Another Dragonite Question
So I finally evolved my first dragonite lvl 20 91 IV 15/15/11 a/d/s and got steel wing/hyperbeam moveset. I have 168 candies left and another dratini 88.9 IV 15/12/13. Should I evolve the second dratini or use the candies to power up the dragonite? Im level 33.
I mainly want to use the dragonites for gym placement.
Answers
This is a tough question to answer OP. If you need it for immediate placement I guess you have no real choice. It's a shame too since there is very little CP difference between 89 and 91 percent. Another evo gives you a fair shot at a DT Dragonite with a decent charge move which you can power up and use for offense or defense more effectively. But if it's going to cost you gym coins what can you do? I will say my old SW Dragons hardly get used anymore even though I powered them over 3200
Yes. The great thing about DT dragons are they are dual use and make great hard hitting attackers. The SW/HB one can be used too but it's just not as good. It's kind of like Gyrados. The thing that makes him worth maxing out for me is that his CP can put him in a high place in a gym but I'm also creating a very usable attacker at 3K. I don't think I would take him that high if he was a one purpose mon by moveset.
Option #1: have your cake and eat it too - evolve the 2nd one to see what you get, leaves you with 45 candies, enough to push one up to level 27 (your 91% would be at 2734 CP - is that enough to get you into the safe zone for a gym?).
Option 2: use 66 candy to take your 91% to level 30 and 3038 CP, you'll still have over 100 candies toward evolving #2, maybe luck into an even better Dratini?
I personally would go with Option 2, get one 3K pkm and it's not that far to get back up to 125 (I'm assuming both are at lvl 20 hatches).
Firstly, congratulations on your first Dragonite.
It took you a long time to get it, so enjoy this mon.
Dragonite was my 3rd last Gen 1 mon, so it is not so common for me either. I used all my candies to power mine up (Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse in case you ask) and I still don't have a 2nd Dragonite.
Personally, I play the game for now with what I have and not for what might happen in the future. Therefore, since it will probably take you a long time to get another Dragonite, I think that you should power him all the way up and wait for another in the long term.
To get good gym placement, he should be powered up to the max, and then you should slowly accumulate the candies for the next (I now have 83 candies in preparation for my 2nd Dragonite).
