Pokemon Go: Eevee evolution guide how to evolve to Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon or Umbreon – VG247

Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:45 GMT By Staff

Pokemon Go players can evolve their Eevee into one of five creatures of their choosing using a particular nickname for each. Heres how to do it with ease.

Eevee is without a doubt one of the coolest Pokemon, and thats not just because its one of the cutest of the original Generation 1 (Red, Blue) Pokemon its also because of the way it evolves. Eevee can evolve into more different Pokemon than any other across all of the generations to this day and that has carried across to Pokemon Go, too.

In Pokemon Go Eevee costs 25 Eevee Candy to evolve and Eevee can be found relatively regularly in the wild and can also be fairly easily hatched from eggs, so candy is easy to grind. Once youve got enough Candy, a caught Eevee can be made to evolve into one of five forms currently: Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon or Umbreon. The latter two were added to the game in the big Gen 2 Pokemon Go update.

The frist time you evolve an Eevee into a particular evolution you can actually influence it but this only works once for each evolution of Eevee, so be careful. Once youve evolved each type once youll then have to rely on the random chance for which eeveelution (see what I did there?) you get.

Heres how to force each of the five Eevee evolutions.

In order to get yourself a Lightning-type Jolteon, nickname your Eevee to Sparky. Once youve renamed consider restarting the app to double-check the change was registered server-side. Once your Eevee is called Sparky, evolve it to get Jolteon. Jolteon is a fairly strong lightning-type and looks damn cool.

Water-type Vaporeon also requires the renaming trick this time, youll want to name the Eevee Rainer. Again, we recommend you restart the app to check the name has saved to the cloud. Once the name is in place, evolve to get a Vaporeon. Early on in Pokemon Go Vaporeon was regarded as one of the very best Pokemon for gym battles.

Pure fire-type Pokemon are actually pretty few and far between compared to most other types and so that makes Flareon all the more special. To get Flareon, nickname your Eevee Pyro. Dont forget to restart the app and check the name change has processed on Niantics servers. Evolve Pyro and itll become a Flareon, a strong choice if youre in need of a fire-type heavy hitter.

Added in the generation 2 update, Espeon is a psychic-type Pokemon that has a particularly cat-like look about it. Rename your Eevee to Sakura and itll evolve into Espeon. Fans also claim that if you walk 10km with your Eevee and then evolve it in the day theres a higher chance itll come out as Espeon without using the rename trick, too.

The last of the current available Eeveelutions, Umbreon is a fan-favourite mainly because it looks cool as heck. This dark-type Pokemon can be obtained by naming your Eevee Tamao and then spending the candy to evolve it. Fans conjecture also suggests that if you walk 10km with the Eevee as your buddy and then evolve at night it also has a much higher chance to evolve into Umbreon without the rename trick and this certainly matches up to the methods of evolution in the traditional Pokemon games.

If youre wondering where the names come from, they have history. A few of these nicknames should sound familiar to Pokemon fans: the Eevee Brothers in the original anime were named Sparky, Rainer and Pyro. Naming your Eevee after one of these brothers causes it to evolve into their Eevee of choice. An easter egg and a great trick in one!

There are three more types of Eevee Evolution ice-type Glaceon, grass-type Leafeon and Fairy-type Slyveon. These were introduced in later Pokemon generations, and so theyre not yet available in Pokemon Go. Keep your eyes peeled in future updates, however as future generations come to the game so too will more Eevee evolutions and evolution tricks.

You can see the Pokemon Go Gen 1 Eevee changes in action in the YouTube video above from skinzfan602, and the Gen 2 Eevee evolutions in the tweet below from Allissa.

Pokemon Go launched in July 2016 and immediately became one of the most successful apps of all time. The February 2017 Gen 2 update, which added two new Eevee evolutions among 80 Gen 2 Pokemon, is the first major roster expansion since day one.

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