Hidden Power Calculator (Pokemon Tool)

Determine the exact elemental typing and base damage output of your Pokémon's Hidden Power move by inputting their 6 Individual Values (IVs).

Configuration

Health Points (HP)

Attack

Defense

Special Attack

Special Defense

Speed

Auto-Calculating

v2.0 Logic

Popular Competitive Hidden Power Spreads

Category	Value/Price
HP Fire	31 / 30 / 31 / 30 / 31 / 30
HP Ice	31 / 0 / 30 / 31 / 31 / 31
HP Ground	31 / 31 / 31 / 30 / 30 / 31

Fairy-type and Normal-type Hidden Powers do not exist in the game's internal bitwise coding array.

Technical Overview

In retro to mid-generation competitive Pokémon, 'Hidden Power' acted as the ultimate wildcard sweeping move. The elemental typing is strictly generated by evaluating the Least Significant Bit (parities of Odd vs Even) across the creature's six IVs. By isolating these parities through a base-2 bitwise shift and dividing against the maximum constant of 63, the game indexes the output against an array of 16 typings. Damage scaling (ranging from 30 to 70 Base Power) utilized a secondary bit shift until Generation 6, where GameFreak locked all damage cleanly to 60 BP.

Professional Applications

Smogon competitive team building
Perfect IV shiny breeding
Gen-3 Emerald Battle Frontier planning

What is Hidden Power?

It is a Special Attack move that appears 'Normal' on a status screen but physically shifts its elemental damage output depending purely on the Pokémon's DNA (IVs). It grants massive coverage, allowing an Electric type to shoot Ice blasts to defeat Ground types.

How IVs affect the resulting Type

If every single one of your Pokémon's IVs is completely even, they will always yield a Fighting Type. If they all sit at maximum 31 (Odd), they yield Dark. Because of this math, a legally impossible perfect physical attacker cannot ever have a Fire type power.

Scientific Formula

Type = floor(((HP%2 + 2*Atk%2 ... + 32*SpD%2) × 15) ÷ 63)

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Hidden Power type?

Historically, HP Ice and HP Fire control the entire metagame. HP Ice violently counters 4x weak Dragons (Garchomp/Salamence), while HP Fire incinerates 4x weak Steel walls (Scizor/Ferrothorn).

How do I change my IVs?

Without using Hyper Training (Bottle Caps) in later generations, IVs are permanently locked at birth. You must repeatedly breed eggs at the Daycare to hit the exact Odd/Even combinations.

Did they remove Hidden Power?

Yes. To streamline competition, the move was entirely stripped from the main gameplay code starting in Pokemon Sword and Shield (Gen 8).