You present an interesting question. It is certainly one without a straightforward answer.
[Right now, Keldor's understanding of evolutionary mechanics involves "leveling up", "happiness" and "exposed to elemental rocks"
Things like "take X amount of damage", "must use a certain move X number of times", "be held a certain way" or any other crazy evolutionary requirement Game Freak hasn't thought up yet, like "bounce it on your knee" or "sing it a song" are still things he's yet to deal with.]
I would think that it must be the specific item in question, unaltered. But... Perhaps the only way to truly learn the answer is to experiment.
[On things like sweet and tart apples, of course.]
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[Right now, Keldor's understanding of evolutionary mechanics involves "leveling up", "happiness" and "exposed to elemental rocks"
Things like "take X amount of damage", "must use a certain move X number of times", "be held a certain way" or any other crazy evolutionary requirement Game Freak hasn't thought up yet, like "bounce it on your knee" or "sing it a song" are still things he's yet to deal with.]
I would think that it must be the specific item in question, unaltered. But... Perhaps the only way to truly learn the answer is to experiment.
[On things like sweet and tart apples, of course.]