Oh. . . Well, that's not going to help me much. I don't have a light ball! *wahhh*
Oh yeah, I wasn't sure if you'd be able to breed two pokmeon of hte same type but different breed. I say this because when I tried it, it didn't work. All my pokemon either didn't get along or hated each other. Anyways thanks.
Oh, and I didn't want them for battling pursay. I want to have either Raichu or Ninetails win the contests. But than again. . . I might want to use it and I love heatwave. It has not failed me in my sapphire and ruby version yet.
But thanks for the info. And I want a Raichu because I love Raichu.
Anyways, thanks and I'll try to see if I could do that. Back to breeding.
Certain species can breed with other species as long as they belong to the same Egg group. If you go to the Breeding section, you should be able to find a post of mine that shows all the groups and all the Pokes that belong to each group. When you try to breed and the DC Dude says "The Pokes prefer to play with others" (paraphrasing), that means that they don't belong to the same group and you will never get an egg from them. If the dude says "They don't seem to get along" (again, paraphrasing), they will breed, but due to their IV makeup, it will take almost twice as long to get an egg.
Using Heat Wave over Flamethrower is silly, but it is your game. Since you don't have a Light Ball, you definitely should evolve it to Raichu since Pikachu is terribly weak without it.
Okay, I know you are all probably getting tired of answering my questions and I'm really not sure if this next question should go here, but since it's about Emerald I guess it does go here or weather someone already explained it. Anyways.
I get what EV's are. . . and I found out all I could about EV's in the Psypoke digidex and still have no clue what the hell it does. Um. . . mind the french. Anyways, I normally just buy a bunch of vitamins and max out every stat on my pokemon simply because I still dont' understand how it all works. I mean I know it get's them by battling pokemons, but the only EV's I notice is when my pokemon levels up. Is that what they mean by EV's or is it something more.
They site also talked about hidden Ev's and they even tried to show examples and I still didn't get it.
Can somone dumbafy it for me? What do I mean by dumbafy? I mean talk to me as if I was a little child who wants to know how things work in the simplest way. I see Ev's all the time in this forum and even though I know what it means, I still don't get what it does or what should I work on more.
I just go for the easy way and boost everything on my pokemon party until they can't eat any more and than take them to get the effort ribbon which I always seem to get. Other than that, the concept of EV's and what you guys talk about still is very confusing to me and I can't seem to figure it out.
And I don't care if people think I must not be smart, we arn't ALL perfect!
Here is a link to where you read about Effort Values:
https://www.pkmncommunity.com/showthread.php?t=72415
This should answer all of your questions. In a nutshell, an Effort Value is something a Poke gets every time that it battles. EVERY Poke in the game has an Effort Value point in a particular stat attached to it, so that when your Poke, or Pokes, battle against it, they will gain that increase. For example, every time you battle against a Zubat, your Poke(s) will earn 1 Speed Effort Value point. A battle against a Blissey yields 3 HP EVs.
There is a limit of how many EV points your Poke can earn. That is 510. There is also a limit at how many points in one stat your Poke can earn. That is 255. What do these points do? Well, every 4 EV points your Poke gains in a particular stat will increase that stat by 1. For example, if your Marshtomp battled 4 Zubats in a row, its Speed stat would increase by 1 the next time it leveled up. So, now that you know that it takes 4 EV points to increase a stat by one point, simple math tells us that you can increase one stat by a max of 63 points. That, my friend, is significant. Simple math also tells us that 255 does not divide into 4, so the max you really want in any stat is 252. So, if you max out two stats by using 252 points instead of 255, you can actually give 4 points to a different stat to increase that by 1 point. Not much, but at least you aren't throwing it away.
So you can understand the power of proper EV training, let's use an example. Your Blissey is Lv100 and has a Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk), but you have added no HP or Def EVs. Instead, you kept it in your party and battled random wild Pokes, that increased your other stats instead. Your Blissey will have a Def stat of 27. My Blissey, however, has been EV trained particularly in HP and Def, maxing out both EV stats at 252. My Blissey will have a Def stat of 96. That might not seem significant until you actually battle. For argument sake, lets use a Lv100 Zubat with no +Atk nature and no IV/EV bonuses. If it attacks your Blissey with Wing Attack (60 AP), it will do max damage of 43%. That means your Blissey will KO'ed in three attacks. If it attacks my Blissey however, it does max damage of 11%. It will take that same Zubat
TEN attacks to KO my Blissey, over three times as many hits as your Blissey.
So as you can see, EV training can have a huge impact, if done correctly. That is also why battling with the Pokes that you trained during the course of the game is a bad idea. Throughout the storyline, you have limited control over what EVs your Pokes earn. That is why you breed your team AFTER you finish the game. That is also why you ALWAYS catch a female version of the Pokes you want to add to your eventual team, including starting with a female starter.
I haven't even touched Individual Values, but it is best you understand EVs first, before tackling IVs. Hidden Power is totally based off of a Poke's IVs, so when you are ready to cross that bridge, let me know.
