Is it possible to actually view IVs anywhere in the game? Are IVs the actual stat a pokemon has at level 1 before any EV training or modification begins?
This is the part of Pokemon breeding that remains most unexplained to me.
IVs are an invisible number that modifies stats. At level 100, IVs make a potential difference of 31 points in each individual stat, but it's impossible to tell at level 1 because it scales down. The stats are always going to be 5 and 6, etc.
Post-game, there's a guy in Kiloude City that will tell you which IVs of a Pokemon are perfect, (i.e. 31), and which ones are 0, as well as an overall evaluation of its IVs.