Changing ivs
Within a day or so after catching mons that I intend to keep I tack on their iv to their name. I happened to be checking my Chanseys and noticed 3 out of 4 their ivs had changed. At first I thought I just made a mistake initially reading or typing it in but can't see how I'd do that for 3 out of 4 at different times. They each changed by only 1%. Anyone ever seen this?
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Is it possibly when you checked the iv's of the pokemon, the calculator you used averaged the results of your iv combinations?
I know one of the popular calculators has given me results such as 85% before and that is not possible. Upon looking at it further, it was simply 84% and 86% being averaged out.
I believe you may have powered up the pokemon since the first iv check or maybe you even used a more reliable calculator to discover the true iv and thus the only 1% "change" in iv.
Edit... grammar, typo.
Sometimes an IV calculator will give you a range of possibilities for a pokemon's IVs, either because you didn't provide enough information or because there are multiple stat combinations that can yield the same CP & HP (I'm pulling this out of thin air, but an example might be a 14/10/10 mon vs. a 13/12/10 mon). The first time you checked you might have been looking at the minimum value of the range, while the second time you checked you might have looked at the maximum value. Alternately, if you checked the IVs, powered up the pokemon, and checked again the new level might have clarified the stats to a point where an IV calculator would give you only one possible answer, rather than a range.
The middle number is the average of potential IVs to get that CP/HP/Appraisal not your actual IV. Your average potential IV cab change and is rather meaningless
If you power up, evolve, or the CP formula updates, you might get a different set of potentials. That's why those activities can help you refine your true IV. As your true IV will be present in each of those sets.