Leveling and Evolving

[SilverDragon]

1. Evolving

Go to a Pokedex site, check a Pokedex guide book, or use your own knowledge from the games to find out how your Pokemon evolves. Serebii.net or Smogon.com are my favorites.

If it requires a special item, check the shops. If the pokemon needs to evolve in a certain place, just bring them to one of the designated substitute areas.

If a Pokemon needs happiness, then make it happy through your game. When you think it's happy enough to evolve, then PM an admin or a mod with a short summary of how the Pokemon has been treated. They will then look over your Pokemon's level, personality, and decide if it can evolve.


2. Leveling Up

Pokemon will not gain experience in the numbered sense, but will simply level up as determined by the following chart. Only staffers can give out the final verdict on levels gained!

If the Pokemon you fight is a:

Lower Level	You will gain one Level at Max
Same Level	You will gain 1-2 Levels
Higher Level	You will gain 2 Levels and an additional Level for every 2 Levels higher they are
Type Advantage	Gain one Level per disadvantage toward you.
Type Disadvantage	Minus one Level* per advantage you have.

*You will never “level down” (gain a negative level), this is used to determine how many levels you MIGHT gain.

So if you have a Level 10 Gligar fighting a Level 15 Lapras and win, you would gain 2 levels for it being a higher opponent, PLUS 2 more levels for being four Levels ahead of you, PLUS 3 more Levels for having type disadvantages: Ground vs Ice, Flying vs Ice, Gound vs Water. For a total of 7 levels gained in one fight. Not bad, huh?

However, if you have a Level 50 Spiritomb fighting a Level 49 Raticate, you would gain no levels as the Normal type immunity takes you to Zero levels gained (one Level minus a possible one level gained).

Type immunities precede dual type weaknesses. So a Spiritomb vs a Machoke would gain no type advantage levels even though it is part Dark, because its Ghost typing makes it immune to the Fighting type. However, if the Machoke used Foresight to rob Spiritomb of its immunity, then it would gain a bonus level.

If you are fighting an opponent that is more than five levels below you, you will not gain any levels, even if the type disadvantages would give you some. This may not apply in a Player vs Player battle.

Please ask if you are unsure about anything.

[SilverDragon]

The formula o find out how many levels you might gain is:

(Opponents level - Your level)= X

if X equals less than -5, you will not gain any levels regardless of other bonuses.

If X equals -5 to -1, you will gain one level before bonuses/penalties are added.

If X equals 0, you will gain one to two levels, before bonuses/penalties are added.

If this equals 1 or greater you will gain two levels plus (X/2 rounded down to the nearest whole number), before bonuses/penalties are added.

So if you are level 10 and your opponent is level 7 it would be:
(7-10)=-3. One level gained.

So if you are level 10 and your opponent is level 10 it would be:
(10-10)=0. You would gain one level.

So if you are level 10 and your opponent is level 15 it would be:
(15-10)=5 so you would gain two levels plus
+ (5/2)=2.5, rounded down = 2
So in total, you would gain four levels


Now for the bonuses and penalties. The above formuals are to find the "Base levels gained", but then you take that base and add/subtract the typing bonuses/penalties.

The Bonuses:
For every type the opponent has that is "Super Effective" against one of yours, you will gain a +1. be sure to pair up each type if they are dual typed!

Your Type 1/Opponents Type 1
Your Type 1/Opponents Type 2
Your Type 2/Opponents Type 1
Your Type 2/Opponents Type 2

For Penalties:
For every type that you have that is "Super Effective" against one of your opponents, you will gain a -1. be sure to pair up each type if they are dual typed!

Your Type 1/Opponents Type 1
Your Type 1/Opponents Type 2
Your Type 2/Opponents Type 1
Your Type 2/Opponents Type 2

If you or your opponent has a type or ability that grants them an immunity to a type of move, that takes precedence! So Even though Gengar's Poison typing gives him a weakness to the Ground type, his ability Levitate makes him immune to it, so he would not gain a +1 for a Poison VS Ground.

However, f the typing or ability is suppressed during the battle
they will gain the bonus. So if Gengar is in a battle with a Ground Pokemon with Mold Breaker (Lets the opponent bypass abilities), he would then be vulnerable to ground type moves and would gain the Poison VS Ground Bonus.

It is recommended that you add all positive values first, then add any negative values. If you end with a negative value, you will simply gain no levels. You will not level down.