So I'm sitting here forcing Torchic and Chespin to stay their cute little selves... and I was wondering if anyone else waits to evolve their Pokemon or not...

Well do ya? If so, why? (I suspect a very specific response here... gut feeling... but I could be wrong.)

I had more detailed options in the poll but I didn't want to speak on anyone's behalf.... so here's a list of reasons one might choose a given response...

Never. Stronger evolved Pokemon are the best.
Never. Who cares about holding back?
Sometimes. If I find one form is nicer looking.
Sometimes. When I'm waiting for the moves I want.
Always. I like playing with the weaker forms for challenge.
Always. I don't like most evolved forms.
URL to share (right click and copy)

Never, they are meant to evolve, it's inhumane to stunt their growth.

Occasionally I let them get to an even level to see what moves they learn in the mean time, But i'm an impatient person so I can't be bothered pressing B most of the time.

I used to hold them back a while because they learn new moves at lower levels if you keep them from evolving. But once they had learned what I wanted them to, I'd let them transform.

There's a few pokemon out there who have alternate movesets to their evolutions- These are usually the kinds of pokemon that evolve from stones or trading or some other non-levelling up method though.

If there's a pokemon like that and there's a move I want & can only access by holding them back, I'll do so, but generally speaking I let them evolve whenever.

@nate38

That's how I'm handling mine right now. I just want Torchic to learn Flamethrower which isn't even learned later on. As for Chespin... I don't know what his moveset even is.... so I'm just kinda hoping for the best.

Yeah I try to hold off until it seems they've learned some awesome moves. Thankfully you can always teach them moves at the move tutor though.

I'm also in the camp of only holding back for moves.

Other than that I always let them evolve.

@DrFinkelstein

You can always check Bulbapedia or similar. That's what I used to do.

@Shadowlink

Does Bulba have movesets for X & Y? I'm trying to withhold seeing the further evolutions of Chespin right now also. Will that be possible? At Serebii they always have the evolutions visible.

Bulbapedia doesn't have them yet. Serebii is most updated so far and Smogon is still doing indepth research of everything. Will be a few months before everything starts formulating.

@Pokefreak911

That's surely the downside of the worldwide release. We're all in the dark atm.

gojira said:

I'm also in the camp of only holding back for moves.

Other than that I always let them evolve.

Same.

I haven't held one back yet, but I can't say for sure that I won't.

I kept my Oddish and Oddish forever. It was cuter. Period.

Mostly let them evolve, but NEVER Haunter. Aka the best Pokemon.

Man, why? Gengar is a beast.

I can only hold out on evolutions for so long before I go "Man, this Kadabra is nowhere near as good as the Alakazam he'll turn into."

I usually evolve those with stone evos as soon as possible. That's a difference for me between those kinds of pokes and others.

Yes, all of my Pokemon in Platinum were withheld from evolution... because I stopped playing.

Ba dum ching!

@PogueSquadron

Indeed, he looks like an ugly beast. Haunter, meanwhile, is a design of joy and brilliance. Also he's all like "Haunter HAUNTer!" And what does Gengar say? Gengar. Ptth, pathetic.

Only for Pichu and a second Quilava.