Kyogre question
I'm having bad luck with catching Kyogres. 2304, 2305, and 2322 have ran from me, and with work, I don't get much time to raid on weekdays. My highest right now is 2293, and it has 12/14/14 IVs. I will keep looking for a better one, but I'm really frustrated and dunno if I'll get a better one. Is the 2293 worth powering up for Rayquaza (if it's the next legendary) with Blizzard? How much difference does it make in terms of damage?
Answers
Blizzard being double super effective is kind of negated by Waterfall being resisted and having low energy gain.
So even though Blizzard hits hard especially with Kyogre's high attack stat it doesn't hit often enough to make up for Waterfall being a terrible move in this matchup to make Kyogre out-DPS conventional counters like ice-types or Dragonite.
As for powering up the Kyogre if you don't find a better one, it's going to be the best water type attacker or at least second best (if Palkia gets good moves) for pretty much forever unless it's moves get heavily nerfed and new overpowered water moves are added to other Pokemon.
For a mon with incredibly high stats to begin with, like Kyogre, Mewtwo, Groudon, fussing about the IV is more about collector value than it really has anything to do with battle performance. A perfect, or 9X% one is rarer and more valuable than one with so-so IV.
Kyogre's total attack stat is going to range from, 285-290. Sure, 290 is better, and maybe something would round in your favor, once in a while, but in either case, for non-raid boss mon that are appropriate to attack with water, that still means: WF, WF...WF, HP, fainted, if you even get to the HP part. For raid bosses, you'll get off a couple squirts to take a reasonably good sized bite out of the boss, faint, and try to do the same with the next mon. In most cases you'd have difficulty perceiving a difference between the performance of a 10/10/10 Kyogre versus a 15/15/15 one. If one fainted a little faster, it is more likely a difference in timing of the raid boss's attacks, than a difference caused by the different IV.
