Aegislash (Shield) vs Togekiss: the IVs decide

Full-grid view of an IV-decided pair: every focal IV spread (all 4096, stat-product order) against the opponent's top-512 spreads, per shield scenario, plus closed-form reach/deny cutoffs.

Format: open GL 1500 + Play! banned list, legacy (old system; Worlds-confirmed). Usage: 1801 recent teams across 16 open-GL events (Dracoviz corpus, events since 2026-03; the EUIC/LAIC/NAIC Internationals are excluded as limited-meta events). Shares are team-level and per-variant (Shadow counted separately from the base form). The June 2026 rebalance went live in-game 2026-06-02 (1 p.m. PDT, with the GBL Season 27 switchover), so all recent corpus events predate it EXCEPT the final one - Turin, 2026-06-06/07, played post-rebalance. Model-side ranks are fully post-rebalance. Sim: legacy engine, planes baked 2026-08-10/2026-08-18/2026-08-26, engine 5839391a7596, gamemaster 8f1d6cca5c0f, producer c1395dfa10b9. Cohorts: opponent top-512 by stat product, plus best-SP-per-attack-IV band (labeled separately, never pooled). Focal probe spreads: rank-1 SP and max-attack within top-512. Community Day move injected for Thievul (NS+IW) (Icy Wind), Thievul (IW+PR) (Icy Wind): the pinned sim gamemaster predates that Community Day, so the move was admitted into the species pool deliberately; upstream PvPoke already lists it. Full provenance on the affected entries' cheat sheets.

Aegislash (Shield) vs Togekiss

Full-grid check: NO scenario in this direction is IV-decided within the top-512 x top-512 block -- each of the 9 is a uniform win or a uniform loss for every spread pairing (the cheat-sheet strips show which).

Reach or deny (closed form)

Closed-form reach/deny is footnoted OUT for this pair: a form-change side (Aegislash) makes "atk >= cutoff" cards wrong in sign, not just imprecise (Blade attack is non-monotone in the Shield attack IV). The grids above are the only honest surface.

Togekiss vs Aegislash (Shield)

2-2 (IV-decided outside the top-512 x top-512 block)

Flagged by the Tier-1 screen (an attack-band cohort or probe-spread slice) or by the full-grid audit over all 4096 focal spreads, but the top-512 x top-512 block itself is uniform for this scenario -- the IV-dependence lives outside it, i.e. among off-meta or breakpoint-chaser builds (see the cheat-sheet dig-in and the curves below).

Reach or deny (closed form)

Closed-form reach/deny is footnoted OUT for this pair: a form-change side (Aegislash) makes "atk >= cutoff" cards wrong in sign, not just imprecise (Blade attack is non-monotone in the Shield attack IV). The grids above are the only honest surface.

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