[Question] Is this a good balance of fakemon by their BST?

[AwesomeToadUltimate]

I am making a Pokemon fan game that will include fakemon in it and I made a chart of all of the fully evolved fakemon I have currently made by their BST. There are two groups, BST of 500 or higher, and less than 500 BST. I currently have 24 fully evolved fakemon in the BST of 500 or higher group (32 if including Starters, the Legendary, the two new Eeveelutions, and the two Pseudo Legendaries) and currently 15 fakemon in the less than 500 BST group. Most of the three stage lines are in the BST of 500 or higher group, but there are some three stagers in the less than 500 BST group, but the second group is mostly two stagers, with some two stagers in the first. Is this a good balance or not?

 

[StCooler]

Hey,
I don't have an easy response to give you, but I thought I might share some of my "studies" on Pokémon stats.

So I ran through the Pokédex with a script and computed the mean + standard deviation of the base stat total of fully-evolved Pokémons accross the generations.
A precision though: I do NOT consider forms, so no Mega, no strange evolution, no alternative forms are considered here.

So, accross generations, the values evolve like this:

         | Gen 1 | Gen 2 | Gen 3 | Gen 4 | Gen 5 | Gen 6 | Gen 7 | Gen 8|
min      | 377   | 330   | 330   | 384   | 420   | 411   | 300   | 385  |
mean     | 492   | 486   | 487   | 520   | 510   | 519   | 523   | 512  |
stddev   | 53    | 69    | 71    | 67    | 51    | 61    | 67    | 56   |
max      | 680   | 680   | 680   | 720   | 680   | 680   | 680   | 690  |
Min      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |      |
         | 9     | 8     | 9     | 9     | 5     | 3     | 6     | 5    |
Mean-std |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |      |
         | 53    | 38    | 50    | 48    | 63    | 28    | 42    | 41   |
Mean+std |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |      |
         | 7     | 7     | 13    | 11    | 14    | 7     | 9     | 9    |
Max      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |      |

So basically, this table displays the minimal, maximal, average + standard deviation of the base stat totals (first four rows).
The next rows show the numbers of Pokémon between the minimal stat, and mean - standard deviation (sixth row), between mean - standard deviation and mean + standard deviation (8 th row) and mean + standard deviation and maximal total (10 th row).
This is just to gauge the number of Pokémons close to the mean (roughly). You see that most Pokémons have base stat totals close to the mean.

So the mean of the total base stats goes from around 480~490 in Gen 1-3, to around 510-520 in Gen 4-8. We can also see that the maximum base stats do not change through generations, except in Gen 4 where the 720 total stats is Arceus. (Note a tiny increase to 690 in Gen 8, nothing alarming).

The conclusion, is that making fakemons with base stats around 500 is really sound, in my opinion.
Besides I believe that most starters have base stats total around 525, so for me, your fakemons seem balanced.

 

[Lordecoxinha]

It's hard to answer without details. Luxray, for example, has a BST about as high as starter mons, but is really bad. I love it, but it's really bad.

BST don't typically tell a lot about your mons' power level, but when making Fakemon I personally prefer to make their BST around 490 for the great majority. I prefer not to make them numerically strong, but playstyle-focused strong. Ferrothorn's BST is 489, but apparently it's been OU since its release.