Well, here's a little story: I was playing Pokemon Black for the first time, and I didn't/couldn't use the internet to look up any aspect of the game. That being said, I got the Larvesta egg from an NPC, and hatched Larvesta. I had no idea what Larvesta would evolve into, so I slapped an EXP share onto it and basically forgot about it for the rest of my playthrough. I took that little Larvesta all the way to the E4, and by then it was a pretty high level (from the exp share) and I had given up trying to make it evolve. (I had tried fire stones, friendship, etc.) So I dumped it in the PC and replaced it with a stronger 'mon to help me beat the E4. Thing is, I was pretty terrible at the game back then, and I struggled for a long time with the Elite Four. In frustration, I took my Larvesta out of my PC and basically just grinded it up to just a few levels below that fabled Lvl. 59.
I decided to go up against the E4 once more, but this time with my Larvesta, (which was a higher level than anything else I had, but still pretty bad, considering the base stats), and I got surprisingly lucky against Caitlyn, and Larvesta evolved into Volcarona. You have to remember, at this point I thought that Larvesta was just a weird evolutionary-less 'mon who's niche was its unique typing, so when it evolved into this amazing fire moth, it was the most glorious feeling. I beat the Elite Four, and consecutively, N with my Volcarona, and afterwards I basically only used Volc. Volcarona was the first Pokemon I ever got to level 100, and is also one of my favourite Pokemon today.
Side Note: I remember finding the wild Volcarona in Relic Castle, and taking enormous joy in the fact that my Volcarona was many levels higher and was able to easily 1v1 the wild Volcarona.
I decided to go up against the E4 once more, but this time with my Larvesta, (which was a higher level than anything else I had, but still pretty bad, considering the base stats), and I got surprisingly lucky against Caitlyn, and Larvesta evolved into Volcarona. You have to remember, at this point I thought that Larvesta was just a weird evolutionary-less 'mon who's niche was its unique typing, so when it evolved into this amazing fire moth, it was the most glorious feeling. I beat the Elite Four, and consecutively, N with my Volcarona, and afterwards I basically only used Volc. Volcarona was the first Pokemon I ever got to level 100, and is also one of my favourite Pokemon today.
Side Note: I remember finding the wild Volcarona in Relic Castle, and taking enormous joy in the fact that my Volcarona was many levels higher and was able to easily 1v1 the wild Volcarona.