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SP Optimizer

The SP Optimizer finds the fewest Stat Points (SPs) that reach a goal: Survive the attacks of your opponents, or KO them. The SPs you save can go into Speed or into another stat.

How It Works

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Incineroar against the Meta attackers: it survives 53 of 60 for 52 SPs.

The panel is below the stats of the build and reads as one sentence: Spend the fewest SPs to Survive the attacker's 2HKO, or to KO the target with OHKO. Choose the goal and the threshold, click Optimize and check the result. Apply writes the new spread into the build, Discard keeps the old one.

The panel is below the stats of the build. Choose the threshold, tap Optimize and check the result. Apply writes the new spread into the build, Discard keeps the old one.

  • Survive: in One vs One and Many vs Team.
  • KO: in One vs One and Team vs Many.

The goal follows the screen: KO in Team vs Many, Survive in Many vs Team, and in One vs One, KO for the attacking side and Survive for the defending side.

Survive

Survive puts SPs into HP, Defense and Special Defense.

  • 2HKO: survives one hit. Berries like Sitrus Berry count when they trigger, also in the middle of multi-hit moves like Surging Strikes.
  • 3HKO and 4HKO: survives two or three hits in a row. The end of turn effects between the hits count: Leftovers, Grassy Terrain, weather, burn and poison.
  • Many attackers: in Many vs Team, it protects as many attackers of the list as it can. The result says how many it covers and which one is the worst case.
  • Combined attackers: when two attackers are combined, it finds the bulk to survive both hits in the same turn.
  • Ties: when two spreads cost the same SPs, it picks the one with more HP.

KO

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Gholdengo needs 22 SpA to 2HKO Charizard-Mega-Y with Shadow Ball.

KO puts SPs into Attack or Special Attack, depending on the move, to reach the OHKO, 2HKO, 3HKO or 4HKO on the target.

  • Many targets: in Team vs Many, it reaches the KO on as many opponents of the list as it can.
  • Combined attackers: with two of your Pokémon combined, each one gets its own line with its own options, and the result shows the cost of each.

Options

  • keeping SPs: the SPs you already have stay, and the optimizer only adds on top of them.
  • changing the nature: lets the optimizer switch to a Nature that saves SPs, like Bold or Calm to survive, or Adamant or Modest to KO.
  • Roll Level: the optimizer uses the roll level of the calc. High covers every roll, Medium and Low ignore the highest ones.
  • Times Used in a Row: moves used several times in a row are counted with the stat changes of each use.

Best Effort

When no spread reaches the goal, the optimizer proposes the spread that gets the closest and tells you how close it got, for example Best effort: 28.9% chance to 2HKO. When no spread can reach the goal, it says so: No spread reaches this KO or No spread survives this attack.