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Tutorial: Effort Values (EVs)
SO! You want to learn about a little thing called EV's? EV's are a very simple thing to learn, so don't stress out. I'm going to try to make this mini-tutorial as PAINLESS as possible.
You know when you are playing pokemon and you have a Level 50 pokemon in your party, lets say Charizard, and you happen upon a Level 50 Graveler or something like that? Even if you catch that pokemon and put it in your party, it is not going to be as strong as your Charizard BECAUSE of EV's. They are a very essential part of gameplay and you use them every single time you play on your DS! Even if you pick up a copy of Blue and play on a Gameboy, you will still be using EV's!
EV stands for Effort Value, and they're points that are assigned based on the pokemon you battle during gameplay. This is why pokemon that are trained in your party will seem to be stronger at high levels compared to those in the wild. See? All makes sense now.
What a lot of people claim has happened through EV's is "THEY BROKE THE GAME!" In a way, you could look at it like that, but it's less broken and more utilizing what the game designers have given you to improve your pokemon and build stronger teams.
Even if we didn't use EV's, stat inequalities mean that some pokemon are just stronger than others. Some pokemon would be completely useless because others tower over them in stats. And that kind sucks for everyone. EV's make things a little tricky. You can either make a
Nidoqueen a powerful Tank that is so offensive it hurts, or you can utilize her already awesome defense and make her into an impenetrable wall. This is why EV's make competitive gameplay so interesting.
So let's get into how you can utilize EV's for your team.
Every pokemon in the Pokemon universe has been assigned a certain number of EV's that your pokemon gains after defeating it. Ever wonder why there are always Onix/Graveler/Machoke on Victory Road? Because Onix and Graveler give defense, and Machoke gives attack - EV's that
help your team get some extra beef up time before facing the Elite 4.
"BUT I AM CONFUSED! SO IF I JUST FIGHT A LOT OF THINGS I KEEP GETTING MORE POINTS?!"
Kind of. There is a cap on how many EV's your pokemon can gain, that number would be 510, and a cap of 252 EV's in one stat :) And you don't just get one stat for every EV, You gotta work for it! For every 4 EV's you get, your pokemon will gain 1 stat point upon leveling up.
EXAMPLE!
Your Pikachu fights a Starly. It gains 1 EV in speed. After fighting three more Starly - and leveling up - it will gain 1 point in its Speed stat.
Evolved forms of pokemon give more EV's than nonevolved forms. Starly gives 1 EV in speed, but Staravia gives 2. Staraptor gives 3 EV's, but in attack.
There are also two ways to help your pokemon gain EV's faster - power items and Pokerus. Power items are items that can be gained as prizes from the battle tower. Each of these items adds 4 extra EV points every time you defeat a pokemon. For example, if your pokemon fights a Starly, it gains 1 EV in Speed. While holding the Power Anklet, it gains an additional 4 points, meaning 5 points total.
The other way to help speed up this process is a little virus called Pokerus. Pokerus is not a cheat or a game shark hack, it is a naturally occurring virus that your pokemon can randomly contract in the game. Pokerus is not bad for your pokemon - it's actually good! A pokemon with Pokerus gains twice as many EV's as it would have even with the power items. Meaning a Pikachu with Pokerus holding a Power Anklet will gain 10 speed EV's from just one Starly! That's 12 speed EV's from a Staravia and a whopping 14 attack EV's from Staraptor!
Training a DS team with EV's is a time intensive process even with Pokerus and power items. Luckily, Shoddy integrates EV's in their team building tool, letting you enter in the exact amount of EV's you want in any stat. If you want to train a team from the beginning on your
DS, contact one of your mods - chances are one of them will have a pokemon with active Pokerus they can trade to you to infect your party. Be careful though - leaving a pokemon with active Pokerus out of the box longer than 24 hours will cause the Pokerus to go latent,
which means it won't spread anymore!
If you still choose not to use EV's that is fine with us! We would like you to give them a chance though, as they can make your gameplay more competitive. If you have any questions about where the best places to train for EV's are, or which EV spreads are the best for
certain pokemon, feel free to drop us a line!
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial!
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You know when you are playing pokemon and you have a Level 50 pokemon in your party, lets say Charizard, and you happen upon a Level 50 Graveler or something like that? Even if you catch that pokemon and put it in your party, it is not going to be as strong as your Charizard BECAUSE of EV's. They are a very essential part of gameplay and you use them every single time you play on your DS! Even if you pick up a copy of Blue and play on a Gameboy, you will still be using EV's!
EV stands for Effort Value, and they're points that are assigned based on the pokemon you battle during gameplay. This is why pokemon that are trained in your party will seem to be stronger at high levels compared to those in the wild. See? All makes sense now.
What a lot of people claim has happened through EV's is "THEY BROKE THE GAME!" In a way, you could look at it like that, but it's less broken and more utilizing what the game designers have given you to improve your pokemon and build stronger teams.
Even if we didn't use EV's, stat inequalities mean that some pokemon are just stronger than others. Some pokemon would be completely useless because others tower over them in stats. And that kind sucks for everyone. EV's make things a little tricky. You can either make a
Nidoqueen a powerful Tank that is so offensive it hurts, or you can utilize her already awesome defense and make her into an impenetrable wall. This is why EV's make competitive gameplay so interesting.
So let's get into how you can utilize EV's for your team.
Every pokemon in the Pokemon universe has been assigned a certain number of EV's that your pokemon gains after defeating it. Ever wonder why there are always Onix/Graveler/Machoke on Victory Road? Because Onix and Graveler give defense, and Machoke gives attack - EV's that
help your team get some extra beef up time before facing the Elite 4.
"BUT I AM CONFUSED! SO IF I JUST FIGHT A LOT OF THINGS I KEEP GETTING MORE POINTS?!"
Kind of. There is a cap on how many EV's your pokemon can gain, that number would be 510, and a cap of 252 EV's in one stat :) And you don't just get one stat for every EV, You gotta work for it! For every 4 EV's you get, your pokemon will gain 1 stat point upon leveling up.
EXAMPLE!
Your Pikachu fights a Starly. It gains 1 EV in speed. After fighting three more Starly - and leveling up - it will gain 1 point in its Speed stat.
Evolved forms of pokemon give more EV's than nonevolved forms. Starly gives 1 EV in speed, but Staravia gives 2. Staraptor gives 3 EV's, but in attack.
There are also two ways to help your pokemon gain EV's faster - power items and Pokerus. Power items are items that can be gained as prizes from the battle tower. Each of these items adds 4 extra EV points every time you defeat a pokemon. For example, if your pokemon fights a Starly, it gains 1 EV in Speed. While holding the Power Anklet, it gains an additional 4 points, meaning 5 points total.
The other way to help speed up this process is a little virus called Pokerus. Pokerus is not a cheat or a game shark hack, it is a naturally occurring virus that your pokemon can randomly contract in the game. Pokerus is not bad for your pokemon - it's actually good! A pokemon with Pokerus gains twice as many EV's as it would have even with the power items. Meaning a Pikachu with Pokerus holding a Power Anklet will gain 10 speed EV's from just one Starly! That's 12 speed EV's from a Staravia and a whopping 14 attack EV's from Staraptor!
Training a DS team with EV's is a time intensive process even with Pokerus and power items. Luckily, Shoddy integrates EV's in their team building tool, letting you enter in the exact amount of EV's you want in any stat. If you want to train a team from the beginning on your
DS, contact one of your mods - chances are one of them will have a pokemon with active Pokerus they can trade to you to infect your party. Be careful though - leaving a pokemon with active Pokerus out of the box longer than 24 hours will cause the Pokerus to go latent,
which means it won't spread anymore!
If you still choose not to use EV's that is fine with us! We would like you to give them a chance though, as they can make your gameplay more competitive. If you have any questions about where the best places to train for EV's are, or which EV spreads are the best for
certain pokemon, feel free to drop us a line!
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial!
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