Haven't been here in a while, ever since the whole Salamence fiasco I kind of left here, but with the B/W metagame coming up, I'm really stoked for it.
This DOES contain some B/W information, so if this is in the wrong board or I need to put HIDE tags on the stuff on Gen V please let me know. My thoughts are that since it's not speculation, but rather statistics, this board would work.
Anyway, what this thread is about. In the last few days I was looking at the base stats of Gen V and, to me it seemed obvious that there is power creep going on, with all these base 120+ Attack and SpAttackers everywhere. So I decided to find out if this was true. Nothing more than taking averages and such, but still, statistics intrigue me, and so does Pokémon, so I wasn't going to let my question go unanswered.
What I found was pretty surprising. I don't have time to go into detail, as I have class in less than twenty minutes, but my basic question was answered: the Pokémon series IS having power creep, however, contrary to my thoughts, the biggest power creep to date was from Gen III to IV, not IV to V. In fact, Generation V, for the most part, counteracted the creep experienced by IV, but not back to pre-Gen IV levels.
Again, I don't have time to state everything, and in fact, I'm still not done, I still have to compute the averages for all fully-evolved Pokémon as separate generations, but when I get done with that I'll post an updated file. Here's the link to my work so far, it's a 2007 Excel spreadsheet, and I'll try to upload a pdf file as soon as I can:
http://www.2shared.com/file/cmx6Kapj/pokemonpowercreep.html
I don't know if these findings will help at all, or even if they're findings, if you already knew this information. I just wanted to contribute this in the chance this hasn't been looked at. Feel free to post your own findings.
This DOES contain some B/W information, so if this is in the wrong board or I need to put HIDE tags on the stuff on Gen V please let me know. My thoughts are that since it's not speculation, but rather statistics, this board would work.
Anyway, what this thread is about. In the last few days I was looking at the base stats of Gen V and, to me it seemed obvious that there is power creep going on, with all these base 120+ Attack and SpAttackers everywhere. So I decided to find out if this was true. Nothing more than taking averages and such, but still, statistics intrigue me, and so does Pokémon, so I wasn't going to let my question go unanswered.
What I found was pretty surprising. I don't have time to go into detail, as I have class in less than twenty minutes, but my basic question was answered: the Pokémon series IS having power creep, however, contrary to my thoughts, the biggest power creep to date was from Gen III to IV, not IV to V. In fact, Generation V, for the most part, counteracted the creep experienced by IV, but not back to pre-Gen IV levels.
Again, I don't have time to state everything, and in fact, I'm still not done, I still have to compute the averages for all fully-evolved Pokémon as separate generations, but when I get done with that I'll post an updated file. Here's the link to my work so far, it's a 2007 Excel spreadsheet, and I'll try to upload a pdf file as soon as I can:
http://www.2shared.com/file/cmx6Kapj/pokemonpowercreep.html
I don't know if these findings will help at all, or even if they're findings, if you already knew this information. I just wanted to contribute this in the chance this hasn't been looked at. Feel free to post your own findings.