Happiness
The friendship stat, in PRO more common under the name of "happiness", represents how happy a Pokémon is and is set as a number between zero and 255, while zero is the lowerst possible friendship and 255 the maximum possible friendship.
The friendship stat does not affect any combat stat´s of a Pokémon and is only needed as a requirement for certain Pokémon evolutions, quests and moves used outside of battle.
The use of friendship
Pokémon evolutions
Certain Pokémon will only evolve with the help of friendship, the required friendship is always 255 in such a case but a Pokémon evolution does not necessarily require the firendship stat as single condition to trigger the evolution.
Pokémon which require friendship to evolve:
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Quests
Using Moves
Some moves can be used outside of battle, some of them does also require a certain ammount of friendship of the performing Pokémon.
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Headbutt | 150 or more | |
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Dig | 150 or more | |
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Dive | 150 or more | |
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Rock Smash | 220 or more at Love Island, otherwise, no happiness is required. | |
Modify Friendship
Gaining Friendship
| Method | Friendship | Extra Note |
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Walking | +1 | Works only for your first Pokémon in your party while it is not defeated. This method doesn't apply to land mounts and bike, but does to surf mounts. Firendship gain occurs after 216 Steps. | ||||
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Defeating Pokémon | +1 | After a opposing Pokémon is defeated, regardless of battle type, all participated Pokémon will gain friendship. Pokémon wich are defeated at the end of the fight wont gain happiness. | ||||
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Level Up´s | +5 | Does work for any level up, no matter how triggered. | ||||
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Vitamins | +2 | |||||
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Ev reducing Berrys | +2 | Will only work as long as you have 1 or more EVs in the according EV Stat | ||||
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Trading | Set to 70 | When you trade a Pokémon it´s happiness will be reset to 70, therefore, it is only possible to gain happiness with this method when the traded Pokémon happiness is under 70. | ||||
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The happiness stat is a number which represents how happy your Pokémon is. The lowest possible stat is zero, while the highest possible stat is 255. When you catch a Pokémon, its happiness will automatically have a value of 70. While happiness doesn't particularly change any combat stats of your Pokémon, it's important to keep their happiness high if you wish to use moves out of combat, such as Headbutt, Dig or Dive, or if you wish to evolve a Pokémon that requires happiness.