when breeding and soft resetting (so you get same trait/nature different Iv's)
how do you check the Iv's?
you cant use rare candies, cuz if it is a keeper, you just wasted all your candies. and a iv battle saves the game, so how do you do it??
characteristics, my friend, you need to learn all the 31 pt Characteristics :o from there, you are shooting in the dark if the parents can pass down more than 1 31, it was a predicament that i was encountering when breeding my tangelas.
both parents, *male tangela and ditto* had several 31's. The tangela had 31's in Def, Sp.def and Speed. the impish ditto had 31's in Attack, Defense, and Sp.Def.
When soft resetting on a tangela with the right nature from the evostone, i made sure that it had 6 sp.def at birth, instead of 5, meaning that it had at least a 20 IV, then if it had a characteristic like "Likes to thrash about" (31 Att) or "Capable of taking hits" (31 Def) instead of "Somewhat Vain" (31 Sp.Def) I knew almost 70% for certain that it had inherited at least the Sp.Defense and either the attack or the defense. I just kept on doing that till I had a repetoire of well IV'd Tangela.
http://guides.pldh.net/iv.shtml for a guide to the characteristics, *note: just because it "can" be 31 doesn't necessarily mean it IS 31, it could as easily mean that the highest stat is 26. same with the 30, it could be 25 :o, that being said, if you know for certain the parents' IVs, it can be quite simple to determine the child's IVs.
Oh, you might ask why I didn't use the father Tangela with triple 31's? It's HP IV was 2. -_-;
And that, was not a very simple answer at all.
