Just an fyi. V 1.1.0 fixed the EV berry usage. Before the update it would let you use all your berries, now it’ll stop at the max needed to reduce your EVs to 0. If your EVs are 0, THEN it’ll let you use all of them. Hitting down like I showed works. (I actually did a long explanation on this during recording and learned they patched it WHILE recording, so I just left the new update info.)
I remember watching your other video and thinking "neat, that's better than going 1:1 to not spend more than needed." and then trying it and it didn't work. I thought I had misunderstood something (esl). I also remember you saying right instead of down, but I might be wrong with that.
An important point of note - the game will allow you to use as many of the EV berries as it takes to max your friendship OR completely lower your EVs, whichever is greater. If it takes 59 qualot berries to max your friendship, it will let you use them. Don’t accidentally waste all your berries on one mon to max their friendship
I have needed this. Thank you so much. As a person who does not do competitive, I have never seen the need of this. Terra dens have thrown me for a loop. Thanks for all the help you give.
As someone who does do quite a bit of competitive, this information is very good. If you want some more in depth information focusing on ranked play, I would recommend CybertronVGC, he's a world class tournament player that does in depth team building guides and showcases for ranked play.
Knowing about EVs and IVs most definetly can help with overall Pokémon knowledge. It lets you know why some of your Pokémon (that are of the same species) have different stats but are the same level. It gets easier once you learn once lol
Little tip idk if people know, but when your at the TM machine if you need a select few of items you can hit the “plus button” and it will bookmark the TM and once you leave the machine if you hit the button that you use to check the time on sandwich’s that TM you bookmarked will be there with the ingredients and it’ll notify you whenever you have collected all the ingredients.
I'm a gen 1 and gen 2 player returning to the series, so I've had a lot to learn about modern Pokemon game mechanics. You're the best! Also, I've found the cave near research area 3 in Area Zero (where you find Roaring Moon) has common Chansey spawns so you don't really need a sandwich, and they are level 55 for even more exp and faster leveling up.
Disagree to this, you need the sandwich for more consistent spawns. I hope you give the sandwich a try so you can at least get a different perspective instead of just suggesting a less efficient solution.
@@LookGently There's a difference between "don't really need" and "my way is more efficient". They aren't really suggesting anyone does it their way, just that it works for them. I definitely agree that the sandwich would be ideal, but if they don't want to, it's their leisure time.
I've been playing since RBY and never cared about this as a kid but after stepping away and getting back into it, I realized I was desperately unable to compete at any real level and have just felt behind since then. Thank you so much for this. I feel like a light bulb just clicked and all the stuff I knew is now connected and makes sense. I cannot be more appreciative of the work you do for this channel and community since I've watched the last few years.
Ditto! 😂 I played back in the ♥️💙💛days, up to just before 🖤🤍, fell off and picked back up at ☀️🌕 skipped 🗡️🛡️ and did SV and never once put thought behind a mons stats. It was just type matching the gym and guessing what needed to be over leveled to win lol 😂 but raids kept kicking my rear end, so I guess its finally time for this old Houndstone to learn a new trick 😂
ANNOUNCEMENT: NEVER USE MORE THAN 26 BERRIES! if you have low friendship, it'll let you use UP TO 60 berries to max out your friendship! don't do it! 26 berries only applies to stats that are maxed out! feed them 1-3 at a time and look at the EVs until you get a feeling for how many berries you'll need. the most you will ever need is 26, you can eyeball the graph and see about how many you'll need. usually it's less than you think you'll need by eyeballing the graph. usually for teams you used to beat the game, it's gonna be less than 15 because 510/6 ≈ 90, each berry reduces by 10 points. that's 9 berries on average. it used to be that using a berry on a stat that was over 100 instantly reduced it to 100, so the most you ever needed was 11 berries, but unfortunately** now each one is just an anti-vitamin; it reduces the given stat by exactly 10, always. **or fortunately, depending on whether you'd prefer using less berries, or being able to control a high level of EV's more precisely without feathers or calculating and killing a very precise number of wild pokemon. i find that i would much rather be able to reduce a stat to 0 with 11 berries much more often than I'd prefer being able to achieve exactly 232 EVs in a given stat, and even when i want the latter, i always have two feathers i could use. pokemon, please bring back the berry drop!
Man for a casual Pokemon player since the 1st gen Austin you are a Pokemon god send. Thank you so much for your guides from breeding to this for online competetive and raid play. I never even considered playing online if it weren't for your quality guides 😁😁😁
This. This guy gets it. I’ve been playing since gen 1 when I was 10. I’m 36 now and I still play but it’s changed so much and I have much much less time to play that I would be missing so much if it weren’t for this channel.
Thank you for making this video. I started playing Pokémon when I was too young to even realize there were stats at all. In recent years I’ve tried to understand EVs, and got so overwhelmed that it honestly made the game less fun for me. The moment you said you were skipping all the math, I actually teared up. Thank you for making the content you do. Thank you for making videos like this not only for the hardcore competitive players, but also for those of us who love the game and just want to keep up. Thank you.
Love this, a 30 year old been playing since cartridge days. Even if you know about the info Austin is explaining, very pleasing to hear again for Scarlet and Violet! Good luck out there trainers!!
I wouldn't have all the shinies I have if it wasn't for you! Your videos are amazing in depth with detail! Really helpful, and fun also! Thank you so much. 😁
As someone who's gonna get back into competitive after not having done it SINCE GEN SIX this is gonna be a HUGE go to along with WolfeyVGC's videos for guides on competitive. Things change up in each gen too, so it's important to remember that. A LOT of things are different this gen which will shake things up.
'Eh... Gen.03 competitive poke'boomer here; to this day a pal of mine won't let it go that I lost to him... But I managed to thunder, surf & earthquake his Pokémon with a 0/6 [mine] vs his 1/6 [his] remaining if Toxic ticked 1 more time harder. He still doesn't believe that it was down to the wire, but his now wife then gf does as she saw the event unfold alongside our mutual pals in Highschool.
@@AustinJohnPlays you guys should collab and do one of those videos where he helps you ladder like he did with Jaiden Animations. Would be incredible content to see the 2 best Pokémon creators working together
You are a mind reader, I swear. I am currently in the process of breeding for perfect/near perfect IV starters so I can eventually use them in terra raids, and have only just started learning about EV training. I needed this video more than you could ever know. Thanks ma dude 👍
I knew every piece of information in this video but I still clicked and watched all the way through just to show you some support. Thank you for continuing to make these videos. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the isolated encounters videos!
Quick tip on restoring PP for your moves: different from PLA, SV do not share/store used PP status between forgotten/relearned moves. This means if you are willing to use the same move over and over and it runs out of PP, you can get out of the battle, go to your pkm moves screen, request to forget or relearn a move (it does not matter which one), forget or overwrite the move that is low on PP, then relearn the move you just overwrote/forgot, and its PP will be fully restored.
Returned to Pokemon after 15 years. I was so lost on all this EV and IV stuff. I just wanted to prepare for raids effectively and this is the perfect video for that. 10/10.
I already know how to EV train, but it's just entertaining to watch him do these types of videos, even if I know how to do some of the stuff he shows already. He makes very good videos that should be entertaining for every pokemon player
@@WMDistraction Because just buying your pokemon is kind of boring to some, myself included. I'm breeding 4-5 IV versions of the pokemon I care about, because it's so fast and easy compared to previous games, and it's more fun to me than just spending in-game money to get the same result.
Yeah, this is pretty good if you want to get into raids ASAP and it's not as complicated to follow. I do a bit more complicated setup to max EVs, that is to look for outbreaks, since it makes it faster AND you can do shiny hunt in the meanwhile. Also, i have 5x power items of all stats so i don't need to max for raids only (I can just swap between them during the hunt to customize each mon EVs)
Super helpful. While I’ve never really cared for competitive but Tera raids make things a lot more difficult without a built Pokémon. Been looking at many guides for various mons to use against the tera raid events which makes things a lot easier now. It’s also somewhat got me interested in competition but don’t expect me to compete in any big tournaments any time soon lol
I am in postgame so I go to Area Zero for EV training. (The following examples are for Violet.) Iron Bundle gives 3 SPD EVs, Iron Hands gives 3 ATK EVs, Corviknight gives 3 DEF EVs, etc. Serebii is a good resource for you to find out what Pokemon give what EVs.
Personalities also affect IVs and EVs. So as you showed, adamant is for physical attackers but towards the bottom of that where the personality says something like "Proud of it's power," it means that they will get a bit more points in its attack stat which can go a long way for when harder raids come out or, even though you already mentioned this is a casual guide, for those comp players who want to mid-max everything.
@@GekiTheFirst The text that refers to the 10% boost is the nature itself (adamant = 10% atk and -10% sp.atk) while the personality text towards the bottom tells you the max IV stat it has ("Proud of it's power = atk is it's highest stat). If you had atk based pokemon that's adamant nature and then you got a personality like "Mischievous" then it tells you that it's highest IV is sp.atk, something you don't want to waste time investing into that pokemon unless they are hybrids (equal stats and moves learned in atk and sp.atk). If you have and adamant pokemon you want to have a personality (like mentioned above) that will allow you to get the max stat point allocated possible for that particular stat, especially if it's moves learned overall are physical based or any similar such situation.
“Personalities” aka characteristics, don’t directly affect EVs or IVs. It’s usually an indicator of the highest IV stat that Pokémon has. If it has more than one high IV of comparable numbers (31 attack, 31 special attack, etc.), then the characteristic is randomized between them. If all your IVs are at “Best” (31) then it doesn’t really matter, same as if you hyper train them at that point.
This video was insanely needed for the community. A lot of people don’t do these things to put their Pokémon to their fullest potential and it’s crucial in the raids. Also learning that you need to combat not only the tera type but also the type of the Pokémon. Stop bringing irons hands too 6 star gallade battles because it has a normal Tera type. Instant loss, very frustrating too the people who know what to do.
@@Alkapowned first of all I'm not coming at you just made a joke about what you said. Also there's a difference in watching the video and complaining on how others play.
I believe that the EV total is 510 instead of 508. It used to be that you could max out 2 stats at 255 so you had to be careful not to go over 252 and loose that extra stat.
Yes, 510 is the total maximum. 252 is the stat max, which leaves 6 EVs if you're maxing out two stats. Since the value only changes for every 4 EV, 2 out of the 6 remaining EVs are essentially wasted. Maybe that's why AJP says 508, but it's still incorrect.
@ohjesusohjesus I got careless with the power items, and it left me with rather undesirable EVs for my starters, especially when my Crocalor maxed out on Def (which would have poor growth thanks to his nature) and Speed. Good thing I disabled Auto-Save. Now to find Berries that would lower Def EVs a bit...
RE ~5:20 ish. The max EVs a Pokemon can have is actually 510, but only 508 of them can actually affect stats. I know you said you wanted to stay away from the math aspect, but this matters for getting the effort ribbon (you need all 510 to get it). To confirm this in game: If you max out 2 stats - which any one stat maxes at 252 - then use feathers in another stat, you can use up to 6 feathers in that stat. Things like Pokemon Showdown optimize this a bit by only having 508 points to assign in the teambuilder - since only 508 can actually affect stats.
Thank you for this video! As someone who has played Pokemon since the beginning, I never understood all of this as I don't play competitively. With Max Raids and Tera Raids needing to understand IVs and EVs changed. You have a great way of explaining things so anyone can make sense of it. Love your videos!
Pretty much all of this was information I already knew, but I watched the whole thing anyway cos I appreciate the sheer effort that's gone into all these videos
This video is exactly what I've been needing to understand how all these things work, I already feel like I can get my raid mons so much stronger than they are and start farming raids a lot easier! Incredible content as always Austin!
I’ve been trying to figure out the whole EV concept. And this video helped so much. Really went in depth and left out anything and everything confusing. So informal. Thank you so much
Austin, you should make a video about creating the best SUPPORT Pokémons for Tera Raids. Also maybe make a video about considering bringing mons that although strong offensively against a Tera boss, they are weak against their move sets. I just got off a 6 star raid where someone brought a charizard to face gyarados because of its grass Tera type. 😂
I've been waiting for this video, I love your formatting and thoroughness and the way you explain it is super digestible, I like putting them on in the background while I work
I like how Austin John can't ever finish watching his own videos. The watched bars under the thumbnails he shows all end about 2/3 of the way through the video 😂
I've always wondered how veteran Pokémon players decided what natures were best for a specific Pokémon. I didn't know it was as simple as looking at its stats and then picking a nature that best suited its best stat. I've always used Smogon to build competitive Pokémon but lately I've been trying to build them on my own. I quite like the freedom to build Pokémon with the knowledge that I've learned from past experiences and what I got after watching this video. Thanks a ton man, your videos are always a big help. I've been getting help from your channel since back in the Sun and Moon days! (I needed help with finding Necrozma.)
I'd recommend waiting until the pokemon is fully evolved or reference seribi/bulbapedia to decide the attack or special attack of a pokemon. They sometimes change when fully evolved. Perfect example is the deino line.
This was the quintessential beginner video. There are many tutorials out there, but everyone speaks as if I’ve been playing every generation. After much research and confusion on my own, this really was the video that clicked for me. Especially that “how to know if a Pokémon should bias attack or sp att” piece
16:25 ability patches are actually 4.5% chance according to serebii, and is accurate in my experience. you can get multiple, but I have no idea how multiples roll, but i've had it happen to me.
8:26 I recommend the auctions if you have decent money. I don't remember the exact starting prices, but you'll usually get +50 of a single EV berry from one auction. From my experience, it's a common auction item along with the EV Feathers which are very useful if you need specific EVs
I never understood any of these stats and stuff ever in my life except what special vs physical is and never play competitive so thank you so much for this
This is a thought for a slow day, but i think a video about the Porto Marinda auction house, finding out if there is a best way to get the lowest price, everything being sold, and if anything effects the spawns of what is being sold, may be helpful to players :)
I have years playing Pokémon and I never really cared about this, but this video was so easy to understand that I will start with the EV training, thanks a lot man!
I've always been a very casual player. Now that I'm thinking of starting my first nuzlocke, I'm watching a lot of content about it, and it made me realize how behind I am on these aspects of the games. I never knew what EVs and IVs are, and I never realized that there's a distinction between special and physical moves 😅 so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I was really happy to find this video! Thank you!
You are an absolute legend, my friend. I've used all of your guides so far and have now gotten myself a 5iv jpn ditto, started breeding the starters to hopefully start my shiny living dex!
I wish i saw this video 12 days ago when I first started having mainly only played go. This clarified everything that never was truly answered succinctly
this is literally the video i have needed for so long, all the info very easily laid out and NO MATH!!! lol when you said that i was so relieved. awesome video, tysm!!
fyi if your doing the chansey hunting. if you dont want to use up food they spawn way more frequent in the cave near camp 3 with the circles on the ground by the entrance. can usually have like 3-4 on screen and might see a shiny iron...
I have an Azumarill, Iron hands, Gholdengo and Flutter Mane for my raids. This morning I was thinking I'm a bit bored of it and try to build my own raid pokemon. And what do you know... Austin John puts out a video exactly for it! Thanks dude, big help! Didn't realize you could still EV train with Chansey something other than HP.
It’s unbelievable the amount of things you can learn and do. First I thought Pokemon was just about catching and fighting. Then, shiny hunting. Now, I learned about IVs, EVs and EV training, hyper training, breeding, egg moves, abilities, nature, and I can’t even remember everything of the top of my head. I’m feeling overwhelmed lmao
i'm definitely not somebody that can do this math, and i NEVER thought it would be this complicated, thank god for austin 🙏🏻 but seriously man, thank you. i cant defeat most 5 star raid dens and i was frustrated because i didn't know what i was doing wrong.. i will be using this immediately
Thank you for this!! I was loosely into competitive play back in XY (just locals at school with friends, nothing serious) so I only really knew about the importance of natures, but not fully understanding EVs/IVs and this was so helpful!! I want to get back into the competitive scene maybe and this is nice to have as a guide!
fighting pokemon for EVs may be the best way to train all 6 of your party's EVs at once, but worth a mention that if you're only focused on one pokemon, the stat-boosting nutrients (also available at the Chansey Supply store) can raise individual EVs as well. HP Up for HP, Protein for Attack, Calcium for Sp. Atk, Iron for Defense, etc. The feathers do a similar thing but only raise an EV by 1 and cannot be purchased, must be obtained in the wild. If you're starting with a fresh pokemon with 0 EVs, it should take 26 of an individual stat-boost nutrient for each specific stat you want to max out. For example if you had a pokemon with 0 atk. EVs, it would take 26 Proteins to max out that EV. Like the EV reducing berries, it will only let you give what will max out that specific stat and no more.
Thank you so much for making this video, this is literally all of the info I needed but couldn’t find it or other people explained it in a confusing way. This guy is the best of the best
Out of everything in this video and a lot of my own research on how to EV train before this video, the L button while in your party to switch the graph view is the single most important thing I have learned, thank you so much, omg
this video is a MASSIVE help for me since i didn't know how EVs/IVs worked. I've tried looking it up for years now, but the math part always confused me and put me off since i suck at math lol. I first found your channel when a friend showed me your video on how to make money fast in Sword/Shield about a year and a half ago and have been watching ever since. Keep up the amazing work, you are a hero to the pokemon community!
Great video! I've been breeding since Alpha Sapphire and knew all of it but it was a fun watch. The only thing that's ticking me off a little bit is how much you emphasize that speed is not needed. People who are willing to take the time to do these things, might eventually try a little bit of ranked battles.. and when they do, they definitely need speed to be able to compete. So besides modest nature for special attackers and adamant for physical, also keep an eye out for jolly and timid mints and max out that speed stat of you're going to play competitively, even if it's just to see what ranked battles are about. I like competitive play so my pokemon are always optimized for that and they're still more than fine to take on the hardest raids.
Where did you discover all this info that you’re now able to communicate? I’m new to all this and wondering how one goes about learning the details behind training Pokémon.
I’m going to need to rewatch this 700 times lol. This is my first main series game after only playing Pokémon Go since 2016 so the IV’s etc in the game are so overwhelming 🙃 Very good information though! Thank you!
Ty for the video. I hope that someday you’ll put out a video on making mixed attackers… mostly for casual play (not competitive or tera raid). It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing with Dachsbun.
I literally needed this vid for a friend last night! 😆 Thank you SOOO much!! I have been confused for the past month on why some of my Pokemon have yellow on top of their hex while others had blue. Thank you SO MUCH for clearing that up. I know it was covered in another vid, but I was half expecting Austin to repeat at the end of the EV training section that you can skip the training with vitamins purchased at Chansey Supply since the money route was mentioned at the start. (BTW, the chapter markers say IVs, but I think it means EVs?)
Thank you so much for this! I applied all of this to my playthrough team and the next raid after was already so much easier. Also put together a Flutter Mane with the build you mentioned in that other video. I want a Zard. 😁
Coming back to this after watching about a week ago. I watched another vid that covered some of the math, and now this video makes SO much more sense to me. Very helpful to know there is a set max total value of EVs. Your vids have helped a ton!
I got a golden bottle cap when afking the academy tournament. However, it was 1 and that was over many hours. You can use the fire fish legendary to afk it, sorry I can't remember the nonbox legendary pokemon names.
It is important to note that depending on the BST of the pokemon you face in a six star den, even at lvl 100 it is very likely you will be outsped by some of them when your pokemon has no speed EVs. For example: a lvl 75 dragapult will outspeed (or speed tie with a speed reducing nature) a lvl 100 annihilape with no speed EVs
Just an fyi. V 1.1.0 fixed the EV berry usage. Before the update it would let you use all your berries, now it’ll stop at the max needed to reduce your EVs to 0. If your EVs are 0, THEN it’ll let you use all of them.
Hitting down like I showed works. (I actually did a long explanation on this during recording and learned they patched it WHILE recording, so I just left the new update info.)
Can you please confirm that doing raids does not increase evs for the pokemons in party?
i noticed that too like it should stop but didnt work. it does now.
I remember watching your other video and thinking "neat, that's better than going 1:1 to not spend more than needed." and then trying it and it didn't work. I thought I had misunderstood something (esl). I also remember you saying right instead of down, but I might be wrong with that.
@@cristianzirbau6872 I think EVs are connected to exp. You don't get exp in raids, just candies. But it would be nice to have concrete evidence.
Do you ever play competitive?
An important point of note - the game will allow you to use as many of the EV berries as it takes to max your friendship OR completely lower your EVs, whichever is greater. If it takes 59 qualot berries to max your friendship, it will let you use them. Don’t accidentally waste all your berries on one mon to max their friendship
This!! I accidentally wasted 68 berries doing this (thankfully could just restart my game lol) but this is super important
Yup, but if you do one or a few at a time it will tell you when the stat is depleted so you don't waste them
That is good to know!
I accidentally wasted so much berries and was going to ask about that. Thank you
Yeah, found that out the hard way smh
I have needed this. Thank you so much. As a person who does not do competitive, I have never seen the need of this. Terra dens have thrown me for a loop. Thanks for all the help you give.
As someone who does do quite a bit of competitive, this information is very good. If you want some more in depth information focusing on ranked play, I would recommend CybertronVGC, he's a world class tournament player that does in depth team building guides and showcases for ranked play.
Knowing about EVs and IVs most definetly can help with overall Pokémon knowledge. It lets you know why some of your Pokémon (that are of the same species) have different stats but are the same level. It gets easier once you learn once lol
Little tip idk if people know, but when your at the TM machine if you need a select few of items you can hit the “plus button” and it will bookmark the TM and once you leave the machine if you hit the button that you use to check the time on sandwich’s that TM you bookmarked will be there with the ingredients and it’ll notify you whenever you have collected all the ingredients.
Thanks!!
I needed this info SO bad! Thanks a ton!
What’s the button to check the time on your sandwiches 😅I’m new and this info would help a lot thanks
Great tip
I'm a gen 1 and gen 2 player returning to the series, so I've had a lot to learn about modern Pokemon game mechanics. You're the best! Also, I've found the cave near research area 3 in Area Zero (where you find Roaring Moon) has common Chansey spawns so you don't really need a sandwich, and they are level 55 for even more exp and faster leveling up.
They spawn more reliably with a sandwich. I even got a few shiny Chanseys as well because they were spawning more often. lol
Disagree to this, you need the sandwich for more consistent spawns. I hope you give the sandwich a try so you can at least get a different perspective instead of just suggesting a less efficient solution.
@@LookGently There's a difference between "don't really need" and "my way is more efficient". They aren't really suggesting anyone does it their way, just that it works for them.
I definitely agree that the sandwich would be ideal, but if they don't want to, it's their leisure time.
@@crayfishfuture exactly.
@LookGently for that user name, you don't look into things very well, do you?
I've been playing since RBY and never cared about this as a kid but after stepping away and getting back into it, I realized I was desperately unable to compete at any real level and have just felt behind since then. Thank you so much for this. I feel like a light bulb just clicked and all the stuff I knew is now connected and makes sense. I cannot be more appreciative of the work you do for this channel and community since I've watched the last few years.
This is almost the same reason I never cared about stats. My major reason was I was terrible at math.
Agreed I haven’t played since blue and I’m so confused lol
Ditto! 😂 I played back in the ♥️💙💛days, up to just before 🖤🤍, fell off and picked back up at ☀️🌕 skipped 🗡️🛡️ and did SV and never once put thought behind a mons stats. It was just type matching the gym and guessing what needed to be over leveled to win lol 😂 but raids kept kicking my rear end, so I guess its finally time for this old Houndstone to learn a new trick 😂
ANNOUNCEMENT: NEVER USE MORE THAN 26 BERRIES!
if you have low friendship, it'll let you use UP TO 60 berries to max out your friendship! don't do it!
26 berries only applies to stats that are maxed out! feed them 1-3 at a time and look at the EVs until you get a feeling for how many berries you'll need.
the most you will ever need is 26, you can eyeball the graph and see about how many you'll need. usually it's less than you think you'll need by eyeballing the graph.
usually for teams you used to beat the game, it's gonna be less than 15 because 510/6 ≈ 90, each berry reduces by 10 points. that's 9 berries on average.
it used to be that using a berry on a stat that was over 100 instantly reduced it to 100, so the most you ever needed was 11 berries, but unfortunately** now each one is just an anti-vitamin; it reduces the given stat by exactly 10, always.
**or fortunately, depending on whether you'd prefer using less berries, or being able to control a high level of EV's more precisely without feathers or calculating and killing a very precise number of wild pokemon. i find that i would much rather be able to reduce a stat to 0 with 11 berries much more often than I'd prefer being able to achieve exactly 232 EVs in a given stat, and even when i want the latter, i always have two feathers i could use.
pokemon, please bring back the berry drop!
Underrated comment. Kind of went crazy when I saw over 90 berries when pressing my down button lol
Why not just make a damn sandwich? Works on all your pokemon at once.
Man for a casual Pokemon player since the 1st gen Austin you are a Pokemon god send. Thank you so much for your guides from breeding to this for online competetive and raid play. I never even considered playing online if it weren't for your quality guides 😁😁😁
This. This guy gets it. I’ve been playing since gen 1 when I was 10. I’m 36 now and I still play but it’s changed so much and I have much much less time to play that I would be missing so much if it weren’t for this channel.
Thank you for making this video. I started playing Pokémon when I was too young to even realize there were stats at all. In recent years I’ve tried to understand EVs, and got so overwhelmed that it honestly made the game less fun for me. The moment you said you were skipping all the math, I actually teared up. Thank you for making the content you do. Thank you for making videos like this not only for the hardcore competitive players, but also for those of us who love the game and just want to keep up. Thank you.
Lmao, same here I was about to give up.
Love this, a 30 year old been playing since cartridge days. Even if you know about the info Austin is explaining, very pleasing to hear again for Scarlet and Violet! Good luck out there trainers!!
Fun fact. Scarlet and Violet are still cartridges!
The last two gens were cartridges 🤦♀️
@@Ninjatrigg yeah, I’m not sure what OP meant. Perhaps GameBoy carts???
@@wolfetteplays8894 Yes, meaning I've been playing Pokemon since old Gameboy cartridge days.
I wouldn't have all the shinies I have if it wasn't for you! Your videos are amazing in depth with detail! Really helpful, and fun also! Thank you so much. 😁
I can second this, I am grateful for your help in PLA
He and phillybeatz have helped me tremendously
As someone who's gonna get back into competitive after not having done it SINCE GEN SIX this is gonna be a HUGE go to along with WolfeyVGC's videos for guides on competitive. Things change up in each gen too, so it's important to remember that. A LOT of things are different this gen which will shake things up.
'Eh... Gen.03 competitive poke'boomer here; to this day a pal of mine won't let it go that I lost to him... But I managed to thunder, surf & earthquake his Pokémon with a 0/6 [mine] vs his 1/6 [his] remaining if Toxic ticked 1 more time harder. He still doesn't believe that it was down to the wire, but his now wife then gf does as she saw the event unfold alongside our mutual pals in Highschool.
Andrew Zhang has a good channel too. Wolfe, zhang and someone else run victoryroadvgc.
@@akaicedtea6236 Aaron Zheng, WolfeyVGC and Aaron Traylor created the website VGC Guide, if that’s what you’re thinking of.
Wolfey’s the goat. We played some unite together at launch. Very cool dude.
@@AustinJohnPlays you guys should collab and do one of those videos where he helps you ladder like he did with Jaiden Animations. Would be incredible content to see the 2 best Pokémon creators working together
You are a mind reader, I swear. I am currently in the process of breeding for perfect/near perfect IV starters so I can eventually use them in terra raids, and have only just started learning about EV training. I needed this video more than you could ever know. Thanks ma dude 👍
I knew every piece of information in this video but I still clicked and watched all the way through just to show you some support. Thank you for continuing to make these videos. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the isolated encounters videos!
Quick tip on restoring PP for your moves: different from PLA, SV do not share/store used PP status between forgotten/relearned moves. This means if you are willing to use the same move over and over and it runs out of PP, you can get out of the battle, go to your pkm moves screen, request to forget or relearn a move (it does not matter which one), forget or overwrite the move that is low on PP, then relearn the move you just overwrote/forgot, and its PP will be fully restored.
The other yellow "hexagon" that is not the EV is the base stats, so it is better to see if a pokemon is more physical or special looking at that graph
Returned to Pokemon after 15 years. I was so lost on all this EV and IV stuff. I just wanted to prepare for raids effectively and this is the perfect video for that. 10/10.
I already know how to EV train, but it's just entertaining to watch him do these types of videos, even if I know how to do some of the stuff he shows already. He makes very good videos that should be entertaining for every pokemon player
I don’t understand why people recommend this way of EV training when feathers and vitamins exist. Money is easy to come by in this game
@@WMDistraction Because just buying your pokemon is kind of boring to some, myself included. I'm breeding 4-5 IV versions of the pokemon I care about, because it's so fast and easy compared to previous games, and it's more fun to me than just spending in-game money to get the same result.
Yeah, this is pretty good if you want to get into raids ASAP and it's not as complicated to follow.
I do a bit more complicated setup to max EVs, that is to look for outbreaks, since it makes it faster AND you can do shiny hunt in the meanwhile. Also, i have 5x power items of all stats so i don't need to max for raids only (I can just swap between them during the hunt to customize each mon EVs)
@@WMDistraction How long does it take you to make $3M+ to buy vitamins for the whole team?
I can EV train 6 pokemon with power items in under 45 mins.
@@WMDistraction any chance you could give a short explanation on how to do it? lol was hoping he would explain it in the vid
You did a great job simplifying all this! Definitely a good way to explain IV's & Ev's, Much appreciated 🙏
Super helpful. While I’ve never really cared for competitive but Tera raids make things a lot more difficult without a built Pokémon. Been looking at many guides for various mons to use against the tera raid events which makes things a lot easier now. It’s also somewhat got me interested in competition but don’t expect me to compete in any big tournaments any time soon lol
I am in postgame so I go to Area Zero for EV training. (The following examples are for Violet.) Iron Bundle gives 3 SPD EVs, Iron Hands gives 3 ATK EVs, Corviknight gives 3 DEF EVs, etc. Serebii is a good resource for you to find out what Pokemon give what EVs.
Give gamefreak credit they made a children’s game with pretty complicated mechanics and lots of math 😂
AND kids play it.
@@neorise127 Real.
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pokémon ain’t a damn kids game
@@TurboClashShowdownss what he means is that some kids play it, you don’t have to be a certain age to play Pokémon tbh
I've played online for more than enough years to know the ins and outs of this yet I'm still watching it just for the chill vibes
I've known these concepts for years but they like to change up accessibility enough that it's worth hearing how it is in this gen anyways
Don’t be sorry for long videos good sir, They are filled with very good information! 👏🏼
Personalities also affect IVs and EVs. So as you showed, adamant is for physical attackers but towards the bottom of that where the personality says something like "Proud of it's power," it means that they will get a bit more points in its attack stat which can go a long way for when harder raids come out or, even though you already mentioned this is a casual guide, for those comp players who want to mid-max everything.
Doesnt that text refer to the 10% boost in that stat?
@@GekiTheFirst The text that refers to the 10% boost is the nature itself (adamant = 10% atk and -10% sp.atk) while the personality text towards the bottom tells you the max IV stat it has ("Proud of it's power = atk is it's highest stat).
If you had atk based pokemon that's adamant nature and then you got a personality like "Mischievous" then it tells you that it's highest IV is sp.atk, something you don't want to waste time investing into that pokemon unless they are hybrids (equal stats and moves learned in atk and sp.atk).
If you have and adamant pokemon you want to have a personality (like mentioned above) that will allow you to get the max stat point allocated possible for that particular stat, especially if it's moves learned overall are physical based or any similar such situation.
Personanilty traits don’t affect anything.
“Personalities” aka characteristics, don’t directly affect EVs or IVs. It’s usually an indicator of the highest IV stat that Pokémon has. If it has more than one high IV of comparable numbers (31 attack, 31 special attack, etc.), then the characteristic is randomized between them. If all your IVs are at “Best” (31) then it doesn’t really matter, same as if you hyper train them at that point.
This video was insanely needed for the community. A lot of people don’t do these things to put their Pokémon to their fullest potential and it’s crucial in the raids. Also learning that you need to combat not only the tera type but also the type of the Pokémon. Stop bringing irons hands too 6 star gallade battles because it has a normal Tera type. Instant loss, very frustrating too the people who know what to do.
Alright we get it you know how to play a intended for children.🤣🤣🤣
@@kingkazma5937 you ok?
@@kingkazma5937 trying to figure out why your coming at me about a kids game when you’re watching the same video?
@@kingkazma5937 bruh
@@Alkapowned first of all I'm not coming at you just made a joke about what you said. Also there's a difference in watching the video and complaining on how others play.
I believe that the EV total is 510 instead of 508. It used to be that you could max out 2 stats at 255 so you had to be careful not to go over 252 and loose that extra stat.
Yes, 510 is the total maximum. 252 is the stat max, which leaves 6 EVs if you're maxing out two stats. Since the value only changes for every 4 EV, 2 out of the 6 remaining EVs are essentially wasted. Maybe that's why AJP says 508, but it's still incorrect.
@ohjesusohjesus I got careless with the power items, and it left me with rather undesirable EVs for my starters, especially when my Crocalor maxed out on Def (which would have poor growth thanks to his nature) and Speed.
Good thing I disabled Auto-Save. Now to find Berries that would lower Def EVs a bit...
RE ~5:20 ish.
The max EVs a Pokemon can have is actually 510, but only 508 of them can actually affect stats. I know you said you wanted to stay away from the math aspect, but this matters for getting the effort ribbon (you need all 510 to get it). To confirm this in game: If you max out 2 stats - which any one stat maxes at 252 - then use feathers in another stat, you can use up to 6 feathers in that stat. Things like Pokemon Showdown optimize this a bit by only having 508 points to assign in the teambuilder - since only 508 can actually affect stats.
I was wondering why it was 6 feathers that I had to use for my last stat and not 4- this makes sense!
With this, I will mathematically, actually, become the very best 👌 like no one ever was
Just when I decided to start EV and IV training my Pokemon, Austin drops this video. You are a godsend my friend. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you for this video! As someone who has played Pokemon since the beginning, I never understood all of this as I don't play competitively. With Max Raids and Tera Raids needing to understand IVs and EVs changed. You have a great way of explaining things so anyone can make sense of it. Love your videos!
Pretty much all of this was information I already knew, but I watched the whole thing anyway cos I appreciate the sheer effort that's gone into all these videos
your videos are so consistently high quality and informative.
This video is exactly what I've been needing to understand how all these things work, I already feel like I can get my raid mons so much stronger than they are and start farming raids a lot easier! Incredible content as always Austin!
This video was SO NECESSARY and SO HELPFUL to me! I was dealing with this last night and getting very frustrated. Thank you, Austin John! ❤
I’ve been trying to figure out the whole EV concept. And this video helped so much. Really went in depth and left out anything and everything confusing. So informal. Thank you so much
Austin, you should make a video about creating the best SUPPORT Pokémons for Tera Raids. Also maybe make a video about considering bringing mons that although strong offensively against a Tera boss, they are weak against their move sets. I just got off a 6 star raid where someone brought a charizard to face gyarados because of its grass Tera type. 😂
I've been waiting for this video, I love your formatting and thoroughness and the way you explain it is super digestible, I like putting them on in the background while I work
I like how Austin John can't ever finish watching his own videos. The watched bars under the thumbnails he shows all end about 2/3 of the way through the video 😂
Lmao
I've always wondered how veteran Pokémon players decided what natures were best for a specific Pokémon. I didn't know it was as simple as looking at its stats and then picking a nature that best suited its best stat.
I've always used Smogon to build competitive Pokémon but lately I've been trying to build them on my own. I quite like the freedom to build Pokémon with the knowledge that I've learned from past experiences and what I got after watching this video.
Thanks a ton man, your videos are always a big help. I've been getting help from your channel since back in the Sun and Moon days! (I needed help with finding Necrozma.)
Love the videos! Keep it up! Always excited when you release new ones. 😊
I'd recommend waiting until the pokemon is fully evolved or reference seribi/bulbapedia to decide the attack or special attack of a pokemon. They sometimes change when fully evolved. Perfect example is the deino line.
NEXT ViDEO iDEA: top 10 MUST HAVE ready raid pokémon
I can't count the number I've times of tried explaining this on Facebook threads. Having your video to link will make life a million times easier
i knew everything that was covered in this video but i still watched it because that's how great his content is
This was the quintessential beginner video. There are many tutorials out there, but everyone speaks as if I’ve been playing every generation. After much research and confusion on my own, this really was the video that clicked for me. Especially that “how to know if a Pokémon should bias attack or sp att” piece
Austin biggest flex isn't his shinies it's his 144 xl xp candies
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ability patches are actually 4.5% chance according to serebii, and is accurate in my experience. you can get multiple, but I have no idea how multiples roll, but i've had it happen to me.
I’ve played literally every generation at this point, and I still need these guides. These are by far the best and highest quality.
Why don't school teach this😭
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8:26 I recommend the auctions if you have decent money. I don't remember the exact starting prices, but you'll usually get +50 of a single EV berry from one auction. From my experience, it's a common auction item along with the EV Feathers which are very useful if you need specific EVs
Am I the only one whose brain hurts trying to understand the world of competitive Pokémon and understand what iv’s ev’s etc means?
I think everyone feels like this when trying to get into it, try keep learning and it will feel natural eventually and fun
I never understood any of these stats and stuff ever in my life except what special vs physical is and never play competitive so thank you so much for this
I do not do competitive Pokemon only raid!!!!
same
This is a thought for a slow day, but i think a video about the Porto Marinda auction house, finding out if there is a best way to get the lowest price, everything being sold, and if anything effects the spawns of what is being sold, may be helpful to players :)
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you sure were Diluc, you sure were :)
Lol i was first
@@dilucragnvindr4006 yes.
@@dilucragnvindr4006 ok
Finally a good Ev Iv nature video. I was looking for something like this and u nailed it with your simple explanation.
I've known all of this since gen 3 but was interested in how you explained it. Good video!
Oh that's the good exp farm spot. That info and where to get ev lowering berries alone was worth the watch.
I love how much you explain everything. This video can work for someone who played for years or just now got their first pokemon game.
I have years playing Pokémon and I never really cared about this, but this video was so easy to understand that I will start with the EV training, thanks a lot man!
I've always been a very casual player. Now that I'm thinking of starting my first nuzlocke, I'm watching a lot of content about it, and it made me realize how behind I am on these aspects of the games. I never knew what EVs and IVs are, and I never realized that there's a distinction between special and physical moves 😅 so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I was really happy to find this video! Thank you!
You are an absolute legend, my friend. I've used all of your guides so far and have now gotten myself a 5iv jpn ditto, started breeding the starters to hopefully start my shiny living dex!
I wish i saw this video 12 days ago when I first started having mainly only played go. This clarified everything that never was truly answered succinctly
This guide is actually crazy helpful. I just barely started getting into doing raids and had no idea how to do EV training
this is literally the video i have needed for so long, all the info very easily laid out and NO MATH!!! lol when you said that i was so relieved. awesome video, tysm!!
Already know everything about builds etc but support for you. So I watch this! Love your work!
Been playing Violet for 2 weeks…had no clue the game had this type of depth. First Pokémon game in a while 🤷🏾♂️
fyi if your doing the chansey hunting. if you dont want to use up food they spawn way more frequent in the cave near camp 3 with the circles on the ground by the entrance. can usually have like 3-4 on screen and might see a shiny iron...
Every time I need help/information on anything Pokemon, you got my back. Appreciate what you do, Austin!
thank you austin! been needing a comprehensive guide on this!
I have an Azumarill, Iron hands, Gholdengo and Flutter Mane for my raids. This morning I was thinking I'm a bit bored of it and try to build my own raid pokemon. And what do you know... Austin John puts out a video exactly for it! Thanks dude, big help! Didn't realize you could still EV train with Chansey something other than HP.
I know all this stuff, but Austin John tutorials are entertaining
I knew all this.. but I had to catch mah boi's vid. Nice presentation.
It’s unbelievable the amount of things you can learn and do. First I thought Pokemon was just about catching and fighting. Then, shiny hunting. Now, I learned about IVs, EVs and EV training, hyper training, breeding, egg moves, abilities, nature, and I can’t even remember everything of the top of my head. I’m feeling overwhelmed lmao
That was probably the best and most helpful video on pokemon I’ve ever watched.
Pokemon Trainer can't live without you Austin !
i'm definitely not somebody that can do this math, and i NEVER thought it would be this complicated, thank god for austin 🙏🏻 but seriously man, thank you. i cant defeat most 5 star raid dens and i was frustrated because i didn't know what i was doing wrong.. i will be using this immediately
Thank you for this!! I was loosely into competitive play back in XY (just locals at school with friends, nothing serious) so I only really knew about the importance of natures, but not fully understanding EVs/IVs and this was so helpful!! I want to get back into the competitive scene maybe and this is nice to have as a guide!
That was a bloody brilliant video, thanks.
Never understood EVs & IVs until now!
fighting pokemon for EVs may be the best way to train all 6 of your party's EVs at once, but worth a mention that if you're only focused on one pokemon, the stat-boosting nutrients (also available at the Chansey Supply store) can raise individual EVs as well. HP Up for HP, Protein for Attack, Calcium for Sp. Atk, Iron for Defense, etc. The feathers do a similar thing but only raise an EV by 1 and cannot be purchased, must be obtained in the wild. If you're starting with a fresh pokemon with 0 EVs, it should take 26 of an individual stat-boost nutrient for each specific stat you want to max out. For example if you had a pokemon with 0 atk. EVs, it would take 26 Proteins to max out that EV. Like the EV reducing berries, it will only let you give what will max out that specific stat and no more.
Thank you so much for making this video, this is literally all of the info I needed but couldn’t find it or other people explained it in a confusing way. This guy is the best of the best
This video was amazing! Thank you so much for making it Austin! ❤
This was the easiest to follow and most encompassing incarnation of this guide I've ever watched. Very nice.
Out of everything in this video and a lot of my own research on how to EV train before this video, the L button while in your party to switch the graph view is the single most important thing I have learned, thank you so much, omg
this video is a MASSIVE help for me since i didn't know how EVs/IVs worked. I've tried looking it up for years now, but the math part always confused me and put me off since i suck at math lol. I first found your channel when a friend showed me your video on how to make money fast in Sword/Shield about a year and a half ago and have been watching ever since. Keep up the amazing work, you are a hero to the pokemon community!
3 minutes in and this is already the most useful video I have ever watched. Thank you so much.
Great video! I've been breeding since Alpha Sapphire and knew all of it but it was a fun watch. The only thing that's ticking me off a little bit is how much you emphasize that speed is not needed. People who are willing to take the time to do these things, might eventually try a little bit of ranked battles.. and when they do, they definitely need speed to be able to compete. So besides modest nature for special attackers and adamant for physical, also keep an eye out for jolly and timid mints and max out that speed stat of you're going to play competitively, even if it's just to see what ranked battles are about. I like competitive play so my pokemon are always optimized for that and they're still more than fine to take on the hardest raids.
Where did you discover all this info that you’re now able to communicate? I’m new to all this and wondering how one goes about learning the details behind training Pokémon.
I’m going to need to rewatch this 700 times lol. This is my first main series game after only playing Pokémon Go since 2016 so the IV’s etc in the game are so overwhelming 🙃 Very good information though! Thank you!
Very good video as always! Just pointing out, the timestamps are labeled "xyz IVs" but they are actually for "EVs"
Ty for the video. I hope that someday you’ll put out a video on making mixed attackers… mostly for casual play (not competitive or tera raid). It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing with Dachsbun.
I literally needed this vid for a friend last night! 😆 Thank you SOOO much!!
I have been confused for the past month on why some of my Pokemon have yellow on top of their hex while others had blue. Thank you SO MUCH for clearing that up.
I know it was covered in another vid, but I was half expecting Austin to repeat at the end of the EV training section that you can skip the training with vitamins purchased at Chansey Supply since the money route was mentioned at the start.
(BTW, the chapter markers say IVs, but I think it means EVs?)
Thank you so much for this! I applied all of this to my playthrough team and the next raid after was already so much easier. Also put together a Flutter Mane with the build you mentioned in that other video. I want a Zard. 😁
Coming back to this after watching about a week ago. I watched another vid that covered some of the math, and now this video makes SO much more sense to me. Very helpful to know there is a set max total value of EVs. Your vids have helped a ton!
I got a golden bottle cap when afking the academy tournament. However, it was 1 and that was over many hours. You can use the fire fish legendary to afk it, sorry I can't remember the nonbox legendary pokemon names.
It is important to note that depending on the BST of the pokemon you face in a six star den, even at lvl 100 it is very likely you will be outsped by some of them when your pokemon has no speed EVs. For example: a lvl 75 dragapult will outspeed (or speed tie with a speed reducing nature) a lvl 100 annihilape with no speed EVs
You should fix the timestamps that say IVs so they say EVs or it's going to confuse people.
Good video.
Austin john “im a very casual player”
Also austin john “i have one shiny of every family that i needed in this game thats not even a month old”
okay but why is this more informative than any other stat training guide i've seen lol