Niantic Confirms Eevee Hack

 

 

In Pokemon Go just like in the original handheld games and animated movies and tv shows, evolving your pokemon is key to increasing your pokemon trainer level and also acquiring powerful pokemon to do battle in gyms. Now most Pokemon follow a direct line of evolution. Pikachu -> Raichu. Charmander -> Charmaeleon -> Charizard. But there is one Pokemon that breaks this rule. A cute fox looking Pokemon called Eevee.

According to Pokemon lore an Eevee can evolve into different variations depending on what kind of crystal its exposed to during its evolution.

The 3 main variations are an electric type called Jolteon, a fire type called Flareon and a water type called Vaporeon.

In Pokemon Go when you evolve your Eevee its up to chance which of the 3 types you could get although I’ve heard that the most common evolution is the fire type Flareon. Then on a Reddit thread a trick was posted to control the evolution of your Eevee to get a specific one of your choosing. Niantic during its SDCC panel last weekend confirmed this trick to be valid and said they were planning on implementing more tricks based on Pokemon history. If you are at the point where you can evolve your Eevee and you have your eye on getting a Jolteon but don’t want to leave it to chance here is how to pull it off.

Pick the Eevee you want to evolve; usually you want to evolve your Pokemon with the highest CP. When you select the Eevee you’re going to evolve change its name before you evolve it. For a Vaporeon rename it Rainer. For a Jolteon rename it Sparky. For a Flareon rename it Pyro. Once you have renamed your Eevee to the evolution you want its suggested you close the app and open it up again to make sure the name has been saved, the way this game glitches and crashes you don’t want to leave anything to chance. When you reopen the app go back to your renamed Eevee and select evolve and watch as it turns into the variation of your choice. I have tried this trick twice and now am the proud owner of a Vaporeon and a Jolteon. It is suggested to space your evolutions. If you have enough to evolve several Eevee’s which if you do I am jealous of you, then evolve one and wait a couple days to evolve the next.

The source of this trick is found in one of the episodes from the original animated series Ash and his crew runs into 4 brothers that specialize in Eevee’s. 3 of the brothers had one variation of Eevee each. Rainer had a Vaporeon, Sparky had a Jolteon and Pyro had a Flareon.

A pretty cool easter egg and an impressive find from the first players to try this trick. I wonder what other easter eggs and hacks Pokemon GO players will find.