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Originally Posted by Galvantula

Also on my Pichu problems: it's now level 18 and while I'm getting messages saying stuff like "It's awaiting instructions", "it's taking in the sights" and "It's fond of the other Pokemon's scent" I don't know how close I am to getting it to evolve and even if I do I'll never be able to teach it good moves since it's a baby at LV 18! It's making me furious!

Affection and friendship aren't the same thing. Playing with it in Refresh will raise the former and cause those messages to come up (among other things) but it won't do much of anything for friendship evolution. If it's at that high a level it shouldn't be too long though. Have it hold the soother bell, if you have it, and it'll help a lot.

It's probably too late to say now, but another option would have been to just catch a Pikachu. Pichus have a chance of calling them in SOS battles. It's also tedious, but probably less so than friendship evolution.

Anyway, cleared my second trial so gained the ability to fish. Took about 15 minutes of resetting some rippling water to get the Crosola, and then a bit more for some predatory starfishes to come out, but finally I got a Mareanie. It's so ugly and so cute. I love this thing.

Never going to evolve her so she's gonna be pretty useless but whatever. Mareanie!

Speaking of who, I love its Japanese name. Hidoide. It manages to be both a starfish pun and literally just the exclamation "that's terrible." It's wonderful.

And I got a friend to evolve my Rockruff into an edgewolf. Also love this dog.