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There's an infamous underflow glitch in Pokemon R/B/Y.

The minimum level for a Pokemon in the game is lv. 2. If you get a lv. 1 Pokemon (need to use another cool glitch for that), and that Pokemon gains EXP that's not enough to hit lv. 2, underflow occurs and it gets billions of EXP, and hits lv. 100 immediately.




Not on every pokemon species. It depends of their growth rate[1], which need to be "medium slow".

It has been corrected starting from the gen 3 (and it explains why your starters & eggs starts at level 5 instead of 1).

[1] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Relation_t...


Ah, you're right. The link on that page under Experience underflow clarifies it.




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