A few beginner questions

[pikey]

Hey,
I've got a few questions and any help answering would be great. Most importantly I wanted to check if two rumours i've from the days I played the first generation games are true. These are whether rare candy/vitamins do have bad effects on your pokemon, whether trading has bad effects on your pokemon and finally does letting you pokemon faint have bad effects? Also with IV's, if a pokemon has an IV of 17 does that mean they will have an extra 17 points to each of their stats compared to what they would normally have at that level or does it mean that they have an extra 17 points divided out between all of their stats, if that makes sense. Sorry I know these questions aren't related specifically to fr/lg but I do have one related question and that is, can you actually catch pokerus on fr/lg without trading from r/s/e.

Any help would be really appreciated,
Mike =)

 

[TRJessie579]

I'll try to answer these all in order... XD

Vitamins each give your Pokemon 10 EVs in the respective stat, so they are very good for training your Pokemon. The only bad thing about Rare Candies is that they don't give your Pokemon EVs, so a Pokemon raised on ONLY Rare Candies will have no EVs and will be weaker than a normally trained Pokemon, but that's the only downside. Otherwise using them has no ill effects, and once your Pokemon is EV-trained, it's much easier than battling.

If you don't know what EVs are, here's a nice simple guide:

http://www.psypokes.com/lab/evguide.php

I'd recommend the one on the main site but it has some mistakes in it. >>;;

The only thing that trading and letting your Pokemon faint will affect is your Pokemon's happiness. Trading resets it to neutral, and fainting will make it lower, but it's not a big deal, considering the only uses for happiness are evolution in a few Pokemon, and Return/Frustration's power.

Your Pokemon's IV in a stat directly corresponds with how high that stat can get. So a Pokemon with 31 IVs in Attack will have 31 more Attack at LV 100 than a Pokemon with 0 IVs in that stat. Each stat has its own individual IV.

Pokerus can't be obtained/caught on FR/LG, sorry.

 

[pikey]

Thanks very much thats helped me out loads. I've got one last question about EV's however. I thought I had them sussed but I guess not. From the on-site guide I got the impression that the way to get the EV's you want for a pokemon is to search out the pokemon carrying the EV's you need and only battle them before you ever battle any other pokemon, so basically EV's are present all the time (until you reach the 510 maxinum) and they increase your pokemon's stats when they level up. But the other guide seems to say that EV's only come into effect at level 100, does that mean that you'll only recieve EV's when you get a pokemon to level 100 and that they'll just increase your stats without it leveling up or have I misinterpreted it? Thanks again for the help.

 

[TRJessie579]

This is the one question that's CONSTANTLY asked about EVs, and it's apparently harder to explain than I thought. XD

Stat gain from EVs is not added as soon as you gain the EVs, but gradually as a Pokemon levels up. So if you battle 20 Zubat you won't necessarily get +5 in Speed on the next level up. But since it is added up gradually, by LV 100 your Pokemon will have all the stat gain it's supposed to for the EVs you've given it.

Everything else you said about EVs is correct.

 

[pikey]

Thanks very much TRJessie.

- Pokemon really does have a much deeper battle system than I realised over the years ^.^