How To Evolve Kubfu In Pokemon Sword

One of the biggest selling points of the Pokemon Sword and Shield Isle of Armor DLC is the introduction of Kubfu, a small fighting-type that can evolve into i of two forms of Urshifu. We'll show y'all how to evolve Kubfu into Urshifu and which of the two forms it can take is ameliorate.

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How to Evolve Kubfu into Urshifu in Pokemon Sword and Shield Isle of Armor DLC
How to Enhance Kubfu'southward Friendship
Where Are the Tower of Waters and Tower of Darkness?
What Level Should Kubfu Be for the Towers of Waters and Darkness?
How to Crush the Tower of Waters
How to Beat the Belfry of Darkness
Which Urshifu Form is Better?
Can You lot Modify Urshifu's Fighting Manner?

How to Evolve Kubfu into Urshifu in Pokemon Sword and Shield Isle of Armor DLC

To evolve Kubfu into Urshifu you'll demand to undergo several complex steps, far dissimilar from the usual levelling or items needed to do so. We'll become into more than detail below, merely for now these are the basic parameters needed to brand Kubfu evolve:

Heighten Kubfu's friendship rating.
Have information technology to see Mustard at the Main Dojo one time sufficiently friendly.
Train Kubfu to around level seventy or up (it tin can be lower, merely we don't recommend information technology).
Take Kubfu to the Belfry or Waters or Tower of Darkness on the Island of Armor, depending on which form you want him to evolve into.
Defeat five trainers in a row using only Kubfu, finishing with Mustard.
Have Kubfu read the Coil of Waters or Scroll of Darkness to have him evolve.

Taking Kubfu sightseeing around the isle tin help build friendship. | *Joel Franey/USG, Nintendo*

How to Enhance Kubfu's Friendship

The first stride is to raise Kubfu's confidence and affection towards you, which you tin can exercise any one of a number of ways. The post-obit will all assistance:

Talk to the yellow-clad Dojo students spread around the island to experience interesting sights.
Collaborate with it at Army camp and feed it cooked curry (very constructive).
Battle with information technology, and don't let it to faint.
Don't feed it bitter nutrient.
Let information technology hold the Soothe Bong.
Use Vitamins on it.
Sure berries volition raised friendliness, as mentioned in their description.

The game won't tell y'all when it'southward sufficiently friendly, but bring it back to Mustard regularly and he'll tell you lot when y'all're ready for the next stage - the Towers!

Where Are the Belfry of Waters and Tower of Darkness?

Mustard volition explain that to evolve, Kubfu must go through 1 of two challenges: the Belfry of Waters or the Tower of Darkness. The Belfry of Waters is establish on the embankment to the left of the Soothing Wetlands, past where you constitute the Slowpokes for the outset trial.

The towers are marked with exclamation points on your map. | *Joel Franey/USG, Nintendo*

The Tower of Darkness is by the Forest of Focus, equally though y'all were headed to the tunnel where you plant the mushrooms once more. Only this time, head right when y'all become out of the forest, up the curving path that raises up the mountain ahead. The Tower of Darkness is visible at the cease of that path. If you're uncertain about which Belfry to go against, remember that this relates to which Urshifu is better, which we've laid out a little further on.

What Level Should Kubfu Be for the Towers of Waters and Darkness?

Assuming yous've beaten the Aristocracy Four, the game suggests that Kubfu should be effectually level 70 to safely take on either belfry, and bluntly that's a good proffer. It is possible to do it at a lower level, simply we certainly wouldn't suggest beingness under 60 when yous try it. That being said, it will exist slightly easier to beat the Tower of Darkness, which we'll explicate below.

How to Vanquish the Tower of Waters

If you pick the Tower of Waters Kubfu will evolve into the Rapid-Strike Mode Fighting/H2o Urshifu, and y'all'll take to beat four Water-type Pokemon forth the manner, followed past a unmarried dominate fight. There are five floors in the tower, each one with a trainer who has one Pokemon for boxing. In social club, they are every bit follows:

Psyduck, lv. 65 (H2o)
Krabby, lv. 66 (H2o)
Marill, lv. 67 (Fairy/Water)
Poliwhirl, lv. 68 (Water)
Kubfu, lv. 70 (Fighting)

Yes, the final battle is against another Kubfu, owned by Mustard himself! Until so there's very little options for type advantages, though Marill is a bit of an exception. Fairy-type moves are good against Fighting types, only Kubfu can learn Iron Head, which will exist super-effective. You'll also desire to make certain that your Kubfu learned Aerial Ace, a Flight-blazon move that does extra damage on your doppelganger Kubfu. Other than that, make certain to heal between matches if at all possible so you're non going in on low health.

Hey, I know you! | *Joel Franey/USG, Nintendo*

How to Beat the Tower of Darkness

The Tower of Darkness functions the aforementioned way equally the Tower of Water - five battles against trainers with one Pokemon each, in which y'all can only use Kubfu - but this time they're all Dark-types. Bit stupid of them really, considering that Nighttime-blazon Pokemon are weak to Fighting attacks, similar the kind that Kubfu learns all the time. Yeah, this is definitely the easier tower, as you'll be going up against this line-up:

Zorua, lv. 65 (Night)
Scraggy, lv. 66 (Fighting/Nighttime)
Inkay, lv. 67 (Psychic/Dark)
Krokorok, lv. 68 (Ground/Night)
Kubfu, lv. 70 (Fighting)

Yep, Mustard is still the same concluding boxing, which can be fought using Aeriform Ace. The others are all weak to Fighting-type attacks, though Inkay knows Psychic attacks which Kubfu is weak to, and then you'll want to bargain with it rapidly. Dial through the last of them and you can plough Kubfu into the Dark/Fighting-blazon Single-Strike Urshifu.

Whichever form it takes, Urshifu is a powerful Fighting-type with a focus on dealing critical hits. | *Joel Franey/USG, Nintendo*

Which Urshifu Form is Improve?

Urshifu has two different forms, a dark/fighting-blazon known as "Single-Strike Fashion" Urshifu, and a Water/Fighting-type referred to as "Rapid-Strike Manner" Urshifu. Both are similar, with an Unseen Fist ability that allows their attacks to pierce moves like Protect, not to mention focus on attacks with high or fifty-fifty guaranteed critical hitting chances.

The only major difference is in their type weaknesses. Water Urshifu has a lot more than vulnerabilities, weak to Flying, Grass, Electric, Psychic and Fairy. Dark Urshifu merely has 3 weaknesses: Fairy, Fighting and Flying, also every bit being immune to Psychic attacks, but it takes iv times harm from Fairy, a level of danger Water Urshifu doesn't take to worry about. Frankly neither one is hugely worse than the other and they're pretty well-balanced, merely we'd say that Night Unmarried-Strike Urshifu is slightly more powerful.

Tin You Change Urshifu's Fighting Style?

If yous want to modify from Rapid-Strike Style to Single-Strike Mode then you lot're out of luck - as far every bit nosotros know there'southward no way to switch evolution forms. Once y'all commit to a belfry and a fighting style, you lot're ostensibly locked into information technology forever, so make sure you know the one yous want.

If y'all want more Sword and Shield content, why non get here to see the near baffling survivors of the original Pokedex choose? Or check out how some of the new Pokemon were inspired by the greatest mistakes of palaeontology.

Joel Franey

Guides Writer

Joel loves books, games, comics and drinks that make a person feel like they only got kicked in the head by a mule. He has a Masters in writing from Sussex, which he somehow got by writing nearly Superman. He is absolutely NOT three children in a long coat, so please cease asking.