 What is going on guys and welcome to the channel. My name is PhillyB2 and in this video we're going to be discussing the ultimate EV training guide in Pokemon Sword and Shield. This is going to range from beginners all the way to the expert end game kind of people and even if you're in end game maybe you're going to be able to find something in this video that's going to help you EV train. So I'll be breaking down the video in timestamps so click where you need to click depending on your level of EV training and without further ado let's get right into this video. So the first question we want to ask ourselves are what are EVs? To understand EVs we have to look at Pokemon stats. Now as you know Pokemon have six stats. They have stats in HP, attack, defense, special attack, special defense, and speed. Now what are EVs? EVs are essentially known as effort points and what you're going to do with EVs are basically gain four EVs and boost up a specific stat more than it normally is. So four EVs equal to one Pokemon stat. A total amount of EVs that you can have in one stat is 252 EVs okay and a total of 508 with all the EVs combined. So you get 252, 252 in one stat, another 252 in another stat, and then you get four EVs in another stat. So in that number together equals 508 total EVs. So as you go throughout this video and we explain the things in the various sections be aware that 508 is the total amount of EVs that you can have on a Pokemon and 252 is the max amount of EVs you can have in a particular Pokemon stat. The first part of this video is early game EV training. So you just started the game and you have access to none of these items. Well you can start EV training immediately because there are some Pokemon that you're going to encounter in the beginning of the game that help you get your EV points. For example when you encounter a Scovette you'll be getting one point in HP. If you encounter a Chuddle you'll be getting one point in Attack. If you encounter a Wooloo you'll be getting one point in Defense. If you encounter a Nicket you'll be getting one point in Special Defense. If you encounter a Rookidi you'll get one EV point in Speed. And when you encounter Gasly in the Wild area specifically at the Watch Tower you'll be getting one point in Special Attack. So in theory as a beginning EV trainer depending on which stat you want to max out you're going to have to knock out 252 of that particular Pokemon to max out that stat. There's also an option of farming Feathers in the game. Now you can go take a Flying Taxi to Motostoke you want to head over there and once you get to Motostoke you want to go up take that little thing up and then we go we take the bridge okay so we go up in Motostoke from there all right and what you're going to do is when you go across the bridge you're going to see a lot of these sparkling sparkling items and you're going to see Muscle Feather we're going to keep going across we see more stuff Genius Feather Pretty Feather like you know it's just a good amount of stuff you'll see so basically let me explain to you what the exact Feathers are so so you have the Health Feather which helps you out in HP you have the Muscle Feather which gives you Attack you have the Resist Feather which gives you Defense you have the Genius Feather which gives you Special Attack you have the Clever Feather which gives you Special Defense and the Swift Feather that gives you Speed but essentially all these items if you collect lots of them and choose to do so will just give you one EV now it's a cheap way of doing it but it's a way of adding on EVs to your Pokemon Training now this is something really interesting for you guys to know now Pokeris is a virus that Pokemon end up getting that helps boost their EV Training even more if you would like to see how to get Pokeris go ahead and check out this video over here so going back to the previous examples of Pokemon we just referred to let's take Wulu for example now we mentioned that Wulu is going to give you one EV point in defense if your Pokemon has the Pokeris and you take out a Wulu you now earn double the amount of points which means now when you take out a Wulu it is two points which means you now don't have to KO 252 Wulu but half of that number this means that you only have to then KO 126 Wulu in order to get a max EV stat now this is for players who are more end game and would like to EV train their Pokemon up quick so what you're gonna do is you're gonna head over all the way to Winden right that's right over here this is towards the end of the game so you're gonna go to Winden and when we arrive in Winden we enter the Pokemon center right over here and what you're gonna do is you're gonna go talk to the second guy on the right he's gonna say welcome champion here to do a spot of shopping you say I'm here to buy and you're gonna notice a few items on here you're gonna see the HP up which is going to raise HP base points of a single Pokemon you're gonna see protein which raises attack you're gonna see iron which raises defense you're gonna see calcium which raises the special attack you're going to see zinc which raises the special defense and you're going to see Carbos which raises the speed stat of a Pokemon now each of these items raise an EV for your EV points by 10 points so what did we say before we said that a total per one stat is about 252 EVs which essentially means you have to buy 26 of these items in order to fulfill one complete stat so let's just say that I wanted to maximize a Pokemon's base stats completely in special defense and speed so I would have to buy 26 Carbos and I would have to buy 26 special defense which would equate you a price of 260 000 per item and then we have one more base stat left over so four more EVs remain after that so we would have to buy one more of these that would we would pick so let's pick HP so totally the amount that you would be spending would be 260 000 dollars for one stat another 260 000 pocket dollars for another stat and 10 000 pocket dollars for another stat bringing you to a total of about 530 000 pocket dollars to maximize an EV train one Pokemon completely I'm going to be showing you guys an example of how to EV train right now I have a six IV Pokemon that I haven't even touched yet so we're going to go get him so here we go I'm going to grab the dreadnought first I'm going to see its stats there it is guys six IV I just want to show that off and the next thing I'm going to do is okay what do I want to EV train dreadnought in now I'm not telling you how to build Pokemon I'm just giving you guys merely an example of what to do so in the case of dreadnought I want to train its attack so I'm going to look for the item that helps me raise the attack what am I going to do I'm going to buy 26 of this item so I get 26 proteins the next thing that I want to do for dreadnought is I want to raise its HP so I'm going to grab 26 of the HP ups to maximize its HP EV stats and the last one that I'm going to do is just one of another item and I'm just going to pick maybe defense or special defense I don't know in this case I'll go with special defense so I'll grab one special defense and just like that I am now officially only have 125 pocket dollars and I'm ready to EV train it so I'm going to go into my bag now so I'm going to use this item on dreadnought and I'm going to put all 26 and all dreadnought's attack points go in right and if you try to add any extra the game will say it's not going to happen because you can't put that many stats because you can only put 252 and 1 right I'm going to add the HP up now and we're going to put all the HP stats and you're going to watch as HP points actually raise here okay there you go it raised up and then we finally have zinc which is special defense I'm going to add that and now my dreadnought is a little more powerful than it originally was so just like that my dreadnought now is fully EV trained I can now battle in the wild with other Pokemon and not worry about other EV points coming on to him let's talk about power items now each of the power items relate to a specific stat of the Pokemon as you can see it says it in the description below power bracer being attack power belt being defense power lens being special attack power band being special defense power anklet being speed and power weight being HP let's talk about Wulu for this example Wulu is going to again yield you one EV per kill which means normally you're going to have to kill 252 Wulu power items give you four EVs of that particular stat that the power item does if I'm talking about a power belt I'm going to be getting four EVs of defense along with that one EV of Wulu which totally makes each Wulu knockout five EVs in worth which means with a power belt okay and a knockout of the Wulu you're going to be doing about 51 knockouts which is better than the macho brace now with the Pogiris and the power item combined for that specific stat you're going to only have to knock out 36 Wulu that is it 36 Wulu and you max out a stat and you're not really spending any money at all to max out that stat so think about it like that now let's say for example you're still knocking out Wulu but you want to use a different power item for example I'm knocking out Wulu but I decide to use the power bracer well each Wulu is going to give me again one point in defense each in its EVs and the power bracer will be giving me four EVs in attack with each knockout so basically I'm getting four attack EVs and one Wulu defense EV if I'm using a different item so most likely the most efficient way would be using the same power item that you would like to train with the same type of Pokemon that yields the exact same EV so likewise pick the appropriate power item that you want to use it only costs 10 BP and apply that to your Pokemon and please note the Pokemon that we used in these examples are all one EV in this video you can find different Pokemon with higher EVs as in two or three down in the description below I will mention a link where you can find all the different types of EVs so you can hunt better ones okay so this next part is about EV reducing which means it could be two things you're either one of those trainers who have a really good Pokemon and just decided to battle all these random Pokemon and its EVs are all over the place and now you're like okay I need to reset completely well this part's gonna help you as well and if you're one of those trainers who also are maybe late game and you're like I want to try a different build on this Pokemon and change its EVs around and play around with this nature well you can do that in this guide as well so what you're gonna do is you're gonna need EV reducing berries now these berries can be found in trees throughout the whole entire Galar region you just shake the trees they drop berries and you pick them up so what are these berries well let's take a look there are six important berries that you need to know about in Pokemon Sword and Shield we have the Pomegranate Berry which is responsible for HP we have the Kelpsey Berry which is responsible towards attack the Coalate Berry which is important for defense the Hondu Berry which deals with special attack the Greppa Berry which deals with special defense and the Tomato Berry which deals with speed now this is important to know if you have over a hundred base stats in a specific stat let's just say I have 200 base stats and speed the first berry that you give to that Pokemon will reduce it by 100 and every berry after that will reduce it by 10 does that make sense so for example if I had 200 EVs and something and I use my first berry it's going to knock it down to 100 and then I just have to use 10 more berries because the following berries will just reduce it by 10 to reduce an EV stat completely from maximum amount you're going to need to use 11 berries please note that you do get EV reducing berries from berry trees that you find throughout the Galar region so go ahead and just find those shake those and start collecting these in case you need to reduce EVs on Pokemon you like that you may have messed up with so to summarize the best time to EV train would most likely be post game not early game because you can correct your early game mistakes but if you're that type of person go ahead I'm not going to stop you from it if you're a late gamer or post gamer the best options are the money method where you have to spend five hundred and sixty thousand Pokemon money to get what you need to fully EV train or you could do the simple power item with the Pokemon that is Pokeris while going after the exact same Pokemon that you need which would be 36 kills or less in order to get the Pokemon stat of your desire and if you make any mistakes just use the berries that's pretty much sums it up or the whole entire EV guide let me know what you guys think down the comments below I tried my best to make this as simple as possible for you guys to understand while using one EV example Pokemon and I wanted you guys to understand it while also being able to skip around and go to where you need to in the video so if you enjoy this video make sure to like comment let me know what Pokemon your EV training subscribe hit that subscribe button somewhere I don't know where it is and join the discord server where we have lots of fun about Pokemon stuff and we're going to be maybe trading EV Pokemon training tips and get more information there so that's going to be in the link down in the description below as well so I'll see you guys in the next video this is Philly beats you thanks for watching I'm out