Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: Complete Guide to EV Training

Pokémon is one of the most accessible game franchises on the market. The simple concept of finding, catching, and battling monsters is easy enough for almost anyone to understand. Sure, it’s an RPG at heart with things like types, weaknesses, and perks, but those are super easy to get along with. Most players, even if they’ve never played another RPG before, will likely understand that fire attacks will hurt Grass Pokémon more and water will hurt fire more. The same time, Shiny Diamond Pokémon and Shiny pearl is also aimed at the more hardcore crowd who really enjoy delving into the game’s battle mechanics.

EVs and IVs are two terms that most casual gamers won’t know, or even really care about. EVs, or effort values, in particular, are only important for people who either want to take their team of Pokémon into serious online battles, or for those who just love the idea of ​​creating the most powerful version. possible from your favorite pocket monster. Getting so deep into systems can be a little intimidating, especially for those new to it, so we’ve put together this comprehensive guide to EV training in Shiny Diamond Pokémon and Shiny pearl.

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What are EVs?

Effort values, or EV for short, relate directly to your Pokémon’s six main stats. These are all well known and consist of HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed. Every time a Pokémon level up, you see those stats improve. Eventually, this stat will reach a maximum level that you can improve through normal leveling. This is where EVs and EV training come in.

Electric vehicles are almost invisible to the player, which makes sense as it would be a bit overwhelming and unnecessary to show them to the majority of casual gamers. This hidden statistic plays a huge role in your Pokémon’s potential, however. By earning EV, you can increase a Pokémon’s stats beyond this maximum level, but not to an unlimited degree. A Pokémon can only gain a maximum total of 510 EV points in its stats, each capping at 252, so you can’t create a Pokémon with a maximum EV in each stat. At most, you can maximize two stats with 6 EV remaining for the others.

How to find the EV of a Pokémon

Since the number of EVs a Pokémon can get is limited, obviously you’ll want to see how they’re distributed first. Unfortunately, there’s no way to see the exact numerical breakdown of your Pokémon’s EVs, but instead, you can just get a general idea and work from there. To do this, open your menu, select Pokemon, choose the Pokémon you want to check and select Check summary. On this page, go to the hexagon icon and press X to see a visual representation of their electric vehicles.

While not ideal, this graph shows you how Pokémon’s EVs have been distributed so far. Additionally, if a statistic has a star next to it, it means it is at the maximum EV level.

Different ways to train EV Pokémon

Whether you know it or not, you will earn EV for all of your Pokémon just for playing the game. This is both good and bad. This is good in the sense that you can ignore it if you want and not suffer any inconvenience, but bad if you are trying to specifically train your Pokemon in specific stats. You’ll automatically earn EV every time you gain XP from fighting another Pokémon, which means you’ll either have them vanish in the wild or against an NPC trainer, or capture one in the wild. Face another human player, locally or online, habit brings you electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles, just like traditional XP, follow the same XP sharing system. Again, this is good for casual players but potentially bad for hardcore since EVs will be earned by your entire party for each battle. If you’re training multiple Pokémon for the same EV, that’s great, but if not, you’ll only want to bring in the Pokémon you want to get for the specific EVs you’re working for.

Now, unlike other stats, the EVs a Pokémon will get doesn’t depend on which Pokémon they are, but what Pokémon they are. defeat. So if you’re trying to specifically train a Pokémon for, say, HP, you’ll have to research and grind specific Pokémon to increase that EV stat as opposed to any other. There are tons of charts showing which Pokémon give which EVs, but we’ll give you one for each stat that we think is pretty easy to meet and rectify, where to find them, and how many EVs they give for that stat:

• HP: Gastradon – Route 218 – 2 EV
• Attack: Kricketune – Route 210 and Route 212 – 2 EV
• Defense: Graveler – Iron Island and Mt. Coronet – 2 EV
• Special Attack: Girafarig – Valor Lakefront – 2 EV
• Special Defense: Tentacruel – Route 223 – 2 EV
• Speed: Floatzel – Route 218 – 2 EV

The highest number of EVs a Pokémon can reward you is three, however, EVs are almost always split across multiple stats, making it harder to train your Pokémon specifically.

Once you know which Pokémon you are training for what purpose, there are three ways to speed up EV training even further. These are done using different held objects, vitamins and Pokérus.

Objects retained

Shiny Diamond Pokémon and Shiny pearl has a ton of different items that you can give your Pokemon as a held item that will give them different buffs. This includes a special set of seven specially designed items to increase the number of EV you gain per battle. The first is the most unique, but also the weakest of the group. The Macho Brace is ideal if you can’t access the other items you own yet or don’t have the one you need. When maintained, the Pokémon will get double the number of EVs in a given battle. You can get the Macho Brace in Pastoria City. Go to a house just north of Pokémart and talk to the Bug Catcher inside. If you can show him all three forms of Burmy, which translates to only one of each type in your party, he will give you this item for free.

The other six items all relate to the increase in the number of EVs you get for a specific statistic. These are:

• Power Weight – Grants +8 HP EVs per fight.
• Armband of Might – Gives +8 Attack EV per fight.
• Belt of Power – Gives +8 EV Defense per fight.
• Lens of Might – Gives +8 EV Special Attack per fight.
• Power Band – Gives +8 EV Special Defense per fight.
• Ankle Bracelet of Might – Gives +8 EV speed per fight.

Eight more EVs in any statistic is way more than what you could get with the Macho Brace, making it ideal for shredding EVs. All of these items must be purchased in the Battle Park. This area is only accessible after becoming the Champion and defeating the Elite Four. Each also costs 10 BP, so you’ll need to earn a few points to get them all.

Vitamins

Vitamins are a quick, easy, and straightforward way to boost any Pokémon’s EV. You can find vitamins all over the world in many stores, such as the Veilstone City Department Store. They’re expensive, but each one you give a Pokémon will instantly give them 10 EV in a given stat. The different vitamins you can get are:

• HP UP – Gives 10 HP EVs.
• Protein – Gives 10 EV Attack.
• Iron – Grants 10 EVs of defense.
• Calcium – Gives 10 EV special attack.
• Zinc – Gives 10 EV Special Defense.
• Carbos – Grants 10-speed electric vehicles.

Poker

Finally, there is the Pokémon Virus or Pokérus for short. Unlike most viruses, this one is actually very good at catching and spreading among your Pokémon. When infected, this virus works just like the Macho Brace and will double Pokémon’s EV gains. Since this is not a held item, you can stack the Pokérus effects with any of the powerful items to earn tons of EVs in no time.

The only downside to this method is how rare the catch of the Pokérus is. We cannot confirm the accuracy of these numbers, but most agree that the odds of catching the virus after a battle are 1 in 21,845. Whether or not this number is correct, the odds are very high. weak. If you manage to get it on one of your Pokémon, you can broadcast it to the rest of your party by continuing to fight more Pokémon. However, the virus will not stay in an active state, where this Pokémon can spread it, forever. After about a day, again the details seem hazy here, the infected Pokémon will no longer be contagious. Fortunately, any Pokemon that has caught the virus, whether active or not, always retains the benefits of double EV gain.

If you want to keep a Pokémon with an active Pokérus for longer, storing it on your PC will perpetually keep it in that active and infectious state. You will need to remove it to use it in combat, however, to start broadcasting it to your party.

How to reset a Pokémon’s electric vehicles

Since EVs have a limit, and you might have accidentally earned EVs in the wrong stats for a Pokémon you want to start training, you’ll want to know how to reset a Pokémon’s EVs to pick up one. new start. There is a way, so you don’t need to get a new one and start over. There is a very specific set of berries in the game that work just like vitamins, just backwards. Each time you feed a Pokémon, you reduce their electric vehicles in this specific statistic by 10. The bays you are looking for are:

• Pomeg Berry – Reduces EV HP by 10.
• Kelpsy Berry – Reduces attack EV by 10.
• Qulot Berry – Reduces Defense EV by 10.
• Hondew Berry – Reduces Special Attack EV by 10.
• Grepa Berry – Reduces Special Defense Electric Vehicles by 10.
• Tomato Berry – Reduces the speed of electric vehicles by 10.

Use them to fully maximize where you want all of the possible 510 EVs you can give your Pokémon to be the most efficient possible.