Which one of these do I evolve into Tyranitar?
I've had a year-long break from Go, so now I'm about to evolve my very first Tyranitar. I'm also somewhat new to the knowledge on IVstats (I initially was just in it to 'catch 'em all', did not do a lot of battling).
So do I evolve the larvitar with the best attack stat, but worse overall stats; or do I evolve the pupitar with the best overall stats, but with only 13 atk IV? I'm leaning towards the pupitar since that leaves me enough candy to level it up a little. Bad choice?
These are their complete stats:
Larvitar
Lvl Hp Atk Def Perc
34 9 15 14 84.4
Pupitar:
Lvl Hp Atk Def Perc
20 15 13 12 88.9
Thanks for your help!
Answers
Yes, wait until after adventure week is over. Your chances of getting a better candidate then are pretty good. And of course, there might be some new research tasks (aside from the three excellent throws in a row, which is a pretty steep challenge for most trainers) to get Larvitar.
If Larvitar becomes a community day pokemon, it won't be until June, and I suspect later - the usual pattern seems to be to spread out the ones with meta-relevance. Pikachu, Dratini, Venusaur, Mareep, Charizard. If I had to hazard a guess for June, I'd pick Squirtle, to complete the gen1 starters. I do think Larvitar will be a community day special, but not for a while. I wonder whether Ttar will get a special fast rock move, or a better dark move as the evolve special. So trainers should save up a few good Larvitar or Pupitar for that day, knowing it might be as far off as 2019, but when it comes, you'll want to be ready to get a pokemon that is unobtainable any other way.
I don't see anything wrong with evolving L34 one, it's 3300 ttar ready to use. IVs are pretty solid, 15att. 9 stamina is only 5 hp less at level 34 and only 4 at 40.
L20->34 is 114 candies AND 123k Stardust. L25 is only 86 candies, but still 92k Stardust. So even powering up raided ttar will not save you a lot of resources.
Thanks a lot guys :)
I evolved the 34lvl larvitar cause I really needed one for a (my first!) mewtwo raid and I wasnt sure about how many people would show.
Turns out there was no reason to worry, just added Mewtwo to my dex!
If larvitar will turn out to be a community day mon, or will play a part in adventure week it's great, i'll just get another Ttar, I'm sure I'll find use for one more ;)