3rd Gen Simple Questions (Ask Questions Here)

[Richard Lynch]

Just remember that you can essentially only EV tank two of your stats before EVs stop being counted. So choose wisely, and in a form that would be beneficial to your Pokemon - it'd be a waste of time to EV tank an Alakazam's attack stat, for example.

Also, if you want the most EVs can give you, begin it at level 5 - newly hatched, if you can hatch the Pokemon you want to tank. If you're looking to EV train your Blaziken, for example, chances are you've maxed all your EVs out in the course of the game. But if you hatched a new one, and began training right away, you'll be set. For a few levels my Kadabra was getting +8 and +11 to his Special Attack. I couldn't imagine what his SpAt would be like if I began when I first picked him up as an Abra.

I personally plan to tank a Metagross after I beat the Elite 4, and then hatch a few eggs, and build up my dream ultimate Steel team - completely unstoppable! My Poke-friends have even given me the nickname "Steven" because of my fondness towards Steel types. lol

 

[Paranoia]

Yeah i understand all that jazz now after reading that guide, but how do you get more then one beldum as it cant hatch eggs even with a ditto, well atleast it said that.

Also Metagross is relatively weak, my blaziken owns stevens lvl 58 metagross and that was when blaziken was lvl 58 but now when hes lvl 85 i just laugh at there attempts to beat me mwhahaha

Also how do you only tank out 2 do you have to pay close attention to it so at lvl ??? (??? means a certain lvl) you stop to start training the other one, also what EV's should i do for a torchic btw?

 

[Richard Lynch]

Yeah i understand all that jazz now after reading that guide, but how do you get more then one beldum as it cant hatch eggs even with a ditto, well atleast it said that.

Also Metagross is relatively weak, my blaziken owns stevens lvl 58 metagross and that was when blaziken was lvl 58 but now when hes lvl 85 i just laugh at there attempts to beat me mwhahaha

Also how do you only tank out 2 do you have to pay close attention to it so at lvl ??? (??? means a certain lvl) you stop to start training the other one, also what EV's should i do for a torchic btw?

You get Beldum at level 5, so it's just as good as cleanly hatching him from an egg. You just have to be careful if you're looking to be precise.

Metagross and Blaziken is actually a pretty trumped rivalry... Metagross is weak against the Fire, and Blaziken is weak against the Psychic. I'm sure his loss was a combination of AI, you being human, and maybe a pinch of luck.

You can only have a maximum of 550, about. I'm going by memory here... 225 maximum for any single stat. What I'd do is take a newly hatched or caught Pokemon who hasn't been in a single battle, and start training him/her in one of the suggested areas for EV training, depending on which stat you want to raise. I tend to spend most of my time in the volcano ash route, seeing as how Spinda's EV go towards Special Attack. You'll probably know when your EV is maxed out for that stat, if you've been getting plus rediculous numbers (like +8, 9, or 11, or even 12), and then all of a sudden get plus 3, or plus 4, which is the usual for signature stats of a Pokemon. Then when you're finished with that stat, you simply go to a new suggested place and train for a different stat.

I'm sure you could do the math yourself if you want a very specific balance between certain stats, though.

 

[Paranoia]

In BOLD
You get Beldum at level 5, so it's just as good as cleanly hatching him from an egg. You just have to be careful if you're looking to be precise.

Lol i thought you had found a way! ahwell then

Metagross and Blaziken is actually a pretty trumped rivalry... Metagross is weak against the Fire, and Blaziken is weak against the Psychic. I'm sure his loss was a combination of AI, you being human, and maybe a pinch of luck.

I think his loss was because it couldn't stand up to the awesomest might of Blaziken, and also becoz Blaziken is faster than Metagross so he gets the OHOK in first.

You can only have a maximum of 550, about. I'm going by memory here... 225 maximum for any single stat. What I'd do is take a newly hatched or caught Pokemon who hasn't been in a single battle, and start training him/her in one of the suggested areas for EV training, depending on which stat you want to raise. I tend to spend most of my time in the volcano ash route, seeing as how Spinda's EV go towards Special Attack. You'll probably know when your EV is maxed out for that stat, if you've been getting plus rediculous numbers (like +8, 9, or 11, or even 12), and then all of a sudden get plus 3, or plus 4, which is the usual for signature stats of a Pokemon. Then when you're finished with that stat, you simply go to a new suggested place and train for a different stat.

Yep Yep, good good yeah thats where i funnily enough got POKERUS! i know yeah lol i was training gardevoir in Spe. Att and when she (obviously a female) gained a level it was plus 10 and i was like OMG these EV stats are awesome (coz i just started EV training) but then i healed and Nurse joy told me and i was LIKE YAY is that a good thing?

I'm sure you could do the math yourself if you want a very specific balance between certain stats, though. Nah i just wanted to focus around 2 so now i know how, Thanks alot!

Also if say im trying to get Defence EV's and im hunting the sandshrews on route 113 (which also has wild skarmourys and a hell of alot of Spinda (or whatever)) If i meet a wild skarmoury or spinda and run does that effect my EV's?

Also i want the pokemon in my trainer card EV'd to the max (beside Rayquazar and Latios) What Stats should i go for?

Im Thinking ( This is what i want in other words, but is it effective?):
Blaziken
Nature: Serious
EV Focus: Spe. Atk and Spe. Def

Gardevoir
Same as Blaziken

Glalie
Nature: Gentle
EV Focus: Defense and Spe. Atk

Metagross
Nature: Calm
EV Focus: Spe. Def and Spe. Atk

 

[Paranoia]

Training Help

Ahhg! Is there a good place to level that levels pokemon quickly, I want to train my pokemon to Lvl 100 without cheating

 

[Richard Lynch]

Now MINE are in italics! hahaha

In BOLD
You get Beldum at level 5, so it's just as good as cleanly hatching him from an egg. You just have to be careful if you're looking to be precise.

Lol i thought you had found a way! ahwell then

Unless Metagross is somehow considered a legendary, it actually should be possible if you use a Ditto. Metagross is genderless,and you can only breed genderless with Ditto... unless, as said, he were a "legendary".

Metagross and Blaziken is actually a pretty trumped rivalry... Metagross is weak against the Fire, and Blaziken is weak against the Psychic. I'm sure his loss was a combination of AI, you being human, and maybe a pinch of luck.

I think his loss was because it couldn't stand up to the awesomest might of Blaziken, and also becoz Blaziken is faster than Metagross so he gets the OHOK in first.

Haha, when I get my Metagross up to snuff, we'll battle (somehow... don't ask me! lol), and then we'll just see who's more awesome. ;-) Metagross > Blaziken

You can only have a maximum of 550, about. I'm going by memory here... 225 maximum for any single stat. What I'd do is take a newly hatched or caught Pokemon who hasn't been in a single battle, and start training him/her in one of the suggested areas for EV training, depending on which stat you want to raise. I tend to spend most of my time in the volcano ash route, seeing as how Spinda's EV go towards Special Attack. You'll probably know when your EV is maxed out for that stat, if you've been getting plus rediculous numbers (like +8, 9, or 11, or even 12), and then all of a sudden get plus 3, or plus 4, which is the usual for signature stats of a Pokemon. Then when you're finished with that stat, you simply go to a new suggested place and train for a different stat.

Yep Yep, good good yeah thats where i funnily enough got POKERUS! i know yeah lol i was training gardevoir in Spe. Att and when she (obviously a female) gained a level it was plus 10 and i was like OMG these EV stats are awesome (coz i just started EV training) but then i healed and Nurse joy told me and i was LIKE YAY is that a good thing?

I got Pokerus the first 5minutes into the game... so I really didn't have the resources to sufficiently EV train. Although my Swampert is a bigger attack tank now than in my previous games.

I'm sure you could do the math yourself if you want a very specific balance between certain stats, though. Nah i just wanted to focus around 2 so now i know how, Thanks alot!

Also if say im trying to get Defence EV's and im hunting the sandshrews on route 113 (which also has wild skarmourys and a hell of alot of Spinda (or whatever)) If i meet a wild skarmoury or spinda and run does that effect my EV's?

Not that I know of.It just accumulates... doesn't decrease. A wild Skarmory will give you EV points towards whatever EV Skarmory gives. If it's not a desired EV, then just run.

Also i want the pokemon in my trainer card EV'd to the max (beside Rayquazar and Latios) What Stats should i go for?

Im Thinking ( This is what i want in other words, but is it effective?):
Blaziken
Nature: Serious
EV Focus: Spe. Atk and Spe. Def

This is being completely oblivious to the Nature: With Blaziken I'd say go for Attack and Defense/Speed/HP. But do go for Attack instead of Special Attack. He's normally just an Attack tank as it is.

Gardevoir
Same as Blaziken

Go with Special Attack and Special Defence for this one. Or Special Attack and Speed.

Glalie
Nature: Gentle
EV Focus: Defense and Spe. Atk

I'm not familiar with Glalie, so I couldn't help ya out here. Sorry!

Metagross
Nature: Calm
EV Focus: Spe. Def and Spe. Atk

Metagross is normally known for his insane Defence and Special Defence. EVs may be better used with those, but I tend to like high Special Attack on psychics, so who knows? Hope I helped a trifle!

 

[Paranoia]

Ty graceofbaal you helped me alot also it is possible we will vs it just depends where you live, Say if you live in the US well we'll vs practically whenever, but if you live in Aus or UK it'll be ages!

Prepare to be pwneded hehe

EDITED: Lol you will be pwned if you train just steel (Except for Hiidoran the new legendary which is fire /steel but the annoying part is his ability is always FLASH FIRE which never allows a fire attack to hit, Damn)
Because this is my team or will be (ignore trainer card) Charizard, Blaziken, Gardevoir, Glaclie, Metagross and Lapras!

 

[shanecdavis]

Okay, time to set a few things straight in this conversation gone awry about EVs. Here is a link to a great guide written by Synchronize about Effort Values that you both should read:

https://www.pkmncommunity.com/showthread.php?t=72415

It is actually the third guide listed, but the first two are definitely good reads as you make your way down.

Essentially, an Effort Value is a number that is attached to EVERY Poke in the game. Every time any Poke particpates in a battle against another Poke, and defeats it, it will earn the EV points that particular Poke has (i.e. Skarmory yields 2 Def EVs). A Poke can learn a max of 510 EV points, and can only learn 255 EV points in any one stat. That means you can max only two stats on a particular Poke.

How EV points work is that for every 4 EV points a Poke earns, it increases that stat by 1 point when you level up. So, battling two Skarmory will give your Poke 4 Def EVs, and then you level up, its Def stat will increase by one. So, as you can see, you need to make sure that the EV points your Poke learns should ALWAYS be divisible by 4. That means maxing out a stat at 255 is wasting 3 points that could be used somewhere else. To fix that, I always only max to 252 in two stats (which you should only do in certain cases) and then I have six remaining points, four of which I can put in another stat.

As it was explained before, Pokerus double the amount of EVs your Poke can learn. That means, when it battles that Skarmory, it will get FOUR Def EVs instead of two. Have it hold the Macho Brace and it will double again, earning EIGHT Def EVs. So hopefully now you are beginning to see how valuable the Pokerus is and how envious I am of you. LOL

Also, keep in mind that whenever you catch a wild Poke or breed a baby Poke, its EVs will ALWAYS be at zero. It is not necessary to have to start EV training a Poke at Lv5. You can EV train them at any level, you can even EV train the Legendaries. Don't forget that earning EV points will only manifest themselves when you level up, so when you reach Lv100, you are unable to EV train anymore. Some claim that there is a trick to that, but since I haven't tested it yet, I am leery to accept it.

Beldum is not considered Legendary and can breed with Ditto. Since it is genderless, it will take at least twice as long as it does getting an egg otherwise, but you will get one. Be patient. Also, you destroyed Stephen's Metagross because it is a crappy AI Poke that hasn't been EV trained and does not have a beneficial moveset. Keep in mind that Blaziken cannot OHKO a trained Metagross with STAB Flamethrower, but Metagross can OHKO a trained Blaziken with Earthquake. That is why most Blaziken movesets suggest Fire Blast, or even Overheat, over Flamethrower.

Suggestions in bold:

Blaziken
Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def)
EV Focus: Atk, Spd, SAtk

Always remember that EVs should be used to accentuate a Poke's strength, not attempt to cover a weakness. Putting EVs into Def or SDef won't help nearly as much as putting them into Atk or Spd. Since Blaziken's special movepool sucks, it is always better to focus on physical attacks and then carry a Fire move as a STAB secondary move. Fire-types in general are meh. Swampert owns all. BTW - always avoid neutral natures. They offer no benefit whatsoever.

Gardevoir
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
EV focus: HP, Def, SAtk, and a little Spd

And just after I say don't use EVs to cover a weakness, I present you with an exception. Giving Gardevoir some Def love actually does prevent it being OHKO'ed by a physical attack, assuring you at least two attacks (depending on how fast your Gardevoir is).

Glalie
Nature: Gentle
EV Focus: Defense and Spe. Atk

Don't use Glalie. Seriously. Walrien, Jynx, Lapras, and others are better alternatives.

Metagross
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
EV Focus: Atk, Max Def, Spd, a little HP

A STAB Meteor Mash can do as much damage as Psychic can, with its base Atk of 135 (along with some Atk EVs). Again, accentuate its strenghts (Atk, Def) instead of its weaknesses (SAtk, SDef). You don't want to keep Metagross in against its weakness anyway. That is what switching out is for.

About training your Pokes quickly. What I have done is added 19 Secret Bases on my Emerald cart, by mixing records with my Ruby cart that I have restarted many times. I restart a game on Ruby, play to the point where I can add a Secret Base, and then trade over Pokes from my Emerald to Ruby (more on that in a minute) and then mix records. After that I restart Ruby and repeat.

Why the hell would I do this, you ask? That is because I can fully EV train a team of Pokes rather quickly. Here is how it works. I have caught/bred six Pokes that will give me 3 EV points in a particular stat every time I battle them. They are:

Clefable - 3 HP EVs
Shiftry - 3 Atk EVs
Golem - 3 Def EVs
Beautifly - 3 SAtk EVs
Dustox - 3 SDef EVs
Raichu - 3 Spd EVs

I chose these Pokes because they are the quickest to acquire. I then remove all attacking move, via the Move Tutor. It is cheap, I know, but I want to train in the quickest way possible. Then I trade them to my Ruby cart and mix records. Now, when I enter that Secret Base, I can battle six Pokes that give me 3 EV points each, for a total of 18 EV points. Now, since I will typically have my target Poke hold the Macho Brace, it will actually earn 6 EVs points per battle, or 36 EVs points total. So, after seven trips to the Secret Base, I will have maxed out the EVs for a particular stat. Just imagine now if you did it with Pokerus. 72 EV points total from one run. That is sick. Simple math reveals that battling three times will yield 216 EV points. THREE times. Sick, sick, sick. So every day, you can take a Poke and practically max out a target stat. That is why I have 18 bases (3 bases for each stat, each base with 6 of the aforementioned Pokes). Sure it takes time to set up, but the end result is that I can mass EV train Pokes in very little time. Don't forget that using the Exp Share will allow a Poke to earn EV points too, and they don't even have to participate in battle. A Poke with Pokerus and Exp Share will earn 6 EV points in my Secret Bases just by being in the party while my target Poke is doing all the battles. Now can you see why I am so envious? LOL

Outside of dedicating time to do that, or not having the hardware to do so (requires two games and two GBAs), you can still EV train naturally. After you have finished EV training and you want to level up quickly, the best way to do it is to battle the Weak5, or my favorite is battling Gabby the Reporter (only in Emerald). She can be found first on Route 111. After that she is found on Route 118. You can then find her on Route 120. What happens is that after each battle, she will switch to the next route, allowing you to continually battle her without having to wait for her to want to. Also, after you battle her enough, she will stay on Route 111, allowing you to battle her quicker without having to Fly to the other routes. This is beneficial because you can earn Exp Points quickly, and you can quit at any time. If you don't have Emerald, then just stick with the Weak5.

 

[Richard Lynch]

That is why most Blaziken movesets suggest Fire Blast, or even Overheat, over Flamethrower.

Just a quick note, if you do use Overheat, be sure to always make Blaziken hold the Mental Herb (gotten from the nice lady next to the Pretty Petal Flower Shop, if my memory has been kind to me), since Overheat sharply lowers Special Attack. Mental Herb will bring it back up again.

Shanecdavis, you mentioned something about a trick, or a little "loophole" when it comes to EV stat training. I've been pondering this myself, but have yet to try my own theory. Here's how it goes...

When you Max out a stat on EVs, you can't get any more. But what if you were to use one of the berries that decreases a stat by one (but makes the Pokemon friendly)? That stat goes down by one, and the EV for that stat goes down by 10, which can easily be replenished by one of the Energy items (Zinc, Protein, etc). Now going by the guide (which says that every 4 EV points towards a certain stat gives you one extra stat point), that leaves a possible of 2 extra points in the stat that was decreased by 1. And then you could just repeat the process.

I'm not sure if this is even possible (I've never tried it), if maybe I did my math wrong, but going by this, you could theorectically continue to EV train all the way to level 100. It wouldn't be as helpful as getting +10, say, but it would be better than the usual.

Just my humble little theory!

 

[Paranoia]

Ok thanks for that shanecdavis but unfortunately i cannot start to EV train my pokemons yet becoz i want to start from hatching an egg, Is there any way of quickly leveling a poke without giving it EV's because i dont want to be stuck on training a Torchic on weak pokes that dont put the EV points to where i want them, any suggestions?

Also Wtf did you mean about secret bases? can you have more than one secret base?

And i allready have a lapras, i need a glalie coz there cool, and also im Happy to give you POKERUS if i can trade the pokerus infected wurmples into diamond but we'll just have to wait for DP

 

[Richard Lynch]

Ok thanks for that shanecdavis but unfortunately i cannot start to EV train my pokemons yet becoz i want to start from hatching an egg, Is there any way of quickly leveling a poke without giving it EV's because i dont want to be stuck on training a Torchic on weak pokes that dont put the EV points to where i want them, any suggestions?

Also Wtf did you mean about secret bases? can you have more than one secret base?

And i allready have a lapras, i need a glalie coz there cool, and also im Happy to give you POKERUS if i can trade the pokerus infected wurmples into diamond but we'll just have to wait for DP

This is simple: take a strong a pokemon along with your newly hatched pokemon (who has Pokerus and Macho Brace). Do it as if you were trying to level it up normally - put the weak one out first, then switch to the powerful one. Or you can use the experience share, because whatever EVs the fighting Pokemon gets, the one holding the Ex. Share will get the same number. But in that case, you lose the convenience of the Macho Brace.

I believe if you put the one holding Experience Share out first, it will get a lot more experience, and you'll kind of twaek the system to give the weak Pokemon the total EVs while the tougher fighter only gets the baseline.

I'm pretty sure, at least. We'll see what the Prof says. ;-)

 

[Paranoia]

ty graceofball thats an awesome stradegy but what i meant was that i can't EV train as i want an egg but i have a male Blaziken and no DITTO!

So im screwed until i can trade, which might be in 2 days
Also how do people get this Celebi i thought there was no way

Also whats a good moveset for Metagross?
And shanecdavis if i were to get an articuno teach it the move that doesnt let it miss than do the move sheer cold, would that be too easy or is there an easy way to kill an articuno? thats if i were to vs someone with an articuno

 

[Richard Lynch]

ty graceofball thats an awesome stradegy but what i meant was that i can't EV train as i want an egg but i have a male Blaziken and no DITTO!

So im screwed until i can trade, which might be in 2 days
Also how do people get this Celebi i thought there was no way

Blaziken is part of the "Monster" group for breeding, and while I'm still a novice in the breeding game, I don't see why you couldn't breed a Blaziken with another member of the Monster group, even though it's not suggested. Only thing is, I'm not too sure how to determine which Pokemon it will be if two different species did ever decide to mate.

But either way, two days isn't too much now, is it? ;-) The best thing you can have when training a pokemon is patience. and strategy. But moreso patience.

Also, there is no way to get Celebi - all ways are a hoax. Except by means of Gameshark, but who would do THAT? *shifty eyes*. So unless Nintendo gives him away in the near future, there's no way to my knowledge to get him.

 

[Paranoia]

Yeah it doesnt matter what group it is it needs to be a female the way breeding is set up a Female poke and a male poke breed, now the baby will be the female lower evolution so say a female charizard with a lapras( Random so if it doesnt work who cares) then that baby will be charmander with Lapras's moves (if it can learn any of them) so what i require is a genderless poke that can breed

 

[Superkid11]

I'm training my Ralts and it kind of goes down easy against these Wigglytuffs I'm training its HP on... it's holding Macho Brace. Does it still get 6 evs when I switch it out and have another Pokemon take it out?

 

[Richard Lynch]

Yeah it doesnt matter what group it is it needs to be a female the way breeding is set up a Female poke and a male poke breed, now the baby will be the female lower evolution so say a female charizard with a lapras( Random so if it doesnt work who cares) then that baby will be charmander with Lapras's moves (if it can learn any of them) so what i require is a genderless poke that can breed

Paranoia, I thought you'd like you to know that there are Dittos in Emerald! Just go to the Fossil Maniac's house, into the back cavern... and they're in there. Sweet. LOL

 

[Paranoia]

For you, i have ruby, i also have emerald but i can't swap my team, i got Pokerus in ruby, it's lame yeah i know so i have to wait 2 days, ahwell its xmas tomoz so no bigs

 

[shanecdavis]

PHEW!!! Looks like I have my work cut out for me. As always, fixes/suggestions/corrections in bold:

Just a quick note, if you do use Overheat, be sure to always make Blaziken hold the WhiteHerb (gotten from the nice lady next to the Pretty Petal Flower Shop, if my memory has been kind to me), since Overheat sharply lowers Special Attack. WhiteHerb will bring it back up again.

Shanecdavis, you mentioned something about a trick, or a little "loophole" when it comes to EV stat training. I've been pondering this myself, but have yet to try my own theory. Here's how it goes...

When you Max out a stat on EVs, you can't get any more. But what if you were to use one of the berries that decreases a stat by one (but makes the Pokemon friendly)? That stat goes down by one, and the EV for that stat goes down by 10, which can easily be replenished by one of the Energy items (Zinc, Protein, etc). Now going by the guide (which says that every 4 EV points towards a certain stat gives you one extra stat point), that leaves a possible of 2 extra points in the stat that was decreased by 1. And then you could just repeat the process.

I'm not sure if this is even possible (I've never tried it), if maybe I did my math wrong, but going by this, you could theorectically continue to EV train all the way to level 100. It wouldn't be as helpful as getting +10, say, but it would be better than the usual.

Nice theory, but that isn't possible. You are correct in your assumption that you can feed your Poke the Happiness berries, but keep in mind that each one drops the EVs in that stat by 10 points, which decreases that stat by 2(.5). Every 2 berries you feed it, it will decrease that stat by 5. The berries can help fix bad EV training, like when you use your Poke through the storyline, battling random Pokes which result in a random EV spread. You still cannot exceed the max 510 total EVs or max 255 individual EVs. You can only increase a stat by 63 through EV training. There is no way to get around it. Well, except for cheating that is. The loop hole that some claim that works is that you can still EV train a Lv100 Poke and then put it in the Daycare Center and its stats will adjust accordingly. I haven't bothered to test it to see if that is actually true or not, that is why I didn't mention it before.

Also, I should point out that you can only feed a Poke 10 vitamins (Protein, Iron, Zinc, etc.), and you CANNOT feed a Poke any if their EV points for that particular stat is over 100. That is why you feed the vitamins first (to get to 100 EV points in that stat) and THEN you EV train. It doesn't work the other way around.

Ok thanks for that shanecdavis but unfortunately i cannot start to EV train my pokemons yet becoz i want to start from hatching an egg, Is there any way of quickly leveling a poke without giving it EV's because i dont want to be stuck on training a Torchic on weak pokes that dont put the EV points to where i want them, any suggestions?

Also Wtf did you mean about secret bases? can you have more than one secret base?

And i allready have a lapras, i need a glalie coz there cool, and also im Happy to give you POKERUS if i can trade the pokerus infected wurmples into diamond but we'll just have to wait for DP

The only way to increase a Poke's level without battling is Rare Candies. That is what I do. For a LOOOOOOOONG time, I first trained up a team of SIX Linoone up to Lv41 (Weak5 and Gabby training). Then, with their Pickup Ability, I would go battle on Route 103 for many hours. If you are not familiar with Pickup, after a few battles a Poke with this ability has a chance to be holding an item. Now in RS/FRLG the items are completely ramdom, but in Emerald the items you get depend on the level of your Poke. A Poke that is inbetween Lv41-50 has a small chance of picking up a Rare Candy. Well, as I said, I did that for hours until I had enough Rare Candy to level up my Pickup team to Lv91 (mixed in with Weak5 and Gabby training). I wanted Lv91 because that is the level where Rare Candy are the most common (still only 5-10%), but they can also pick up Protein, HP Up, Max Revive, Max Elixir, but most importantly - Leftovers and TM26 (Earthquake). After many hours of more battling, I have hundreds of RC and even a handful of Lefties and Earthquake. It is one of the best things about Emerald.

As I tried to explain in my previous post (which apparently I failed miserably), while you can only have one Secret Base of your own on your cart, you can mix records with another cart and their SB location will show up on your cart too. As I said before, I restarted my Ruby cart 19 times and mixed records every time with my Emerald cart, thereby giving my Emerald cart 19 different SB locations that I can once a day go battle in. Please re-read my previous post to see my strategy behind that.

This is simple: take a strong a pokemon along with your newly hatched pokemon (who has Pokerus and Macho Brace). Do it as if you were trying to level it up normally - put the weak one out first, then switch to the powerful one. Or you can use the experience share, because whatever EVs the fighting Pokemon gets, the one holding the Ex. Share will get the same number. But in that case, you lose the convenience of the Macho Brace.

I believe if you put the one holding Experience Share out first, it will get a lot more experience, and you'll kind of twaek the system to give the weak Pokemon the total EVs while the tougher fighter only gets the baseline.

I'm pretty sure, at least. We'll see what the Prof says. ;-)

Close. It is complicated, but I will try to explain it as clearly as possible. The Macho Brace, as you know, doubles the EVs gained in battle. The Exp Share doesn't. What it does is give the Poke holding it the EV points earned in battle without having to participate in it. So, if you have your first Poke holding Macho Brace and your second Poke holding Exp Share (both with Pokerus), after a battle against a Skarmory, your first Poke will earn 8 Def EV points while the second (which didn't participate in the battle at all) earns 4 Def EV points. Even if you switch the scenario around and bring out the second Poke out first (Exp Share) and then switched to the other (Macho Brace) the EV distribution will be the same in the end. That works great to gain extra Exp points (75% instead of 50%), but doesn't work for EV points.

ty graceofball thats an awesome stradegy but what i meant was that i can't EV train as i want an egg but i have a male Blaziken and no DITTO!

I will cover your Blaziken in a minute.

So im screwed until i can trade, which might be in 2 days
Also how do people get this Celebi i thought there was no way

Celebi can only be gotten through ill means (cheating) or from a Nintendo event. I have two of them. One of them I acquired when I bought a used Ruby cart at my local Game Stop. When I turned on the cart it was in one of the boxes. It probably was sharked, but it was new to me. Rationalization, I know. The other I got through a friend of mine. I sent him my Emerald cart and he gave me one, along with all the other hard-to-get Legendaries. I know these are genuine because they have the typical NIntendo Trainer name on them.

Also whats a good moveset for Metagross?

Metagross @ Choice Band
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 16 HP / 116 Atk / 252 Def / 124 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Explosion
- Meteor Mash
- Shadow Ball/Sludge Bomb/Rock Slide

And shanecdavis if i were to get an articuno teach it the move that doesnt let it miss than do the move sheer cold, would that be too easy or is there an easy way to kill an articuno? thats if i were to vs someone with an articuno

NO. Do not use the craptacular Mind Reader/Sheer Cold combo on Articuno. It might work against the pathetic AI that wouldn't switch out to save its life, but against another person they will typically laugh at you and switch out to a different Poke. That ruins Mind Reader and turns Sheer Cold back to being only 30% accurate.

Blaziken is part of the "Monster" group for breeding, and while I'm still a novice in the breeding game, I don't see why you couldn't breed a Blaziken with another member of the Monster group, even though it's not suggested. Only thing is, I'm not too sure how to determine which Pokemon it will be if two different species did ever decide to mate.

Actually, Blaziken belongs to the Ground Egg group. It can breed with any Poke that also belongs in that group, but the baby Poke will be the same species of the female. For example, if you breed a male Blaziken and a female Umbreon, the baby will be an Eevee. Since Paranoia has a MALE Blaziken (and no Ditto), they cannot get a baby Torchic.

Yeah it doesnt matter what group it is it needs to be a female the way breeding is set up a Female poke and a male poke breed, now the baby will be the female lower evolution so say a female charizard with a lapras( Random so if it doesnt work who cares) then that baby will be charmander with Lapras's moves (if it can learn any of them) so what i require is a genderless poke that can breed

That is incorrect. You cannot put two random Pokes together to get a baby. EVERY Poke in the game belongs to a certain egg group. Charizard and Lapras only works because they belong to the same egg group (Monster). You cannot breed a Charizard and a Blaziken though and expect to get an egg. As I mentioned above, Blaziken belongs to the Ground Egg group and therefore cannot breed with Charizard. Genderless Pokes also CANNOT breed unless you use Ditto. They cannot even breed with each other. Then you have the Unbreedable Egg group that cannot breed in any way whatsoever. They are all the Legendaries, Ditto itself, all the "baby" Pokes (Elekid, Smoochum, etc.), and Nidorina/Nidoqueen.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion in the past few posts. Now, on to the next question:

I'm training my Ralts and it kind of goes down easy against these Wigglytuffs I'm training its HP on... it's holding Macho Brace. Does it still get 6 evs when I switch it out and have another Pokemon take it out?

Yes. Every Poke that is involved in a battle will still earn the proper EVs for that battle, assuming that they have not fainted. Also note that by having your Ralts hold Exp Share, it will still earn 3 HP EVs even if you never bring it out during the battle.

 

[Paranoia]

Ok shancedavis is there any other way to breed a poke thats male and get the babyo to be a torchic as in i use Blaziken but what female would i use or can it only be ditto.

Also if i were to use a gameshark then trade that sharked poke would it say the data is corrupt becoz i sharked a FIRERED rom got Lugia Ho-oH and Deoxys and when i saved after when i reloaded it it said the game data is corrupt, the game will use the same data though with the pokes so if i traded the sharked pokes will they corrupt the game that i trade them to or not?

NO. Do not use the craptacular Mind Reader/Sheer Cold combo on Articuno. It might work against the pathetic AI that wouldn't switch out to save its life, but against another person they will typically laugh at you and switch out to a different Poke. That ruins Mind Reader and turns Sheer Cold back to being only 30% accurate.

Also i believe this combo would work with their last poke so i would be the one laughing at there pathetic attempt to try and beat me,
and they would only switch out if they were as intelligent as you, some people don't even know what EV training is

 

[Travis_R]

I've just received this game for Christmas, and have just beaten the second gym on the first island and have delivered the letter to Steven. My only Pokemon is a level 23 Combusken. I am wondering what other Pokemon are around this area that I should catch, because I believe I should have 1 other Pokemon before going to the next Gym and training both my Pokemon to level 30/35. I can only find fighting Pokemon and Tentacools, so what do you guys recommend?