Ascension Altar

The Hall of Veterans gives a destination to a pokemon that reached level 100. The Ascension Altar gives the opposite: a restart. A pokemon that reached level 100 with a high Bond can go back to level 1 and earn a permanent Star.

The Star is forever, and it multiplies everything the pokemon already is.

Requirements

Condition	Detail
Level 100	No shortcut underneath.
Bond 85%	About five days of hunting with it. See Bond.
Fewer than 5 Stars	Five is the cap.

Unlike the Hall, the Altar does not require the Apex (Bond 100%), does not refuse pack companions and does not refuse a bought or traded pokemon.

A pokemon that came from another trainer can ascend - but it arrives with Bond at zero (the sale resets it) and climbs on the slower track, the one for pokemon you did not catch. In practice, bonding a bought pokemon takes about three times as long as bonding one you caught yourself.

What a Star is worth

The bonus applies to the species base stats, before level, IVs and EVs. The final number on the card rises a little less than the percentage in the table.

Stars	Base stats
1	+4%
2	+8%
3	+12%
4	+16%
5	+20%

The bonus applies to every stat and enters at the base, alongside rarity, shiny and Bond. That means it multiplies rarity: +20% on an Astral is worth far more than +20% on a Common. Raising a rare pokemon from zero becomes, by a wide margin, the best time investment in the game.

What is preserved

Only the level restarts. Everything that is identity stays:

rarity, shiny and pack seal;
IVs, EVs and nature;
moves, with their tiers and socketed seals;
held items;
Bond (you do not lose the tie you built);
Origin Mark, nickname, skin and the level you obtained it at.

Selling or sending to another character

The Star belongs to the pokemon, not to the trainer. It goes along when you sell, trade or send the pokemon to another character on the same account.

All its Stars stay on it.
Its level does not go back to 1. It only restarts at the Altar itself, when it ascends.
Its Bond goes back to zero, and the next Altar asks for 85% again.
If its level is above the new owner's Badge limit, it fights scaled down until the trainer grows.

The cost

Each Star costs gold and Dust. Both grow with the Star number and with the pokemon's rarity. On the first Star:

Rarity	Gold (1st Star)	Dust (1st Star)
Common	175,000	1,000
Uncommon	262,500	1,500
Rare	350,000	2,000
Epic	525,000	3,000
Prismatic	700,000	4,000
Mythic	1,050,000	6,000
Astral	1,400,000	8,000
Divine	1,750,000	10,000

On the second Star both double, on the third they triple, and so on. An Astral pays 7,000,000 gold and 40,000 Dust on its 5th Star alone. Taking an Astral from 0 to 5 Stars costs 21,000,000 gold and 120,000 Dust in total.

Climbing back is fast

Going from 1 to 100 again does not take as long as the first time. A pokemon below your trainer level hunts with a tailwind, and an ascended pokemon has an even stronger table than the normal one. See Experience and levels.

Where it is

The Altar tab, in the game menu. It shows up early, even for players with nobody eligible yet: you can see the path and what is missing.