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4th Gen I'm wondering.

Great that just about all I need to know about EV training for now. Should I keep track of what EV's i gotten? If you were extremely rich in the game could you just buy proteins and all that?
 
Enigma Charizard said:
Great that just about all I need to know about EV training for now. Should I keep track of what EV's i gotten? If you were extremely rich in the game could you just buy proteins and all that?
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Proteins and etc. only increase your EVs by 10. And once your EV count (for a specific stat) hits 100, it will no longer accept Proteins and etc. And definately keep count of what EV's you've recieved.
 
Not to mini-mod, but the topic kinda went off from Pokemon Roles to EV training... Oh well.


Since the present topic is on EV training, I thought maybe I'd give some important things to take notice of.



If you have the Macho Brace, don't be disturbed by it's description of reducing the holder's Speed. It's worth it if you're EV training. What the Macho Brace does is it doubles the amount of EVs you if the holder appears battle.


Oh, and any Pokemon that receives experience from battle receives EVs also, regardless of whether that Pokemon actually participated in battle or not.


For example, if you had a Level 50 Staraptor holding a Macho Brace, and a Starly holding an Exp. Share, then you used the said Staraptor to defeat a wild Lvl. 3 Starly to build up on Speed EVs. Both the Staraptor and the Starly in your party would receive 2 Speed EVs each since the holder of the Macho Brace appeared in battle, and both of them received experience from battle, even though the Starly never came out of its Pokeball.


I should mention here that "PokeRus", a special status effect, also doubles the amount of EVs the infected Pokemon gets. It stacks with the Macho Brace, so you'll end up with a 4x multiplier for EVs.


You should also take note that the maximum count of EVs for any single Pokemon is 510, and each stat can only accomodate 255 EVs maximum. However, it's doesn't mean that you can dump it all into 2 stats (510 divided by 2 is 255). Only every 4 EVs will increase their respective stat by 1. With this in mind, it's recommended that you limit the maximum EVs in one stat to 252, since 252 is divisible by 4.


Example: You built up 255 EVs in Speed for your Starly. That would result in a +63 Speed total; a result that you will completely see only when it reaches level 100. However, rounded down to the nearest multiple of 4, 252 would have resulted in the same +63 Speed bonus, meaning you wasted 3 EVs unnecessarily; 3 EVs that you could have spread elsewhere along with the remaining 258 EVs to make your Pokemon more efficient or powerful.



Well, I hope that helped. That's pretty much all I know about EVs. Good luck! =]
 
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