Pokemon Go

[Paulbot]

Read something about how far your Pokemon is along it's arc before it evolves is where it will be when it evolves, which could mean a powered up first evolution will be on par with where a second evolution would be if you evolved first.

Best advice I saw was to not evolve any starter level Pokemon until you have enough candy to evolve it to the final stage. I've found that good suggestion as have definitely found more powerful Pidgeys and Ratattas than the first one I evolved.

[1AZRAEL1]

Other thing to note is if you've powered up as much as allowed, when you level up, you can power up more

[Firestorm]

I see.
Right now I've been raising a Pidgey
I've manged to get it to CP254 but now it won't let me raise it any higher at my current trainer level (despite not being at the end of its arc) is it worth keeping it a Pidgey and powering it up more when I level up do you think? Or would I be better off evolving it into Pidgeotto/Pidgeot?

[laproblematique]

I see.
Right now I've been raising a Pidgey
I've manged to get it to CP254 but now it won't let me raise it any higher at my current trainer level (despite not being at the end of its arc) is it worth keeping it a Pidgey and powering it up more when I level up do you think? Or would I be better off evolving it into Pidgeotto/Pidgeot?

I'd recommend never powering up a Pidgey/Pidgeotto as they're just so common.

Haven't played in a while but I'm level 22 and found 3 Pidgeys today that were all CP 250+. I'd suggest just catching as many of them as you can and grinding them into Pidgeottos for now for level exp.

When it comes to Pidgeys and Ratatas, I'd rather save my stardust for eventually powering up the eventual legendarys or rare pokemon like Dragonite or Snorlax - because chances are you'll find a higher CP Pidgeot/Pidgeotto/Raticate in the wild when you're a higher level. I've got just under 140,000 Stardust at the moment - just need to catch a Dragonite!