For players who want to compete in Scarlet & Violet, you should start training your EV Pokémon. EV Training or Effort Value Training is a method of earning Effort Points for defeating other Pokémon in battles. Therefore, every time your Pokémon gets 4 effort points, it gets 1 point for its stats. But that’s just the basics, there’s a lot more to EV learning than meets the eye. So in this guide, you will learn how to train your Pokemon’s EV in Scarlet & Violet and learn how to check EV.
How EV training works in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
The goal of EV Training is to improve certain characteristics of your Pokémon through training. Every time you level up, your stats increase. But when you train with EV, you make your Pokémon fight other specific Pokémon to gain effort points for certain stats, which will help you increase those stats by a few extra points.
For example, if your starting character is Fuekoko, he will turn into Skeledirge, who has very strong HP, defense, and a special attack. So if you’re training Fuekoko on EV, you’ll want to fight Pokémon that will earn you Effort Value for those stats over others. Therefore, in order to EV Train Fuecoco, you must make him fight and defeat the Haunter in order to get 2 points in Sp. Attack during EV training. It was just to train EV for Sp. Attack. You can have it fight other Pokémon to gain EV points for its health and defense.
The above was just one example, depending on your team you will have to find Pokemon that will give you effort points for the stats you want and defeat them.
How to train on an electric car in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
As mentioned above, you need to get your Pokemon to fight a specific Pokemon that will give you EV points in those specific stats to help increase them. You can train to maximize stats that are already good to make your Pokémon even stronger in that area. Or you can train other weaker stats to balance your Pokémon.
To further improve your EV training, you can even have your Pokemon hold Power Items. They halve your Pokémon’s speed during battle but help increase their EV. Here are all the items to help you boost your electric cars. Power items cost 10,000 Pokédollars each.
- Macho Brace: Doubles the EV of the wild Pokémon you defeat.
- Power Weight: electric vehicles +8 hp
- Power Bracer: +8 Attack EV
- Belt of Power: +8 Defense EV
- Power Lens: +8 EV Special Attacks
- Power range: +8 special protection electric vehicles
- Anklet Power: +8 Speed Electric Vehicles
Finally, you can also buy Vitamins for 10,000 Pokédollars each to instantly increase EV stat points by 10. Here are all the Vitamins you can buy:
- HP Up: +10 HP electric vehicles
- Protein: +10 Attack EV
- Iron: +10 EV Defense
- Calcium: +10 Special Attack EV
- Zinc: +10 Special Defense EV
- Carbohydrates: +10 electric vehicle speed
How to test electric vehicles
There is no direct way to check your EVs in this game. The closest thing that will give you an idea of your EVs is a yellow stats bar when checking your Pokémon’s summary.
- Press X to open the menu
- Select your Pokémon on the left and select “Check Summary”.
- Click right on the D-pad to check its moves and stats.
- Press L here for “Change Schedule”.
This will show you a graph of all your stats and how EV trained they are. Once you reach max with EV Training, yellow sparkles will appear around it.
That covers this guide on how to train EV in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet and how to test EV. Since you enjoy playing this game, be sure to check out our other guides on how to get the Dusk Stone, get the Amulet Coin, and get the TM 57 False Swipe. And for other similar topics, don’t forget to check out our Pokemon Scarlet & Violet section.