This item makes your Pokemon weaker

#Pokemon #ScarletViolet #WolfeyVGC

[chrayez]

Wolfey mentions 0 Atk to lessen confusion damage, but doesn’t talk about 0 Spe for his much-loved team style of Trick Room.

[thefinalboss]

The hyper training guy just breaks your pokemons knees to bring its speed to 0

[bbganeshkumar]

James from Team Rocket must be an expert in manipulating IV (since he has a huge collection of bottle caps)

[primepikachu]

Time to introduce the bottle. To hold IVs you don't need anymore

[nhutnguyen]

Hear me out. A bottle cap in the shape of a hand. A handi-cap 😼

[heheheiamasuperstarwarrior]

Another reason to want 0 attack IV on a pokemon is if it's a special attacker, that means less attack will make foul play do less damage

[StickMaster]

With all the quality of life improvements they’re adding into Scarlet and Violet, I do think that we’ll get a Rusted Bottle Cap in the DLC so it’s easier to build Trick Room Teams

[SamFromSolitude]

To reduce a pokemon’s speed IV to 0, all you need is its knees, and a baseball bat

[eeveefennecfox]

james has been forshadowing this for 25 years holy shit

[aidanzacher]

I always thought that for the rusty bottle cap, the hyper trainer is offended that you give him a bottle cap that is in bad condition. So he lowers your stats instead of raising them

[sperryyoungerjr.]

I'm still begging for a defense version of an Assault Vest or an item that lowers the power of supereffective moves by 10%.

[Marx-bjsm]

I kept selling my bottle caps because I thought they were useless…

[pokechannel]

There are other reasons too on why you want 0 IV Physical Attack stat:
1. Less damage from foul play
2. You give less recovery to the opponent using strength sap which works on physical attack stat.
3. Lesser speed IV means you would be faster in trick room(but you would be slower normally) So it is only useful if you plan to use trick room movesets.

[MadRandom]

Would also be useful for lowering speed in trick room

[RyutaShinohara]

For people who don't understand why a Pokémon having no IVs in certain stats is good, having 0 IVs in Speed makes you faster in Trick Room and having 0 IVs in Attack makes you take less damage from Foul Play and confussion.

[estebanramirez]

Imagine giving your Pokémon tetanus to make your special attackers more competitively viable.

[TheMemeKing]

I really like this idea, because you can already change their abilities with the ability patch and natures with the mints, so why not change IVs?

[ThisIsChris-Anime]

It's also super important for trick room teams, as the lower the speed the faster they are in trick room

[gigiobigio]

Another example of pokemon not wanting max ivs is Latios with life orb trying to have 299 hp instead of 301 to minimize recoil damage

[hannahl]

I have NEVER understood IVs, and you explained this so well! Thank you so much! 👏💖