Evolving to Gen IV and its Meta relevance

Pokemon Go has a wide variety of Pokemon that have a CP range of between 1000-2000. You could be asking yourself “why am i keeping hold of them?”

This article aims to explain which Pokemon are worth keeping hold of for the future and which just aren’t worth your precious storage space.

In the current Meta, it does feel like only a certain handful of Pokemon are relevant But there is some hope on the horizon for some of these Pokemon.

The below chart is taken from our article on Gen 1,2 & 3 Pokemon that evolve in Gen 4 here. This shows the best Pokemon to be keeping a hold of for future evolutions.

List of Gen I, II and III Pokemon that evolve in Generation IV

Currently available	Evolution reqs (expected)	Gen 4 evolution
		Pokemon	Max CP	Typing
Magneton	100	Magnezone	2996	STEEL ELECTRIC
Lickitung	50	Lickilicky	2359	NORMAL
Rhydon	100	Rhyperior	3869	GROUND ROCK
Tangela	50	Tangrowth	3110	GRASS
Electabuzz	50	Electivire	2904	ELECTRIC
Magmar	50	Magmortar	2980	FIRE
Eevee	25 Sunny	Leafeon	2849	GRASS
Eevee	25 Snow	Glaceon	2866	ICE
Porygon2	100	Porygon-Z	3072	NORMAL
Togetic	100	Togekiss	3171	FLYING FAIRY
Aipom	50	Ambipom	2218	NORMAL
Yanma	50	Yanmega	2873	BUG FLYING
Murkrow	50	Honchkrow	2566	DARK FLYING
Misdreavus	50	Mismagius	2465	GHOST
Gligar	50	Gliscor	2602	GROUND FLYING
Sneasel	50	Weavile	2815	DARK ICE
Piloswine	100	Mamoswine	3289	ICE GROUND
Kirlia	100 male ♂	Gallade	2964	PSYCHIC FIGHTING
Nosepass	50	Probopass	1863	ROCK STEEL
Dusclops	100	Dusknoir	2046	GHOST
Snorunt	50 female ♀	Froslass	1857	ICE GHOST
Roselia	50	Roserade	2783	GRASS POISON

The above chart doesn’t reference the specific evolution items that may or may not be required to achieve certain evolutions. We will update this once Gen 4 drops if required.

Meta Relevance

The Pokemon that stand out as the heavy-hitters of this Gen are the Ground & Rock type Rhyperior, the Grass type Tangrowth, the Ice type Glaceon (whose evolution method is widely speculated,) the Flying & Fairy type Togekiss, Bug & Flying type Yanmega, Weavile the Dark & Ice type, Mamoswine the Ice & Ground type, Gallade the Psychic & Fighting type and Roserade the Poison & Grass type.

Rhyperior is expected to be a stronger version of Rhydon. He has higher attack, defense and stamina and access to strong Ground & Rock type moves making him lethal to any future Flying or Fire type raid bosses.

Gallade has an interesting typing of Psychic & Fighting making him super-effective against a wide range of types. He also boasts decent attack and defense stats.

The above Pokemon all have fairly high CP (especially Rhyperior,) and should make the families involved Meta-relevant again. We see this in the case of Weavile, Mamoswine and Glaceon gaining some strong Ice types and with Roserade and Tangrowth bringing the Grass type into the fold.

The curious case of Glaceon & Leafeon

In the main Pokemon games, the player needed to level up an Eevee near a certain rock in order to achieve its newest two evolutions. However, this isn’t something that we feel could be implemented in Pokemon Go and instead think that Niantic may opt to encourage evolution of an Eevee in certain weather conditions instead Snow or Sunny.

A Pokemon to really save candies for

There is one Pokemon that is coming up in Gen 4 that you will really want to save yo your candies for Togekiss. This Pokemon is unique in that it needs Togepi candies in order to evolve Togetic, however, these candies can only be obtained by hatching Tokepi from 2Km eggs. It is a rare hatch as that. The only only other way to obtain candies would be to use precious Rare candy from raids or try to track down and catch the ever elusive Togetic (which was hailed as one of the hardest Pokemon to catch in the game so far.)

Overall Verdict

Overall however there will be an abundance of strong Pokemon coming up when Gen 4 launches. We suspect that this will be towards the end of 2018 and would urge you to keep a certain amount of candies on standby for once they are available.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.