EVs
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EVs are stat determinants that factor into the outgrowth of your Pokémon's stats. They are supplemental stat variables that can be altered, modified or enhanced in certain ways.
EVs are one of the only two dynamic stat variables that factor into your Pokémon's stats; Along with IVs, they are contributory differential in your Pokémon's stats. However, due to the relatively weighty difference IVs can make in a Pokémon's stats, players conventionally consider them more instrumental than EVs in appraising the value of a Pokémon of its species.
Meanwhile EVs serves as auxiliary values to compensate the bad IVs for players who do not possess good IVs Pokémons. Yet since players can distribute EVs as they like and categories have the same maximum effective EVs, IVs are still the major factor that conduce comparatively better or worse stats for a particular Pokémon in top battles.
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Definitive Overview
EVs stand for effort values. All 6 EVs of a Pokémon's stats start at 0. EVs are used to compensate the bad IVs or further enhance the good IVs of a Pokémon. The maximum EVs for each Pokémon is 510 while the maximum effective EVs for each of the categories are 252.
- HP (HP) Shows the amount of health your Pokémon has.
- Attack (ATK) Shows the power your Pokemon deals using physical moves.
- Defense (DEF) Shows the resistance your Pokémon has against physical moves.
- Special Attack (SPATK) Shows the power your Pokémon deals using special moves.
- Special Defense (SPDEF) Shows the resistance your Pokémon has against special moves.
- Speed (SPD) Shows how fast your Pokémon is, and based on that decides which Pokémon attacks first in battle.
Stat Determination
- Main Article: stats
1 point will be added to one of the stats whenever every 4 EVs are added to the respective stats category. The total additive points are rounded down when the EVs are not divisible by 4. This means that a Pokémon can have at most a total of 127 additive points and 63 additive points for each category. 2 EVs are useless since the total additive points are rounded down. Thus most players make their Pokémons' EVs a multiple of 4 to gain the maximum benefit of the EVs.
Checking your Pokémon's EVs
In-game
EVs are primarily and predominantly inspected in-game, wherein they are much more readily checkable. In addition to the comparative convenience of checking in-game, EVs are more definitively checked; you will be able to check the single, definite EV of your Pokémon in-game, as it's stored in the database.
User Interface
Your Pokémon's IVs will be displayed on any hover-overs of your mouse cursor on them, on your HUD or in the PC storage system; the latter tends to conduce cross-comparison of Pokémon IVs, especially freshly captured Pokémon, for those who are looking to capture a high-IV Pokémon.
IV Commands
A subset of commands exists to allow you to inspect your Pokémon's IVs. While this method has lost ground ever since the client was updated to allow the viewability of Pokémon IVs on the interface, one variant of the command—the IV-advertisement command, which posts IVs into the trade channel—is still commonly used.
Manual calculation of your Pokémon's IV values may be the only go-to resort if the game is offline, but it should be noted that a similar IV-inspection feature is planned to be implemented in a future Playerdex update.
Manual Calculation
Step 1
Step 2
Open up your internet browser and open an IV calculator. For this example we'll use the Veekun's IV Calculator which can be found here : http://veekun.com/dex/gadgets/stat_calculator
Because PWO currently doesn't have Natures, Hidden Powers, or Characteristics, they can be left blank from the calculator. The "effort" column may also be left out as there is none in PWO as well. Start by filling out the name of the Pokemon, once you write it down, make sure to select it from the drop down menu that appears. Next enter the level, HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed for your Pokemon. For the Milotic, the blanks should be filled out like pictured.
Step 3
Once all your Pokémon's stats have been added to the blanks click on "Crunch Numbers". What you will see is something like the image shown here. What you're going to want to look at is the column labeled "Possible genes (IVs)". If we take a look at the "HP" Row, under the "Possible genes" column, we see the pair of numbers, 2-3, so this is the IV for HP. The reason that there's two numbers instead of just one is because the lower the level of your Pokemon the wider range of IV's that stat can become, so what the calculator is telling us here is that by level 99, Milotic might end up with a 2 or a 3 as it's final IV for HP. You can close in the range of the IV's quickly before reaching high levels by filling in the blanks for its new stats for its next level in the next column, in this example it would be in the column "Level 63" which is currently empty. The colored bar in the calculator is simply a visual representation of the IV. The overall description of this Milotic would be that it has great Attack and good speed and defense , bad HP and Special Defense and average Special Attack. Veekun's calculator also provides all your Pokémon's IVs at the bottom of the page, so you can simply copy and paste them in the chats.
Advertising Your Pokémon's IVs
Hotlinking Your Pokémon
You may hotlink your Pokémon by shift-clicking them on the HUD, which will encode a link into the chat of its name; clicking on this link will retrieve information of the Pokémon, displaying its IVs. For an example of how the link will appear in the channel, refer to the right-hand pictorial explanation.
Alternatively, you may also hotlink your Pokémon via typing out the link, encapsulating the Pokémon's name in brackets—[Poke#], replacing # with the Pokémon's positional number in your party. For example, if Mamoswine was in the 4th slot of your party, you would type [Poke4] in order to hotlink it into a clickable link on the chat.
Commands
While the subset of /iv commands has been losing ground, much due to added amenities in the client that allow instant displayability of a Pokémon's stats, /iv position-number, username is still popularly used. This command will post the designated Pokémon's IVs in a private system message to the targeted username.
Trading
When trading with another player, your Pokémon's IVs will be verificatively displayed in the trade window, authenticating the Pokémon's IVs during the trading process.
Shinies and IVs
All Shinies caught in the wild in-game have IVs of 20 or more, whereas shiny Pokémon obtained on the Token Store are guaranteed 8 or more IVs, which is one of the reasons why they are so desirable - especially in-game. Here we can see an example of a shiny Crobat; once we calculated the IVs, you can see that his IV bars are all aligned to the right and can and will be over 28 once this Crobat reaches level 99. Its also known that a lot of shinies may go up to the 32nd IV, this happens occasionally and the Veekun stat calculator will display the IV as being "impossible", so for shinies 20 is the lowest IV and 32 is the highest.
Uber and Epic
Uber and Epic are both different definitions of a Pokemon having good IV's, though they both mean different things, and it varies from person to person what each can mean. A general understanding of what these definitions are, is :
Uber Pokémon - Pokemon with Uber Stats in the necessary areas for that Pokemon to be as competitively viable as possible.
Epic Pokémon - There are two definitions. 1: A Pokemon with 25+ IVs in every stat. 2: A Pokemon with Uber stats in all that are important to it.
Uber Stat - A specific stat with 27+ IVs.
What Stats does my Pokémon Need?
Uber Pokémon means that a Pokémon has good stats in the stats it actually needs the most. That means it doesn't actually have to have all the IV's to be great, but that the good IV's are in the correct places. To try and figure out what Pokémon needs what stats, you will have to open up it's Pokémon page here or in another Wiki. For this example we will be using Growlithe and his page. First of all, you want to determine if your Pokémon uses ATK or SPATK more, to do this, look at it's move-set. Does this Pokémon's best move use SPATK, ATK, or both for it's best moves? In the case of Growlithe, most of his moves, such as Reversal, Flare Blitz and Crunch, are all Attack-based moves, which means they require a nice Attack stats. So a good Growlithe should have good Attack IV's. To figure out if your Pokémon needs speed, you need to look at your Pokémon's base speed and see how good it is compared to other Pokémon's speed, a Pokémon like Snorlax has horrible Speed, so no matter how good the speed IV is it's always going to be the last one to go so it's not needed as much as other Pokémon. A Pokémon like Joleton who has High amount of base speed compared to other Pokémon, might need the Speed IV to be less as well since no matter what, it's most likely to go faster then half the Pokémon in game no matter what. The Pokémon that need the Speed IV the most are the ones that are just average. The rest if not all of the IV's can be determined from a couple of questions.
1. What kind of attacks is my Pokémon going to take?
If you're more likely to take out you're Pokémon against Special type Pokémon that use Special moves, then your Pokémon will need SPDEF more then Def, if it's the opposite, then you'll need DEF. Snorlax that is a Normal type, and Normal types that are only weak to Fighting, will need good DEF since most fighting Pokémon use ATK based attacks.
2. Does my Pokémon need more of this stat?
If your Pokémon has a very low amount of that base stat compared to other Pokémon then it most likely doesn't need it.
3. Am I going to use my Pokémon as a tank?
Is the Pokémon you're going to take out going to be used to take on damage and give a lot of damage? For these kind of Pokémon, good HP and DEF/SPDEF is needed.
