Everything it’s crucial that you know about evolving any Pokemon in the world of Pokemon Go.

Powering upandevolving your PokemoninPokemon Gois your primary way of working your way through the game.

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How is power measured in Pokemon Go?

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The aim here is to get the highest possible level without going over the CP cap.

This means our 0/14/11 Venusaur is naturally going to beat the 15/15/15 in a fair fight in Great League.

First, catch, hatch or trade for the Pokemon you want to evolve.

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Catching and hatching will give you several Candy relevant to that Pokemons species, named after the Basic Pokemon.

Levelling up your Metagross, for example, will require Beldum Candy.

The Power Up button will show two costs Stardustand Candy.

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If youre short on Stardust, confirm you check out our page on how to grind this essential resource.

Should you power up Pokemon in Pokemon Go?

That question depends entirely on the Pokemon and what you want to use it for.

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The sum of this is that there are some Pokemon you should never power up.

One point to note is that its worth holding back certain Pokemon to evolve them later.

Once a month on a Tuesday evening, the rotatingSpotlight Hourbonus is double evolution XP.

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This stacks with a Lucky Egg to award a 4x bonus for evolutions.

TheMight and Mastery Seasonand itsseasonal questhas arrived.

you might now catchDynamax PokemonthroughMax Battles.

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Below are the special evolution items and the Pokemon you might evolve using them.

Remember, this item is in addition to the Candy you will need to spend to evolve the Pokemon.

Some Pokemon strive to be different, and this is true in the world of Pokemon Evolutions too.

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Eeveelutions

The most famous of this is the Eeveelutions when evolving an Eevee, youll see a ?

However, if you dont have an Eeveelution registered to your Pokedex, theres whats dubbed the Nickname trick.

Visit our dedicatedEeveepage, if you’d like to learn everything about evolving this special Pokemon.

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Generally speaking, this involves making the Pokemon yourbuddyand then completing a specific requirement.

Youll see these adventures on the relevant Pokemons page, underneath the option to evolve it.

There will be a drop-down arrow with the words Adventure together to evolve.

Pokémon Go Lure Modules

Clicking that will give you a progress bar and an instruction, such as Win 10 raids.

You get Mega Energy primarily through beating a Pokemon in a Mega Raid.

Now, however, a single Mega Raid is generally all you should probably Mega Evolve a Pokemon once.

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You will also see a button underneath the Power Up button labelled Mega Evolve.

Click this and watch the magic happen.

There are two things you should note, however, before you do this.

Artwork showing the Umbreon evolution of the Eevee creature from Pokémon.

Good luck building your Pokemon party!

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