Snorlax Moveset
Is it worth to power up a 90+ iv snorlax with heavy slam?
It is in lv 2 and I don't have enough candy.
Another snorlax is in the gym so I don't need to power up it.
And currently I have less than 500k stardust.
Answers
If it's Zen Headbutt and Heavy Slam, I would if I was already walking Snorlax as a buddy. I see it as a slightly weaker version of Body Slam, which is still pretty good.
Body Slam is considered hard to dodge and Heavy Slam is only 0.3s slower than it.
If you continue walking Snorlax as a buddy and you have enough to power it up to a high level in one go, ask us again if you have another Snorlax that you're considering. If you don't, then I would power it up right away.
Why wouldn't it be? Snorlaxes are rare enough that you can't just catch hundreds of them until you get a high level one.
If he walks Snorlax as a buddy for 500km and still hasn't found another Snorlax by then, give one reason to have candies in the inventory doing nothing rather than spend them on a top tier defender.
Exactly - Snorlax are so rare that the only way almost all players will get candy is through walking (unless they live in a region where Snorlax spawn or they spend lots of $ on incubators). But walking a Snorlax means that you can't walk anything else. It'll take 120 candies to get a Snorlax from lvl. 2 to lvl. 30, which is 600km. I think a better use of your time is to walk buddies that are also on the top attacker or defender lists, but that are 1km or 3km (e.g., Gyarados, Golem, Exeggutor, Rhydon, Alakazam), or even to use the buddy system just to get the last ~5-10 candies to evolve a pokemon to fill out your pokedex. Heck, for 600km I could evolve 60 Espeons, which I think are much more valuable than 1 Snorlax.
tl;dr - Walking a Snorlax for 600km seems to me to be a very poor return on investment.
All of the Pokemon you listed you can find candies from wild catches much more easily than a Snorlax. Gyarados especially, plus are weaker defenders than Snorlax.
I view it differently. I see buddying Pokemon that you can find in the wild easily (by that I mean uncommon at worst) a waste when that distance could have gone to a Pokemon that you can't easily find in the wild. Take Gyarados for example. If I walk 15km I could have 15 Magikarp candy or 3 Snorlax candy. I can easily catch 5 Magikarps to get 15 candy but I can't easily find a Snorlax in the wild. If I walk the Snorlax and catch some Magikarp, now I have both.
As for 60 Espeons, you can't actually use 60 Espeons. You can use a single powered up Snorlax though.
Yes, a lot of it boils down to how you use the buddy system - whether you want to use it to "top off" candy levels for a bunch of mons or devote it entirely to one or two big-ticket mons. That's a personal choice though.
I will say that it took me 6 months of playing pretty much every day to evolve my first and only Gyarados - and that included walking for over 100km with a Magikarp (thankfully the current water event means I have enough candy for a second one now). Similarly, it took me 7 months to evolve my only Alakazam and Golem. All of the high tiered attackers and defenders are rare in my area except for Eevee (though I might see a couple Exeggute, Slowpoke, and Rhyhorn per week). I have no regrets using my buddy slot to evolve a variety of mons I'd otherwise need to wait until next summer to get!
Because of the low level I probably wouldn't power it up, but honestly Heavy Slam is a pretty good move for Snorlax when paired with Zen Headbutt on defense. Lots of people used Rhydon against Snorlax prior to Gen2 (and still do), and for my money Tyranitar is the best available counter to Snorlax / Blissey in the current meta. In the Rhydon / Tyranitar matchups, Heavy Slam is going to be pretty good, I believe it slightly outperforms BS/HB.
It's pretty easily the second best charge move for Snorlax right now, and definitely excels in some important matchups.
