Power up

Power up is a game mechanic in Pokémon GO that allows Trainers to strengthen their Pokémon by increasing their CP level. It has no effect on the Individual Values.

Powering up Pokémon in the first 40 levels consumes Stardust and Candy with amounts depending on their level. Each Power Up increases the level of a Pokémon by 0.5. Trainer can Power Up their Pokémon to their Trainer levels + 10, which implies that Trainers only need to be level 30 to get a Pokémon at level 40.

Powering up Pokémon to level 40.5 through 50 consumes Stardust and Candy XL. Similarly, Trainers at level 40 can make their Pokémon reach the max level 50.

Powering up

In order to power up desired Pokémon open Pokémon summary page accessible from Pokémon collection page and to do so:

1. in Map View touch Main Menu button
2. touch Pokémon button

After opening page of Pokémon selected to power up, there is a Power Up button with amount of required Candy and Stardust displayed next to it. There can be three instances of this button and its label:

• Power up button is green and tappable if player has a required amount of resources,
• Power up button is faded and cannot be tapped, and any of displayed resource amounts are red if player has not a required amount of any resources,
• Power up button is not displayed at all if selected Pokémon reached its maximum level.

Power up button with the amount of required resources: 600 Stardust and 1 Candy

Simply by tapping power up button a prompt pop-up will appear to confirm action. After confirming the action a quick animation will run, required number of resources will be consumed and Pokémon's CP and HP will increase.

Since game version 0.173.0, Trainers are able to power up their Pokémon to the desired CP by using all the required Candies and Stardust at once.

Power up costs

The cost increase as each Pokémon level increases. Amounts of Candy and Stardust required to next power up is a good way to determine the Pokémon level since this value is hidden.

Lucky Pokémon only require half of the Stardust cost to power up and Purified Pokémon take 10% less of both Stardust and Candy. The discounts can be stacked, thus Lucky Purified Pokémon costs 45% of the origin cost.

The tables below record the power up costs to the next half level.

Level 1 to 39.5

Level	Stardust	Candy	Total Stardust	Total Candy
1	200	1	200	1
1.5	200	1	400	2
2	200	1	600	3
2.5	200	1	800	4
3	400	1	1200	5
3.5	400	1	1600	6
4	400	1	2000	7
4.5	400	1	2400	8
5	600	1	3000	9
5.5	600	1	3600	10
6	600	1	4200	11
6.5	600	1	4800	12
7	800	1	5600	13
7.5	800	1	6400	14
8	800	1	7200	15
8.5	800	1	8000	16
9	1000	1	9000	17
9.5	1000	1	10000	18
10	1000	1	11000	19
10.5	1000	1	12000	20
11	1300	2	13300	22
11.5	1300	2	14600	24
12	1300	2	15900	26
12.5	1300	2	17200	28
13	1600	2	18800	30
13.5	1600	2	20400	32
14	1600	2	22000	34
14.5	1600	2	23600	36
15	1900	2	25500	38
15.5	1900	2	27400	40
16	1900	2	29300	42
16.5	1900	2	31200	44
17	2200	2	33400	46
17.5	2200	2	35600	48
18	2200	2	37800	50
18.5	2200	2	40000	52
19	2500	2	42500	54
19.5	2500	2	45000	56
20	2500	2	47500	58
20.5	2500	2	50000	60
21	3000	3	53000	63
21.5	3000	3	56000	66
22	3000	3	59000	69
22.5	3000	3	62000	72
23	3500	3	65500	75
23.5	3500	3	69000	78
24	3500	3	72500	81
24.5	3500	3	76000	84
25	4000	3	80000	87
25.5	4000	3	84000	90
26	4000	4	88000	94
26.5	4000	4	92000	98
27	4500	4	96500	102
27.5	4500	4	101000	106
28	4500	4	105500	110
28.5	4500	4	110000	114
29	5000	4	115000	118
29.5	5000	4	120000	122
30	5000	4	125000	126
30.5	5000	4	130000	130
31	6000	6	136000	136
31.5	6000	6	142000	142
32	6000	6	148000	148
32.5	6000	6	154000	154
33	7000	8	161000	162
33.5	7000	8	168000	170
34	7000	8	175000	178
34.5	7000	8	182000	186
35	8000	10	190000	196
35.5	8000	10	198000	206
36	8000	10	206000	216
36.5	8000	10	214000	226
37	9000	12	223000	238
37.5	9000	12	232000	250
38	9000	12	241000	262
38.5	9000	12	250000	274
39	10000	15	260000	289
39.5	10000	15	270000	304

Level 40 to 49.5

Level	Stardust	Candy XL	Total Stardust	Total Candy XL
40	10000	10	280000	10
40.5	10000	10	290000	20
41	11000	10	301000	30
41.5	11000	10	312000	40
42	11000	12	323000	52
42.5	11000	12	334000	64
43	12000	12	346000	76
43.5	12000	12	358000	88
44	12000	15	370000	103
44.5	12000	15	382000	118
45	13000	15	395000	133
45.5	13000	15	408000	148
46	13000	17	421000	165
46.5	13000	17	434000	182
47	14000	17	448000	199
47.5	14000	17	462000	216
48	14000	20	476000	236
48.5	14000	20	490000	256
49	15000	20	505000	276
49.5	15000	20	520000	296

Trivia

• Before the introduction of level 50 from GO Beyond, Trainer could power up their Pokémon to their Trainer levels + 2 only. Therefore, Trainers needed to be level 38 to max out a Pokémon.