Pokemon Champions will be ditching IVs to make the series' competitive scene more approachable, something producer Masaaki Hoshino had to discuss with one of the series' original battle designers.
Starting later this year, Pokemon Champions will the the official game of the Pokemon Video Game Championships, with the free-to-play title set to be the go-to game for competitive Pokemon going forward. But at the same time, Pokemon Champions aims to make the competitive battles a bit more approachable for players, and one way is by removing one of the series' long-standing stats, IVs – which are somewhat hidden modifiers that decide how a Pokemon's stats will grow as they level up.
