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Pokemon have six basic stats.  HP, Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, Special Defense.  Attack and Defense are used for battling with physical moves, while Special Attack and Special Defense are used for battling with special moves; Speed is used basically for determining initiative, and HP is, of course, health itself.  I did my best to break things down in the spirit in which they were intended, and I'm going to show all my work here because I'm sure that somewhere, someone has come up with their own Pokemon.
HP: HL
 
Att: Str/Dmg (assumed B), Brawl
 
Def: Sta/Soak, Temperance
 
Spd: Dodge, Dex
 
SpA: Presence, Conviction
 
SpD: Willpower, Valor
 
  
STAB...
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                                                                  Exalted base stats
Psychic (weak: metal, strong: fighting)
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    Pokemon: Pokexalted                Pokemon base stats      Str 1-14
Fighting (weak: psychic, strong: normal)
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HP: HL                              HP 1-255                  Sta 1-14
Normal (weak: fighting, strong: Electric)
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Att: Str\Dmg (assumed B), Brawl      Att 5-180                Dex 2-4
Electric (weak: normal, strong: darkness)
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Def: Sta\Soak, Temperance            Def 5-230                Willpower 2-5
Darkness (weak: Electric, strong: grass)
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Spd: Dodge, Dex                      Spd 5-180                HL 2-14
Grass (weak: darkness, strong: water)
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Sp.A: Presence, Conviction          Sp.A 10-180              Spd 2-6
Water (weak: grass, strong: fire)
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Sp.D: Willpower, Valor              Sp.D 20-230              Atk 4-9
Fire (weak: water, strong: metal)
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                                                                Dmg 1-14L
Metal (weak: fire, strong: psychic)
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                                                                Dodge 0-8
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                                                                Soak none-12B/6L
  
Psychic > Fighting > Normal > Electric > Darkness > Grass > Water > Fire > Metal >
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I wanted Pokémon to be relatively powerful compared to the standard critters, with room to grow - but not constantly overshadowing Exalted. So I wrote up some quick distribution curves for Core pg 316, and for the Pokedex, and put them side-by-side to try and agree. Any number of pages and gamefaqs have a pokedex for your use, I went with the Emerald version whenever necessary.
 
 
001 Bulbasaur
 
2'4", 5.6 lbs
 
Type: Grass
 
 
 
Growth levels...
 
0 - Overgrow
 
1 - Growl, Tackle
 
2 - Leech Seed, Vine Whip
 
3 - Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf
 
4 - Growth, Sweet Scent
 
5 - Synthesis, Solar Beam
 
 
 
Growth...
 
0: infant (none)
 
1: child
 
2: juvenile
 
3: adolescent (evolutionary stage)
 
4: adult
 
5: dominant
 
 
 
Attack conversions...
 
 
 
Accuracy n/a, 30-100
 
Base PP 5-40
 
Base Power n/a, 10-250
 
Special effects: ungodly variation, no direct correlation possible
 
 
 
Actual damage formula: Damage = ((((2 * Level / 5 + 2) * AttackStat * AttackPower / DefenseStat) / 50) + 2) * STAB * Weakness/Resistance * RandomNumber / 100
 
STAB = 1.5x damage for type-matched attacks, 1x for unmatched, .5x for mismatched
 
Attack types: nerf opponent attribute, boost own attribute, absorb damage dealt, negate modifiers, high critical hit ratio, multiple attacks, cure status ailment, cause flinch... too many
 
 
 
Accuracy: attack modifier
 
01-30: -5
 
31-45: -2
 
46-60: -1
 
61-75: +1
 
76-90: +2
 
91-100: +5
 
PP: mote cost
 
05-09: 7m
 
10-15: 6m
 
16-20: 5m
 
21-25: 4m
 
26-30: 3m
 
31-35: 2m
 
36-40: 1m
 
Power: base damage; most Techniques act as one-shot weapons
 
n/a: no direct damage
 
01-20: 2B
 
21-50: 4B
 
51-90: 6B
 
91-150: 8B
 
151-200: 10B
 
201-250: 12B
 
  
Mote cost 1-10(+1w+1h)
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One of the problems I initially ran into, basically with Strength, was that 1-14 is reasonable for a core creature - but a Pokemon can, with the right evolutionary tangent, get up to 15 boosts on a stat.  If they started with 14, they could end up at 29 Strength.  I'm not much of an Exalted guru but that sounds pretty broken... so base Strength got nerfed to 1-4 and I threw Brawl on top to provide additional support for core stats.
Stat conversions...
 
  
HP 1-255
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To avoid three-tier evolutionary Pokemon getting too out of control, I ended up rewriting evolution so you maintained your Growth stage when evolving.  That puts the cap on stat boosts at 7, so I rewrote Strength back up to 1-10.
Att 5-180
 
Def 5-230
 
Spd 5-180
 
SpA 10-180
 
SpD 20-230
 
  
Str 1-14
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A new problem presented itself with Presence vs. Physical attacks.  There wasn't much point in going with Presence attacks, not when Per+Pre maxes out at 10 and Str+Brawl potentially went up to 15 just to start.  So I subbed in Willpower for Perception, and allowed raising Willpower at Growth.  This gives WP+Pre a pool of 2-12 to start, 19 maxed; Str+Bra has 1-15 to start, 22 maxed.  Roughly equal, and Presence attacks tend to start stronger even though Physical attacks tend to finish stronger.
Sta 1-14
 
Dex 2-4
 
Willpower 2-5
 
HL 2-14
 
Spd 2-6
 
Atk 4-9
 
Dmg 1-14L
 
Dodge 0-8
 
Soak none-6L/12B
 
  
I wanted Pokémon to be relatively powerful compared to the standard critters, with room to grow - but not constantly overshadowing ExaltedSo I wrote up some quick distribution curves for Core pg 316, and for the Pokedex, and put them side-by-side to try and agree.  Any number of pages and gamefaqs have a pokedex for your use, I went with the Emerald version whenever necessary.
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The end product is fairly self-explanatoryIf a Pokemon starts with HP of 100, that means they get 6 HLs in Pokexalted.
  
HP: HL
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HP: HL
01-40: 2 (-3/I)
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01-40: 2 (-3\I)
41-80: 4 (-0/-2/-4/I)
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41-80: 4 (-0\-2\-4\I)
81-120: 6 (-0/-1/-1/-2/-4/I)
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81-120: 6 (-0\-1\-1\-2\-4\I)
121-160: 8 (-0/-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/I)
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121-160: 8 (-0\-0\-1\-1\-2\-2\-4\I)
161-200: 10 (-0/-0/-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/I)
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161-200: 10 (-0\-0\-0\-1\-1\-1\-2\-2\-4\I)
201-255: 12 (-0/-0/-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-4/-4/I)
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201-255: 12 (-0\-0\-0\-1\-1\-1\-2\-2\-2\-4\-4\I)
Att: Str/Dmg (assumed B), Brawl
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Att: Str\Dmg (assumed B), Brawl
 
01-30: Str 1, Brawl 0
 
01-30: Str 1, Brawl 0
 
31-60: Str 2, Brawl 1
 
31-60: Str 2, Brawl 1
61-90: Str 3, Brawl 2
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61-90: Str 4, Brawl 2
91-120: Str 4, Brawl 3
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91-120: Str 6, Brawl 3
121-150: Str 4, Brawl 4
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121-150: Str 8, Brawl 4
151-180: Str 4, Brawl 5
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151-180: Str 10, Brawl 5
Def: Sta/Soak, Temperance
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Def: Sta\Soak, Temperance
 
01-40: Sta 2 - 1L, 2B soak, Temperance 1
 
01-40: Sta 2 - 1L, 2B soak, Temperance 1
 
41-80: Sta 4 - 2L, 4B soak, Temperance 1
 
41-80: Sta 4 - 2L, 4B soak, Temperance 1
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161-200: Sta 10 - 5L, 10B soak, Temperance 4
 
161-200: Sta 10 - 5L, 10B soak, Temperance 4
 
201-230: Sta 12 - 6L, 12B soak, Temperance 5
 
201-230: Sta 12 - 6L, 12B soak, Temperance 5
Spd: Dodge, Dex
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Spd: Dodge, Dex
 
01-30: Dex 1, Dodge 0
 
01-30: Dex 1, Dodge 0
 
31-60: Dex 2, Dodge 1
 
31-60: Dex 2, Dodge 1
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121-150: Dex 4, Dodge 4
 
121-150: Dex 4, Dodge 4
 
151-180: Dex 4, Dodge 5
 
151-180: Dex 4, Dodge 5
SpA: Presence, Conviction
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Sp.A: Presence, Conviction
 
01-30: Pre 0, Conviction 1
 
01-30: Pre 0, Conviction 1
 
31-60: Pre 1, Conviction 1
 
31-60: Pre 1, Conviction 1
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121-150: Pre 4, Conviction 4
 
121-150: Pre 4, Conviction 4
 
151-180: Pre 5, Conviction 5
 
151-180: Pre 5, Conviction 5
SpD: Willpower, Valor
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Sp.D: Willpower, Valor
01-40: WP 2, Valor 1
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01-40: WP 3, Valor 1
41-80: WP 3, Valor 1
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41-80: WP 4, Valor 1
81-120: WP 4, Valor 2
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81-120: WP 5, Valor 2
121-160: WP 5, Valor 3
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121-160: WP 6, Valor 3
161-200: WP 6, Valor 4
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161-200: WP 7, Valor 4
201-230: WP 7, Valor 5
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201-230: WP 8, Valor 5
  
Virtues: The base virtues of Pokémon do not change with Growth and, unlike Exalted, do not alter Willpower.
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I used a similar methodology for attack conversions.
  
You'll note that, of these virtues, Compassion is not included. Compassion is dependent on training and upbringing; for a wild Pokémon, it defaults to 2. As with other animals, we're talking Wits 2, Perception 3. Intelligence is equal to its Rarity rating (see below for more on that, but it runs 1-5). Normally, Charisma/Manipulation/Appearance are irrelevant for Pokémon - unless you run Pokémon as PCs, and if you do, let me know how it turns out!
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  Attack conversions...
  
Speed: I've skipped Speed completely because I don't freaking understand how it works. If someone else wants to suggest a formula I'll take their word for it.
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  Accuracy n\a, 30-100
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Base PP 5-40
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Base Power n\a, 10-250
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Special effects: ungodly variation, no direct correlation possible
  
Growth: this variable emulates levels and the like. It's easily comparable to Essence, and is added to many attacks and defenses; it just doesn't hold the same metaphysical elements as Essence wouldWhen adding a level of growth, you get two points to divide between the physical stats or HLs; whatever you decide upon, add one to it (in the case of HLs, one -0 level). You have to choose two seperate items - Str and Dex are all right, but not two points on Str.
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Actual damage formula: Damage = ((((2 * Level \ 5 + 2) * AttackStat * AttackPower \ DefenseStat) \ 50) + 2) * STAB * Weakness\Resistance * RandomNumber \ 100
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STAB = 1.5x damage for type-matched attacks, 1x for unmatched, .5x for mismatched
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  Attack types: nerf opponent attribute, boost own attribute, absorb damage dealt, negate modifiers, high critical hit ratio, multiple attacks, cure status ailment, cause status ailment... etc.
  
Backgrounds: starting with Pokémon!  Not all Pokémon were born equal; a Mewtwo will mop the floor with a Poochyena unless there are some SEVERE level discrepancies, so it wouldn't be fair to let player A start with a Poochyena and player B get the Mewtwo... unless player B pays for it.
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Accuracy: attack modifier
 
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01-30: -5
Because I actually like showing my work these days, what I did is I added together the stages for each of the six stats.  A Alakazam has a 55 HP, which is stage 2 Health, so that's 2 points; a 135 in SpA, which is on the high end of 5 points - you get the picture.  Adding all six stages together, you get a quantifiable idea of how powerful the starting Pokémon is.  This isn't completely accurate, it ignores Techniques, but I'll be damned if I know a fast way to totally balance 387 Pokémon - some of whom don't even start with offensive Techniques at all.
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31-45: -2
 
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46-60: -1
Rarity...
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61-75: +1
6-12: Rarity 1 (common)
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76-90: +2
13-15: Rarity 2 (uncommon)
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91-100: +5
16-18: Rarity 3 (unusual)
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PP: mote cost
19-21: Rarity 4 (rare)
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05-09: 7m
22-24: Rarity 5 (legendary)
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10-15: 6m
 
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16-20: 5m
Background Pokémon...
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21-25: 4m
0 dots - you have no Pokémon.  You suck.
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26-30: 3m
1 dots - one common child, or one uncommon infant.
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31-35: 2m
2 dots - one common juvenile, or one uncommon child, or one unusual infant.
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36-40: 1m
3 dots - ...you get the idea.
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Power: base damage; most Techniques act as one-shot weapons
 
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n\a: no direct damage
You can take the background multiple times, but the usual rules about bonus points and backgrounds above 3 apply.
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01-20: 2B
 
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21-50: 4B
STAB: In Pokétérms, STAB refers to the mechanic that checks both poketype and movetype and adjusts Technique damage accordingly.  In a desperate effort to simplify matters, I'm using TCG rules which halves the spectrum and bases it entirely on the poketype rather than both that and the movetype.  In Exalted, STAB works on defense; when strong against an opponent, double your soak against their Techniques.  When weak against an opponent, halve your soak.
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51-90: 6B
 
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91-150: 8B
Abilities: All Pokémon have an innate ability from birth that they can perform.
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151-200: 10B
 
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201-250: 12B
Pokémon vs. Exalted: Pokémon are highly natural creatures.  In comparison, mortals and Exalts alike are fairly unnatural; they get bounced back and forth between Creation and Wyld, are always wearing clothes and wielding tools, creating new diseases to infect eachother with, so on and so forth.  In game terms, non-Pokémon are not affected by status conditions or perfect knockouts; also, all damage done by Pokémon is bashing (save for the potential of being pushed off a cliff, etc).  Feel free to come up with a good justification of your own.
 
 
 
The soak of Non-Pokémon is not affected by STAB.  However, they do have their own types which can be applied against Pokémon as appropriate, namely - Mortals (Normal), Solars (Electric), Lunars (Grass), Dragon-Blooded (Fighting), Abyssal (Darkness), Sidereal (Psychic).  Any given Solar using a Charm against a Darkness-type Pokémon halves their soak, while using one against a Normal-type Pokémon doubles it.  Mortals do not have Charms, of course, but they can use magic...
 
  
Status conditions: Pokémon can be afflicted by various conditions upon failing a stat check. Note that many Techniques can be replicated by items!
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  Mote cost 1-10(+1w+1h)
Asleep: Unable to act; roll Willpower to wake up.
 
Attracted: Roll Presence to attack source of condition; failure causes attack to automatically fail.  Must be recovered by Technique or end of battle.
 
Burned: Lose one HL/turn; roll Resistance to shake off effects.
 
Confused: Roll Presence when attacking; success shakes off effects, failure inflicts attack on self.
 
Cursed: Lose one HL/turn; must be recovered by Technique or end of battle.
 
Fainted: Unconscious.
 
Flinched: Loses any actions for remainder of turn; automatically shakes off next turn.
 
Frozen: Unable to act; must be unfrozen by Technique.  Cannot be thawed during Rain Dance, but is automatically thawed by Sunny Day.
 
Paralyzed: Automatically moves last in initiative.  Roll Resistance when attacking; success shakes off effects, failure causes attack to automatically fail.
 
Poisoned: Lose one HL/turn; must be recovered by Technique.  Lasts beyond battle.
 
Trapped: Unable to leave the battle or be switched out.
 
  
Presence attacks: Pokémon have physical attacks, which are resolved in normal dodge/parry/soak fashion.  They also have Presence attacks, which are resolved slightly differentlyWhere physical pools are generally Str+Brawl or Dex+Brawl to attack, and Dex+Brawl, Str+Brawl, or Dex+Dodge on defense, Presence pools are Per+Pre for both attack and defense, reflecting a Pokémon's force of will and grasp of natural forces (as well as their ability to perceive them to begin with).
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Speed: I skipped Speed completely because I don't freaking understand how it worksIf someone else wants to suggest a formula I'll take their word for it.
  
Presence attacks are otherwise resolved in a similar fashion to physical attacksFlavor text on the defense can be any form appropriate to the nature of the attack, but the pool remains the sameDamage done on Presence attacks stacks with that of physical attacks, and HL penalties apply to Presence and physical pools alike.
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The attack effects gave me the most skullsweat hereNearly every move has some sort of special effect, and many of them included percentile diceThat's why you'll see a lot of "opponent rolls Resistance; on failure, Status Condition".  A diff 1 check represents 01-20% chance, diff 2 21-40%, etc.  Things like reflexive\supplemental\scenelong, that jive, I had to pull it from my technicolor butt.
  
Techniques: the various attack moves are treated as Charms for all intents and purposes, complete with mote costs.  I'm calling them Techniques, and they have conversion formulae all of their own.  A Pokémon can know four Techniques at any time - any more than that, and they'll have to forget one to learn the next.  Harsh but trueTechniques can be learned through growth, through training under someone who already knows it, or through the use of a Training Machine item.
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You may be wondering which attacks are "special" attacks, and which are "physical".
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        Pokemon
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  Physical        Special
  
Motes: The mote pool of any given Pokémon is 10*Growth + Willpower + sum of VirtuesMotes are recovered at 2/hr while active, or 4/hr while inactive; while kept in a Pokeball, they recover at 8/hr.
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Normal          Fire
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Fighting        Water
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Poison          Electric
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Ground          Grass
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Flying          Ice
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Bug            Psychic
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Rock            Dragon
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Ghost          Dark
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Steel
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These types have been simplified, but in working up the Movedex I used original Movetype to determine physical\presence as necessary.  The Poketype was determined by the TCG (Trading Card Game), although in some cases there were multiple cards for the same Pokemon with different types, so I have no doubt a bit of filtering may end up being necessarySTAB itself was largely arbitrary and based on as much logic as I could muster at the time, as well as random selections from the games.
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Pokexalted STAB...
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Psychic (weak: metal, strong: fighting)
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Fighting (weak: psychic, strong: normal)
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Normal (weak: fighting, strong: Electric)
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Electric (weak: normal, strong: darkness)
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Darkness (weak: Electric, strong: grass)
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Grass (weak: darkness, strong: water)
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Water (weak: grass, strong: fire)
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Fire (weak: water, strong: metal)
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Metal (weak: fire, strong: psychic)
  
Training: Any skill or attribute pre-defined by the base stats cannot be enhanced by training. What does this leave us with?  Growth, Virtues and Specialties.  While Virtues can be boosted by evolution, raising one's Pokémon boosts them further - this is the difference between a wild Pokémon and one given careful treatment by a trainer!  Remember that Perception is also a set number, not a base stat, so it CAN be trained up.
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  Psychic > Fighting > Normal > Electric > Darkness > Grass > Water > Fire > Metal >
  
As a suggested rule of thumb, a trainer character should get one or two extra XP each session solely for the training of their Pokémon - if they choose to burn their own XP on their Pokémon's behalf, this is also acceptable, and in a Pokémon-oriented game might end up being the normXP are spent in traditional fashion (Rat*3 on Virtues, 3/specialty, max 3 on specialties).  Growth and Essence are comparable, so Growth is Rat*8 expensive.
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Determining the moves at growth levels is a bit finickyI use Emerald whenever possible, because the moves have been expanded a bit, allowing a more reasonable progression.
  
Evolution is unlocked after reaching Growth 3, the adolescent stage. At any time thereafter, rather than raising to the next Growth stage, you can choose to evolve to a higher form for the same cost - assuming there is a higher form availableDoing so provides the Pokémon with several benefitsTheir stats raise, adding the difference between the base stats of their new form and their old oneThey unlock new features and abilities, of courseAnd they start over at Growth 1, giving them a new ladder to climbIt's an easy jump.
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  Pokemon                        Pokexalted
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-- Tackle                0 - Overgrow (special ability)
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4 Growl                  1 - Growl, Tackle
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7 Leech Seed            2 - Leech Seed, Vine Whip
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10 Vine Whip              3 - Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf
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15 Poisonpowder          4 - Sweet Scent, Growth
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  15 Sleep Powder          5 - Synthesis, Solar Beam
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20 Razor Leaf            With no Growth, a Pokemon only has its special abilities: for Bulbasaur, Overgrow.
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  25 Sweet Scent            The rule of thumb is intended to be Growth = 10 levels of XP in Pokemon.
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  32 Growth                The other rule of thumb is to provided a rounded allotment across the progression.
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  39 Synthesis              Growl and Tackle are basic moves, while Leech Seed and Vine Whip are more powerful.
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  46 Solarbeam              I also wanted to keep the Condition attacks on their own tierThere you have it.
  
There are benefits to holding off on evolution, though. Read carefully - you add the difference between the base formsThat means if you raise your Pokémon to its full adult status, you're getting an extra two stages of benefits that someone who immediately evolves their Pokémon will missNot just stats, but new Techniques as well - there are always new Techniques at each stage, and you may never have the opportunity to attain them again.
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What I did for rarity is I added together the stages for each of the six stats.  A Alakazam has a 55 HP, which is stage 2 Health, so that's 2 points; a 135 in Sp.A, which is on the high end of 5 points - you get the pictureAdding all six stages together, you get a quantifiable idea of how powerful the starting Pokémon isThis isn't completely accurate, it ignores Techniques and Abilities, but I'll be damned if I know a fast way to totally balance 387 Pokémon - some of whom don't even start with offensive Techniques at all.  Anyway, the stages and end results can still be found in Pokexalted\Dump.
  
Criticals: Many Techniques will include something along the lines of "all successes count as critical successes"Some strategies and combinations will stack these effectsA critical success counts as two successes; stacking these effects adds more successes on, so a success would count three times or four timesA Technique that reverses this effect backs it down the rungs again.
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Rarity...
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6-12: Rarity 1 (common)              In reviewing the Pokedex, you may spot some discrepanciesThings like
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13-15: Rarity 2 (uncommon)            001 and 002 being uncommon even though 002 evolves up a stepEvolution
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16-18: Rarity 3 (unusual)            and Rarity are not on a linear scaleThis can be explained in the game
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19-21: Rarity 4 (rare)                world however you like, but it basically means that I needed a scale and
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22-24: Rarity 5 (legendary)          that's where the Pokemon in question fit. Yay systems!

Revision as of 05:42, 24 November 2005

Pokemon have six basic stats. HP, Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, Special Defense. Attack and Defense are used for battling with physical moves, while Special Attack and Special Defense are used for battling with special moves; Speed is used basically for determining initiative, and HP is, of course, health itself. I did my best to break things down in the spirit in which they were intended, and I'm going to show all my work here because I'm sure that somewhere, someone has come up with their own Pokemon.

                                                                 Exalted base stats
   Pokemon: Pokexalted                 Pokemon base stats      Str 1-14
HP: HL                               HP 1-255                  Sta 1-14
Att: Str\Dmg (assumed B), Brawl      Att 5-180                 Dex 2-4
Def: Sta\Soak, Temperance            Def 5-230                 Willpower 2-5
Spd: Dodge, Dex                      Spd 5-180                 HL 2-14
Sp.A: Presence, Conviction           Sp.A 10-180               Spd 2-6
Sp.D: Willpower, Valor               Sp.D 20-230               Atk 4-9
                                                               Dmg 1-14L
                                                               Dodge 0-8
                                                               Soak none-12B/6L

I wanted Pokémon to be relatively powerful compared to the standard critters, with room to grow - but not constantly overshadowing Exalted. So I wrote up some quick distribution curves for Core pg 316, and for the Pokedex, and put them side-by-side to try and agree. Any number of pages and gamefaqs have a pokedex for your use, I went with the Emerald version whenever necessary.

One of the problems I initially ran into, basically with Strength, was that 1-14 is reasonable for a core creature - but a Pokemon can, with the right evolutionary tangent, get up to 15 boosts on a stat. If they started with 14, they could end up at 29 Strength. I'm not much of an Exalted guru but that sounds pretty broken... so base Strength got nerfed to 1-4 and I threw Brawl on top to provide additional support for core stats.

To avoid three-tier evolutionary Pokemon getting too out of control, I ended up rewriting evolution so you maintained your Growth stage when evolving. That puts the cap on stat boosts at 7, so I rewrote Strength back up to 1-10.

A new problem presented itself with Presence vs. Physical attacks. There wasn't much point in going with Presence attacks, not when Per+Pre maxes out at 10 and Str+Brawl potentially went up to 15 just to start. So I subbed in Willpower for Perception, and allowed raising Willpower at Growth. This gives WP+Pre a pool of 2-12 to start, 19 maxed; Str+Bra has 1-15 to start, 22 maxed. Roughly equal, and Presence attacks tend to start stronger even though Physical attacks tend to finish stronger.

The end product is fairly self-explanatory. If a Pokemon starts with HP of 100, that means they get 6 HLs in Pokexalted.

HP: HL

01-40: 2 (-3\I) 41-80: 4 (-0\-2\-4\I) 81-120: 6 (-0\-1\-1\-2\-4\I) 121-160: 8 (-0\-0\-1\-1\-2\-2\-4\I) 161-200: 10 (-0\-0\-0\-1\-1\-1\-2\-2\-4\I) 201-255: 12 (-0\-0\-0\-1\-1\-1\-2\-2\-2\-4\-4\I)

Att: Str\Dmg (assumed B), Brawl

01-30: Str 1, Brawl 0 31-60: Str 2, Brawl 1 61-90: Str 4, Brawl 2 91-120: Str 6, Brawl 3 121-150: Str 8, Brawl 4 151-180: Str 10, Brawl 5

Def: Sta\Soak, Temperance

01-40: Sta 2 - 1L, 2B soak, Temperance 1 41-80: Sta 4 - 2L, 4B soak, Temperance 1 81-120: Sta 6 - 3L, 6B soak, Temperance 2 121-160: Sta 8 - 4L, 8B soak, Temperance 3 161-200: Sta 10 - 5L, 10B soak, Temperance 4 201-230: Sta 12 - 6L, 12B soak, Temperance 5

Spd: Dodge, Dex

01-30: Dex 1, Dodge 0 31-60: Dex 2, Dodge 1 61-90: Dex 3, Dodge 2 91-120: Dex 4, Dodge 3 121-150: Dex 4, Dodge 4 151-180: Dex 4, Dodge 5

Sp.A: Presence, Conviction

01-30: Pre 0, Conviction 1 31-60: Pre 1, Conviction 1 61-90: Pre 2, Conviction 2 91-120: Pre 3, Conviction 3 121-150: Pre 4, Conviction 4 151-180: Pre 5, Conviction 5

Sp.D: Willpower, Valor

01-40: WP 3, Valor 1 41-80: WP 4, Valor 1 81-120: WP 5, Valor 2 121-160: WP 6, Valor 3 161-200: WP 7, Valor 4 201-230: WP 8, Valor 5

I used a similar methodology for attack conversions.

Attack conversions...
Accuracy n\a, 30-100
Base PP 5-40
Base Power n\a, 10-250
Special effects: ungodly variation, no direct correlation possible
Actual damage formula: Damage = ((((2 * Level \ 5 + 2) * AttackStat * AttackPower \ DefenseStat) \ 50) + 2) * STAB * Weakness\Resistance * RandomNumber \ 100
STAB = 1.5x damage for type-matched attacks, 1x for unmatched, .5x for mismatched
Attack types: nerf opponent attribute, boost own attribute, absorb damage dealt, negate modifiers, high critical hit ratio, multiple attacks, cure status ailment, cause status ailment... etc.
Accuracy: attack modifier

01-30: -5 31-45: -2 46-60: -1 61-75: +1 76-90: +2 91-100: +5

PP: mote cost

05-09: 7m 10-15: 6m 16-20: 5m 21-25: 4m 26-30: 3m 31-35: 2m 36-40: 1m

Power: base damage; most Techniques act as one-shot weapons

n\a: no direct damage 01-20: 2B 21-50: 4B 51-90: 6B 91-150: 8B 151-200: 10B 201-250: 12B

Mote cost 1-10(+1w+1h)

Speed: I skipped Speed completely because I don't freaking understand how it works. If someone else wants to suggest a formula I'll take their word for it.

The attack effects gave me the most skullsweat here. Nearly every move has some sort of special effect, and many of them included percentile dice. That's why you'll see a lot of "opponent rolls Resistance; on failure, Status Condition". A diff 1 check represents 01-20% chance, diff 2 21-40%, etc. Things like reflexive\supplemental\scenelong, that jive, I had to pull it from my technicolor butt.

You may be wondering which attacks are "special" attacks, and which are "physical".

        Pokemon
Physical        Special
Normal          Fire
Fighting        Water
Poison          Electric
Ground          Grass
Flying          Ice
Bug             Psychic
Rock            Dragon
Ghost           Dark
Steel

These types have been simplified, but in working up the Movedex I used original Movetype to determine physical\presence as necessary. The Poketype was determined by the TCG (Trading Card Game), although in some cases there were multiple cards for the same Pokemon with different types, so I have no doubt a bit of filtering may end up being necessary. STAB itself was largely arbitrary and based on as much logic as I could muster at the time, as well as random selections from the games.

Pokexalted STAB...
Psychic (weak: metal, strong: fighting)
Fighting (weak: psychic, strong: normal)
Normal (weak: fighting, strong: Electric)
Electric (weak: normal, strong: darkness)
Darkness (weak: Electric, strong: grass)
Grass (weak: darkness, strong: water)
Water (weak: grass, strong: fire)
Fire (weak: water, strong: metal)
Metal (weak: fire, strong: psychic)
Psychic > Fighting > Normal > Electric > Darkness > Grass > Water > Fire > Metal >

Determining the moves at growth levels is a bit finicky. I use Emerald whenever possible, because the moves have been expanded a bit, allowing a more reasonable progression.

  Pokemon                         Pokexalted
-- 	Tackle                 0 - Overgrow (special ability)
4 	Growl                  1 - Growl, Tackle
7 	Leech Seed             2 - Leech Seed, Vine Whip
10 	Vine Whip              3 - Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf
15 	Poisonpowder           4 - Sweet Scent, Growth
15 	Sleep Powder           5 - Synthesis, Solar Beam
20 	Razor Leaf             With no Growth, a Pokemon only has its special abilities: for Bulbasaur, Overgrow.
25 	Sweet Scent            The rule of thumb is intended to be Growth = 10 levels of XP in Pokemon.
32 	Growth                 The other rule of thumb is to provided a rounded allotment across the progression.
39 	Synthesis              Growl and Tackle are basic moves, while Leech Seed and Vine Whip are more powerful.
46 	Solarbeam              I also wanted to keep the Condition attacks on their own tier.  There you have it.

What I did for rarity is I added together the stages for each of the six stats. A Alakazam has a 55 HP, which is stage 2 Health, so that's 2 points; a 135 in Sp.A, which is on the high end of 5 points - you get the picture. Adding all six stages together, you get a quantifiable idea of how powerful the starting Pokémon is. This isn't completely accurate, it ignores Techniques and Abilities, but I'll be damned if I know a fast way to totally balance 387 Pokémon - some of whom don't even start with offensive Techniques at all. Anyway, the stages and end results can still be found in Pokexalted\Dump.

Rarity...

6-12: Rarity 1 (common) In reviewing the Pokedex, you may spot some discrepancies. Things like 13-15: Rarity 2 (uncommon) 001 and 002 being uncommon even though 002 evolves up a step. Evolution 16-18: Rarity 3 (unusual) and Rarity are not on a linear scale. This can be explained in the game 19-21: Rarity 4 (rare) world however you like, but it basically means that I needed a scale and 22-24: Rarity 5 (legendary) that's where the Pokemon in question fit. Yay systems!