Slyvarant

Re: Miles' Spawn Guide (updated) <t>Thanks a ton for this, it's incredibly helpful to someone who hasn't gone through all the regions yet. :)</t>

You get 2x exp and 1.5x money. Meaning you battle half as much for experience.

I agree with almost everything you said. There shouldn't be any boon for staying unevolved beyond learning moves quicker. The fact that evolving makes it harder to level, can very easily punish players who're ignorant of this, as I was. If I want to keep playing with my starter, I have to grind X times harder than someone who knew this of this "feature". I even had to go to a Pokémon school at one point. There's ample time for that to be explained before you even get close to your first evolution with most Pokémon. I can't use some of my favorite Pokémon effectively because of this. I understand that some people think this makes sense, or it's something they like, but I don't. I started a day ago and fully planned on giving the Red Server a test run, to learn the mechanics and starting on Blue as soon as it came out. On top of all of this, if I want to progress as fast as I can, I have to deal with denying evolutions constantly. From what I've been told thus far, there's no way to get an everstone early on if it is even available.

Omega Ruby, which I believe is Gen VI.

Just tested this while waiting for the login queue: Leveling a Mightyena from level 18 to 19 is 1,021 exp with it's current exp at 5,838. Leveling a Poochyena from 18 to 19 takes 1,007 exp with it's current exp being at 5,852. Note the difference in the two battles I just tested was 14 experience lower on the evolved form from the unevolved form. So the exp needed to reach 18 to 19 on either evolved or unevolved Poochyena from 18 to 19 means it has to have a total exp of 6,859, and I'm the OT of the Poocheyna, so it doesn't get any bonus exp. This means on the handhelds, evolved and unevolved Pokémon have no different in leveling required. So, given that this is the case if the admin or someone that speaks for him could answer: Did you choose to make it take more experience to level up an evolved Pokémon? If so, may we know why? I'm asking, because I'm a new player, and I was totally unaware of this when I evolved my starter, and I'm disappointed now that I will have to grind out a lot more battles to level my Pokémon than if I hadn't evolved it...