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Evolving Dratini or Dragonair

Currently have:
- 130 candies
- Dragonair CP451 IV89
- Dragonair CP843 IV80
- Dratini CP530 IV91

I also have a pretty good Dragonite with CP1813 IV87 DB/DP. Should I use the candies to power up this Dragonite instead ? Thanks

Asked by donguding8 years 3 months ago
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Basically:
• L19 Dragonair -> L19 Dragonite -> L22 Dragonite = 114 candies
• L22 Dratini -> L22 Dragonite = 125 candies
• L18 Dragonite -> L22 Dragonite = 18 candies + already has good attacking moveset

Estimating the levels from the IVs puts the Dratini at level 22 and the Dragonair at 19, and your Dragonite at 18, while powering up the Dragonair from level 19 to 22 cost 14 candies, so it's 11 candies cheaper than evolving the Dratini, at the cost of 5 IV points which is almost meaningless.

Getting the Dragonite to the same level as the Dragonair would only cost 18 candies, compared to 100 to evolve it, and evolving the Dragonair might not even get you a moveset you want.

It depends on what you want a second Dragonite for. Example: if you only want to have a DB/DC Dragonite, or a SW defender, then evolve another one. If you're happy with DB/DP but you want to take down gyms even faster, power up the current Dragonite.

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Tks for the explanation. If I choose the evolution path, is it better off to evolve the dragonair with CP843/IV80 or 451/89?

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Why in the world would you take half the cp for a difference of 9% IV wise. People are way too obsessed with the idea of IVs

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Definitely the 843 CP one. The difference that IVs make are very small. The one with 451 CP is level 10, and levelling it to 19 (the same level of the 843 CP Dragonair) would cost 34 candies and 30k dust for 4 IV points that make no realistic difference, and you did say it took you almost 2 months to get enough candies, so it'd probably take about 2 weeks to get the candies to power up the lower CP Dragonair only for it to be just as useful as the higher one.

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This leads to another choice. Actually, I have another dratini CP572, IV73 which can evolve into a +CP2500 dragonite, a fearsome mon without spending any stardust.

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Since Dratinies are hard to find I would go with that nearly perfect Dratini for evolve the best possible Dragonite and power both them up slowly. Imo having two 1.5 - 2k Dragonite is better than having one with 2.5 k CP. And if it comes with SW, you can even put him in gyms.

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Tks.
It took almost two months to collect these candies. The dratini will evolve into a CP2357 dragonite but then leave me few candies for powering up !

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Good luck with moveset then. I am jealous of you. Have to walk more for my second one.

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Tks. It's one of my Christmas wishes - walking 3km instead 5km to get a dratini candy

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I have been hoping/praying for a Xmas event like the halloween event to do a mass evolve and for my dratini walking.... fingers crossed?

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Same here. I have saved up 250 pidgeys, caterpre, weedles and 100 others to do a mass evolution. Double XP combined with lucky eggs will yield 700K XP.

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It is a lot easier to get candies for powering up than evolving because you don't need as many; and powering up is incremental, rather than all-at-once.

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by GS1 8 years 3 months ago

Evolve the dratini and hope for DB/DC or SW/DP. DB/DP is decent but the other move set I mentioned is ideal even though it's not much difference. Think of it this way. DB/DC or SW/DP is PERFECT. It's like a Lambo without a single scratch compared to a Lambo with a little unnoticeable scratch. Not much difference but you know that the second Lambo isn't PERFECT. To me that would drive me f@cking crazy. But that's just me.

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