History Main / LeakedExperience

* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', the four party members present at the end of a battle get full experience points. Everyone else in the party gets half, even if some of them participated earlier in the fight.

** Playable characters in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' always gain EXP from combat regardless of whether or not they're actually in the party.

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'', characters rejoined the party after the prologue at the main character's level, making it much more efficient to concentrate on leveling him up before returning to the school and starting the game proper.

* In the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series, the skill Watchful (as well as its counterpart Growth in the VideoGame/{{Persona}} series) allows any demon/persona that have it to gain partial EXP even when not in battle.

** The game does this, because it would be flat-out impossible if they didn't; there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters enough characters]] that it would suck the fun right out if you had to level them all individually, and there are many times when a certain character is needed over others.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, any Pokémon sent out into battle receives a share of Exp regardless of whether they participate further. Placing a low-level Pokemon on the front line and swapping it out for a stronger one is a known strategy, although it costs the player one turn to do so.
** The first generation had the "Exp.All" key item that split half the battle experience between all party Pokémon. ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' swapped it for the "Exp. Share" hold item, which is equipped on a single Pokémon and gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience, should they not participate. This remained until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', where experience sharing was changed so every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. Exp. Share also became a key item once again, giving every Pokémon that doesn't participate in battle half of the experience received and making the aforementioned turn-wasting method unnecessary outside of a SelfImposedChallenge.

** Generation V and VII [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Gain_formula changed the series's experience model]] so that the amount of experience gained in battle is related to the level of the opponent ''and'' the victor--before, it was strictly the opponent's level. Bonus experience if the enemy Mon belongs to a trainer, for holding the Lucky Egg, for being traded, for being traded from a different-language game, for Pass Powers...

** In ''VideoGames/TalesOfTheAbyss'', non-active characters gain ''ONE'' experience point after each battle. Makes you wonder why they even bothered.

** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Radiant Dawn]]'' have Bonus EXP that is awarded after battle for completing a map quickly, surviving {{NPC}}s and other stuff. You can award it to any of your characters how ever you see fit and even keep it for later.

* Non-party characters in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' gain experience in order to level up. What they don't get is the attack experience or spirit points needed to level up your [[ActionCommands Additions]] and [[SuperMode Dragoon levels]] respectively.

*** Some hail this as the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome best improvement to leveling up in the entire game]], while [[BrokenBase others complain]] that it will be the end of the game as we know it [[InternetBackdraft and aren't afraid to say so on the official forums.]]

-->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DabwEhA14f0 I believe using all these multipliers on a level 100 Blissey would be instant level 100 for 5 out of 6 EXP groups.]]"

** The first generation had an "Exp.All" item that split half the battle experience between all party Pokémon. ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' swapped it for the "Exp. Share" hold item, which is equipped on a single Pokémon and gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience, should they not participate. This remained until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', where experience sharing was changed so every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. Exp. Share also lost its hold item status and once again gives every Pokémon that doesn't participate in battle half of the experience received.

** Generation V [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Gain_formula changes the series's experience model]] so that the amount of experience gained in battle is related to the level of the opponent ''and'' the victor--before, it was strictly the opponent's level. Bonus experience if the enemy Mon belongs to a trainer, for holding the Lucky Egg, for being traded, for being traded from a different-language game, for Pass Powers...
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DabwEhA14f0 I believe using all these multipliers on a level 100 Blissey would be instant level 100 for 5 out of 6 EXP groups.]]
** To clarify the "instant level 100" - is impossible, as the highest exp you can get is 457,970. ''"This can be done by defeating a level 100 Blissey in a Trainer battle, using an internationally traded Pokémon at level 1 that is holding a Lucky Egg, with Exp. Point Power ↑↑↑, S or MAX active"'' - Depending on the group, a Lv. 1 Pokémon would to grow to either Lv. 87 (Erratic), Lv. 83 (Fast), Lv. 77 (Medium Fast), Lv. 76 (Medium Slow), Lv. 71 (Slow) or Lv. 69[[note]]No joke here[[/note]] (Fluctuating)

* After plowing through 11 missions as Nero in ''Franchise/DevilMayCry 4'', you are given control of Dante, and with him, the exact same amount of [[TechPoints Proud Souls]] Nero managed to accumulate, allowing you to immediately unlock a bunch of Dante's abilities. This applies to level replays as well: if one manages to get some Proud Souls, the other will receive the same amount.

!!Non Video Game Examples:
* The ''Yggdrasil'' video game in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' let players gain extra experience points for helping stronger players. Ainz suspects that the gods the Slane Theocracy worships might be ''Yggdrasil'' players [[TrappedInAnotherWorld transported to the New World]] and the citizens might be levelling up faster by helping their gods.

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' plays the modern incarnation of this trope straight. When the main character levels up, the companions will automatically catch up to one level below him or her the next time you go to camp, even if they've never actually been in the active party.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has a single level progression for the PlayerCharacter and every NonPlayerCompanion following them, meaning that your companions are always the same level as you, even if they stay on the ship the whole time. This leads to some bad FridgeLogic late in the game, when new characters join your crew at a near-endgame level, even though [[GameplayAndStorySegregation story-wise, they are fresh out of the basic training]] (the Sith Inquisitor, for instance, completes his/her trials at level 10, tops, but his/her companion Xalek, who joins immediately after beating the very same trials, starts off at level 47+).

*** Some hail this as the [[MomentOfAwesome best improvement to leveling up in the entire game]], while [[BrokenBase others complain]] that it will be the end of the game as we know it [[InternetBackdraft and aren't afraid to say so on the official forums.]]

** Zig-zagged somewhat in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. There's no leaked experience, but levelling up is a minor part of your characters' power anyway. A bigger impact is made by 'Junctioning', using Guardian Forces and magic spells to boost stats, and the GFs and magic can be transferred to any character.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the main character is reset to level 1 once he reconsiders some important life decisions. However, the main character is usually nearly as strong after the reset as he is before, even though he loses levels, and he gains his first few levels quickly. Once he's been through a few battles, it's actually a common strategy to solo him-- almost everything in the area is weak to the element of his new sword after the level drop-- both because it's easy levels and because of leaked experience. New party members have a set level, but ones that leave and return gain the same experience the main character does while out of the party, and at that point in the game there's only three characters who you've never had in your party (and one of those three doesn't benefit from gaining levels anyway), so almost everyone gains the XP from re-leveling the hero.

** The first generation had an "Exp.All" item that split half the battle experience between all party Pokémon. ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' swapped it with for the "Exp. Share" hold item, which is equipped on a single Pokémon and gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience, should they not participate. This remained until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', where experience sharing was changed so every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. Exp. Share also lost its hold item status and once again gives every Pokémon that doesn't participate in battle half of the experience received.

** The first generation had an "Exp.All" item that split half the battle experience between all party Pokémon. ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver swapped it with for the "Exp. Share" hold item, which is equipped on a single Pokémon and gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience, should they not participate. This remained until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', where experience sharing was changed so every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. Exp. Share also lost its hold item status and once again gives every Pokémon that doesn't participate in battle half of the experience received.

** The first generation had an "Exp.All" item that split half the battle experience between all party Pokémon. ''VideoGame/PokemongGoldAndSilver swapped it with for the "Exp. Share" hold item, which is equipped on a single Pokémon and gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience, should they not participate. This remained until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', where experience sharing was changed so every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. Exp. Share also lost its hold item status and once again gives every Pokémon that doesn't participate in battle half of the experience received.

** The first generation had an "Exp.All" item that split half the battle experience between all party pokémon -- though the amount of text displayed for all six pokémon gaining experience at once easily became an annoyance. The second generation onwards replaced it with the more-effective "Exp.Share" item, which when equipped on a pokémon gives them (and only them) half the battle's experience.

** Starting in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', experience is no longer divided between Pokémon, meaning every Pokémon that participates in a battle gets full experience. It also changed the Exp. Share item so that every Pokémon that doesn't participate gets half of the experience received.

The ability to switch members of your party in battle at any time may have been popularized by ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', although some games predate this usage. ''BreathOfFire'' had this in its [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireI first game]], only to drop it for the [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireII next]] [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII two]]. And made its return in the [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV fourth game]].