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16th May '13 1:25:57 AM AceOfScarabs

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Not true as of Platinum

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* Wonder why a crucial stat of your Pokémon's seems weak for no justifiable reason? That's because of poor Individual Values (essentially, genes), and/or bad Effort Values (essentially, stat-based experience gained when you battle different Pokémon). The existence of these stats is only vaguely alluded to in-game, and fully understanding the process and its various formulas by oneself without hacking and digging deep into the game files is likely an impossible task. Knowing these stats and understanding them is essential for breeding Pokémon for competitive battling. In fact, this is specifically an Internet Guide Dang It, as even Nintendo's official guides include no information on [=IVs=] or [=EVs=]. Game Freak and/or Nintendo seems intent on disavowing their existence and making the games' level-up systems seem more like a standard RPG. It's worth noting that being aware of the EV and IV systems isn't required to beat the core game and even achieve HundredPercentCompletion, but considering that the game alludes to and references the hidden stat systems, it would appear that Game Freak expected some players to know about them at some point.

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* Wonder why a crucial stat of your Pokémon's seems weak for no justifiable reason? That's because of poor Individual Values (essentially, genes), and/or bad Effort Values (essentially, stat-based experience gained when you battle different Pokémon). The existence of these stats is only vaguely alluded to in-game, and fully understanding the process and its various formulas by oneself without hacking and digging deep into the game files is likely an impossible task. Knowing these stats and understanding them is essential for breeding Pokémon for competitive battling. In fact, this is specifically an Internet Guide Dang It, as even Nintendo's official guides include only very vague information on [=IVs=] or [=EVs=]. It's worth noting that being aware of the EV and IV systems isn't required to beat the core game and even achieve HundredPercentCompletion, but considering that the game alludes to and references the hidden stat systems, it would appear that Game Freak expected some players to know about them at some point.
** Bradygames and Prima Guides in Gen IV, particularly for Pokemon Battle Revolution, allude vaguely and indirectly to the EV training system, complete with hints on what to fight for what kind of [=EVs=].

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*** Ever since the Battle Frontiers were introduced in Emerald and Platinum, there has always been an expert breeder who can and will appraise your pokemon. He does not tell the exact [=IVs=], but will give you a vague average of your pokemon's stat potential from "decent all around" to "vastly superior in ability", and will tell you which stat is highest, or which stats are tied for highest.
-->This pokemon has relatively superior potential overall. That's my determination, and it's final. Incidentally, I would say the best potential lies in its HP. Its Special Attack is equally good. It can't be better in that regard. That's how I judged it.
** The Macho Brace introduced in Ruby and Sapphire ''doubles'' the rate at which your pokemon give Effort from battling. However, the games never exactly specify the mechanics behind it.
*** As of Platinum, the Battle Frontier has several Power Trainer held items that are like specialized Macho Braces. They give 4 EV in the stat they embody, and their description explicitly says which stat they help to raise. However, it is not mentioned exactly how much they improve your stat training/growth.
-->Power Lens: A Pokemon held item that promotes Special Attack gain on levelling, but reduces the Speed stat.
** The move Hidden Power is a huge pain because of [=IVs=]. Why, you ask? Because the move's type and damage are both determined by the user's [=IVs=]. Granted, Hidden Power isn't that great of a move overall, with a maximum base power of 70 if your Pokémon was somehow blessed with the best possible [=IVs=]... but when you consider that nearly every Pokémon can learn it and the move's type can be anything except Normal, you kind of understand why it's used a lot as type coverage in competitive battling. On the other hand, ever since Ruby and Sapphire there has always been a Hidden Power specialist in every region who will appraise your pokemon and tell you the Elemental Type of your pokemon's Hidden Power. However he still doesn't tell exactly ''how strong'' that Hidden Power is.

14th May '13 9:46:29 PM Kayube

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This doesn't qualify, it's just being unobservant.

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14th May '13 6:25:58 PM BigKlingy

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7th May '13 2:55:13 PM Dralcax

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7th Apr '13 10:10:19 PM homogenized

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