Thread by @tesseralis

speaking of useless #pokemon trivia, here's a graph comparing base stat totals to base exp yield

The high outliers are the chansey and audino lines (who are big ol' bundles of EXP), and waaay to the top right is the giant space hand you fight at the end of Sword and Shield.

Otherwise, it seems to be mostly based on the EV yield of the pokemon (roughly based on what evolution stage the pokemon is). BUT there are two slopes/lines for pokemon with 3 EVs and I can't figure out why.

most of the outliers can be explained by being alternate forms that come with a stat boost (but yield the same exp as the base form); Slaking has high stats but can only act every other turn; the Chansey line and Audino are meant to be exp treasure troves I think?

Poochyena, Zigzagoon, and Wurmple are early mons in Ruby/Sapphire so they probably have it set a certain way. The Archen line has a similar thing to Slaking where their ability is a hindrance to their good stats. The last remaining one is Flittle which... I don't know

I still have no idea why there are the two ratios used for , but the ~2.22 ratio seems to not be used past Gen VII, with one exception...

...Wooloo.

WAIT I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT

All the Pokemon who who have the ~2 ratio are available in Scarlet/Violet. I think gamefreak decided to change the ratio in Gen 8 for the new pokemon, and applied that change to all the pokemon retroactively in Gen 9!

Yup... the only pokemon not in the Paldea dex are legendaries / starters that we know are encoded in the game data. I expect as mons are added in DLC and such, we'll get more mons with the 2 ratio.

Data analysis is fun!

I think the general formula is:

exp = BST / 5 (for 1 EV)
exp = BST / 20 * 7 (for 2 EVs)
exp = BST / 20 * 9 (3 EVs pre Gen 8)
exp = BST / 2 (Gen 8-9)

There are, however, a couple of exceptions to the rule: Pokemon that are bumped to a different exp bracket based on their EV yield.

The Hisui mons aren't obtainable right now in SV, and I think these values are probably placeholders that'll be changed when Pokemon Home support comes around. A lot of the 3EV mons I can wager are there because they're legendary-ish or special in some way, but the rest.. no idea

Why do Aurorus and Clawitzer give trash exp when their counterparts don't? Does Wooloo give so much exp so you can farm off the battles with Hop in SwSh?