Game mechanics

How the numbers work. Everything here is taken straight from the game's code.

Battle

Once a second, every Pokémon you own attacks the enemy at once (except the ones in the Day Care). You don't pick a team.
You can also tap the enemy for click attack, up to 20 times a second.
Defeat the enemy for ₽ and EXP; then a ball may be thrown by your auto-catch rules.

Pokémon attack

Each species has a base attack, worked out once from its official stats (Attack, Sp. Atk, Defense, Sp. Def, Speed and HP). A Pokémon's attack is then:

attack = (base × (1 + breeding % ÷ 100) + Protein bonus) × level ÷ 100, then × card bonus, held item, Shadow state and regional attack.

Against an enemy, that is multiplied by the type effectiveness (with any gem upgrades), and all your Pokémon are added together. X Attack makes the total ×1.5.

Pokémon	Base attack	Lv 50	Lv 100	Lv 100, bred 4×
Pikachu	43	21	43	86
Charizard	142	71	142	284
Snorlax	172	86	172	344
Mewtwo	235	117	235	470

Click attack

click = (1 + number of Pokémon you own + number of shinies you own) ^ 1.4

Types and levels don't matter for clicks. It is raised by achievements, X Tap (×1.5) and the Rocky Helmet. For example: 10 Pokémon → 28, 100 → 639, 386 → 4,195. A purified Shadow Pokémon counts twice.

Routes

Routes are ranked by difficulty. Enemy level, HP, ₽ and tokens all grow with that rank. A Pokémon with more HP than the route's average gets a little more (±10%). You need 10 defeats on a route to move on.

Route	Rank	Enemy level	HP	₽ per defeat	Tokens per catch
Route 1	1	20	20	≈20	5
Route 8	13	62	7,537	≈146	67
Route 23	25	83	39,421	≈289	135
Johto Route 32	30	90	65,651	≈351	225
Johto Route 44	42	105	153,798	≈505	323
Green Path	48	111	225,000	≈584	373
Hoenn Route 111	56	119	333,618	≈692	560
Hoenn Route 120	68	130	545,232	≈856	691
Hoenn Route 132	80	140	822,530	≈1,023	823
Cave Poké Spot	83	142	1,500,000	≈1,066	857

Every route's own page has its exact numbers.

Catching

Each Pokémon has a catch chance from its species' catch rate (rate^0.75, ±3% each time).
The ball adds its bonus (Great +5%, Ultra +10%); the Steady Hand Lab Item adds more. A Master Ball always catches.
Catching a Pokémon you already have still pays Cave Tokens — so set a ball for "Already caught" too.
Which ball is thrown is set in ITEMS → AUTO-CATCH: new shiny, new Pokémon, owned shiny, owned. If you run out of a ball, the next weaker one is used.

Pokémon	Poké Ball	Great Ball	Ultra Ball
Pidgey	63%	68%	73%
Pikachu	51%	56%	61%
Snorlax	11%	16%	21%
Mewtwo	2%	7%	12%

EXP and the level cap

Every defeat gives EXP to every Pokémon you own: enemy base EXP × enemy level ÷ 9 (×1.5 for trainers' Pokémon).
Pokémon caught join at level 1. Evolving by level happens on its own; you keep the old Pokémon and gain the new one.
Your badges set the level cap: (badges + 2) × 10, up to 100.

0 badges: Lv 20 · 1 badge: Lv 30 · 2 badges: Lv 40 · 4 badges: Lv 60 · 6 badges: Lv 80 · 8 badges: Lv 100

Multipliers

Gain	Raised by
EXP	Achievements, Lucky Egg, EXP Share
₽ from battles	Achievements, Lucky Incense, Amulet Coin
Cave Tokens	Achievements, Token Magnet
Click attack	Achievements, X Tap, Rocky Helmet
Pokémon attack	Breeding, cards, gems, held items, X Attack

All of them multiply each other. Battle items last 30 s of play per use.

Currencies

₽ Pokédollars — from every defeat. Shops, Lab Item levels, card upgrades, quest refreshes.
Cave Tokens — from every catch (even ones you have). Pay to enter dungeons.
Quest Pearls — from quests and story steps. Safari Zone, egg slots, card packs, special shop items.
Farm Petals — from harvests. Farm plots, farm shop, farm hands.
Diamonds — from selling Underground treasures.
Battle Points — from the Battle Frontier. Its shop.
Pinkan Berries — grown on the farm. Officer Jenny's Pinkan trades on the Pinkan Reserve.
Gems — from defeats, once you have the Gem Case. Type upgrades.

While you are away

Up to 24 hours count.
You earn 50% of the ₽ you would have earned on the route you were on (Route 1 if you were in a town), based on how fast your team wins there. No EXP, catches or defeats count.
The farm keeps growing (no mutations), and free card packs keep coming.
Best: leave the game on the hardest route your team still beats quickly.

Roaming Pokémon

A roaming Pokémon can show up on any route of its area instead of a normal wild Pokémon: 1 in 8,192 on the area's easiest route, up to 1 in 4,096 on its hardest. One route at a time has ×3 the chance; it changes every 8 hours (the map shows which).

Area	Pokémon	When
Kanto	Mew	from the start
Johto	Raikou Entei	after step 4 of Three From the Fire
Orre	Ho-Oh	after step 27 of Sand and Shadow
Hoenn	Latios Latias Jirachi	the Latias or Latios you didn't catch, as Southern Wings goes on; Jirachi after step 9 of A Thousand-Year Star
Sevii & Orange Islands	Raikou Entei Suicune Pink Butterfree Ash's Butterfree	the beasts after The Two Gems (Suicune once you own it); the two Butterfree once you are Orange League Champion

Shadow Pokémon

In Orre, Team Cipher's trainers use Shadow Pokémon: Pokémon with their hearts shut.

You can catch one from its trainer. Set a ball for the NEW SHADOW rule in ITEMS; Rui shows you this during Sand and Shadow.
A Shadow Pokémon has 80% of its attack. If you already own that species, yours turns Shadow too.
The Purify Chamber on Relic Stone opens during Sand and Shadow. The EXP your Shadow and purified Pokémon gain fills it as Flow, even at the level cap. A full chamber purifies one and empties.
A purified Pokémon has 120% of its attack, and counts twice for your click attack.
Each purified Pokémon makes the next one need more Flow: 1,500 after 0, 1,688 after 1, 2,923 after 5, 5,727 after 10, 17,384 after 20, 260,870 after 50.
Joy, Excite and Vivid Scent give more EXP, only to Shadow and purified Pokémon (see held items).

Everything here comes straight from the game's data, so it always matches the current version of Gotta Tap. Gotta Tap is a fan game; Pokémon belongs to Nintendo, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company.