Quote Originally Posted by tttaylorrr View Post
awe, shoot! i missed this community day.hey how do you check IVs?
I use pokegenie for IPhone. Dunno if it works on android or not. I start with the in game appraisal. It my trainer says its a wounder then I know its 81 or better and then ill check the IV.

Quote Originally Posted by Ax01 View Post
wow! i only got 2 Shinies! i dunno, i kinda felt like there were less Charmanders and Shinies this community day. at least in the park we were in. i usually catch 4 or 5. just asking random peeps, the most Shinies found was only like 4.

the two Shinies i caught don't have good IV's but hey, don't they look great?! i got a 98% Charmander tho. i only knew that b/c a guy in the group ahead of us shouted very loudly several times to everyone - "Hey there's a 98% Charmander at this stop!!":


also i got my first Ho-Oh in a legendary raid. i really want a Shiny Ho-Oh w/ rainbow wings. we beat a Latias in another raid, but i failed to catch it. i already have 1 tho.


awww mah bad! forgot to bamp. i only missed 1 community day i think - the Pikachu one in January b/c i was sick. i still got lucky and caught a 0.1 Shiny Pikachu around the house lol.

FYI Alola forms/morphs are coming soon! i can't wait to catch/evolve a tall goofy Exeggutor.


there's a way to manually calculate it. it's based on a scale of 0-15 for attack, defense and stamina. so u give your Pokemon a max of 15 points for each of those things during it's appraisal, add it up and divide by 45. or just use an app or online calculator like this: https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/tools/iv-calculator

but personally i don't use IV's to judge my monstars - i just use the basic appraisal of Amazing, Strong, Decent and Not Great (Team Valor's assessment). i keep Amazing and Strong and lesser ones if they are kool, unique, Shinies or i caught them in a city i visited while traveling.
None of my shinies had good IVs. I still evolved one just for a shiny charizard. Congratulations on Ho-oh! Latias and Latios have been a struggle for a lot of people to catch. Ive been real lucky on them tho. Currently I'm at like 38/44 Latias. Got a handful of Ho-ohs, but no shinies yet.