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2nd Gen is this true

nosferatu

so you like... stuff?..cool...
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    i heard that even though there isnt any offical male female pokemon (other then nidoran)in red blue and yellow . you can tell if a pokemon is a male or female because if it has a high defence it was female but if it had a high attack it was male is that true?
     
    Ivysaur

    Ivysaur

    Grass dinosaur extraordinaire
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    That's fake. The pokemon have different values depending on the luck (because there were no natures then, either). And if the pokemon has high speed? This is just a joke/way to call these pokemon thought by a very stereotipical guy (girls have more defence, boys are stronger). There is no gender in R/B/Y.
     

    spam

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    ^ I've always thought that in the 1st gen, all Pokemon of the same species had the same stats unless EV trained or something. Also, there WERE gender differences but only between the Nidorans. Other species of Pokemon didn't have genders until GSC.
     

    Lover's Kite

    [b]the age of empathy[/b]
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    Yeah that is fake, even pokemon at the same lv, with the same attacks and caught in the same place still hae diff, stats.
     

    Mewtwo42

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    Definately fake. I don't know where all these far fetched rumors about Red and Blue come from!
     

    dtex9002

    Once-Retired Trainer
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    Actually, you CAN tell if your pokemon will be male of female in Red/Blue/Yellow, when traded to a Gold/Silver/Crystal. Pokemon genders were assigned based on their attack DVs (IVs, w/e) back then. To keep the two generations compatible, the game designers had to ensure any new features in Gen2 (like gender) could function with information from Gen1. So, they arbitrarily decided the Attack DV (IV) would determine gender. (If you're wondering, another example of strange game mechanics used to keep cross generational compatibility was the determination of both special attack and special defense from ONE single gene - the special gene)

    Pokemon species were given gender ratios (for example, most starters have ratios of 87.5% male to 12.5% female) and these ratios determine the range for a pokemon's possible attack gene. In my aforementioned example, a male pokemon would have an attack DV anywhere from 2-15 (remember, DVs only when from 0 to 15 in Gen1 and Gen2) while a female pokemon, of that same species, would have a range from 0 to 1.

    A simpler example would be a 50:50 gender ratio. In this situation, a male would have an attack DV range from 8 to 15, while a female would have an attack DV range from 0 to 7.
     
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