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I'm almost level 34. I don't know where you live, but where I live, cool spawns rarely/never happen. I caught a nidoking once in the wild, probably my rarest catch ever. I've been ever so slowly grinding my way through walks and egg hatches to build a decent attaking squad.
The starters are part of those pokemon who never spawn where I live. Through hatches mostly and the god-send starter event, I was able to evolve one of each.
My venusaur got vine whip/solar beam, so I walked 300 km to max him out. My blastoise got bite/flash canon, so I haven't touched him since. Same thing for my charizard ember/dragon claw. I'm not salty about charizard since if I would have obtained a better moveset and had walked to powered him up, I would have been pretty frustrated that his new moves are straight up better than the legacy ones.
However, recently I was very lucky and obtained a perfect IV charmander from an egg, which I evolved into charmeleon. I sit currently at 34 candies, so I would have to walk roughly 200 km to evolve him.
I'm afraid of doing this. I usually only walk pokemon for candies once they are fully evolved and I know their movesets, so I don't run the risk of walking for nothing. As such, I still don't have a dragonite and the only time my method ever backfired was when lapras was nerfed and even then, lapras is still good enough to justify walking 240km to power up.
My question is: should I keep walking my snorlax to power up two of them with good movesets and IVs and wait to hatch around 8-9 more charmanders from eggs, or should I risk walking 200 km for a pokemon whose moveset could dissapoint me, but does not depend on random egg hatches to happen?
Thanks.
Answers
NOOOO Do NOT walk Charmander!!! If you walk 200km that's 40 Chansey candy that you could have towards evo/power up. Blissey is the new meta. If you evolve Charizard there's a large variance on quality of movesets you can get. I believe it's over 25% DPS between #1 and #6. Plus, even if you get the best moveset, he's a niche attacker since not only are Fire not really needed, but he's not even the best fire attacker. Hell, he's barely in top 5 fire attackers at this point.
Is it cool to have a flying fire breathing dragon? Hells yeah. But is it cool to dump a lot of resources into him when theyr'e better spent somewhere else? Hells naw.
If you're patient you'll eventually hatch plenty. GL!
After catching my first Mareep, I chose it as by buddy because it was one of my favorite Gen2 pokemon and I was expecting 3km/candy. But on seeing that it was 5km/candy I immediately switched to something else. The rarity for Mareep will eventually come down and I will find more. It is not worth walking right now.
Same thing happened with starters when buddy system was first introduced. I don't get a lot of Squirtles, so it was my first choice for walking. Then I immediately switched when I saw the distance. Just not worth walking with starters at that inflated 5km/candy rate.
