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In Generation II, a Pokémon's [[gender]] is determined based solely on its Attack IV when compared to a [[List of Pokémon by gender ratio|value specific to each Pokémon species]]. A Pokémon is female if its Attack IV is less than or equal to its species' gender code, otherwise it is male. For species that are exclusively one gender or have no gender, the calculation based on the Attack IV is ignored.

Due to this calculation, it is impossible to obtain a female Pokémon with high Attack, unless the Pokémon is a member of an all-female species like {{p|Jynx}} or {{p|Chansey}}. Starter Pokémon and others with a gender ratio of seven males to one female suffer the most, with the maximum Attack IV for a female Pokémon of those species being 1.