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6th Gen How Did Inkay's Evolution Get Discovered?

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This is a question that has been bugging me for a while - I'd have never worked out that to get a Malamar I'd have to evolve Inkay while holding the DS upside down. I'm just curious as to how this was worked out; did someone accidentally stumble upon it, was information released giving us clues to it or were we just straight up told?

I've had enough trouble trying to work out evolutions (I don't like to Google if I can avoid it) like Goodra and the monkey trio (I didn't consider using stones) so this just seems completely beyond me.
 
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This is a question that has been bugging me for a while - I'd have never worked out that to get a Malamar I'd have to evolve Inkay while holding the DS upside down. I'm just curious as to how this was worked out; did someone accidentally stumble upon it, was information released giving us clues to it or were we just straight up told?

I've had enough trouble trying to work out evolutions (I don't like to Google if I can avoid it) like Goodra and the monkey trio (I didn't consider using stones) so this just seems completely beyond me.

Well there are very weird trainers in the Pokemon world. Even in-game we have some weird weird Pokemon and people( case and point The Mysterious Man). I wouldn't be that surprised if some dolt decided that all his Pokemon would battle better if they were battling upside-down. I really wouldn't put it past anyone to think of this. And then, maybe word got around and people decided to try it and it's evolution came about? Most likely the case.
 

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Yep, there's lots of weird trainers that seem to do anything. Like the rich kid in emerald who uses full restores on his lv 7 pokemon. Someone's bound to figure it out somehow. Although I wonder how it would work irl? Maybe you would have to hold it upside down.
 
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Yeah I guess we might have had information regarding its evolution process but I can't remember? Cause I mean it's pretty random and for someone to try that is pretty crazy, but like you guys said, some people would try anything.
 

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first there was the rumour and then there was actual confirmation which is when i learnt how to. lucky for me too because i ended up using inkay and i wouldn't have knew for the life of me if i hadn't found out beforehand!
 
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