Can waiting to evolve make it stronger?

[Shinx3000]

Just wanting to know something. Say you have a "Whismur" and instead of making it evolve to "Loudred" when it deos, you wait 10 levels, would it become stronger when it evolves? (I mean, stronger that it would be if it had evolved at normal level)

 

[Jukain]

The only advantage to waiting to evo that I'm aware of is that sometimes a poke learns moves in its lesser forms that it can't when it evos. I know I trained my Growlithe to the point it learns Flamethrower before I Fire Stoned it. Granted, Flamethrower can be TMed, but I gave that one to another poke in the team.

 

[Armads]

I think this belongs in the Simple Questions thread.

I don't think this is true, since even expert trainers evolve their pokemon ASAP. It's good for EV training, I hear...

As Sceptile said, the only real advantage is getting moves faster than the evolved forms. Some evolved pokemon, like Raichu, don't learn moves at all.

 

[DrunkenSniper]

Nope, holding back evolution is only important for those like Shroomish, who learns spore at a high level but not after evolution.

EV training has the same affect whatever level/evolution stage you are, as long as you aren't level 100.

 

[Not Skarmory Armor]

Well Gabite learns Dragon Rush at Lv. 49, instead of Lv. 55 for Garchomp, but im not sure that quialfies under te Shroomish category

 

[Every Breaking Wave]

If you keep a Pokemon unevolved, it will learn moves at lower levels and will need fewer experience points to level up.

You could evolve Bulbasaur at 98 and Ivysaur at 99, and it will have the identical stats as a Venusaur that evolved at 32.

 

[TTEchidna]

No, it doesn't need less experience. Evolved Pokémon are in the same experience bracket as their pre-evolutions. The only thing that matters at all are the moves it's capable of learning.

For example, I keep my Dratini a Dratini until level 51, so it can learn Outrage. Then I evolve it and I can have a level 55 Dragonite with Outrage.

 

[Tadashi]

Guys, at the end of the day, it boils down to what Pokemon you're training.

If you're training something like Growlithe or Pikachu, who don't learn any new moves after level up, hold off on evolving it.

If you're training something... for example, a Spheal. If you let it evolve into a Sealeo and then Walrein at lv.44, it will immediately learn Ice Fang. But if you raise Spheal to lv.49, it will learn Sheer Cold, then evolve into Sealeo if you let it. If you're raising Pokemon who learn certain moves upon level-up at a certain level (another example is Torterra and EQ. Let Grotle evolve at lv.32 and Torterra immediately learns EQ), you might want to evolve it ASAP.


Like I said, it just depends on what you're training. As for me, most Pokemon I'm training these days are usually hold off on evolving Pokemon because Basic forms level up faster and learn moves earlier than if it evolves.

 

[Rappak]

Except... if you are breeding. Remember that most of the moves will pass down if they can learn it. So breeding it with a ditto SHOULD always produce the same move set, negating the need to wait to evolve it till it learns the move. Granted it takes sometimes hours and hours to do, but it is worth it. Also, it's the only way to transfer some moves without using a TM, which is how I chained a Lotad to learn Energy Ball, which was painful and gave up and used some rare candy, to my Abra.

 

[Shinx3000]

On evolving, would maxing out a pokemons EVs early do much when it gets stronger or evolves? Say you had a turtwig and at lv10 it had maxed out EVs, would it be stronger then when it evolved to grotole than it not having maxed out EVs?

And I don't really use rare candys to level up pokemon that I want to battle competetive with and I did take ages, but now got a zubat that knows brave bird.