Evolution Items

Evolution Items are items used to evolve certain species of Pokémon. There is small chance that they can be obtained from spinning Photo Disc in PokéStops and Gyms and trainer is guaranteed one on their seventh day spin streak. They can be also obtained as a reward from research tasks and gifts.

There are currently five items that can be obtained, that are:
 * Dragon Scale,
 * King's Rock,
 * Metal Coat,
 * Sun Stone,
 * Up-Grade
 * and Sinnoh Stone (to be released)

To see currently owned Raid Passes player can check them out on the item bag page.

Trivia

 * All Pokémon, that to evolve into them there is evolution item required, cannot be neither caught in the wild, hatched from an egg nor be a Raid Boss in the gym and the only way to acquire them is the evolution.
 * Historically, in the Pokémon game core-series, the following conditions described below will take place when one of these items are given to a Pokémon to hold:
 * Pokémon capable of holding either a Dragon Scale, King's Rock or Metal Coat will evolve when traded.
 * Pokémon capable of holding either a Sun Stone or Up-Grade will evolve when leveled-up.
 * On the official support page for Pokémon GO, Deepsea Scale and Deepsea Tooth are mentioned.
 * In the main series games, these items are required to evolve Clamperl into either Huntail or Gorebyss respectively.
 * The Sinnoh Stone was first discovered in network traffic on November, 2018.