A little confused about IV's and EV's

[Beth Pavell]

So I was just reading the IV and EV pages on the wiki ... but I'm a little confused. EV's can be influenced by what a pokémon battles and vitamin supplements, which translates into the stat increase a pokémon will get upon levelling up, right? While IV's are inherent genetic stats and can't be influenced by training, am I correct there? So therefore if I wanted to breed pedigree pokémon with enhanced stats, I'd have to find an above-average pokémon by chance and use that as breeding stock? Can IV's not be influenced at all?

Yeah, you can see I'm confused

Tullio

 

[Kaguya]

So I was just reading the IV and EV pages on the wiki ... but I'm a little confused. EV's can be influenced by what a pokémon battles and vitamin supplements, which translates into the stat increase a pokémon will get upon levelling up, right? While IV's are inherent genetic stats and can't be influenced by training, am I correct there?

Yeap.. You are right..

IV can be influenced by the parents.. So getting good IV parents will increase the chance of getting better IV of the child..

 

[coolking503]

Also, if you have heart gold or soul silver and give a pokemon a power item when bred, you can choose which iv's the parents pass on.

 

[SharKing]

To be more specific on coolking49's comment, if you give one of the parents a Power Accessory, the offspring will be certain to have the parent's IVs in the corresponding stat.

For example, let's put a male Rattata and a female Growlithe in Day Care. The Rattata has 28 IVs in Speed. If we give it a Power Anklet, all Growlithe spawned by these two Pokemon will have 28 Speed IVs.

Power Weight = HP
Power Bracer = Attack
Power Belt = Defense
Power Lens = Sp. Attack
Power Band = Sp. Defense
Power Anklet = Speed

Keep in mind that this only happens in HeartGold and SoulSilver.

 

[Beth Pavell]

I see ... lord, breeding stats is a lot more difficult than I remember it to be. You wily lot have got me excited about HG/SS twice now, damn you all . Thanks for that clarification

Tullio

 

[IslandWalker]

Believe me, this is the complicated side of Pokémon. However, all that hard work brings the perfect Pokémon.

 

[Our Wasted Years]

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=19628 That thread say hi.