Do you think there will be Chikorita community day in September? Is Meganium worth it? 98% IV chikorita as buddy 111 candy.
I hope this isn't too long. Chikorita is really rare in my area, as is Totodile. I caught a total of 4 Chikorita in all of 2017 and none in 2018 until I hatched one in I believe March or April. 98% iv 15a/15d/14s. Beginning of May I set Chikorita as my buddy, purely for adding him to pokedex. I only set pokemon I need to add to pokedex as my buddy. I think I had somewhere between 20-30 candy and I am now on 111.
Don't ask why but I only just thought. What are the chances that Chikorita gets a community day? September? I could set something else and get the candy from that community day and be ahead with a different pokemon. I should have enough to evolve within the next 2 weeks depending on how much I play. Maybe even this week. Should I:
1) Keep him as buddy and evolve straight away.
2) Keep him as buddy and wait for potential community day and evolve, is Meganium worth waiting for exclusive move (maybe frenzy plant) and powering up?
3) Use new buddy and hope there is community day.
Next on my list is Totodile with 32 candy, 93% 15a/14d/13s. Same question goes to him for Feraligatr. After that, Johto is finished. and then its Treeko with 73 candy but no good atk IV ones.
Answers
I'm against the community opinion here, but it's probably due to my bias against non-gen1 starter pokemon.
I see the nostalgia of wanting the Gen 1 starters to be power houses. Pretty much everyone that played Gen 1 had their starter pokemon as their primary pokemon for the large majority of the game. It was always your highest leveled pokemon and featured prominently on your battle team, at least until you got Snorlax/Birds/Mewtwo/Dragonite/Gyarados or your "favorite" pokemon.
Future generations though? I don't think they have the same nostalgia. To be fair I only played up to gen 3, and I actually LOVED Blaziken... however by that point in time I think the focus was really more on legendary pokemon and the pseudo-legendaries for each generation.
Basically, I'd rather they focus on the strong pokemon of each generation than the starters. I think Squirtle day will have horrible attendance compared to Larvitar day, and Niantic may choose to focus on events that will draw players out.
