Pokemon Happiness Evolutions: All You Need to Know
Last Updated on: 2nd June 2021, 09:22 pm
Ever since Generation 2 of Pokemon with the releases of Gold and Silver, happiness was introduced as an evolution method to spice up the established levels, trades, and stones. A fair number of Pokemon continue to evolve via happiness to this day, so here’s all Pokemon happiness evolutions and how to raise happiness!
(Litten doesn’t evolve through happiness but they sure look happy)
All Pokemon that Evolve through Happiness
With the help of Serebii, a super useful Pokemon information treasure trove, here’s all the Pokemon, in Pokedex order, that evolve through Happiness in a lil chart I made. While a Pokemon’s base happiness isn’t always the same, the threshold to evolve is the value 220. The player cant see this, but most Pokemon require the same amount of happiness growth or at least a similar amount. The exceptions are Type: Null and Buneary who start out with zero happiness.
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| Golbat | Level up | Crobat |
| Alolan Meowth | Level up | Alolan Persian |
| Chansey | Level up | Blissey |
| Eevee | Level up during Day | Espeon |
| Eevee | Level up during Night | Umbreon |
| Eevee | Level up with Fairy Move | Sylveon |
| Pichu | Level up | Pikachu |
| Cleffa | Level up | Clefairy |
| Igglybuff | Level up | Jigglypuff |
| Togepi | Level up | Togetic |
| Azurill | Level up | Marill |
| Budew | Level up during Day | Roselia |
| Buneary | Level up | Lopunny |
| Chingling | Level up During Night | Chimecho |
| Munchlax | Level up | Snorlax |
| Riolu | Level up During Day | Lucario |
| Woobat | Level up | Swoobat |
| Swadloon | Level up | Leavanny |
| Type: Null | Level up | Silvally |
| Snom | Level up During Night | Frosmoth |
Ways to Increase Happiness
While these Pokemon do tend to take a bit to evolve, especially if you want it to be at a lower level, the games have thankfully added a number of ways to speed up the process. For reference, they all are most effective at low happiness, and slowly fall off.
Here’s the methods to increase happiness for your Pokemon listed from most to least effective.
- Catch in a Friend Ball (near immediate evolution)
- Have a massage (available once per day in each region)
- Level Up
- Use a Vitamin
- Walk 128 steps
- Methods not in all generations (Berries, Join Avenue, Festival Plaza)
Pokemon can also lose happiness points through bitter foods and fainting in battle. Thankfully, in each game post Gen 2, there is a NPC which will tell you roughly how happy your Pokemon is. Its a mouthful, so checking out the Serebii page earlier will help with this.
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That’s really about all you need to know about the Pokemon happiness evolutions! Here’s hoping it helps any aspiring trainers, and hopefully the list doesn’t grow too much over time…
