One of the more complex aspects of the game is powering up your Pokémon. On the surface, it seems simple. You power up you Pokémon by giving them candies and stardust, which increases their CP.Powering up a Pokémon requires fewer candies and evolving them — typically just one or two — but also requires stardust, which you can earn by catching Pokémon and by claiming Gyms. The higher you increase a Pokémon’s power, the more stardust each upgrade will require. Like evolving, powering up increases the HP and CP of your Pokémon, but at a slower rate. The half-circle meter that rests above your Pokémon shows how far along it is to reaching its full potential, which is relative to your current Trainer level — each Pokémon has a level the game does not display (for some reason), and a Pokémon’s highest potential level is your current Trainer level multiplied by 1.5 (both the trainer and Pokémon levels cap at 40).
Each time you power up a Pokémon, you increase its level by one half. If you’re close to filling the half-circle meter but your Pokémon is only at CP 535, that means your trainer level needs to be higher in order to power up your Pokémon even more.
Of course, you’re probably wondering just what exactly the CP stat means and how its calculated. The short answer is that CP represents the combat power of you Pokémon, and is the result of various hidden stats being multiplied behind the scenes. The long answer requires a bit more mathematical explanation.
CP is a bit of an esoteric value in Pokémon Go. In general, higher CP Pokémon will beat Pokémon with lower CP, but that isn’t always the case. According players who have data mined the game’s code, CP is an aggregate score based upon three separate stats — attack, defense, and stamina, as well as HP and level.
Like your Pokémon’s level, these stats are not visibly displayed in the game and are instead hidden away in the game’s code, but the Pokémon Go community has mapped them out nonetheless. Every Pokémon is naturally more effective in one stat than the others. For example, Dragonite has the highest possible attack, while Chansey has the highest possible stamina in the game, and Blastoise the highest defense. (You can check out the entire list of Pokémon in Pokémon Go and their stats on this handy fan wiki page).
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A Pokémon’s HP, level, strength, defense, and stamina all contribute to its CP value. So, increasing it’s level will increase its stats, and therefore CP. But there is yet another set of hidden stats that affects just how high its CP can reach, and how much CP it earns each time it is powered up. These are known as IVs, or individual values, which are randomized values ranging from zero to 15.
Each of the base stats (strength, defense, and stamina) has an IV that it is multiplied by each time a Pokémon is powered up, resulting in the total CP gained. IVs will differ between Pokémon of the same species, even if their base stats are identical, which is why you can wind up with vastly more powerful version of the same Pokémon at the same level, or ones with higher or lower stats than normal. There is a handy breakdown of all the equations for stats and CP available here, for those so inclined.
If this all sounds complicated, that’s because it is. Bear in mind that a Pokemon’s stat values are reliant on randomization as well, which makes creating the most powerful possible team a bit of a toss up. It becomes even more of a toss up when you factor in that movesets for Pokémon are random, and are randomly re-selected every time they evolve.
Even if you ignore the above math and spreadsheets, here’s a quick tip for making sure your Pokémon are as strong as they can be (regardless of move sets, IV values, etc.). As a general rule of thumb, try to hold off on powering up your Pokémon too much before they’re fully-evolved, as evolving is a better use of your candies. You’re also more likely to find higher CP Pokémon the higher your level, and the more you play. So powering them up doesn’t add too much value in the early stages of the game.
Plus, it’s better to power up a fully evolved Pokémon with moves you’re happy with, rather than pumping up a weaker Pokémon only to have it lose its moves when it evolves and be ineffective.
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