Scizor vs Steelix?
After spinning only 10,708 pokestops, I FINALLY got my second evolution item, metal coat, and I'm trying to decide which to evolve (since apparently it will be a loooong time until I see another one). Other than just getting the Pokedex entry, which mon might be more useful as a niche attacker or prestiger? I have 138 Scyther candy and 54 Onix candy. My candidates:
Scyther cp 1705 lvl 25 78IV 13A/9D/13S which would get a Scizor to lvl 33.5 cp 2467
Scyther cp 1384 lvl 20 89IV 14/14/12 which would get a Scizor to lvl 32 cp 2441
OR: Onix cp 547 lvl 20 11/12/15 which would get a
Steelix to lvl21 cp1421
Answers
You will eventually be able to evolve all of them my choice is #1. Even w/ 78% Ivs that's a really high level Scizzor and you could instantly use it as a fun attacker w/ any moveset. Steelix is an awesome Pokemon, but it seems to be more of a defensive Pokemon than an attacking one. If you have enough defenders I would like to add more attackers for fun on my team.
Scyther#1.
Not a fan of Steelix. No teeth. Mine will time out when prestiging against Snorlax (iron tail/earthquake, dodging all movees).
I was hoping it would be a good Snorlax counter, but that didn't work out.
Tail moves are slow and you only get one in between dodges. It's hard to dodge only body slam. I might have better luck with a hyper beam Snorlax.
Evolve the Scyther into Scizor. In my opinion Scizor is a better steel attacker than Steelix, is still useful with a bug type moveset, and neither are that good as defenders.
I would evolve the higher level Scyther and save yourself 28 candies (the amount to take a Pokemon from 20 to 25). The IVs are so similar that you will not notice a difference in gameplay, and the CP difference won't really matter because you'll mostly be using it for attacking.
