Finally hit LV37 and...
I immediately raised a few of my favorite 'mons to their level cap, as I do every level. However, this time something is different; while every level before this the "level up" button was faded out and unusable, this time it's outright gone. Is 39 the level cap for Pokemon at this point, or will the button appear again when I hit 38/39/40?
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And it doesn't affect gameplay. You can power everything up normally, two levels over your current level. At level 36, the button gets greyed out when you power a pokemon up to 38. At level 37, it disappears when you power a pokemon up to 39. Not sure what happens at 38 (I'll let you know when I get there this summer), although I suspect when you power up to 40 it disappears (at least until they raise the level cap. So it's a fluke carryover of the later effect to a level earlier.