[zetazeta]

Originally Posted by EX-R

From what I read, the max of that needle is based on your trainer level. As your level increases, so does that room between the point and the max.

If you want to get into the nitty gritty...

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To expand on this, it is because it is based on the pokemon's level, which is capped by the 2*Trainer's level +1 (if I'm level 15, the maximum pokemon level is 31). Pokemon in this game come with IV (individual value) which determine it's stats and CP. CP is a combination of 3 things: attack, defence, and stamina (HP).

To check your pokemon's IV's, I used this spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...47sPME2Uk/copy

The quick and dirty version is you want the pokemon with the highest potential. High CP, low upgrade costs. So if you have 2 with the exact same CP, but one costs 1900 to power up while the other costs 2200 to power up, you want the 1900 one because you can get that one to a higher max CP.

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This is because stardust costs for upgrade are based on pokemon levels, so the difference in power up stardust costs means the two pokemon are different levels. Maybe the 1900 pokemon is level 32 and the 2200 one is level 33. If they have the same CP, it means the lower power up cost pokemon has higher IV's. It's best to just use the spreadsheet to find out the exact IV's of your pokemon since you want to

In addition for IV and CP, the movesets are extremely important a nidoking/queen is only good if it has poison jab as the main attack, otherwise its attack is very weak.