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That’s subjective. I vastly prefer having a base stage Pokemon or a Pokemon I can snag as early as possible to travel around. And the later (and evolved) you capture a Pokemon, the less time you spend bonding with them.You don't have to have to raise every pokemon from their base stage to grow a bond with them. Just having them around is enough to start one. Travel all over with em, fight with em, that's just as good as a humble beginning.
In fact, in literally all my playthroughs I’ve never captured a final stage. We’ve evidence that GameFreak follows the same ideology: with simplifying things so our story Pokemon can be competitive: so why take two steps back with the main feature of the games and completely contradict themselves?