PokemonGo #15. We're gonna rock down to Electrike Avenue

Hi Colly,

IVs do stay the same BUT apps like calcy IV and also Pokegenie give you a best guess at IV percentage. Because for one CP and Level combo there may be a variety of actual combinations of Attack, Defese and Stamin stats.

Based on that the overall percentage shown is usually the weighted average of the possible outcomes.

What happened in this instance is that for your rat there were a range of possible stats (probably one combo that was 80% then several possible combos between 94 and 98%) once you had powered it up the possible IV combos were reduced to it was able to give you a more accurate IV level.

usually you can narrow down the possibilities by inputting the appraisal info for the pokemon which might help you in future.

Could I have some IV help please? I use calcy IV app on Android to see IV stats. I had a 96% rattata and powered it up once then checked it's IV and it had dropped to 80%. I thought IV stats stayed the same regardless of power up or evolving? There wasn't a range of possible IV's the rattata was a straight up 96%.

Also, when you evolve a Pokémon, should you power it up as high as you can before evolving? Thank you!

Oh okay that makes me feel loads better. I thought it was just me rather than everyone. Will keep slogging away!

I've done at least 4 Latias raids and he will not stay in. I even got one of the L40 players to have a go for me yesterday and it still wouldn't cooperate. I never managed to catch Kyogre either.

Argh! Three Latias raids and I can’t bloody catch it! I’ve managed a few great curveballs too. On the verge of giving up.

Efferlunt Giving up after only three?! Last year I did 15 Lugia Raids before I caught one! My catch rate for that one is still poor with only 16 caught out of 42.

Argh! Three Latias raids and I can’t bloody catch it! I’ve managed a few great curveballs too. On the verge of giving up.

soup Thank you for that. I thought my app was being really weird when it was doing that. Had assumed it was maybe as I'd caught the evolved form rather than evolved it, but it was beginning to show on some I'd definitely evolved.

Just almost shouted with joy in the high street as my (felt like) one millionth pidgey turned into a ditto. Now I can crack on with raids and catching a load of magikarp 😂

Just almost shouted with joy in the high street as my (felt like) one millionth pidgey turned into a ditto. Now I can crack on with raids and catching a load of magikarp 😂

yay Colly did that complete your special research tasks too?

Caught a ditto this morning! Then came to work and caught one in my colleagues phone! Both rubbish but Pokédex fill.

@Dobby1sAFreeElf also, the evolve button when you look at a pokemon will still show a shadow if you haven't had the evolved form in that gender.

e.g. If you have only got a female Venusaur, then the evolve button on a male Ivysaur will show just the shadow, whereas on a female Ivysaur it will show the colour image.

For reference the pokemon which don't have gender are;
Magnemite/Magneton
Voltorb/Electrode
Staryu/Starmie
Ditto
Porygon/Porygon 2
Articuno, Zapdos & Moltres
Mew & Mewtwo
Raikou, Entei, Suicune
Lugia, Ho-Oh
Lunatone & Solrock
Baltoy/Claydoll
Beldum,/Metang/Metagross
Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza

Also, Some pokemon do have a gender but only come in one gender;
Male only include;
Nidoran (M) and evos; Tyrogue, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Hitmontop; Tauros; Volbeat and Latios

Female only include;
Nidoran (F) and evos; Chansey and Blissey; Kangaskhan;
Smoochum and Jynx; Miltank and Latias

plus then you have Unown whose many forms display in the dex in the same way as genders.

bettytaghetti My favourite is the animation Ludicolo does when you click on him He shakes his thang! And he tips his hat as his idle animation.

Thank you for all the gender answers.

Off to have a good nose through my dex.

WhatToDo I can't find any others with such a cute bum wiggle though!

bettytaghetti Each Pokemon has an idle animation (one they do eventually if you watch them without touching them for a while), and an animation they do when you click on them.

Has anyone else found any funny little things the pokemon do when you go through the pokedex? If you turn croconaw round he does a very cute little bum wiggle! Makes me giggle anyway. I really must get out more...

Mew and MewTwo are non-binary.

jaimelannistersgoldenhand So are most Legendaries. Latias is the only gendered one in Pokemon Go so far (female).

A small correction on the shiny genders, once you get one shiny it unlocks both genders for the shiny - I've only had one shiny swablu and have both genders in my dex.

Mew and MewTwo are non-binary.

There are videos on YouTube explaining how to do excellent curve balls. That task took me bloody ages and I did it once I stopped consciously trying to complete the task.

There's a gender dex?

Dobby1sAFreeElf Well, your PokeDex just says which genders you’ve had.

If you look in the two pictures, in one I’ve had a male and female of both (and this is also where it shows if you’ve had a shiny, so I’ve had male and female Shiny Dratinis) but in the other I’ve only had female Absols (not bothered much with them really).

There's a gender dex?

Whenever I go out normally there are raids going on everywhere. Now I need to battle in 10 of them they are few and far between

In the meantime I'm practicing curve balls in anticipation for needing an excellent one. So far I've managed a couple of greats. Eek.

yeah the stupid fact that the dex didn't register ones you'd already caught regardless :( that's exactly the gaps I'm filling in now too @PickAChew