I had a Shellder that I calculated on https://thesilphroad.com/research and it was a perfect IV one. I evolved it into a Cloyster and powered him up, and checked the site again, and it is no longer a perfect IV Pokemon anymore – it has 2 CP less then a perfect one.
How can this happen? I did change the name to Cloyster IV to know that that was my Perfect one and after that I powered it up 2 times so maybe it gave me 1 cp less everytime I powered it up after I changed the name. Can someone help me please?
stats of the cloyster:
- CP: 848
- Powerup cost: 1600 dust, 2 candy
- HP = 58
UPDATE!
My Cloyster is now 877 and I figured out that each time I power it up it gets +29 cp, I used the site https://thesilphroad.com/research to do my calculating.
I checked the site and I began 877-29= 848 848-29=819…
Until I got to 703 the site said my Cloyster had an perfect IV.
But after upgrading it to 877 the site said it wasn't perfect anymore.
I now have checked some other sites and used the 703 stats and they also say it's a perfect IV but when I then give in the 877 stats it isn't perfect anymore.
Best Answer
You likely used the wrong level value for calculating your IVs. Different sites handle this differently, but if you calculate it manually you would know that for each powerup cost, there are 2 possible odd levels (if the Pokemon is fresh, since wild Pokemon only show up at odd levels), and 2 possible even levels.
Either the IV calculator you used assumed it was at a lower level than it actually was, or you had previously powered it up, hence giving you an incorrect value when initially determining it was perfect.
Alternatively, if you powered it up an odd number of times after checking the IVs for the first time, it's possible that you or your IV calculator didn't account for it.