Should you wait to evolve starter Pokemon?

Immediately is most optimal, but only so you can enjoy their power right away and increase their survivability. There's no advantage to waiting at all.
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When to evolve starter Pokémon?

All Starter Pokémon are also part of 3-stage evolutionary lines, triggering their first evolution between Lv. 14-18, and second evolution at Lv. 30-36.
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Is it better to evolve Pokémon early or wait?

Pros and Cons of Evolution

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.
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What happens if you don't evolve your starter?

Unevolved Pokémon Are Always Trying To Catch Up

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.
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Is it better to power up Pokémon first before Evolving?

Because we cannot predict a Pokémon's move set before evolving it, you should evolve a Pokémon and confirm it has the moves you want before investing your hard-earned Stardust into it. If you evolve first and get a bad/unwanted move set, you'll at least have only used Candies and no Stardust.
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POKÉMON GO: Should You EVOLVE Or WAIT?! (How To Know When To EVOLVE and POWER UP Your Pokémon!)

Should I max out CP before evolving?

Never power up a Pokémon before evolving it!

If you get a bad moveset, it's CP value doesn't really matter and you probably don't want to power up it!
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Should I evolve 3 star Pokémon?

It's recommended to only evolve a Pokemon that has high CP, or a 3/4-star Appraisal.
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Is there a benefit to not evolving Charmander?

Evolution boosts stats, but when they evolve does not. And unevolved pokemon level up as fast as their evolutions. In Charmander's case, he learns Flamethrower so quickly that there's no reason to let him unevolved. The stats should recalculate when you evolve, so you don't "miss" stats by evolving late.
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Should I let bulbasaur evolve?

It could be advantageous to withhold evolving it until at least 50's. That way, you can learn his best moves much earlier. Bulbasaur learns his final move, Solarbeam at level 46, but if he's evolved to Ivysaur, he will learn it at level 56, and venusaur learns it on level 65.
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Is it better to evolve Pikachu or not?

While evolving into a Raichu would have increased Pikachu's power significantly, it also wouldn't have been true to who he is. Ash's Pikachu, in all iterations, has wanted to prove himself. Pikachu's choice not to evolve fits the narrative that he was enough without changing.
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Should you keep 0 star Pokémon?

If players are keeping 0-stars, then they can't farm Candy via Transfer. Furthermore, there are some events in-game that will double the Candy from Transfers. Thus, 0-stars are better to Transfer than Pokemon with better appraisals.
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Should I evolve my Pokémon asap?

A Pokemon's stats will catch up once it evolves no matter how long you hold it off. For the most part, the stats are better than the waiting longer for moves. There are exceptions, such as Joltik in BW learning Bug Buzz a good ~14 levels earlier than his evolution and having no good bug moves until then.
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Is it better to purify Pokémon before evolving?

Purifying a Shadow Pokémon will improve their appraisal and reduce the amount of Stardust and Candy required for them to Power Up, Evolve, or learn a new attack. When Purified, a Shadow Pokémon will forget Frustration and learn Return, a Charged Attack that's exclusive to Purified Pokémon.
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Which starter Pokemon has the best evolution?

In conducting our research, we were certainly amazed to see some traditionally underappreciated sorts make the cut!
  • 7 Serperior. Type. HP. Attack. Defense. ...
  • 6 Venusaur. Type. HP. Attack. ...
  • 5 Hisuian Samurott. Type. HP. Attack. ...
  • 4 Rillaboom. Type. HP. Attack. ...
  • 3 Skeledirge. Type. HP. Attack. ...
  • 2 Greninja. Type. HP. Attack. ...
  • 1 Cinderace. Type. HP. Attack.
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Who is the strongest starter Pokemon?

Ranking Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard and 9 other top starter Pokemon based on multiple factors
  • Blaziken has remained a force since Generation III (Image via Game Freak)
  • Greninja is an offensive fiend much like Blaziken (Image via Game Freak)
  • May's Mega Swampert in the anime (Image via The Pokemon Company)
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When should I evolve Sprigatito?

How to Evolve Sprigatito. Sprigatito evolves into Floragato at Level 16. Floragato evolves into Meowscarada at Level 36.
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Is it worth not evolving Pokémon?

You can keep them unevolved if you want. But no, their stats won't "catch up to them" if you don't evolve them. Each Pokemon has its own base stats. When Pokemon evolve, the evolved Pokemon has higher base stats, thus it will have higher stats.
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Should I let my Squirtle evolve?

It learns its last, and most powerful technique at level 42, so it's a good idea to wait with evolving it into Wartortle until the last possible moment.
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Who is better Charmander or Squirtle or Bulbasaur?

A generation's most important question has now been answered. Which is the best of the first generation starter Pokemon: Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle? We are delighted to be able to reveal that the answer, according our new survey, is Charmander.
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Should I power up Charmander before evolving?

Because evolving a pokemon only changes the base stats not the level or ivs, it doesn't matter if you power up a pokemon before evolving or after the cp it gets to won't change. But if you care about PVP power up after so you don't go over the cp for what league you what to get it to.
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Is it bad to evolve Pokémon late?

The level you evolve your pokemon at has no bearing at all on the stats that the evolved pokemon will have. The main reason to evolve at different levels has to do with the moves that pokemon learn. Many lower evolutions learn moves either at an earlier level, or entirely different moves.
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Should I evolve my Pidgey?

No, because IVs mean nothing in GO and it'll still be a plain old Pidgeot. Seems like the lowest IV pokemon and the highest are separated by a wide margin.
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Should you evolve Meltan?

When Meltan evolves into Melmetal, it grows vastly stronger than before. Its body hardens as a result of its Evolution, and it becomes incredibly sturdy. The bulk of its body is made of liquid metal. Its arms in particular are very flexible, and they can whip forward to deliver devastating punches.
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Is it better to evolve or power up first?

That question depends entirely on the Pokémon and what you want to use it for. If it's for Master League or you want to use it for Raids and Gym battles, then you should power it up once you've evolved it to the final stage, as this generally offers a bigger stat buff, making it more useful quicker.
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Should I evolve the highest CP Pokémon?

You should never max out the base pokemon's CP. It could evolve and get bad moves and then you've wasted all the candies maxing it's CP and all the candies on the evolve. Evolve first, if the moves are good, then you worry about CP.
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