Spyro

Seen October 5th, 2018
Posted July 26th, 2018
2,373 posts
7.4 Years
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

LegendChu

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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
14,122 posts
9.1 Years
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.

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Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
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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Hyperspace
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Posted July 7th, 2022
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13 Years
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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Age 37
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Seen September 15th, 2021
Posted July 17th, 2020
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11 Years
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
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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
14,122 posts
9.1 Years
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.

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faf

Queen of Dragons

Female
In the treasure trove
Seen 15 Hours Ago
Posted January 29th, 2023
1,917 posts
8.8 Years
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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LegendChu

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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
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9.1 Years
Most times I have my team planned out before starting, so I know which ones to evolve.
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.

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Lemonski

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Funland
Seen November 10th, 2019
Posted August 12th, 2019
328 posts
7.4 Years
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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LegendChu

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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
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9.1 Years
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
Oh come on, Incineroar is like the best Final Stage evo, among all the Alolan Starters :|.

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.
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.
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.

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Seen August 31st, 2017
Posted August 31st, 2017
38 posts
5.8 Years
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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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
14,122 posts
9.1 Years
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.
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:

Meganium

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Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
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

Sheep

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Australia
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39,253 posts
16.6 Years
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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Third Rock From The Sun
Seen October 21st, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2017
14,122 posts
9.1 Years
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.
There is no way I won't evolve a Larvitar into a Tyranitar, that thing is a beast & its has a great ability.

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
Oh come on, Dragonite is actually one of the cutest final stage Dragon Types :).

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.
I have tried this more than once, having a full team of basic stage Pokemon :P. Its actually not that much of a problem, if you train them well & have good type coverage, but of course for most runs, I do evolve almost every Pokemon on my team, to its final stage.

Pika Pika :chu:

Alakazam17

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Female
Canada
Seen October 27th, 2020
Posted October 24th, 2020
5,639 posts
17.7 Years
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

mireka

Female
Seen December 17th, 2019
Posted December 17th, 2019
237 posts
9.3 Years
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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i mean really majestic dragonair into orange barney? no thnk u
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