Get a Flareon, Vaporeon or Jolteon easily in Pokemon GO – CNET

Renaming your Eevee will make it evolve into the type you need.

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You want to catch ’em all in Pokemon Go , and you also need a variety of Pokemon types to own gyms. Evolving your Eevees can be an effective and simple way to get three different, strong Pokemon while adding three new numbers to your Pokedex.

You can evolve an Eevee into a Flareon (a fire type), a Vaporeon (a water type) or a Jolteon (an electric type) just by changing your Eevee’s name.

To evolve an Eevee into a Flareon:

Collect enough Eevee candies to evolve your Eevee
Tap on your Eevee
Tap on the pencil icon beside the name “Eevee”
Rename it Pyro
Tap on the Okay button
Tap on Evolve and your Eevee will evolve into a Flareon

To evolve your Eevee to a Jolteon, name it Sparkly.

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To evolve your Eevee to a Vaporeon, use the same steps, but name it Rainer instead of Pyro. To evolve your Eevee to a Jolteon, name it Sparky. Sparkly is another name that also works to create a Jolteon. This is actually something of an easter egg, with these being the names of three Eevee trainers in the Pokemon anime.

Tried the steps and it didn’t work? Sometimes this trick fails because of glitches in the game. To get around the glitch you’ll need to rename your Eevee, shut down the game and open it back up before evolving your Eevee again. It’s a pain, but I’ve had success every time with the shutdown method.

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