>>40136358the only place where your iv's matter is online play, and it's automatically set to 50 there anyfuckingway so it's literally the most redundant item ever in terms of effort.
good thing about it is that i can just bottlecap my gen4 mons now cause i rare candy spammed for online battles back then.
4iv mons were good enough in those days anyway.
Heck, even as much as having a proper EV trained team in general.