Hello guys. I started playing again after 5-6 years, and having a blast. However, here are a lot of plant pokemon on my town so i thought in get & evolve some of them.
I am level 24, and got to evolve a Jumpluff, but it has very little CP (less than 600CP) even for a 3form evolved pokemon. It has good IVs, but i saw on a online database that it caps on 1850 CP. So i got this question, how important is really CP? Is it worth powering this little girl up?
I am not gonna lie, i find her cute, that's why i wanted to use it in gyms, and things like that.
Depends on what you want out of the game. CP is a function of attack, defense and HP of the species and its specific IVs of that pokemon.
However, CP on its own is useless. Eg. Slaking has the highest non-Mega CP in the game at 5K+ and is a piece of shit because it has a horrible fast attack.
This game is horrible at telling you whats good but generally high atk bulky pokemon tend to do best (since there no speed stat).
If you're looking to play ideally then dont power anything up unless its a good species AND has good IVs (High 3 star to 4 star).
Order of importance: Species > Moveset within that species > IVs
Since startdust is so hard to accumulate dont be afraid of keep high cp/level pokemon with bad IVs for general use while saving your dust for the best of the best. Realistically if something is a high 3 star its good enough but a lot time you will find a better one before you get enough candy to power it up to lvl 40 (let alone XL candy for lvl 50)
In short: dont power up that jumpluff or anything that isnt the best in its type (usuallu legendaries, megas, dragons/pseudolegendaries) or do it anyways because theyre cute. Stardust is not finite it just takes a long time to accumulate.