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Time to get rid of some Pokemon and power up others?

Now that we no longer prestige gyms, is it perhaps time to get rid of Pokemon I used of that? Sure, I can still put them in gyms, but I have others for that.
So should I get rid of most of my Pokemons at around 1000CP and just keep a few slightly stronger ones for gyms? I've rarely powered up my Pokemons (a few times when I started and lately spent like 20k on Blissey and Rhydon), so I don't have many that are really strong.
Not one over (or close to) 3000 and only six over 2500 (five of which are Rhydons).
I know that 3000+ aren't that useful in gyms at the moment (I hope they change that), but maybe having a team of 3000 (or close to) Pokemons when battling a raid boss is useful?

I've got about 2.300.000 stardust, so that should be enough to power up a few.

And if I should spend some, which Pokemons should I focus on?

Asked by The Idle Fellow7 years 10 months ago
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by moyoga 7 years 11 months ago

I'd keep saving and only bring the best attacking mons up to lvl 30. As many as you want to lvl 30 but stop there because dust is rare now and legendaries will probably start at lvl 20. And there's at least 10 legendaries.

Edit: To take 10 pokemon from LVL 20 to LVL 30 = 800k stardust.

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10 pokemon power-up from 20 to 30 is 750k dust... but still a lot of dust wasted on something that may change in the near future

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Good catch, I counted the jump to 30 to 30.5 on the spreedsheet. I wasn't sure to count it or not, so I erred to underpromise and overdeliver.

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by moyoga 7 years 11 months ago

Against the current raid bosses, if I was to choose 10 pokemon to lvl up from 20 to 30:
DC/DB + DT/O Dragonite
B/Cr + B/SE Tyranitar
Machamp C/DP x2
Alakazam PC/FS
Vapoeon WG/HP
RT/SE Golem
SC/SB Gengar

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Was kind of a toss up, I don't have one currently with that moveset but I think the dps would be badass. If not Gengar then another Focus Sight glass cannon like Espeon or Alakzam. I think it's helpful to have two powerful glass cannons to deliver the dps needed take out a Raid 3.

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Since the gym change, I powered up a p/hb blissey (useful for clearing dispirited mon from a gym, and as a raid stopper), a zh/dg low iv blissey (looks like a relatively weak blissey, but packs a punch), a ms/eq rhydon and a ms/eg golem (they are widely useful in raids). Probably next is the queue is a fc/xs scizor. But, I'm back to saving dust. Generally, I'm trying to get a couple strong attackers for each type. This project will take some time. Oh, I just power up to level 30.

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