is ev training for the frontier worth it?

[Lance_Is_King]

i have my team planed

Azumaril
@leftovers
Nature-Calm
Surf
Rest
Protect
Focus Punch


Zangoose
@leftovers
Nature-Brave
Taunt
Slash
Swords Dance
Quick Attack


Alakazam
@leftovers
Nature-Timid
Psychic
Thunderpunch
Ice Punch
Trick
(eggs already hatched)

will i need to ev train?

 

[MetalMario]

Yes. Not only are all the Frontier pokes effort trained, but they also tend to use unfair hax tactics, and the game always seems to be on their side. You'll need all the strength you can get.

 

[Lance_Is_King]

man ev training takes days

 

[WhiteWizard42]

not really. i've gone from start to finish on EV training in a matter of hours. macho brace is your friend, as is pokerus if you've managed to catch it. with just one, you have to do 126 battles each against two different kinds of pokemon, but with both, you have just to do 63 each, 126 total. 127 if you're obsessive like me and like to get that last point.

 

[MetalMario]

I can implement a complex effort split (beyond the child's-play 252/252/4 ones) in under two hours. That's 12 hours for a team of six.

 

[9voltdude]

its hard, but it is worth it

 

[öpi]

hm? i just need an hour or so for ev-training lol

remember: EVs can get u up to 63 points in the stat. and that's more than it looks like, rly!
so do your ev-training and own teh frontier!!!!!!!11111one

 

[Swampert fan]

Is it not good team. Bad attacks

 

[cxoa]

why does trainin take days, if you use the vitamins, even with a simple 252/252/6 spread, with a macho brace its only 152 battles, with pokerus and macho brace 76

 

[dynamo]

Well, the max of EV's you need for one stat is 252, and the stat upping items (eg. Protein) stop working once your Pokemon has 100 EV's in that stat. So use 10 of the item on the stat you want to up, and it becomes 152. With Pokerus and Macho Brace you only have to get 38 EV's, really.

For an example, Poochyena give 1 Atk EV, so...

1. use 10 Proteins - Pokemon has 100 Atk EV's.
2. Give your Pokemon Macho Brace and Pokerus.
3. 152 divided by two is 76, and divided by two again is 38.
4. Go fight 38 Poochyena's and your Attack stat will be maxed.

So really it doesn't take that long.

 

[Guy]

Trade 'em to FRLG. EV training's a snap there.

 

[cxoa]

lol depends what you wanna train in, emeralds good for attack(Shuppet), Sp.Attack (Spinda) , and speed (zubat) hp (whismur). Def nd sp.def are a little trickier

 

[Pokemon trainer Jeremy]

isnt pokerus normally found on Bug type pokemon?

 

[Theneedleman]

You can if you feel like it. It makes your pokemon a bit stronger, but not much...

 

[Levski]

You can if you feel like it. It makes your pokemon a bit stronger, but not much...

Not much????? I have a 436 Sp Atk Rayquaza if you don't EV train you'll never even get near that kind of stats.

 

[cxoa]

if done as 252 evs, it wil add 63 to one stat, dpepnding on what pokemon you are traning and what stat id say an increase of 63is quite substantial

 

[Pokemon trainer Jeremy]

no its an uber.....