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Dragonair Decision

I have a 1204 Dragonair with 15,7,12 stats, a total of 80% IV. I also have a 439 Dragonair with 15,13,12 stats, a total of 88.9% IV. I have enough candies to evolve one of them. Which do I choose? Is the 6 difference in defense really that big of a deal?

Asked by jmark78 years 10 months ago
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You are going to regret big time if you evolve the lesser CP Dragonair as you, for the needed candies to get it up to a decent level would be halfway to another Dragonite. I'm estimating your high CP Dragonair will become a ~2450 Dragonite and that is going to be usable right away in Gyms, but the other will be more like ~1000, completely worthless. IVs make a really small difference all-in-all, and remember you are probably not going up against perfect IV pokemon in most cases.
Shortly: CP makes a way larger difference here, evolve the high CP one. 6 IV points difference is not worth ~75 Dratini candies

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Yes, definitely the one with higher CP. It's going to be a decent dragonite in any case, regardless of the moveset (if you get a bad moveset, just start sparing candies for new dragonite). The IV difference is so small it is practically meaningless in this case.

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Save the candys and wait for a 90%+ IV to come by, if you really pretend to play this game for a while, trust me, you are gonna end up catching something better till you reach level 32, 33 (when leveling up starts to be really hard); that's only what I would do and not what you really have to do.

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I'm level 29 and in all my time playing, I've only seen a half dozen Dratini, one Dragonair, and one Dragonite in the wild total. I ended up catching the Dragonite - it's 60% with Breath/Claw. You better believe I've been using it as my buddy and powering it up whenever I get the candies! Heck, if it were 20% with that moveset I'd still power it up.

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General rule of thumb the higher CP one is better (of course depends on moveset, but you dont know that now, plus dratini candy is too rare), unless its a perfect pokemon, then you might want to keep it for the future

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Well, I evolved it. Turned into a 2436 Dragonite with Dragon Breath/ Hyper Beam. Not the best, but not bad either. I'm happy with it I guess. Now it's back to the grind to find them Dratini candies!

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