Wobblegong

So a Feature™ of Pokemon Go is that I routinely end up with 17 duplicates of a pokemon I really only need one or two of. I have some interest in winnowing the pile based on their stats: keep the ones with good IVs, toss the rest. But while it's possible to calculate IVs, it requires third-party websites or apps, and I just want to know which are the worst 70% of my whatevers without deep-diving their stats.

Conveniently, the game includes an Appraise feature! Even more conveniently, the "answers" strike a nice balance of informative vs efficient, with only four possibilities each for two dimensions. So from best to worst I assigned the answers S-grade, A-grade, B-grade and X-grade. After using Appraise I set the pokemon's nickname to two letters: "sa" would indicate the first "answer" was S-grade and the second was A-grade. "xb" would indicate the first "answer" was X-grade and the second was B-grade. And so on.

It makes it very easy to clean up my pokemon from the list view when I can approximate their IVs at a glance. And if I'm tracking something else (desired gender, moveset, etc) I have plenty of nickname space to note that down too. :) Now I just have to Appraise and clean up... 400 pokemon. *wheeze*

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( Expanded/detailed explanation of how the Appraisal messages work (including tables to translate the  )