#teddiboii

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IVs are the individual values, stats, a unit has and takes into account what their boon and bane is.

Every unit has a neutral set of stats that you can find at either level 1 or level 40 with their weapon and passives/seals unequipped. You can use a site like GamePress to see what their IVs are. You cannot check while your unit is level 2-39 because they have random gains that will, at lvl40, equal out to whatever fits their pre-decided IVs. When you check, make sure you’re checking for the rarity of that unit. They will have the same IVs that they had at 3* or 4* at 5*’s but just with extra points in general. If your Odin is +atk/-hp at 3* and he will continue to be +atk/-hp at 5*.

When you summon a unit, they will either be neutral or they will have a boon and a bane. If they have a boon and a bane, they will have one stat that is +3/+4 points higher than neutral (their boon) and one stat that is -3/-4 points lower than neutral (their bane). When they’re +4 or -4 points, they’re considered a “super” boon/bane which just means their BST (Base Statline Total, you get adding up the values of each of their stats) is going to be a point lower or higher which can effect how they score in arena but I won’t get into arena scoring right now.

When I mention “dropping” a stat, that just means that is the stat you’d want a bane in. For most units, you generally want to focus on their high stats rather than patch up a bad stat. So a fragile unit with a def of 14 would rather drop that to 11 than boost it to 17 because it’s still too low to make a difference. You can’t pick your IV’s most of the time, but if you happened to have several of the same unit and wanted to pick the best boon/bane set for them, you would want to pick whatever is going to benefit them the most. So Odin again, he desperately wants atk so you’d pretty much always want to get him at +atk and then drop his HP or Res, stats he doesn’t rely on as much. 

It’s worth noting that IV’s can cause a unit to perform differently than intended. If you have a unit who relies on speed with a -spd bane, you won’t see them getting as many doubles as you’d expect. However, bad IVs do not ruin a unit. I’ve heard of people sending home bad IV units and there’s no reason to! It’s good to know your IVs so you know how you want to build them and what you need to run alongside them, but they aren’t the destruction of a character if they have bad IVs.