Advancement

Your character in KoL increases in level when a certain score is reached in a given stat. In order to increase a stat that character must gain experience in the stat through adventures, booze, food, or spleen items (for more details, see Muscle Substat, Mysticality Substat and Moxie Substat).

Each class has a primary, secondary, and tertiary stat:

	Seal Clubber	Turtle Tamer	Pastamancer	Sauceror	Disco Bandit	Accordion Thief
Primary	Muscle		Mysticality		Moxie
Secondary	Moxie	Mysticality	Muscle	Moxie	Muscle	Mysticality
Tertiary	Mysticality	Moxie	Moxie	Muscle	Mysticality	Muscle

The amount of experience required to advance one point in a given stat is equal to 2n + 1, where n is the current score in the given stat. The experience points gained from battle are usually distributed in a 2:1:1 ratio; the main stat for the character's class receives the larger portion of the gains.

For example, if a player were to gain 16 stat points from a battle, the experience could be distributed as follows:

Muscle	Mysticality	Moxie
Seal Clubber & Turtle Tamer	Pastamancer & Sauceror	Accordion Thief & Disco Bandit
You gain 8 Beefiness. You gain 4 Mysteriousness. You gain 4 Sarcasm.	You gain 4 Beefiness. You gain 8 Wizardliness. You gain 4 Smarm.	You gain 4 Strengthliness. You gain 4 Enchantedness. You gain 8 Cheek.

Many things can affect the way experience gained:

• The RNG is used to distribute the total stat points gained among the 3 stats, so they are rarely in a perfect 2:1:1 ratio.
• Refer to Monster Level for a list of all items and effects that raise Monster Level, and in turn, give more experience per fight.
• Refer to Stat Gains from Fights for a list of all items and effects that give more experience per fight.
• Refer to Stat gain multipliers for a list of all items and effects that increase experience gains from all sources.

Advancement Requirements Overview

This table shows how many stat points a character needs (in the primary stat) in order to advance to a certain level, and how many substat points are needed to achieve those stats.

To get to level x, you must get (x − 1)² + 4 of your main stat. To get to main stat level y, you must get y² total substats. As a result you need 2y + 1 substats for your next main stat increase.

The total substats required for level x are ((x-1)²+4)² or, if you prefer, x⁴-4x³+14x²-20x+25.

To move from level x to level x + 1, you must gain 4x³ − 6x² + 20x − 9 substats.

To move from mainstat a to mainstat b, you must gain b²-a² substats.

Similarly to move from mainstat a to mainstat a+x, you must gain x²+2xa substats.

Level	Achieved At Stat	Total Sub-Point Cost	From Last Level
1	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	5	25	16
3	8	64	39
4	13	169	105
5	20	400	231
6	29	841	441
7	40	1600	759
8	53	2809	1209
9	68	4624	1815
10	85	7225	2601
11	104	10816	3591
12	125	15625	4809
13	148	21904	6279
14	173	29929	8025
15	200	40000	10071
16	229	52441	12441
17	260	67600	15159
18	293	85849	18249
19	328	107584	21735
20	365	133225	25641
21	404	163216	29991
22	445	198025	34809
23	488	238144	40119
24	533	284089	45945
25	580	336400	52311
26	629	395641	59241
27	680	462400	66759
28	733	537289	74889
29	788	620944	83655
30	845	714025	93081

When you ascend you start with 9 substats in your primary stat, 4 in your secondary, and 1 in your tertiary, so you only need to gain 16 substats to reach level 2.

This is because your stats start at 3/2/1, and all stats start with no substat points.

Notes

• On June 3, 2005, the ratio in which substat points were normally distributed was changed from 3:2:2 to the current 2:1:1, which effectively increased the rate of leveling, while decreasing the rate of increase of secondary stats.
• It is possible to drive a stat down to 0 (by using a bottle of goofballs, eating ghuol guolash, etc.). The game will display 1(0) in that instance.
• As a limitation of using 32-bit integers to store substats, the maximum level someone can attain is 256.

See Also

• Delevel

External Links

• The chart showing substats for each level in graphical form looks like this