Clario's Guide to EV Training!

[clario]

Indeed, I am now writing my second FAQ for this site. Let's enjoy, shall we?

Most information taken off GameFAQ.

Table of Contents

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EV Training
~I~ Intro
~II~ Starting To EV Train
~III~ EV Spread?
~IV~ What are IVs?
~V~ Items That Effect EVs
~VI~ Blasting Off
~VII~ The End

Pokémon Hotspots
~VIII~ HP
~IX~ Attack
~X~ Defense
~XI~ Special Attack
~XII~ Special Defense
~XIII~ Speed

Pokémon EV List
~XIV~ HP
~XV~ Attack
~XVI~ Defense
~XVII~ Special Attack
~XVIII~ Special Defense
~XIX~ Speed

Ending
~XX~ Frequently Asked Questions
~XXI~ Other Tips
~XXII~ Credits

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~I~

Starting Off

So, you've finally heard of this Eevees, eh? "But, Clario, that's a Pokémon!" Well, I'm not talking about the Pokémon. I'm talking about EVs, which stand for Effort Values.

What do these EVs do? I"ll tell you. It increases your Pokémon's stats for every 4 EV Points put into a stat! You have a max of 510 EV points to spread out. But! You can only put 255 Max Points in one stat.

Now, if you look at the numbers I gave you, 255 isn't divisible by 4. 252 is. Not 255. So, if you keep track of the EVs and stop at 252, you can have 6 EV Points to put in another stat, which leaves two useless EV Points.

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~II~

Starting to EV Train

Now, you might be thinking, "Well, how do I get these EVs?" You already HAVE gotten them. Every Pokémon you beat nets you EV Points. Any Pokémon that receives EXP Points receives EV Points.

Here's where some people make mistakes. You assume that the stronger the Pokémon is, the more EVs you get. Well, wrong. Every single Pokémon gives the same amount, no matter what level it is.

For example, a Golduck gives 2 EV Points, whether it's level 20 or 50. "So I have to get 2 EV Points for each Pokémon I fight?" No. Let's try this.

You have a BIDOOF, and a BIBAREL. Okay? A Bidoof gives 1 HP EV while a Bibarel gives 2. So, if a Pokémon has three evolution stages, you can get up to 3 EVs from one Pokémon, if you're facing that 3rd Stage.

Now, let's say you royally screwed yourself over. You're training your Empoleon by battling the Elite Four with it for the 21st time before you heard of EVs. So, how do we get rid of that problem? Simple! We get Happiness Raising berries! It says it lowers a stat, but it really lowers the EVs of the stat! So, if you had a Scyther with 10 points in Special Attack, you feed it a Hondew Berry, and presto! 10 Points back in your cache.

The berries that reduce EVs are as followed-
Pomeg Berry- HP EVs
Kelpsy Berry- Attack EVs
Qualot Berry- Defense EVs
Hondew Berry- Special Attack EVs
Grepa Berry- Special Defense EVs
Tamato Berry- Speed EVs

And the plus side is, they increase happiness! Yay!

Now, you want to EV train a weak Pokémon. Not to worry! Slap an EXP Share on it, and you can EV train it without having to use it! From the beginning of this section, ANY Pokémon that receives EXP gets EVs.

People assume that since they're sharing EXP, they're sharing EVs. Well, that's wrong too. If you beat a Golduck, which gives 2 Special Attack EVs, and you beat it with a Raichu, with a Togepi holding EXP Share, both Raichu and Togepi gets 2 Special Attack EVs.

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~III~

EV Spread?

Now, you can't just dump EVs everywhere, hoping for a good Pokémon. No, you have to put them where it will actually benefit a Pokémon. Let's take a Blaziken for example. It's usually called a Physical Sweeper, because Attack is it's higher stat. So, what would you put EV Points in? Attack and Speed! And you also decide to put a point in HP EVs, so it should look like this:

Attack: 252/ Speed: 252/ HP: 4/ Useless EVs: 2

Right. But! What if you wanted to boost three stats? Let's take a Scizor for this. You have it learn Agility to cover it's speed, so let's look at it's other stats. Defense and Special Defense. But you don't know which to increase, and you want Attack the highest. So, basically, you want Attack, Defense and Special Defense. The spread should look like this then:

Attack: 252/ Defense: 128/ Sp. Defense: 128/ Useless EVs: 2

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~IV~

What are IVs?

IVs are Individual Values, which make your Pokémon.. individual. It's the thing that makes all your Pokémon unique and influences what role it's get. They are set when you catch or hatch a Pokémon. Each STAT can have from 0 to 31 IVs. What do they do? Let's find out.

Let's say, at level 100, your Pokémon has 200 Speed points. If it had 31 IV points for Speed, it would have 231 points. Make sense?

But, IVs aren't added on at Level 100 like EVs are. Oh no, you can see them influencing your Pokémon's stats when they level up. So, how can you see these IVs? The answer to this question are IV Calculators, unless you want to do the calculations yourself.
here!
The link above leads to the Serebii IV Calculator.

To find out the numbers you should put in, bring the Pokémon to WiFi and play a Level 100 match. Check their stats and write it down, then put the numbers in the calculator. Presto!

When you're happy with the IVs you get, you can start EV training! But, IVs aren't completely needed for EV training. Like at the beginning, IVs INFLUENCE what the Pokémon's role will be, it will not completely decide it for you. You can even ignore IVs. Woo.

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~V~

Items That Effect EVs

Now, you might be thinking this. "Man, this is going to take forever! I'm only getting 2 or 3 EV Points per Pokémon!" Well, guess what! There's ways to speed it up! Let's introduce these loved items.

Pokerus: It sounds like a disease, doesn't it? Well, it is. If you're lucky, a Pokémon you catch will having this. You'll know when it does when you take it to the Pokémon Center and heal it. Nurse Joy will tell you about the Pokémon having Pokerus, and presto! Another way is the big purple icon that says PKRS next to it's levels when you're looking at it's summary.

So, what does it do? It DOUBLES the EVs gotten from training! Isn't that great? "But Pokerus is only for one Pokémon! And the Pokémon sucks!" Well, good news. For a period of TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN GAME, it can be spread to your other Pokémon. Any Pokémon on the right side of a spreadable Pokerus Pokémon in the pause screen (I mean hitting Start in the Overworld, hitting Pokémon and shifting the team around) will obtain this disease!

What happens when the 24 hours are done? Do they lose the disease? Nope, they keep it. They lose the ability to spread it, but it still retains, and the new symbol for it is a smiley face next to your Pokémon's image.

(An alternate way to get Pokerus is to battle Wild Pokémon.)

Power Items: Well, these sound better, eh? This Power Items are awesome. They add 4 EVs to the total EVs earned from a battle, but lower your Pokémon's SPEED. NOT SPEED EVs, SPEED. Here they are.

Power Anklet- Speed EVs
Power Band- Special Defense EVs
Power Belt- Defense EVs
Power Bracer- Attack EVs
Power Lens- Special Attack EVs
Power Weight- HP EVs

You can earn these items from the Battle Tower, the left prize counter. They are 16 BP each.

Macho Brace: Ah, the main thing used to boost EV training. This doubles the EVs that Pokémon receive from battling, but reduces SPEED, not SPEED EVs.

Stacking: Okay, this isn't an item, more of a technique. See, Pokerus is added on last. "So?" It doubles ALL item bonuses too!

Let's take the Macho Brace and Pokerus, and a Golduck, which gives 2 Special Attack EVs.

2 Special Attack EVs with the Macho Brace is 4 Special Attack EVs. And with Pokerus, it doubles THAT to 8 Special Attack EVs!

Now, let's take a Power Band and Pokerus.
2 Special Attack EVs from the Golduck and 4 Special Defense EVs from the Band, multiplied by two from the Pokerus, and you're getting 4 Special Attack EVs and 8 Special Defense EVs!

The operation of figuring out the EVs is this-
Usual EV Gain + Item Bonus * Pokerus Bonus

Vitamins: These items are VERY helpful! They add 10 EV Points to the stat! Here are the vitamins and what they do.

Protein- 10 Attack EVs
Calcium- 10 Special Attack EVs
Iron- 10 Defense EVs
Zinc- 10 Special Defense EVs
Carbos- 10 Speed EVs
HP Up- 10 Hit Points EVs

The downside is, they can't be used once a stat hits 100 EVs. Let's take the Attack stat for this example. You can give a max of 10 Vitamins to a Pokémon for one stat, because 10 Vitamins is 100 EVs. But, it really boost starts your EV training, and you'll finish way faster than if you did it normally!

You can buy these for 9,800 at the Veilstone Mall, or 1 BP at the left prize counter at the Battle Tower.

EXP. Share: "What? These are for EXP, not EVs!" Well, if you recall what I said earlier, any Pokémon that receives EXP also receives EV Points. If you have more than one, and you're training the same type of Pokémon (Physical Sweeper, Special Wall, etc.) this is pretty useful. Pokerus takes effect for this too.

Usually, this item is used to EV train Pokémon on Pokémon they can't kill themselves. The bad thing is, you can't add any other bonuses in other than Pokerus, because the Pokémon is already HOLDING an item.

An old fashioned method of putting the weak Pokémon in and then switching it out with a stronger one works too, by the way.

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~VI~

Blasting Off

Okay! We're finally starting your training! Your Pokémon ate all it's vitamins, infected with Pokerus, and has a Macho Brace on.

What's important is that you ALWAYS remember that any Pokémon that receives EXP receives EVs! If you screw up, you're gonna need to plant some berries to re-align yourself with your regime.

Even with all the help I've given, you'll have a lot of battles to fight. Get ready!

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~VII~

The End

At the end, when you've assigned all 510 EVs, it's time for the finishing touches. Put on an item that benefits your Pokémon's role, get the move set, and place the Pokémon in the 'first' position in your party. Head over to Sunnyshore, and go to the Ball Capsule store. Talk to the lady there- If all EV points have been assigned, she'll give an Effort Ribbon to the Pokémon, which means 'You've finished EV training!'

Congratulations!

[clario]

Pokémon Hotspots

Here, you can find places where you can EV train your Pokémon effectively.

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~VIII~

HP Hotspots

[clario]

(Reserved for Pokémon EV List)

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~XX~

Frequently Asked Questions

None so far.

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~XXI~

Other Tips

None contributed.

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~XXII~

Credits

GameFAQ, for being my main source of information when writing this, specifically the user CAHowell and weremidget.
Bulbapedia, which provided the Pokémon EV list.
YouTube, for playing music that kept me entertained. Without this website, I would've given up this project long ago.



(You may start posting. Any questions asked will be put in the Frequently Asked Questions. Any tips given will be put into the 'Other Tips' section.)

[khaos7]

Dang CLario didn't expect it to be longer than just 3 post. But hey Nice job on it.

[clario]

Thanks for the comment.

Remember, you guys can still ask questions if you're unsure on one thing.

[oshinikun]

Clario said:

What happens when the 24 hours are done? Do they lose the disease? Nope, they keep it. They lose the ability to spread it, but it still retains, and the new symbol for it is a smiley face next to your Pokémon's image.

Really? I've been under the impression that the ability to gain double EVs completelydisappears after that period...which is why I've been boxing my Pokémon before saving and turning off. >_<

[ninjashedinja]

Good guide. We definitely needed this.

[misterguyofshinobi]

Hope this dosn't count as a gravedig, but how exactly do you put EVs into a stat? I'm a bit confused on that half. How do you control which EVs go into which stat?

[clario]

Every Pokémon excels at one stat. Snover excels in Attack, so defeating a Snover would give you EV Points. Any Pokémon that gains EXP in a battle receives EVs, which is why Level 100s can't be EV Trained.

[misterguyofshinobi]

Alright, Thanks ^_^

(THANKS FOR THIS EGG I MEAN!)

< FOUND! By: Emma-Chan

[gunzes]

Got a question over here.

I bought Pokémon White and done the Main story line and didnt come across any EV boosting items, as macho bracer. Wich leads to this: If I neither have PokeRus & Boosting items - to reach 252 points in attack - Do I have to kill (via exp share) 252 Lillipup?

[pinkcha]

Yes, unless...

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EV-enhancing_item

Click "[show]" and it'll have the locations of those items. Macho Brace is in Nimbasa and everything else is in the Battle Subway.

[missingno]

A new topic could've been created, rather than bringing this one back from the dead, but...

Pchan's correct. The items are indeed in the game. But if not, then yes, you would need to defeat enough to rack up the 252.