Checking Pokemon IVs

This is a guide to show you how to determine if your Pokemon has good or bad stats. It is important to note that stats dramatically change the amount of money someone might be willing to pay for a Pokémon, positively or negatively, so it is importanat to understand at least the basics of knowing how to check your Pokemons stats and understanding what they mean.

What are IV's?

IV's stand for individual values. All 6 of a Pokemons stats have its own individual IV. IV's are used to determine how good a stat is compared to how good or bad that stat can be. They can range from 0 (Being the lowest) to 31 (being the highest).

• HP(HP) Shows the amount of health your pokemon has.
• Attack(ATK) Shows the power your pokemon deals using physcial moves.
• Defense(DEF) Shows the resistance your pokemon has against physcial moves.
• Special Attack(SPATK) Shows the power your pokemon deals using special moves.
• Special Defense(SPDEF) Shows the resistance your pokemon has against special moves.
• Speed(SPD) Shows how fast your pokemon is, and based on that decides which pokemon attacks first in battle.

How to check your Pokémon IVs

Step 1

Step 1

Step 2

Begin by writing down your Pokemons stats. You will need all 6, HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed. You can check what these stats are on your own Pokemon by rolling over them with your mouse. If you're trading, simply ask the other person to give you the stats of their Pokemon and write them down. Once you trade it is important that you double check the Pokemon that you are receiving stats. For this guide we'll be using a Milotic.

Step 2

Open up your internet browser and open an IV calculator. For this example we'll use the Veekuns IV Calculator which can be found here : http://veekun.com/dex/gadgets/stat_calculator Because PWO currently doesn't have Natures, Hidden Powers, or Characteristics, they can be left blank from the calculator. The "effort" column may also be left out as there is none in PWO as well. Start by filling out the name of the Pokemon, once you write it down, make sure to select it from the drop down menu that appears. Next enter the level, HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed for your Pokemon. For the Milotic, the blanks should be filled out like pictured.

Step 3

Step 3

Once all your Pokemons stats have been added to the blanks click on "Crunch Numbers". What you will see is something like the image shown here. What you're going to want to look at is the column labeled "Possible genes (IVs)". If we take a look at the "HP" Row, under the "Possible genes" column, we see the pair of numbers, 2-3, so this is the IV for HP. The reason that there's two numbers instead of just one is because the lower the level of your Pokemon the wider range of IV's that stat can become, so what the calculator is telling us here is that by level 99, Milotic might end up with a 2 or a 3 as it's final IV for HP. You can close in the range of the IV's quickly before reaching high levels by filling in the blanks for its new stats for its next level in the next column, in this example it would be in the column "Level 63" which is currently empty. The colored bar in the calculator is simply a visual representation of the IV. The overall description of this Milotic would be that it has great Attack and good speed and defense , bad HP and Special Defense and average Special Attack. Veekun's calculator also provides all your Pokemons IVs at the bottom of the page, so you can simply copy and paste them in the chats.

Shinies and IVs

All Shinies caught in the wild in-game have IV's of 28 or more, whereas shiny Pokémon obtained on the token store are guaranteed 15 ore more IVs, which is one of the reasons why they are so desirable - especially in-game. Here we can see an example of a shiny Crobat, Once we calculated the IV's you can see that his IV bars are all aligned to the right and can and will be over 28 once this Crobat reaches level 99. Its also known that a lot of shinies may go up to the 32^nd IV, this happens occasionally and the Veekun stat calculator will display the IV as being "impossible", so for shinies 28 is the lowest IV and 32 is the highest.

Uber and Epic

Uber and Epic are both different definitions of a Pokemon having good IV's, though they both mean different things, and it varies from person to person what each can mean. A general understanding of what these definitions are, is :

Uber Pokémon - Pokemon with Uber Stats in the necessary areas for that Pokemon to be as competitively viable as possible.

Epic Pokémon - There are two definitions. 1: A Pokemon with 25+ IVs in every stat. 2: A Pokemon with three Uber Stats in random places

Uber Stat - A specific stat with 27+ IVs.

What Stats does my Pokémon Need?

Uber Pokémon means that a Pokémon has good stats in the stats it actually needs the most. That means it doesn't actually have to have all the IV's to be great, but that the good IV's are in the correct places. To try and figure out what Pokémon needs what stats, you will have to open up it's Pokémon page here or in another Wiki. For this example we will be using Growlithe and his page. First of all, you want to determine if your Pokémon uses ATK or SPATK more, to do this, look at it's move-set. Does this Pokémons best move use SPATK, ATK, or both for it's best moves? In the case of Growlithe, both of his best moves, Heat Wave and Flare Blitz, are both special type moves, which means they require Special Attack. So a good Growlithe should have good Special Attack over normal Attack IV's. To figure out if your Pokémon needs speed, you need to look at your Pokémons base speed and see how good it is compared to other Pokémons speed, a Pokémon like Snorlax has horrible Speed, so no matter how good the speed IV is it's always going to be the last one to go so it's not needed as much as other Pokémon. A Pokémon like Joleton who has High amount of base speed compared to other Pokémon, might need the Speed IV to be less as well since no matter what, it's most likely to go faster then half the Pokémon in game no matter what. The Pokémon that need the Speed IV the most are the ones that are just average. The rest if not all of the IV's can be determined from a couple of questions.

1. What kind of attacks is my Pokémon going to take?
If you're more likely to take out you're Pokémon agaisnt Special type Pokémon that use Special moves, then your Pokémon will need SpDef more then Def, if it's the opposite, then you'll need DEF. Snorlax that is a Normal type, and Normal types that are only weak to Fighting, will need good DEF since most fighting Pokémon use ATK based attacks.
2. Does my Pokémon need more of this stat?
If you're Pokémon has a very low amount of that base stat compared to other Pokémon then it most likely doesn't need it.

3. Am I going to use my Pokémon as a tank?
Is the Pokémon you're going to take out going to be used to take on damage and give a lot of damage? For these kind of Pokémon, good HP and DEF/SPDEF is needed.