. Just an idea!

I know it was a joke, but I TOTALLY want that "top 10 staircases" list

I love the way Inkay evolves. I think its cool, and going to be very difficult to continue because of how weird it is.

Fun fact: the image used for the Pokédex entry for mantine in Pokémon home adds a little extra detail in its shiny form, as the remoraid in the image will also be shiny! Very unique and amazing detail for such a unique Pokémon!

The best thing about milotic is that when you transfer a milotic who has maxed it's beauty stat into gen 5 it can just evolve by leveling up just after it. Also in ORAS feebas was the only Pokemon to evolve into same specie by two vastly different methods.

My favorite evolution gimmick is without a doubt Kingambit. You need to catch a leader Bisharp, and then take down three other leaders, leaving your Bisharp the strongest leader and therefore evolving it.

I like it when Pokémon have evolution gimmicks, with Inkay’s gimmick definitely being cool and unique, but if I had to choose one evolution gimmick I don’t like, it’s got to be Galarian Yamask, where you have to make it take a certain amount of damage and then go to a random spot in the Wild Area. Aside from that, I like most evolution gimmicks

My favorite Gimmick Pokemon is probably Alcremie. As someone who love to bake, Evolving a cream pokemon by whipping it makes so much sense !!! I also love the newly introduce Annihilape. I don't remember in each version the Pokedex said for Primape : "he can die by becoming too angry", and now, by using Rage Fist over and over gain, he became a Ghost type... So much lore fitting !

Shame that the Mantine evolution method wasn't applied to Slowpoke & Shellder, because that's what the Dex says supposedly happens...

Just playing through the game, my favorite is good ol fashion leveling up with no other conditions. For completing the Pokédex, evolution items that are all easily obtained. Everything else can go away 😅

Ancient Power evolutions I grew fond of because the Pokemon is unlocking a trait once lost over time.

Don't think I've ever been so early haha! Turning that 3DS upside down was really cool, I actually like it more now than I did when I first played X/Y

Ah, there's nothing like a fresh Emperor Cubone video in the morning. ☕

This isn't really a gimmick, but I really appreciated that Legends Arceus had an alternative to trade evolutions. I wish every game would do that!

Can't wait for the Worst evelotion gimmicks soon

For #6, Crabrawler does something similar. It starts as a fighting type, and then “absorbs” the ice stone to become Crabominable and gain the ice typing.

Idea for a video: who is the strongest starter lorewise? Mainly talking about pokedex entries, mangá stuff and anime stuff

Top 10 Pokémon staircases sounds like an April Fools special

Mantine is one of my favourite pokemon just because it's the first one to appear in the movie I used to watch when I was little.

I remember when I just started out with pokemon bw2 and I found a feedbas. I knew it needed a prism scale but not a trade partner. I ended up leveling it up to 100 before I figured it out. Don't know why I didn't question it until level 100 though.

I'm surprised Inkay isn't on the list rather that just the thumbnail. It's the only evolution method that requires the player to physically do something to make it into a Malamar. If we're talking about uniqueness, it doesn't get much more unique than that. :P

For the Kalos fossils I understand a bit because for Amaura evolves into Aurora which is kind of like THE northern lights Pokémon which are more visible during the night. For Tyrunt it was made just to be different but there is a reason for Amaura.

Honestly, Top 10 Pokémon Staircases would be a nice April Fools video

I've been watching your videos for years but your intro never gets old it has to one of the best end the platform, great video one of your best yet😊

So many others... Malamar's upside down evolution. Bellosom I'm pretty sure is the only one to drop a type when it evolves. Milcery spinning into Alcremie...

Honestly Top 10 Pokemon Staircases would hit different.

I definitely agree with you on that Mantine section. Even though the Pokémon is based off from a manta ray, every time I see it, it reminds me of the symbiotic relationship between sharks and remora fishes. In fact, this Pokemon (and the Magic School Bus) is the reason why I was able to nail my science class covering the topic when I was a child. XD Thank you for another great topic, Emperor Cubone.

I always found nincada's possible evolution into two simultaneously pokemon fascinating. A 2 for q special if you will. It especially helps that it evolves at a low enough lvl and is caught early enough in the game it is plausible to not have your 6th slot occupied yet, so you can just have a random extra pokeom in your party to confuse the rest of your days.

That top 10 staircases could be a good april fools video

Man I miss contests. That was my favorite part of Gen 3, and that's my favorite gen.

In my opinion, the best evolution gimmick was Galarian Yamask evolving into Runerigus. To evolve an Galarian Yamask, you have to make it take at least 49 points of damage in one battle, then walk under the stone sculpture in the in the Dusty Bowl section of the Wild Area.

I am a 15 year Pokémon veteran, Who thought I knew everything about these games. I just discovered something new with the Mantyke evolution… Great video!!!

My favorite evolution gimmick is twirling in Sword & Shield to evolve Milcery into Alcremie. I found that out accidentally when I equipped a cake decoration. I thought that it was by level up after that, but after I randomly twirled (I like the Charizard pose), I was surprised when it evolved

I actually think they changed it to where own tempo rockruff only evolves into dusk form

Do ‘top 6 Pokémon that know the tragedy of darth plaguise the wise’

Every Stone gets some love... Except the Dawn Stone. Speaking of which. Lycanrock should have a Dawn form.

I definitely would have put Nincada on this list

Can’t wait for Gen 14 when Scovillain gets its third evo

9:50 I don’t know why that line was so funny, but it’s too true

The rockruff line has to be an S tier pokemon line from any generation.

To be honest, I can't recall 6 evolution gimmics that I hate. But if i have to summarise them with a few words: Thoose that require online play...

I want a top 10 ledges because I feel coming down Blackthorn city is one of the most satisfying feeling going downhill in 2D

I despise Feebas's original evolution method with a passion. Not only is finding one its own level of hell in and of itself, let alone finding one with a nature that likes the dry flavor and especially in Gen 4, where the spots change every single day, but getting its Beauty condition high enough is Satan reincarnated, and it's even worse in Gen 3, which relies on an internal battery for clock based events to occur. To increase a Beauty condition, you need to feed it PokeBlocks or Poffins that are either dry tasting or blue colored, and you need berries to make them. You can't just make them whenever, you have to go to Contest Halls to use the Berry Blender or Poffin Houses to make Poffins. Then you need to play a minigame and do well in order to get a low smoothness and high level. Oh, and if your Feebas has a nature that dislikes the dry flavor, you may as well release it into the wild and catch another one, repeating the process until you get one with a nature that likes the dry flavor or is at least neutral to it, because it gets less of a Beauty benefit from each snack. The worst part is that you can permanently lock your Feebas out of evolving. Feeding a Pokemon PokeBlocks or Poffins increases its sheen, and once that value maxes out, it can't eat anymore. If you don't get your Feebas to the right Beauty level before its sheen maxes out, you'll have to release that Feebas into the wild and catch another one to restart the process. Back to the internal battery part of the rant, if your battery runs dry, berries can't grow in your game anymore, unless you replace the battery. Oh, except for the fact that replacing the internal battery resets the clock, and no new clock based events can occur until the new battery catches up to the previous one, 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 harder than it actually is, but God, does everything surrounding getting Milotic suck balls.

Annihilape is 100% the best from a flavour perspective.

Worst evolution gimmicks maybe, tho not many truly bad ones tbh, one i hate tho is the use X move 20+ times condition arceus introduced tbh lol... Edit: im realizing qwilfish on the list, preferences are prefences lol... tho i dont like them cause i think 20 is WAY to many tbh... Edit2: for a future pokemon game, id like to see an evolution where you give the pokemon an item, and then use the stone on them, feel that would be a unique change up~

I like mankites evolve method because it shows the 2 people help one another and I think it helps with world building

Playing Pokémon Yellow as a kid, I was shocked that Slowpoke evolved into Slowbro without a Shellder. I thought that having both in a party would evolve it, but it didn’t work.

Dude I spent a good chunk of my teenage years trying to catch a Feebase and evolving it

Unpopular opinion: I like the walking evolutions. If you don't just run around in circles, you can grow a bond with your pokemon easily by walking and autobattling with them.

I still like that we basically get a free Shedinja when Nincada evolves.

personally I feel like certain pokemon learning ancient power to evolve makes sense to me, they had ancestral potential they previously couldn't access, but with ancient powers they suddenly have a way to activate that dormant ability

In usum, during a certain time period, an event rockruff with own tempo will evolve into dusk form lycanroc

Mantyke

I hope we get more stone evolutions cases similar to Eevee and Capsakid, where they take on the stone's power. It makes more sense to me that Pokémon would acquire new traits and type through the unique property of the evolution stones. Than say Arcanine, who I always forget is a stone evo.

Fun little tidbit- While I’m not sure exactly when they were produced, there was Mantine action figure that came with a tiny little remoraid (that had a little nib on the top so you could attach it to the arms of one of the mantine). It’s one of the few figured I still have, along with the tiny, pupil-less remoraid. It’s such a cool detail, kinda wished they did similar things for other figures.

Unlike most people, I actually do not mind about Friendship evolutions because I love having my Pokémon love me and taking care of them & I love the Affection mechanic! I hope they put that in all future games! I especially have a very affectionate Feraligatr in SoulSilver! And in Sword and Shield, I especially have 3 affectionate Dragons! Actually at least 5 if you count both games! Heck in Scarlet, I especially have a very affectionate Floatzel, Skeledirge, Garchomp & Fraxure!

Karrablast and shelmet got done dirty here

I mostly agree with this list aside from number 1. When the evolution was introduced for Mantine, the sprite for it has been missing the remoraid, making the gimmick more confusing and less intuitive. I would have a completely different opinion if they kept remoraid in the sprite, but they just don't anymore.

Not gonna lie the last line of the first Pokémon on this list made me laugh

The best evolution gimmick is Level up. It’s so underrated and it’s so unique.

I love evolving milcery, it's so fun and so many variations. And I love alcremie, my favourite fairy type

I didn’t even know that’s how mantyke evolved

Love that you can get all Lycanroc forms in S/V just roaming in the overworld.

Also the dawn stone in both cases adds a new type to the Pokémon

Mine might be a spoiler for those who didn't finished their Scarlet/Violet playthrough. The method for the new Bisharp Evolution is very creative IMO, you need to defeat 3 Bisharps who hold a Leader's Crest, you can't just fight any Bisharp, your Bisharp needs to prove its worth I really appreciated it.

It was in the thumbnail which is what reminded me of this. So you evolve Inkay by holding your system upside down… Me playing an emulator trying to evolve my Inkay: “Welp”

Kingambit has the best evo method having it assert dominance against all other bisharp making it become king

I'll never forget buying pokemon moon just to catch rockruff to evolve it into midnight form lycanroc

I love how it make so much sense for some of the new pokemon to evolve by walking (sorry I forgot their names, I renamed them all) Like the tumbleweed, the dirt beetle, and pawmo, they all are different yet, the method fit so much

Dishonorable Mentions: Galarian Yamask! And even don't get me started on the wild Pokémon that'll attack if you're too close to the area! It wasn't until I hatched a Shiny where I noticed what's everyone's deal is. At first I thought you had to take some damage and it'll evolve but no! You have to take enough damage without fainting! So Annoying! But my most favorite is Milcury! Spinning around to evolve it is so funny! (Also out of the 3 my most favorite is Hitmontop!) Also also they kinda made getting Dusk Form Lycanroc in Sword And Shield easier. There's a Max Raid Den In The Isle Of Armor DLC with Rockruff with it's special ability then all you do is take it to the daycare with a Ditto, put a Everstone on it and it'll spread the ability! I managed to finally get a Shiny Dusk Mane Lycanroc that way! ✨🐺

Luckily, in oras, it’s possible to max feebas' beauty without how high other contest stats are getting in the way, as sheen no longer exists.

Can we expect a juicy “Pokémon problems with the paldea region” in the future?

We need more Pokémon like evee that exists basically to have gimmicks with multiple evolution Like the 3 monkey that are so hated They would be so much better if Water monkey evolves using friendship or drinking a lot of water during 1 battle so its evolution has some hp recovery moves and ability based on absorbing water like vaporeon or something and it's a wall The grass monkey evolves leveling up or eating a lot of berries so it gains abilities and moves that makes it immune from status condition and improve his stats like some berries do The fire monkey evolves with stones or helping hatching eggs so its evolution would have some tag team or switching in and out abilities and moves pool for double battle

Worst evolution method so far is Finizen into Palafin.

But if you trade your feebas holding a prism scale, it is not you who gets the Milotic but someone else instead. But if it’s through infrared trading right with someone in the same room, you can trade it back

2:40 Wurmple and Applin having 4 evolved forms each: Am I a joke to you? Although they are arranged a bit differently... ╔ Flapple Applin ╬ Appletun ╚ Dipplin ═ Hydrapple ╔ Silcoon ═ Beautifly Wurmple ╩ Cascoon ═ Dustox

Scovillian is one of my favorite Grass type Pokémon in Scarlet/Violet

You should make a list of the Top 9 Best regions from the main series games, lots of options to choose from

As a solo player with limited consoles/handhelds.... trade evos are my only issue

I like the idea of Tyrogue's gimmick, but it's so annoying to get the one you want since the stats of a Pokémon are dependent on so many factors that the player can't easily control. Getting a Hitmontop requires so much careful tinkering that it's incredibly annoying. It's not like you really need more reasons to choose other Fighting-types than the Hitmons without the annoyance of their finicky evolution requirements.

Ancient power makes tangela evolve probably because it’s based on a caveman. Could also be the same reason it works for yanmega where it’s basically calling on it’s primal form.

If you do a worst evos please make trade only No. 1 it was fixed in Legends Arceus but annoyingly rolled back in Sc/Vi. I don’t have friends who play Pokemon and I don’t currently have a NSO subscription which means I will never complete the Pokédex, though version exclusives also don’t help with this 😢

I wish there was a Rock type who's evolution had different forms with different types based on which stone was used. It seems like such an easy concept that I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet.

I just wanna give a dishonorable mention to yamask and runerigus! wtf was that ^^

The reason Amaura evolved at night is because it and Aurorus are partially based on aurora borealis. Which typically happens at night

Also, farfetch'd and qwilfish are both standalone Pokémon

Lycanroc dusk form evolution is still weird for only because where i live the sun starts to go down at 5:00 PM lol "dusk form" my dude, is pitch black outside!

I think it would be amazing and incredibly trolley for them to introduce a pokemon that evolves as soon as it is caught in the wild. Can you imagine the thrill of finding a new pokemon throwing the pokemon at it to catch it and then as soon as the battle is over it evolves? I think it would be hilarious. So the only way you could ever actually have the baby form would be to breed and hatch it and it would not evolve because it was not caught in the wild At all.

Speaking of baby pokemon, I'm surprised you didn't mention Toxel since it's the only pokemon that has different evolutions based on it's nature (I know that it's just two different forms of Toxtricity and not two different pokemon but it's still special)

The fact that rockruff and capsaikid are here and not inkay, milcery, karablast or shelmet upsets me

It would have been nice if there are other Pokemon that evolve using the other contest stat.

I remember back in the days of RBY/GS we would spread rumors about certain "tricks" to evolve Haunter and Graveler without trading.Or other Pokemon like Steelix, which we never figured out how to evolve 😅 We hardly understood english at 10 years old, so these evolutions became something like a myth. I finally managed to get my Steelix when DP came out 🎆

It's too bad that most games have you catch Mantine in the wild and then need to breed a Mantyke instead of the other way around. It's also too bad that Game Freak will probably never retcon Slowpoke's evolution method into Slowbro to require a Shellder.

I actually made quite a few interesting evolution methods when making the Pokemon for my own original Pokemon region, the Fleura Region. UNOWN --> OLNOWEN Capture one of every kind of Unown and put them in the same PC box in alphabetical order, ?, and !. No other Pokemon can be inside of that box. If even one of the Unown is shiny, then Olnowen will be shiny as well. VIRICE --> BERBONIC Virice is an Ice/Poison Pokémon. It evolves with a Fire Stone since you're using the heat of the stone to free the Virice from its icy prison. EEVEE --> SCALEON or SPECTREON Have Eevee use either Dragon Claw or Shadow Claw and faint 10 Pokemon of the opposite type (Shadow Claw on Dragons, Dragon Claw on Ghosts). OLELIXIR Not an evolution method, but it comes in many different colors. You can change its color with the Hue Synthesizer item, and its color determines its stat spread. With a BST of 60 across the board except for 120 in two of the stats, with those stats varying depending on, you guessed it, its color. PEBBLIFT --> BRAWLDER Have it defeat 10 Rock Types using the move Seismic Toss There's more if I can remember them.

You make your primeape kill itself to evolve