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Age 7
Female
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Seen September 15th, 2020
Posted February 3rd, 2017
4,841 posts
14.6 Years
Seems like a thread more suited for the Pokémon Gaming Central board seeing as this could go for more than one generation of Pokémon. Continue on here! :]

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gucci

Male
United Kingdom
Seen September 26th, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2019
21,056 posts
15.4 Years
I usually do it once I've had the Pokemon for a little while, for example I get an Eevee but I've already got a Fire Stone I'd train it up as an Eevee for a little while then Evolve it when the timing feels right!

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Age 31
Male
Oklahoma :(
Seen March 21st, 2013
Posted March 9th, 2013
399 posts
13.2 Years
As soon as they learn their last useful move is when I stone them. :P
This is what I do :P
Had to wait until level thirty-goddamn-seven to evolve my Munna, because it needed to learn Psychic.
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Age 24
Male
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Seen September 17th, 2022
Posted October 17th, 2013
1,065 posts
15 Years
If it learns a certain move in its previous evolved stage that it can't learn once it's evolved, I'll wait before I use the stone. Otherwise, I'm evolving it as soon as possible because I'm very impatient like that. XD;
This is what I do. I always check first! :)

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Dragonite's Wrath

Dragons are my Heart and Soul

Male
In Johto, living the life of a Dragon Trainer
Seen May 15th, 2014
Posted February 19th, 2012
141 posts
12.3 Years
I wait before evolution.I dont see the point of evolving as soon as possible. I evolve when I need to. Even with level evolutions. You learn moves faster and it makes you better. Beating the League with pkmn not fully evolved makes you look like you know what your doing. Like going without a shield in the Zelda series. Instead of hiding behind a shield, it teaches you to dodge. And in my opinion, waiting to evolve makes the pkmn's stats higher.
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Cherrim

Age 34
she / her
Toronto
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20.4 Years
I do my best to let them learn all their good moves before I evolve but usually if I find a TM that gives a good alternative, I'll use that and then use the stone. I'm dreadfully impatient when it comes to evolutions. :(
And in my opinion, waiting to evolve makes the pkmn's stats higher.
I'm preeeetty sure there is absolutely no benefit (stat-wise) to evolving a Pokémon sooner or later. Whether it evolved at that level or at level 16, a Wartortle is gonna have the same stats at level 30 either way. (Again, not certain, but pretty sure this topic came up in another thread recently.)


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cookie_lovr

Deh Clumsy Altruistic Activist

Age 32
Honolulu, Hawaii -not so paradise-y here-
Seen October 9th, 2022
Posted November 7th, 2013
212 posts
14.4 Years
Depends on the moves they will learn. o____o unless its a sweeper whose typings are easily found with the TMs it learns instead (worded it funny. T.T)

I'll double check before I stone it though.

Depends on the moves they will learn. o____o unless its a sweeper whose typings are easily found with the TMs it learns instead (worded it funny. T.T)

I'll double check before I stone it though.

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Banned

Age 27
Female
Oahu, Hawaii
Seen November 12th, 2012
Posted November 12th, 2012
515 posts
13.2 Years
After looking on Serebii for if there's any moves I want to be learned before the evolution, and if not, and I have all the moves I desire, I use it. (Most if not all pokemon that evolve by stone lose the ability to learn moves, and they can only be learned pre-evolution) In my main team for White, I had at least 4 Pokemon evolved by stone. I believe it included Simisear, Simipour, Musharna, and Chandelure.
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Posted March 16th, 2023
225 posts
17.9 Years
Well, it depends on what version I'm playing:

Blue, Yellow, Fire Red and Hear Gold: NEVER. Except for a few of my fav. though like Haunter and Starmie

The rest, recent games: Except for my mudkip, I evolve my pokemon the moment I can. I evolved my mudkip at about Lv. 60, after beating the E4.
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Female
Over the hills and far away
Seen June 22nd, 2011
Posted June 22nd, 2011
109 posts
12.6 Years
When it learns a move I want it to have.
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'Nicole da Silva' obsessed

Female
Insanity Land
Seen January 31st, 2020
Posted August 7th, 2011
14 posts
12.6 Years
It depends. For example, I'll level up an Eevee until it learns Bite, then let it evolve. But if I'm happy with the pokemon's current moveset and I know when it'll learn a particular move, then I'll let it evolve.
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My life would suck without you

Male
Preparing for trouble and making it double.
Seen September 6th, 2016
Posted May 27th, 2014
5,143 posts
12.7 Years
I will evolve a Pokemon with a stone when it has learned all the moves I wanted it to.

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Fighting the army of Stress...

Male
Somewhere in the hills, waiting
Seen April 21st, 2012
Posted March 31st, 2012
177 posts
12.3 Years
I don't evolve them as soon as possible. I train it until it has the move I want. Then I evolve it. I got my lesson one day in Leaf Green when I didn't evolve Pikachu at the right time. He was always the first pokemon to faint.
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