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Question about EV limits.

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ok according to bulbapedia:
"Pokemon are limited to a total of 255 effort points per stat, and 510 effort points in total. Maximum stats will be reached with only 252 EVs in a stat, however."

but what I want to know is: How many EVs it takes to up a stat by one?

as in my HP is 298 before leveling up and it will go up by 3. how many EVs do i need to make it go up by four instead of three. (I can do the rest of the math on my own.)

someone please help as soon as possible.

I'm trying to prepare my team for insertion into my SS once I get my DSi (i already have a DS Lite so now I can wirelessly trade.)

P.S. please don't treat me like a noob I've been playing pokemon since 1997, but not competitively in like.....well, ever.
 
It depends on the level you're at. The stat boost from EV's is equal to Nature*(level/100)*(EV's/4), rounded down. With a neutral nature, at level 100 4 EV's will boost your stat by one, but at level 50, 8 will do the same thing (although if you get your level 50 up to level 100 those 8 will translate into a two point stat boost, if that makes sense).

This might help:
http://www.serebii.net/games/stats.shtml

Edit: I should probably clarify on the rounding. It's rounded down twice, once after taking EV's/4, and again after taking nature into account. So you'll want to stick with multiples of four for your EV's (although because 510 isn't divisible by 4 you'll have two left over).
 
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ok well could you give me an example.

I had a lv. 96 infernape with 298 HP
I had it beat 25 bidoofs before leveling it up.
the HP only increase to 301, so +3.
Why didn't it go up more?
 
yes, i might of used like one rare candy but yeah through battling.

could it be that it already has the maximum amount from battles?
should i tell you stats so you can see?
 
Your Infernape would have already received all it's EVs if you had levelled it up to L96.

If you know what EVs it has (and IVs), you can use http://www.psypokes.com/dex/stats.php to check where it should be.
 
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thanks kitto, I'll lock this then, that all i need to know about EVs.

thanks for the help guys.

EDIT: nm someone can either lock it or let it die. plz thanks.
 
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