CP rebalancing

[healingmirth]

As posted a couple hours ago on the official Facebook page

Trainers,

We have made adjustments to the CP (Combat Power) of various Pokémon. Some Pokémon, such as Alakazam, Rhydon, and Gengar will have their CP increased. Others will have their CP lowered. These changes will allow a more balanced and competitive battling and training experience in Gyms. We will continue to adjust the CP going forward to improve the game balance when necessary.

The Pokémon GO team

Some early gathering of data on what's changed in these two threads: (in case you, like me, noticed the big changes, but not so much on rarer or less used species.)

https://m.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5e5w56/cps_balanced_submit_the_cp_changes_here_ill_try/
https://m.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5e5r7y/comment/da9vhh3

Comments

[healingmirth]

Anyone else discover this happened when they went to train up a gym and their Pokémon were in all the wrong places? While standing on a windy street corner and maybe not wearing the correct gloves for the excursion? No? Just me?


I was already mostly parking vaporeons in gyms, cause that's what I have that's high enough CP to hang with the in crowd. Our gyms here are mostly snorlax/dragonite/vaporeon already, and I don't see this changing that much.

[raisedbymoogles]

Oh thank God it's not just me, I thought my game was glitched.

I'm still bitter as hell about my Weepinbell losing over a hundred CP right before I had enough Candies to evolve it though.

[healingmirth]

Ha, yeah. I definitely had a moment of ...is this not my account?

Plants do seem to have gotten punted in this update, and I'm not sure why, as everything I've seen here in gyms already had them slightly lower than their competition. My condolences, but I hope you enjoy your evolution anyway - it might even be a better trainer matchup!

[raisedbymoogles]

There are SO MANY WATER POKEMON in the gyms in my area, you don't even know. ARGH.

...well, at least my Tangela got a nice boost, so there's that.

[serpentine]

...That explains my Vaporeon's sudden jump in CP because last time I checked, it was still hanging out around 1900 CP, not over 2000.

[jack]

Wait, Snorlax and Vaporeon got stronger? Those were already my top, with lapras. That's ok for me, but I don't know why it makes things more diverse *shrug*

[havocthecat]

Oh, I know. I do know. Life is like an unending sea of vaporeons over here, to the point that all my vileplume and victreebells (and my one lone lapras) are the only thing autosuggested to use in gym battles. So boring. So, so boring.

[havocthecat]

I did notice that the two gyms near my present location suddenly had rhydon in them, probably thanks to the power-up. I doubt it will last long; they're weak to water types and that's what everyone here plays with.

[ephemera]

Oh, so *that's* what happened to my Lickitung who was previously a really neat 1000 and now - is lower, and not tidy (nd also other stuff, but that's the one that had me wondering if I'd gone nuts!)

[malnpudl]

I am in mourning for my beloved plants, all of which lost a lot. And, by the way, that's where I've invested a lot of stardust. All of which is now worth less. I am sad. I am a very sad Mal.

On the other hand, I just went for a walk and FINALLY got a Tauros worth keeping -- CP of 1933 and good IV with a great moveset. That was significant comfort.

[malnpudl]

Also: I just noticed that my Arcanine who's been parked in my local gym for several days is still showing his original CP level (2552) when I go into the gym and swipe to his screen... but when I look at him on the screen with all my other mons, he's showing his new, reduced CP level (2428). WEIRD. Is it not possible for them to adjust a mon's CP until it's kicked out of the gym? Or... something? *headscratch*

[healingmirth]

I saw some people floating the idea that niantic purposely didn't adjust the displayed CP in gyms so as to not topple how a gym is currently stacked up. Like they're respecting either our supposed strategy in defender orders, or at least the effort it took for the top defenders to power up and place their best available at the time.

But I feel like it's more likely that defenders are just stored in the database in a manner that they couldn't be bothered to change without breaking the game ;) The journal was also reporting cp when captured, not updated CP. Maybe gyms are similarly just storing the line of data that tells it trainer name/Pokemon/iv/moveset. I can't imagine each individual captured Pokemon has a unique identifier that syncs in any sense.

Which reminds me, I was watching as a gym of mine fell a couple days ago, and even after the gym popped up with the new team, it took well over a minute for my fainted defender to be returned to me.

[malnpudl]

Ah, okay, that makes sense, yeah. I think your theory is definitely the way to bet. Thanks.