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Resource Conservation

In the next few months I expect my mon usage to involve:
- burning free raid passes on Lvl 1-2 raids when one just happens to be nearby at a convenient time
- once or twice a month going to a heavily populated area to battle one or two (or three) Lvl 4-5 raids
- battling and/or tossing mons in 1-2 gyms per day

I just hit Level 36 today and considered powering up my Level 36.5 mons to Level 37.5, but realized there probably isn't any need right now. For attacking gyms they're fine as-is. For defending gyms I wouldn't use them anyway. For Lvl 1-2 raids they're fine as-is. For Lvl 4 (and potentially 5) raids, the difference between 36.5 and 37.5 in large groups would be at most 1 premiere ball.

Is it sensible for someone like me who doesn't feel the need to embark on the challenge of soloing Lvl 3 raids to just sit on my dust (and TMs, if I ever get any) until the next (inevitable) change happens in the game?

Asked by haltsy6 years 8 months ago
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Probably yeah

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Personally I think 7000 and 8 candies to move up 20-25cp is too expensive, especially right now--9k and 12, ouch! I'm positive players 30 and below have no clue, I sure didn't when I was at that level looking at all the huge gym towers. In that sense, scarce stardust for me is at least scarce stardust for them

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It might be fun to use your TMs, dust and candy to build teams that can beat a lvl 3 raid boss. Adds a challenge to the day to day game play.

but pick your lvl 3 bosses carefully, some are easier than others.

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I personally don't subscribe to the "power up over level 30 religion". In most cases, the benefits are pretty minimal (very slight improvement in attack and defense effectiveness, and increases in HP at half the rate of powering up to level 30), and the cost in candy and dust is huge. I think the raid bosses are a good illustration of this. They have been powered up to level 4000, or something. So, they have gobs of HP, but hit and defend about the same as a level 30 mon, which is why we can beat them at all.

I think it is much more effective to invest in a broader range of mon, than to focus resources on a select few.

In a raid for example, I'm pretty sure two level 30 machamps would do better than one level 40. Also, having a limit of six mon on my squad doesn't force me to hyper-optimize each of the six. My problem isn't that I run out of mon before finishing my task. On raids, I time out, I generally don't run through my whole squad. For taking down a gym, usually a blissey and a couple specialists is plenty.

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Raid bosses are actually just level 40 but with a huge HP increase.

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Thanks for the information. I still think the net effect would be about the same, if the raid bosses were powered up to a very high level. I was speculating about how they were constructed, though.

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Generally, this is all true...I've said before that I think getting 6 Machamps maxed out is overkill...You'll definitely time out before all 6 even faint and this is mostly due to the maximum damage that the raid boss can possibly dish out in that 180 seconds...

Since that's the case, I'd say at most, get 4 or so to Level 30 first...At that point, see what you need or feel you need to do to round out your team.

If you have a ton of dust (usually, very very high level (38-40) people probably have more dust to spare if they didn't power up many defenders in the old meta...You can then push your 4 up to max level if you want since you have the candies and the dust...

Just looking at my old powered up defenders, I spent over 1,500,000 dust on them to sit highly in the CP gym race era...1.5 mil is a plenty of dust to spend on maxing a few key attackers now...if you want...Dust IS still meant to be used so do what makes the game more fun/enjoyable for you.

If you don't care to solo Level 3 bosses, you're probably done since soloing Level 2 bosses is a joke for Level 30 mons to begin with. Level 4 requires normally a group so you'll normally be fine assuming people know how to play the game (most actually don't)...

I'm now planning to mostly max out only my 97% mons first (DT/O Dnite, RT/SE Golem), then maybe go to my few favs/key ones that are probably going to permanent on the team...(C/SoB Eggs, Name trick Eevees) and later, when dust is more plentiful, 93% or higher mons...

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I've powered up almost nothing since the update. Just one more Machamp that I used a TM for. I'm also hoarding my TMs. Same boat as you.

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I'm largely doing the same (level 34). I am levelling up some pokemon though, but rarely beyond level 30, and then only a couple of each type so I can competently perform in any raid (present and potential future) that come my way.

I haven't tried to solo a level 3 yet, but I suspect it's a little bit beyond my current capability and it's a limitation I'm ok with.

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The prohibition on accumulating raid passes is really hard on rural players who don't have a raid in their area every day. It is also the reason high level raids are poorly attended.

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Pretty much agree, although I have 2 mons that I will always keep maxed out, so I'll spend a bit of dust on them soon when I level up to 36.

-DB/DC Dragonite first ever catch in dragon family, caught in the wild only a few days after I started playing

-98% HP Vaporeon which was the first mon I ever evolved.

Maybe not entirely practical, but hey, it's a game, and games are supposed to make you happy. Keeping these two maxed makes me happy.

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