Tyranitar Woes
So far, I have managed to acquire 3 Tyranitar via a mix of hatches, walking, and finding a lucky wild one + a bunch of Larv while visiting Seattle this past weekend. Unfortunately, all I want is Bite + anything, and I have thus far scored 3 at useless CP levels all with Iron Tail:
2083 - 15/15/13 - IT/FB
2077 - 15/12/15 - IT/FB
1156 - ~40% - IT/C
I'm currently at 70 candies and should be able to walk out enough for one more evolve by the end of the event assuming no other Larv family catches. My highest-caught wild Larv is CP 560 and 40% IV, and my best hatched one is a 91%. Would you keep grinding evolutions and hold out for Bite in my position?
I have had killer luck with RNG in some other areas but it really hurts here :(
Answers
Bite /FB actually performs similarly to B/CR in most situations. However B/C will be a monster moveset in the future for various reasons.
I held out for B/Se through 5 bad evos. One was B/FB which tempted me but I knew I could come back to it.
Bite is super fast which on a Tyranitar makes you incredibly strong. Dodge all attacks and deal death. IT isn't terrible but it's not the same. It's eerily similar to Dragonite with steel wing. It will have IRS fans and they are perfectly reasonable in their logic. But in versatility of attack styles it's much better.
The 560 is around level 24 I believe but you're right, I think it's not worth evolving such a crap specimen to save 25ish candies. Personally I have tried Iron Tail and find it too slow/often NVE. But I only have my level 20 Ttars and Steelixes to assess Iron Tail so I might have a bit of a warped idea of it.
I'm thinking it may be a bad meta to evolve Tyranitar. There are really only 2 desireable attacking moveset and 1 desireable defending one. Compared to Dragonite where SW/HB is the only real deal breaker. I got burnt as well and am now trying to decide if I want to grind and try again or just wait it out and hope for better moves in the future. I don't attack enemy gyms very often anymore and usually just prestige anyways.
