EV training Guide, Topic 1: What are EVs?

EVs, or "Effort Values", are basically points that you earn by defeating pokemon in the wild or owned by other NPC trainers
you gain them just like exp points except they are invisible
since you dont gain exp from battle frontier or battle tower or link and wifi battles you wont gain any EV points either. since rare candies dont actualy count as earning exp you wont get evs from using them either

Each Pokemon you defeat has a unique set of EVs they give out,from 1 to 3 EVs for any given stat.
sometimes two, stats.

notice when your pokemon levels up youl see a screen that show you by how much a stat has incresed?
e.g. ATK 148+1



well for ever four EV points you gain this increase goes up by 1 as well. For example, if you fight four Starly (which
give 1 Speed EV each), you gain 4 Speed EVs, which means that the +1 will go up to +2 when the pokemon levels up.

Sounds neat, right? But, of course, there are limits. A Pokemon can only gain a
total of 510 EVs, and of the 510 only 255 can be gained on any one Stat. 255 evs will up that stat by 63 points.
even if you gain 255 evs on a stat only 252 will be calulated in so youl be left with 3 free EVs, we can ignore thoses EVs for now.With that said, 252/252/6 is pretty much the most basic EV spread for a Pokemon,
adding 63 points to two stats and 1 point to one stat.

So yeah, it's very important. An un-EV trained Pokemon almost always falls to a
properly-EV trained Pokemon of the same level. Add in IVs and Natures, and
you've used your Pokemon to its fullest battling potential.

I'd highly suggest putting all the EV info into one thread.

Also, where did you get the info?

k ill do that.

and the info was gathered for various sites on the net moslty

Gamefaqs

Bulbapedia

and Seribii

and a few walkthroughs i have on my pc

ill work on credits to detail where i got the info from

Ok o3o

Because it seemed like you pretty much just used what was on GameFaqs. As long as you credit each section appropriately you'll be fine ^^

This doesn't help at all. I still don't understand EV's IV's and all this crap. What does it even do? This guide does not explain anything about my questions.

Ii KnUcKlEs iI wrote:This doesn't help at all. I still don't understand EV's IV's and all this crap. What does it even do? This guide does not explain anything about my questions.

k then Knucles ill try and make it easier by substituting what i know about them to try and make the explination simpler

How do you EV train? How long does it take? And why is it so important?

check my other posts in the trainer school
its all going to be there
ill continue with the posting tomorow with details on how and where to EV train

as for why to EV train its all there so read

it make your pokemon FAR stronger than normal training

I agree with Clover, users will be able to access this easier if you just make one topic. Also, do you know that there is already an EV guide on Clover's Village?

i had no idea there was already one i think ill discontinue it then.