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

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

List of Evolution items

Name	Debut Gen.	Pre-evolved form	Evolved form	Usage	Trigger for evolution	Notes
Chipped Pot	VIII	Sinistea Antique Form	Polteageist Antique Form	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
Cracked Pot	VIII	Sinistea Phony Form	Polteageist Phony Form	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
Deep Sea Scale	III	Clamperl	Gorebyss	Held item	Trade	If held by Clamperl, doubles its Special Defense.
Deep Sea Tooth	III	Clamperl	Huntail	Held item	Trade	If held by Clamperl, doubles its Special Attack.
Dragon Scale	II	Seadra	Kingdra	Held item	Trade	Boosts the power of Dragon-type moves by 10% when held (due to an oversight).^GSC
Dubious Disc	IV	Porygon2	Porygon-Z	Held item	Trade
Electirizer	IV	Electabuzz	Electivire	Held item	Trade
Galarica Cuff	VIII	Slowpoke Galarian Form	Slowbro Galarian Form	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
Galarica Wreath	VIII	Slowpoke Galarian Form	Slowking Galarian Form	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
King's Rock	II	Poliwhirl	Politoed	Held item	Trade	Grants certain damaging moves used by the holder a 10% chance of causing hit Pokémon to flinch.
King's Rock	II	Slowpoke	Slowking	Held item	Trade
Magmarizer	IV	Magmar	Magmortar	Held item	Trade
Metal Coat	II	Onix	Steelix	Held item	Trade	Boosts the power of Steel-type moves used by the holder by 20% (10% prior to Generation IV) when held.
Metal Coat	II	Scyther	Scizor	Held item	Trade
Moon Shard	III	Eevee	Umbreon	Have in Bag	Level up with high friendship	Exclusive to Pokémon XD
Oval Stone	IV	Happiny	Chansey	Held item	Level up during the day
Prism Scale	V	Feebas	Milotic	Held item	Trade	Feebas can alternatively evolve by leveling up with high Beauty.
Protector	IV	Rhydon	Rhyperior	Held item	Trade
Razor Claw	IV	Sneasel	Weavile	Held item	Level up at night	Raises the critical hit ratio of the holder.
Razor Fang	IV	Gligar	Gliscor	Held item	Level up at night	Grants certain damaging moves used by the holder a 10% chance of causing hit Pokémon to flinch.
Reaper Cloth	IV	Dusclops	Dusknoir	Held item	Trade
Sachet	VI	Spritzee	Aromatisse	Held item	Trade
Sun Shard	III	Eevee	Espeon	Have in Bag	Level up with high friendship	Exclusive to Pokémon XD
Sweet Apple	VIII	Applin	Appletun	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
Tart Apple	VIII	Applin	Flapple	Use from Bag	Use from Bag
Upgrade	II	Porygon	Porygon2	Held item	Trade
Whipped Dream	VI	Swirlix	Slurpuff	Held item	Trade
Strawberry Sweet	VIII	Milcery	Alcremie	Held item	Spinning
Love Sweet
Berry Sweet
Clover Sweet
Flower Sweet
Star Sweet
Ribbon Sweet

Evolution stones

Main article: Evolution stone

In the core series games

Mechanics

The way to use an Evolution item to evolve a Pokémon depends on the item. There are three distinct ways to use an Evolution item:

Evolution-inducing held items: These Evolution items cause a Pokémon to evolve when it meets certain conditions while holding the item, such as leveling up or being traded.
Directly-used Evolution items: 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.
The Sun Shard and Moon Shard: These Evolution items cause a Pokémon 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.

Regardless of the method by which it is used, if an Evolution item causes a Pokémon to evolve, that item is consumed.

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 families 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 which allow Pokémon to evolve that in the core series games can only evolve in certain locations. The special Lure Modules are the Magnetic, Mossy and Glacial Lure Modules.

Artwork

Global Link

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

Pokémon GO

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


Dragon Scale	King's Rock	Metal Coat	Upgrade

In the anime

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gallery


King's Rock	Deep Sea Scale	Deep Sea Tooth

Oval Stone	Razor Fang	Metal Coat

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.

Gallery

A King's Rock
A Reaper Cloth
A Protector
A Razor Claw

Trivia

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.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	進化道具 Jeunfa Douhgeuih
Chinese	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)

Types of items
General	Evolution stones • Fossils • Flutes • Shards • Held items Evolution items • Escape items • Exchangeable items • Valuable items Battle items • Scents • Nectars • Candy • Ingredients
Medicine	Status condition healing items • Vitamins • Feathers Mints • Mochi • Drinks • Herbal medicine
Berry and Apricorn	Poké Balls • Apricorns • Berries • Mulch
Aesthetic	Decorations • Accessories • Backdrops • Props • Décor Clothing (XY • SMUSUM • LGPE • SwSh • BDSP • LA • SV)
Other	Mail • Key Items • Event items Wonder Launcher items • Rotom Powers

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