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When to evolve Pokemon that evolve through tradng?
I'm wondering, in the case of Pokémon that you can evolve at any given point in time like Onix, is there a certain point when it's better to evolve them? For instance I know some final evolutions of Pokémon don't learn moves that their pre-evolved forms might, however this is not the case with Onix (Which is the guy I am going to have evolve).
I got my Onix at lv. 12 with EV training complete, so my thinking was that if I evolve it now, it's base stats are gonna change, and based on that, it's stats at lv. 100 would be higher depending on what the changes are. Am I completely in the ditch, in terms of theories? Or does it not matter when I make Onix evolve? As a sidenote, yes I know some of you are gonna say that Onix isn't really that great etc. etc. However, it's one of my favorite Pokémon, so of course I want one :P |
Statwise it doesnt matter... move wise is the only reason to delay evolution, but most trade evolutions they learn at the same level, so it's up to you I guess
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What Angelic Diablo says is true. However, sometimes trade evolutions are a give-and-take kinda thing. For one thing, sometimes the moves are different between the forms. Also, sometimes some stats rise during evolution while others fall. A prime example is Scizor. When it evolves, its Attack and Defense go up while its speed drops like crazy.
However, as for Onix, in any circumstance Steelix has huge stats. But... are you aware you need to trade Onix holding a Metal Coat to evolve it? You've got a Metal Coat, right? And somebody to trade with? 'Cuz that's what you'll need. And I'm not gonna complain that Onix or Steelix aren't good. It's not worth complaining when someone tries something unique. I went to the wi-fi Battle Tower room once and, seriously, every other battle had either Salamence or Garchomp. Well have fun with your evolution dilemma! |
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I asked the same question to my self recently when i started my new Diamond game. I have a graveler and was wondering when to evolve it to golem. The only difference between the two was one move around level 40. Graveler got one, where Golem got a different one. I can't remember the move right now, but it didn't really interest me so i evolved my graveler right away. If you have the complete(ish) pokedex guide book that is the best way to determine the move set differences.
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I know how that goes, I was playing and it annoyed me... I ended up teaching my Politoed Ice Beam JUST to get through them because it got rediculous. (i alternate between Water Pokemon, either my Politoed [which I love so don't you dare say anything bad against him, lol] or my Gyarados.) Trade evolutions are always really cool, just because they weren't in a previous game. I'm still really nostalgic about G/S, so I cling to the Kanto/Johto region Pokemon, save for a few Sinnoh region ones... I didn't care much for the very un-satisfying Hoenn Pokemon. EDIT:: OH! Sorry I forgot to post the real post that I came here for. Teach Steelix one or two really good moves that he only learns as Onix (unless they learn the same moves... never raised a Steelix for battling before, just for the Dex entry) before you evolve him. It'll be better in the long run. |
WTF? Steelix is great. Anti would flame the person who said that into the ground if he saw that ;O(kidding)It's a great physical wall and it walls 'Vire which is nice.
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don't EV him up in speed, his base speed stat is only 30, making it's max with a speed plus nature 174 Now i recommed training it up in other stats, like defence and Hp, or somthing like that |
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Secondly, before I started raising my Steelix, I was thinking about what you suggested, and couldn't quite decide on what to do, so I thought to myself "Let's just raise two Steelix'es", and see what works the best. If nobody experiments, we'd all be using Garchomp. |
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Oh, and on the how you're raising Steelix thing, I'm glad to see you trying to do something different, but don't lose heart if it fails. Sometimes you have to go through a lot of different routes in order to find what's best. |
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When you train your Onix it will stick with Onix's base stats, yeah? Well when you evolve it into Steelix it doesn't get Steelix's base stats straight away, if you get what I mean. You have to level it up and it will get them gradually.
If you evolved it at level 90 it won't have the same stats as if you evolved it at level 30 and then raised it to level 90. Basically, when you evolve it into Steelix it's stats will "catch up" every time you level it up. However, it's a bad idea to evolve it at a very high level like level 90 because the stats might not have chance to do all the "catching up" since there are only 10 levels to go before level 100. I hope that makes sense ^_^ |
The only difference I see is that Onix learns Sand Tomb at lv. 41, whereas Steelix learns Crunch. If for offensive, level Onix to 40 then evolve it, defensive, level Onix to 41 then evolve it.
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