Mammy, you've convinced me that you have no idea how EVs work.
It's still somewhat pointless to put a pokemon you intend to use in there though. You don't get any Effort Values for it. It's basically cutting your pokemon's potential down to about 1/3rd the amount of stats he could have.
That's only if you never EV train it. You could use the Pokéwalker to get your pokémon up to level 99, then EV train it, then reach level 100 and get full EV benefits.
btw, EVs only add 127 stat points. That's a lot less than 2/3 of the max stats of almost any pokémon.
True, but it still makes a huge difference.
^This.
I'm not saying EVs aren't important, I was just correcting you on what fraction of a pokémon's stats is gained from EVs.
If you've never EV trained a lvl 99 pokemon, and then you train from 99 to 100, you're still missing out on a lot of potential stat points if you're not planning on sitting there for HOURS on weak ass pokemon .
If you properly EV train your pokémon, you're not missing out on any potential stat points, regardless of what level you started training it.
Also it's 510 maximum, 255 per stat
FOUR EV points =
ONE stat point. So when your pokémon reaches it's maximum 510 EVs, that means it gets 127 actual stat points from those EVs, not 510 stat points.
Going off of Bulbapedia, you'd have to defeat 631 Mew at 100 EV apiece to max out your stats. That's a lot of effort for the "effort"
I have no !@#$% idea what you're trying to say here. You'd never have to fight 631 of anything because you only need 510 EVs, and you should be fighting pokémon that give up more than 1 EV.
If you're training with the Macho Brace and fighting pokémon that give 2 EVs, that means you get 4. Four EVs per fight means you only have to fight 127.5 pokémon to get your maximum 510 EVs.
