This came up in a different thread, but I want to know in my understanding of the CP multiplier is correct. Specifically, that the amount of damage done and taken doesn't increase much for each level up after level 20-25?
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I powered up a couple of Blisseys, and a Snorlax beyond level 30, because they are hard to prestige and if they don't have high enough CP every fool teammate and his brother dump higher CP gyrados and rhydon into the gym. This kind of stops the development of the gym, versus if some of these paper tigers end up below the Blissey/Snorlax.
For attackers, lvl 20-25 seems to be a sweet spot. Their attack and defense is already almost as strong as they are going to get. Further leveling up mostly benefits only their HP, and at this level strong attackers have a pretty good chance of being able to prestige some Blissey, or Snorlax that someone left in the bottom of the gym.
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by Bruno Brezel 9 hours 59 min ago
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For attackers, lvl 20-25 seems to be a sweet spot. Their attack and defense is already almost as strong as they are going to get. Further leveling up mostly benefits only their HP
This is simply wrong. Attack, Defense and HP go linearly with a pokemon's level till 30. Beyond level 30, they still go linear with level, but the increase per level is halved.
If there is something like a "sweet spot" for attackers, there are two categories:
(a) dust and candy efficiency - sweet spot is exactly at level 30
(b) usefulness for prestiging - sweet spot is at circa CP1500, depending on your local gym scene. At what level a pokemon hits this sweet spot depends on the pokemon's spezies.
A rule of the thump about a sweet spot around level 20-25 is misleading imo.
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by laomashushu 2 hours 45 min ago
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My understanding is that attack and defense are constant, just base stats, plus IV. The effect of leveling up on attack and defense comes from the CP multiplier, which is not linear, at all. It is asymptotic to .8, or so, and there is a knee in the curve around level 25. It is already .6 at level 20 (75% maximum), and .67 at level 25. There is an article on the CP multiplier on this site, and if you search for "pokemon go damage formula" you can find the sources I arrived at this opinion from.
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by laomashushu 1 sec ago
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Also， my game play experience matches the numerology. A level 10 dragonite can't do a lot, while a level 20 one can engage anything in a gym. It's not quite as powerful as a level 30, but can be used much more flexibly. A level 30 dragonite is pretty useless as a prestiger. It is much more likely to get into a stable gym by prestiging, than it is by taking over another team's gym.
Anyway, even powering up to level 30 requires some consideration of what your purpose is.
