A Simple Guide to EVs, IVs, Natures, & More in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have a variety of ways to enhance your pokemon's IVs, EVs, Nature Mints, Hyper training, Bottles Caps, and so much more that it's confusing. So here's A Simple Guide to EVs, IVs, Natures, & More in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Official Playlist of the Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

0:00 Intro
1:37 Physical or Special
4:57 Understanding IVs
6:14 Reducing IVs
8:46 Effectively Gaining IVs
13:44 Nature Mints
15:54 Changing Abilities
17:23 Hypertraining
19:36 Finishing Touches

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[AustinJohnPlays]

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.)

[cameronicheese]

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

[thesoapiestgoat]

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.

[Lazyslime]

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.

[falconismbot]

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.

[falconiner]

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.

[Eff_Emm]

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 😁😁😁

[malsapp]

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!!

[ribottostudio]

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.

[MagicalMusicalMaggie]

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.

[Jadeshinyhunter]

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. 😁

[howdyfriends]

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!

[tylersmith]

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!

[CristiannoMartins]

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.

[PauBarber]

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

[kieramoore]

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 👍

[pendragen]

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...

[AlexDayz]

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

[liamds]

FYI the section at 6:14 should be called Reducing EVs and at 8:46 should be called Effectively Gaining EVs

[seraphimprince]

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.