Evolving Gen 1 starters
Hello,
I started to play again around Eevee community day and I don't have fully evolved gen 1 starters yet. With the kanto spawn event, it is fairly easy for me to evolve them right now. However, they will always be suboptimal due to the lack of exclusive moves. Is it worth it to keep myself from evolving them in the hope of getting another chance to evolve them into their optimal movesets in the future? This goes especially for my 98% lucky bulbasaur which I would really like to have with frenzy plant.
Answers
This. This very same event can bring you better pokemon in the Grass, Fire and Water department. Gather enough candy to evolve one later and IF you have enough candy for a given species to evolve 2, then you can consider evolving one for the dex entry.
You could still evolve Squirtle though, even Hydro Canon Blastoise isn't that good.
If you have another to evolve for the Pokedex you don't lose anything by keeping it a Bulbasaur for now. I'm playing the "wait and see" game with a few different Pokemon, particularly a lucky Bulbasaur as well, a 100% Mudkip (now Marshtomp), and a 100% Beldum. The former in case Frenzy Plant returns, the latter two since they're likely community day candidates.
