Stat

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HP and Hit Points redirect here. For the move commonly referred to in competitive battling as "HP", see Hidden Power. For the Pokémon Trading Card Game set commonly abbreviated as "HP," see EX Holon Phantoms. For HP in the Trading Card Game, see Glossary of terms.

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Stats, short for statistics, determine certain aspects of battles in the games. Stats may also refer to the numerical values of each field in regards to individual Pokémon.

List of stats

Permanent stats

Hit Points

"HP" redirects here. For the move sometimes abbreviated as "HP" in competitive play, see Hidden Power (move).

Hit Points, or HP for short, determine how much damage a Pokémon can receive before fainting. It is the most visible of the stats in battle, appearing both graphically (as a bar that is green, yellow, or red depending on how much HP is left) and as a current/total amount below the bar. The average base HP stat is 68 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 80.

If a Pokémon has more than half of its HP, its HP bar remains green. If the Pokémon has between one-fifth and half of its HP, the bar will turn yellow. If a Pokémon has less than one-fifth of its HP remaining, the bar will turn red and a beeping sound (Generations I-IV and VI), a change of battle music with the beep as a metronome (Generation V), or a series of 4 beeping sounds before fading away will notify the player that his or her Pokémon is in danger of fainting. This beeping will continue until the Pokémon is switched out to another Pokémon which has at least one-fifth of its HP, has its HP raised to one-fifth or higher by any means, or faints.

The HP bar also affects the Pokémon's cry. If a Pokémon's HP bar is green, the player will hear the cry of the Pokémon in its normal sounding rate, but if the Pokémon has less than half of its HP remaining or has fainted, its cry will be lowered by a half-step to indicate its weakened state.

In-battle appearance

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Attack

The Attack stat determines how much damage a Pokémon can deal using a physical move. The average Attack stat is 75 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 90.

Defense

The Defense stat determines how much damage a Pokémon receives when it is hit with a physical move. The average Defense stat is 70 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 83.

Special

The Special stat is an obsolete stat that existed only up to Generation II. The Special stat accounted for what is currently known as Special Attack and Special Defense, determining how much damage a Pokémon both receives and deals when special moves are used. This created some balance issues, since a Pokémon could not be made strong with Special attacks but weak against them, or vice versa, the same way a Pokémon might have strong Attack but weak Defense. With Generation II, the Special stat was outwardly split into Special Attack and Special Defense, meaning Pokémon could have different base stats for both, and those stats were both displayed on a Pokémon's stat screen; however, individual values and effort values remained unsplit, so that there was only a Special individual value and Special effort values, which affected both the Special Attack and Special Defense stats. In Generation III, IVs and EVs were finally given both Special Attack and Special Defense values as well.

Special Attack

The Special Attack stat determines how much damage a Pokémon can deal using a special move. The average Special Attack Stat is 69 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 83.

Special Defense

The Special Defense stat determines how much damage a Pokémon receives when it is hit with a special move. The average Special Defense stat is 69 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 83.

Speed

The Speed stat determines how quickly a Pokémon can act in battle. Pokémon with higher Speed will make a move before ones with lower Speed under normal conditions; in the case that two Pokémon have the same Speed, one of them will randomly go first. The average Speed stat is 66 for all Pokémon, and the average for all fully evolved Pokémon is 78.

The Speed stat is not used in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon; however, movement speed is considered its analogue in that series.

In Pokémon Conquest, the Speed stat does not determine movement or who gets to move first. Rather, the Speed stat acts as a combination of Accuracy and Evasion. A Pokémon attacking another Pokémon that is significantly faster than it will have a reduced chance to hit, while faster Pokémon will have a bonus to their chance to hit when using moves with a low base chance.

Range

Range is a statistic that only appears in Pokémon Conquest. It determines the amount of tiles a Pokémon is able to move across the game's grid-based battlefields. Each of the 200 Pokémon species found in the game has an unmodified Range of 2, 3, or 4, with 3 being far most common. These values are species-specific, meaning that no two Pokémon of the same species can differ in Range without the assistance of modifiers, which are signified by the value's text color changing from black to blue. Range can be temporarily modified during battle by various Warrior Skills, Abilities, and moves. The Ability Sprint permanently modifies Range, keeping it 1 above its unmodified value even outside of battle. When a modified Range of 6 has been reached, further increases will not affect the Range stat. Neither will further decreases when a modified Range of 1 has been reached.

In-battle stats

Evasion

The evasion stat, or evasiveness, determines the percent chance that an opponent's move will miss. The initial value at the start of any battle is 100%. If the stat is decreased below 100% with a move such as Sweet Scent, then the opposing Pokémon has a better chance of connecting its move. If the stat is increased above 100% with a move such as Double Team, the opposing Pokémon will have a harder time connecting its moves. It was called "evade" in Generation I.

Accuracy

The accuracy stat determines the percent chance an attacker's move will hit. The initial value at the start of any battle is 100%. Along with accuracy-raising moves, in Pokémon XD the player can also raise a Pokémon's accuracy by using the call action.

Formula for accuracy and evasion

The probability that a move will hit is calculated as follows:

Where:

• A_base is the base accuracy of the move (in percent - e.g. a base accuracy of 95 is counted as 0.95),
• Accuracy is the current accuracy stat of the user (in percent - e.g. raising accuracy by three stages raises this number to 2), and
• Evasion is the current evasion stat of the target (in percent - e.g. lowering evasion by two stages lowers this number to 0.6).

If P is greater than 1, the move will surely hit. In a 2-on-2 battle, it is possible for a move that hits two or three targets to miss some of the targets and hit others - the probabilities are calculated individually for each target.

Belly

The Belly is a hunger statistic appearing only in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. As the team leader explores a mystery dungeon, over time its Belly will diminish, represented by a number decreasing from 100. Running or holding certain scarves will cause the Belly to decrease more quickly. Other items will cause the Belly to deplete at a much slower rate, or not deplete at all. While a Pokémon's Belly is empty, it will no longer be able to run; its HP will decrease with every step it takes until it either faints or eats something.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, this feature was removed for most dungeons.

Belly can be replenished with items such as food, seeds, Berries, and gummis*. When a Belly-replenishing item is used at maximum Belly, the maximum Belly will increase temporarily, and the Belly will increase to the maximum Belly.

Determination of stats

Base stats

A Pokémon's base stats will most often have the greatest influence over their specific stats at any level. Disregarding individual values, effort values, and Nature, a level 100 Pokémon's stats in Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, and Special Defense will be exactly 5 more than double its base stats in each, while the HP stat will be 110 plus double the base stat (except in the case of Shedinja, whose HP is always 1).

For a list of Pokémon by their base stat values, see the list of Pokémon by base stats.

Level

Main article: Level

When a Pokémon grows a level, its stats will increase. For each level gained (ignoring Nature), stats will increase by 1/50 the base stat value, and 1/100 the combined individual value and effort value. This means that it is impossible, through leveling up, for a Pokémon to ever lose points in a stat unless it evolves into a Pokémon with a lower base stat value for that specific stat or an EV-reducing Berry is used. It is also impossible for any Pokémon other than Shedinja not to gain HP upon leveling up without using a Pomeg Berry (Pokémon Emerald onward) as no evolutionary line has members with a lower base HP than the pre-evolved forms.

Nature

Main article: Nature

Most Natures enhance the growth of one stat, while hindering the growth of another. After all other calculations are finished, the stat that the Nature enhances will be 110% of what it would be without the Nature, and the stat hindered will be 90% of its normal value.

Individual values

Main article: Individual values

Individual values cause two Pokémon of the same species to have different stats. Between generations there are different manners of determining them.

Effort values

Main article: Effort values

Effort values are what cause a trained Pokémon to have higher stats than an untrained counterpart of the same level. For every 4 EVs gained, a level 100 Pokémon will have 1 extra point in its stats. Variance of stats caused by EVs reaches a maximum of 63 points at level 100, as a Pokémon can gain a maximum of 255 EVs in a single stat.

Formula

See also: Damage calculation

In Generations I and II

The stat is rounded down if the result is a decimal. Note that the numerator is multiplied by two compared to this formula before rounding. For example, the quantity (2*base + 2*IV + sqrt(EV)/4) is rounded down to the nearest integer before multiplying by level and dividing by 100.

Example

Consider a Level 81 Pikachu with the following IVs and EVs:

	HP	Attack	Defense	Sp.Atk	Sp.Def	Speed	Total
Base stat	35	55	30	50	40	90	300
IV	7	8	13	9		5	42
EV	22850	23140	17280	19625		24795	107690

Its HP can be calculated as follows:

Its Special Attack and Special Defense stats simply rely on the Special EV and IV.

Its Speed can be calculated as follows:

In the end, this Pikachu's stats are:

	HP	Attack	Defense	Sp.Atk	Sp.Def	Speed
Base stat	35	55	30	50	40	90
IV	7	8	13	9		5
EV	22850	23140	17280	19625		24795
Total	189	137	101	128	112	190

Note that some numbers may be off by one due to rounding.

In Generation III onward

The stat is rounded down if the result is a decimal. The stat is also rounded down before the Nature multiplier, if any, is applied.

These formulas mean that, aside from Shedinja's HP (which is always 1) the lowest a stat can ever possibly be is 4 (or, for the HP stat, 11).

Example

Consider a Level 78 Garchomp with the following IVs and EVs and an Adamant nature:

	HP	Attack	Defense	Sp.Atk	Sp.Def	Speed	Total
Base stat	108	130	95	80	85	102	600
IV	24	12	30	16	23	5	110
EV	74	195	86	48	84	23	510

Its HP can be calculated as follows:

The Adamant nature raises Attack and lowers Special Attack. This means that when calculating the Attack stat, Nature = 1.1, and when calculating the Special Attack stat, Nature = 0.9. So this Garchomp's Attack stat will be:

And its Special Attack stat will be:

Its Speed stat, on the other hand, has no Nature multiplier, so it is calculated as:

In the end, this Garchomp's stats are as follows:

	HP	Attack	Defense	Sp.Atk	Sp.Def	Speed
Base stat	108	130	95	80	85	102
IV	24	12	30	16	23	5
EV	74	195	86	48	84	23
Total	289	280	193	136	171	172

Note that some numbers may be off by one due to rounding.

Stat modifiers

Some moves and Abilities can change stats during battle, raising them and lowering them as part of the effect. Some items will also do this.

In-battle stat modifiers multiply specific stats by a certain amount, meaning that a higher starting stat will have a bigger change. For each stat, there are six stages of increase, and six stages of decrease. The stages are cumulative: adding a stage of increase, and then a stage of decrease, results in no net change to the stat. The six stages of increase are x1.5, x2.0, x2.5, x3.0, x3.5, and x4.0. The six stages of decrease are 2/3, 1/2, 2/5, 1/3, 2/7, and 1/4. Accuracy and evasion modifications are calculated in a different manner. However, in the Generation I handheld games, the accuracy and evasion modifiers are the same as the normal stat modifiers; this was changed in the Japanese version of Pokémon Stadium and all international versions.

Some modifiers, such as Huge Power and Pure Power, do not work with the above stages, and thus can stack on top of them. For example, a Pokémon with Pure Power and six stages of increase in Attack would have eight times its normal attack.

Since Generation IV, during a Sandstorm, all Rock-type Pokémon gain 50% Special Defense, which does not work with stages.

All stat modifiers listed below, except the vitamins, wings, and the EV Berries, will increase the corresponding stats only for the battle that they are used in.

Quotes

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Note that the quote also contains prefix specifying wherever the Pokémon affected is on the player's side, is wild or is of an opposing Trainer, which differs depending on the Generation.

Change	Generation I	Generation II	Generation III	Generation IV	Generation V
too high	Nothing happened!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> won't rise anymore!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> won't go any higher!
+1	<Pokémon>'s <stat> rose!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> went up!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> rose!
+2	<Pokémon>'s <stat> greatly rose!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> went way up!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> sharply rose!		Pokémon>'s <stat> rose sharply!
+3 or higher					<Pokémon>'s <stat> rose drastically!
too low	Nothing happened!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> won't drop anymore!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> won't go any lower!
-1	<Pokémon>'s <stat> fell!
-2	<Pokémon>'s <stat> greatly fell!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> sharply fell!	<Pokémon>'s <stat> harshly fell!
-3 or lower					<Pokémon>'s <stat> severely fell!

List of moves and Abilities

Stat	Raisers					Reducers
	Moves	Abilities	Items			Moves	Abilities	Items
			Vitamin	Wing	Items			EV Berry
Attack	Acupressure* Ancient Power Belly Drum Bulk Up Coil Curse Dragon Dance Fell Stinger Growth Hone Claws Howl Meditate Metal Claw Meteor Mash Ominous Wind Power-Up Punch Power Split Power Trick Rage* Rototiller Sharpen Shell Smash Shift Gear Silver Wind Swagger Swords Dance Work Up	Anger Point Contrary* Defiant Download* Flower Gift Guts Huge Power Hustle Justified Moody* Moxie Pure Power Rivalry* Sap Sipper	Protein	Muscle Wing	Cell Battery Choice Band Liechi Berry Light Ball Snowball Starf Berry* Thick Club X Attack Weakness Policy	Aurora Beam Baby-Doll Eyes Charm Feather Dance Growl King's Shield Memento Noble Roar Parting Shot Play Nice Power Trick Power Split Secret Power* Superpower Tickle Venom Drench	Contrary* Defeatist Intimidate Moody* Rivalry* Slow Start	Kelpsy Berry
Defense	Acid Armor Acupressure* Ancient Power Barrier Bulk Up Coil Cosmic Power Cotton Guard Curse Defend Order Defense Curl Flower Shield Guard Split Harden Iron Defense Magnetic Flux Ominous Wind Silver Wind Skull Bash Steel Wing Stockpile* Withdraw	Contrary* Grass Pelt Marvel Scale Moody*	Iron	Resist Wing	Eviolite Ganlon Berry Metal Powder Kee Berry* Starf Berry* X Defense	Close Combat Crunch Crush Claw Guard Split Iron Tail Leer Rock Smash Screech Secret Power* Shell Smash Superpower Tail Whip Tickle	Contrary* Moody* Weak Armor	Qualot Berry
Special Attack	Acupressure* Ancient Power Calm Mind Charge Beam Fiery Dance Flatter Geomancy Growth Nasty Plot Ominous Wind Power Split Rototiller Shell Smash Silver Wind Tail Glow Quiver Dance Work Up	Competitive Contrary* Download* Flower Gift Lightning Rod* Minus Moody* Plus Solar Power Storm Drain*	Calcium	Genius Wing	Absorb Bulb Choice Specs Deep Sea Tooth Light Ball Petaya Berry Soul Dew Starf Berry* X Sp. Atk Weakness Policy	Captivate Confide Draco Meteor Eerie Impulse Leaf Storm Memento Mist Ball Moonblast Mystical Fire Noble Roar Overheat Parting Shot Power Split Psycho Boost Snarl Venom Drench	Contrary* Defeatist Moody*	Hondew Berry
Special Defense	Acupressure* Amnesia Ancient Power Aromatic Mist Calm Mind Charge* Cosmic Power Defend Order Geomancy Guard Split Magnetic Flux Ominous Wind Quiver Dance Silver Wind Stockpile*	Contrary* Moody*	Zinc	Clever Wing	Apicot Berry Assault Vest Deep Sea Scale Eviolite Luminous Moss Maranga Berry* Metal Powder* Soul Dew Starf Berry* X Sp. Def	Acid Acid Spray Bug Buzz Close Combat Earth Power Energy Ball Fake Tears Flash Cannon Focus Blast Guard Split Luster Purge Metal Sound Psychic Seed Flare Shadow Ball Shell Smash	Contrary* Moody*	Grepa Berry
Speed	Acupressure* Agility Ancient Power Autotomize Dragon Dance Flame Charge Geomancy Ominous Wind Quiver Dance Rock Polish Shell Smash Shift Gear Silver Wind Tailwind	Chlorophyll Contrary* Motor Drive Quick Feet Sand Rush Speed Boost Steadfast Swift Swim Unburden Weak Armor Moody* Rattled	Carbos	Swift Wing	Choice Scarf Quick Powder Salac Berry Starf Berry* X Speed	Bubble Bubble Beam Bulldoze Constrict Cotton Spore Curse Glaciate Hammer Arm Icy Wind Low Sweep Mud Shot Rock Tomb Scary Face Secret Power* Sticky Web String Shot Venom Drench	Contrary* Gooey Moody* Slow Start	Tamato Berry
Evasion	Acupressure* Double Team Minimize	Contrary* Moody* Sand Veil Snow Cloak Tangled Feet	--	--	Bright Powder Lax Incense	Defog Gravity* Sweet Scent	Contrary* Moody*	--
Accuracy	Acupressure* Hone Claws Coil	Compound Eyes Contrary* Moody* Victory Star	--	--	Wide Lens X Accuracy* Zoom Lens	Flash Kinesis Mirror Shot Mud Bomb Mud-Slap Muddy Water Night Daze Octazooka Sand Attack Secret Power* Smokescreen	Contrary* Hustle Moody* Wonder Skin	--

Stages

When a move is used that is meant to increase or decrease a stat of an in-use party or foe Pokémon, it will be multiplied according to the following fractions:

For Attack, Defense, Sp. Attack, Sp. Defense, and Speed (and accuracy in Gen I)

Stage power

	Subtractive moves						Base	Supplemental moves
Stage	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6
Multiplier	2/8	2/7	2/6	2/5	2/4	2/3	1	11/2	2	21/2	3	31/2	4
Percentage	25%	29%	33%	40%	50%	67%	100%	150%	200%	250%	300%	350%	400%

For accuracy and evasion (Gen II+)

Stage power

	Subtractive moves						Base	Supplemental moves
Stage	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6
Multiplier	3/9	3/8	3/7	3/6	3/5	3/4	1	11/3	12/3	2	21/3	22/3	3
Percentage	33%	38%	43%	50%	60%	75%	100%	133%	167%	200%	233%	267%	300%

In the first two Generations, accuracy and evasion multipliers are derived separately and both are multiplied with the accuracy of the move being used. This means that in Generation I, maximum evasion and minimum accuracy will result in a total modifier of ²/₈ * ²/₈ = ⁴/₆₄ (or ¹/₁₆); in Generation II, this is ³/₉ * ³/₉ = ⁹/₈₁ (or ¹/₉). Since Generation III, however, the modified stages of each stat are combined and capped at -6 or +6. This means that six Sand Attacks are equivalent to three Double Teams and three Sand Attacks or one Double Team and five Sand Attacks or six Double Teams and six Sand Attacks. In other words, the most extreme modifiers to a move's accuracy are ³/₉ (¹/₃) or 3 rather than ¹/₉ or 9.

In the anime

Stats in the anime appear to leave out the Special and Physical concept. It is more dependent on attack power and the amount of damage inflicted instead of Attack and Special Attack, and endurance rather than Special Defense and Defense. One example was seen in Pedal to the Mettle! when Paul's Weavile used Swords Dance, an Attack-boosting move, which boosted Blizzard, a special move, as well as Ice Shard and Metal Claw. Another instance was in Shocks and Bonds, where Johnny's Aggron's Harden, a Defense-boosting move, appeared to defend against Tyson's Sceptile's SolarBeam, a special move.

Gallery

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Generation I	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (International)
File:RSE status screen.png		File:StatsDP.png
RSE	FRLG	DPPt
HGSS	Generation V

See also

• Base stats
• List of Pokémon by base stats (Generation I)
• List of Pokémon by base stats (Generation II-V)
• List of Pokémon by base stats (Generation VI-present)
• List of fully evolved Pokémon by base stats
• List of Pokémon with unique base stat totals

Notes

Pokémon individuality
Level • Stats • Friendship • Gender • Ability (Hidden Ability) • Nature • Characteristic Effort values • Individual values • Go Power • Effort level Condition • Performance • Affection • Memory

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