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The Real Stat Math

This could lead you to ask, “Well, how did they come up with these values for Pokemon X, Y, or Z?”   Well, for the answer to that I give much thanks to the folks at Pokemon Go Gamepress for the article here: https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon-stat-change   For those that would prefer to read it here, I’ll lay it out.  We’re going to leave out IVs from here on and JUST look at how Niantic landed where they did on each Pokemon’s base stats. Using Tyranitar as our continuing example,   Tyranitar (From Pokemon Go) 251 Base Attack 212 Base Defense 200 Base Stamina   Tyranitar (From Pokemon Gen 2 Pokedex) 134...

The Real CP Math

I’m writing is to clarify something about the Combat Power (hereafter referred to as CP) measurement and make a suggestion how you make your recommendations on how to improve sub-par pokemon. Suggestion: Over the course of the show when there is a “Pick of the WEAK” segment there is inevitably a point at which the suggestion of raising the CP Cap of a pokemon.   My suggestion is that instead of saying: (INSERT THE NAME OF A TERRIBLY WEAK POKEMON) needs a higher CP Cap.   You would say: (INSERT THE NAME OF A TERRIBLY WEAK POKEMON) needs a higher (Insert name of Stat/Stats here). The reason I say this...