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Evolution Candy Cost

Im looking at the costs of evolution for pokemon, and the trend for evolving twice is the second evolution costs 4x as much candy as the first one, which would put pokemon like togetic to togekiss and Rhydon to rhyperior at 200 candy (as togepi to togetic and rhyhorn to rhydon are 50 each) and its projected in the best of evolutions guide to take 50 to get togekiss (which is the same candy cost of evolving togepi) and 100 to get rhyperior.

Does it seem like they'd drop the cost of candy down, or will this be a break in the trend of second stage evolutions being 4x as much candy? (keeping in mind no pokemon take 200 candy to evolve, it is either 12, 25, 50, 100 or 400, with 3 stage pokemon having 50 or 100 as the final evolution cost currently) And if they do drop the cost of candy for evolving, that would suck for people who already evolved those pokemon

Asked by MetagrossMaxis6 years 7 months ago
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going off of what they did for gen 2 with seadra-kingdra, they will reduce rhyhorn-rhydon to 25 and make rhydon-rhyperior to 100, same with the other 3 stagers

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When gen 2 came out they reduced seadra's evolution cost? Huh, didnt know that, glad I didnt evolve my togepi yet

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Expect any Pokemon getting a 3rd stage to have its evolution costs drop from 50 to 25. This happened for Horsea -> Seadra and Zubat -> Golbat when Gen 2 dropped.

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I'll also be curious to see if Niantic decides to give any Pokemon with one evolution the 400 candy requirement (like Gyarados, Swablu, and Wailmer) or unique requirements such as walking them for a certain distance (Feebas).

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Disregarding the cross-gen evos, none of the Gen 4 Pokemon in the main series have a unique method of evolution in the broad sense of Feebas having a unique method. Everything is either level up or happiness, which as seen with Crobat and the early batch of babies in Gen 2 just get the standard candy treatment. I could see something being given the 400 candy treatment but I expect anything out of the ordinary to be reserved to the cross-genners, namely evolution items and potentially needing to have a special move learned.

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Eh...paying a few extra candy to evolve earlier isn't going to bother me at all. At worst it's a minor annoyance that I'll have evolved 4 Togetic not 8.

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I envy your stock of Togepi candy. I'll barely be able to evolve 2 if I want to also power them up.

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I went through a phase where it seemed to be all I hatched. My dex says I've caught (hatched) 22 Togepi and caught (evolved) 4 Togetic.

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Huh. I've hatched 30, evolved 2 and walked with one for 700km. 480 candy which will disappear in a blink.

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