Which Houndoom to level up?
Hey guys, I'm not sure which of these two is better to level up:
89% 13/15/12 with Snarl/Crunch
Or 84% 13/11/14 with Snarl/Foul Play
What do you think?
Answers
Foul Play is the better move. Unless you need it for something now though, you are bound to eventually find a wild Houndour at a higher level or hatch one with higher IVs.
I have three Houndooms at levels 28, 29, and 30. (Lv28 has 87% IVs, but I have never had a reason to push it higher.) Those three were wild catches, but they all have Foul Play so I probably have had a lot more that I transfered after they got Fire Blast or Crunch. I also have a 96% hatch that luckily got Foul Play but is still at level 20, because I have not had a need for it that Tyranitar could do better. Maybe when another psychic legend is widely released.
Thanks for the replies guys.
I don't get why I should wait though, as I haven't really found any Houndour or Houndoom outside of the Halloween event. Is it just not worth using the Stardust on Houndoom?
I'm only level 27 right now, so my team is kind of crappy, which is why I figured it wouldn't hurt to have one Houndoom for Dark type. Especially since getting a Tyrannitar seems pretty out of reach for the time being
I'm 99% sure you'd regret powering up either one in a short amount of time.
Is there a psychic raid boss you're working on right now?
Gym's can be cleared by Pidgeots etc, so no need for the Gym Meta.
Yesterday I just finished transferring all the mid-range pokemon that I had powered up in previous levels of the game, Victreebels, Vileplumes, Rhydons, Golems etc. Things with 80-89 IVs and lower attack stats. Some served their purpose for when I needed them, some didn't and were a big waste of dust. So what's the hound's purpose? A generic dark type attacker you may rarely use is probably not enough for dust justification.
There's no "wrong" way to play the game and I want that to be highlighted, but if you want an optimal lineup down the road with top mon etc, you'll wait for someone else.
Sounds like it'd be best for me to learn from your experience then.. :-) What'd be your threshold for a valuable Pokemon? 90% IVs on a top tier Pokemon? Right now I'm sitting on about 400k Stardust with nothing to really spend it on as the Pokemon I get either aren't very good or have bad IVs and/or suboptimal movesets, making me feel like there's not much left to do but see if anything good comes out of the incubators
My current threshold is 96% for pokemon that will get any stardust. If they get stardust, they get maxed. That number has progressively increased as the game went on and it may be unnecessarily picky.
Egg and Raid pokemon are always your best bets for IVs, beyond that it's just luck. 66 candies and about 75K dust from level 20 to 30.
You can find value in sub-optimal mon with No Investment in the short term, saving resources for long term investments. Finding a reasonable attack stat level 30 evee and making it an espeon or vaporeon for example. You can absolutely solo a machamp with 6 level 30 espeons/alakazams (harder to get him then esp) etc. You can also get a good Exeggutor from a raid (very easy to beat, good investment short term and long term) He will then help with things like water/fighting/rock/ground coverage in the short term and be really useful long term as well. I bring this up as he can be used in your Solo Champ raid as well. As your lineup expands, you'll find that you have limitless GREAT options of what to put dust into and not enough dust.
6 Level 30 Banettes with 10+ attack and shadow claw/shadow ball can solo a lot of Alakazam move sets (see the video on youtube or post on here).
Seeing your top 24 would be beneficial, but building towards solo'ing tier 3s is really quite fun. You can do so without investing much dust and stacking the dust for the rewards from the raids.
