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Sun Stone
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Ash's Pokédex
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The Sun Stone enables evolution in several Pokémon, changing Gloom into Vileplume and changing Sunkern into Sunflora.
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Mystery on a Deserted Island!
In the manga
In Clefairy Tale, Ash, Professor Oak, and Bill witness a Clefairy evolution ceremony involving a large Moon Stone.
The focus of the chapter To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! is evolutionary stones. Misty hopes to buy a Water Stone for her Poliwhirl in Stone Town, a town on Dream Island where all the evolutionary stones in the Pokémon world come from. However, she cannot afford one, remarking that an inexpensive one might make the evolution go bad.
She is later given a Water Stone by Mikey, who is being pressured to join the "Knights of the E Stone", a club which requires members to own a Pokémon evolved by an evolutionary stone. By battling club members, Ash and Mikey prove to the leaders that Pokémon which have evolved by evolutionary stone are not necessarily superior to their unevolved counterparts.
A Moon Stone was first mentioned by Professor Oak in Gyarados Splashes In! as a rock with a crescent moon-shaped indentation that boosts a Pokémon's power immensely. In the next round, Raging Rhydon, Team Rocket searched for one in Mt. Moon, however, it was Red who eventually found it. Later on, Red used this Moon Stone to evolve Green's Clefairy during the Silph Co. catastrophe.
In Buzz Off, Electabuzz!, Red's Poliwhirl was able to evolve into a Poliwrath with the help of a Water Stone when they were thrown into the water in Vermilion Harbor, although the cause of its evolution wasn't revealed until the Yellow arc.
In The Kindest Tentacruel, Yellow found a Leaf Stone at the bottom of Vermilion Harbor, but the Fire, Thunder, and Water Stones were missing. Later, it was revealed Giovanni gave them to Red so he could evolve and devolve his Eevee freely. Noticeably though these four evolutionary stones don't disappear when used to evolved a Pokémon, making their use unlimitable.
In The Last Battle VI, Gold's Sunkern evolved into a Sunflora because the sun's energy reflected off of the rocks near Ilex Forest replicated the Sun Stone's effects.
In Guile from Mawile, Ruby's Skitty evolved into a Delcatty due to being exposed to one of Steven's Moon Stones.
In Give It Your Best, Blastoise, during the battle against the Deoxys Duplicates, Green evolved her Jiggly and Nido into Wigglytuff and Nidoqueen, respectively, using two Moon Stones.
In Dealing With A Koffing Fit, Silver's Murkrow evolved into a Honchkrow due to gaining experience while holding a Dusk Stone, which had been given to Silver by Green.
In All About Arceus VIII, Gold's Togetic evolved into a Togekiss shortly after evolving from a Togepi using the Shiny Stone that had been given to it by Lance.
In Triple Threat, Cilan, Chili, and Cress used a Leaf Stone, Fire Stone, and Water Stone to evolve their Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour into Simisage, Simisear, and Simipour, respectively, during their battle against the Shadow Triad.
In Homecoming, it was revealed that Black's Munna evolved into a Musharna using Caitlin's Moon Stone.
In PAORAS00, Sapphire's Kiruru evolved into a Gallade due to a Dawn Stone hitting him while training with Rara, who had evolved into a Gardevoir. Later, Steven found another Dawn Stone on the ground.
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The Water, Fire, Thunder and Leaf Stone of Vermillion Harbor in the Yellow arc
In (Violent) Earthquake! Cyrus's Consuming Ambition!!, it was revealed that Mitsumi secretly attached an Everstone to Hareta's Piplup before he started his journey, because she had thought Hareta would learn faster with weaker Pokémon. After Mitsumi removed it, Piplup immediately evolved into Prinplup, then into Empoleon.
In Indigo Plateau, Satoshi's Pikachu used a Thunder Stone to evolve itself into a Raichu before Satoshi left to challenge the Elite Four.
In the TCG
The Moon Stone and Dusk Stone are featured in the Pokémon Trading Card Game on a Trainer card and on Pokémon cards as held items. These held items work in the same fashion as Poké-Bodies, in that the effect the item provides is active whenever the Pokémon is in play. The following is a list of cards named or including Moon Stone or Dusk Stone.
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Underground
This is artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground
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Water Stone
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Thunder Stone
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Leaf Stone
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Sun Stone
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Everstone
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Global Link
These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Global Link.
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Water Stone
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Thunder Stone
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Leaf Stone
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Sun Stone
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Shiny Stone
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Dusk Stone
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Dawn Stone
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Everstone
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Trivia
- Of all Pokémon that evolve by evolutionary stone, only Eevee and Gloom can use multiple ones; together, they can use any of the stones introduced in Generation I or II except for the Moon Stone.
- Only four Pokémon that evolve by stone can evolve using another method: Poliwhirl, Eevee, Kirlia, and Snorunt.
- Only Grass-type Pokémon evolve using the Leaf Stone.
- Simisage is the only Pokémon evolved via Leaf Stone which is not dual-typed.
- The Oval Stone is sometimes considered an evolutionary stone, and can even be selected to be used like one. However, unlike other evolutionary stones, the Oval Stone does not trigger Evolution in any Pokémon when it is used on them. It must instead be held and the Pokémon leveled up, making it an evolution-inducing held item.
- All Pokémon that evolve with the Fire Stone are in the Field Egg Group.
- Through a glitch in the Generation I games, Pokémon can be evolved without the use of a stone, provided that the player has sent out the correct Pokémon in the same battle that a Pokémon that evolves using a stone levels up.
- The Dawn Stone induces Evolution in only two Pokémon species, Kirlia and Snorunt, the fewest of any stone. Both of them only work if the Pokémon is of a specific gender.
- This also makes it currently the only stone that only evolves Pokémon introduced in a single generation, as Kirlia and Snorunt were both introduced in Generation III, likewise, their evolutions were both introduced in Generation IV.
- It is also the only stone not to gain a new use in Generation V.
- The Fire Stone is the only one not used in a three-stage evolutionary line.
- The Sun Stone and Moon Stone share their names with actual gemstones.
- Though six Pokémon families evolve with the Moon Stone, only the four introduced in Generation I can be readily caught in a Moon Ball, since Moon Balls can be acquired only from Kurt in Azalea Town.
- The Leaf Stone is the only evolutionary stone that cannot be sold to the ore maniac in Black and White; this was corrected in Black 2 and White 2.
- Due to the limited number of characters allocated for text entry boxes in Generations I through V, the Thunder Stone was then written as "Thunderstone".
In other languages
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Fire Stone
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Water Stone
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Thunder Stone
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Leaf Stone
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Moon Stone
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Sun Stone
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Shiny Stone
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Dusk Stone
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Dawn Stone
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Everstone
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