HONESTLY i think its not good for obviously obvious reasons. i have no idea if you are messing with us right now because i think it is so obvious that that machop is shit. you will most definitely come across a better one, I GUARANTEE it. buddy you can trust me. youre doing great things man keep it up cuz thats alot of candy :) i think you will find a better one. keep your chin up and head on a swivel, the strong mons are out there. heres a tip. you can hatch a better machop. egg pokemon always come out at 60% and higher.
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42% machop, take to machamp?
I have 139 candy and no Machamp as of yet. It is Def focused according to appraise, with calculations being about 5 atk 10 def 5 stamina on stat calculator. Do you think it is "good enough" or should I just hold off and hope I find another maxed out (dust wise) machop with batter IV?
It is the highest natural cp I can catch at my level, so it seems pretty decent. It says the Machamp will be roughly 1826 CP if evolved.
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Just wait and hope they change movesets because both of Machamp's quick moves are crap, in which case you'll want to evolve after a change, or hope that they change the values of Karate Chop so that it's no longer one of the worst quick moves in the game.
Either way you want to wait, since there's no point in having a Machamp right now besides to fill your Pokedex. Being Fighting type, Machamp is most effective against Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel right now.
The only steel type right now is Magnemite/ton and they're not good defenders anyway, their HP is low and they have double weakness to ground.
Relevant Ice types are Lapras and the Lapras substitutes, Cloyster and Dewgong, although Fire types such as Flareon or Arcanine if you have one, will still do more DPS than Machamp even though they only do neutral damage, because that's how weak Karate Chop is, and also resist Ice moves.
For Rock type Pokemon, Vaporeon's better because most Rock types also have Ground typing, which makes them double weak to Grass and Water, while only having a single weakness to fighting, and because Karate Chop is one of the weakest quick moves, while Water Gun is one of the best. For Water/Rock types, Grass types are better than Machamp for the double weakness. Lastly, Aerodactyl's Rock/Flying type makes Fighting type deal neutral damage, so once again a Vaporeon would be better.
Against normal type Pokemon, which don't have any resistances besides to Ghost, you'd be better off with any decent Pokemon that has a neutral damage move that does more DPS. There's so many better options against a Snorlax, who can also have Zen Headbutt which is super effective to Machamp.
So basically any Pokemon that Machamp is good against, another Pokemon does it better.
Since you only have enough candies to get one Machamp, I would not evolve that Machop. real guy is right in that Pokemon hatched from eggs have higher IVs - they are guaranteed a minimum of 10 IVs in each stat (so 30/45 total IVs or 66.7%), and powering up a level 20 Pokemon from an egg to level 24/5 (your current max) only takes about 25 candies.
Personally, I would rather spend an 25 extra candies powering up a level 20 Pokemon with better IVs to level 25, than power up a level 25 Pokemon with below average IVs.
DPS values don't lie. Machamp isn't going to out DPS a fire Pokemon doing neutral damage against Lapras because KC is utter dogshit, and so is Cross Chop, the most overrated charge move that people just blindly parrot on about. You can have a theoretical charge move that does 1 damage in 0.001s so it has 1000 DPS theoretically and it would still be useless just like Cross Chop is because it has a lower effect on your average damage of both your moves combined, which is the important DPS stat, seeing as you can't use charge moves all the time.
Take any standard attacker that does neutral damage vs a Snorlax and it will do a better job than Machamp. 1.25x fuck all DPS is still fuck all DPS.
Cross Chop's DPS would be more relevant if KC had higher EPS to make up for its crappy DPS, like Fury Cutter, but it doesn't. It has no redeeming qualities and quick moves are your majority of damage so it's more important that your quick move isn't shit than your charge move isn't. If you get a good quick move and a bad charge move you simply don't use the charge move. Example Alakazam with Psycho Cut and Dazzling Gleam or Shadow Ball.
If you get a bad quick move, unless your charge move is some instant death BS that doesn't exist, it's not going to make up for the DPS loss from a bad quick move.
Don't do it. Save up and save up some more. What level is your trainer? Eventually you will get better. Just keep grinding. 42% is just not good enough.
You will be surprised how many better pokemon you find as you level up your trainer. I wasted a lot of candies and dust at earlier levels.
Now I'm super picky and if the pokemon isn't 80%+ I almost always trash them... If you keep playing this game you will get better pokemon.
Don't waste your candies and regret it later.
