Sulfurian
Well-Known Member
The fact that they can increase the stats of a Lvl 100 Pokemon, and the fact they made a big deal about this, very heavily implies that they increase IVs. In Pokemon, there is no "stats" number you can raise. The overall stat is composed of very well-defined components. ie: Base stats, IVs, and EVs. Base stats are determined by Pokemon species, and I'm pretty sure changing those on an individual pokemon would be pretty much impossible without some weird coding problems. EVs are changed by Super Training, so we know bottlecaps aren't doing that. Therefore, if bottlecaps are not literally changing the IVs, and therefore everything that goes along with them (breeding, HP, etc.) it would mean that GF have added an entirely new component, which would be needlessly complicated and make the whole concept of Hyper Training very misleading.
It'd be interesting if GF decides to solve that problem with HP, by simply making the HP set the moment you receive or catch the pokemon, and does not change by increasing the ivs.