IVs & Stats

🧬 What are IVs?

IVs (Individual Values) are each Pokémon's hidden genes. Every Pokémon is born with a value from 0 to 31 in each of its six stats:

• HP — how much damage it can take before fainting
• Attack — power of physical moves
• Defense — resistance to physical moves
• Sp. Atk — power of special moves
• Sp. Def — resistance to special moves
• Speed — who moves first in battle

IVs never change for that Pokémon — they are rolled once and locked in for life. That's why two Pikachu of the exact same level can have very different stats: one was born with strong genes, the other wasn't.

🏅 The six stats, one mon each

An easy way to remember the six stats — each of these Pokémon is famous for exactly one of them:

💎 Perfect IVs = real value

A PERFECT IV Pokémon has 31 in all six stats. These are rare and genuinely valuable:

• Each perfect-IV Pokémon is worth 75 Collector Score points toward your Collector rank — the same tier as shinies and legendaries.
• Perfect-IV mons sell high on the trade market. Other players actively hunt them for PvP and gym teams.
• They are simply the strongest possible version of their species — a perfect Garchomp will always beat a 0-IV one.

🔍 Where to see IVs

Open any Pokémon's detail view from your team or PC — its six IVs are listed right there, so you can instantly tell a keeper from a coin-fodder catch.

IV Sight (Elite perk)

With IV Sight you can see a wild Pokémon's IVs before you throw a single ball. That changes everything:

• Skip the 12-IV junk and only spend your Ultra Balls on high rolls.
• Hunt selectively in Safari runs and outbreaks — check first, catch second.

🥚 Egg training — the controllable path to great IVs

You can't control wild IVs, but you can control hatch IVs. While an egg incubates in the Hatchery, you can train it:

• Each training session costs 150 coins.
• There are 4 sessions — one each of Attack, Defense, Special and Speed.
• Full training = 4 × 150 = 600 coins per egg.

Training feeds directly into the hatch IV formula. A fully-trained egg hatches with IVs near the 31 caps in its trained stats — dramatically better than an untrained one.

📈 Investment Score — better IVs, rarer mons, more shinies

Every egg has an Investment Score that measures how much love you put into it:

Investment = training × 25 + care interactions + egg EXP ÷ 10

Higher investment doesn't just improve IVs — it improves what hatches and shiny odds:

⚖️ Catch route vs egg route

Verdict: eggs are the IV machine. Catch wild Pokémon to fill your Pokédex, but when you want a near-perfect battler, a shiny, or a legendary — invest in eggs.