Pokemon for Beginners Part 3

How do Pokemon Grow Stronger.

   As you progress through the game, and battle, your Pokemon will gain Experience Ponits, you can gain experience points by three simple ways:

   a) Defeating Wild Pokemon, when you faint a wild Pokemon, all tof your Pokemons involved in the fight will recieve a share of the experience earned. In Generation 6, you also gain experience by capturing Pokemon.

   b) Battling Trainers, usually battling trainer Pokemons give a bit more Experience Points than just battling with wild ones, but it's also a bit more challenging.

   c) Leaving your Pokemon at the Day Care, when you leave your Pokemon at the Day Care, they'll get experience points based on the amount of steps you take, the more steps you take, the more experience your Pokemon get, this has a small drawback though, they charge you 100 Poke for evey Level your Pokemon grows and the base rate is 100 Poke.

   When they gather a certain amount of experience, your Pokemon will Level Up, when Leveling Up your Pokemons Stats grow, the stats of your Pokemons are divided into HP (Hit Points), Atk (Attack), Def (Defense), Spe. Atk (Special Attack), Spe. Def (Special Defense) and Speed, This Stats are the values your Pokemon has in that field, the higher the value the better the Stat. As well as this, your Pokemon may also learn new moves, a Pokemon can only have 4 moves at a time, and when learning a new one, you can choose whether to keep your old moves or to delete an old to make space.

   Some Pokemon when reached a determined Level will evolve, but they can also evolve by performing certain special actions, or when met a specific criteria, when Pokemon evolve they gain a big boost to their Stats as well as changing form, you can of course cancel the evolution for some reasons, for example a basic Pokemon will learn a certain move at a lower level than its evolution, but other times only the evolutions get certain moves, it is up to you to decide if you want or not to evolve. and also, sometimes the evolution gain another typing to them, but since I haven't told you what Typings are, please read this next article: Pokemon Typing Matchups