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brightknightie) wrote2017-01-21 08:28 pm
brightknightie) wrote2017-01-21 08:28 pm
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100% IV pokémon in PokéGo
There's been some chatter around TrainerTips lately regarding 100% IV pokémon, because TrainerTipsNick caught a wild 100% IV omastar (wow). They're fun to have! I happen to have 5 (listed below). Yet it's important to understand that unless we're powering them all the way up, "100% perfect" is only a vanity license plate. It confers no advantage in gym bouts. It plays no role in moveset distribution. It's just kinda neat. ;-)
As you probably know, of course, each individual pokemon's stats come from an equation of her own current level, the stats shared in common by all her species, and her personal Individual Values (IVs).
IVs are a kind of static bonus above a pokemon's base species values and changing level. IVs range from 0% (0 attack, 0 defense, 0 stamina) to 100% (15 attack, 15 defense, 15 stamina) "perfect." Like size (and, coming soon, gender!), they never change for that individual pokémon. In "letter grade" form, IVs are what you get when you ask your team leader to appraise your pokémon. Your trainer level is the ceiling on your pokémons' maximum levels (I think it's .5 beyond your level, but I should check; BenTimm recently revealed a trick for jumping that curb). And naturally 0% and 100% pokémon are equally likely/unlikely in the wild (incubated eggs are another story).
So: we can have a 0% pidgie who is stronger than a 100% pidgie, if the 0% pidgie is a sufficiently higher level than the 100% pidgie. The difference is that the 100% pidgie's potential maximum stats are significantly higher than the 0% pidgie's.
My own 5 100%s are: beedrill, rapidash, starmie, tauros, and arbok.
I haven't yet powered up any of these 5, and I don't regularly deploy any of them in gyms, though I will grab them when prestiging (that is, using pokémon with half or less than the defender's CP to maximize the prestige earned when training friendly gyms). Some learned poor movesets. Some are species that have no real use in gyms at this time. Some are both! ~wry~
Now, my awesome 100% starmie actually got the best possible defending moveset for a starmie, so maybe I will spend the stardust on her someday, because it would be fun to see her on top of a gym. But... (1) I have a lot of defenders stronger than any starmie ever could become, (2) I need those candies and stardust to power up her lower-but-still-good-IVs brother starmie who learned the best attacking moveset, because starmies are the most effective water attackers (ever since vaporeon got nerfed as an attacker; vaporeon is still the strongest water-type defender, and the fifth strongest of all released Gen1 defenders).
Similarly, my cool 100% beedrill got the best possible moveset for both attack and defense (as measured in damage per second), but that moveset is divided between bug and poison moves, making it hard to deploy for type advantage and same-type attack bonus (STAB), and... well, beedrill is only the fifth most effective poison-type attacker, and sixth-most effective bug-type attacker, and ranks nowhere as a defender.
100% arbok, 100% tauros, and 100% rapidash are really just "trophies" — pure vanity.
But, still, kinda neat! ;-)
How about you, fellow trainers? Any 100% IV pokemon on your squads? Or do you have much better things to do than feed data into PokeAssistant? :-D
As you probably know, of course, each individual pokemon's stats come from an equation of her own current level, the stats shared in common by all her species, and her personal Individual Values (IVs).
IVs are a kind of static bonus above a pokemon's base species values and changing level. IVs range from 0% (0 attack, 0 defense, 0 stamina) to 100% (15 attack, 15 defense, 15 stamina) "perfect." Like size (and, coming soon, gender!), they never change for that individual pokémon. In "letter grade" form, IVs are what you get when you ask your team leader to appraise your pokémon. Your trainer level is the ceiling on your pokémons' maximum levels (I think it's .5 beyond your level, but I should check; BenTimm recently revealed a trick for jumping that curb). And naturally 0% and 100% pokémon are equally likely/unlikely in the wild (incubated eggs are another story).
So: we can have a 0% pidgie who is stronger than a 100% pidgie, if the 0% pidgie is a sufficiently higher level than the 100% pidgie. The difference is that the 100% pidgie's potential maximum stats are significantly higher than the 0% pidgie's.
My own 5 100%s are: beedrill, rapidash, starmie, tauros, and arbok.
I haven't yet powered up any of these 5, and I don't regularly deploy any of them in gyms, though I will grab them when prestiging (that is, using pokémon with half or less than the defender's CP to maximize the prestige earned when training friendly gyms). Some learned poor movesets. Some are species that have no real use in gyms at this time. Some are both! ~wry~
Now, my awesome 100% starmie actually got the best possible defending moveset for a starmie, so maybe I will spend the stardust on her someday, because it would be fun to see her on top of a gym. But... (1) I have a lot of defenders stronger than any starmie ever could become, (2) I need those candies and stardust to power up her lower-but-still-good-IVs brother starmie who learned the best attacking moveset, because starmies are the most effective water attackers (ever since vaporeon got nerfed as an attacker; vaporeon is still the strongest water-type defender, and the fifth strongest of all released Gen1 defenders).
Similarly, my cool 100% beedrill got the best possible moveset for both attack and defense (as measured in damage per second), but that moveset is divided between bug and poison moves, making it hard to deploy for type advantage and same-type attack bonus (STAB), and... well, beedrill is only the fifth most effective poison-type attacker, and sixth-most effective bug-type attacker, and ranks nowhere as a defender.
100% arbok, 100% tauros, and 100% rapidash are really just "trophies" — pure vanity.
But, still, kinda neat! ;-)
How about you, fellow trainers? Any 100% IV pokemon on your squads? Or do you have much better things to do than feed data into PokeAssistant? :-D