Hi everyone! I'm totally new to the Pokemon universe and would love some help.
From level 1 to level 2
Let's say I have 20 Pidgey. Which one should I evolve? Someone on Reddit said that all your basic attacks and special moves are changed when you evolve anyway, so you basically just pick the one with the highest CP to evolve. Is this true?
Assuming CP is the only factor you consider, how early should you evolve? Since the higher level a trainer I am, the higher CP Pidgeys I'll find. How do I know when I've found a high enough Pidgey that it is worth the candy to evolve them? If I evolved a 100 CP Pidgey today, 3 days from now I might catch a 200 Pidgey.
On the other hand, I need some evolved pokemons to fight at gym battles. How do I balance the need to have evolved fighters to train at gyms vs wanting to wait as long as possible before evolving.
Once evolved, how do you know you have a "good" pokemon?
Let's say I have 3 Pidgeoto. Which one should I "power up"? People on reddit says it depends on which one has the best "skill set" (i.e. basic and special attack).
But as someone who has never played Pokemon before, I have no idea what is a "good" skill set. What do I look for? Is it just which attack has the highest damage number? But that can't be it, since different attacks have different attack speed, so sometimes a high damage attack may have a low dps.
Or should I only look for attacks that "fits" a pokemon's "type"?
For example, Rapidash may have several types of basic attacks ranging from Fire to Normal to Flying. How do I pick which one is the best? Should I always pick Fire because she is essentially a fire Pokemon, and therefore she has some special fire affinity that makes her fire attacks stronger than mere attack damage numbers indicate? Or perhaps even if her fire attacks are not stronger, I should still pick fire attacks because what's the point of picking a normal attack for her when you can use less specialized normal pokemon for those normal attacks.
And don't get me started on SPECIAL attacks. At my level (19) I don't even know if they are worth it. Seems like my DPS drops when I move away from fast-tapping basic attack. I usually win more when I just use basic attack.
However, I'm sure special attacks will be important when I get higher. How do I know which special attacks are awesome and which ones are meh. Or is it purely situational depending on who I'm trying to fight.
Finally, do you think as we progress we'll each have several fully evolved pokemon of the same type? Or is it more likely we'll only keep one of the fully evolved pokemon?
Thank you for reading all this! I found this forum because Reddit linked to several of your charts and they were super useful. Thanks!
From level 1 to level 2
Let's say I have 20 Pidgey. Which one should I evolve? Someone on Reddit said that all your basic attacks and special moves are changed when you evolve anyway, so you basically just pick the one with the highest CP to evolve. Is this true?
Assuming CP is the only factor you consider, how early should you evolve? Since the higher level a trainer I am, the higher CP Pidgeys I'll find. How do I know when I've found a high enough Pidgey that it is worth the candy to evolve them? If I evolved a 100 CP Pidgey today, 3 days from now I might catch a 200 Pidgey.
On the other hand, I need some evolved pokemons to fight at gym battles. How do I balance the need to have evolved fighters to train at gyms vs wanting to wait as long as possible before evolving.
Once evolved, how do you know you have a "good" pokemon?
Let's say I have 3 Pidgeoto. Which one should I "power up"? People on reddit says it depends on which one has the best "skill set" (i.e. basic and special attack).
But as someone who has never played Pokemon before, I have no idea what is a "good" skill set. What do I look for? Is it just which attack has the highest damage number? But that can't be it, since different attacks have different attack speed, so sometimes a high damage attack may have a low dps.
Or should I only look for attacks that "fits" a pokemon's "type"?
For example, Rapidash may have several types of basic attacks ranging from Fire to Normal to Flying. How do I pick which one is the best? Should I always pick Fire because she is essentially a fire Pokemon, and therefore she has some special fire affinity that makes her fire attacks stronger than mere attack damage numbers indicate? Or perhaps even if her fire attacks are not stronger, I should still pick fire attacks because what's the point of picking a normal attack for her when you can use less specialized normal pokemon for those normal attacks.
And don't get me started on SPECIAL attacks. At my level (19) I don't even know if they are worth it. Seems like my DPS drops when I move away from fast-tapping basic attack. I usually win more when I just use basic attack.
However, I'm sure special attacks will be important when I get higher. How do I know which special attacks are awesome and which ones are meh. Or is it purely situational depending on who I'm trying to fight.
Finally, do you think as we progress we'll each have several fully evolved pokemon of the same type? Or is it more likely we'll only keep one of the fully evolved pokemon?
Thank you for reading all this! I found this forum because Reddit linked to several of your charts and they were super useful. Thanks!