2010-04-04, 11:34 AM
Serebii Wrote:So, what are the limits? Well for starters, you can only gain 510 Effort Values before they will stop being counted. 510 can be called our "Overall Maximum", if you want a technical term. So this brings the Effort Points you can gain to 126, once again as a maximum. But this is still a bit much to add to any one stat, and it would make any Mewtwo have an absurd amount of Special Attack still, or Blissey still having that huge potential to go over 700 Hit Points (not like you still can't get there.) So, to make it limited still, there can only be a maximum of 255 Effort Points per stat, giving a pokemon a potential 63 point increase in any stat.
Every EV guide known to man, including Serebii's and the one on this board, states the above: EVs stop being counted after a certain number per stat, and after a certain number overall. It would make sense, then, that Pokemon caught at the beginning and used throughout a game with no specific EV training done to them would have random stats, and any attempts to EV train them afterwards would be pointless (unless you use EV lowering berries, I guess).
Following this logic, I've been using my Lv. 47 Ampharos to decimate Psyducks and Golducks while EV training my Horsea for Special Attack. Throughout the process, I'm assuming SpeATT EVs aren't being counted for Ampharos, and thus when it levels to 48, I don't expect much.
It gains a whopping +9 SpeATT upon level up.
What the fuck? How can this be if it has killed soo many Pokemon over the course of using it since it was a wee Mareep caught before heading to Azalea Town? I've noticed this trend with different Pokemon as well, though not to such a degree before. For example, say my Kadabra is sweeping the Ecruteak Gym, after killing enough Pokemon where it's "done" EV training (they're not counted anymore). However, upon level ups it's still getting obscene amounts of Special Attack.
Bottom line: What the hell is going on? Are EVs, or some other unknown stat, technically counted ALL THE TIME, and thus it would be best to grind a special sweeper on Lv. 2x Psyducks/Golducks till kingdom come and they hit 100, or what?