Topic: Friendship Evolution

[Supermoose]

Anyone know how to do this?..I know poffins help the friendship level, but once you get it high enough how does it evolve.

[WuTangTurtle]

well i asked a similar question in a different thread.  Apparently u can get a Massage (one a day) to a pokemon at Veilstone City (not sure).  Also every 250 steps u take increases the happiness of your pokemon in your party by 1.  Don't let your pokemon faint, and um use Vitamins (carbos, hp up, protein, etc).

Thats all i can think of for now.

[Caterkiller]

also do not feed them bitter food. They hate that.  

[WuTangTurtle]

does winning ribbons in the super contest thing help, or taking a stroll in that park thing?  Oh and to evolve how many hearts do u have to see appear in you poke'tch?

(Edit) by the way a pokemon needs to gain a lvl while being happy to evolve, and some require this to be done in the day or night.

[that Baby guy]

I'm not sure about the park, but I don't think ribbons work.

Here's what I know:
Trading resets their happiness level.
Two large hearts are when they have above "200" happiness.  They apparently need 220, the max, to evolve.
Every 256 steps you take with them in your party ups the amount one point.
A massage ups happiness at most five points, but as the total happiness increases, the amount the massage adds lessens.
Using a Pokemon in a major  battle increases happiness.  Mostly, Gym leader and Elite Four fights are considered major battles.  Regular trainers aren't
Fainting decreases happiness.
Feeding a Pokemon a Poffin it likes increases happiness.  It's tastes are in the summary.
Feeding it one it doesn't like decreases happiness.
Items other than the Soothe Bell have no effect on happiness, if they are not certain berries or poffins.
The Soothe Bell doubles the happiness increasings.  I don't remember if it affects the rate of losing points, too.

I believe online battles should have no effect, regardless of outcome.

[WuTangTurtle]

It took a while but i finally did it, today i evolved 2 Pokemon through happiness.  I happened to miss the soothe bell, untill I was already 80% through trying to evolve them, doh!

However I don't think Soothe Bell works on a Buneary anyways, as its summary says it is a klutz and cannot use any hold items.  To make things worse, Buneary start at 0 for happiness.  I also wasted some time today at the Super Contest thing, however it was enjoyable.  Is there much of a point to it besides being a mini game?

hehe, I also wasted a lot of time at the Game Corner for some reason.  I won big money, bought me lots of TMs that I'm still not sure who to give em to.

Tip:  Use Soothe Bell + Bicycle @ the Bridge (north of Oreburgh City), great for moving around without any interruptions.

[nitsu niflheim]

If you have a soothe bell  on and just walk anywhere between 24,000 and 38,000 steps then you should be able to just level up afterwards and they should evolve.

I like to use the track from 209-solaceon city-210 to breed (and evolve happiness/friendship at the same time).  it's a straight line of 123 steps and you need the bicycle on mach speed to get up the dirt ramps.