This has almost definitely been said before, but me and a friend were discussing it and I felt it'd be worth bringing up.
Unova's evolve times are really late. Like, notably so. They feel really arbitrary and all over the place, without much rhyme or reason.
Like, can someone explain why Klingklang is available at level 49? That's later than Haxorus for christ's sake, for a fairly weak mon. Meanwhile, you can go ham with a Zoroark from level 30 onwards.
Mandibuzz and Braviary are at level 54. Sure it's not terribly far off from when you get their pre-evos, but its still so pointless to have. Excadrill can just pop off at 31, with oftentimes similar level investment (i.e. not much).
It goes on. Ferrothorn? 40, not great in game. Beeheeyem? 42 for a slow ahh Psychic. Amoonguss? 39, when you can just catch it later as-is and when it sucks in game. But don't worry, Reuniclus is 41 with the useful Duosion at 32. Cinccino is shiny stone'd and you get to tail slap a ton of the game. Krookodile? 40, after a level 29 Krokorok.
The most egregious to me is Eelektrik being at level 39. Not a good mid-evo, not the final evo. A middling mid-evo, at level 39, from one of the rarest and most notoriously weak Pokemon in the game. And in BW1 you can't even catch Eelektrik as-is. You have to find and evolve Tynamo? WHY?
Hoenn has this issue too to a lesser extent, mostly because it has useful enough mid-evos and because it feels more, idk, natural to me? Like there's a clearer idea that better mons evolve later, etc. with some exceptions. But Unova just feels nonsensical, and lowkey a joke that GF pulled on us.
This has been discussed before in another thread - https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...y-levels-of-each-generations-pokemon.3676292/ - and it seems the only trend is when the mon is obtained. This evo level spread doesn't really factor in how much work it actually takes to evolve the mon, if there's a good mid-evo or not, or how useful the final evo actually is, unlike a lot of the other regions. I really wish Unova factored that in more.
Unova's evolve times are really late. Like, notably so. They feel really arbitrary and all over the place, without much rhyme or reason.
Like, can someone explain why Klingklang is available at level 49? That's later than Haxorus for christ's sake, for a fairly weak mon. Meanwhile, you can go ham with a Zoroark from level 30 onwards.
Mandibuzz and Braviary are at level 54. Sure it's not terribly far off from when you get their pre-evos, but its still so pointless to have. Excadrill can just pop off at 31, with oftentimes similar level investment (i.e. not much).
It goes on. Ferrothorn? 40, not great in game. Beeheeyem? 42 for a slow ahh Psychic. Amoonguss? 39, when you can just catch it later as-is and when it sucks in game. But don't worry, Reuniclus is 41 with the useful Duosion at 32. Cinccino is shiny stone'd and you get to tail slap a ton of the game. Krookodile? 40, after a level 29 Krokorok.
The most egregious to me is Eelektrik being at level 39. Not a good mid-evo, not the final evo. A middling mid-evo, at level 39, from one of the rarest and most notoriously weak Pokemon in the game. And in BW1 you can't even catch Eelektrik as-is. You have to find and evolve Tynamo? WHY?
Hoenn has this issue too to a lesser extent, mostly because it has useful enough mid-evos and because it feels more, idk, natural to me? Like there's a clearer idea that better mons evolve later, etc. with some exceptions. But Unova just feels nonsensical, and lowkey a joke that GF pulled on us.
This has been discussed before in another thread - https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...y-levels-of-each-generations-pokemon.3676292/ - and it seems the only trend is when the mon is obtained. This evo level spread doesn't really factor in how much work it actually takes to evolve the mon, if there's a good mid-evo or not, or how useful the final evo actually is, unlike a lot of the other regions. I really wish Unova factored that in more.
