Evolving Beldum
So I always have 9 incubators hatching eggs. And in the recent "Windy Weather type Pokemon" increased egg rate period, I hatched 6 Beldum and received 149 candy from the hatches. Out of the the 6, the best one was 91% IV (13/15/13).
My question is: Should I evolve the 91% IV Beldum to Metagross? I have the required candy, and am pretty impatient. I hatch eggs regularly though, and would be upset were I to hatch a 96% or higher Beldum in the next few weeks. Should I use the candy now? Or wait a while for a higher Beldum? Is 91% even decent for him?
Answers
I'm in a similar position with Bagon, with enough candy but my highest IV is also 'only' 91. I'm going to wait it out a little bit and hope for one that's 96+. I'd suggest you try to wait too! At the rate you hatch eggs you stand a decent enough chance of obtaining a better one. Or, you know, Niantic could decide to switch Metagross' moves up at some stage and you could save some TMs trying to get away from BP/FC.
I don't think Metagross is so important in the current meta (heh) that you would desperately need one asap - yes, he's really good for Jynx raids, but Jynx has a bunch of other, more obtainable, viable counters.
Sure, you could hatch a 96% soon, or even find a weather boosted 100% one tomorrow. Or maybe you spend the next six months waiting for a half decent one.
Nobody know.
And Metagross isn't a great Pokemon (it's good, but there are better ones), so will you really use it much?
I say evolve it now. 91% is good and you'll still have 26 candies left (I hope my math is correct). Hatch a few, add some rare candies and you'll have enough for another evolve if you get an even better one.
Here's my tale. I caught a 15/10/12 (84%) wild weather-boosted Beldum on Friday who was at 7000 dust (whatever high level that is). I was using my one lucky egg to evolve new hoenn pokemon in the last few hours of the double dust event, so I evolved this beldum into a 3200 or so CP Metagross. It even came out with double psychic moves, great!
Today I hatched a 98% 15/15/14 beldum. Don't regret what I did. I'll eventually evolve this one (barring the 100% coming along).