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Base Experience

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bonecold1

42 & still not dead
I noticed Geodude's base experience changed from 86 in the first two generations to 73 from the third gen onwards. Has any other Pokemon's changed across the generations?
 
Any new pokemon because they could give EXP in the generations before they appeared! ;) lol I don't really know but how on earth did you notice that??? It seems like something no one would notice because EXP has always been there people take it for granted and don't really look at how much they gain from beating individual pokemon.
 
I don't really know to be honest. I'm sure a few others have changed too. Game freak has been know to change some parts of pokemon's stats etc... due to possibly unknown reasons. It's probably just a little quirk.
 
I noticed it because I've always been unhappy with the online experience calculators. I've yet to see one that gets it exactly right as they're always 1 or 2 experience points out even the guide on this site and even the best guides on sites like Game FAQs for the 1st Generation get the exp points wrong.

I found the base experience for each Pokemon in Diamond and Pearl set up a spreadsheet that can calculate it exactly and tested it while playing Pokemon Red. However when I fought Brock's Geodude it gave me more experience than expected and upon further investigation I found out it changed from 86 to 73.

I'm not sure whether it's the only one or not. It seems odd to me if it is because as far as I'm aware there's no changes in any other of the base stats.
 
I believe that this post and this post will help.
Tell me if the formula there is correct (I'm not Peterko by the way).
 
I use the formula

((Base Exp of Pokemon x Level)x1)/7

to calculate a wild battle with an original Pokemon.

For a wild battle with a traded Pokemon or a trainer battle with an original Pokemon I take the answer above, round it down to the nearest number using the rounddown command on Excel and multiply it by 1.5.

Likewise with a trainer battle with a traded Pokemon I round down the figure directly above and multiply that rounded down figure by 1.5. Most calculators just replace the 1 in the above formula with 1.5 or 2.25 which is why it varies by a point or two.

I'd heard Pokemon traded from a different language version of the game gave a 1.7x stat boost instead of 1.5 but didn't know about the Pal Park stuff
 
I've looked into it further and the base experience was the same for the first 3 generations and it was the 4th generation where things started changing and not the 3rd.

I've checked the Kanto Pokemon and noticed the following

Abra (73 in 1st 3 Gens, 75 in 4th Gen)
Machop (88 in 1st 3 Gens, 75 in 4th Gen)
Geodude (86 in 1st 3 Gens, 73 in 4th Gen)
Omanyte (120 in 1st 3 Gens, 99 in 4th Gen)
Kabuto (119 in 1st 3 Gens, 99 in 4th Gen)
Kabutops (201 in 1st 3 Gens, 199 in 4th Gen)
 
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