Deciding which snorlax to power up all the way.
should i consider the IV's on my snorlax before deciding to power it up? i have multiple 2200+ cp ones but with IV's ranging from somewhat 40-60%. The only good IV snorlax that i have is 87% which i luckily hatched but the cp on this one is 1565. What should i do?
OR SHOULD I WAIT FOR A BETTER ONE TO HATCH OR COME MY WAY?
P.S. I have legit interest in the IV's of the pokemons i power up. At present my top team is 90+ IV dragonites lapras, gyrados, jolteon and charizard.
Answers
Definitely do the 87% one. Not only is it the highest IV but also the best defensive moveset. Snorlax are defensive mons and I don't care if anyone else tries to argue their offensive potential because they really are sub-par attackers when there are so many better attacking mons.
The 87% maybe a lower level but it will be a beast on defense and once max powered it will also have a beast CP. You have plenty of candy to power him up anyway.
I thought so myself, but the thing is that that will take a lot of candies and hell lot of stardust. I'm already running in the lower thousands as far as the stardust is concerned.
I'm having troubling deciding since my 2300cp one also has the best defensive moveset.
Thus the real question- Do IV's matter that much on a snorlax?
So what if it takes a lot of dust and candies? If you don't power up that Snorlax, what other Pokemon do you have that would be a better investment?
You have more than enough candies to take it to 30 and since you're being picky about what you power up, how long do you think it'll be until you find another Pokemon that's worth investing stardust in?
By the time that happens, you'll probably have earned enough stardust to power that one up too, and even if you don't have enough, it's not like it's because you've wasted that dust, because it's gone to a perfect moveset Snorlax with high IVs. Later down the line when you don't have stardust to power up a Pokemon, are you going to think "man, I wish I didn't power up that near-perfect Snorlax, then I would be able to power up this Pokemon instead". Probably not.
This...
I am sitting on over 500k in dust (and should hit 600+k in like a few days?) and practically nothing to really power up...
Maybe cause I'm a free player, but for attackers, I don't really need high CP so I use what I find/evolve and don't power those up.
If I was you, I might power them both up. I have 0 useful Snorlax and found a lvl 1 43CP one about 2 months back.
Waiting to still hatch or find a usable one...
Stardust is easy to grind if you don't use it much on attackers...(Only powered up 2 Lapras).
The thing is that i have a whole team of attackers that i am focusing on powering up. I recently caught a 100% growlithe (would you believe the odds!) but the cp was 143. i evolved it and got FF/FB (Hallelujah!) but now ive exhausted my stardust powering it up to 1600.
Plus ive yet to find a good IV eggs and vape geodude and rhyhorn. All my good IV eevees evlove to jolteon or flareon sadly.
172 candies!! Walk a lot during the Halloween event?
Sees like a no-brainer, power up your 87% with its A-level defensive moveset. Sure you'll spend more candy and dust now but you'll be better positioned for the end-game where you will need higher CP to get into high-level gyms (and occupy a higher rung).
The difference between a Snorlax with 45/45 IVs and yours with 39/45 is negligible, and on top of that it has to also have the same moveset, which is another 1/6 chance. Not to mention the prerequisites of getting a 10k egg in the first place, and then it hatching a Snorlax.
The odds of all these happening is astronomically low, and even if that happens, then you've got 2 Snorlaxes to defend gyms with, so the investment on the first one wouldn't be wasted.
This question gets asked quite a bit but it depends on multiple factors... personal, move set, purpose of Mon. I have one big one (2805 CP) with great IVs and ZH / HB that will scare off most smaller players. It really depends on whether IVs personally matter to you (they do to me). I have two smaller Snorlax (under 2K) with Lick/Hyperbeam that are great for prestiging. A Snorlax with Body Slam (wish I had one) is a great gym defender while one with Hyperbeam is a great attacker. I boosted what I had and am not unhappy about it.
In short, research on this site what you have and factor everything in. You'll find a dozen different answers below your question but in truth only you can make the decision.
Hooold on here! The one to invest in is L/BS and here is why. All Snorlaxes are great defenders and they work best as deterrents. But you don't get to play on defense. People who say Snorlax is a defender only haven't played with a high-CP Lick Body Slam. It is so much fun! BS is so short you are almost playing with two quick moves. This mon totally changed my appreciation for attacking. And yes there is still type to think about because Lick on this mon kills Psychic. Trust me, power up this mon, he is the #2 ranked attacker in the game and at high CP he is wicked fun...a tank with high-speed weaponry!!!!!
All Snorlax are great defenders. Of course all can and will be beaten by an experienced or motivated attacker. To me, Hyper Beam is virtually a joke on defense - it relies on attacker error. Body Slam is a great defensive charge attack, and Earthquake is great against Rhydon. But seriously, L/BS is effectively just as good a defender as ZH/BS and since you are already at CP 2229, you will be able to get that mon to the heights of CP which is what defense is all about anyway (both for gym placement and battle worthiness). Well that and deterrence. TL; DR Use your L/BS for defense too!!!!
