A beginner’s guide to competitive Pokemon battling

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Like many Pokemon players, I started playing the games as a kid in the late 90s, before the competitive metagame existed. I first started taking note of things like EV training and IVs in the Diamond and Pearl era, but when I looked up information about the competitive side of Pokemon, I got scared away by all the mathematical equations and fan-made jargon I’d find on sites like Bulbapedia, Smogon, and Serebii. It wasn’t until Black 2 and White 2 came out in 2012 that I really wanted to give competitive Pokemon battling a try…and it turned out to be easier than I thought! As of now I’ve put in almost 600 hours of gameplay on my copy of Pokemon X, and 150 hours on my Omega Ruby, breeding competitive pokemon and trying them out on the Battle Spot and local tournaments. It does take a lot of time and experience to get good at it, but you don’t have to do any complicated math or spend hours and hours of tedious grinding in order to put together a decently competitive pokemon team, especially in the current 6th generation of Pokemon games that have made breeding and training the right pokemon much easier. So I wanted to put together this very beginner-friendly guide for any Pokemon players that are interested in trying their hand at the competitive side of the games…

As I said, I’m making this guide very beginner-friendly, so the only thing I’m assuming beforehand is that you’ve played through the main story of Pokemon X or Y, and/or Pokemon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, and thus have general knowledge of how to play the current Pokemon games.

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Step #1: Pick pokemon to make (and know their tier)

Over the years, fans of competitive pokemon battling have noted that all of the now 700+ species of pokemon are just overall stronger or weaker than others when used in competitive battles. So among the competitive community, all the different pokemon species are grouped into tiers in order to make things fair for players who like using different pokemon. For example, no matter how well one raises a Beautifly, a Flareon, or other pokemon in the Never Used (NU) tier, the lowest tier, it’s very unlikely they’ll be able to win against a team with Talonflame, Garchomp, or other pokemon in the Over Used (OU) tier, one of the highest tiers. So sometimes in competitive battles, players will agree ahead of time that they only want to use pokemon in a certain tier to make things fair. There are other rules they may go by too, such as banning instant KO-ing moves like Fissure and Sheer Cold, and only allowing you to put one of your opponent’s pokemon to Sleep at a time (called the Sleep Clause). You can see a full list of all the competitive tiers and pokemon currently in each one here.

As a newbie, don’t worry too much about what tier the pokemon you want to use is in. All of the tiers I just discussed are completely fan-made and not officially sanctioned by Game Freak or any of Pokemon’s creators. In official Pokemon tournaments, all pokemon are created equal and the only banned ones are the overpowered legendaries such as Mewtwo and Zekrom. From my experience, if you have a few low-tier pokemon on your team, you can still easily beat someone who has only high-tier pokemon if your skills are simply better than theirs. Most hardcore competitive players use only pokemon from the highest two tiers (Uber and OU), but many also use a team of pokemon from a mix of tiers and can do just as well in battles. Again, the player’s skill is more important than just using strong pokemon (luck helps too!)

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Step #2: The hidden stats of pokemon (EVs and IVs)

Obviously a pokemon’s performance is determined by its stats, such as its Attack stat and Speed stat. So how is it that two pokemon of the same level and the same species have very different stats?

For starters, every pokemon has a set number for each of its stats that’s the same for every pokemon of that species, called its base stats. That’s the ideal place to start when determining how you want to make that pokemon. For example, a pokemon like Dusknoir has way better base Defenses than base Attacks, so you’d want to use it as a strong defensive pokemon that can take hits. On the other hand, a pokemon like Alakazam has very high base Speed and Special Attack, but poor Defense and HP, so you’d want to use it to hit hard and fast, but keep it from taking hits itself. Serebii’s PokeDex is a great tool for picking the pokemon you want, as it lists pretty much everything about each species, including their base stats.

As an example for this guide, I’m going to use my most favorite pokemon, Vaporeon. Looking at Vaporeon’s base stats, it has very high HP, and pretty good Special Attack and Special Defense as well. So I choose to use it as a defensive pokemon that can take any Special Attacks my opponent throws at me, and can dish out a powerful Special Attack of its own if need be. Even though it has a very average base 60 in Defense, its high HP can help balance that out, so it can survive some physical Attacks as well. Those are the kinds of things to consider when deciding on a pokemon to use.

So once you know a pokemon’s base stats, how do you make it stronger in certain stats? That’s where Effort Values (EVs) come in. Anyone who’s played a Pokemon game knows that pokemon get stronger – they gain experience, level up, and their stats increase – when they defeat other pokemon. So how exactly does that work? Well, every species of pokemon has a certain number of EVs it gives when it’s defeated. For example, if your pokemon defeats a Starly, it will get 1 EV in Speed; if it defeats a Scraggy, it will get 1 Attack EV; if it defeats a Nidorina, it gets 2 HP EVs, and so on (if you have the Exp. Share turned on, all pokemon in your party will get the earned EVs). Pokemon can get a maximum of 252 EVs in a given stat, and an overall total of 508 EVs (510 technically, but 2 EVs don’t count for some reason). A pokemon you first hatch, catch, or receive in the game starts with 0 EVs (so its strengths are determined purely by its species’ base stats). That sounds like a lot of work to reach 508 EVs when most pokemon only yield 1 or 2 EVs upon defeat, but later on I’ll get to all the ways you can greatly increase that number. There are other ways besides defeating pokemon to earn EVs, for example, the vitamins such as Protein and Zinc give 10 EVs to their particular stat, and a Level 3 round of Super Training will earn 12 EVs in a stat. A common practice for competitive players is to max out two of a pokemon’s best stats – give 252 EVs in each of those stats – and then the remaining 4 EVs to another semi-important stat.

So even if two pokemon are the same species, same level, and have the same EV spread, why is one still able to do more damage than the other, or take hits better than the other? That has to do with the second important game mechanic, Individual Values (IVs). The technicalities of IVs and how they determine stats is kinda complicated, but for non-math inclined people like me, I just think of them as extra “buffs” a pokemon will get if it has a high IV in a certain stat. An IV of 31 is considered a “perfect” IV in that stat, and ideally we want our pokemon to have perfect IVs in every stat that will be useful. For example, the Vaporeon I’m going to make won’t be using any physical Attacks, so it doesn’t matter if it has a perfect IV in Attack or not, but we want perfect IVs in all its other stats if possible. A pokemon’s IVs are determined when it’s first generated by the game, for example, when you receive its egg from the daycare or encounter it in the wild. Unlike EVs, IVs cannot be changed afterwards. You can check if a pokemon has perfect IVs if you show it to the judge in the Pokemon Center in either Kiloude City (XY) or the Battle Resort (ORAS). He’ll list off stats, and if he says those stats “can’t be beat,” that means the pokemon has perfect IVs in those stats. How you actually get the IVs you want on your pokemon will be discussed later.

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Step #3: Plan out your pokemon

Now that you know what pokemon you want and how things like EVs and IVs work to make pokemon strong in battles, how exactly do you want to make that pokemon? As I said, I’ll be using the Vaporeon I mentioned as an example. Since it has such high HP and Special Defense, I decide to max out those two stats so it can absorb even really powerful Special Attacks. So I’ll give it 252 EVs in HP, 252 EVs in Sp.Defense, and throw the remaining 4 in Sp.Attack to give its already good base Sp.Attack a buff. I checked Serebii’s PokeDex to see all the moves Vaporeon can learn, and decide to give it Wish, Protect, Scald, and Ice Beam – the first two moves for support and healing, and the last two for attacking.

In addition to figuring out what spread of EVs and moves you want on your pokemon, you also have to decide on a Nature, an Ability (if it has more than one possible Ability), and what item you want it to hold to help it out in battle (unless you’re gonna Mega Evolve it, in which case it’ll have to hold its appropriate Mega Stone). Like IVs, a pokemon’s Nature is determined as soon as its generated by the game and can’t be changed. But unlike IVs, you can easily see a pokemon’s Nature by viewing its Summary. Depending on its Nature, a pokemon will receive an increase in one of its stats and a decrease in another. Some Natures won’t give it an increase or decrease in anything, so you want to avoid those. For my Vaporeon, I want to make it as Specially Defensive as possible, so I’ll give it a Calm Nature, which increases its Sp.Defense while lowering its Attack stat, which doesn’t matter since it won’t be using any physical Attacks.

Next is what Ability and item we want it to have. Vaporeon has two different Abilities, but I decide on Water Absorb so it can switch into Water attacks and take no damage from them. Its other Ability, Hydration, is good too, but only in the Rain. Since I don’t plan on giving it or any other pokemon in my team Rain Dance, it wouldn’t be as useful. As for the item, I decide to give it Leftovers so it can restore a little HP at the end of each turn, which will further help its defensive prowess. Basically you want everything about your pokemon – its EV spread, Nature, Ability, moves, and held item – to work together in having it fulfill its role on your team. In Vaporeon’s case, it will be taking Special Attacks from the opponent (and totally absorbing Water attacks) while using Wish to heal itself and my other pokemon, and hitting with Scald or Ice Beam in between.

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Step #4: Get supplies

So now that you have everything about your pokemon planned out, how do you go about making it? Before you actually start breeding for your pokemon, you first want to get supplies in the game that will help throughout the whole process. For convenience’s sake, here’s a quick list. If you don’t know where or how you can get these things, do a search on Bulbapedia here.

A pokemon with Pokerus: Pokerus isn’t essential to getting your pokemon, but it does make EV training go faster. Pokerus is a rare condition pokemon can get that will allow them to earn double the EVs they’d get in a battle. You can tell a pokemon has it if a purple box with the word “Pokerus” appears in its Summary screen. At that stage, there’s a chance it will spread Pokerus to other pokemon in your party after each battle. When a pokemon has been cured of Pokerus, a little purple smiley face will be on its Summary instead and it will no longer be able to spread the condition (it will still get double EVs in battle though). Pokemon get cured of Pokerus after a certain amount of time being out of the PC, so if you keep them in there, they won’t be cured and you can keep using them to spread the condition to others. Pokerus happens very rarely, so if you don’t have a pokemon with it and want to get one, you can ask people online to trade. Again, it’s not essential, it just makes things go faster.

A Destiny Knot and an Everstone: These are the two most important items you’ll need for breeding the pokemon you want. When you breed two pokemon together, the one holding an Everstone will pass down its Nature to the baby. That’s how you can guarantee to get the Nature you want on the hatched pokemon. And if you give the other pokemon a Destiny Knot, it will guarantee that the baby will inherit 5 out of the parents’ combined 12 IVs. Remember, pokemon have 6 stats total – HP, Attack, Defense, Sp.Attack, Sp.Defense, and Speed – and thus 6 IVs total. So if both parents have perfect IVs in every stat, the baby will inherit those perfect IVs in 5 of its stats (the 6th will be random).

The Power items: There’s one Power item for every stat and they can only be obtained by paying Battle Points at either the Battle Maison (XY) or Battle Resort (ORAS). Depending on which one they hold, a pokemon will gain 4 additional EVs in a certain stat, for example, the Power Weight for HP, the Power Anklet for Speed, etc,. Like Pokerus, they’re not totally necessary, but they make EV training go faster.

A pokemon with Flame Body and the Hatching O-Power: If you have a pokemon with the Flame Body Ability on your team, it will halve the amount of steps needed to hatch eggs in your party. If you use the Hatching O-Power, it will also cut down on hatching time. Again, these things aren’t essential, but they make breeding much faster.

A pokemon with Sweet Scent and a high level pokemon with a multi-target move: This is another way of making EV training easier. Instead of battling one Starly at a time and earning only 1 Speed EV per battle, why not get into a horde battle and defeat five at a time, earning 5 EVs? If you go any place where a horde encounter is possible, using Sweet Scent will guarantee that one will occur. You’ll want to also have a high-level pokemon with a move that hits every pokemon on the field, such as Surf, Earthquake, or Dazzling Gleam, so you can faint all five pokemon in the horde in one turn, making things go faster.

A pokemon with the IVs, Nature, Ability, and egg moves you want to pass on: As I said, you use the Everstone to pass on Natures to the pokemon you’re breeding, and the Destiny Knot to pass on 5 of the parents’ IVs. As for Abilities, there’s a 60% chance the baby will inherit the Ability of the female pokemon you’re breeding, so it’s helpful if the female has the Ability you want. If you’re trying to get an egg move on your pokemon, one of the parents needs to have the move (doesn’t matter which one) and it’s guaranteed to be passed down. As for how you can get pokemon with these requirements, you just have to take time to catch or trade for them. Pokemon you find in the wild have random Natures, but if you put a pokemon with the Synchronize Ability in the front of your party, there’s a 50% chance the pokemon you encounter will have the same Nature as that pokemon. As for IVs, pokemon you find in the Friend Safari in XY are guaranteed to have at least 2 perfect IVs, and you can find pokemon with some perfect IVs using the DexNav in ORAS (more details on that here). A lot of Wonder Trading or regular trading is probably your best bet for getting your first perfect IVed pokemon, since most people trade away pokemon they’ve bred that have some but not all perfect IVs. If you can get a Ditto with perfect IVs, that’s very helpful because Ditto can breed with every breedable pokemon regardless of species or gender. More details about how pokemon breeding works can be found on Bulbapedia’s breeding section.

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Step #5: Start breeding

Once you have the items you need and the pokemon you’re gonna breed, it’s time to start! For my example with breeding a Vaporeon, I managed to get a male Smeargle on Wonder Trade that has perfect IVs in everything except Speed. Since Smeargle and Eevee/Vaporeon are in the same egg group (Field), I can definitely use him as the father. Using his unique move Sketch, I can also get him to learn Wish, which Vaporeon can only learn through breeding. I have a female Eevee too, but neither it nor Smeargle have a Calm Nature. As for the Ability, luckily Vaporeon only has one regular Ability it can get and it’s the one I want, but if it had more, I would want to get a female Eevee that has the Ability. But back to the Nature, first I’ll breed the female Eevee with a Calm male Pikachu I have in order to get a Calm female Eevee to breed with the Smeargle. The Pikachu I have is from the Friend Safari, so it already has 2 perfect IVs in HP and Speed. So what I’ll do when I breed Pikachu and Eevee is give Pikachu the Everstone, so all the baby Eevee that hatch will inherit his Calm Nature, and I’ll give Eevee the Destiny Knot so there’s a chance the baby Eevee will inherit Pikachu’s two perfect IVs. Since Smeargle doesn’t have the Speed IV, we need to get it on the female Eevee we breed in order to have it eventually passed down to our Vaporeon. So I drop both pokemon at the daycare (on Route 7 in XY and in the Battle Resort in ORAS) and ride around on my bike for a while until the daycare person has an egg for me. I then ride around some more to get the required number of steps for the egg to hatch (see why having a pokemon with Flame Body and the Hatching O-Power can be so helpful?)

Unfortunately Eevee has a low female ratio, so it may take a while to hatch an Eevee that’s both female and inherits the perfect Speed IV from Pikachu. But lets say I did finally get one. So now we have our Calm female Eevee with one perfect IV in Speed, to breed with our male Smeargle with all perfect IVs except in Speed. Now we put those two pokemon in the daycare, with Smeargle holding the Destiny Knot and Eevee holding the Everstone. The Eevee that will hatch from their eggs will be Calm (since our Calm Eevee has the Everstone) and will inherit the move Wish since Smeargle has it. We can’t guarantee the IVs the baby gets though, since it will be a random 5 from both parents. Ideally we want it to inherit the perfect IVs in HP, Defense, Sp.Attack, and Sp.Defense from Smeargle, and the perfect Speed IV from Eevee (the Attack IV can be the random 6th one since we don’t need it). What we can do though is, every time we hatch another female Eevee that has better IVs than the one we’re currently breeding, we replace it with that one. For example, lets say we hatched a female Eevee that inherited its mother’s perfect Speed IV and Smeargle’s perfect HP and Defense IVs. We can then replace that female Eevee with the one we currently have (that only has the perfect Speed IV) which will thus increase the odds of the babies having those IVs. Basically the better the IVs that both parents have, the greater the chances of the offspring inheriting them. Yes, it does take a lot of time, a lot of egg hatching, and a lot of talking to the IV judge. But if you want your pokemon to be the best it can be, that’s the way to do it.

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Step #6: EV train

Breeding for the perfect pokemon is the hardest and most time-consuming part. Now things get much easier!

So we finally hatched our Calm Eevee with Wish and perfect IVs in everything except Attack. Now we gotta EV train him in the stats we want! If you have a pokemon with Pokerus, the first step is to spread it to Eevee so he’ll earn double the amount of EVs in each battle. You can do that by having the infected pokemon and the pokemon you want to infect in your party, with the former at the front, and then either battling or fleeing from wild pokemon and checking after each battle if Pokerus got spread (if you battle them, make sure to turn off Exp.Share so those EVs won’t go to your new pokemon). After that, the next thing to do is buy vitamins, which can be bought from Laverre City in XY, or the Battle Maison or Resort (ORAS) for Battle Points. Each vitamin will give a pokemon 10 EVs in that stat up to its first 100 EVs in the stat. So for our Eevee, we’ll buy 10 each of HP Up (for HP) and Zinc (for Sp. Defense) since those are the stats we want to max out. Vitamins are kinda expensive, so using the Bargain O-Power could help. Like Pokerus, getting all the necessary vitamins isn’t a must-do for EV training, it just makes things go faster since you can give a pokemon 100 EVs in a stat right away without having to battle.

I like to do one stat at a time, so we’ll work on Eevee’s HP first. We’ll give him the 10 HP Up, so he now has 100 EVs in HP, needing 152 more to max it out at 252. Here’s where the Power items and horde battles come in. We’ll give him the Power Weight to hold, which will give him an additional 4 EVs in HP for every pokemon defeated. Next we want to go somewhere where we can battle a horde of pokemon that give EVs in HP. In XY, the ideal place is hordes of Whismur in Connecting Cave. So we’ll go there, use our pokemon with Sweet Scent to bring up a horde battle, then defeat all five Whismur at once with our high-level pokemon that has a move to hit all opponents. Even though each Whismur only gives 1 EV in HP, they’ll give 4 additional EVs each thanks to the Power Weight Eevee is holding, making each give 5 HP EVs. Since there’s 5 of them, that means 25 EVs in one horde! And if Eevee has Pokerus, that amount is then doubled, so defeating just one horde will earn a whopping 50 EVs! Just make sure the pokemon you’re EV training is in your party of course, and Exp. Share is turned on so it’ll get the EVs from the horde battle. And be careful to only defeat the hordes of pokemon with the EVs you want. For example, you could also find hordes of Zubat in Connecting Cave, so just run away from those since we don’t want their Speed EVs on our Eevee.

Once we’ve maxed out Eevee’s HP, we’ll move onto Sp.Defense and do the same thing – first give it 10 Zinc for an immediate 100 EVs (always do the vitamins first because they’re only good for the first 100 EVs), then get the rest from battling an appropriate horde (for Sp.Defense, I battle hordes of Mime Jr. in Reflection Cave in XY). If you’re not sure if you’ve maxed out a stat yet, try going into Super Training and using a punching bag in that stat. If it’s maxed out, it’ll say so and the pokemon won’t use the bag. After that, all we have left is throwing in the remaining 4 EVs in Sp.Attack. If it’s just a few EVs, I usually just do a quick round of Super Training in that stat. And…that’s it! We now have a fully EV trained pokemon! You can tell a pokemon’s EVs are maxed out if you view it in Super Training and see a flashing icon to the left of its name (and the meter to the far right will be fully green).

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Step #7: Level up

Now that we have our fully EV trained Eevee, all we have to do is level it up (we can also evolve it with a Water Stone at any time since it already has Wish and we can teach it the other three moves we want with TMs). A lot of competitive players like to level up their good pokemon all the way to 100, but as long as a pokemon is at least LV 50, it’ll be fine to battle online against anyone since pokemon higher than LV50 are auto-leveled down to LV50 anyway. Now that our Eevee is maxed out and can’t earn anymore EVs, it doesn’t matter which pokemon we battle. The quickest way to level up in XY is to battle trainers in the Battle Chateau, the restaurants in Lumiose City, and your rival once a day in Kiloude City. In ORAS, the food court in Mauville City and rebattling NPCs are the best options. And for both games, battling the Elite Four over and over again works great. Make use of the Lucky Egg and Experience O-Power too. You can easily bring a newly hatched LV1 pokemon to LV50 in less than an hour.

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Step #8: Conclusion – was it worth the trouble?

And that’s how you breed for a competitive-ready pokemon. Is it worth it to go through all that trouble though, especially with getting all the perfect IVs? Well, EV training is probably the most important aspect for a competitive pokemon, but from my experience, missing an IV or two isn’t drastic. I’ve won plenty of battles against competitive players with my pokemon having only 1 or 2 perfect IVs, so having the proper EVs is the main thing (and the right Ability and moves of course). If you’re new to competitive pokemon battling, I wouldn’t worry too much about getting all the perfect IVs right away. Just get 1 or 2 if you can, have some battles, get the feel of the competitive metagame, and then decide if you want to get more hardcore with breeding for the perfect pokemon XD

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And that’s it for this incredibly long guide! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments and I’ll try to answer them. Happy pokemon training!

Other sources:
Bulbapedia and Serebii are the ultimate sources for info about the Pokemon games

Smogon is a major source for competitive pokemon battling and lists many competitive-spreads for every pokemon

-Poke-YouTuber TamashiiHiroka has a great editorial video for IV breeding here and EV training here.

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  1. swario says:

    That was an incredible read! Extremely insightful. I’ve never had the urge to do competitive battling because I also got scared away when I first looked into it. After reading your beginner’s guide it’s really not all that complicated. It appears to be mostly time consuming. I’m going to have to give this a try!

    Thanks for the inspiration!

    • Yumeka says:

      Glad you found it insightful =) I saw on your blog that you’re a Pokemon player too…let me know if you ever want to trade or battle sometime ^_^ Or if you need any additional help with putting a competitive team together.

  2. Rioraku says:

    Wow! Great and informative post! I had been wanting to get more into this after I battled you (and lost spectacularly :P) but after beating Alpha Sapphire I’ve fallen back into a recessive period when it comes to playing Pokemon and have spread myself thin playing other 3DS games. But once I get back into it (which I definitely will) I’m using this post as my go to guide for breeding and training!

    • Yumeka says:

      Well, technically we didn’t get to finish our battle, but yeah, I probably would have won =P But when you do get back into playing Pokemon, let me know when you’re ready for a rematch! (or if you need any tips or pokemon you want to trade for)

  3. chikorita157 says:

    Haven’t been focusing on competitive battles, but I already know all the basics of competitive battling since I have been doing that stuff since the fourth generation. Thankfully sixth generation made things a lot easier in terms of IVs since they are a lot easier to get although it can be time consuming since you have to swap out Pokemon several times to get 5 IVs (6 IVs is not really necessary and mostly for bragging rights). Needless to say, I got several 5 to 6 IVs Pokemon from breeding although it’s time consuming.

    Also, IVs can be checked by using a calculator and taking your Pokemon to the Battle Institute so you can see the actual values since it auto levels the Pokemon to Level 50 and 50 is the bare minimum the IV calculator will work reliably.

    Also to note, the Smogon tiers are usage based, except for Ubers, which is apparently now it’s own tier thanks to Mega Rayquaza ban. BL, BL2, BL3 are banlists for UU, RU and NU.

    • Yumeka says:

      I recently started using the IV calculator on Serebii and it’s pretty useful in situations where I know all the IVs won’t be perfect, like when I capture certain legendary pokemon in the game (since they always have at least 3 perfect IVs). That way even if I can’t get the 5 perfect IVs I’d like, I can at least know that the others aren’t that bad (maybe some people keep soft resetting to get a legendary with 5-6 perfect IVs but I don’t have that kind of patience XD)

      Yeah, I heard about Mega Rayquaza – personally I don’t know why Game Freak keeps making pokemon that are already super strong, like Rayquaza and Mewtwo, even stronger with Mega forms when there’s other pokemon that could really use the buff (how about Mega Flygon for example? XD)

  4. Shadowapple says:

    I had to have a look at this as I’ve literally only started caring about EVs and IVs in the last four days. Seeing a guide like this pop up so quickly after I’ve taken an interest is both amusingly coincidental and amazingly convenient.
    Thank you for writing it up, it was nice to read.

    • Yumeka says:

      Thanks, glad you found it useful =D As I said in the post, I tried to make this guide as newbie-friendly as possible. It’s a good place to start, and once you have the basic grasp of EVs and IVs, you can move onto the more detailed sites, like Bulbapedia and Smogon.

  5. Courtney says:

    Thanks this was perfect! *hug☺️

  6. Kalob says:

    ok so honestly ev training is to hard because idk what pokemon give what ev’s sides, im not a competitive battler, but i really liked the guide :)

  7. Chris says:

    Nice guide! This will definitely help new people that want to get their pokemon battle ready. I also learned a few stuff myself specifically breeding wirh a destiny knot and everstone. Good stuff.

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