2010-03-27, 09:52 AM
TøbiasBlack Wrote:If you feel like digging back in time, you can check the IV's of a pokemon in Emerald version. there are many drawbacks to this, first and foremost that you can NOT trade from D/P/Pt BACK TO Emerald, only forward via pal park.
theres an NPC that looks like a karate guy, he can check and evaluate the IV's of a pokemon. he rates them as good, great, poor, bad, and something else iirc, and then says which stat stands out most to him, which would be what stat that IV is for.
They readded this guy in Pt and HG/SS. He's in the Battle Tower.
How long does it take to connect your game to a computer and hack something in? I could probably fully EV train a Pokemon faster. Every battle is 10-12 EVs, and you can get at least 200 of them by vitamins. That leaves 30 battles, tops, to max out EVs. It's really not a big deal. I just do it in the processs of training up a new Pokemon. If you don't have Pokerus, ask someone who does.
IVs aren't a huge deal as long as they're not terrible (above 20 and above 25 in the important stats is usually good enough). The only time I obsess over them is when I'm going for a specific Hidden Power.