For a long time I've operated under the assumption that the most CP-efficient prestigers have IV's with 15 stamina, or 15 stamina and 15 defense, but with 0 attack.
However, today I started thinking about Wigglytuff, who is frequently lauded as a prestiger but has base attack much higher than defense. I started to wonder if it's liked mainly because of its typing, move sets, or possibly stat ratios - because if the latter, it would upend my prestige IV assumptions.
I crunched some numbers of Pokemon that had a max CP of at least 1500 and then divided them into categories based on the order of their base stats (e.g., Stamina > Defense > Attack). Below I list four from each category with the highest % differences between its top stat and the rest.
A. (S>A=D): Lanturn, Snorlax, Dunsparse, Quagsire
B. (S>D>A): Blissey, Lapras, Azumarill, Miltank
C. (S>A>D): Wigglytuff, Vaporeon, Piloswine, Furret
D. (D>S>A): Steelix, Umbreon, Jumpluff, Hypno
E. (D>A>S): Cloyster, Mantine, Skarmory, Himontop
F. (A>S>D): Ursaring, Granbull, Victreebel, Exeggutor
G. (A>D>S): Haunter, Kadabra, Gengar, Dodrio
Type advantages aside, if I had to pick one group as my only prestige crew going forward, I might pick C. Groups A and B don't seem as appealing to me. Am I the only one? If I'm not, might that mean that it's (slightly) better to have higher stamina and attack IVs in a prestiger than it is to have higher stamina and defense, or even pure stamina?