December 5, 2016. Posted by: Alex Wong
Niantic announced on social media that it have now changed how Combat Power in Pokemon Go is calculated. Combat Power (CP) indicates how strong a Pokemon is. The higher the number, the stronger it is. CP consists of several factors, but the two main factors are overall attack and overall defense.
In the past, Niantic used a certain formula that factored in a Pokemon's defense, attack, and health. Unfortunately, the way Niantic's formula worked caused a number of balancing issues, with a few select Pokemon being overwhelmingly more powerful than the rest of the available Pokemon.
People often complained about the state of this game's balance over social media, calling on Niantic to weaken the current top tier Pokemon in Pokemon GO.
In this latest change, Niantic has not changed the formula; instead, they had changed the values that get plugged into the formula. This has lead to numerous Pokemon that were previously weak becoming much stronger. This change has been received overwhelmingly positively, with people glad to see Niantic finally balancing the game.
I am happy that Niantic is finally beginning to fix some of the more critical issues that are currently hampering this game. For a very long time, the way CP was calculated made for very stale gameplay, with very few of Pokemon being valuable. I am now more inclined to catch Pokemon I previously believed to be too weak to do anything meaningful.
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