LOL! Oh my goodness.

You better evolve that Slowpoke to Slowking! .

Though I kinda enjoy Slowbro in All-Water builds, so it's not a bad choice . Congrats on the Abra. If you put it on Daycare be reminded that it doesn't gain any EVs at all, which can be good/bad depending on how you want to use it/train it.

Moon asked me to tell you to stop sending him messages.

That made me laugh.

Bahahahahaha

To answer your question, Moon, when you use your pokemon in battle, they get "Effort points" (Or something) that helps their stat growth. Depending on the enemy they're facing, they'll get different effort points. Really fast enemies, for example, give SPEED effort points. Once your pokemon has gained a number of these effort points (I think it's 6) in a single stat, that stat will raise by 1 next time they level up. Your pokemon can only hold 510 effort points . While in daycare, the pokemon will level up their stats at the base amount and will not get any effort points, but once you pull them out of daycare and battle with them, they will start gaining all their effort points. So no, daycare doesn't really hurt the longterm growth since there is a cap on effort points anyways.

You know what, why am I even answering this off the top of my head? Go here for the facts *quick search* : http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values

Thanks. Tomorrow we will have a vote to see if I should keep the party as is, or start moving pokemon around!!

Do you mind moon if I post some of my stuff here too?
I'm playing fire-red.
My character's name is "MYBALLS", which is great because gary keeps saying "MYBALLS, nice to finally see you", or "MYBALLS, smell you later".
Anyway, my team is currently
Level 32 Bulbasaur BRETT
Level 27 Gyarados NENSUER
Level 19 rattata SPURGE
Level 19 diglett BADGENOME
Level 21 spearow GODOFWAR
Level 12 Zubat SALNAX

level 13 pidgey DTWENTYONE
level 16 Beedrill ZERO

I lost a level 20 oddish in diglett cave and am just grinding there for easy xp.
I'm soon on my way to the fourth gym.

Oh and my rules are,
no potions in battle
capture only the first in each area
faint is dead
no trading with npcs
No escaping from battles, but switch outs or escape moves are ok

Lol, now prof is on the run! XD

All this is making me consider a run as well haha. Will have to be Sapphire becaus that was my fav gen and I don't own Emerald ><

Ok, my teams is like this: Corconaw, Flaaffy, Gastly, Rattata, Zubat, and Beedrill.
Benched pokemon: Geodude, Slowpoke, Hoppip, Abra, Nidoran Female (Named HabinoBR) I need you votes, my Peeps.

What should I do?

A: Keep the team as is! Why Change anything?
B: Change out one! (Please name the new one)
C: Change out two! (Please name them)
Two Pokemon will be going into the Daycare as well. If someone is leaving the party, they will be in daycare. If no one leaves the party, I will be adding two from the bench into daycare.

Thanks for your vote!!