sorry guys. Would you choose to evolve a pokemon with high CP but low ivs, or the same pokemon with low CP but high ivs? I seem to have to make this decision a lot- nearly all the the high CP pokemon I catch have rubbish ivs!!! Thanks guys.
It depends if you think it's worth the extra candies and dust.
In general high defense tier mons I pick the one with highest IV, this mons are worth the dust and candies extra (for me) and that CP difference usually puts them higher in in the gym.
For every other, just evolve high CP ones and little or no power up
You should plan out how you are going to get 10 2.4K+ pokemons to hold gyms. Then see how much dust and candy that will cost & whether you will dust constrained or candy constrained. Once you figure out how much dust and candy you need, it'll be easier to see the tradeoffs.
Eg, if you are candy constrained and you have a choice between an 84% level 25 Dratini or a 95% level 5 Dratini, then you can calculate that you'll need ~100 more candy if you choose the higher IV, lower CP Dratini & if you keep track of how much Dratini candy you get, you can convert that to days. That should turn it into a more straight forward decision: Should I delay getting a high IV dragon by 4? 8? 12? days so it can have ~100 more CP.
You can do the same thing if you are stardust constrained, just using a stardust calculator and looking at what the average stardust is you gain per day.
