Pokémon Evolution/Capture/Release Thread (2024)

Articfoxgamez said:

Pokemon can evolve through means other than battling, I asked once before and apperently it's happened before, but I forget the example. Not even game inaccurate either, it would be slow and painful but hypothetically you can evolve a pokemon through like, picnic/camp/amie exp.
Plus they really hammer in the singing thing with Fuecoco, would be weird if it didn't evolve and even weirder if it did evolve but sprigatito didn't. Quaxly could go either way I suppose.

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And it's been long enough too. I mean, it's been Sprigatito for 40 episodes already.

Die-Hard Dragon Devotee said:

And it's been long enough too. I mean, it's been Sprigatito for 40 episodes already.

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I did the math once, looking at just ash's pokemon the earliest starter evolution to second stage was episode 44 with charmander, 132 with Chimchar is the latest. (Not counting cyndaquil since it evolved 2 series later)
Earliest in terms of "Number of episode since it was caught" is the same, 32 for Charmander > Charmeleon, 129 for Chimchar > Monferno for latest. (And Cyndaquil is still an outlier)

Fuecoco will likely evolve as it's what makes the most sense for its growth. Fuecoco in it's current stage isn't shown as a strong Pokemon despite all the training. Definitely needs to evolve to further character development and shed the comic relief role.

Sprigatito is called to be strong for her species and she's definitely a battler, which could go either way - become the strongest Sprigatito ever like Ash's Pikachu or evolve and become even stronger.

Quaxly I think stays unevolved. He's already portrayed as more mature and level-headed. He doesn't seem like he needs to evolve for character development.

Dr. Gro 3001 said:

The Weepinbell that James traded for his Victreebel literally evolved by battling Ash and friends without a Leaf Stone, so the evolution means really don't seem to matter much. @Articfoxgamez

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Admittedly, I think that was more of a case of the writers either forgetting how Victreebel evolves or not really caring when the point was for it to end up with James' old Victreebel at the end of the episode. Typically they have been more accurate to how Pokemon evolve compared to that case.

Dr. Gro 3001 said:

@Hidden Mew There was even an episode in Johto that had Glooms evolving into their evolved forms based on different winds that had trace amounts of Leaf and Sun stones in them. A weird concept, but technically an "accurate" way for how Gloom evolve.

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I was talking more about how that Victreebel evolved in that episode than anything else.

I honestly don't think battles matter that much at all when it comes to anime-evolution. Evolution is basically just a tool for character development and they'll evolve if it will suit where the writers want the character to go.

Example: Scorbunny to Raboot so it can become disobedient to highlight where Goh is flawed in his approach to training Pokemon. Or Sobble evolving into Drizzile despite almost never battling so it could become depressed and reclusive to mirror Goh as a little kid because that is where they wanted its character to go. Ash's Starly evolving into to Staravia and the entire Goomy evolution-line also come to mind.

I could see Sprigatito evolving somewhat soon, maybe against the Explorers. It felt like the last episode finally broke down whatever barriers there were between Liko and Sprigatito and the next natural step in her development now that they are seemingly fully synced would be to evolve.

Uh, it seems a piece of upcoming merch may have confirmed we’re getting an evolution.

Eitarou said:

Uh, it seems a piece of upcoming merch may have confirmed we’re getting an evolution.

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Nice.