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Do you evolve your top iv Pokemon?

So ever since the community day became a thing, I have been hesitant to evolve my top IV pokemon, as I don't want to miss out on a unique chare move in case the pokemon is featured during a community day at one point. For example, I recently was lucky enough to catch a 100% Geodude. And even though I have only one other high CP Golem, I've yet to evolve it.

My question: what is your approach, having the community days in mind?

Asked by hoogstepunt7 years 3 months ago

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Yeah I evolve them, because I won't know if / when a new community day for it would pop up. Nor if the move is good or not. Could have kept my Treecko for a community day but oh well that might be 1 year before we get one for it. Same with machamp.

I evolved the 100% Grimer I got doing a research task yesterday, but I should have waited even though there will never be a Muk day. (Muk moves I got were Infestation and Dark Pulse)

Mine is currently at level 36 (2554 CP). But I was dismayed to see it got scooped out of the gym I just reconquered yesterday, in less than 2 minutes... probably by two attackers.

I've taken the approach of not evolving anything that I don't immediately need just in case:
a) it becomes a featured community day Mon with a special move
b) a future research quest asks me to evolve it (like Karp for the Mew quest).

So far for community days, there's been a precedence of only doing starters and non-nesting 10k egg Mons, though that cycle could easily be broken at any time. So my personal advice would be to hold off on evolving things unless:
a) you need it for a Dex entry or for gym/raid battles.
b) it currently has an amazing moveset and you're worried it could become legacy.
c) it's a fodder Mon (Pidgey et. al) that you're using for mass evolves or a Dex-entry type Mon that won't be meta relevant regardless of moves.

I would just go ahead and evolve. If any mon in question is to have it's own community day you may have another decent one by then anyway so I wouldn't limit yourself today for what may never come in the future

Currently I only consider starters and 5km buddies to be "risky" for getting a community day as so far there has been a clear pattern. If I need a pokemon outside of that group, I evolve it without second thought. If you don't need a pokemon now, there's no reason to evolve it yet.
So for example I have evolved all my high level Geodudes and Machops recently because they will make meaningful additions to my A or B teams, but I've started hoarding more good IV starters and some of the 10km hatches.

I've been faced with a similar conundrum recently and ultimately I think it varies from one Pokemon to another. Geodude is probably a safe bet to evolve since Rock type attacks can't get much better than RT/SE.

An example of something I'm holding off on evolving is a 100% Beldum I caught the other day. The only thing holding Metagross back from being stellar is his moves and a community day could fix that.

So, is your 100 IV catch L30+ and potentially useful right now and do you need it or is it relatively low level like L5 and would need a lot of investment to be useful?

If I have no immediate use for it, I won't evolve it. Unfortunately that idea came after me catching and evolving a 100% Charmander xD

I evolved my 100% IV Poliwrath to Max...
He's moves are Rock Smash + Dynamic Punch...
He is not that Good compare to Machamp and Hariyama
But I just love to maxed him... I don't know why...