Today has been SUCH a mixed day for me. Finally got around to using an IV calculator. Just as I got the necessary 125 candies, I narrowed my Nidoran Ms down to one that is 97.8% perfect, 15/14/5 IVs (will definitely keep powering this one up until endgame), It's now a level 21, 1481 CP Nidoking
Ironically just as I'm typing this a Nidoqueen appears on my map, but it has 7 minutes left as of typing this and I probably won't make it (and I've got about 80 Nidoran F candies, so I'm just hoping to hatch a good one).
On the topic of hatching, I like to set all my eggs at the same time for a nice candy/stardust explosion, and normally they're decent/mixed... Today my 4 egg hatch was Meowth (I already evolved 2 Persians as my workplace overlaps with a spawn point for meowths, and I have 95 meowth candy to spare), Psyduck (already have a great Golduck), Meowth AGAIN, and last Slowpoke (already have a solid Slowbro)
It's a good thing I decided not to walk the Brooklyn Bridge at the last minute, because I most likely would have jumped off. About .4 km later my 10km (iirc) hatched and it was an Eevee, which was the only lukewarm spot, as even tho it's not a Snorlax/Lapras/Dratini/better Aerodactyl, my area lacks Eevees and it gave me just enough candy for an eeveelution (it's now an 86.7% perfect 15/13/11 Jolteon, pretty solid for a frail speedster).
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but it seems like Pokemon hatched from eggs have naturally high IVs (in addition to CP, which is obvious). Almost everything I've hatched is in the high 70s-100% perfect range, while wild catches tend to be around 30-40% for me, with some being as high as 80%. The Tauros I hatched the other day is exactly 95.6% perfect (14/14/15), my Clefable I evolved from a hatched Clefairy is between 80-86.7% (will power it up to determine what it is exactly later), and a Dratini I hatched is literally 88.9-99.1%
On the mediocre note, I was at work and a ****ing BLASTOISE appeared by the front desk. It was 1048 CP (decent for level 24) and took like 10 Ultra Balls and countless Razz Berries to capture. Now I see it's IVs are somewhere around the 30-40% mark, I'll definitely be using that for trade fodder once that feature is enabled
Ironically my Wartortle I thot was trash 77.8% perfect, and my Squirtles suck (I only need to catch about 6 more, which I should accomplish by tomorrow to get a better Blastoise). Along the way home from work, a VENUSAUR appears, of course in the opposite direction I was going. I SPRINTED in, only to get there and find it at 178 CP
Still caught it since I had a Lucky Egg on, but the IVs are trash too
Oh well, still a decent hunting day.
Onto the bad, I just found out LITERALLY my two most prized pokemon have **** IVs
Arcanine, 1660 CP, which I've poured so much stardust and candy into, is in the 31.1-46.7% range
And Alakazam, which I literally maxed out from 337 CP to 1167, is 17.8-44.4%
I have a slightly better Growlithe, so if I'm lucky and hatch one or two (they're nowhere nearly common in my area), I might use Arcanine for trade fodder as well. I mean, it's base stats are so high that IVs don't really matter, but for Alakazam's ****** bases, literally every point counts
(and it had such good moves too
)
Oh well, by tomorrow I should have a solid Blastoise and praying to catch a decent Nidoran F, since I'm so close to getting a Nidoqueen. I also have two 10km eggs with about 3km left, PRAYING that I get Lapras, Snorlax, or Dratinis. I might spend a few hours tomorrow hunting Dratinis, I figure what's the point in waiting around Central Park for a few days, just to catch a low CP Dragonite?