How to Use the Eevee Name Trick to Choose Your Eeveelution in Pokemon GO
Pokemon GO does not have evolution stones to evolve Pokemon like Eevee, instead they work just like all other evolutions. This caused confusion and frustration for those evolving Eevee since there are 5 different options, Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Espeon, and Umbreon.
According to a reddit post by /u/smithnigel, backed up by others and video proof, you can actually make your Eevee evolve into your desired evolution.
How to Choose your Eevee Evolution
Eevee needs 25 Eevee candy to evolve and if you do it normally, you get a random evolution.
If you change the name of your Eevee to one of the following, it will evolve into the eeveelution of your choice.
- Vaporeon: Ranier
- Flareon: Pyro
- Jolteon: Sparky
- Espeon: Sakura
- Umbreon: Tamao
These are the names of the Eevee Brothers in the Pokemon anime and each had a different evolution. Reddit user /u/strongscience62 also showed a video of him naming Eevee Rainer and evolving it into Vaporeon.
Make sure it is spelled correctly and try closing the app and opening it again to be sure the server updated the name change before you evolve it. Let me know in the comments if this worked for you so we can spread the message around!
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It does work but I have seen some cases where YouTubers have done it and not got the one they wanted! Especially as they have different CP multipliers it looks like Vaporeon is the best. But I do love my Jolteon
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Stacy _6281July 19, 2016, 8:50 amTried it on my 2 evee and it didn't work
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Make sure it is spelled correctly and it is best to close the app and reopen it after changing the name to make sure it updates before evolving.
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I had this happen to me last week. I thought I had named my Eevee Rainer but I had named it Rainier instead and it had evolved into a Flareon. Watch out for autocorrections because that is what happened to me!
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Can confirm, does work. Just have a Flareon left to evolve then I have all three.
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This trick has worked on every Eevee I've seen evolved so far. 10/10, would recommend!
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I heard it was based on what moveset your Eevee has.
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People thought it might have been that at first, but it was proven wrong. This method has been 100% accurate so far.
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Great little tip, going to try once tonight if I can get enough to evolve!
