EVs for dragonite

[Remia]

How are these EVs for my dragonite?

Nature: Adamant

Earthquake, Aerial Ace, Dragon Dance, Thunderbolt

252 Atk, 132 HP, 124 Spd

 

[Mudkip of DVN]

Hehe..... I know where you got the moveset... It would have been nice if you put a little into Sp. Attack. 0 EV's and Adamant proves a weakish SP. ATK.

 

[ZNtelle]

As long as you have at least 198 Spd., you're fine. Max Atk. and put the rest in HP. It looks like you've done that, though Good Eye, Mudkip! made a good point in suggesting a few SAtk. EVs. Just don't put too many.

 

[Remia]

Ok, how's 252 Atk, 152 HP, 56 Spd, 48 Sp. Atk?

 

[Mudkip of DVN]

Switch the HP and SP. ATK. 48 gives you, hmm... *calculating* 48/4=12, so 12 extra points. While 152 gives, 152/4=38, 38 extra points.

 

[Remia]

Yeah, I wasn't really prioritizing Sp. Atk, it's a physical sweeper. Thunderbolt's just a backup move, but don't I kinda need some HP?

 

[Brown Bomber]

Although I'm not the best at EVs, here's a spread:

56 HP / 196 Atk / 176 Spd / 80 SAtk

230 Spc. ATK allows for a 2HKO on Skarm with Thunderbolt, 240 Speed allows you to outspeed base 70 Speed Pokemon such as Breloom without a speed-increasing nature, 337 HP for 1 more HP than a multiple of 16, and the rest in Attack.

 

[Remia]

Hold on, hold on, how can you calculate exact values like that? Wouldn't IVs make it kinda unpredictable to try to pull that off?

 

[Delta]

I assume he calculated it from NB.

Anyway, if you want to know your PKMN IVs, just download an IV calculator from internet. It aslo helps to calculate HP type

 

[Brown Bomber]

I'm assuming max IVs, if you give me individual IVs I'll make a different spread if necessary.

 

[Remia]

Hmm, ok I see now. I'm hatching it from an egg and haven't even done that yet so I've no clue what its IVs are, besides I don't really plan to control its stats to quite that degree. As for my other EV spread, 252 Atk, 152 HP, 56 Spd, 48 Sp. Atk, I haven't really gotten any feedback on that yet and that's so far what I'm working with, mudkip mentioned switching sp. atk and HP but didn't include any reasoning or strategy I can use to decide if I'll take his advice.

 

[Mudkip of DVN]

I said you'll need Sp. Atk because usually Pokemon with 4x weakness to electric (ie Gyarados, Mantine) have pretty darn good Sp. Def. It's just to give it a little kick.

Also, just 1 point extra in HP will make more of a difference than just 1 point in offense, so generally, you should put a little more into your offenses.

 

[Remia]

ohhhh, I get it now, that actually sounds pretty good ^_^ Ok, I guess I'll be going with 252 Atk, 152 Sp. Atk, 56 Spd, 48 HP ^_^ thx