Hi, I'm level 24. Before the CP change, I had just begun powering up some guys, maxing out 2 vaps, an exeggutor, and was working on arcanine when the change happened.
I've started browsing this q&a since and have seen quite a few people say not to power up guys until your trainer level is late 20's/30. Why is that?
This one won't apply to me for a while, but I've seen some people say not to power up mons past level 30. Why? Does it just cost too much stardust beyond that point, and the mons at level 30 are already strong enough?
Finally, I have seen people say they never power up eeveelutions. Is the idea there that when you are a high enough level, you can catch a high level Eevee, that would evolve into a high level Vap, that has high enough CP not to be powered up? And you save the dust? But couldn't you say that about any other mon?
past level 30 cp gain is halved and as level increases, so does power up cost, when you'd be better off powering up pokemon below 30 because it'd be cheaper and you'd get bigger increases.
at level 30 a pokemon is about 90% of the strength of a level 40 pokemon but the cost of powering up that pokemon from 1 to 30 is far less than 90% of the cost it would take to get it from 1 to 40.
While I agree with most of the opinions above, for eevee it is a bit tricky and uncertain. I'm level 34 now, but I still haven't evolved a good iv eevee to Vaporeon with hydropump. Often ended up with jolteon or flaron or vap with other moveset.
Therefore, I'd say if you are comfortable with certain eevolution with your desired movesets, you can power up along your way to higher levels. Why not? It's good to have a companion Pokemon to grow and advance with you. I don't think it is a waste of stardust given just 1 or 2 such Mon is good enough.
I feel like everybody power's up their favorites past level 30 because it feels good. At that point you get very selective however because you can't feed them all and the reward is very small.
As for the Eevee's, I mean look you really shouldn't do it because once you're at 30, you're going to get hit with them at 700+CP and some of them have great IV's too although since the IV change not as frequently as they used to.
I personally have powered up my Jolteon and Vaporeon and still power up my Vaporeon for sentimental reasons but you really shouldn't do it, in fact I wouldn't do much powering up at your level anyway because most of it you will regret at a higher level.
Plenty of people continue powering past level 30. Just only your very, very best.
People say not to power until 30 because you will catch lvl 30s when you are higher and they will be more powerful than what you would be spending your dust on now, which would kinda make that dust wasted. For example if you spent a bunch of dust and candy powering a mon from lvl 15 to 25, but at level 30 you catch mons above lvl 25 often.
Eevees are just too common for most players to invest in.
I am level 25, and they said the same thing (level 30) when i asked what poke I should power up. I guess it is the same thing that trainers level 20 said in the beginning of the game (don't spend dust until level 20), but they are now level 30, and they must regret some of the dust they spend in lower levels.
About the eeveelutions, eevee is a very common pokemon in most of the places, so the chances of you find a very hight level with good ivs that won't need dust to be strong are much bigger than dratini, exeggcute and abra. If your area have a lot of eevees and you catch all of then you will be able to evolve at least 5 eevees every lucky egg, and some of the eevees will probably and up with a very good cp ( a level 24 eevee with 38/45 ivs would evolve to a 2100 vape, 1800 jolt or 1950 flare, according to the cp calc).
Right now I'm level 29 and there are only 4 mons that I have spent dust on. I got really lucky and caught a perfect wild Growlithe that had a great attack move set when I evolved it, but otherwise the other 3 mons that were worth powering up were all hatched from eggs, a 91% Vape, a 89% Lapras and a 95% Venusaur. Wild mons max at 30 true, but frankly you are more likely to get a good IV from a hatched mon so the wild ones are more for candy anyway. And when you do catch a wild mon with good IV, chances are it won't have a max level anyway.
As you level up, wild pokemon max level increases as well and stops at level 30. My advice is only invest your stardust if the 3 bullet points are present.
▪When the pokemons CP is close to max
▪Close to perfect IVs
▪Perfect Moveset (personal)
If you have a pokemon you want to level up, make sure it checks those 3 bullet points. 1, it saves you stardust and 2, you get to max out really strong pokemon. Also choose to invest in pokemon that has a high absolute cp. I choose to invest in pokemon that their max cp has to be 2500 and above. Lower such as Arbok having a max cp of 1737 i say is too low cause snorlax max cp is above 3500 so investing in that arbok i feel is a waste of time. Invest in good high absolute CP pokemon that match those 3 points and you'll have a badass team!
It feels nice to power up mons, but really, it's not that necessary IMO, especially for common mons (for most people) like Eevee. Assuming you have some basic mons to attack with (Arkanine/Vap), stuff you find is probably decent enough.
Even with crap 0% IVs, a high level Vaporeon with AT or HP is still extremely useful so what I have been doing is just evolving higher level mons as I level and using whatever I get.
Personally, now (lvl 28), I wouldn't power up near anything except for ultra rare mons or strong defenders (gym meta will change eventually and it still wastes people time/potions putting stronger mons in gyms)...
I have only powered up 2 Laprases (hatched) so far...Don't see any need to power up Arkanines/Vapes since all I have found typically are too low level or have bad IVs and even then, they work perfectly fine.
Hi, I'm level 26 and also thought about this carefully. I've only powered up one vaporeon and I'm hoarding my stardust for when I finally get good iv top tier mons like Snorlax (which hasn't happened yet).
I regret powering up the vaporeon because I evolved a better one later.
It depends a bit on what your main aim is and whether battling/defending is important to you. If you feel you need powered up mons to win battles in your area then I guess you should power up, but if you are managing OK in battles I'd hold off (I'm in a small town with not much gym turnover so I don't really need powered up mons).
