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Aug 14, 2021, 08:58am EDT |

Pokemon GO Community Day: How To Evolve Eevee Into Every One Of Its Evolutions

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The shiny Eevees are out in force for Pokemon GO's Eevee Community Day, giving trainers around the world a shot at that elusive prize: a full collection of all 9 Eevee family shinies. But if you want to get Flareon, Jolteon, Vaporeon, Umbreon, Espeon, Leafeon, Sylveon and Eevee, you'll need to make use of a couple of tricks to make it happen. Here's how to do that. I've published some of this info before, but it never hurts to have a refresher.

The simplest way of getting a specific evolution is to just change your Pokemon's nickname. Each evolution has a nickname tied to it, and you can use that to guarantee a single evolution. So if you've already used this trick on a given account, it won't work again. So while this will likely be less useful for most, here are those:

Flareon: Pyro
Jolteon: Sparky
Vaporeon: Rainer
Umbreon: Tamao
Espeon: Sakura
Leafeon: Linnea
Glaceon: Rea
Sylveon:Kira

After that, most of the evolutions have an alternate, more involved method for forcing the evolution. Here are those:

Flareon, Jolteon, Vaporeon: These ones are pure RNG, so best of luck.
Umbreon:Walk an Eevee 10km as your buddy, then evolve it at night while it's still your buddy. Update: this requires no walking distance during community day, just equip as your buddy at night and evolve.

Espeon:Walk an Eevee 10km as your buddy, then evolve it during the day while it's still your buddy. Update: this will require no walking distance during community day, just equip as your buddy during the day and evolve.
Leafeon:Evolve an Eevee near a mossy lure—it doesn't need to be your own.
Glaceon:Evolve an Eevee near a glacial lure. Again, any lure will do.
Sylveon:Normally, you have to acquire 70 buddy hearts with Eevee as your buddy. For community day, this is lowered to a much more manageable 7 hearts.