How to become your Pokemon’s best friend!
Friendshipreturns inPokemon Scarlet and Violetto measure how happy your Pokemon are to have you as their trainer.
As before, it’s important for evolving certain Pokemon and making them more powerful in battle.
There are a few different ways to raise your Pokemon’s Friendship level inPokemon Scarlet and Violet.
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What is Friendship in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet?
Friendship is a stat that your Pokemon can raise and lower in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet.
Depending on certain actions, your Pokemon may feel more or less friendly towards you.
Friendship’s main use is toevolve certain Pokemon.
In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, it also impacts battle occasionally.
With all this in mind - how do you check friendship, and improve it?
Instead, you will need to find the Friendship Checker.
In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, theFriendship Checker is found in Cascarrafa.
They are in the middle section of the city, to the north of the large fountain.
it’s possible for you to identify them by their Marrill.
I hope you get closer!".
I can tell just being together gives you warm fuzzies!"
If you get this response from the Friendship Checker, they will also give you the Best Friends Ribbon.
It seems these methods also apply to Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet.
However, Scarlet and Violet also have certain additional mechanics for raising your Pokemon’s friendship.
The picnic also has certain aspects which raise friendship.
Scarlet and Violet also includethe Soothe Bell itemwhich increases the effectiveness of other Friendship levelling methods.
Finally,catching a Pokemon in a Friend Ballalso increases the rate at which it gains Friendship.
Which Pokemon evolve with Friendship in Scarlet and Violet?
Certain Pokemon will only evolve when they have a high enough Friendship level.
to evolve them, you’ll need to level them up after raising their Friendship.
These are:
Have fun becoming friends with your Pokemon!
