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Pokemon Let’s Go Stats, IVs and Max CP

Every Pokemon has six stats plus CP. Hidden IVs from 0 to 31 decide how high each stat can go: unlock the Judge to read them, catch with a long Catch Combo for perfect ones, and use Hyper Training to max out a Level 100 favourite.

IV range: 0 to 31for each stat
Judge: 30 speciesRoute 11 and 12 gate
Catch Combo 31+: 4 perfect IVsat least
Hyper Training: Level 100after the Elite Four

Pokemon Let’s Go stats

Every Pokemon has six stats, plus CP on top. Candy raises each stat through its Awakening Values (candy costs).

How much damage a Pokemon can take before it faints.

Raise it: Health Candy

Attack

How hard its physical moves hit.

Raise it: Mighty Candy

Defense

How well it holds up against physical moves.

Raise it: Tough Candy

Sp. Atk

How hard its special moves hit.

Raise it: Smart Candy

Sp. Def

How well it holds up against special moves.

Raise it: Courage Candy

Speed

The faster Pokemon usually moves first each turn.

Raise it: Quick Candy

Combat Power: one number for how strong the Pokemon is overall, worked out from all six stats.

What changes CP

Pokemon Let’s Go IVs

Individual Values (IVs) are hidden numbers from 0 to 31 for each stat. Two Pokemon of the same species and level can have different stats because of them. An IV of 31 is perfect, so a "4 IV" Pokemon has four perfect stats.

Unlock the Judge

Register 30 species in your Pokedex.
Talk to Professor Oak’s aide in the gate between Route 11 and Route 12.
Open a Pokemon’s summary and press Y: each stat shows a Judge word.

What each Judge word means

BestIV 31
FantasticIV 30
Very GoodIV 26 to 29
Pretty GoodIV 16 to 25
DecentIV 1 to 15
No GoodIV 0

Pokemon Let's Go IV checker: the Judge screen rating each IV — The Judge on the summary screen: Best, Fantastic and Very Good stats.

IV total (all six stats added up)

The Judge also rates the total of the six IVs, from 0 to 186, in four bands.

Highest band151 to 186
Second band121 to 150
Third band91 to 120
Lowest band0 to 90

Catch Pokemon with perfect IVs

Catch the same Pokemon again and again to build a Catch Combo. The longer the combo, the more perfect IVs each new catch is sure to have. At a combo of 31 or more, shiny odds also climb to 1 in 341.3. The combo boost to shiny odds covers only the next spawn of the species you are chaining, so keep catching that species to keep it going.

Catch Combo 11 to 202 perfect IVsat least, on each Pokemon you catch

Catch Combo 21 to 303 perfect IVsat least, on each Pokemon you catch

Catch Combo 31 and up4 perfect IVsat least, on each Pokemon you catch

Go further

Catch ComboHow to build a combo and everything it gives.Catch Combo guide

Rare PokemonThe Pokemon that spawn least often.Rare Pokemon guide

Pokemon Let’s Go Hyper Training

Hyper Training lets a Pokemon you already own reach the stats of a perfect IV, so you do not have to catch a new one. It opens after you beat the Elite Four.

Elite Four beatenLevel 100

Bottle CapMr. Hyper on Route 5

Bottle Cap

One stat of your choice acts as if its IV were 31.

Where to get it

Vermilion City: Prize for beating Mina in battle (daily)
Celadon City: a random hidden pickup on the Game Corner floor, different each day

Gold Bottle Cap

Every stat acts as if its IV were 31.

Where to get it

Celadon City: A rare random hidden pickup on the Game Corner floor that changes each day

Inside the Route 5 building where Hyper Training happens in Pokemon Let's Go — Hyper Training takes place on Route 5.

Hyper Training first appeared in Pokemon Sun and Moon, and Let’s Go brings it to Kanto.
The real IVs do not change: the game treats each trained stat as if its IV were 31.
Bottle Caps are scarce, so save them for your favourite shiny or legendary Pokemon.

Pokemon Let’s Go Max CP

CP sums up how strong a Pokemon is. Two Pokemon of the same species can show different CP, so compare CP and IVs before you spend candy on one. Five things move it: