Ahhh, ok that makes more sense. The explanations I've read of IV's/stats lead me to believe they were the same thing. Well, that's a good little chunk of time wasted. Though I started playing back in '98, I've really only started caring about the technical aspects of the game recently, so I'm...
Probably should've put this in the "Older Games" subforum.. Sorry about that, I just saw the Gold/Silver on DS sticky at the top of this forum and assumed I was in the right place. My bad.
K so, according to the Bulbapedia page, in generation two if a pokemon had the IV of 10 in all categories but attack and then either a 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15, the pokemon would be born shiny. After hatching about 40 previous Larvitars, I finally got one with (allegedly) the right IVs...
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