'Pokémon GO' Evolution Guide Tips, Tricks, Cheats: Trainers Hope to Crack the Secret to Increased Evolutionary Item Drop Rate
With the introduction of a new batch of Pokémon comes a brand-new challenge. But every challenge that's matched with diligent effort and hard work will always yield fruitful results for trainers in the hit location-based free-to-play game, "Pokémon GO."
Last month's huge Gen 2 update brought a whole bunch of pocket monsters to the game hailing from the franchise's Johto region, which includes Pokémon from Gold, Silver and Crystal versions of the earlier role-playing game series. And these second-generation additions to the growing roster of Pokémon pose special evolutionary needs that can be satisfied by rare and special items.
Some of the older Pokémon species that didn't use to have evolved forms now have stronger evolved counterparts that can only be achieved by using candies with one of five newly introduced evolution items, which include the Metal Coat for evolving Scyther and Onix, the King's Rock for Poliwhirl and Slowpoke, Sun Stone for Gloom and Sunkern, Dragon Scale for Seadra, and Upgrade for Porygon.
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But since these are such rare items, their drop rates are pretty low, which could easily frustrate even the most diligent trainers. However, a recent post on the "Pokémon GO" online community, The Silph Road, suggested that time may play a factor in increased evolutionary item drops.
Mojurico, the trainer who shared the post, reported that after stopping by PokéStops at exactly 4:50 p.m. for seven consecutive days, he seemed to have managed to trigger a switch that gave him three evolutionary items over the course of two days.
This has not been proven as the ultimate solution to scoring those hard-to-get evolutionary items, but other trainers suggest to try it all the same, with some variations like doing it every other day or on specific days of the week, always on the same time as the last.
Trainers who would like to try this out and share their own observations on the matter may do so by taking note of what time and which PokéStop they were at when they received a particular evolutionary item. The timestamp can be checked in the trainer's journal, but the trainer themselves will need to remember the location of the PokéStop.
