Should i max out cp before evolving? (2023)

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Should I power up Pokemon to Max before evolving? ›

Trainers may wonder if they should power up a Pokemon before evolving it or vice versa. When deciding this, it is usually more economical to evolve first, then power up the desired Pokemon in Pokemon GO.

Since CP increases from power ups are also proportional across evolutions, you'll get the same results for the same amount of stardust and candies whether you power up the Pokemon before or after evolving it. Save this answer. Show activity on this post. It should make no difference at all.

It pays to keep and evolve only the best Pokémon you find. In general, you want higher CP Pokémon to evolve over lower CP Pokémon, but just because a Pokémon has a high CP doesn't mean it's actually very good.

Powering up a pokemon before evolving it will lead to a higher max CP.

Power Up costs don't change when you evolve a Pokémon: as stated in the summary, percentage trained stays the same; it will cost you the same amount of Stardust and Candy to fully Power Up your Charmander before or after evolving it into Charmeleon and Charizard.

Evolved Pokémon often learn particular moves at later levels than unevolved Pokémon, or they might learn different moves altogether. Although evolved Pokémon's moves are generally more powerful, some Trainers may want to wait to evolve their Pokémon until it learns a certain favorite move.

CP stands for combat power -- the higher the CP, the stronger the Pokémon will be in battle. In general, you want to trade away your low-value Pokémon so you can build up your stronger ones.

Purifying gives the Pokémon a significant increase in Combat Power and it will cost less candies to evolve. Make sure you Purify a Pokémon BEFORE you evolve it so you can use less candies.

Unevolved Pokémon have to train twice as hard just to keep up with evolved Pokémon, as their stats gain fewer boosts when they level. On the plus side, unevolved Pokémon level up a lot faster than their evolved forms do.

Originally Answered: What are the benefits to not evolving Pokemon? For the purpose of learning a move that the higher evolution cannot. Some Pokemon, like Shelgon, are high in defense and can be given eviolite to boost that defense even further. Other than that, at least in general, it's for aesthetic reasons.

When should I stop evolving Pokemon? ›

Obtain an Everstone.

This is a special item that gives you a more efficient way to prevent a Pokémon from evolving. While the Pokémon "holds" the Everstone, it will not evolve, even if all of the normal conditions for evolution are met.

0 stars - below 50% 1 star - 51% to 63.4% 2 stars - 66.7% to 80% 3 stars - 82.2% to 98%

It doesn't really matter what you do first as in the end it will cost the same amount of stardust and candy to power up and evolve.

If your Pokémon has three stars and a red stamp, it means that it has 100% perfect IVs. If it has three star with an orange stamp, it has around 80-99% perfect IVs. Two stars means 66-80% IVs and one star means 50-65% IVs.

While the obvious thing to do when catching a Shadow Pokemon is to purify it, purification is not required and players can choose to keep their Shadow Pokemon.

What is the rarest Shadow Pokémon? This means that players will have to grind battles at Pokestops or from Hot Air Balloons if they want them. Specifically, Shiny Shadow Skorupi, Swinub, Snubbull and Poocheyana are the rarest Shadow Shiny Pokemon.

The downsides to purification are: Purified Pokemon lose the 20% damage bonus made available to Shadows. Though this is less painful for certain Pokemon, others do benefit highly from remaining as a Shadow. The 2 IV increase is often dwarfed by the Shadow damage boost.

You can check out our tips for evolving Pokémon in Pokémon Go for more detail, but generally it's advisable to evolve your high-IV Pokémon before you start spending Stardust to Power Up and increase its Level. That's because each time a Pokémon evolves, although its IVs stay the same, its moveset is randomised.

If you have a Pokemon that is in the highest or second highest IV tier, it really is not that far away from perfect Max CP. So evolving a Pokemon with IV's in the first or second tier is a good idea, you don't need to wait for the perfect IV's. Never power up a Pokémon before evolving it!

For the easy answer, NO. CP has no value in the damage calculation.

Are IVs or CP more important? ›

As explained by RustyMembers the IV is by far more important than the CP of a Pokemon. But actually equally or sometimes even more important is the Moveset of a Pokemon. A Pokemon with the best moveset dps wise but with lower IV will perform better than a similar one with a different moveset but higher IV %.

However, that kind of thinking leads to them losing out on valuable experience and Stardust. However, just because a Pokémon has a low-CP (or at least a lower one), that doesn't mean it isn't good. There are other stats that go into making a Pokémon useful beyond just CP.

Each of these numbers on any caught Pokemon is completely random, which means you have as much chance of getting an 11, for example, as you do a 15. When you work out the odds behind this, the complete randomness gives you a 1 in 4,096 chance of finding that perfect IV Pokemon. So, very unlikely.

While trainers are free to pass on the option to evolve their Pokémon, doing so comes with its own set of challenges. Unevolved Pokémon have to train twice as hard just to keep up with evolved Pokémon, as their stats gain fewer boosts when they level.

Mewtwo is stacked when it comes to max CP, boasting over 4,000. It's also one of the most powerful Pokémon in the game with massive attack stats to boot. Mewtwo is known for its devastating psychic moves, not forgetting its Team Rocket origin story.

One of the main advantages to not evolving Pokémon (for any game) is that unevolved Pokémon learn moves faster. Once they evolve, Pokémon learn more slowly.

10 CP is the lowest for many, but others are 11, 12, 13, etc.

Not only do IVs determine the HP, Special Attack, Attack, Special Defense, Defense, and Speed of a Pokemon, but they also can be hereditary in the realm of Pokemon breeding.

Your Trainer's level affects quite a few features in the game. The higher your Trainer level, the stronger and rarer the Pokemon you will encounter and the higher you can increase your Pokemon's CP.

The raid Pokémon can have anywhere from one to four perfect IVs, depending on the difficulty of the Max Raid battle. The harder it is, the more perfect IVs it will have. Even better, you can grab a Ditto from a harder raid to get a three or four IV one.

What is 0 * in Pokémon Go? ›

Appraisal: Enter 0-4* to search for Pokémon by the quality of their appraisal. 4* indicates the highest appraisal possible, while 0* indicates a lower appraisal.