Well I imagine the sheer number of first stages that appear relative to second and third stages means that it would be really difficult to make up for drop in candy from catchingtransferring first stage pokmon with an increase in candy for catching later stages . If you made it 234 for catching any species then it ' d be a huge nerf in candy earned , even 246 would be the same . At a rough guess you ' d need something like 21020 to even be in the same ballpark as the amount of candy currently earned off common pokmon , and with rare pokmon it ' s just be a net nerf I ' ve caught like 10 Dratini , but 0 Dragonair . Your suggested numbers would make it even more difficult for someone like me to acquire a Dragonite when getting one of those is already far away in the future for me . Plus I don ' t see any problem with power creep when it ' s accessible to all players and particularly when it would primarily benefit super common pokmon is anyone really going to complain about someone coming to gyms with an army of super charged Pidgeots because they chose not to ignore a few Pidgeotto ?