Thread:Les Thompson/@comment-5428123-20130208093004/@comment-5428123-20130226082230

Technically, it's impossible to get an EX card that doesn't include the carryover, so original base * 1.2 is more of a theorectical number. That number is what's listed in the galleries, and we usually use that number as an easy benchmark.

As for imperfect stats, the reason I didn't include a formula is because of the fact that imperfect stats vary considerably, depending on how the owner enhanced their cards before evolution. The problem is that any EX card in which the two base cards were not maxed before evolving would be considered imperfect. I know when I first started out, I would enhance halfway for both cards before evolving, and I still have an imperfect card even now. I even know people who were one level away from max with one base card, and ended up with an imperfect EX card.

For that reason, we usually only include perfect stats since there is next to no variability (outside of a few exceptions). Plus, people are usually only interested in knowing whether a card is perfect or not, so simply making a comparison will show whether a card is imperfect or not.