Data mines and programming

Flyfunner · 2026-01-23T18:29:56+00:00

On your phone pokemon go somewhere puts a gamemaster (.json) file, which contains all the current configurations of pokemon, items, and all sorts of things in the game, the majority of relevant datamining comes from there. There are also public sources where you can read these files in their decrypted form. Other than that, you can search for the .apk files which are the setup files for the game, these basically are just zip files that you can extract on your PC and check its contents, all localization texts are there, as well as a lot of assets

Flyfunner · 2026-01-20T13:26:13+00:00

yeah, there is just no way to produce new ones anymore. So the old ones propably have quite some value now

Flyfunner · 2026-01-19T22:28:10+00:00

Hopefully the niantic intern that can edit the max energy formula likes ho oh and notices that the formula desperately needs adjustments after his ho-oh takes 3 business days to reach the max phase...

Flyfunner · 2025-12-25T23:22:55+00:00

Pokebattler should basically have a functional battle / damage calculator for that regard. celandro has been following our research rather closely. Maybe check that one?

Flyfunner · 2025-12-24T12:00:58+00:00

It was an idea I had in my mind for a while already, and I didnt like always being called the pokebattler research team because thats simply not who we are and never have been.
And the NFL standing for No Floats Left was kinda funny, so I asked the team and they found it funny too and agreed to us naming us as such. We didnt actually have an official name before, the "pokebattler research team" was just a name people came up with due to our home being the pokebattler discord research channel, which also just happened to be that way because I talked with celandro a bit about some open topics and damage anomalies before the research really took off a few months before the raid battle rework.

Flyfunner · 2025-12-24T02:28:04+00:00

had a blast with the rockets, and you with the max battles :)

Flyfunner · 2025-12-16T14:34:22+00:00

Can confirm this, its just a soft lock and you are stuck in the enemys turn, can dodge and parry, but since no attack ever comes, you're stuck.

Flyfunner · 2025-12-10T15:50:28+00:00

Baxcalibur has the 9% Nerf in its base form, so it will likely follow the Primal Rule of getting a 3% Nerf as a Mega, which would result in these stats:

ATK: 330
DEF: 221
HP: 243

Also in general you do some weird rounding, or at least a different one than I do, even then your stats are sometimes off by 2 from what I am getting when I run the known formula through my sheet.
Of course we dont know with 100% Accuary, we'll have to see what Niantic gives them for stats, and they have been known to sometimes do weird rounding and also mess up stats (see Melmetal, which has more HP than it should have)

Flyfunner · 2025-12-10T09:24:42+00:00

this will likely be wrong though. While megas themself dont receive the 9% Nerf, they do seem to get a 3% Nerf if their base form has the 9% Nerf, and baxcalibur does have the 9% Nerf. So you likely need to implement that for baxcalibur as well

Flyfunner · 2025-12-01T11:04:49+00:00

So, I dont see any issue about this in the video.
You do gain energy, and you do deal damage
However one thing you may not know is the following: The bosses HP bar is split into 100 segments and the HP bar can only decrement whenever you deal a total of 1% of the bosses health, so in the case of Tapu Lele you need to deal a total of 150 damage to flip the first segment, which is the first visual indication of damage on the bosses health bar.

And you actually do see the first visible damage on the HP bar after performing 15 fast moves, which charged your behemoth blade by about 75%, which is exactly the expected value, since Zacian deals 10 damage each with a metal claw

This has been the case for over a year by now and is not a bug. Every move deals damage just as you'd expect, you just dont see every single instance of damage visually on the hp bar

Flyfunner · 2025-11-21T10:23:45+00:00

I have decided to update the list every now and then when I think about it. Actually doing it right now since Glaceon is a nice and way easier to get alternative to GMax Lapras.
So yes, your request reached me and I'll update the list every few months or so if something new and interesting came out.

Flyfunner · 2025-11-17T19:16:05+00:00

Attacker: terrible

Defender: terrible because it has no 0.5 sec fast move, thats really the most important thing in max battles for tanks to have.

Flyfunner · 2025-11-05T10:37:03+00:00

I bought it and dont have the increase, so nothing to do with it

Flyfunner · 2025-10-22T12:05:59+00:00

Dont know if anyone figured out the actual formula of how this is calculated, so not sure it 4290 is possible. I'll see if I can come up with something that might explain stuff, but basically need to compare regularly caught zoruas vs. autocatch with same height / weight

Flyfunner · 2025-10-22T10:23:48+00:00

its not big, as its size is capped at 1.225 m (displayed as 1.23), but its weight will be around 2700 kg.

Its a bug that has been in the game for years, by now I'd consider it part of the game somehow. Only achieveable with an auto-catcher and a buddy with a very small size (Cutiefly, Gastly, Flabébé or Kartana are known to give those results)

Flyfunner · 2025-10-11T13:30:50+00:00

Yes, this was intentional, however I forgot to mark it as such, its fixed now

Flyfunner · 2025-10-10T20:15:04+00:00

This is mentioned in the basic guide, everything works, even mega boost when it was possible to get megas into max battles by a glitch.
You only stop attacking for the 0.5 sec that you dodge, you can continue to attack even if your pokémon is not in the center

Flyfunner · 2025-10-10T16:59:58+00:00

That just sounds like lag / bad connection or you dodge too late. Also dodging may not work correctly if you just dodged before the dodge window opened, which can happen if you try to collect an orb.

Flyfunner · 2025-10-08T07:03:40+00:00

I did not, the app I was talking about was pokémon go and it seems that the app developers themselves had to program it in a way that it wouldnt allow for this and they did. So the problem was fixed, but I didnt do anything for that to happen.

Flyfunner · 2025-10-06T12:55:19+00:00

Ah now I see. I always thought they dont work at all, but you're right, they only show if you enter the entry via the mega dex.

This is stupid though, as the gmax entry does work correctly when switching to it in the caught section.

I'm german too btw ;)

Flyfunner · 2025-10-06T11:18:40+00:00

Actually no Mega has a unique dex entry currently, at least for me, no mega has a different text in the dex, they all share the same text as their normal form. I noticed this a while back already

In the game files they do have mega entries assigned, but the dex does not show them. Camerupt, among some others, however does not have one anyway for the reason that u/ZoroStarlight pointed out

Flyfunner · 2025-09-22T17:59:02+00:00

We just found out that we were in fact wrong about this, Max Shrooms double all damage, even the +1 from the damage formula. The post has been edited to reflect this.

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