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Is it worth keeping low IV Pokémon?

Is it worth keeping low IV Pokémon? Absolutely not - for your defenders and enemy gym attacking team, high IVs are much more important. This is where having a high CP is important - the difference between a maxed out Dragonite with 0% IVs and 100% IVs is 3,141 and 3,581 respectively.
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Are low IV Pokemon worth powering up?

If you want to have the highest DPS dealers right now, then yes, it'll be worth it to you. Shadow Pokémon with any IVs are better than even perfect IVs of their normal forms thanks to the 20% attack boost (the defense nerf means far less for raids).
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Should I care about Pokemon IV?

IV's are an important part of playing competitive Pokemon. This is all that fans need to know about the mechanic. Caring about Pokemon IVs often spells out the difference between a casual Pokemon gamer and a competitive one. A player can easily cruise through the game series without bothering with IVs.
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Why would you want a 0 IV Pokemon?

What Pokémon do I want to catch at 0 Attack IVs? In general, having 0 Attack IVs on a Special Attacking Pokémon is a luxury, not a necessity-- it matters in very few scenarios. Those scenarios are 1) if your opponent has the move Foul Play, or 2) if your Pokémon might get confused and hit itself in confusion.
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Is it worth keeping low CP Pokemon?

It pays to keep and evolve only the best Pokémon you find. In general, you want higher CP Pokémon to evolve over lower CP Pokémon, but just because a Pokémon has a high CP doesn't mean it's actually very good.
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How common are 4 star Pokemon?

Perfect IV odds in the wild? There's a one in 4,096 chance, or 0.0244% portability, of finding perfect IVs from a wild catch. There is also a Weather Boosted wild catch though, which gives you a significant odds boost.
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Is it better to evolve higher CP or IV?

A higher IV also means better chance of better moves for the evolved pokemon - and those are much more important than a high CP.
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What is decent IV Pokemon?

In most core series games

IV of 0: "No good" IV range of 1-15: "Decent" IV range of 16-25: "Pretty good" IV range 26-29: "Very good" IV of 30: "Fantastic" IV of 31: "Best"
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What is considered a perfect IV Pokemon?

A perfect IV Pokemon is a Pokemon with some its IVs (usually 4-5 of them) at the maximum value of 31. This can be extended to the right Nature, too. To see your Pokemon's IVs you need an NPC called the IV Judge (or Stats Judge), which is located at the Battle Tree.
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Is it worth keeping one of every Pokémon?

There's no need to carry every type of Pokemon as a growing collection in your bag - that's what the Pokedex is for. It's better to keep only the Pokemon you need: that's an army to fight with in Gym and Raid battles.
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Should I evolve a bad IV shiny?

If you're goal is to get a high CP shiny of the pokemon and the shiny you have is high level and If you know you wont be putting much candy into it, go for it. I'd say go for it if you want the shiny and its a pokemon you'd like to use/have, as I believe personal like of a pokemon >>> than any iv's.
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What is better EV or IV in Pokémon?

IVs, or Individual Values, help determines a Pokémon's stats. A Pokémon with high attack IVs will end up doing more damage than a Pokémon with lower attack IVs, even if they're the same level. EVs, or Effort Values, are bonus stats that your Pokémon will gain from defeating specific types of Pokémon.
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Should I keep all shiny Pokemon?

Yes shiny Pokémon are incredibly rare very few people won't even have one and if you're lucky enough to have one can you set yourself incredibly lucky that's probably the only shiny Pokémon you are ever going to have legitimately so it's totally worth keeping you can totally evolve it it will remain shiny.
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Why Shadow Pokemon are better?

Shadow Pokémon also deal more damage with their Fast and Charged Attacks, but they take more damage when attacked. The extra damage dealt by Shadow Pokémon is shown as a “Shadow Bonus” next to their attacks on their summary page, just like Weather Boosts.
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Is it possible to increase IV in Pokemon go?

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to increase or change a Pokemon's IVs once it's been caught. There are a few exceptions to this, such as Trading, in which IVs will go under a slight change once traded over. The main method of increasing IVs is exclusive to Shadow Pokemon through a process called Purification.
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How rare are 3 star Pokemon?

0 stars - below 50% 1 star - 51% to 63.4% 2 stars - 66.7% to 80% 3 stars - 82.2% to 98%
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How do you get 6 IVs in Pokemon?

The best opportunity to get a six-IV Ditto comes from six-star Tera Raid battles, which can be unlocked in the Pokemon Scarlet & Violet post-game. Pokemon caught in six-star raids are guaranteed to have five perfect IVs with their sixth stat being a random IV between 0 and 31.
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How much difference does 1 IV make Pokemon?

Every single species of Pokemon has exactly the same base stats. If we take Pikachu for example, it has a base of stats of 112 attack, 96 defense, and 111 stamina. A perfect IV Pikachu would increase each of these by 15. So, perfect IVs in comparison to the worst possible would increase Pikachu by roughly 15%.
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How many IVs should a Pokemon have?

IVs: Pokémon must hatch with them already at max (31 IVs) in the required stats. Usually that would mean all of them; although there are some cases when we could leave out one of them, for example the Special Attack on a physical user.
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What IV range is pretty good?

Pretty Good: 11 - 20. Very Good: 21 - 29. Fantastic: 30.
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What CP is 100% IV Pokemon?

A 100% IV would mean that Attack, Defense and Stamina are all at 15. Everything below that works out to being a percentage of the maximum possible stat of 45. For example: A Gengar with 10 Attack, 10 Defense and 12 Stamina would have an IV of 71%.
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Should I max CP before evolving?

It doesn't really matter unless you care about PVP. Cp is determined by base stats of a pokemon, the pokémon's level, and its ivs. Because evolving a pokemon only changes the base stats not the level or ivs, it doesn't matter if you power up a pokemon before evolving or after the cp it gets to won't change.
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Can all Pokemon be 3 star?

Generally, yes. But there are a lot of exceptions: Shinies. A lot of your shiny Pokemon won't be 3-stars.
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