Evolution item

An Evolution item (Japanese: 進化アイテム Evolution item) is an item that allows certain Pokémon to evolve. Depending on the Pokémon and the item, the Pokémon may need to hold the item, or the item may be able to be used directly.

Ash's Gligar reaching for the Razor Fang Ash tossed. Gligar evolve into Gliscor while holding the Razor Fang and leveling up at night.

Regardless of method, if a Pokémon evolves using one of these items, it consumes the item.

List of Evolution items

Directly used

These Evolution items cause a Pokémon to evolve when used on it from the Bag. They cannot be used in battle. Evolution stones are the most common example.

	Name	Debut Gen.		Pre-evolved form		Evolved form
	Auspicious Armor	IX		Charcadet		Armarouge
	Black Augurite	VIII		Scyther		Kleavor
	Chipped Pot	VIII		Sinistea Antique Form		Polteageist Antique Form
	Cracked Pot	VIII		Sinistea Phony Form		Polteageist Phony Form
	Galarica Cuff	VIII		Slowpoke Galarian Form		Slowbro Galarian Form
	Galarica Wreath	VIII				Slowking Galarian Form
	Malicious Armor	IX		Charcadet		Ceruledge
	Masterpiece Teacup	IX		Poltchageist Artisan Form		Sinistcha Masterpiece Form
	Metal Alloy	IX		Duraludon		Archaludon
	Peat Block	VIII		Ursaring		Ursaluna
	Scroll of Darkness	IX		Kubfu		Urshifu Single Strike Style
	Scroll of Waters	IX				Urshifu Rapid Strike Style
	Sweet Apple	VIII		Applin		Appletun
	Syrupy Apple	IX				Dipplin
	Tart Apple	VIII				Flapple
	Unremarkable Teacup	IX		Poltchageist Counterfeit Form		Sinistcha Unremarkable Form

Evolution stones

Main article: Evolution stone

Held

These Evolution items cause a Pokémon to evolve when it meets certain conditions while holding the item, such as leveling up or being traded. Some of them also have effects in battle when being held.

	Name	Debut Gen.		Pre-evolved form		Evolved form	Trigger for evolution	Effects in battle
	Deep Sea Scale	III		Clamperl		Gorebyss	Trade	If held by Clamperl, doubles its Special Defense.
	Deep Sea Tooth					Huntail	Trade	If held by Clamperl, doubles its Special Attack.
	Dragon Scale	II		Seadra		Kingdra	Trade	Boosts the power of Dragon-type moves by 10% when held (due to an oversight).GSC
	Dubious Disc	IV		Porygon2		Porygon-Z	Trade
	Electirizer	IV		Electabuzz		Electivire	Trade
	King's Rock	II		Poliwhirl		Politoed	Trade	Grants certain damaging moves used by the holder a 10% chance of causing hit Pokémon to flinch.
				Slowpoke		Slowking	Trade
	Magmarizer	IV		Magmar		Magmortar	Trade
	Metal Coat	II		Onix		Steelix	Trade	Boosts the power of Steel-type moves used by the holder by 20% (10% prior to Generation IV) when held.
				Scyther		Scizor	Trade
	Oval Stone	IV		Happiny		Chansey	Level up during the day
	Prism Scale	V		Feebas*		Milotic	Trade
	Protector	IV		Rhydon		Rhyperior	Trade
	Razor Claw	IV		Sneasel		Weavile	Level up during the night	Raises the critical hit ratio of the holder.
				Sneasel Hisuian Form		Sneasler	Level up during the day
	Razor Fang	IV		Gligar		Gliscor	Level up during the night	Grants certain damaging moves used by the holder a 10% chance of causing hit Pokémon to flinch.
	Reaper Cloth	IV		Dusclops		Dusknoir	Trade
	Sachet	VI		Spritzee		Aromatisse	Trade
	Upgrade	II		Porygon		Porygon2	Trade
	Whipped Dream	VI		Swirlix		Slurpuff	Trade
	Strawberry Sweet	VIII		Milcery		Alcremie	Spinning
	Love Sweet
	Berry Sweet
	Clover Sweet
	Flower Sweet
	Star Sweet
	Ribbon Sweet

Others

The Sun Shard and Moon Shard in Pokémon XD cause an Eevee with high friendship to evolve when it levels up while one of these items is in the Bag. They are the only Evolution items to be Key Items.

Acquisition

Evolution items are normally found in a variety of locations. However, there are some methods that can yield a large number of them.

• Many of these items are available as held items of wild Pokémon, particularly Pokémon from the evolutionary lines that uses the item to evolve.
• In Pokémon Black and White, many of these items are available from the treasure hunter on Route 13.
• In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, several of these items can be purchased from Black City's market on weekends.
• Many of these items can be obtained from the Join Avenue Antique Shop.
• Many of these items are available from the PokéMileage Club minigame Balloon Popping.
• Many of these items can be purchased from the Battle Maison and Battle Tree with Battle Points.
• In Pokémon Sword and Shield, these items can be purchased at the Stow-on-Side Bargain Shop or at the Pokémon Center in Hammerlocke with Battle Points.

In spin-off games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Main article: Mystery Dungeon evolutionary items

Pokémon Pinball series

Main article: Evolution Item (Pinball)

Pokémon GO

Main article: Evolution stone → Pokémon GO

In Pokémon GO, Evolution items can be spent along with Candy to evolve certain Pokémon. There are seven Evolution items: the Sun Stone, King's Rock, Metal Coat, Dragon Scale, Upgrade, Sinnoh Stone, and Unova Stone.

Pokémon that evolve into Generation II Pokémon or with a Sun Stone require the same item as in the core series games. Non-Generation IV Pokémon that evolve into Generation IV Pokémon require the Sinnoh Stone to evolve, unless they have a location-based evolution in the core series games. Generation V Pokémon that require an item to evolve (other than the Sun Stone) require a Unova Stone to evolve.

In addition to Evolution items, there are also special Lure Modules that allow Pokémon to evolve that in the core series games can only evolve in certain locations. The special Lure Modules are the Magnetic, Mossy, Rainy and Glacial Lure Modules.

Artwork

Global Link

These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Global Link.

Deep Sea Scale	Deep Sea Tooth	Dragon Scale	Dubious Disc	Electirizer	King's Rock
Magmarizer	Metal Coat	Oval Stone	Prism Scale	Protector	Razor Claw
Razor Fang	Reaper Cloth	Sachet	Upgrade	Whipped Dream

Pokémon GO

This is artwork of the items as seen in Pokémon GO.

Dragon Scale	King's Rock	Metal Coat	Upgrade

In animation

Strawberry Sweets in Pokémon Horizons: The Series

Pokémon the Series

Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver

A King's Rock first appeared in Ring Masters, where Ash received it as a prize for winning the Sumo Conference. In Outrageous Fortunes, Misty's Poliwhirl used it to evolve itself into a Politoed by holding it while being transferred between Pokémon Centers.

Another King's Rock appeared in A Crowning Achievement, where it was found on a rock after the water level in the local river dropped dramatically; Alice's Slowpoke used it to evolve into a Slowking as a Shellder bit onto it while it was on Slowpoke's head.

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

A Deep Sea Scale and Deep Sea Tooth appeared in The Evolutionary War. Nancy and Keith found one of each item and gave them to each other, allowing both of their Clamperl to evolve when they were transferred from a Pokémon Center to another while holding the items.

A King's Rock, two Deep Sea Teeth, and two Deep Sea Scales appeared in Showdown At Linoone as some of the items Tokin had picked up.

Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

In One Big Happiny Family!, Brock carved and made an Oval Stone for his newly hatched Happiny, which later helped her evolve into a Chansey in The Brockster is In.

In Fighting Fear with Fear!, Ash received a Razor Fang from Gary. Later in the episode, he used it to evolve his Gligar into a Gliscor.

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

In The Cuteness Quotient!, a Prism Scale formed on the body of Jinny's Feebas, which allowed it to evolve into a Milotic.

In Searching for Chivalry!, Wikstrom gave Goh a Metal Coat, allowing him to evolve his Scyther into Scizor when it was transferred through a trade machine while holding it.

A Strawberry Sweet first appeared in The Sweet Taste of Battle!, decorating a cupcake that Goh was eating. When his newly caught Milcery showed interest in it, he placed it on her head and then spun around with her to celebrate making a new friend, inadvertently triggering her Evolution into Alcremie in the process.

A Dragon Scale appeared in Looking Out for Number Two!, where Ash and Goh found it from a sunken ancient submersible. Goh subsequently gave it as a gift to a wild Seadra.

Gallery

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  A King's Rock

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  A Deep Sea Scale

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  A Deep Sea Tooth

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  An Oval Stone

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  A Razor Fang

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  A Prism Scale

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  A Metal Coat

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  A Dragon Scale

Pokémon Horizons: The Series

Four Strawberry Sweets appeared in a flashback in The Bittersweet Truth. Murdock's Milcery grabbed one of them and spun around with it, triggering her Evolution into Alcremie.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Various Evolution items in Pokémon Adventures

History

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

In Quilava Quandary, Gold was given a King's Rock by the Day-Care Couple after training with them, which he gave to his Poliwag to hold. In Ampharos Amore, Gold's newly evolved Poliwhirl and Silver's Seadra evolved into a Politoed and a Kingdra, respectively, while holding their respective evolutionary items, King's Rock and Dragon Scale.

Diamond & Pearl arc

In Problematic Probopass and Mad Magnezone III, Fantina's Duskull used its Reaper Cloth to save Diamond and Pearl from a fall.

In Yikes, Yanmega! II, Diamond's Lickilicky, Kit, used a Protector to protect itself from Mars's Yanmega swarm's soundwaves. Roseanne later revealed that the Protector was one of the items she used in her research of Pokémon Evolution, the other seen items being a Reaper Cloth, Dragon Scale, Magmarizer, and King's Rock.

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

In Dealing With A Koffing Fit, Silver's Sneasel evolved into a Weavile due to having gained experience while holding a Razor Claw, which had been given to Silver by Green.

In Raising the Stakes with Rhyperior, it was revealed that Silver had given Blue a Protector to be held by his Rhydon, allowing it to evolve into a Rhyperior when it was traded between the two Trainers. Afterwards, Blue had let Silver keep Rhyperior as a replacement for his lost Ursaring.

Scarlet & Violet arc

A set of Auspicious Armor appeared in a flashback in PASV09, where it was given to Scarlet by Mela, along with a Charcadet. She later used it to evolve Charcadet into Armarouge.

Gallery

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  A King's Rock

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  A Reaper Cloth

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  A Protector

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  A Razor Claw

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  An Auspicious Armor

In the TCG

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An Electivire holding an Electrizer

Some evolution items appear in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

The Moon Stone and Dusk Stone are featured as Trainer cards.

The Moon Stone, the Dusk Stone, and the Reaper Cloth appear on certain Pokémon cards as held items. These held items work in the same fashion as Poké-Bodies, in that the effect the item provides is active whenever the Pokémon is in play. All of them allow their Pokémon to evolve on the same turn they enter play, which is normally not allowed.

In the HeartGold and SoulSilver Series, the art for Pokémon that have evolved in the core series by either using an item, leveling up while holding an item, or being traded while holding an item included their respective evolution item.

The following is a list of cards named after or including an evolution item.

Evolution item cards Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Moon Stone	T				Expansion Sheet 1
Dusk Stone	I	Unbroken Bonds		167/214	Double Blaze		084/095
Pokémon cards with Evolution items as held items
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Clefairy*		Secret Wonders		83/132	Shining Darkness
Murkrow*		Secret Wonders		95/132	Shining Darkness
Duskull*		Secret Wonders		86/132	Shining Darkness
Pokémon cards with Evolution items in their artwork
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#

Trivia

• Before Generation VIII, there are no directly used Evolution items other than the Evolution stones.
• Generations VII and IX are the only generations to not introduce a held Evolution item (excluding Generation I, in which held items do not exist).
• All held Evolution items that cause a Pokémon to evolve upon leveling up require the Pokémon to level up during a specific time of day.
• Along with being listed among the Evolution stones, the Oval Stone has the "Use" option when selected in the Bag, but if the player tries to use it, it won't say "Able" under any Pokémon.
  • This makes it the only Evolution item with "Stone" in its English name which is not an Evolution stone.
  • This is not the case in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, in which all Evolution items have been turned into directly used items.
• While not explicitly an Evolution item, a TM226 is required to evolve Dipplin into Hydrapple, as Dipplin cannot learn Dragon Cheer via any other means.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 進化道具 Jeunfa Douhgeuih Mandarin 進化道具 Jìnhuà Dàojù French Objet d'Évolution German Entwicklungsitem Evolutionsitem Italian Strumento evolutivo Oggetti Evoluzione (GO) Korean 진화 아이템 Jinhwa Item Brazilian Portuguese Item de evolução Spanish Objeto evolutivo Objeto de evolución (GO)

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