Gotta Compute ‘Em All!—Wolfram|Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon—Wolfram|Alpha Blog
It’s not all abstract algebra and organic chemistry here at Wolfram HQ. From time to time, we like to take a piece of pop culture and put our own spin on the subject. We’ve seen from our server logs that our Pokémon plane curves chromebook are pretty popular. Pokémon X and Pokémon Y , the latest installments in the long-running video game series, will be released on October 12. Given those two facts, we thought it was a good time to add data about Pokémon to Wolfram|Alpha. In many ways, Pokémon are an ideal subject for a computable chromebook knowledge engine. They have a set of well-defined characteristics with lots of numbers to which we can apply our analytic capabilities. Heck, Pokémon come complete with their own unique chromebook identifiers from the game’s internal database, the Pokémon Index, or Pokédex .
Satoshi Tajiri came up with the initial idea for Pokémon in 1990. As a young man growing up on the outskirts of Tokyo, he loved hunting for insects as well as the burgeoning culture of anime, manga, and video games. He put these passions together to create an imaginary world of wild creatures with a wide array of powers that could be collected and trained chromebook by humans to compete in duels. With his colleague Ken Sugimori , who drew the visual art for the original 151 Pocket Monsters , Tajiri created chromebook the first two video games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue . They were a big hit, starting a worldwide franchise that extended into comic books, collectible card games, television, and movies. In addition to adding information about the various Pokémon species, we’ve also added data about the video games , the shows , and some of the Pokémon and human characters that have appeared in them.
Pokémon have six statistics that form the basis for how they perform chromebook in battle: hit points , attack , defense , special attack , special defense , and speed . As with other numerical values in Wolfram|Alpha, you can refer to them by name in equations or query them with conditions or with ordinals.
In addition to their basic stats, Pokémon have abilities and properties that affect how well they match up against their opponents. We’ve grouped the Pokémon chromebook according to their abilities , their type , their generation , and their color . These collections are linked in the main display, so you can simply click them to see other Pokémon that share that characteristic. You can also ask about properties in conjunction with these groups. Let’s say your collection is weak in flyers and that you also need to train up a Pokémon with a strong special chromebook attack. Wolfram|Alpha can help you assess your options.
One of the key drivers of the game’s action is the evolution of Pokémon. When a Pokémon has accumulated enough experience and, in some cases, has a specific item or is in a specific location, it will transform into a more powerful Pokémon. We link these predecessor and successor forms in the physical characteristics pod along with other information like the Pokémon’s height and weight and the gender distribution in its population.
Under the category “Statistics” it states “(base statistics at initial level)”, which is incorrect. The base stats are a component that the game uses to calculate a Pokemon’s statistics that is consistent throughout all Pokemon of the species. There are many other factors taken into account when calculating stats, and a Pokemon’s chromebook stats at base level are between 3-7 for nearly every Pokemon.
Ben, thank you for your response. You’re chromebook right, starter Pokemon don’t begin at level 1. I’ll revise the comment to clarify that these are base statistics which have a variety of modifiers for any individual Pokemon of the species.
Wow, this is amazing stuff. If you also have a database for what the moves and items do, it might actually be possible to use mathematica to do Pokemon battle simulations!
There are algorithms chromebook in the games to determine whether or not you’ll catch whatever wild Pokemon you’re battling as well as damage calculators, and having those available to search would be really awesome!
Could items and how they effect stats be worked in? Maybe also some info about EV’s (Effort Values) as well? ie: If I fight a certain Pokemon, which EV’s will it increase? Nature’s can change stats as well. So if we search for “Alakazam at level 50 with Timid nature” could we get the stats calculated?
I think what I would use the most is what types each Pokemon are strong against and weak against. This is the information I look at most when playing a Pokemon game. There being so many nowadays, it is hard to remember the types of each one. Being able to just search for “what is strong against Scraggy?” would be awesome.
It would be fantastic if
It’s not all abstract algebra and organic chemistry here at Wolfram HQ. From time to time, we like to take a piece of pop culture and put our own spin on the subject. We’ve seen from our server logs that our Pokémon plane curves chromebook are pretty popular. Pokémon X and Pokémon Y , the latest installments in the long-running video game series, will be released on October 12. Given those two facts, we thought it was a good time to add data about Pokémon to Wolfram|Alpha. In many ways, Pokémon are an ideal subject for a computable chromebook knowledge engine. They have a set of well-defined characteristics with lots of numbers to which we can apply our analytic capabilities. Heck, Pokémon come complete with their own unique chromebook identifiers from the game’s internal database, the Pokémon Index, or Pokédex .
Satoshi Tajiri came up with the initial idea for Pokémon in 1990. As a young man growing up on the outskirts of Tokyo, he loved hunting for insects as well as the burgeoning culture of anime, manga, and video games. He put these passions together to create an imaginary world of wild creatures with a wide array of powers that could be collected and trained chromebook by humans to compete in duels. With his colleague Ken Sugimori , who drew the visual art for the original 151 Pocket Monsters , Tajiri created chromebook the first two video games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue . They were a big hit, starting a worldwide franchise that extended into comic books, collectible card games, television, and movies. In addition to adding information about the various Pokémon species, we’ve also added data about the video games , the shows , and some of the Pokémon and human characters that have appeared in them.
Pokémon have six statistics that form the basis for how they perform chromebook in battle: hit points , attack , defense , special attack , special defense , and speed . As with other numerical values in Wolfram|Alpha, you can refer to them by name in equations or query them with conditions or with ordinals.
In addition to their basic stats, Pokémon have abilities and properties that affect how well they match up against their opponents. We’ve grouped the Pokémon chromebook according to their abilities , their type , their generation , and their color . These collections are linked in the main display, so you can simply click them to see other Pokémon that share that characteristic. You can also ask about properties in conjunction with these groups. Let’s say your collection is weak in flyers and that you also need to train up a Pokémon with a strong special chromebook attack. Wolfram|Alpha can help you assess your options.
One of the key drivers of the game’s action is the evolution of Pokémon. When a Pokémon has accumulated enough experience and, in some cases, has a specific item or is in a specific location, it will transform into a more powerful Pokémon. We link these predecessor and successor forms in the physical characteristics pod along with other information like the Pokémon’s height and weight and the gender distribution in its population.
Under the category “Statistics” it states “(base statistics at initial level)”, which is incorrect. The base stats are a component that the game uses to calculate a Pokemon’s statistics that is consistent throughout all Pokemon of the species. There are many other factors taken into account when calculating stats, and a Pokemon’s chromebook stats at base level are between 3-7 for nearly every Pokemon.
Ben, thank you for your response. You’re chromebook right, starter Pokemon don’t begin at level 1. I’ll revise the comment to clarify that these are base statistics which have a variety of modifiers for any individual Pokemon of the species.
Wow, this is amazing stuff. If you also have a database for what the moves and items do, it might actually be possible to use mathematica to do Pokemon battle simulations!
There are algorithms chromebook in the games to determine whether or not you’ll catch whatever wild Pokemon you’re battling as well as damage calculators, and having those available to search would be really awesome!
Could items and how they effect stats be worked in? Maybe also some info about EV’s (Effort Values) as well? ie: If I fight a certain Pokemon, which EV’s will it increase? Nature’s can change stats as well. So if we search for “Alakazam at level 50 with Timid nature” could we get the stats calculated?
I think what I would use the most is what types each Pokemon are strong against and weak against. This is the information I look at most when playing a Pokemon game. There being so many nowadays, it is hard to remember the types of each one. Being able to just search for “what is strong against Scraggy?” would be awesome.
It would be fantastic if
