Age 30
Male
Amsterdam
Seen November 18th, 2019
Posted March 11th, 2019
200 posts
14 Years
Wile I was just happily evolving some of my pokemon, I decided to evolve my Eevee into Flareon, it would have been my strongest Flareon and eeveelution thus far. I changed its name into Pyro, pressed evolve and... it evolved into a Vaporeon?! But why??? I did not need one at all, now I'm stuck with two Vaporeons with about the same IV's and the same moves, and while the newer one does have a much higher CP, I wanted Flareon! My other Flareon was only decent.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or heard of this? i am sad

TheKenny

The only real Kenny!

Age 27
Male
Germany
Seen November 14th, 2017
Posted August 27th, 2016
41 posts
11.2 Years
I had the same problem with a lot of eevees. The first three I evolved worked fine, but then the trick did not work anymore.

I wanted a vaporeon but got two jolteon and three flareon. Don't know what I did wrong. I thought the trick doesn't work anymore.
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Age 30
Male
Amsterdam
Seen November 18th, 2019
Posted March 11th, 2019
200 posts
14 Years
I had the same problem with a lot of eevees. The first three I evolved worked fine, but then the trick did not work anymore.

I wanted a vaporeon but got two jolteon and three flareon. Don't know what I did wrong. I thought the trick doesn't work anymore.
As far as I understand, it only works the first time you do the trick. After you use Sparky, Rainer and Pyro once each, it then becomes random regardless of name
It has worked 5 times for me... so that would mean I've just been lucky the last two times? Hmm.
Male
Seen November 5th, 2016
Posted September 24th, 2016
338 posts
6.8 Years
It works for the first time you use each name but you have to restart the app after naming your eevee and waiting at least a minute so that the name registers with the server
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VisualJae

Spam Hyper Beam for days

Male
New York, NY
Seen October 27th, 2017
Posted September 12th, 2017
1,126 posts
7.6 Years
Only works once per Eeveelution.

Every time after that is random. Doesn't matter if you wait, reset, depend on time of day, powering up with Stardust, etc.

Enough data has been gathered on this since the first day by the theorycrafting and datamining community. I've personally already evolved dozens of Eevees and tried many rumored manipulation methods. It's random.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I've had friends tell me that they have used the Eeveelution name method several times and have not gotten a problem at all. Restarting the app right after evolving your Eevee works 75% of the time if you are wanting to evolve the same Eeveelution again.

VisualJae

Spam Hyper Beam for days

Male
New York, NY
Seen October 27th, 2017
Posted September 12th, 2017
1,126 posts
7.6 Years
you need to close and restart the apps before evolve next eevee
This is not true.

The Eevee nicknaming "trick" ONLY guarantees the Eeveelution for the FIRST time you use each name. It's random every time after that. Go evolve 20 more Eevees doing this and let me know if you still have a 100% success rate.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
Male
Seen October 5th, 2017
Posted September 3rd, 2017
346 posts
6.8 Years
Either waiting quite a while after renaming or restarting the app after renaming (or both) is important to let the server register the name change.

But everyone who evolved eevee multiple times says that the trick works initially and then stops working.

It helps you complete your pokedex and stops working after that. It helps you to get one of each, and not more.