early evolutions

Started by Moltres Rider September 22nd, 2011 3:03 AM
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has any of you noticed when you battle some trainers, they have an evolved Pokemon (such as Raticate) at a level lower than it would evolve for you, for example a trainer may have a level 15 Raticate, and your Rattata won't evolve until level 20, (lets say right now your Rattata is at 18) the trainer has it stronger even though lower leveled...

is it just me, or does this puzzle you as well, or does anybody know how or why they got these early evolutions? most of which a level 15 Raticate isn't available to you anytime in the game, but a trainer you face has one...

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I've noticed that also.

Not really much to it really, the game developers just did it like that.

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Oh and in Gen 5 the shiny/shaking grass pokes evolves earlier than normal too, I think. xD; I remember running into a shiny herdier or something like that and they evolved before the level they're supposed to evolve. o.o
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Oh and in Gen 5 the shiny/shaking grass pokes evolves earlier than normal too, I think. xD; I remember running into a shiny herdier or something like that and they evolved before the level they're supposed to evolve. o.o
I don't really think that's right though, shiny Pokémon are the same in every aspect as normal Pokémon, except their colours.

I never really gave it a second thought, it's just something they probably did so it would be more challenging, but also to maybe be able to get their Pokédex entry sooner than Victory Road lol.

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They just do it for more of a challenge, I'd assume. The games are FULL of underleveled Pokemon. In B/W, Drayden and Iris have an underleveled Haxorus, Grimsley has an underleveled Bisharp, and Ghetsis has a WAY underleveled Hydreigon. On Route 15, it's possible to find a Tyranitar in shaking grass at Lv50.