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Level 30 Shinykarp!

...with 31-33 IV.

Whatever, I'll take it. Is this ok for an evolve? The Gary will turn up with 2552 CP at level 30, hardly ideal for showing off (my other ones are all 276X+ for level 30) but since I'm involving 0 stardust for this it seems like 'good enough' for me. What do you think?

FWIW, the IV distribution is either 1/3/10 or 1/4/10 for

Asked by Lecafe888 years 6 months ago
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Shiny!

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Why do the red ones turn blue with gold trim, but the gold ones turn red?

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Dragonair going from Blue/white to Orange/Beige also needs some scientific research...

As does Pupitar/Tyranitar going from Gray to Green

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I would not personally but i have a bias against red gyarados and red is my favorite colour blue doesnt even make top 10. but if you just want a good lvl gyarados go for it

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Also the ivs are pretty bad because i have a 78% gyarados at lvl 30.5 and its 2759 so ivs definently hurt yours

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IIRC research proved that shiny pokemon have higher max CP than regular ones.

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Hypothesis 0: ShinyCP=Regular CP
Hypothesis 1: ShinyCP>Regular CP

Under assumptions of 0 Conditional Mean, Random Sampling, Homoskedasticity and Independent, Normally distributed error terms

We would need to have a t-statistic of greater than 1.645 (95% confidence interval, 1 tailed) for you to prove this hypothesis that a Shiny has greater max CP than a non shiny.

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Try it out. Put your shiny into a CP calculator and max it out to level 39/40 and see if its CP is higher than 220.

:)

Post a screenshot of your shiny.

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That would be a stupid yet rewarding mechanic. My opinion on this is conflicted.

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by razvan 8 years 6 months ago

If my memory serves you have a lot of gyas and candirs, so just do it :).

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Actually, not 'a lot' (actually not even enough to evolve this straight away, I'm at 265), but if I choose to take a detour to college I can usually get 8 karps a day en route and back, so with pinap berries that's 56 candy a day if I try.

That 265 candy can also feed into my existing gyarados (5 at level 30 and 1 maxed) but I'm still holding out levelling them past level 30 for the gym rework (except my 100IV)

So yeah my decision is whether just to save the candy for power ups to evolve this golden fish

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I would evolve while is still hot; if lucky you end up with a 3k+ blissey prestiger after a few gym placements.

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Didn't you say you lived in Hong Kong?

Gym turnover is insanely quick in my experience so having lower max CP wouldn't matter that much when gyms barely last 10 minutes regardless of what is put in, even 3 Blisseys.

From what I've seen, gyms outside of cities that don't turnover were usually level 8+ with lowest CP being ~3200 so even a perfect Gyarados would struggle to get in those anyway. At least a red one you can show off for 10 minutes, if that.

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Hong Kong is my home but I currently study in London. Now I can slot 3 of my 3k mons in gyms and sit on my couch for a week and collect coins :) Couldn't possibly do that at home

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Honestly, I wouldn't do it cuz I like the golden fish and it would be hard to show off the red Gary in your area.

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Yeah, my 3113 Dragonite just got shaved :( Nevermind this 25XX potential gyarados

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I evolved my shiny Karp with its attack IV of zero and I'm happy with the decision. Even if I never use it, I just enjoy having it.

We know a big gym rework is around the corner so don't overthink this.

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Evolve it, no question, it's very rare and IVs don't matter.

I put my red gyarados, now CP 2869, in gyms for fun and plan to evolve my other two shinykarp as well (got incredibly lucky during the event with 3 shinies).

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I've now caught 5 shiny magikarps.
I evolved the one with the highest CP, ignoring the very terrible IVs. It looks nice. I'll use as a prestige attacker.
And drop it in gyms when available, knowing it will not last.
(I catch a crazy amount of these mons, still looking for a 100% one)

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Have you caught any since the event? I catch a fair amount of magikarps (almost ready to evolve my second shiny gyarados), but have not seen another shiny since then. Such a disappointment each time...

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