Do you ever not evolve your Pokémon?

Started by Flowerchild October 22nd, 2016 12:22 AM
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title. what pokémon and and why.

Pretty sure I've never done this, not even to learn moves earlier. I don't really know why that mechanic is in the game tbh, but I never remember it so I don't really bother. I definitely see that as the big reason you would want to keep something from evolving though. That and cuteness.

And the Eviolite thingy I suppose.
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I never stop my Pokemon from evolving since they mostly have good enough moves anyway, so I don't need to stop one from evolving until they learn a move at an earlier level.

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I always let my Pokemon evolve to their final stage regardless. I guess I feel like they're incomplete if they haven't fully evolved? Idk, I'm probably personally just so used to evolving them to their final stages so to go against that would feel wrong.

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I always let my Pokemon evolve to their final stage regardless. I guess I feel like they're incomplete if they haven't fully evolved? Idk, I'm probably personally just so used to evolving them to their final stages so to go against that would feel wrong.
Same thing with me. I feel like they're incomplete, too, when not evolved. That's why I still have problems with Magmortar, because I like Magmar so much, but it feels so wrong when not evolving it. (Magmortar still awesome tho)
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In Black 2 I have a Magmar and a Magenton I don't plan on evolving, mainly because I prefer their gen 1 forms.




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Braixen because I hate Delphox design...

Also Wartortle is my favorite gen 1 pokemon, so I never evolve it into a Blastoise whenever I get one. Also Eviolite works well on him.
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Done it for two different reasons, one temporary, one permanent:

1) Temporary: To learn a move they won't if they evolve.
2) Permanent: Living Dex.
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Depending on the team I'm playing, I might evolve them, I may not.

With some Pokemon for me are just too hard to decide to evolve or not (especially some cute ones such as Eevee, Zorua, Purrloin, or Litleo), I'm always stuck in that difficult decision
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In terms of shinies I usually don't evolve the first of a species I get to the final stage. I usually only evolve the duplicates. The only Pokemon shinies I evolved as soon as I got them were Kakuna and two Poliwag's. Eventually I got a Poliwhirl that will stay a Poliwhirl though.

Obviously I have a living dex and I have one of every non legendary Pokemon at this point that won't be evolved.

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I usually choose to not evolve a Pokemon if I prefer their designs prior to final stage, like for example, Whirlipede. Scolipede is cool, but the wheel-like appearance appeals to me much more, so I finished Black without evolving it.

The other reason is just so my Pokemon would learn moves they couldn't in their latter stages.

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I always evolve my mons, regardless if I prefer the pre-evo(and there aren't that many lines where that is the case anyway). I always evolve them as like others said they feel 'incomplete' if I don't evolve them.
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I've never not evolved a Pokemon, merely delayed the evolution sometimes. The most recent example is Munna in White, which I waited to evolve until it learned Psychic. As cute as some Pokemon are, I can never resist evolving them.

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In my teams, only one. Piplup, as I strongly dislike it's evolutions. Still managed to defeat the Elite 4 with the rest of my team doing most of the hit-taking.
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For most evolvable Pokémon, it depends on how they evolve when it comes to my decision to evolve them:

*For most level-up Pokémon, I let them evolve once they hit the minimum level required to trigger an evolution 99% of the time. Similar story goes for level up with high friendship-as soon as they become eligible to evolve based on having high enough friendship, I let them evolve. One exception was in Blue back in the early 2000s, when I had a Meowth on my team and refused to let it evolve until it was probably well into the 40s or maybe low 50s.

*Stone evolution: Generally, I wait until the previous form learns its last good level-up move, since at least back in the earliest generations, Pokémon that were evolved with stones lost the rest of their level-up learn set that their previous forms could have.

*Trade: I almost never get the opportunity to trade, and I have no idea how to use the Global Trade Station in Generation VI. Last time I did a trade-to-evolve, it was between my Blue and Yellow both connected to the first Pokémon Stadium via transfer paks. Back during that period, the only other trade opportunities I had were with my cousin, although I would link my Game Boy Color with his, I would sometimes trade between two of my own games, including using the Time Capsule feature in G/S/C.

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There have been quite a few instances in which I haven't fully evolved my Pokémon. I used an Aipom in my team on HG and chose not to evolve it into an Ambipom purely because I think Ambipom has a really ugly design. Sure, Aipom wasn't the strongest member of my team, but it held its weight fine. I did the same with Togetic back in Platinum - I think Togekiss is great, but I just wanted to keep it as a Togetic for no real reason that I can remember haha.

Most of the time I do fully evolve my Pokémon but there are those instances in which I don't, and when I don't it's because I value the Pokémon's design over the added strength it would gain from evolving.
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Fun fact: You can evolve Porygon at level 1 and it's ok as it doesn't really lose any good moves doing so, so I have a level 1 Porygon-Z in my living dex.




I think Pokémon that have multi-generational evolutions can get away with not being evolved over Pokémon whose evolutions all appear in the same generation. Likewise it's safer to evolve them early.


For me the exception is pretty much all second and sixth generation evolutions or previous generation Pokémon including Steelix, Blissey, Espeon, Porygon2, Umbreon, Scizor and Sylveon.

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I usually tend to fully-evolve all my Pokemon when possible. The only real exceptions are those that evolve with trade and I was unable to meet said trade requirement.
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