To Evolve or not to Evolve, that is the question!

LegendChu

LegendChu

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    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?

    Pika Pika :chu:
     
    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
     
    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.
     
    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.
     
    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.
     
    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...
     
    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:
     
    Firox said:
    Most times I have my team planned out before starting, so I know which ones to evolve.
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    Pretty much the same. Before I start a game, I'm already decided on which Pokemon are eventually gonna be my final 6, so I concentrate more on training/evolving them. For the rest, well 'cheat codes' lol :P.

    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.
     
    Soapyyy said:
    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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    Oh come on, Incineroar is like the best Final Stage evo, among all the Alolan Starters :|.

    Rainbow said:
    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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    Lemonsky said:
    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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    Rhydon is one Pokemon that I've considered not evolving, I like it a bit more than Rhyperior (but I mostly did evolve it :P). There are lots of Pokemon I regretted evolving as well, but you have to go for the best team, the stronger the Pokemon the better, so I did it anyways.

    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.
     
    Himuraforever said:
    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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    Same with me, although if I am going for a living Dex, I use other methods ;). Unless I'm doing a mono run, I almost always try to get my Pokemon to their Final Stages.

    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
     
    Only if I really like the basic or second stage, like Porygon2 which is good with the eviolite or Gligar.
     
    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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