Dawn Stone
The Dawn Stone (Japanese: めざめいし Awakening Stone) is a type of Evolution stone introduced in Generation IV.
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In the core series games
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In the Generation V games, the Dawn Stone can be sold to an item maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center for 3000.
Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon. This consumes the Dawn Stone.
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Acquisition
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Artwork
Artwork from Scarlet and Violet |
Sprites
Bag sprite from Legends: Arceus |
In spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
The Dawn Stone appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky.
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Effect
If the player offers a Dawn Stone at Luminous Spring, male Kirlia and female Snorunt can be evolved into Gallade and Froslass, respectively. This consumes the Dawn Stone.
If thrown, it will deal 1 damage (2 if sticky). Using this item in a dungeon will consume it, with no effect.
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Appearance
Sprite from Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky |
Pokémon Conquest
In Pokémon Conquest, a male Warrior's Kirlia and a female Warrior's Snorunt evolve into Gallade and Froslass, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Dawn Stone.
A Dawn Stone can be purchased from the traveling merchant for 5000 gold, and sold for 2500-3250 gold.
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In the anime
Mystery on a Deserted Island! featured the Dawn Stone along with all of the other Evolution stones available as of Generation V.
A full set of Evolution stones was seen on display in a stone shop in Geosenge Town in The Cave of Trials!.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Platinum chapter
In Leaping Past Lopunny, a Dawn Stone was seen amongst the rare stones that Steven had found during his stay in Sinnoh.
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire chapter
In PS596, Sapphire's Kirlia, Kirly, evolved into a Gallade due to a Dawn Stone hitting him while training with Rara, who had evolved into a Gardevoir. Later, Steven found another Dawn Stone on the ground.
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A Dawn Stone in the Platinum chapter
Trivia
- The Dawn Stone has only two applications, the least amount out of all Evolution stones.
- The Dawn Stone is the only stone which can only evolve a Pokémon if it is a specific gender, with this requirement applying to both of the Pokémon it can evolve.
- Both Pokémon that require the Dawn Stone to evolve debuted in Generation III and are part of a branched evolution while their evolved form are part of a cross-generational evolution from Generation IV.
- The evolved form both gain a type their previous form did not have, Ghost for Froslass and Fighting for Gallade (until Generation VI where Kirlia evolving via Dawn Stone loses the Fairy typing in exchange for the Fighting type).
- The Dawn Stone is the only evolution stone not to receive any new application past its debut generation.
- Generation V introduced at least one new application for each of all available Evolution stones at the time, other than the Dawn Stone.
In other languages
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