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… my friend bought me Pokemon Soulsilver! It seems all over the place people are getting excited and sharing their experiences about the new game and such… but…
Can someone explain to me how to determine IV/EV from the newest pokemon games? Or just about IV/EV in general? I have read some things here and there but it looks so complicated I just ignore it @_@;; Although it’s a big headache to think about I want to try messing around with it a bit…
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wish I could help you but I’m not that knowledgeable on Pokemon. My son just got the HeartGold version yesterday. Trying to figure out when the Pokewalker can be used and such.
Cant help either ^^;
Interesting pokemon art. is that suppose to be a Gatai of pokemon ^^
i would usually ignore those and just continue leveling up my pkmn.
So far I’ve learned, each time your pokemon fights another one and wins, it get’s an EV point.
The points go into one of the stats. Where it goes depends on what pokemon you just defeated.
ex. defeat magikarp, EV point into speed
Every 4 EV points is equal to 1 normal stat point addition.
items like carbos and hp up also add faster to EV points, but there is a max number of times item can be used. Also, total EV points also has a limit, so when you cant use something like carbos any more, and gave it only 1, then EV is maxed.
The ev points trained pokemon, will have higher over all stats by 100.
Also, stat boost from every 4 EV points occur randomly, every time the pokemon levels. All EV stat points will be added by level 100.
Hope that helps!
Bulbapedia (at http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values#Generation_III) explains EVs pretty well, I think.
Thisismyalias’s comment is mostly right, though I note that carbos and the like stop working after 100 EVs in the stat, so don’t prove whether or not a pkmn’s EVs are maxed out. (I was also under the impression that the boost is not randomly allocated per level, but *shrug*).
I’d say the easiest way to check if a pkmn has all 510 of its EVs allocated is to see if it can get an effort ribbon. Apparently the NPC for that is in Blackthorn city in SS.
EV training is a bit fiddly and annoying, but does let you influence a pkmn’s stats, so can be quite useful. Pokérus, and either the macho brace or power items can save a lot of time, if you choose to do it.
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As for IVs… hm, I’d not recommend worrying about them? They are fixed when you first meet the pkmn, and it takes a lot of effort to get a pkmn with perfect IVs.
(Or luck, technically, but well, I think it’s like a 1 in 1073741824 chance… ^^; )
Regarding what they do, they’re basically added into a pkmn’s stats when they’re calculated. At level 100 a pkmn with a IV of 31 in something will have an extra 31 points in that stat, compared to a pkmn with an IV of 0 in it.
Determining them is difficult unless you already know the EVs of a pkmn, since they’re calculated based on stats. They are also hard to calculate at low levels, so you need them to be something like… hm, level 40 or more before you can start to calculate them with reasonable accuracy?
Some ways of calculating them:
- catch a reasonably high-level pkmn from the wild, and calculate IVs before using it in battle.
- train a pkmn as usual, but keep track of which EVs it is gaining, and put them in when calculating IVs.
- use EV-reducing berries to zero a pkmn’s EVs before calculating IVs. Can reset afterwards without saving if you want to re-use those berries~.
- use lots of rare candies to level a pkmn high enough to calculate its IVs, without affecting its EVs. Again, can reset afterwards.
- battle another player using a mode which extrapolates the pkmn’s stats to what they would be at level 100 or whatever it is, then use those to calculate IVs (and run from battle probably rather than finishing it).
There’s an IV calculator at http://www.serebii.net/games/iv-calcdp.shtml
You can also find out a pkmn’s highest IV by looking at its characteristic (see http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Characteristic) or by talking to an NPC at the battle frontier. Using both, you can actually tell the exact value of it, but that only tells you about the best IV (or one of the pkmn’s best IVs, if there is a tie) and not much about its other IVs.
Overall… EV training a pkmn is good if you are willing to spend some time on maximising its potential. It’s not all that important, though.
Trying to get pkmn with perfect IVs is for the people who are veeeery into their pkmn, on the other hand. o;
…Uh, I hope all that helped? ^^;
IVs = Individual Values = Genetic. Permanent. Unchangeable. The number represents the maximum possible value you will have in one particular statistical area at level 100. It’s out of 31, with an IV of 31 meaning you’re capable of reaching that Pokemon species’ stat cap, an IV of 30 meaning you can only reach the stat cap -1, and so on.
If you’ve -never used your Pokemon in battle- you can determine what IVs it has by using an online calculator, inputting its level and exact stats. It’ll need to be at a reasonably high level for you to have any certainty, though, since at low levels there’s only a 1 or 2 point difference between a Pokemon with an IV of 31 and a Pokemon with an IV of 0.
EVs = Effort Values = Changeable, but permanent once acquired. Every opponent gives you effort points for battling it. Every 4 effort points = 1 stat point at level 100. A stat is capped at 252 effort points, equating to 63 stat points. Your pokemon can only have 510 EVs in total spread out over all its stat areas, so be careful how you allocate.
Simplified:
Final stat total at level 100
=
Species maximum – (31 – IV) – (63 – [EVs/4])
So if you’re training a Pokemon with a possible total attack of 100, and it has an IV of 0 in attack and no effort points, your attack will be:
100 – (31 – 0) – (63 – 0)
= 100 – 94
= 6
Hope that helps. :3
Actually, EVs are capped at 255, but since only every 4 points are counted, it’s probably best to leave at it 252 since the max is 510 (Most builds focusing on 252 in two stats [Sp. Atk and Spd, etc.] and then 4 in another [HP, I guess] ). And everything else is pretty much what Tim said.
The “stat-raising items” such as Calcium, Iron, etc. will raise EVs until they hit 100, and they’ll stop working.
God, I feel like a nerd now. ;w;
tl;dr everything else, if you want to be hardcore, and get max stats and all, do EV training. Otherwise, play Pokemon by killing everything in sight with what you want.
Oh, and the pic made me /spitdrink, thanks. ＼(･▽･”）／