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I just got Pokemon Soul Silver recently and when I check the Strategy Pokedex I don't see a tab for HeartGold/Soulsilver. Do I just use the Diamond/Pearl tab?
How can you be sure that when you're battling against other trainers on wifi, that their pokemon are not hacked? I find it very unfair because I spend a lot of time breeding pokemon to get the right IVs.
If I wanted to breed a timid ghastly so I could eventually train it into a standard gengar with 4 def evs, 252 SpA evs, and 252 Spe evs, should I only worry about breeding the ghastly so that it has 31 IVs for speed, or would most competitive trainers breed for 31 IVS in both speed and special...
IVs
What is the best way to check the IVs of your pokemon? Is it to do a level 100 battle on wifi, copy down the stats, and then put them into the IV calculator on Serebii?