 In today's video, we're going to go through all of the methods for EV training your Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet. But before we get into today's video, please subscribe to the channel. Remember, you can always unsubscribe later if you would like to. Now, EV training, EV stands for Effort Values. Every single Pokémon can have 510 Effort Values with a maximum of 252 EVs in one particular stat. Now, how you distribute these 510 EVs throughout your 6 stats of your Pokémon is entirely up to you. What an Effort Value or an EV will give you is every 4 EVs that a Pokémon has. It will increase a single stat point in the respected stat that you're training. So, for maximising the potential of your Pokémon and its stat for competitive use and battles, it's a pretty important thing. But how do you do this in-game? So, there are two ways to EV train your Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. You can either battle Pokémon and every time you battle a Pokémon, knock it out or catch it, all of the Pokémon in your team will receive an Effort Value based on the Pokémon that you've knocked out. Each different Pokémon in the wild will give you a certain EV, I to one of the 6 stats that your Pokémon has. So, for instance, if you knock out this Flamigo here, you will get 2 EVs in attack. Some other Pokémon will only give you 1 EV in attack. So, to max out your EVs in attack, you're going to have to knock out a lot of these Flamigos. But there are options to help you speed this process up. If you come to someone like Mesa Goza or one of the other main towns in the Paldeir region, you'll be able to visit the Chancy Supply Stores. Now, these are pretty easy to locate in the major towns around the Paldeir region. If you go and zoom in on your map, you'll be able to see where these places are. The Chancy Supply Stores are pretty important because they do sell vitamins, which is another quicker way to EV train your Pokémon. You'll be able to notice they all look the same. So, once you've found one, you'll be able to locate others around the region. They look exactly like this. They'll have a big Chancy poster on their window. When you go inside the Chancy Supply Stores, you can have the option to buy HP Ups, Proteins, Iron, Calcium, Zinc and Carbos. HP Up does exactly what it says. It gives you a boost to HP EVs, Protein is Attack, Iron is Defense, Calcium is Special Attack, Zinc is Special Defense and Carbos is Speed. Now, each one of these vitamins will give you 10 EVs per item. So, to maximise your HP stat, you're going to need 26 of these because that's 252. If you get 25, it'll take you to 250. You'll need that extra 2 to max out the HP in a Pokémon stat. And this can be applied to all different stats. So, if you want Attack and Speed, you want 26 Protein, 26 Carbos and you'll have 4 remaining EVs to make up to that 510. You can buy, then, whatever remaining vitamin to max out additional stat points. The only issue with the vitamins is they are very expensive. To maximise the EVs on one single Pokémon just through vitamins, it's going to cost you 530,000 Poker Dollars. So, to maximise a full team of 6 Pokémon's EVs through vitamins, it's going to cost you 3,180,000 Poker Dollars, which is not the kind of money that everyone has in these games, especially with the methods that we've got for money farming. Now, thankfully, there is another cheaper option of EV training in these games. Like we've mentioned before, you can get EVs from battling wild Pokémon. And there is an item that will help you increase the speed when you are doing this. Now, in Mesugosa, you want to have a look for the Delibird Presents Store. Items that we're going to get are available from the very start of your playthrough. When you're in Delibird Presents, you want to come to General Goods. And in this list, if you come right down to the bottom, you will see the items. The Power Weight, the Power Bracer, Power Belt, Power Lens, Power Band and Power Antlet. Now, what these items do, when held, they will give you a boost of EVs specific to the stat that they're tied to. So if your Pokémon is holding the Power Weight, it will give you eight additional EVs in that stat whenever you knock out a Pokémon. For instance, if you knock out a Chansey that gives you plus two EVs in HP, but the Pokémon you have in the party are all holding the Power Weight, they'll all receive an additional eight EVs, meaning that the overall EVs that you receive from that Chansey after you've beat or caught it will be ten. Cutting down the time that you're going to need, maxing out the EVs in that HP stat as well as the number of Chansey that you're going to have to beat. The Power Bracer gives you a plus eight boost in attack, Power Belt gives you a plus eight in defence, Power Lens gives you a plus eight in special attack, Power Band gives you a plus eight EVs in special defence and the Power Antlet gives you a boost of eight EVs in speed. These items obviously cost ten thousand polka dollars each. The one way to speed up EV training is if you've got a bunch of Pokémon and you can afford more than one of the power items is to fill your whole party with Pokémon that you be training in that specific stat. Here we've got a bunch of Pokémon, Taurus, Great Tusk, Tinky Tuff, Tyranitar and Anilip that we all want to train their attack EVs. So it makes sense to do this all at one time. So for every one Pokémon that we beat as long as that Pokémon is giving us plus two EVs in attack with the Power Bracers attached, we'll be getting ten EVs in attack for each of these Pokémon every time we knock that specific enemy Pokémon out. There are also six items that you can use to reduce EVs. So if you put EVs in a Pokémon that you don't want it to have by mistake or just if it's something that you've used through your playthrough that you're later on wanting to change those EVs, maximise them out, you can use these berries that are available in and around the Pald air region. If you want a specific location where these berries are found, we did a guide here on the channel, I'll link it up in the top right hand corner now and you can check that out after this video. Every one of these berries will reduce a Pokémon's EV in a particular stat by ten points. So just like the Vitamins will give you ten EVs, you can use these berries to remove ten EVs. The Pomade Berry will reduce a Pokémon's HP EVs by ten, the Kelpsey Berry will reduce attack by ten, Quala Berry will reduce defence by ten, Honju will reduce special attack, Grepper will reduce special defence and the Tomato Berry will reduce speed by ten. So these are really useful items. I would recommend if you are EV training to go out and try and get a bunch of these and these are easily available item drops around the region. The next important place is Lavincea Town. There is an NPC character in this area of Lavincea. She will look like this and she will be the Effort Value Rater. She will tell you if a Pokémon has got maxed out Effort Values, EVs and if it has then you will get an Effort Ribbon. As you can see here we know as the Titan that we've trained up already has maxed out EVs so we should get the Effort Ribbon. So if you want to come and just double check in game that your EVs are maxed out you can come to this screen and then you can toggle the L button on this summary screen here and it will show you if a stat is maxed out it will have the sparkly stars around it, showing it around it and you will see that the EV chart will be maxed out in those areas as well towards HP and Attack which is exactly what we've got in the Titan. Now with the basics down I'm going to show you six locations around the Piled Air region where you'll be able to EV train your Pokémon most effectively and all of these Pokémon that I'm going to list now are going to give you plus two EVs in each stat that they're related to. Now the first area we're going to visit is to concentrate on HP EV training. We're going to head to the North Province area three. From the Pokémon Center you want to just come down to this area just in front of you where the grassy area begins and in this area you will find Chansey which is the Pokémon that we'll be hunting to specifically train our HP EV. Every time you knock out one Chansey you will receive two HP EVs so if you attach the power item to the Pokémon and then defeat the Chansey you'll receive ten HP EVs for every Chansey you will beat. Meaning you'll only need to beat eleven Chansey to max out your EVs in HP to 252. If you come to this area and you're having difficulty finding Chansey you can always put down a sandwich and this will increase the encounter power of a particular type i.e. normal and increase Chansey spawn rates in this particular area. The same method that you would use for experience farming can be used here and you can do this to really speed up the effectiveness of being able to beat the number of Chansey you need for the team members you've got that your EV training for HP. The best area for training attack is going to be in the south province area one. You'll be able to locate it here on your map just around these three bodies of water. You're going to be looking for Flamigo which is a very popular Pokémon around this area and each time you beat a Flamigo you will receive two EV points so if you're stacking that with the power items then you will be getting ten EVs per Flamigo that you beat meaning that a whole party of six Pokémon with six power items held is going to be very easy to train in attack EVs. In the east province area three you will want to look for Rolikoli and Karkol to boost defense EVs. Rolikoli will give you one defense EV where Karkol will give your team two defense EVs so these are the more optimized ones for speeding things up especially if you're attaching the relevant defense power item. The next location is going to be in the north province area two and this is to train up our special attack. There is a specific place you can come where Golduck spawns in abundance. Now Golduck will give your Pokémon every time you beat it plus two in special attack. So this method to train up special attack EVs very quickly is one of the best methods that we've got available in the game currently. Special attack is probably the easiest EV to train because you're not needing to set sandwiches up to get these spawns here. There are going to be an abundance of Golduck in this area and you're going to be able to just come here any time. They'll respawn over and over and you're going to be able to max out your EVs very quickly. As you can see here we are located right here on the map and this is in north province area two and by just defeating Golduck like I say you can see how many there are here now. You can just come knock them out put the relevant power item on your Pokémon that you want to train in special attack EVs and each time you knock out a Golduck you'll get 10 special attack EVs. The next location on the map I'm going to recommend is coming to Lake Kassaroia and this will be to train special defense EVs. The Pokémon that you're going to specifically be looking for is Alteria who will award two special defense EVs and Swablu who will award one special defense EVs. Combined with the power item you'll be able to get 10 special defense EVs for beating an Alteria and you'll get 9 special defense EVs for beating a Swablu. The next area you're going to want to come to is this particular island in the East Palden Sea. This is just east of Levincia town and on this island you're going to find Wattrolls and Killer Wattrolls. These Pokémon will give you speed EVs when you defeat them. Wattrolls will give you one speed EV upon defeating or catching them and Killer Wattrolls will give you two speed EVs when you defeat them in battle. These specific Pokémon are abundant in this area. You'll be able to come here and battle them and train your speed EVs up very quickly. Now it is worth noting that if you use the auto battle feature it will not give you EVs. You'll have to engage in a battle with these Pokémon to obtain EVs. It will not work with the auto battle feature. And also Polkarus is not something that is available in these games. So unlike other games where you could get Polkarus you would actually double the amount of EVs you would receive from a battle with a wild Pokémon. This is no longer anything that we can take advantage of in Pokémon Scholar and Violet. So I hope you found this guide useful friends. EV training is something that can be very quick, very expensive though with Vitamin training. But there are also much cheaper ways to do it. And with these locations that I've pointed out around the Paldaire region with all of these plus two distributing Pokémon that you got access to as well as many others. These are just a few of my favourite locations where I've been going and training my Pokémon which I hope will be useful for you. 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