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Quote from Gosth

I think you are missunderstanding TremorzGG's suggestion, what he wants is that pokemon from auction hiuse or gts dont evolve, not an item that act like everstone

No misunderstanding on my part if you're talking to me. He was putting across an example of why he would be suggesting what he would be suggesting. The suggestion here is the following: "Stop Pokemon Evolving From Level UP".

Here in this thread we are discussing the topic of that main suggestion.

Also, based off the context of context of his post it doesn't sound like he's looking for Pokémon not to evolve in GTS/Auction House that other users have put up.

My idea that I proposed would cover and help prevent unevolved Pokémon from GTS/Auction House from evolving given you get them before they evolve and they end up landing in your Party if you have space for them there. In this case/scenario it's at least better to have a safety measure like this due to an item instead of no safety measures at all and potentially being able to save some Pokémon from evolving that you wouldn't want to (since you wouldn't be quick with the Everstones obviously).

Overall, I think the idea I had suggested for this idea here is going to be the most considerable thing if anything as it's balanced and doesn't mess with the game's design and change it up much whatsoever. It's enough to mostly help people who LAB hunt or hunt specific things, don't have enough time to be so attentive to their eggs, and maybe get specific evos they want somewhat a bit easier. Nothing too much and will give people an extra hand if they desire wanting such a thing because they feel this is a problem for them.

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i like the idea

This idea has my total, complete, full support. I've had multiple Pokémon evolve on me before I've had the chance to stop it by sticking an everstone on them.

Just as a quick example: I had this silly idea to collect Mudkips, but so many times my eggs would hatch and evolve before I had the chance to get back on and equip them with everstones. I've also had the problem of shiny hunting, and then you finally hatch a shiny after X amount of eggs and it evolves before you can stop it. The worst case I know happened when a friend was shiny hunting Spring Mareep and it evolved on her, which is especially disheartening, since we all know how expensive and time-consuming an event hunt can be.

TL;DR Implementing this suggestion would save a ton of time and frustration for many players.

Support. I've had multiple pokemon evolve on me, losing the dex entry, and everstones are just a hassle. Either let you allow/disallow level evolutions, or not require a living dex.

First of all, support. I don't have much to say other than that.

Secondly, from my understanding, the main problem with this is, it makes Everstones useless. That seems to be the general opinion and I can agree with that. This site is supposed to be as close to the official games as possible with its features. However, Everstones are used for more than not evolving Pokemon. In-game, whether a Pokemon is holding an Everstone or not, you may cancel an evolution with the B button. The Everstone, in that regard, just saves time from having to go to the evolution screen and hit B every time. So it is of my opinion that something similar to the B button, or, cancellation, of an evolution, should be implemented here.

So what about Everstones?
When this item is held by a Pokémon, it will be prevented from evolving by Level Up means.
In Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold & SoulSilver, if a Female Pokémon or a Ditto holds this in the Breeding Centre and breeds, there is a 50% chance of the offspring retaining the holder's nature. From Black 2 & White 2 onwards, it is changed so that it will always pass down the nature to the offspring.

I'd like to add-on, that if the Everstone being useless is the reason for this not being implemented, then perhaps the use of it on PH could be tweaked in a way that is still relevant to official Pokemon games.

Simple enough, attach an Everstone to either a female parent or a Ditto and it passes down the nature of that parent. I don't have an opinion on whether it should be a 50% chance or if it should always pass down a nature, but that's neither here or there at the moment. Battling may not be that important on PH, but there are people that collect certain natures for their collection and I have wanted the same with certain Pokemon myself. This would make Everstones relevant and consistent with the games, whilst making evolution convenient and non-stressful.

But if they didn't evolve, wouldn't everstones be useless?

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@Axolotter er, maybe read the post right above you? Maybe you should read the actual discussion before asking a question that's already been asked and answered

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Wait, what did I stumble onto?

No support, or if it is implemented it should be a setting you can turn on and off. I don't want constant spam notifs telling me "Hey, do you want to evolve x pokemon?"

Oh, ok, I see, thanks

Full support, I'm trying to complete my dex, and it's extremely annoying when one of my pokemon evolve before I can put an everstone on it

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I'm sorry, but... no support. We have everstones. This would make things simplified a bit too much. I understand not wanting your Pokemon to evolve by levelup but everstones exist for a reason.

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Huge support. My question is why does everyone think everstones are useless because of this? Everstones have always been a quality of life thing in the main games, not a main method of preventing evolution. They're there so that you don't need to repeatedly cancel evolutions. How aggravating would it be to have to cancel evolutions with every level of your Pokemon? That's why everstones exist. Both of them serve different functions; the level cancelling is a failsafe and the everstone is a quality of life upgrade. I don't think one erases the use of the other if the level cancelling would be implemented the same way it is in the mainstream games, which makes sense to me. I don't know the logistics of this, but I definitely don't think that the two can't coexist with different purposes.