Pokémon GO/Pokémon

CP (Combat Power)

The higher CP a Pokémon has, the stronger it will be during battle. You can increase the CP of your Pokémon by giving it a Power Up. This value is based on the Pokémon's Attack, Defense, and Stamina.

Level

Like the trainer each Pokémon has a level represented by the white semi-circle near the top of their screen. The max level is 40, requiring two Power Ups to gain one level. All wild Pokémon are caught at whole levels, never at half levels.

Name

You can customize the Pokémon's name to a specific name, up to 12 characters long. You can user letters, numbers, and symbols. These names can be [[Pokémon GO/Pokémon storage#Searching|searched] for from the storage screen.

HP (Hit Points)

The more hit points a Pokémon has, the more damage it can sustain during a battle without fainting.

Type

Each species has a primary and sometimes a secondary associated type. During battle, strengths and weaknesses of each type will impact how effective attacks are against the opponent.

Weight/Height

Each species has an average weight and height. Some Pokémon captured may be significantly bigger or smaller than these sizes, and the game will label them as XS or XL.

Stardust and Candy

For more details on this topic, see Pokémon GO/Stardust and Candy.

Total stardust on the account is shown, for use when powering up a Pokémon. The Pokémon family specific candies are also shown here, for use when powering up or evolving a Pokémon.

Power Up

Powering Up a Pokémon requires Stardust and Candy to increase a Pokémon's level stats. This needs to be done twice to increase a Pokémon's level by one. As this sometimes raises a Pokémon's HP, it can be used as an alternate method to revive a Pokémon instead of using a Revive.

Level	Stardust	Candy
1	200	1
2	200	1
3	400	1
4	400	1
5	600	1
6	600	1
7	800	1
8	800	1
9	1000	1
10	1000	1

Level	Stardust	Candy
11	1300	2
12	1300	2
13	1600	2
14	1600	2
15	1900	2
16	1900	2
17	2200	2
18	2200	2
19	2500	2
20	2500	2

Level	Stardust	Candy
21	3000	3
22	3000	3
23	3500	3
24	3500	3
25	4000	3
26	4000	4
27	4500	4
28	4500	4
29	5000	4
30	5000	4

Level	Stardust	Candy
31	6000	6
32	6000	6
33	7000	8
34	7000	8
35	8000	10
36	8000	10
37	9000	12
38	9000	12
39	10000	15
40	10000	15

Evolve

Certain Pokémon can be evolved. If so, you will see an Evolve button with a Candy cost and sometimes an evolution item requirement. Each Pokémon species that can be evolved has a different cost associated with the evolution. Some also have a distance requirement, where you need to walk with that Pokémon as your buddy for a number of km. Once you have met the evolution requirements, you can click the Evolve button. You will be awarded 500XP and 1 Candy for each evolution.

Using a Lucky Egg and then evolving as many Pokémon as possible while it's active is a very fast way to gain XP.

Eevee

Name	Evolves to
Rainer	Vaporeon
Pyro	Flareon
Sparky	Jolteon
Sakura	Espeon
Tamao	Umbreon

Eevee's have 5 different Pokémon they can evolve into. You can use a naming trick to get specific evolutions. Change your Eevee's name to the one in this table, and it'll evolve to the associated Pokémon. Once the evolved form is in your Pokédex, this naming trick will no longer work. An Eevee with any other name will evolve to either Vaporeon, Flareon, or Jolteon randomly. To get an Espeon or Umberon, you should select the Eevee as your buddy and walk 10km with it. Keeping it as your buddy, if you then evolve it in the day you'll get an Espeon, or at night an Umbreon.

Tyrogue

Highest stat	Evolves to
Attack	Hitmonlee
Defense	Hitmonchan
Stamina	Hitmontop

Tyrogue can evolve into 3 different Pokémon based its stats. When appraising, check the highest stat to predict the final evolution. If two stats are both the highest, the evolved Pokémon will be random between the two options. If all three stats are the same, it could evolve into any of the three Pokémon.

Wurmple

Wurmple can evolve into either Silcoon or Cascoon. The evolution is fully random, with no way to predict or control the evolution.

Nincada

Also has a specialized evolution in the main series games. It is currently not available in Pokémon GO.

Moves

For more details on this topic, see Pokémon GO/Moves.

Each Pokémon has two moves for use during Gym battles, a quick move and a special move. Each species has two quick moves and up to four special moves available. The two moves each Pokémon gets are random and cannot be changed, except by evolution which will assign a new set of moves.

Context

At the bottom right, there's a context menu with a few additional options available.

Items

Use items directly from item storage on this Pokémon, such as Potions, or Rare Candies.

Favorite

Mark a Pokémon as a favorite. There is a special sort for finding favorite Pokémon. These are also protected from accidental trading or transfer.

Appraise

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Ask your team leader for detailed information about your Pokémon. This will provide information about the Pokémon's Hidden attributes.

Transfer

You can transfer unwanted Pokémon to Professor Willow for 1 Candy. This is effectively giving away the Pokémon as it cannot be undone.

Hidden attributes

Each Pokémon has a hidden Stamina, Attack and Defense stat that is represented in the game by their CP and HP. Each of these hidden stats is a combination of the species' base value plus a value specific to the Pokémon (IV). Each of the 3 IVs can can vary from 0 to 15. HP and CP are rounded down to the nearest integer with a minimum of 10.

$Attack_{level}=(Attack_{Species}+Attack_{IV})\times CpMultiplier_{level}$

$Defense_{level}=(Defense_{Species}+Defense_{IV})\times CpMultiplier_{level}$

$HP_{level}=(Stamina_{Species}+Stamina_{IV})\times CpMultiplier_{level}$

$CP_{level}={\frac {Attack\times {\sqrt {Defense}}\times {\sqrt {HP}}}{10}}$

CpMultiplier

CP Multiplier is a hard-coded value in the game for each level. Since powering up goes in half-level increments, the half level CpMultiplier must be calculated. When looking up the relevant multiplier, use the Pokémon's level, not your trainer level. After level 30, CP Multiplier gains per power up are halved.

$CpMultiplier_{level+0.5}={\sqrt {(CpMultiplier_{level}^{2}+CpMultiplier_{level+1}^{2})/2}}$

Level	CpMultiplier	$CpMultiplier^{2}$
1	0.0939999968	0.0088359994
2	0.1663978696	0.027688251
3	0.2157324702	0.0465404987
4	0.2557200491	0.0653927435
5	0.2902498841	0.0842449952
6	0.3210875988	0.1030972461
7	0.3492126763	0.1219494933
8	0.3752355874	0.140801746
9	0.3995672762	0.1596540082
10	0.4225000143	0.1785062621
11	0.4431075454	0.1963442968
12	0.4627983868	0.2141823468
13	0.481684953	0.2320203939
14	0.499858439	0.249858459
15	0.5173939466	0.267696496
16	0.5343543291	0.285534549
17	0.5507926941	0.3033725919
18	0.5667545199	0.3212106859
19	0.5822789073	0.3390487259
20	0.5974000096	0.3568867715

Level	CpMultiplier	$CpMultiplier^{2}$
21	0.6121572852	0.3747365418
22	0.6265671253	0.3925863625
23	0.6406529546	0.4104362082
24	0.6544356346	0.4282859999
25	0.6679340005	0.446135829
26	0.6811649203	0.4639856487
27	0.6941436529	0.4818354109
28	0.7068842053	0.4996852798
29	0.7193990946	0.5175350573
30	0.7317000031	0.5353848946
31	0.7377694845	0.5443038123
32	0.7437894344	0.5532227228
33	0.749761045	0.5621416246
34	0.7556855083	0.5710605874
35	0.7615638375	0.5799794786
36	0.7673971653	0.5888984093
37	0.7731865048	0.5978173713
38	0.7789327502	0.6067362294
39	0.7846369743	0.6156551815
40	0.7903000116	0.6245741084