Could you PM me or make a thread explaining what IV's and EV's are and how you EV train?I always here people talking about it but I don't have any idea what it is.
I could briefly explain it here.
When you defeat a Pokemon, it gives your Pokemon EXP and EV's. The EV (Effort Value) depends on the strength of that Pokemon such as defeating a Rattata would give you 1 Speed EV or some Pokemon give you multiple EV's from beating that Pokemon.
Now, when you get 4 EV's of a certain type (such as Speed), when you next level up you might notice your Pokemon get an extra +1 in their Speed stat. So if the Pokemon I was training got 200 Speed EV's and then leveled it up, you could potentially see their Speed stat go +50 in one level up but it's usually spread out to levels 50 and 100.
There is a limit though, a Pokemon can only have 255 EV's in a stat so that means a max gain in a stat of 63. But 255 isn't dividable by 4 so the maximum effect you could have is 252 EV's. Also your Pokemon can only have a maximum of 510 EV's total so basically you could have two stats have 252 EV's each and then one stat with 4 EV's.
It can get pretty complicated but once you have done your research on websites and YouTube videos, it becomes a lot easier.
An IV is the Pokemon's Individual Values that affect it's stats. You know how if you went and caught say, 2 level 15 Pidgeys, there is a high chance that their stats would be different. It's hard to explain this concept but the IV goes from 1-31 and affects how high or low a Pokemon's stat is. You generally want a Pokemon to have good IV's above 20.
Now the only problem with this is that IV's and EV's are invisible. You cannot see what the values are. There are some people in the Pokemon games that tell you what your highest IV value is or if you have maxed out your EV's (they won't use these terms of course) and requires you to use IV Calculators and such but I think I have explained the most of it now.
This wasn't very brief at all :L
