Roaming Pokémon IV glitch: Difference between revisions

Information for the individual values of a Pokémon is read in a [[qword]] (a total of 32 ONs in [[binary]]) or {{Explain|four bytes| As the Pokémon games and most software today use eight bits for every byte}}. Hence the permutations of the individual values a Pokémon has is denoted by 11111..(1x25).111111111111111111111111111111111 or a total of 4294967296 possibilities, includingwhich aincludes Pokémonthe withunlikely circumstances of a Pokémon having 0 IVs forin every stat. When the player encounters a Roaming Pokémon however, an oversight by Nintendo was that only the last byte is defined (the last eight bits). By default, if the other bytes for the individual values are not defined every other bit is taken as 0. Therefore, the permutations are reduced to just 11111111 or 256. HP was the first stat in the data structure so it remains unchanged, but the other stats except Attack remain undefined and the Attack IV can only be an integer between 0 and 7.