Official Q & A Thread

[Strype McClaine]

Does No guard work for your team-mates?

 

[Slimi]

Does No guard work for your team-mates?

I don't THINK so....

 

[massi4h]

Well iirc wide lens raises accuracy 1.1x making a 95% accurate move 104.5% accurate not sure about Zoom lens.

No Guard afaik for some reason doesn't work on your partner in 2v2. But a common strategy is to skill swap it onto a pokemon with sheer cold and then they will have a 100% accurate OHKO move. But OHKO moves are cheap and banned in standard play.

 

[Strype McClaine]

Thanks boss.

Minor happy thought.

I love it when my poor natured (+sp def, - def) Special Sweeper Lucario can sweep a Speed Deoxis, a dialgia, and a lucario on pbr over wifi...

Edit: I would like to add a question to this frey,
King's Rock and Razor Fang (?) both add chance-of-flinch to moves.
Does this stack with Flinch causing moves, or essentially add a second roll?

 

[Wii_BrEnDo2007]

whats a iv battle
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[WuddlePook]

whats a iv battle
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It's a battle on wifi where you check your pokemon's stats at level 100. It ensures 100% accuracy when you check a pokemons iv.

 

[Wii_BrEnDo2007]

that sound ****

 

[Ayo]

Basically it is a lvl 100 singles battle (can b double but no difference) were either one or both people use the stat increase from going into a lvl 100 battle to input the stats of the pokemon into an IV calculator. They also use thier nature and now the use of chracrteristic is used aswell as their are certain one that give a high probability of 31 in one Stat (and more is possible).

IV stands for Individual Value and the higher the IV the higher your stat will be at the end of EV traning. The higest IV u can get is 31 and if u fully EV that stat you will have it maxxed out. That is y natuire is also important as there is a +10% boost and -10% reduction in 2 stats (unless u have a netural nature).

 

[Wii_BrEnDo2007]

cool

i iv train but dont iv battle

 

[Ayo]

U cannot train IV's, i think u mean EV train. IV's have a fixed value from the moment it hatches or u catch a pokemon, so there is no way to increas or decrease it

 

[emmspokemon]

ok i need help on wat IVs r and mean
im relly lost here

 

[Wii_BrEnDo2007]

oops sorry!

i r so dumb

 

[WuddlePook]

ok i need help on wat IVs r and mean
im relly lost here

Arcadium asked the same question so I'll just quote what I said.

One question:

I already got what EV means, but IV's are a bit more complicated: I have a new hapinny just hatched, now, how I know that the IV's are in the right way? I used the IV calculator, but I still don't get it.

Theres
http://www.serebii.net/games/ivs.shtml

Individual Values (IVs)

Q: What are IVs?
A: Individual or Diversification Values (IVs or DVs, two names for the same thing) are points that act as a Pokemon's "genes." Every Pokemon has a number between 0 and 31 for each of its stats (HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed) that is hidden from the person playing the game. Every single Pokemon has different IVs, even two Pokemon of the same species. They can never be changed.

Q: How do IVs influence stats?
A: Simply put, the better your IVs, the better your Pokemon's stats. Ever notice how some Pokemon just seem to have an easier time in battles than others? Maybe you raised one Pikachu in a game. Then, starting a new game and catching a new Pikachu, you felt it performed better. The explanation? IVs. Every Pokemon within a species is identical upon catching them besides their IVs. At level 100, an IV equates to 1 stat point added to that stat. So if you have 31s across the board, you will have a very powerful Pokemon.

Q: How do you determine IVs?
A: First of all, you need to check them out before you start training. If you don't, your EVs will influence your stats, making it impossible to determine IVs unless you kept track of your EVs. Anyway, what you do is this. Make sure your Pokemon is at least at level 20. Record all of their stats. If they were hatched from and egg, save the game, use about 15 Rare Candies on it, record the stats, then shut off the game without saving. If you don't have that many Rare Candies, you'll have to train them. Big pain, because you'll have to keep track of EVs as well.

On normal accounts, you want to aim to get high numbers [such as 31 which is the highest you can get].
To make sure your iv's are correct, have someone go on wifi and get into a level 100 single/double battle. You can check the stats there, and since it's at level 100, its 100% accurate. Hope this helped since I'd have a hard time explaining it further.

 

[Ayo]

ok i need help on wat IVs r and mean
im relly lost here

IV stands for Individual Value and the higher the IV the higher your stat will be at the end of EV traning. The higest IV u can get is 31 and if u fully EV that stat you will have it maxxed out. That is y natuire is also important as there is a +10% boost and -10% reduction in 2 stats (unless u have a netural nature).

so if u have a jolteon for example, which if it has a nature that boosts spped, the max that it could get is 394 speed. But u can only reach 394 speed if u have an IV of 31 and u max out the speed EV. Eventually if u have an IV of 0, you will have 31 points less than what it could max out, so in this case, 361.

You can predict the IV of one of the pokemons stats by looking at the pokemons characterisit, however there is a chance the Iv could be 26,17,11 or 0 so be weary wen using this technique.

The 6 you want to learn are:

31HP: Often dozes off
31ATK: Likes to thrash about
31DEF: Capable of taking hits
31SAT: Mischievous
31SDF: Somewhat vain
31SPD: Alert to sounds

but remember there is a chance that it is not 31 all the time.

 

[emmspokemon]

ok i get it a little bit now thanks
but still dont understand