Jim Drillbit
Well what I dont understand is how you can tell. Do you just give the pokemon hidden power and see if it worked?
hey, i'm not so great at explaining things, so here's a link to help you with your hidden power questions
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/hp.phpscroll down till you see manual calculation, it's around the middle
3nodding on that site, they refer to IV's as DV's, it's the pretty much the same thing but just a different name and more refered to in the 1st and 2nd generation of the games (DV stands for Deter value by the way)