Reasons FOR evolving Pokemon?

[Keoce]

Now I've seen the forum posts and a plethora of people saying to level up your pokes faster you should deny them of evolving. I understand that reasoning and I understand that some moves are only obtainable in a pokes previous form. However, are there ANY PROS to LETTING your pokemon evolve? Do they get stat jumps that pre-evolution pokemon don't? Say you evolve one Growlithe at level 20 for giggles. Doesn't his stats jump some when he's an Arcanine? Then you deny your second Growlithe from evolving and train it to level 30 faster than the Arcanine which lets say is 22 by now. If you compare states would the level 30 Growlithe be stronger than than the level 22-25 Arcanine? Or further would a level 30 Arcanine have better stats than a level 30 Growlithe? Sure they could level up faster, but do they have better stats than if they did evolve? In any case IS there ANY reason TO evolve your Pokemon, or is denying them from evolving always always the better thing to do? I hope to get these answers to better understand the game so I can spend less time boringly grinding and having more time enjoying the game. I personally like it when my Pokemon evolve, but I don't know if it is really any better or worse in power than not evolving them. Thanks for helping a casual :Angel:

[Darrare]

The powerspike when you evolve "most" pokemon is really really large.

 

In your comparison, the level 30 growlithe might be stronger, but the EXP ratio doesn't affect it to that extreme.

 

My advice (coming from someone who only has 7 badges) is to evolve your pokemon when you need them. If you have a sandshrew before Lt.Surge, evolve it into a sandslash. If you have a squirtle before Blaine, evolve it twice to blastoise.

 

Once I get to the elite four is when I'm going to create my super team with good iv's and ev's at which point i'll probably get them to around 90-100 before i evolve them (unless i need them!)

[Cjlj]

The formula for pokemon stats is: ((level/100)*(2*Base stats+IV+EV/4)+5)*Nature

 

The base stat value is based of the pokemon breed. When you evolve a pokemon its base stats will immediately update to the base stats of the evolved form.

 

So for your example, the base stats for Growlithe and Arcanine are the following:

 

Growlithe

HP: 55

Attack: 70

Defense: 45

Sp. Atk: 70

Sp. Def: 50

Speed: 60

 

Arcanine

HP: 90

Attack: 110

Defense: 80

Sp. Atk: 100

Sp. Def: 80

Speed: 95

 

Lets assume the IVs and EVs and nature are the same for the 30 Arcanine and 22 Growlithe and compare the Attack stat since you want to use physical attacks with the Growlithe line.

 

30 Growlithe:

((30/100)*(2*70)+5)=43.5 Attack

 

22 Arcanine:

((22/100)*(2*110)+5)=49.5 Attack

 

So in this case the Arcanine has higher attack.

 

 

So to answer your question, evolving your pokemon will usually give you a significant increase in power, so you're probably going to want to do so when playing through the game to beat the hard fights like gym leaders. The problem is that you get punished long term because in this game there is a significant XP penalty for evolving your pokemon. So if say you beat Giovanni with a team of level 55 fully evolved pokemon, it's actually faster and easier to just go and catch a Ghastly and level it to 100 before evolving it than trying to level 6 pokemon from 55-75 with the huge xp penalty from evolving them.

[Mayelesa]

Similar topic: https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18683

[Singham]

Unevolved Pokemon gain level up a bit faster but evolved Pokemon are stronger than unevolved Pokemon at the given level.

 

Locking this topic as there is already another thread about this.