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>gen 2
>have a bunch of baby pokemon in my PC, as well as an Eevee I want to evolve into Umbreon and a Golbat I want to evolve into Crobat
>some of the mons evolve immediately while others wouldn't get there until like level 40
>pokemon Stadium 2 lists every pokemon's evolution method
>friendship evolution is referred to as "loyal to level up" iirc
>NPCs all say that certain pokemon must like you a lot for them to evolve
>even though I do everything I can to make them like me it's still really inconsistent how long it takes for them to evolve
>until gen 4 gave us the friendship checker poketch app I assumed that really those mons had a completely random chance to evolve upon level up, and all the talk about friendship was just flavor text
Even to this day whenever I hear about a newly discovered invisible stat/flag/mechanic in Pokemon with some ridiculous requirements to interact with them, I assume it's some "my dad works at Nintendo" nonsense that a bored retard made up to waste everyone's time.
