Summary
- After nearly 5 years, a Pokemon GO player bid farewell to Feebas, investing 1,792 days to collect candies for its evolution.
- Feebas requires 100 candies for evolution, forcing the player to walk for years to prepare for the evolution into Milotic.
- While evolving Feebas may seem daunting, it's similar in other Pokemon games, requiring trading or certain conditions for evolution.
One Pokemon GO player is bidding farewell to a Buddy Pokemon that has been following them around for nearly five years. Some of the monsters in Pokemon GO take a lot more care to evolve than others, and this player invested close to 1,800 days of walking alongside a single Pokemon just to collect enough candy for its evolution.
Niantic released Pokemon GO in July 2016, and it quickly grew into one of the hottest mobile games on the market, allowing players to walk around the real world to find and catch Pokemon on their phones. A little over three months after the game's debut, the Pokemon GO buddy system was released, allowing each player to select one Pokemon at a time that could follow them around on the game's GPS-like map. One special bonus players get with buddy Pokemon is that they'll accrue species-specific pieces candy required for their evolution at set walking intervals, making the feature a great option for leveling up or evolving rare Pokemon.
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For one player, Reddit user amorov, that Pokemon has been the elusive Feebass for nearly five years. Most Pokemon require somewhere between 25 and 100 pieces of candy to evolve, while the most costly evolutions in Pokemon GO cost 400 and include Magikarp, Wailmer, and Swablu. While Feebas only requires one-quarter the amount of candy as the highest tier on that list, it's still a hard-to-find monster, so walking with it constantly makes for a slow-but-reliable method of preparing it for evolution. This player kept Feebas as their Buddy Pokemon for a total of 1,792 days, which is only a few days shy of four years and 11 months, before acquiring the required 100 pieces of candy to evolve it into Milotic and announcing their plans to remove it as their buddy.
Pokemon GO Player Retires Buddy Feebas After Nearly Five Years
While it is quite a task to gather that much candy primarily through the Buddy Pokemon mechanic, the player's journey to evolve Feebas in Pokemon GO isn't as epic as it may appear at first glance, as they admit to having taken a long hiatus from playing the game, only recently returning to it. Some other fans of the game were quick to point out that the player was not the most friendly trainer, as the stats they posted show that they only gave Feebas a treat 207 times and only used the Play Together mechanic with it on four occasions across nearly five years.
The rarity of seeing a Feebas evolve isn't limited to Pokemon GO. Evolving Feebas to Milotic in Pokemon games usually requires trading it while it is holding a Prism Scale or while its Beauty stat is maxed out. Additionally, catching a Feebas in the first place is a daunting task, as games from generations 3 and 4 require players to use a fishing rod to find one but limit the areas where they can appear to just four to six tiles on the game map.
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