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Pokemon you would never evolve and why

WaterTrainer243

Veteran Water Lover
As the title suggests, what pre-evolved pokemon would you never want to evolve regardless of the advantages it has in its evolution stage?

For me, there's only one pokemon I can think of: Surskit. Reason being, I'm a water pokemon trainer and I like dual-type water pokemon; Surskit is no exception. But when it evolves, it's no longer a Water-type so having it's water attacks is kinda pointless as a Masquerain. Sure it can't learn some tough attacks, but if I were to have a Surskit it wouldn't be for pokemon battles mostly, but instead I would train it for Pokemon contests. I'll use it in battle when I need to, but aside from that I would never evolve one.

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Metagross Guy

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For some reason, i would never evolve my Pikachu.
 

RagingTyphlosion

Game Corner Addict
Spikey eared Pichu! ohhhh.....
 

Zonn13

87% Indubitable.
I pretty much always evolve my Pokemon regardless of evolved forms, with the exception of Meditite. I kinda like Meditite, it's a cute blue chimp, but it evolves into... a pink blob.
 

godudette

/me cresselias
I never evolve Marill, simply because it's absolutely my favorite and I hate Azmarill. For some reason I don't evolve Eevee's either, just because I like adding it to my team for a normal-type Pokemon.
 
Pokemon I would never evolve: pikachu, skitty, ivysaur (meaning I wouldn't evolve it into a venasaur), sealeo, glameow, and buizel. If raichu didn't always look so fat then I wouldn't mind, but as it is I have never evolved any of my pikachus. Skitty is cute and delcatty drives me nuts. I swear my eye starts twitching everytime I see one, I just dont like it. The rest are because their evo's dont look cute. Venasuar, wailrein, purugly, and floatzel just arnt as cute/cool looking as their pre-evolved forms.
 

Nagaru

Safety and Seizures
Teddiursa by far. Not only it is my favorite, the fact that it evolves into my absolute least favorite helps a lot in the decision.
 

Chimecho3000

Well-Known Member
I pretty much always evolve my Pokemon regardless of evolved forms, with the exception of Meditite. I kinda like Meditite, it's a cute blue chimp, but it evolves into... a pink blob.

Meditite evolves into Ditto?! o_O
 

STICKTOPIA

Well-Known Member
Buneary b/c i like to carry it in Pal Park:D
 

Cornchops

Team Bomba
I think the only one I have ever cared not to evolve would be Piplup because Prinplup and Empoleon just look lame to me. Piplup is just awesome though.
 

GolemGuy

Better Than Thou
I don't evolve Vigoroths. Well, at least I don't for the one I have right now in Platinum.

Other than that, yeah, Surskit.

And it's always a debate with myself on whether to evolve Graveler now or later. I mean, both Graveler and Golem are awesome. Graveler looks cooler, but Golem is stronger.
 

Zonn13

87% Indubitable.
Meditite evolves into Ditto?! o_O

I should have seen that one coming. XDD

Oh, another one came to mind. I would not evolve my Sneasels, since I ave no intention of using it and Weavile looks... off to me.
 

LucarioLV.X

Pokemon master
I think this counts.I would never evolve kirlia into gardevoir but I would evolve it into gallade hands down!
 
Unless for competetive purposes, I'd never evolve Monferno. Infernape looks so... eww.
 

Final

I Submit to No One
Porygon2 since I already have a decent Level 100 Porygon-Z and since Porygon2 can be a very good counter for a number of Pokemon. Also Chansey since I have a Blissey and I can use Chansey for UU Battles.
 

WaterTrainer243

Veteran Water Lover
I have to admit, some of these are rather surprising. Others I'm not so surprised about. Still, I want to add another pokemon to the list.

Aside from Surskit, the only other Pokemon I wouldn't evolve would be Squirtle. Squirtle is my favorite Pokemon, but I do like Blastoise. I'll evolve one Squirtle, but keep the other as it is so that I can have it for other uses.

Other than that, I can't really think of anything.
 
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