Experience

Experience, or exp, is what determines a Pokémon's level and when it will level up. Experience is primarily earned via defeating enemy Pokémon, though can be earned by other methods such as the Joy Ribbon. A player can see their active Pokémon's current and needed experience in the menu, or the team panel shown by a percentage. When in a party, experience will be gained by each member in a party when a Pokémon is defeated, and the explorer kit's party tab shows the experience percent of any party members' active Pokémon. Experience a player gains from a party member is reduced to 1 at a certain distance when there's a gap over 15 between the player and the member who defeated the Pokémon.

Each Pokémon has a base experience yield when defeated. They are in line with the yields in the main series games. Level of defeated Pokémon is also a factor in how much experience is gained on defeat. Experience gained is halved when a Pokémon is defeated using only the basic attack, meaning the use of no moves or items. Pokémon will not provide any experience whem fainted by indirect sources of damage such as status conditions, move recoil, weather, mini-counters, or a level 100.

Level[]

Pokémon will level up when the experience threshold for their current level is met. The highest level a Pokémon can be is 100. Level in Pokémon Mystery Universe has a factor in damage dealt, stats, and recruitment chance. Many Pokémon need to be at a certain level in order to evolve, or learn moves. A Pokémon's level can be seen in the team panel or Chimecho Assembly. Dungeons can temporarily change the levels of the Pokémon in the team, or disable gain of experience.

Players cannot directly see each other's levels, however when a player is clicked, a message will show in the chat, saying that the Pokémon is either "much" or "slightly" more or less experienced than you, or has about the same experience, depending on your active Pokémon's level.

Level Difference	Message
5 or less	This Pokémon appears to be slightly more experienced than you.
5 or less	This Pokémon appears to be slightly less experienced than you.
6 or more	This Pokémon appears to be much more experienced than you.
6 or more	This Pokémon appears to be much less experienced than you.
None	This Pokémon seems to be about as experienced as you.

Leveling up can be prevented for the active Pokémon if it holds an Everstone. Level can be decreased or increased if a Doom Seed or Joy Seed is consumed by the active Pokémon.

Experience Per Level[]

Each Pokémon has their respective experience group, but each experience group uses the required experience from the medium slow group. The table below shows the amount of experience needed to level up from the respective level.

Level	Experience
1	4
2	8
3	16
4	27
5	38
6	99
7	155
8	215
9	339
10	437
11	543
12	651
13	783
14	943
15	1136
16	1368
17	1647
18	1983
19	2388
20	2876
21	3463
22	4170
23	5021
24	6047
25	7281
26	8768
27	10558
28	12713
29	15309
30	18434
31	22197
32	26729
33	32186
34	38757
35	46670
36	54000
37	55500
38	57000
39	58500
40	60000
41	61500
42	63000
43	63605
44	68147
45	72900
46	77868
47	83058
48	88473
49	94119
50	100000
51	106120
52	112486
53	119101
54	125971
55	133100
56	140492
57	148154
58	156089
59	164303
60	172800
61	181584
62	190662
63	200037
64	209715
65	219700
66	229996
67	240610
68	251545
69	262807
70	274400
71	286328
72	298598
73	311213
74	324179
75	337500
76	351180
77	365226
78	379641
79	394431
80	409600
81	425152
82	441094
83	457429
84	474163
85	491300
86	508844
87	526802
88	545177
89	563975
90	583200
91	622950
92	643485
93	664467
94	685900
95	707788
96	730138
97	752953
98	776239
99	800000

Training[]

Training is an action that involves repeating dungeons for the sole purpose of gaining experience points and levels for the desired Pokémon. While considered a game mechanic it isn't referenced specifically in the game itself.

Items[]

Generally training involves use of items to increase experience gain. Their experience boost affects all team members when held, and have an effect even when held by a Pokémon that has Klutz. Available items include:

Beginner Band. Gives a +5% experience boost, and also gives the holder +5 to all stats (excluding HP). Obtained from Grassroot's Kecleon Shop, in exchange for 750 Poké.
Wonder Chest. Gives a +10% experience boost. Obtained from Meesa's Shard Exchange at the Greenport Bazaar in Archford, in exchange for 125 Yellow Shards. Also obtained from any Tanren Chambers B99F exit, and as a drop from Mew in Mysterious Jungle.
Miracle Chest. Gives a +20% experience boost. Obtained from Tanren Chambers Normal B99F exit's Grand Box, and the end boxes of Sky Fortress' Garden path.

There are some held items that gave +50% experience, but only during certain periods:

(these items no longer works even during thier specific dates as of the latest version of the game)

Heart of Chocolate (Melted Chocolate when inactive), during February.
Lucky Easter Egg (Unlucky Easter Egg when inactive), during April.
Sleigh Bell, during winter Holiday Cave.

There are also family items for certain Pokémon families that increase experience gain by +10% for pokemon's of that family. A full list can be found here. These items must be kept in the bag like all other family items. Held items that boost experience stack with family items, but not with other held items. If two or more experience-boosting items are held, the effect is cancelled out completely.

Training also commonly involves use of items to increase Pokémon spawns:

Honey is a consumable item that spawns five Pokémon randomly across the floor upon use.
Summon Traps are a consumable item that place down a Summon Trap, which spawns five Pokémon when stepped on by an enemy Pokémon, typically surrounding the trap's activation point. Obtained primarily from Tanren Chambers.

Dungeons[]

Dungeon choice for training is most commonly influenced by length, difficulty of completion and type advantage. For recommendations, see Community:Training Locations.