Evolution by trade

Of course it's annoying and pointless, but it's probably due to trading that Pokemon became as popular as it did. It forced people to interact with each other as gamers, not only in a battling context but in order to 'complete' the game, so to speak. I don't personally like it, but I understand its purpose and the games need to have some critters to exploit this... but I still want my Alakazam without trading, dammit!

Alakazam, Kingdra, and now Milotc (WTF? What happened to the Beauty thingy?) are probably my favourite traded Pokemon, although you can catch Kingdra in Black, which I'm trying to do currently!
 
It is pure annoyance. I really hope they stop with it or I will begin to send them hatemail.
 
ok, trading to evolve is annoying, but i can see where they are coming from.
but now its getting stupid, its like, trade this with that at this time of day while its holding this item, and has been caught with this pokeball.
keep the evolutions simple.
keep the trading evolutions, the love evolutions, the lvl up with item evolutions, the use this move to level up, the day and night evolutions, and all that, because they are interesting, but dont start taking a certain way of evolving and adding "trade" to it aswell, because it becomes arbitrary and annoying.

ive always wanted all pokemon to be obtainable within the game, apart from maybe trading across versions to get the pokemon "white" has that "black" doesnt etc. apart from that its just annoying
 
Do you think its nessesary for pokemon to evolve by trading?

I think it's a cool idea and it's unique, but for people (like me) who don't have anyone to trade with or two consoles or whatever, it's possibly not the fairest method.

If you could remove a pokemon that evolves by trading, what would it be?

Maybe Graveler's line - Golem's awesome but as I can never get him I never bother using this line at all.

What's your favourite or least favourite evolved-by-trade pokemon?

I like most of them more than their evolutions: Kadabra, Haunter and Machoke.

More on topic I suppose my favourites would be Kingdra and Gorebyss.

Least favourite.... hmm. Gigalith, Conkeldurr and Electivire.
 
This is very useful thanx for the post.
 
Shasjas said:
ok, trading to evolve is annoying, but i can see where they are coming from.
but now its getting stupid, its like, trade this with that at this time of day while its holding this item, and has been caught with this pokeball.
keep the evolutions simple.

keep the trading evolutions, the love evolutions, the lvl up with item evolutions, the use this move to level up, the day and night evolutions, and all that, because they are interesting

ive always wanted all pokemon to be obtainable within the game, apart from maybe trading across versions to get the pokemon "white" has that "black" doesnt etc. apart from that its just annoying
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LOL at that first point. However, I fear that a Pokemon may one day get a trade requirement that specific. And you'd probably have to trade it for a specific Pokemon, with BOTH of them possessing certain moves in their movesets, both with maximum happiness, with both players required to have a certain Pokemon in their parties as well. :( *shudders* By that point, it just gets ridiculous.

I hate the "have this move in moveset and level up to evolve" thing. Especially since some of the moves suck and will hardly see use in competitive battling... (And it feels like the equivalent of "you have to have a certain memory in your brain in order to grow". Wut.)

Also, I'd like all Pokemon to be obtainable in ONE game, too, but I guess the One Game For The Price Of Two is an integral factor of Pokemon's mainstream success, with the connectivity and strengthened friendships and all...
 
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