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LexSuicune
Feraligatr Master
Under Used and Over Used in the Metagame.
Lucky Applejack
hug a quagsire today
Alright, hopefully this is the right place to be posting, and hopefully it doesn't get lost. Here it goes: I'm ev training a pikachu in speed right now, and i've read the serebii section on speed ev's; however, i'm still a little confused. I'm battling basculin exclusively and using a power anklet (the item that promotes speed growth), but i'm noticing that it's kinda random how many speed increases im getting per levle growth. For example, in Pinwheel forest, i would battle tons of basculin and get 2, 3, or 4 added to my pikachu's speed on level growth. But when i went to the village bridge to train on the basculin there, i'd only battle around 3 basculin before my pikachu leveled up.
Long story short battling around 15 low leveled basculin in pinwheel forest sometimes gave me only 2 added to speed; whereas, battling around 3 high leveled basculin at village bridge gave me 4 added to speed. Why is this?
Also, i haven't really been keeping track of how many ev's pikachu's been getting... is that bad? If so, can i calculate how many evs he's gotten after all this training?
Thanks in advance!
Long story short battling around 15 low leveled basculin in pinwheel forest sometimes gave me only 2 added to speed; whereas, battling around 3 high leveled basculin at village bridge gave me 4 added to speed. Why is this?
Also, i haven't really been keeping track of how many ev's pikachu's been getting... is that bad? If so, can i calculate how many evs he's gotten after all this training?
Thanks in advance!
Corroded Arceus
Shiny Hunter
Is there anywhere in Black where I can enter Bravairy into my pokedex as seen? Thanks.
Battle Cynthia or The Riches Miles.
projectaumaan
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The growth might appear erratic now, but by Lv100 you'll see the full effects. You also need to understand the difference between Effort Points and Effort Values. Serebii has a section for that.
And you're EV training wrong. You need to keep track of all EVs gained. If you know exactly what you've battled, then you can calculate EVs. Otherwise, your training of this particular Pikachu is for naught.
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Lucky Applejack
hug a quagsire today
how do you mean? won't it's speed eventually get maxed out and come up as +0 everytime it levels up?
edit: also, when you say i could calculate ev's would that require knowing how many basculin i've fought? (it probably will... just making sure)
and thanks dude
edit 2: also, i'm not sure where the serebii entry is for effort values vs. effort points. I believe that effort points are what you get from battling wild pokemon i.e. a wild basculin gets pika 2 speed points. and effort values are what pika actually has... as in on leveling up she gets an additional 3 effort values to the 136 she already has (i mean, i know where the serebii entry is for ev... i just don't really see where it goes in depth into differentiating the two
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projectaumaan
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No. Maximum depends on Nature, IVs and EVs.
It most certainly does. Any basic EV training guide will tell you this.
You're welcome.
This should help you.
EDIT: Also, I should mention that 255 is the max for any stat, but 252 is the usual number you shoot for when training.
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Hey, I was just wondering, what are you supposed to do when someone uses hacked Pokemon. Both players had an entire team of shinies, and one had a Terrakion, which makes it more suspicious. The first one ended up fainting my entire team, while the other purposely disconnected because I was winning. I really hope that I can report them.
PokemonOwn
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Judging from that, you have no proof that they are hacked. My friend SRed for a Shiny, Adamant Terrakion, and OHKOed a Pokemon with it on his full team of shiny Pokemon. That certainly wasn't hacking.
However, if they were hacked, then you can't really do anything about it.
Redstars89
Shiny Ditto Trainer
On ebay there is a power seller who sells pokemon games with all pokemon including event ones and all shiny's. They sell tons of these as I watch the bids closely. Is it safe to assume those are hacked?
PokemonOwn
Well-Known Member
Again, it's a high risk that you take. Yes, they are probably hacked. Does he sell Pokemon Black and White? If so, they are near certain to be hacked.
SasakiThePikachu
like pepsi cola
I never even thought of this! Thank you!!!
Radlin - if you battled using the Serebii forums then yeah you can report them because hacked pkmn are not allowed...but as you don't really have any solid proof that their pokes were hacked, I'd just stay away from them from now on.
No, as it says, it decreases Attack only.
Jellicent is pretty good.
But I'll be using Gorlurk for my possible Pokemon Grey team depending if Serperior is going to imporve on its movepool.
magentaman
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i've used both carracosta and seismitoad in game and they were good. preferred carracosta as after a shell smash he could sweep most things (including ghetsis)
i've heard that some people have done well with swanna in game, but never tried it myself
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