How To Evolve Budew (& 9 Other Facts About The Pokmon) – TheGamer

When Roselia was introduced in Generation III of Pokmon, it wouldn't have been known that it would eventually receive a pre-evolution Baby Pokmon and evolution in the following generation. But, Budew, the Baby form for Roselia, and new evolution, Roserade, both came on the scene in Generation IV.

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Budew itself is a great Pokmon. It's cute, loveable, and has some interesting lore and facts attached to it. The Grass/Poison-type is modeled after a small rosebud, which will eventually grow into the rose-bearing Roselia. Here's an explanation on how to evolve this Baby Pokmon, and some other interesting things about it.

After catching Budew in the wild (in many different places across the games) or hatching it from an egg, it will need to evolve into Roselia before it's of any use in battle. In order to do this, you'll need to be nice to it and treat it well. This is because Budew evolves with a high friendship level.

Once it's friendly toward you, level it up in the daytime, and it will evolve into Roselia. From there, if you want to make this Pokmon even more powerful, you can evolve the Roselia into Roserade by exposing it to a Shiny Stone.

If you're already in possession of a Roselia or Roserade and want to fill Budew's Pokdex entry, you'll need to breed a female of one of them with either a Ditto or another compatible Pokmon. Eggs will hatch into the species that matches the mother (or non-Ditto Pokmon). However, there's a catch.

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If you breed a Roselia or Roserade, the egg will hatch into a Roselia. In order to make it hatch into a Budew, one of the parents will need to hold a Rose Incense.

Like many Baby Pokmon, Budew is virtually useless in most battle scenarios. Its stats are a joke and its movepool is very bad. Interestingly, Budew will learn zero moves by leveling up.

It can have Absorb, Growth, Stun Spore, and Worry Seed at Level 1 or when hatched, but it will not learn any other moves if leveled all the way to 100. It can learn a fair few Egg moves or TM moves, but it will need to evolve to learn anything else.

According to the Pokdex, Budew can be very poisonous to humans if they get too close at the wrong time. Per its Pokdex entries, Budew likes to live near water and dispense pollen that causes sneezing and runny noses. Its pollen is described as "toxic" in some entries, and it can release poison into the air via this pollen.

You'll need to get friendly with your Budew to evolve it, but watch out for its toxic pollen release, because it won't be fun to deal with those sinus issues.

While you're doing your best to avoid Budew's poisonous pollen clouds, you'll want to make sure to stay very far away if it is consuming very clean water. This is because, according to the Pokdex, clean water makes it much more toxic and poisonous.

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Considering wild Budew like to live near clean pools of water, chances are that most of them would be pretty poisonous if you get too close. As it evolves, it learns to harness this poisonous nature as well. Roserade is said to contain two deadly toxins, one in each hand, and it can jab powerfully with fatal results.

Most Pokmon have two or more abilities two regular abilities, and often a hidden ability. Budew, despite its uselessness in battle, has three abilities that are all really good. Its first ability, Natural Cure, heals all status conditions on the Pokmon when it is switched out. It will also heal any status condition when the battle finishes.

Its secondary ability, Poison Point, allows Budew a 30 percent chance to poison any Pokmon that makes contact with it. Its hidden ability, Leaf Guard, prevents Budew from being afflicted with non-volatile status conditions during harsh sunlight.

Like its evolutions, Budew has a really fantastic shiny form. It will swap its shade of green for a more yellow shade of it. The small foliage under its face will also change to a nice purple, which matches perfectly with its Poison-typing.

The two seeds inside its vines, which are normally red and blue to match its evolutions, will become purple and black, again, like its evolutions' roses. Overall, shiny Budew matches its typing and evolutionary family much better than regular Budew.

Speaking of the seeds inside its vines, it's a really great touch that they match Roselia and Roserade. These two beautiful Grass/Poison-types are adorned with two floral hands. Roselia has a blue rose and a red rose, one on each hand. Roserade's are the same shade of red and blue, but expanded to contain three flowers per hand.

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Budew's seeds, which are rarely seen as they're enclosed in its vines, are the same shades of red and blue. It's a perfect match and a subtle detail, but a great one.

It's rare, but there are occasionally Pokmon that are seen in the anime before the games. Some prominent examples are Misty's Togepi, Ho-oh, and Munchlax. Interestingly, Budew confused many when it was revealed in the anime, as it hadn't yet been seen anywhere before that.

In the episode, Dawn of a New Era!, Pochama VS Subomie! Hikari's First Battle!!, the fourth episode of the Diamond & Pearl arc, Ash and Dawn run into a trainer named Nando, who has a Budew. The Grass/Poison-type had not yet been revealed to the public, so Japanese viewers were very confused at the time.

Most Baby Pokmon (with very few exceptions) are introduced in a later generation than their evolved forms. This is true for Roselia, too, who was introduced the generation before Budew. Some Pokmon, like Magmar and Electabuzz, received Baby forms in one generation and then further evolutions later down the road.

Roselia is unique in this sense. The Baby form and evolution were both introduced in the same generation. This means that Budew and Roserade are the only Pokmon to be listed next to each other in the National Dex without their middle stage between them.

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