How does your attack stat boost the power of moves?

For example: My Ferrothorn uses Power Whip and its attack stat was 312. How much attack would it actually have? How would I calculate it? And also, how does my opponent’s defense stat factor into this?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Let’s start with the brute force formula.

Damage = ((((2Level / 5 + 2)AttackStatAttackPower / DefenseStat) / 50) + 2)STABWeakness/ResistanceRandomNumber / 100

In this the random number is somewhere between 85 and 100, where the 85 value represents minimum damage, while 100 represents maximum damage.

Stat boosts are also calculated in this fashion:-6 levels: 25%-5 levels: 29%-4 levels: 33%-3 levels: 40%-2 levels: 50%-1 level: 66%0 levels: 100%1 level: 150%2 levels: 200%3 levels: 250%4 levels: 300%5 levels: 350%6 levels: 400%

SourceHope I helped!

To calculate damage, this is how you do it:

Damage= ((((2Level / 5 + 2)AttackStatAttackPower / DefenseStat) / 50) + 2)STABWeakness/ResistanceRandomNumber / 100

So, in your case, since you are using power whip, this is the calculation:

Damage = ((((2Level / 5 + 2)312120/ DefenseStat) / 50) + 2)STABWeakness/ResistanceRandomNumber / 100

Random number is a random integer number between 85 and 100, called roll damage. Since you haven’t told me the defending Pokemon, or your Ferrothorn’s level, this is as much as I can tell you.

Hope this helped!