Thoughts on mid battle evolutions

[Kutie Pie]

I agree that it's cheesy, cliché, and rather convenient, but depending on the battle, I think it's neat that the Pokémon evolves in the middle of it, because it's like a way of proving they're becoming a man "growing up" by doing such an arduous task, and enduring through it. Now do I think it's stupid that they seem to have gotten healed or whatever after taking a beating, yeah. It'd honestly make more sense that the Pokémon evolves and keeps its injuries, so the rush of new-found energy/strength/adrenaline takes over, and the battle continues.

Unless that's exactly what happens... though I haven't really seen any new episodes from Battle Frontier onwards, I just know this has been the norm. What I haven't seen is the newly-evolved Pokémon winning the battle, but then fainting as well from over-exhaustion. That I feel gives it a rather realistic approach.

[remybutton]

My thoughts:

Its a wonderrful thing and I like it. Such evolutions should also occur in the games as it will be wonderful. For eg: Your last pokemon is in its red hp line same as your foe and it evolves at the right moment saying the day.

That's pretty cool I have to admit, it would be nice to implement this feature in X and Y. If your Pokemon levels up in battle and reaches the evolution requirement, it should evolve mid-battle.

[Champbybirth]

That's pretty cool I have to admit, it would be nice to implement this feature in X and Y. If your Pokemon levels up in battle and reaches the evolution requirement, it should evolve mid-battle.

Ya jst waiting 4 those games

[Ryan7437]

Hopefully it will be added to X/Y!

[Champbybirth]

Hopefully it will be added to X/Y!

Hope so...

[MattySadler]

Always found it strange in the games how a Pokemon will wait until the end before evolving, and I quite like it in the anime. Few more of Ash's Pokemon could do with evolving!

[Champbybirth]

Thats a big question. How can a pokemon control its evo while in a battle...

[RVD_fan]

I think they go to that well a bit too often. When a character is decisively losing a battle, gets the evolution, then the pokemon is fully rejuvenated and wins the match, it makes the trainer look lucky rather than good.

I'm not against it, but it should be used sparingly. It's never a substitute for a regular hard fought victory.

[Vegeta8639]

Well I don't mind it if it's like with chimchar where it evolves for a good reason in the middle of the battle but doesn't end up sweeping the rest of Pauls team.
But when it's like riolu losing and at the last second "POOF" lucario and of course sweeps Ashs team as if the Hydreigon wasn't enough.
My point is the writers can easily make any pokemon win any battle without the need for evolution, they probably just can't thing of better ways to evolve them like seen with Swadloon to Leavanny.
It evolved at a random moment of no significance.
Any way it doesn't matter if pokemon win because of evolving because the writers obviously wanted that pokemon to win and could/would have made it do so some other way if not for evolution.

[lightpanda]

Right, except in the games, it's based on the maximum hp (I think) so at most you would gain 3~4, or 5~6 hp per level if you're a Blissey. I find it to be annoying that they're nearly near fainting and BOOM! Evolution, Max Potion saves the day! That's the (personally) most horribly way to evolve and I wished that the writers can handle certain evolutions better.

:3

You know in the game the reason you gain health web you level up is to stop you from taking damage. So If you already took say 15 damage and you are at 3 hp when you level up and gain 2 max hp your actual hp goes up to 5 so you still only took 15 damage

[*futachimaru*]

Its cool when they evolve mid battle (like chimchar evolved against the battle against Paul)

But i don't like when they do this cheesy "NO! PLEASE GET UP! DON'T DIE! YOU CAN DO IT!" routine (they only ever did it once or twice, but i sure hope they don't do it again)

[Rovian]

I think mid battle evolutions is overused, and that evolutions should mostly happen after a hard earned victory like when Ash's Charmander evolved into Charmeleon.

[*~Silver*~]

I think that in the Pokemon TV show it happens a little too much, but I do like it overall. It shows that the Pokemon do have emotions and can control the time of their evolution, even though in the games they really are just a bunch of pixels that can't do that. I think that it would be interesting in the games, but it would only be able to happen when you're Pokemon is just a few XP away from evolving anyway.

[dman_dustin]

I honestly couldn't care less, about the "bad writing" implications of a Pokemon evolving mid battle and winning as a result.

But I do think that for some part of what the anime does should be included into the games.

It never made any sense whatsoever that a Pokemon evolved only right after the battle ends.

I'm not saying that a Pokemon should evolve whenever in the games, just when it reaches the right circumstances.

Such as leveling up.

After defeating a Pokemon and leveling up, there should be a pause allowing your Pokemon to evolve.

Seriously because a Pokemon can level up many times during a battle, 5 being the likely normal amount (1 level for each Pokemon, excluding the 6th one since that would be the end of the battle).

How does it make any sense for a Pokemon to reach it's evolution level, and yet level up 4 more times until it can finally evolve.

And to a lesser extent, I hate how how you have to level up to initiate evolution (what I mean is a Pokemon evolves at level 20, it's at level 21, and hasn't evolved yet, you have to wait until level 22 before it evolves, or 23, 24, 25, 26, etc, etc). I hate that because any unevolved level 100 Pokemon can never evolve.

[Antivist]

Honestly, i like it when pokemon evolve mid battle. Yes it's very cheesy and overused but i think it's a great idea and i don't know why they haven't implemented this into the games yet.

[aloasa]

though it makes more sense evolution midbattle instead of after the battle I still think that they are overusing it a bit in Ash favor, even if I didn't like Cameron to win against Ash I love that the mid battle evolution thing work against Ash

[pacman000]

I've been thinking about something. When a Pokemon evolves, it already has to rebuild it's body. Why wouldn't it repair it's body in the process? As such, a Pokemon that evoles in the midst of a battle should get a boost.

As a writing element, mid-battle evolutions are fine, as long as they're not overused.

[Ciccone]

Mid-battle evolutions are just tacky since they almost always work in favor of a main character (Ash is the biggest example. Like literally a third of his battles have been won because of a convenient, mid-battle evolution). It's just another form of deus ex machina, which this anime seems to have a lot of. It's just bad writing for the most part in my opinion.

[Iota]

I do like mid-battle evolution's when they serve a purpose, which isn't often. I wouldn't say I in any way dislike them, though.

[pokedigijedi]

sneaky devious and i am indifferent about it now put it into the games and watch as every pulls their own hairs out every time they are about to win a match when all of sudden their opponents gabite go all garchomp and eats there team....it would be hilarious to watch wouldnt be fun to have happen to yourself but funny watching it happen to someone else.