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alcimedes
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2016-07-28, 10:03

Instinct here, just because there are tons of reds and blues.

So, I wanted to do an experiment, as I'm not sure anyone has tried this already or not.

Q: Is it better to *find* a fully upgraded pokemon (CP wise) or is it better to find a fully evolved, but super low level Pokemon and power it up instead?

So I decided to test with Pidgies, since I have a million of them all the time.

I found a fully evolved Pidgie (Pidgeot)which had ZERO upgrades to the CP. (3rd evolution, CP of 17)

I also found an almost fully evolved and upgraded Pidgeot and captured it.

The almost fully upgraded, found in the wild Pidgeot has a CP of 741, and has maybe 15% of the bar left to fill.

The zero CP, upgrading it Pidgeot is just under halfway upgraded now, and has a CP of 261. I'm going to need a pile more stardust to finish the experiment, but so far it appears you are better off finding them as upgraded as possible in the wild, vs. doing it yourself after the fact.

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