[slightly caught off-guard since he just assumed she had already looked something like that up... again, recovers quickly.]
Oh—Individual values... they're just numbers, but they're a part of the calculation to determine a pokemon's starting stats. They're like genes, I guess. IVs can fluctuate so much that it causes mass differences in stats between pokemon of the same species. The formulas for determining the stats are actually—
[realizes he's getting way too nerdy, waves his hand and goes back to his 3ds]
—It's just a bunch of math. Anyway, the highest an IV can get for a certain stat is 31.
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Oh—Individual values... they're just numbers, but they're a part of the calculation to determine a pokemon's starting stats. They're like genes, I guess. IVs can fluctuate so much that it causes mass differences in stats between pokemon of the same species. The formulas for determining the stats are actually—
[realizes he's getting way too nerdy, waves his hand and goes back to his 3ds]
—It's just a bunch of math. Anyway, the highest an IV can get for a certain stat is 31.