Is there an IV perfection 'average'? How do you know if your Pokemon is above average?
Pokemon GO's individual values (IVs), and some techniques for making the most of them, are well described in this answer and this answer.
I was wondering whether there is a generic 'average' IV perfection level (in % terms) that has been discovered or observed, and perhaps what the chance is of catching/hatching a Pokemon with a very high IV level?
The reason I ask is to try to determine whether I should focus on powering up, say, a 75% perfect Pokemon, or hold out until I get a 90%. Or keep holding out till I get a 99%, etc. At some point you must bite the bullet, so I am trying to determine where that point might best be.
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There are 3 IVs that range from 0 to 15 and they are (once the bugs are fixed) rolled for independently.
For Pokemon caught in the wild (i.e. ignoring starters, nest and egg hatches) the IVs are generated as simple random numbers, so any particular pokemon has a 1 in 16 chance of having any particular stamina, attack or defense IV.
However, because there are three IVs, the chances of getting above a particular combined perfection threshold combines multiplicativly: i.e. there are 16x16x16, or 4096 different possiblecombinations of IVs.
As a perfect (100% score) pokemon requires 3 separate rolls of 1 in 16: a perfect pokemon should occur in 1 in 4096 catches. A 97% pokemon requires two IV rolls of 1 in 16, and 1 roll of 2 in 16 - i.e there are 3 combos (15,15,14), (15,14,15) and (14,15,15), so the chance of getting a 97% or better pokemon is (3+1) in 4096.
A 95% pokemon adds an additional 6 combos (i.e. pokemon who's IVs are (14,14,15)* or (13,15,15)*), so the chance there is 6+3+1 or 10 in 4096.
And yes, this will look like a bell curve when plotted.
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How rare is a perfect IV Pokemon?
Perfect IV odds in the wild? There's a one in 4,096 chance, or 0.0244% portability, of finding perfect IVs from a wild catch. There is also a Weather Boosted wild catch though, which gives you a significant odds boost. Instead of the 1 in 4,096 chance, a Weather Boosted catch increases your odds to a 1 in 1,728 chance.What is a perfect Pokemon IV?
A perfect IV Pokemon is a Pokemon with some its IVs (usually 4-5 of them) at the maximum value of 31. This can be extended to the right Nature, too. To see your Pokemon's IVs you need an NPC called the IV Judge (or Stats Judge), which is located at the Battle Tree.How much better is a perfect IV pokemon go?
Every single species of Pokemon has exactly the same base stats. If we take Pikachu for example, it has a base of stats of 112 attack, 96 defense, and 111 stamina. A perfect IV Pikachu would increase each of these by 15. So, perfect IVs in comparison to the worst possible would increase Pikachu by roughly 15%.TESSERACT - Concealing Fate Part IV - Perfection
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