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Detecting IVs & the IV Checker!

Briefly introduced in Pokémon Emerald, the IV Checker character was heavily expanded upon in Black & White and has now become a very useful tool for the more competitive players of Pokémon. Judging your Pokémon, he will give you a statement which will reveal an awful lot about your Pokémon and how strong it is based upon it's Individual Values.

Now, as I'm sure you're all aware, each Pokémon has a range of IVs which are hidden from your view; a little calculation is required to find out your Pokémon's IVs. However, this does require a lot of time and usually the Pokémon's stats to be as near to Level 100 as possible where the variation in IVs becomes a lot more clearer. This isn't always feasible, especially when you're breeding Pokémon for competitive use. There has to be an easier way of finding out the IVs than to painsakingly level your Pokémon up without introducing EVs. Thankfully, there is!

For more information on what IVs & EVs are, please visit our page on Competitive Battling!

Now, the first port of call you will use to see what IVs your Pokémon has is to take a look on it's status page to reveal what it's Characteristic is. Your Pokémon's characteristic plays a huge part in IVs, as it will always be related to your Pokémon's highest IV (or one of them if your Pokémon has equal IVs in different stats). To elaborate, say your Pokémon has IVs of 20-13-30-30-24-21, your Pokémon may have either "Sturdy Body" or "Highly Curious" as it's Characteristic, where as if your Pokémon has IVs of 10-31-12-20-11-9, it will always have a Characteristic of "Likes to Thrash About".

To find out what your Pokémon's characteristic could relate to, please view the table below;

HP
Attack
Characteristic IV Value Characteristic IV Value
"Loves to eat" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 "Proud of its power" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
"Often dozes off" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 "Likes to thrash about" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31
"Often scatters things" 2 7 12 17 22 27 "A little quick tempered" 2 7 12 17 22 27
"Scatters things often" 3 8 13 18 23 28 "Likes to fight" 3 8 13 18 23 28
"Likes to relax" 4 9 14 19 24 29 "Quick tempered" 4 9 14 19 24 29
Defence
Special Attack
Characteristic IV Value Characteristic IV Value
"Sturdy body" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 "Highly curious" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
"Capable of taking hits" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 "Mischevious" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31
"Highly persistent" 2 7 12 17 22 27 "Thoroughly cunning" 2 7 12 17 22 27
"Good endurance" 3 8 13 18 23 28 "Often lost in thought" 3 8 13 18 23 28
"Good perseverence" 4 9 14 19 24 29 "Very finicky" 4 9 14 19 24 29
Special Defence
Speed
Characteristic IV Value Characteristic IV Value
"Strong willed" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 "Likes to run" 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
"Somewhat vain" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 "Alert to sounds" 1 6 11 16 21 26 31
"Strongly defiant" 2 7 12 17 22 27 "Impetuous and silly" 2 7 12 17 22 27
"Hates to lose" 3 8 13 18 23 28 "Somewhat of a clown" 3 8 13 18 23 28
"Somewhat stubborn" 4 9 14 19 24 29 "Quick to flee" 4 9 14 19 24 29

Now, this comes in particularly useful in the next bit of working out your IVs. Speaking to the character, he will give you a statement broken into two parts; the first part will be based on your Pokémon's total IVs added together, the second part will be to do with your highest IV.

The first statement will consist of one of four statements; "This Pokémon's potential is decent all around.", "This Pokémon's potential is above average overall.", "This Pokémon has relatively superior potential overall." and "This Pokémon has outstanding potential overall.". If your Pokémon's total IV count (add the IV values together) is between 0 and 90, you will get the first statement (Decent). If your Pokémon's total IV count is between 91 and 120, you'll get the second statement (Average). If your Pokémon's total IV count is between 121 and 150, you'll get the third statement (Superior), and if it's above 150 (up to a maximum of 186) it'll be the final statement (Outstanding).

The second statement he will make will be in relation to the stat that your Pokémon has the highest IV in. He will name that stat, giving an opinion of it as being either; "It's rather decent in that regard.", "It's very good in that regard.", "It's fantastic in that regard." and "It can't be better in that regard.". If your Pokémon's highest IV is between 0 and 15, you'll get the first statement (Decent), if it's between 16 and 25 you'll get the second (Good), if it's between 26 and 30 you'll get the third (Fantastic) and if it's an IV of 31, you'll get the fourth statement (Can't be better).

However, if your Pokémon shares a highest value, he will name those statistics. So, if you had a Pokémon with an IV of 31 in HP, Defence and Special Defence, he will mention those stats before stating that they "Can't be better in that regard". Very useful for finding out just how good your Pokémon is.

Page written by f3raligatr.

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COMMENTS
anson97328 on Tue Oct 23 01:22:50 2012.
Do that guy appears after e4?Cuz i can't see this guy now,i'm at the 7th gym now

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