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  • I've had thoughts about using it to mark various IVs, but I've never used it in practice. I guess it's an easy thing to forget.
     

    Calamitastrophe

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    Nowadays, I use them for IVs like everyone else. Back in D/P, I just used them to as labels to tell me which batch of eggs a baby came from.

    Like, if a Pokemon was part of the first 5 eggs, they'd have the first symbol marked. If they were in the fourth batch of eggs, they'd have the 4th symbol marked, etc.
     

    KittenKoder

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  • I have seen people use them for maxed IVs, but I prefer to give each symbol a meaning, like the heart means it's one of my favorites, the square means a solid IV spread, star means it's great in battle, the diamond means there's a mega stone for it ... etc. That way I can just set the filter to which ones I am looking for and it makes finding them easier if I lose them in some random box.
     

    braixen

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  • i use them to note what ivs are perfect on the pokemon i breed, like a lot of people do. before i started doing that i didn't really use them for anything.
     
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    I've only used them once in all my games. It was to mark a Glameow I bred for a friend that had a specific nature. Outside of that, I didn't see much use to them. Any Pokemon I want to mark as special goes into a special box or gets a nickname to differentiate them from others of the same species.
     
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    For what you do I think boxes would be better, because that's what I do for those criteria. I think the markings would be hard to look through.

    I use them for IVs.
     
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    Before the latest gen I never used them for anything...but I've started marking my main team pokemon I've EV trained with a heart and a star to make sure I never mix them up.
     
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