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Am I an outlier?

I have caught (but never hatched) A-LOT of Eevee and have received what I think is a disproportionately small number of 80%+ IVs.I thought they were supposed to be uniformly distributed,am I wrong or am I just an outlier from the norm?

Asked by Fester8 years 9 months ago
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IVs are uniformly distributed, IV totals are not.

Just like how if you roll 2 dice, each probability is equally likely, but the total of the two rolls are not, since there's more combinations that equal 7 than 12 for example.

Also the IV distribution for wild Pokemon is different to the IV distribution for Pokemon hatched from eggs. The average IVs for wild Pokemon is 50% while it's 80% for eggs.

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For wild caught pokemon, each IV stat is 0-15.
For egg hatched pokemon, (I think) each IV stat is 10-15.

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IV's have a normal distribution aka bell curve to them. You have a much smaller chance to catch a pokemon with exceptionally high (or low) IVs for a similar reason that rolling 2 six sided dice has a much smaller chance of rolling a 2 or a 12. Because of that the majority of caught pokemon will end up with IV's close to 50%.

You might feel like an outlier because a lot of people (myself included) got their Eevees while the Attack IV was bugged and every eevee ever had 15 Attack IV.

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by YodaJi 8 years 9 months ago

This site has the best visual representation of the bell curves for IV distribution of wild vs. hatched mons. If you are gunning for high IV mons, hatching is by far the better yield.

https://boost-rankedboost.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pokemon-Go-Egg-IV-Rating-Curve-2.png

https://boost-rankedboost.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pokemon-Go-Wild-IV-Rating-2.png

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A few days ago I was thinking the same. Catched so many eevees but 0 with >80% IVs. But a day later They gave me three times a good eevee. Two times a Vaporeon and 1 Flareon.
So never lose hope!

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