What is the meaning of Base Stat Total?

What exactly does Base Stat Total mean?When will a Pokemon reach its Stat Total? For example, when will a Victini with a Serious nature have 100 Attack?How does Smogon, or for that matter, any Pokemon game decide that this will be the will be the Exact Stat in a certain area and BST of a certain Pokemon be?

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“Base stats” arenotthe numbers you see on your Pokemon’s summary screen. Base stats are one of several factors that go into calculating the numbers on your Pokemon’s summary screen (which you might call its “real” stats). Base stats are not shown to you by the game, and they are the same for all Pokemon of the same species.

I have illustrated this using a screenshot ofShowdown’s teambuilder, showing stats for a level 100 Nidoking:

A Pokemon does not ever “reach” its base stat total – italwayshas its base stat total, because base stats don’t ever change. Base stats are used by the stat calculation formula to produce the “real” stat total. EVs, natures and IVs (which you can see in the picture above) are also used by this formula, and the Pokemon’s level helps scale these numbers properly.

There is no point in knowing when Victini will reach 100 “real” stat points in Attack, because base stats are not the same as the numbers you see on its summary screen. You aren’t supposed to think of it like that.

(Aside: Pokemon games have unfortunately begun referring to EVs as “base stats”, even though fans have used different names for decades. Try to ignore this, the fan terminology has well and truly come out on top.)