31 Iv

[Prylace]

Ok now that I know what IV is I'm wondering how it's possible to get a Pokemon with the max IV of 31.

Wouldn't you have to have a Pokemon with a naturally high number in a stat to get it's IV 31? So for the most part couldn't you only get single stage Pokemon to have a 31 in a stat seeing as how any non single stage isn't going to have a very high stat as it's first stage... unless you breed a single stage evolution with some other Pokemon of course..

But this all leads me to the question "Which Pokemon are capable of getting a 31 IV without cross breeding?" So that you can start crossbreeding the 31 IV to other Pokemon

Maybe there's already a list out there, if so someone please point me the right way.

Or maybe I completely misunderstood how IV works and this entire post has made absolutely no sense to someone that really knows how it works. :surprised

[Mr Cat Dog]

You're kinda in the right direction. IVs are partly inherited from parents... so it does help to have parents with high IVs. But... since we can get Pokemon with 31 IVs and with the parents not being 31, there is a bit of luck involved as well. It is mainly down to parents, but since we can get perfect IVs from non-perfect parents, luck comes down.

Also, IVs are decided when you capture the Pokemon, and stay with them all throughout their existance. They don't grow. So... a Bulbasaur has 26 HP EVs, the Venasaur shall still have a HP IV of 26.

Hope that helps clear things up a bit ^_^

[Prylace]

Well what I'm wondering mostly is how is it possible to get certain Pokemon to have a high IV?

Here's an example... in Sapphire I bred 27 Abra trying to get one with the Nature I wanted.. I just checked all of them (I kept all of them in my PC to keep track of how many I had bred) and the highest stat I see is 15 in Special Attack and 15 in Speed.

How would it be possible to get an Abra with a 31 in any IV?

[tmbjr]

Well what I'm wondering mostly is how is it possible to get certain Pokemon to have a high IV?

Here's an example... in Sapphire I bred 27 Abra trying to get one with the Nature I wanted.. I just checked all of them (I kept all of them in my PC to keep track of how many I had bred) and the highest stat I see is 15 in Special Attack and 15 in Speed.

How would it be possible to get an Abra with a 31 in any IV?
I'm no good on matters this deep, but statistically speaking, if the max number of IVs possible is 31, then breeding 32 baby pokémon (a pokémon can have 0 IVs for a stat) and taking the one with the highest number in the stat you want would give you its maximum IVs...but then again, in order to have a pokémon with maximum IVs in all 6 stats would be 1 in 192.

I dunno how much this post helped (if it did at all), but I tried.

[Toothache]

Actually, the odds for getting all 6 IV stats at 31 is 1 in 107,371,824.

50% of the IVs a child gains are passed on from it's parents, the other 50% are decided randomly. You'd need a serious amount of luck to get 31 IV in all 6 stats.

[Mr Cat Dog]

Well what I'm wondering mostly is how is it possible to get certain Pokemon to have a high IV?

Here's an example... in Sapphire I bred 27 Abra trying to get one with the Nature I wanted.. I just checked all of them (I kept all of them in my PC to keep track of how many I had bred) and the highest stat I see is 15 in Special Attack and 15 in Speed.

How would it be possible to get an Abra with a 31 in any IV?
One word: Luck. As Toothy said, 50% is parental, 50% is luck. That why you should always try and get wild Pokemon with high IVs to breed with beforehand really.

[Prylace]

I'm not sure how much luck it is with some Pokemon ... more of an impossibility. (Without cross breeding of course.. but I have no idea which Pokemon have high IV's to start out with)

I bred a lot of Abra and I caught even more Abra one time trying to get a Twisted Spoon. I had around 2 and a half boxes full of Abra (all caught) and they all had about the same stats, with small exceptions for Natures. (You figure I would have got the Nature I wanted in catching 2 1/2 boxes of Abra, but I had to resort to breeding to get a Timid Abra -.-)

With just about any Pokemon I've caught more than one of it always seems like their stats aren't based on a loose scale from a very low number to a very high number, it seems like their stats will always be about the same when caught. Maybe a 1-2 point difference now and then (without factoring in Natures).

Here's a new question: Has anyone ever had a Pokemon with even one IV of 31? And if so, please say which Pokemon and how it happened.

[Mr Cat Dog]

Special Attack 31 IV Feebas - caught in the wild. And it was Modest!!! XD So.. it can happen. But remember - it is 50% luck. If you get Abra with relatively high IVs, say 23/24, you can still get some with 31 in the luck factor. Also - what level are the Abra in the box? If they're below level 20, the stats are virtually useless. Put them in daycare then go to gamefaqs.com for the IV formula - I can't remember it XD

[monmashq]

Does shuckle count as 31 IV?
Cause i breed them with 31 IV's in SP DEF!

[Toothache]

I guess since you're new here, I'll let you have the benefit of the doubt. There is a rule about reviving old topics over a month old, so I'll be locking this.

And I think you mean that the Special Defence stat is 31, rather than the IV value. The IV is a hidden and random variable, which you have to work out to find out. There are a couple of programs online which can tell you the IVs of your Pokemon (as long as you know the EV, another hidden set of variables)