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Yes, but like I said, the IV judge doesn't tell you what your IVs are, it only gives you phrases you need to interpret. Using the calculator gives you the exact numbers, more importantly, you can see what your IVs are at a glance you you don't need to go anywhere.
Okay, let me explain it further, you're breeding a Hasty Pichu, you get one set of stats and the calculator tells you it's Hp and Def at 31, then another pichu the calculator tells you it's Sp Att and Speed are 31, as you're breeding you get more and more IVs at 31 so within a few pokemon you know it's stats at level 20 should be 44/27/15/25/25/38 in order for it's IVs to be 31. If you get 39/27/15/25/25/32 you know immediately that it's HP and Speed are not 31 so you can chuck that one and don't need to go anywhere or interpret any phrases at all, and while you're breeding in order to get to the pokemon with 4 or 5IVs you want you could potentially get 4 or 5 different phrases for each egg you hatch and if you're breeding one pokemon it's not that big of a deal, but when you start hatchign 30 or 60 pokemon at a time it's extremely cumbersome keeping track of all the various pokemon with their various stats while you're trying to find one with enough IVs to swap out the parent for, whereas if you use the calculator you know exactly and immediately what each pokemon has so there's no needing to run around trying to find out what is what.
Also, there's a few isntances where you DON'T want every stat at 31, there's a few specific circumstances that you want to have a stat as low as possible (such as pokemon that use Gyro Ball) or getting certain pokemon that won't be using their Att stat so you would get that as low as possible in order to reduce damage from getting confused. Basically, I just think it's better to see your Ivs in black and white rather than guessing based on phrases. I get what you're saying about it being 31, but still, knowing is still better than guessing. And in addition to that, the IV spread is chosen before the egg is generated, if you save before the egg is made, run around until one is created, you hatch it, use the IV caclulator to see what it's exact IV spread is and it's not correct for the pokemon you're breeding, but it IS correct for a different pokemon you can swap them to get what you want.
To go even further, you save before the egg is generated, run around until it's generated and see that the offspring has 5 IVs in everything but Sp Att and you're breeding Pichu, that's not very good. HOWEVER, you are breeding a Kangaskhan which WOULD benefit from that spread, so simply reset, swap the parents so that a Kangaskhan is born and the same IV spread that the previous Pichu was born with will be on the Kangskhan instead so that not the Kangaskhan has everything but Sp Att.
I know that was long, but I hope it was clear
