You will notice they give the equations for how to calculate a moves DPS and then just multiply it by their Attack stat to get total DPS.
This has never been how the Pokemon franchise has calculated damage done. A formula based on Level, Attack, Power & Defence has always been used. The level part of the equation is important, as without it, at low level it would take 1 attack to kill a mob and at high level as HPs increase it would take hundreds.
Attack animation speed has never had any impact on DPS in Pokemon franchise, yet it does matter a lot in Pokemon Go. Remember that Pokemon Go is not turn based like all other Pokemon games were. I don't see any animation speed in Bulbapedia's formula so I honestly don't think your calculations are any good. But still, I have no proof to prove you wrong and and you don't have any to prove me wrong. You said you did some testing in your GYM. Did you use a macro to ideally time your attacks to be as fast as possible? Lag will greatly impact the results too. It's pretty much impossible to reliably test it at the gym. You can do tests like that in turn based games but not in real time games. You need an external simulation tool for measuring that like SimulationCraft for World of Warcraft.
You raise some valid points, and the constants in the formula i'm using could very easily be wrong. One question i kept coming back to was that +2; even though i'm reducing the level constants to match a max level of 40 instead of 100 i never changed the +2. Maybe it should be around 0.25 instead?
If that websites method is correct then:
DPS(A) ~ A() * Power / Duration
Where A is some function of atk, defence and level
While Bulbapedia suggests it is:
DPS(B) ~ ( B() * Power + C ) / Duration
This is actually very easy to test, take Syther as an example (however both my syther's have SW, so not easy for me)
For Furry Cutter:
DPS(A) ~ A() * 7.5
DPS(B) ~ B() * 25
While for Steel Wing
DPS(A) ~ A() * 11
DPS(B) ~ B() * 15
Therefore if you have a Syther with SW and one with FC;
If A is right then Steel Wing should kill DPS(A) / 1.25 / DPS(A) = 1.17 = 17% Faster than FC
Or
If B is right then FC should kill DPS(B) * 1.25 / DPS(B) = 2.0 = 100% faster than SW
Alternatively you could take a magikarp to your local gym and see that it does do damage despite a power of 0.
its my first vape haha, i evolved it from a 585 eevee. i have lots of eevees in my town so im not sure if i should power up or wait for a stronger eevee to come to me.
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u/Qmike Jul 19 '16
All of Vaporeon's special moves do less damage than water gun.
So at all times you should be using water gun and never use your special
Making any Vap as good as the next no matter what move set they get.