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What should I do with these 100%

What should I do with these 100%:
Banette SC/SB
Chikorita
Dugtrio
Aipom
Jolteon
Kingler
Ledian x2
Piloswine PS/A
Poliwrath RS/DP
Raticate
Roselia
Starmie WG/HP
Typhlosion E/SB
Ursaring C/PR
Weezing I/SB
Xatu
Jigglypuff
Mareep

In addition comes a large numbers of 98-96-93% mons that are more or less useless in the current meta. Why is there nothing to do with normal good mons, except collecting them as trophies? The new weather buffed mons up to lev 35 accentuates the one-sides focus on the legendaries, which Niantic keeps on throwing at us, but in the long run this becomes boring, sad to say.

Asked by Donnacito7 years 4 months ago

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I would totally put them on a list, show them off but pretend I'm asking a question...

...oh, right... nvm...

I was going to suggest posting them on a forum and asking some vague rhetorical question to disguise the need for bragging, but Aqualad08 kind of answered that for you.

Transfer them all to the professor since clearly you haven't evolved or powered any of them up yet and probably never will and obviously are asking because you need space. Just do it. You'll get over it.

Kiss them on your screen.

Thanks for all your "good" advices! Bragging was not my intention, I did not list the 100% that I actually use. This is only my second question and the reason I write is my growing frustration over how PG is developing. I can transfer all of them and of course get over it if I stop playing, like some others on this forum. My question was seriously meant, it is a paradox that focus gets down to only 5-10% of the Mons in the current raid based meta, the rest are only for trophy collection. I had expected more from Niantic, like a tier-based battle system which gives some meaning to the whole spectrum of Mons.

I always keep 1 ~ 2 of every pkm (last evolution) if they have high IV, even without much use.

I keep one or two good ones of each. Hoping they will have a use some day. For what it’s worth, I agree with your point. 95% of good Pokémon’s are meaningless. Tiered battles would be awesome.

In the meantime, there really needs to be a good way to show them off :)

If that was true, and it may be, it would've been more convincing to ask what do with your 8 perfects rather than writing up a list of them. You want somebody to congratulate you on how well you use a poke-tracker or something?

Keep banette, chik,aipom,jolteon,machamp, piloswine, poliwrath, starmie, typhlosion, ursa, weezing, xatu, jiggly, mareep, roselia. Transfer everything else. Thats what i would do. Piloswine will be useful next evolve. Poliwrath has niche uses, if u don't have 6 maxed out Zapdos and raikou I would max out jolteon. Max out machamp, and max out the other 2 to 40. Ideally u want at least 6 of each types maxed out. U don't have to just let them sit there as trophies, u can use them for gym battles. It's fun using pokemons u would of never used in the old gym system unless they were useful for prestiging or bubble strat. I would like to have that 100 banette and max it to 40 for fun use. I got a couple gengars maxed but I would like variety that would do close to same damage. I personally rarely have over 10k dust. I spend it as soon as I get it to max out pokemons I like. Plus it keeps me going to play this game since it gives me a goal. Gotta make goals for urself to keep at it for this game or it will become dull quick.

Thank you very much for a much reasoned response! I agree with you, except that you did not mention Kingler as a mons to keep. I had hoped it would get a better charged moved and become a useful water cannon. I have also had plans of powering up Banette, and I have indeed used several TMs to get it to SC/SB. The problem is that I have invested heavily in SC Gengars, with 3 at lev 40 and 2 at lev 33. But you are right, variation is positive. My 100% Jolteon is at lev 30 with suboptimal moves, and I feel that it is almost a waste to power it up more now instead of Zapdos and Raikou.

Re your point in powering up 6 of each type, I have two comments, one is the possibility that Niantic suddenly limits the number of identical mons used to 1 (which they should do for legendaries). If that happens, much stardust will be wasted.. Also, I think it is more fun to have a variation of Mons powered up. I would for instance like to power up Poliwrath but have not been able to justify this for myself, since it is so clearly inferior to Machamp, and now also the other Fighting pokemon coming up.

Power them up if you like, atleast to lv 30, and use it in unique challenge (no duplicate) solo tier 3. Combine it with an excellent counter and have some fun.
Dont worry too much about future meta, just enjoy the current one
I am using Minun in unique challenge soloing Omastar, and that Minun only has IV 80
Yes it is not good counter, but the other counter can still carry the lacks of Minun attacking power to still win, and it is fun, more fun than just using all grass Exeggutor which can be quite boring if you already win with ease against tier 3 bosses
Another example, you can use Slowbro and Clefable (preferably a fighting moves one) to soloing machamp in unique challenge, not using legendary, not using dragonite..
Hard but fun...
Off course you can always use your best attacking team when time is running out for insurance when you fail at 1-2 attempt at that no duplicate challenge
Some of your 100 iv even not a brainer for me
Jolte, Poliwrath, Bannete, Pillowswine, Starmie, Typhlosion, Ursaring, Mareep ? Sure i keep it and power them up bit by bit and taking my time as i am not rich in SD

I would keep them all, 100% are rare. I might consider transferring some of my 98% mon, but never 100%. They can't be taking up that much storage space.

Out of 23,744 caught, only 8 of mine are 100%, including Machamp and Lapras (I have 27 known 98% mon).

A useless 100% trophy pokemon means you can transfer other catches of that species with lesser IVs with much less hesitation.

Nice thing about powering a suboptimal 100% over an optimal <100% is that you can't regret too much since you're not going to catch a better version of that Pokemon. As for use, I think Banette, Jolteon, Mareep, and Poliwrath will be the most useful. Ampharos, for example, makes a pretty decent unexpected gym defender with Volt Switch/Focus Blast. Volt Switch is hands down the best move in PoGo on gym defense, and it has very high energy generation too. A couple of them, and Focus Blast will come out, which should 1 shot any good Ampharos counter outside of Groudon. Besides Groudon, most people don't bring a ground-type to a gym lineup anyways, so the Volt Switch should see good damage.