GoDex 1.3: A PvP IV Verdict and the Full IV Rank List

This update changes what you see after a scan. The results screen now gives a plain verdict on your Pokémon GO PvP IVs, and the IV rank list shows every possible spread instead of only the top 50.

The last update was about raids and collecting (GoDex 1.2: Raid Attacker Rankings, Gender Tracking, and Swipeable Details). This one goes back to the scanner. The numbers were already there, but you had to read a rank on each evolution card, in each league, and work out for yourself whether it was good.

Everything below is in version 1.3, out now on iOS and Android.

A Verdict on Your PvP IVs

Scan a Pokémon and the results now open with a banner that says one of four things: Excellent, Great, Good, or Weak PvP IVs. Under it is the evolution and league the verdict applies to, such as “as Greninja in Great League.”

The grade comes from the IV rank, which is where your spread places among all 4,096 possible IV combinations for that Pokémon in that league:

Excellent: rank 41 or better, the top 1%
Great: rank 205 or better, the top 5%
Good: rank 820 or better, the top 20%
Weak: everything below that

Beside the verdict is a ring with the rank number inside it. The ring fills by how many spreads yours beats, so rank 1 is a full ring and a rank near the middle is about half.

There is a fifth state. If the Pokémon’s CP is already over the league’s cap for every evolution, the banner says “Not eligible” instead of grading it. CP can’t be lowered, so no IV spread gets that Pokémon into that league.

The card above the banner was rebuilt too. It shows the name, the CP and level on one line, and the three IVs as bars split into three segments, the same way the in-game appraisal draws them. A 15 is green, 10 to 14 is orange, and 9 or lower is red.

Which Evolution the Verdict Names

A scanned Pokémon usually has more than one evolution, and each one has its own IV rank. The banner has to pick one.

It picks the one you would actually battle with. First it drops any evolution whose CP would be over the league cap. Of the ones left, it takes the evolution that ranks best in the PvP meta rankings, and grades your IVs for that one.

Here’s why that matters. Scan a Froakie, and its IVs might rank a little better as Frogadier than as Greninja. Going by the best IV rank alone, the banner would say Frogadier. But Greninja sits far higher in the meta rankings, and almost nobody builds a Frogadier for PvP. So the banner names Greninja and tells you how good your IVs are for it.

Nothing is hidden by this. Every evolution still has its own card with its own IV rank, so if a middle evolution is the better fit, you can see that right below the banner. When none of the evolutions appear in the meta rankings at all, the banner falls back to whichever has the best IV rank.

League Tabs and Evolution Cards

The Little, Great, and Ultra League tabs now carry a small colored dot each. The dot is the verdict color for that league, so you can see which league a Pokémon is worth checking before you tap anything. A green dot on Ultra and a red one on Great tells you where to look.

The IV rank on each evolution card uses the same four grades and the same colors as the banner and the dots, so the three always agree. Before, the cards used their own cutoffs.

Each card also has an All ranks button, which opens the rank list covered in the next section. The stat product percentage has been removed from the cards. Almost every spread lands somewhere between 85% and 100%, which made it a poor way to tell a good spread from a bad one. It is still shown for every row in the rank list.

These card and tab changes also apply to the IV section on a Pokémon’s details screen. The verdict banner is on scan results only.

The Full IV Rank List

The rank list used to stop at the top 50. That was fine for looking up the ideal spread and not much use for answering “where is mine?” when yours ranked 600th.

It now lists every spread, up to 4,096 of them, and adds a few things on top:

Your row is pinned. When you open the list from a scan or from a Pokémon you’ve entered IVs for, it arrives with your spread filled in and pinned at the top of the list, marked YOU. Tap the pinned row and the list scrolls to where your spread actually sits and flashes it.
You can try other spreads. Three pickers for ATK, DEF, and HP let you set any combination and see its rank straight away. That’s handy for checking a Pokémon you haven’t scanned, or seeing how much one point of Attack costs you.
Ties share a rank. Two spreads with the same stat product now get the same rank number, which matches the rank shown on the cards. Before, the list and the card could disagree by a place or two.
The title shows the Pokémon and league, so you know which list you’re in after switching between a few.

Some spreads have no rank. If a combination is over the league’s CP cap even at level 1, the list says so instead of pinning a row.

Fixes and Polish

The With Megas and Without Megas toggle on raid attacker rankings has been restyled to match the new league tabs.
The verdict and all the new labels are translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.

What to Do After Updating

Three things are worth doing on the new version.

Rescan your PvP candidates and check all three league dots. A Pokémon you’d written off for Great League may show green on Ultra or Little. The dots make that a one-glance check instead of three taps.

Don’t transfer on the hundo percentage alone. High IVs and good PvP IVs are different things. In Great and Ultra League, the best spreads often have low Attack with high Defense and HP, so a 15/15/15 can come back as Weak while a 2/14/13 comes back as Excellent. Read the verdict before you clear out your storage.

Open All ranks on anything graded Good. Tap your pinned row to see what sits around it, then try the pickers. If the spreads just above yours are only a fraction of a percent better, yours is fine to build.

Key Takeaways

Every scan now gets a verdict: Excellent, Great, Good, or Weak PvP IVs, based on the IV rank out of 4,096.
The verdict names the evolution you’d battle with, picked by meta ranking, and skips evolutions that are over the league’s CP cap.
League tab dots show the verdict for each league before you tap.
The IV rank list shows every spread, with yours pinned and pickers to try others.
Ranks agree everywhere now, because tied spreads share a rank in the list just as they do on the cards.

The update is live now. If you have a box of maybes waiting on a decision, run them through the scanner again and let the verdict sort them.

Curtis

GoDex Cofounder

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