Talk:Pokémon evolution

message: Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow can evolve, but when it happens it no longers follows the character around outside the Pokeball. I don't know if this is different for other language variants but it should be looked into. --User:Kaluriel 15:19, 23 May, 2007 (GMT)
:It can only evolve if it's traded to R/B and then traded back. It rejects evolution in Yellow. DanPMK 07:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pikachu Evolution in Pokemon Yellow 

message: Yes, I would agree that the evolution of pokemon is not related to Darwinism, but reather to Henri Bergsons' book titled CREATIVE EVOLUTION.  For I have been doing research on it and still recovering from it. You'll be able to find it at Amazon.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Researchergonechristian (talk • contribs) 
:Please sign your comments.  Also, do you have a source besides your own personal opinion, such as a quote from the designers indicating that this was their intention?  If not, it's original research and not allowed in the articles. --Sparky Lurkdragon 19:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The evolution of Pokemon 

message: While it could be percieved as a variant of level-up evolution on the surface( as could all the “Unusual” evolutions), it’s really rather different. Yes, it is triggered by levelling up, however, the mechanics and intention are quite different. Level-up evolution requires that the Pokémon gain a certain amount of battle experience, and reflects this by granting it a more powerful form after it reaches certain levels. However, a Pokémon which evolves based on happiness can do so at any time, theoretically even going from level 1 to 2, if it is happy enough. Furthermore, if a level-up evolution is stopped, the Pokémon can evolve after that any time it levels up. If a friendly evolution is stopped, the Pokémon won’t necessarily evolve the next time if the required conditions are not maintained. Because of this, and because happiness evolution is about as common as stone or trade evolution now, it really deserves its own full section, rather than a subsection. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 06:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to make it its own section once but it got changed back. Good to see someone agrees with me :) --WikiSlasher 07:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Happiness evolution

message: Problems to be fixed:
;Lead
*Currently two sentences long; expand to at least a full paragraph. This article is right on the boarder for a medium sized article, so having two paragraphs would not be bad.
;Evolutionary stages
*Every Pokémon belongs one of four evolutionary stages; missing the word 'to' between belongs and one.
*Explain what a Baby Pokémon is and what branching evolution means. You should write articles in a way so that even people unfamiliar with the content will not be confused.
;Causes of Pokémon evolution
:;Leveling up
:*RPGs --> Role-playing games
:*Numbers that can be expressed in one or two words should be written out, such as 1 --> one; this does not apply when refering to a level number. The number 1 in the sentence which instantly elevate the Pokémon by 1 level should be changed to 'one' for example.
:;Evolution through happiness
:*if you observe the animation; you should be changed to "the player"
:*by how large the image of the pokémon gets. The image either gets 0, 1, 2, or 3 grades larger. the 3rd grade is loosely enough to enact a "happy evolution". pokémon --> Pokémon; numbers should be written out; the --> The; 3rd --> third
:;Special evolutions
:*There are several one sentence paragraphs; merge these together.
;Evolution in other games or media
*In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon the world; there should be a comma between Dungeon and the.
;References
*All references should be in accordance with WP:CITE; see  for the proper format.--十八 01:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 2b says to give reliable sources, and SPP is one of the largest Pokémon fansites on the Internet and is very well known. If that's not a reliable source, then not even Anime News Network would be usefull in WP:Anime. So I do not agree that it failed 2b. Though at the same time Serebii.net was deleted some time ago...--十八 05:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still a WP:SPS.  ANN has the edge at least of staff members who use real names; the Pokemon fansites are authored under pseudonyms.  The FAR for Torchic was especially hard on the use of Serebii, though that is FA and this is just GA.  Never mind, then. hbdragon88 06:04, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Citing Serebii is VERY bad, because Serebii is a) a fansite, and b) run by one person and has no editorial oversight. Thus, it fails WP:RS.  Instead of Serebii, cite the actual games. -Jeske (v^_^v) 05:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gladly, how would we go about doing that? Let's fix it, rather then just leaving it incorrectly cited or uncited entirely. I'm new and am having trouble finding an example of how to cite the game from any of the other pages.Shallon Michaels 18:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would examine WP:CITE - that would have some info.  -Jeske (v^_^v) 19:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review &mdash; GA on hold 

message: It's wrong. A wurmple can evolve into a silcoon while nighttime and into a cascoon while daytime.
It's been proved that it's the personal value and not the day/nighttime in various help sites. 91.155.110.187 (talk) 18:11, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silcoon/cascoon example 

message: On the article it says that Tyrogue evolves into Hitmontop if it's Attack and Defence are equal but in every case of its evolution I see its Attack and Defence are almost equal. I know its not that important but can it be changed a bit?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.139.193.253 (talk) 02:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyrogue's stats