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To Evolve or not to Evolve, that is the question!
Do u always Evolve your Pokemon to their Final Stage (if they can evolve), or are there any you like to keep to their Basic/Second Stages? If so, why?
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The only Pokémon I will not evolve is Pumpkaboo, because I find its evolution terribly ugly, while Pumpkaboo is like, the best. Otherwise, Power > Everything. I enjoy powerful Pokémon but cute/beautiful, so I choose my team accordingly. That's also why I didn't pick Litten as my starter, Incineroar is so....cringe
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The only Pokémon I considered not evolving were Flaaffy and Rowlet, because I prefer these stages. I did evolve both of them in my respective teams because I needed the power boost, but I might do a Flaaffy-only run someday.
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I never evolve Pikachu. Even if I do, it has to be a second Pikachu I catch, just for Dex completion sake. A Pikachu with a Light Ball is better than a Raichu imo.
Pika Pika :chu: |
I usually do always evolve my Pokemon to their final stage, even if I prefer them in their previous evolutions. The only exception is if I can't actually evolve them until a certain point in the game, otherwise I do it as soon as possible.
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I always evolve them and I only discovered the Eviolite relatively recently so maybe next time I have a Rhydon or Porygon2 or something I'll try not evolving them and using that. There are a lot of cute Pokémon with horrible evolutions that I regretted evolving, though.
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Most times I have my team planned out before starting, so I know which ones to evolve.
so the one where I haven't evolved one is my current Pokemon Moon team, where I'm playing an Eeveelution team - so one Eevee I won't evolve Newer games, I go just for the ones I like the design more, will likely evolve |
Mostly just stuff that evolves in later generations, mainly just gen 4 evolutions actually. I like all of the gen 2 evolutions of gen 1 Pokemon, but am not a fan of a lot of the gen 4 evolutions of gen 1 Pokemon. Tangrowth, Electivire, Magmortar...
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As much as I like cuter pre-evos of a lot of Pokemon, from a game point of view, it does make sense to evolve Pokemon to their final stages, to get maximum usage out of them.
Pika Pika :chu: |
I tend to fully evolve them bar Chansey and Porygon2 due to Eviolite. Also, the non-final stage Pokemon from my living dex so I can use those base stages to fill in a new game dex if I need to.
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Pika Pika :chu: |
I very often evolve the pokemon I'm planning to use in battles but sometimes I don't want to evolve certain pokemon such as Buneary or Pumpkaboo. They can stay at their cutest forever! There are also some pokemon that I feel like don't need evolving (some of the ones that won't evolve with an item or leveling up) like Rhydon since I'm not exactly a fan of Rhyperior.
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Pika Pika :chu: |
I always evolve mine unless I'm adding them to my living Dex. The only other time was when I got a shiny Meowth (normal) and found that there was hardly a difference when I evolved it, so I soft reset my game so I could keep the nicer Meowth.
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Pika Pika :chu: |
Some mons are pretty good on their 2nd stage that in some cases they are better than their final one.
Larvitar and Shellgon are two of my faves for that. |
Dragonair is the only Pokemon I refuse to evolve because I don't like it when it changes from beautiful blue weather snake to CHARIZARD 2.0. lol
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Only if I really like the basic or second stage, like Porygon2 which is good with the eviolite or Gligar.
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Because I really liked the designs, I didn't evolve Dragonair and Warturtle, but I still do pretty well with them online.
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In the story mode I usually evolve all of them since my story mons get boxed afterwards anyway ^^ And I like experiencing new forms. Later on when I start breeding and working towards good IVs/EVs I'll leave my favorites unevolved and train them that way, since by then I just want to have pokémon I love on my team, more than evolving them for the stats haha.
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Pika Pika :chu: |
I usually always evolve them. However after I have every fullt evolved Pokémon trained and ready to battle, I sometimes switch to training NFE's. I once raised a Metapod(which I named Butternut), EV trained it, and leveled it to 50
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I always evolve, even though so many Pokemon are cuter in the first/second stage.
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The only Pokemon I refuse to Evolve is Dewott.Samurott design is Great.But I more Prefer Dewott.
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this is also my answer i mean really majestic dragonair into orange barney? no thnk u |
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