Def IV of Lugia
Hi everyone,
about the Def IV of Lugia (or any pokemon):
I have a 15/10/15 LUgia (10 being Def) and I was wondering if a perfect 15/15/15 or the one with lower Defense will do the most damange in terms of DPS eg. for soloing machamp.
On the other and i also have a 93% 15a/13d/14h. Which is the best to power up? The 15/10/15 or 15/13/14?
Answers
This has been asked before in general. 15/10/15 has higher energy buildup and therefore potentially can use more charge attacks than 15/15/15, but it also might die before it gets off as many attacks. The simulations are pretty inconclusive; the fact is, the difference between 15/10/15 and 15/15/15 just isn't that much.
That said, Lugia can only hit its last defensive breakpoint against Machamp in cloudy weather at level 40 with 15 defense, so if you want to 1v1 boosted Machamp with Lugia, it pretty much needs to be perfect and maxed. In nearly all other situations the difference is negligible. I doubt you'll notice a difference between 15/13/14 and 15/10/15 in practice.
I reworked my Cycle Damage per Second spreadsheet to include Attack and Attack IV. The difference for a level 30 Rayquaza going from 15 attack to 14, etc., is about 0.04 CDPS off of a base CDPS of around 20. So going from 15 attack to 10 attack is about a 1% decrease in CDPS, rather small. Contrariwise, the change from a perfect level 30 Rayquaza to a perfect level 30 Dragonite is about 7% in CDPS, because of the higher attack stat.
10def vs 15 def might have higher energy buildup, if there happens to be a breakpoint that results in a difference in damage and if that difference in damage is the one that results in more energy gain (energy gain is 1 per 2 damage taken). It's fairly rare that it even results in more energy gain and even rarer that the difference matters.
