How do you determine what type Hidden Power is?

What is Hidden Power Fight, Dark and all the others? What does it mean?

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If you’re playing any game Platinum or later, there is a Hidden Power type checker NPC somewhere in your game. They will reveal the Hidden Power type of your Pokemon for free.

If you’re playing a different game, you can teach Hidden Power to your Pokemon without saving and test it against wild Pokemon to infer the type.

Hidden Power’s type depends on your Pokemon’sIVs, which are random numbers your Pokemon has assigned to each of its stats, between 0 and 31. The IVs are put into this simple formula…

…wherea,b,c,d,eandfmean the following (in layman’s terms):

The result of the calculation (after rounding down) will be a number from 0 to 15, so there are 16 possibilities. Since Hidden Power cannot be Normal-type or Fairy-type, there is a number for every possible type. They are bound as follows:

This system has various consequences, such ascertain Hidden Power types being statistically more common than others, and the “perfect” IV spread with 31 points in all stats being locked into Dark-type.

This answer is an abridged version ofBulbapedia’s article on the subject, which you may care to read now that you’ve read a high-level overview. The article includes worked examples, differences in the Gen 2 games, and the (very similar) process for determining Hidden Power’s base power.

Hidden Power’s type is determined by the IVs of a Pokemon. For example, if you have 31 IVs in Attack, Defense, Speed, and HP and 30 IVs in Special Attack and Special Defense, the Pokemon’s Hidden Power type will be Ground. The only types that Hidden Power cannot be are Normal and Fairy.

If you need one, there is a Hidden Power IV listhere.

Hope this helps!