Roy did not hide it. "I only know that a Professional-level Trainer's six Pokémon must be able to form a sufficiently mature team battle system." "That's right. A team battle system is indeed one of the assessment criteria."
Heavenly King Luo nodded and smiled. "However, the prerequisite for all of this is that all six Pokémon must reach Professional-level... You've probably heard the rumor that 'an A-rank overall evaluation is the basic requirement for challenging the gates of Professional-level,' right?"
"Then do you know what another name for an A-rank overall evaluation is?" Without waiting for Roy to guess, Heavenly King Luo immediately revealed the answer. "A—A-rank means Species Limit Tier."
"If all of a Pokémon's potential is unearthed, it can reach A-rank."
"And potential depends on the individual Pokémon, but even more so on its... species."
"Even if they both fully unlock their potential, the Pokémon with greater potential will undoubtedly be stronger."
"To make it easier to distinguish strength, once Pokémon with high species potential reach Species Limit Tier, they are classified as A+."
"The difference between A+ and A is merely the species' potential."
Heavenly King Luo's words reminded Roy of a setting from the games.
Species base stats.
As the name implied, they were the potential values of different species.
Pseudo-legendary Pokémon had species potential values as high as 600 in the games, comparable to many Tier 2 gods. That was why they were called pseudo-legendaries.
At the same level, Pokémon with higher base stats held advantages in every attribute.
Fully unlocking species potential... Did that mean max level?
A-rank was level 100 in the games?
Was Professional-level the world beyond max level?
Some of Roy's doubts had been answered, but even more questions arose. "You mean Professional-level is a realm above Species Limit Tier. But