Should I power up my lapras or try to hatch another?

Consider yourself very lucky to hatch a Lapras at level 10. I hatched my first at level 29 and I've hatched a ton of eggs. 82% IV isn't bad and you may not hatch another one in a long time. But I would keep it as a buddy but don't power it up. Keep getting candies. I would hoard all stardust until you're high 20's level. And only then I would use dust on 96% IV or higher with perfect moveset only on strong evolved species. Stay disciplined. There are so many high level players that are dust poor and got a bunch of high CP not so good IV pokemons. Not good for end game.

"96% or higher with perfect movesets" Yeah, this dude's gonna die before he finds another Lapras that meets those critieria. Power it up. And if you're worried about dust, just focus on 3 to 4 pokes when it comes to powering up.

Haha. You guys are funny. I hear you. It's about having fun. But I have fun staying very patient. I evolve high CP starters even if not such good IVs usually from eggs if I have a good amount of candies to spend. But no stardust is used for those. I have three perfect dragonites one perfect vape, a perfect Lapras, and a perfect Nidoqueen all maxed out with optimal move sets for offense or defense by using dust. I had close to 800k dust at my peak but after powering up those beasts I have 350k dust left and feeling dust poor at that level. When you get to higher levels powering up becomes very very expensive. When I started out I used dust too early until I started reading posts online and decided to stay disciplined at level 23. I'm level 31.5 and own my town in gyms. Hatching eggs is probably the best way to get high IV starters. I admit, I spent a lot on incubators but damn I love this game and don't regret spending $$$ because it's my main hobby now.

Haha. You guys are funny. I hear you. It's about having fun. But I have fun staying very patient. I evolve high CP starters even if not such good IVs usually from eggs if I have a good amount of candies to spend. But no stardust is used for those. I have three perfect dragonites one perfect vape, a perfect Lapras, and a perfect Nidoqueen all maxed out with optimal move sets for offense or defense by using dust. I had close to 800k dust at my peak but after powering up those beasts I have 350k dust left and feeling dust poor at that level. When you get to higher levels powering up becomes very very expensive. When I started out I used dust too early until I started reading posts online and decided to stay disciplined at level 23. I'm level 31.5 and own my town in gyms. Hatching eggs is probably the best way to get high IV starters. I admit, I spent a lot on incubators but damn I love this game and don't regret spending $$$ because it's my main hobby now.

That's a tough question. Borderline for sure. You'll probably need to power him up 12 or more times. At 2-3 candies a pop, that's about 30 candies... Or 150 km. By that time, you'll be a higher level, so even more to be fully caught up.

My advice? If you have a Snorlax or Dragonite that's closer to being powered up, focus on buddying them. If not, use Lapras as your buddy and save the candies... But don't use your dust until you can get him up much higher all at once. A 1200 Lapras can still take down at least one Dragonite if you dodge okay, so I wouldn't spend the dust on him just yet.

Considering the implicit cost of driving around trying to take over gyms, coupled with the problem of spoofers, and the cost of 14500 coins being $100 (so 145 coins/$1), you would have to be insane to ask this dude to wait for better pokes for gym battles when even if he controlled the max amount of gyms, he would be earning $0.69 a day and probably losing money bc gas isn't free. You would make more money working at McDonald's in an hour than owning 10 gyms for a week.

Seriously, guys? What are you advising? 1200 Lapras is like 15 lvl one. To bring it to much more useful 21 lvl it's about 25 candy and 30k stardust (like 300 pokemon catched). And stardust even not a problem, at time when you collect enough candy for sure you will collect stardust. It's Lapras, it's always will be usefull, even if you get another one with better IV later. Of course, power it up. Make it buddy, walk it, power it up, no question. It's not that diffucult actually.

I was lucky enough to hatch my 2nd 10km egg as a Lapras (Lvl 20 at least) and even though it has the weaker movesets (C/B-att/def and 80%+ IVs), I agree with some of the others that you should just power it up.

My thinking is that compared to any other mons, Lapras is a bigger gym defender deterrent than most of the other moms (other than Snorlax probably...) and they certainly seem more rare in general.

As an attacker, you can probably use anything else to still take down a gym (so I think Lapras is more useful as a defender), and for me, my powered up Lapras is still sitting in a gym for a few days now.

Also, if you get another more powerful or better moveset/defender Lapras later, I'd power that one up too and have another useful defender.

From the gym scene in my area, Snorlaxs are much more common and having a Lapras as defense seems to be a bigger deterrent.

Lastly, since your Lapras was hatched, you start out with a lot more candy so you can power it up a few times already. I'll start walking with mine after I get enough to evolve my Poliwag and at high levels, you don't level as fast so you should be able to get enough candys to keep it maxed...

I do agree that you should probably only power up extremely high IV mons though since a 100% vs 0% mon can vary a few hundred in CP which can have a big impact on where you slot in a gym.

I have an 82.2 Lapras with perfect moves. The only one I've ever hatched or seen. I haven't powered it up yet. I'm waiting until I eventually hatch another and then I will have enough candy to power it up a decent amount. I will also have two Lapras to choose from at that point. I'm a bit of a stickler for IVs. I like all of my stuff to be 82.2% or higher. I also make the attack stat a priority. Low stam or defense can be remedied though skillful dodging. You are always going to be working your type advantages as well. Besides an 80% IV mom is still going to have pretty good IVs in all categories anyhow. Lastly an 80% Lapras is better than a lot of other Pokémon even if those Pokémon have perfect IVs. The IVs will be most important of trainer battles ever come to fruition, but even then there will be many other contributing factors in a battle such as movesets and dodging ability. At level 30 I have to say that finding 96% plus Pokémon with perfect moves is like finding a needle in a haystack. It happens, but it's rare. Power up the Pokémon you love and be happy with them. You will love your Lapras and dust is easy as hell to farm anyways! Good luck!

On a side note, don't worry about having hatched your 10km egg "too early". What the egg will hatch into (pokemon, level, IVs, moves) is determined when you receive the egg. Even if you waited till you were level 20 to hatch the egg, it would have hatched with the same CP. This was figured out after the move set changes when people were still able to hatch pokemon with the old move sets from eggs they received before the change.