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Old Mar 12th, 2011, 1:41:32 PM   #1280
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Originally Posted by Fat tyons View Post
so, thundurus' ivs are generated when you engage a battle with him for the first time, isn't it?
No. It is determined when you encounter the roamer for the first time on route 7, this encounter is not a battle.

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When are the IVs/nature for the roamers determined? Does a syncher work or am I stuck with the 4% chance on nature?
The PIDRNG is advanced at an extremely fast rate by the falling rain, and synchronizers don't work. You have virtually no control over the nature you get when you first encounter the roamer.

If you kill off the roamer and then beat the Elite Four to regenerate him, you have control over the PIDRNG (which you can't ask about now, because that requires non C-Gear seeds), but the battle advances the IVRNG at 120 frames\second. So you have easy flawless genies or easy shiny genies, but not both.
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