In your opinion what's the best way...
Levelling a pet from 1-25?
or
Jump levels by catching higher level pets?
In your opinion what's the best way...
Levelling a pet from 1-25?
or
Jump levels by catching higher level pets?
Both systems work!
Just make sure you have the required gym badge, or else your pokemon won't obey you.
Adder i choose you!
I prefer leveling, but that's just years of ingrained PokeTraining kicking in. Personally, I train extra pets to sell!
But both should work, since Battle Pets don't have EVs and moves that can only be learned at x level etc.
I also just levelled my pets as well. I have 2 lvl 16 pets and a lvl 17 and I really enjoy levelling them and it doesn't take long. I recommend levelling because in all of those pet battles you are more likely to encounter a rare quality pet that you can use for your team
At the moment, I'm leveling, because none of the rares I catch are for pets I want to fight with.
I'm not really fussed for rares.....
I prefer to level a pet from 1 to maximum by hand. I don't think it has ANY effect on their final stats in Warcraft, but it's a holdover from my Pokemon days.
In Pokemon, a hand-leveled Pokemon would always have better stats than a wild-caught of the same level.
I levelled both ways my team consists, of my Onyxia Whelp (the anniversary one) levelled from 1-25, a Lava crab (rare) which I caught and it was level 15 ish, and a sporeling sprout (rare) which was around the level 18 mark I believe, (of course I have a few pets around those levels too that I had levelled before replacing them with the ones I caught).
So really it makes not much difference, just what you prefer
I'm also not really worried about their quality, common/uncommon is fine for me, as I am more a pet collector rather than super into the actual battling side of things
Someone catch a lowbie rare, level it up then compare it to a captured high level pet. Theorycrafters, we need you!
Wish I had more high levels but just have my main team which are all lvl 19 now. However I do have a lvl 1 toad that is rare and 1 that is poor quality. The rare has 11 more health, 2 more attack power and 3 more attack speed so I can really see that making a difference in higher levels
Yep it does make quite a significant difference. I'd say it's important to have your main team at least all at "uncommon" qualities, if you don't have the patience to hunt a rare. Difference between uncommon and rare isn't too bad, and uncommon will make your battles/capturing go by much easier. If you intend to take part in pvp pet battles though, I'd go for all rares.. cos a lot of the trainers out there are.
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OT though: up to personal preference. As others have mentioned stat differences only occur between levels/quality of pet. A freshly caught level 20 uncommon Brown Marmot has the same stats as an uncommon Brown Marmot levelled to 20 from 1.