level 17

[Yoshi Mitsu]

pokemon that are experianced in game under 17 and reach level 17 only get 1 xp therefore impossible to experiance any sort of pokemon pass this level tried it with many different pokemon in the lighter and darker story and previous updates of the game 1.1.4 1.1.5 and 1.1.3

[Ryan Kelly]

Are you on hard difficulty? Hard difficulty has a level cap which works like this.

[Denis Kochik]

It's the difficulty cap, take it off hard.