Experience

A Pokémon's experience, or EXP. Points (experience points), is an indication of how much it has battled. Pokémon gain experience points by participating in winning battles without fainting. When a Pokémon accumulates sufficient experience points, it levels up. At certain levels, Pokémon can learn certain moves or evolve, depending on its species. Different Pokémon require different amounts of experience to gain each level; some Pokémon level up faster than others.

Experience to level

File:Exp45.png

File:Experience vs Level.jpg

This graph shows the experience required up to level 100 for each rate

The total amount of experience required for a Pokémon to reach a certain level is determined by one of several possible formulas. Each species/family of Pokémon follows a preset experience-gain formula. In the Generation III games, there are 6 formulas, and thus 6 different level-rate "types".

To contrast these types, refer to this graph of levels 1 to 45 where:

• Erratic is black.
• Fast is green.
• Medium Fast is yellow.
• Medium Slow is purple.
• Slow is brown.
• Fluctuating is blue.

Where e is the cumulative total amount of experience required to reach level n (the experience required is truncated). The formulas are:

• Eratic: ("erratic"); max value = 600,000; uses the following piecewise function:

• Fast: max value = 800,000;

• Medium Fast: (also known as Cubic); max value = 1,000,000 ;

• Medium Slow: e = (Also known as Parabolic or Fading); max value = 1,059,860;

• Slow: max value = 1,250,000;

• Fluctuating: max value = 1,640,000; uses the following piecewise function:

File:Fluctuating.png

(Max value is the amount of experience required to reach level 100.)

Due most likely to the issue of speed when using these formulas, the GBA games will simply use a lookup table for each value of any type instead of computing them. Because of this, these formulas are not actually part of the game mechanics.

Experience table

Level Erratic Fast Medium Fast Medium Slow Slow Fluctuating 1 0 0 0 01 0 0 2 15 6 8 9 10 4 3 52 21 27 57 33 13 4 122 51 64 96 80 32 5 237 100 125 135 156 65 6 406 172 216 179 270 112 7 637 274 343 236 428 178 8 942 409 512 314 640 276 9 1326 583 729 419 911 393 10 1800 800 1000 560 1250 540 11 2369 1064 1331 742 1663 745 12 3041 1382 1728 973 2160 967 13 3822 1757 2197 1261 2746 1230 14 4719 2195 2744 1612 3430 1591 15 5737 2700 3375 2035 4218 1957 16 6881 3276 4096 2535 5120 2457 17 8155 3930 4913 3120 6141 3046 18 9564 4665 5832 3798 7290 3732 19 11111 5487 6859 4575 8573 4526 20 12800 6400 8000 5460 10000 5440 21 14632 7408 9261 6458 11576 6482 22 16610 8518 10648 7577 13310 7666 23 18737 9733 12167 8825 15208 9003 24 21012 11059 13824 10208 17280 10506 25 23437 12500 15625 11735 19531 12187 26 26012 14060 17576 13411 21970 14060 27 28737 15746 19683 15244 24603 16140 28 31610 17561 21952 17242 27440 18439 29 34632 19511 24389 19411 30486 20974 30 37800 21600 27000 21760 33750 23760 31 41111 23832 29791 24294 37238 26811 32 44564 26214 32768 27021 40960 30146 33 48155 28749 35937 29949 44921 33780 34 51881 31443 39304 33084 49130 37731 35 55737 34300 42875 36435 53593 42017 36 59719 37324 46656 40007 58320 46656 37 63822 40522 50653 43808 63316 50653 38 68041 43897 54872 47846 68590 55969 39 72369 47455 59319 52127 74148 60505 40 76800 51200 64000 56660 80000 66560 41 81326 55136 68921 61450 86151 71677 42 85942 59270 74088 66505 92610 78533 43 90637 63605 79507 71833 99383 84277 44 95406 68147 85184 77440 106480 91998 45 100237 72900 91125 83335 113906 98415 46 105122 77868 97336 89523 121670 107069 47 110052 83058 103823 96012 129778 114205 48 115015 88473 110592 102810 138240 123863 49 120001 94119 117649 109923 147061 131766 50 125000 100000 125000 117360 156250 142500 51 131324 106120 132651 125126 165813 151222 52 137795 112486 140608 133229 175760 163105 53 144410 119101 148877 141677 186096 172697 54 151165 125971 157464 150476 196830 185807 55 158056 133100 166375 159635 207968 196322 56 165079 140492 175616 169159 219520 210739 57 172229 148154 185193 179056 231491 222231 58 179503 156089 195112 189334 243890 238036 59 186894 164303 205379 199999 256723 250562 60 194400 172800 216000 211060 270000 267840 61 202013 181584 226981 222522 283726 281456 62 209728 190662 238328 234393 297910 300293 63 217540 200037 250047 246681 312558 315059 64 225443 209715 262144 259392 327680 335544 65 233431 219700 274625 272535 343281 351520 66 241496 229996 287496 286115 359370 373744 67 249633 240610 300763 300140 375953 390991 68 257834 251545 314432 314618 393040 415050 69 267406 262807 328509 329555 410636 433631 70 276458 274400 343000 344960 428750 459620 71 286328 286328 357911 360838 447388 479600 72 296358 298598 373248 377197 466560 507617 73 305767 311213 389017 394045 486271 529063 74 316074 324179 405224 411388 506530 559209 75 326531 337500 421875 429235 527343 582187 76 336255 351180 438976 447591 548720 614566 77 346965 365226 456533 466464 570666 639146 78 357812 379641 474552 485862 593190 673863 79 367807 394431 493039 505791 616298 700115 80 378880 409600 512000 526260 640000 737280 81 390077 425152 531441 547274 664301 765275 82 400293 441094 551368 568841 689210 804997 83 411686 457429 571787 590969 714733 834809 84 423190 474163 592704 613664 740880 877201 85 433572 491300 614125 636935 767656 908905 86 445239 508844 636056 660787 795070 954084 87 457001 526802 658503 685228 823128 987754 88 467489 545177 681472 710266 851840 1035837 89 479378 563975 704969 735907 881211 1071552 90 491346 583200 729000 762160 911250 1122660 91 501878 602856 753571 789030 941963 1160499 92 513934 622950 778688 816525 973360 1214753 93 526049 643485 804357 844653 1005446 1254796 94 536557 664467 830584 873420 1038230 1312322 95 548720 685900 857375 902835 1071718 1354652 96 560922 707788 884736 932903 1105920 1415577 97 571333 730138 912673 963632 1140841 1460276 98 583539 752953 941192 995030 1176490 1524731 99 591882 776239 970299 1027103 1212873 1571884 100 600000 800000 1000000 1059860 1250000 1640000 1: -54 in Generation I

Experience underflow glitch

In Red and Blue, level 1 Pokémon with the "Medium Slow" formula have -54 experience. However, the only way to capture such Pokémon is the Mew glitch. If this Pokémon is then sent to battle and gains less than 54 experience, the game will treat its experience as a very high positive number, therefore it changes the Pokémon's level to 100 instantly. This glitch has been exploited in the Pokémon Blue TAS.

Experience gain in battle

The amount of experience a Pokémon will yield when defeated is simpler. This uses only one formula: File:Exp.png, where:

• a is equal to 1 under normal circumstances.
• b represents the base experience yield of the species
• L is the level of the fainted Pokémon

The variable a is increased by 0.5 for each of either following situations:

• the Pokémon's OT value is not equal to the current Trainer's
• the battle is an NPC Trainer battle.

If the Pokémon is from a country other than the native one of the player, it will gain an additional multiplier of 0.2×, resulting in 1.7× experience for foreign Pokémon. If the Pokémon is holding a Lucky Egg, the experience gained will be multiplied by a further 1.5×.

When multiple Pokémon participate in the same battle, the experience yield is divided evenly among the participants. (A fainted Pokémon that participated in battle will not take up a share of the experience yield, so if only one Pokémon survives the battle, that Pokémon will receive the full yield.) Any participants with an experience-affecting held item will receive the boost in addition to their fraction of the yield.

See also

• List of Pokémon by effort value yield (contains a list of base experience yields)