Clearing Pokemon related things.

Mostly due to this:

Note my Pinsir at the top center, and compare to the picture of it yesterday.

Colby noticed this first, and after some searching, it appears that the most recent Pokemon Go update rebalanced everything.  Except Lapras.  Everything else went up or down, making me suspect they decided to choose Lapras as the new standard, and rework the remainder in terms of "how hard should it be for this to beat Lapras."  Here are the details.  The base attack/defense stats of all the Pokemon are adjusted, and so now they have different current cp, different max, and different relative utility.  Quickly plotting a CP CDF compared to Lapras:

Where I've used the CP = (0.095 * sqrt(Stm) * Atk * sqrt(Def) / 10) calculation from here, and truncated at CP_ratio = 1.2, because there's just one that goes up beyond 1.6 (Mewtwo at CP_new = 1.64).

It looks like the new curve is a smoother, more linear trend, with fewer jumps and plateaus.  Not that this is a really rigorous study, mostly I just wanted to see what this curve would look like.

Some links.

• Alola.
• Read this.
• Then click this.
• Red and Asshat.
• Evolution.
• Staying calm.