Hello,
often i see players in chat asking to rate their pokemon, but i never really understood how this works. What makes one pidgey than the other? I understand that each pokemon has different stats that are fixed and that you can then train him yourself with the EV's.
But if i just want to get a pidgeot myself, i can easily catch several pidgeys since they are common, but then i do not know which of these pidgeys i should take to level up and set the others free. What i did until now was just try to capture the first of each new pokemon i encountered and use that, but it appears that was not the best tactic.
People have told me there is an ability and a nature. I understand that, each pokemon can have 1 of the 3 abilities, but this looks like a personal preference?