4th Gen Carbos/ Protein/ etc. Question

[DylanCaulfield]

Hi there,

I am preparing my Sapphire team to Pal Park onto my copy of Pearl. Over hours of aimlessly going through the Elite Four on Sapphire, and I have been constantly purchasing Carbos/Protein/etc. in order to maxamize my team. My question is, once you've given a pokemon so many of a certain item (e.g. Protein) and the game is saying "It won't have any effect", will the Pokémon ever be able to have any more of said item given to them, or is that the most of the stat boosting item they can have?

Many Thanks.

 

[TwilightBlade]

A fresh pokemon can have 10 of each vitamin but I think only 51 in total or something since that'll fill up your EVs. Once you give them their 10 in a stat, they can't take in anymore of that vitamin ever. So give 10 Carbos and that's it. If they already have 255 EVs in that stat, they still can't take in any vitamin unless you reduce their EVs. A Tamato Berry will reduce Speed by 10... But I don't think you can add and reduce and add all day long like that. Uhh... yeah. It's easier to just EV train though IMO.

 

[DylanCaulfield]

You're probably right, I'm just lazy.

Thanks, that's really helpful.