Power Progression

There are many ways you can plan on your pokémon build and you can see them in detail in many other pages of this wiki, but if you want to understand deeply whats behind the courtains to define how the progression works, you should read this one!

Concepts
To understand everything is important to understand some concepts that controls the catch up and gains


 * Stats: the value we see; that raises when leveling up;
 * Level: simply the amount of times you raised your exp to the max, this doesn't define necessarily your power, stats do;
 * Mods: its the "base stats" that define how each pokémon gain certain stats, you can check them in bulbapedia as we use the game's default in the vast majority of the pokémons;
 * Power Level (PL): this is how I call the sum of all your pokémons stats divided by the mods of its stats; This is a way to measure "effort/grind" placed into training that pokémon, regardless of the type, evolution etc.
 * Global Cap: its a lower average of every players online's PL;
 * Personal Cap: This is a bonus (despite the name given), that helps to define your personal Gains, you gain this related to important positions in the IC story, for example being a high professional competitior in the league (higher league ranking), having important villainic position/ranks etc; However the PC is always limited to half the actual global cap, One other classic thing that increase this is the amount of pokémon knowledge you have;


 * Personal Gain; You can see how good your gains are, by checking your Power Rating (Trainer Menu, Status button), the logic is simple, higher rating = lower gains. This is defined by PL-PC and compared to the cap. this can vary between 0.1 and 5x (EXP and other progressions)

Under-Capped Bonuses
There is also some concept some of you been crazy about, for not understanding exactly and abandoning high level pokémons thinking they are weaker or stronger then others, while comparing just levels, well, calm down; that happens because theres a tiny variation during the period of training your pokémon is under-capped (when their PL is lower then the global Cap) super weak pokémon usually receive a "really tiny" boost, that makes them reach the lower average faster, even in lower levels, but, the moment they reach the cap, their gains reduces, and the moment they grow near as strong as the others, even at lower level, this new pokémon's exp gains are drastically reduced, and he will struggle the same to increase;

While you are under-capped, its possible to reach the max exp gain (5x) if you have active score, this way if you have RPed recently, you can catch up to the lower average even faster;

Focus Training
Now, knowing that, to measure how strong players are, and measure how high their gains should be, we look at STATS and not Levels, its safe to move on and start testing and balancing the Focus Training mechanic, learn/teachable knowledge that lets you train specific stats, (Atk, S.Atk, Def, S.Def, Spd); the rate each pokémon will gain stats this way is defined by their mods in that stat, and their gains, so stronger they are, slower they will gain; Focused training will stop working once that pokémon PL reach 3x higher then the global cap; (these numbers can reduce/increase as we test and find the needs). Focused training won't proc if you go afk, but the need of keep positive score isn't needed (we are trying to prevent the need of useless rp posts everywhere) To learn Focus Training from someone you need 100 TRPP (don't need specific perk), but to self learn Focus training you need to be a newbie trainer.

You might be wondering if leveling up is still needed, the answer is yes, for learning moves and raising HP, since you can't focus train HP. some pokémon that is heavily HP focused might not be too smart to focus train a lot, and instead focus on level types of trainings; while others might be smart to focus train, or for players that don't want to evolve their pokémon etc etc. This opens up a huge variety of builds, also a good path for best friends that don't want to lose their actual moveset etc. Well, grab your bulbapedia and start planning!

(Ps you can learn each status focus training individually, and will teach/learn them individually aswell)

(Ps2 to use focus training click on its knowledge, press Use and choose wich status to focus, then simply sendout your pokemon and face your trainer and press space.) also tldr obvious protip: If you focus train too much, it will be harder to level up since your gains will reduce as you grow stronger, so make sure you know what you are doing! build wise!