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I should power this up?

I caught yesterday a dragonite with 73% IV with dragon tail/outrage and 1188 CP..
In my area never spawn dratinis,dragonair and this is the second time i saw a dragonite in the wild..
But in the same time yesterday I hatch a dratini with 91% IV and now I have 84 candys
Should I wait or power up the wild one?

Asked by matast8 years 2 months ago
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I would say power it up, if you can spare the dust. Given that dratini candy are rare, risking a 1/6 chance of getting that moveset again doesn't seem worth it.

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depends on what you will use it for. If your thinking of using it as a defender go for the 91% dratini. My area also doesn't spawn dratinis but it's really easy to get from ten Km's approx. 1 in 3. If your going for attack and you have good stamina go for your current dragonite.

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that moveset is really good.
elolving another will be a risk for candies

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by JHVS 8 years 2 months ago

Depending on how competitive your gyms are I say level it up. In fact there are almost no scenarios where this isn't your best option if you also want an offensive monster.

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Power up the wild one. DT/O is currently the best moveset you can get, and the IVs are fine. Even assuming worst distribution (3A 15D 15S) it still has higher max CP than anything other than Tyranitar or a better Dragonite, so it'll still sit near the top of gyms.

If it should ever sit at the bottom of a gym somehow, then you can just use it as an attacker.

With 84 candies, right now you could take it from level 12 up to level 28, where it would have about 2770 CP, whereas the Dratini requires 189 candies to evolve and get to level 30 - 125 to evolve, you get 1 candy back for each evolve, and then 66 to go from level 20 to 30.

So working on the Dratini costs about 90 more candies, and most likely have a worse moveset, but it'll have about 80 more max CP, which isn't that big of a deal, because like I said earlier, your Dragonite still tops everything else with perfect IVs besides Tyranitar and other Dragonites.

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yeah, i don't know in what point the ivs make the difference, the wild dragonite have 73,3% ivs with 5 hp,13 at. 15def, is that good?

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The IVs are okay, but honestly they don't make that much of a difference when it comes to using them to battle with anyway, so even it had really low IVs, with moveset being more important, a DT/O Dragonite would still be worth powering in my opinion.

The difference between 5 HP IV and 15 HP IV is only 8 HP at level 30 and above, which is very minor.

15 defence compared to 0 is probably not going to affect quick move damage taken, and you're only looking at a few points of HP difference from charge moves.

The same applies to attack. Your Pokemon's quick moves will still hit for the same damage even with 0 attack IV but charge moves will have like 2-5 more damage with 15 attack. You couldn't notice these differences from just looking at them when you're battling, so don't get too stressed about finding Pokemon with near-perfect IVs.

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got it, thanks for the help! I really have good luck with this dragonite, he spawn in my living room, I open the game and there he is lol

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First off, congrats on the catch!
You have a fairly good IV Dragonite with the best moveset, both for offense and defense. Of course power that thing up!
The chances of getting the same moveset from evolving your Dratini are fairly slim (~16.67%, to be exact)...

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and i dont have good luck when i really want a perfect moveset lol, i finally evolve one magikarp with 98% IV thanks to the water event but he came with bite/outrage, in my area i never find magikarp as well so i suck it up and power him up anyway, currently with 2478 CP

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Well if you truly fill unlucky, that's just one more reason to power up that Dragonite ;)

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