When your trainer level goes up, do your previously owned pokemon's max levels go up as well?
It says your pokemons max level is the same as your trainer level, but if you catch a pokemon at lvl 10, and then lvl up to 20, will that pokemons max lvl still be 10 or will it update as you lvl up?
It says your pokemons max level is the same as your trainer level, but if you catch a pokemon at lvl 10, and then lvl up to 20, will that pokemons max lvl still be 10 or will it update as you lvl up?
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I do not know where you get this information PWNita, but as far as i can tell from my pokemon, the max level seems to scale UP upon leveling up. A previously max leveled pokemon will have its max level go up upon player level up.
Just think about how you could level up your starter pokemon past 3 times ...
In other words, to summarize the two posters above, PWNita actually means "yes" even though he said "no" (as the answer he gave is otherwise correct), the MAX LEVEL of a pokemon goes up as your level increase. Pokemon have their own invisible levels (that can be deduced when a pokemon is at its min level, at its current max, when you've recorded its stardust level up cost changes, or when its CP and/or stardust level up cost is exclusive to a certain level), and trainers of course have a visible level. You can level up pokemon to have a level equal to your level + 1.5 OR to the cap (either 40 or 40.5).
A pokemon's CURRENT LEVEL only rises through the level-up process, not through evolution or trainer progress or anything else. A pokemon's level determines its "CP multiplier" stat or "CPM", which is the same for all pokemon of the same level, though it multiplies different numbers (namely, each pokemon's IV's plus its base stats).
