Many of us into competitive battling or otherwise obsessive training are familiar with individual values and effort values, colloquially known as IVs and EVs. Anyone who has attempted to perfect their Pokemon's IVs and EVs know what an annoying task this can be, and it mostly boils down to one factor; your Pokemon's IVs and current EVs are not plainly visible. For IVs, you need to either use an IV calculator or rely on slightly cryptic messages from an NPC. For EVs, you have to keep tally, usually with a pen and paper.
It's still rather tricky to breed a Pokemon with good IVs even if they are all visible, and it's still a time-consuming task to get its EVs correct, but I really cannot help but think that making the stats invisible offers no enjoyable challenge and only serves to make an already complicated task even more tedious. With the new games coming out, I hope they make the decision to make the stats visible
What do you all think? Should IVs and EVs become visible stats that you can track in a menu somewhere in the new games, or should they remain hidden?
It's still rather tricky to breed a Pokemon with good IVs even if they are all visible, and it's still a time-consuming task to get its EVs correct, but I really cannot help but think that making the stats invisible offers no enjoyable challenge and only serves to make an already complicated task even more tedious. With the new games coming out, I hope they make the decision to make the stats visible
What do you all think? Should IVs and EVs become visible stats that you can track in a menu somewhere in the new games, or should they remain hidden?