Some Pokémon are just your friend because they’ve been around since the start of your adventure while others are befriended for strategic reasons. These Pokémon are likely to be the latter.
Pokémon has introduced a variety of ways to evolve since the start of the franchise and one of the most common is High Friendship. Increasing friendship with specific Pokémon can trigger their evolutions and provide you with a strong ally as a result. If you’re looking to complete your Pokédex or even just simply get looped in on which Pokémon could use a friend in every game, then we’ve got you covered with the full list.
Every Pokémon that evolves from friendship
There are a lot of Pokémon that evolve once you achieve High Friendship, but others will need to complete certain requirements alongside that. This evolution method has been present for a long time so, as you’d expect, these Pokémon come from many generations.
We’ve broken down our list into the Pokémon that evolves, what it will evolve into, and finally any extra requirements. So you can stay looped in to which Pokémon you should make your best friend, here’s a look at the whole list.
| Starting Evolution | Final Evolution | Special Requirements |
| Azurill | Marill | |
| Budew | Roselia | Level Up during Daytime |
| Buneary | Lopunny | |
| Chansey | Blissey | |
| Chingling | Chimeco | Level Up during Nighttime |
| Cleffa | Clefairy | |
| Eevee | Espeon | Level Up during Daytime |
| Eevee | Umbreon | Level Up during Nighttime |
| Eevee | Sylveon | Level Up after learning Fairy-type move |
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| Golbat | Crobat | |
| Igglybuff | Jigglypuff | |
| Alolan Meowth | Alolan Persian | |
| Munchlax | Snorlax | |
| Pichu | Pikachu | |
| Riolu | Lucario | Level Up during Daytime |
| Snom | Frosmoth | Level Up during Nighttime |
| Swadloon | Leavanny | |
| Togepi | Togetic | |
| Type: Null | Silvally | |
| Woobat | Swoobat | |
That’s it! Of course, there are several different ways to raise friendship level in Pokémon and it can differ from title to title, but once you work that out you can use it to add any of these evolutions to your collection. Should there be any new Pokémon added that also evolve in this manner, we’ll make sure to update our list again.
