Returning Player Larvitar Question

Tyranitar is one of the best, and according to lots of guides, will most likely remain a top attacker in the long run. I'd invest stardust in the 93.3% IV only AFTER you evolve it, just so you can see the moveset before spending stardust. Best moveset currently for offensive Tyranitar is [Bite + Crunch] or [Bite + Stone Edge]. I'm personally saving a 96% Pupitar for community day, so I agree it would be your best bet to wait for Larvitar day before evolving.

Check out GamePress' https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/attackers-tier-list for Pokemon that is worth investing stardust into.

Tyranitar will always be a relevant attacker. It will be the best dark attacker and rock attacker until Gen 4 hits. Gen 4 will give us better rock attackers, and a better dark attacker if and when they release Darkai. But tyranitar will still be right with them. The more gens that come out the more pokemon will be replaced. Why do you think they are giving the legendary birds out for free? They aren’t that great and future legendarys will make them irrelevant.

When it comes to these community days, you just have to hope that their servers are running fine or else you won't be able to log into your game to get that exclusive move.

Community Day really is about wheather boost. In the 3 hours you will be able to catch between 250-300 Larvitar. With wheather boost your chances of getting a high IV, high lvl one are very good. Without boost you must be very lucky. You have 2 good candidates there, so just wait for the moves to be released and make your decision based on your current lineups. For the exclusive moveset you must evolve during the 3 hour window.

One response commented on this indirectly, but I just want to make sure you understand just HOW POPULATED the community day pokemon ends up being.

He was not exaggerating by much when he said you can catch 250-300 during the 3 hours (or possibly at all). That's 750-900 candies without transfers, or enough to evolve 6-8 Tyranitar.

I say "by much", since I played about 2h45min last community day, and was able to evolve 6 Charizards out of that. I started with around 90 Charmander candy and ended up with 100 leftover after evolving 6 and powering 3 of them up a fair bit, so probably outright earned 900-1000 candy. However, I pinap berried nearly every spawn that was under 300CP, and obviously transferred hundreds of them, so the estimate may be a bit high since that results in double candy + 1.

Do keep in mind that you must evolve during the 3 hour window in order to get the exclusive moveset. You may want to evolve one or two early on in the event to make sure you get the exclusive move in case you end up with a connection issue towards the end. If you don't have any Tyranitar yet, I would also suggest saving enough candy/larvitar for some evolves AFTER the event for the dark movesets as well. I don't have any except a single hatch (with under 80% IV) that gave 23 candy, and I'm planning to evolve 3-4 during the event and 3-5 after the event depending on how much candy I get.

Also REMEMBER to save enough candy to power them up! (added benefit to saving some evolves for after the event, you're out of the time crunch and can take your time making sure you power up the best ones and power up before doing your last evolve to make sure you didn't miscalculate your candy needs).

Finally, you should clear out all your research tasks in advance and plan to be in an area with a lot of unique pokestops. Every research task will be "Catch 3 Larvitar" and they'll give one of 4 rewards: Stardust, Great Balls (5?), Ultra Balls (2?), or Pinap Berries (2?). You can only get a task from each pokestop once. So ideally you walk while catching every one you see, cash in the quests as soon as you can and replace them as you go, in order to maintain your stack of great/ultra balls and Pinap berries. Use pinaps on anything you expect to catch in a single throw, and use ultra balls (or razz-ultra) on anything high leveled (assuming you don't already know their IVs). Practice your curveballs if you don't normally use them.

Sorry for the long post. I hope it's shorter than the community day guide on this site - you can go read that too though if you want!