Strategy to increase pokemon CP who can't be evolved?
Are there any strategies to increase pokemon CP efficiently faster for those pokemon who can't evolve? In my village there aren't many pokemon to catch, but once I captured some relatively rare pokemon, they had low to so-so CP.
Consider these CP on some of my pokemon:
- Magmar had only about 350 CP (now it's 393)
- Electabuzz has only 245 CP
- Scyther had only 490 (now it's 528)
But my question is not about the rarity of a pokemon itself, but for all pokemon that can't evolve. Are there any strategies for this case?
Best Answer
In regards to your comments on the decision to power up your rare pokemon or catch better ones, I believe you are missing a critical factor in that decision: that of IV's.
Pokemon have three IV's (individual values) that are added to their base stats. Each IV can be from 0 to 15; they are Attack, Defense, and Stamina. They determine the max CP of a pokemon in relation to other pokemon of the same type. Additionally they cannot be changed or improved (by evolution or otherwise).
Pokemon with perfect IV's (all 15's) are very rare in and of themselves, to say nothing a of rare pokemon with perfect IVs. If one of your rarer pokemon had very good / perfect IVs it would be much more worth keeping than one with average or bad IVs.
You can check your pokemon's IVs through various online calculators (although it will probably only give you a range without further powerups).
In any case, to address your initial question - as the commenters have said, there is only one way to power up pokemon: the power up button. Each powerup increases the pokemon's level by .5; there is no more or less efficient way to do this.
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