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Hidden Power IVs for Technician ability
Getting Started
One of the more interesting and useful abilities in D/P/P is Technician. This ability increases the power of all moves with a base power of 60 or less, increasing the damage by an extra 50%. Believe it or not, it also works on moves with variable powers, such as Natural Gift, Magnitude and so on. This includes the move Hidden Power.
This list was created for those who wish to use a Hidden Power with Technician, getting a stronger base damage overall than it would normally reach (up to 90 base power after the Technician boost, much stronger than the 70 base maximum normally reached with Hidden Power). Sadly, when making a Hidden Power of power strength 60, a lot of stats are reduced in order to accommodate a lower strength. In total, four of the six IVs are reduced to make a Power of exactly 60 strength. It would seem that using Technician in this way would not be worth the trade off. But if the power is reduced to 59, only one of the six IVs is affected. This unfortunately happens to be SpA, and since Hidden Power is based off SpA, it affects the base damage granted ever so slightly. Reducing the power to 59
however has two main advantages over a power of 60:
Maximum Speed:
This is especially important for those who wish to sweep with the Hidden Power. Technician raises the base power effectively to 89, not much different from other common Special-based moves, such as Psychic (90 BP) and Ice Beam (95 BP), and since it's possible to sweep with a 70 Base Power move after a Nasty Plot or two, this is worth considering.
Better Defenses:
While SpD in the case of either 59 strength or 60 strength Hidden Power is not affected, the HP and Def are affected. Using a 59 strength HP allows you to retain both maximum HP and Def for that Hidden Power, giving you an extra edge in survivability. The difference is minimal, but those minimal changes are often crucial.
Also consider that the two main special Technician users - Ambipom and Persian - also have access to Nasty Plot, so lowering the SpA by 2 will be negligible after the SpA is raised.
Just a final thing to note, after checking what the Hidden Power strength would be if both SpA and Spe were maximized it turns out this lowers the base power to unusable levels, since it can only reach at best 49 base power even with Technician, you'd only get a marginal boost in damage (49 x 1.5 = 74) over the normal base damage of 70.
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Hidden Powers
For those of you wishing to use a slower speed for purposes of Trick Room, you can subtract 28 from the Spe to get the lowest possible number (so 31 Spe IV would go down to 3 Spe IV and keep the same HP strength, and so on).
Help from Smogon and Shoddy Team Builder. The IVs for the Hidden Power combinations are listed in this order: HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpD/Spe.
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Fire
59 Power
31/30/31/28/31/30
31/31/30/28/31/30
30/30/31/28/31/30
30/31/30/28/31/30
60 Power
29/28/29/30/31/28
29/29/28/30/31/28
28/28/29/30/31/28
28/29/28/30/31/28
Water
59 Power
31/31/31/28/31/30
31/30/30/28/31/31
30/31/31/28/31/30
30/30/30/28/31/31
60 Power
29/29/29/30/31/28
29/28/29/30/31/29
28/29/29/30/31/28
28/28/28/30/31/29
Grass
59 Power
31/30/31/28/31/31
31/31/30/28/31/31
30/31/31/28/31/31
60 Power
29/28/29/30/31/29
29/29/28/30/31/29
28/29/29/30/31/29
Electric
59 Power
31/31/31/28/31/31
31/30/30/29/31/30
30/31/30/29/31/30
60 Power
29/29/29/30/31/29
29/28/28/31/31/28
28/29/28/31/31/28
Ice
59 Power
31/30/30/29/31/31
31/31/31/29/31/30
30/30/30/29/31/31
60 Power
29/28/28/31/31/29
29/29/29/31/31/28
28/28/28/31/31/29
Fighting
59 Power
31/31/30/28/30/30
30/30/31/28/30/30
30/31/30/28/30/30
60 Power
29/29/28/30/30/28
28/28/29/30/30/28
28/29/28/30/30/28
Poison
59 Power
31/31/30/28/30/31
30/31/30/28/30/31
60 Power
29/29/28/30/30/29
28/29/28/30/30/29
Ground
59 Power
31/31/31/28/30/31
30/30/30/29/30/30
60 Power
29/29/29/30/30/29
28/28/28/31/30/28
Flying
59 Power
31/31/31/30/30/30
30/30/30/30/30/31
60 Power
29/29/29/30/30/28
28/28/28/30/30/29
Psychic
59 Power
31/30/31/29/31/30
31/31/30/29/31/30
30/31/31/29/31/30
60 Power
29/28/29/31/31/28
29/29/28/31/31/28
28/29/29/31/31/28
Bug
59 Power
31/31/31/29/30/30
31/30/30/29/30/31
30/31/31/29/30/30
30/30/30/29/30/31
60 Power
29/29/29/31/30/28
29/28/28/31/30/29
28/29/29/31/30/28
28/28/28/31/30/29
Rock
59 Power
31/31/30/29/30/30
30/30/31/29/30/30
60 Power
29/29/28/31/30/28
28/28/29/31/30/28
Ghost
59 Power
31/31/30/29/30/31
31/30/31/29/30/31
30/31/30/29/30/31
30/30/31/29/30/31
60 Power
29/29/28/31/30/29
29/28/29/31/30/29
28/29/28/31/30/29
28/28/29/31/30/29
Dragon
59 Power
31/30/31/29/31/31
31/31/30/29/31/31
30/31/31/29/31/31
60 Power
29/28/29/31/31/29
29/29/28/31/31/29
28/29/29/31/31/29
Dark
59 Power
31/31/31/29/31/31
60 Power
29/29/29/31/31/29
Steel
59 Power
31/31/31/29/30/31
30/30/30/28/31/30
60 Power
29/29/29/31/30/29
28/28/28/30/31/28
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