Thread: a question on breeding in g/s/c

i didn't know evs where there since rby, wow. anyway the thing I mean when i say it's getting annoying and complicated is that... well it takes a lot to level up.. and ... if you need more time, more pokeballs, and so on, to find the right pokemon in advance... because it has to have the right nature (not in GSC!) and maybe the right hidden power with a decent attack (because if you get the hidden power you want but with minimal attack then it's worthless)... well it's frustrating! And if you also have to breed... just creating a scyter w. bug introforce and baton pass takes a lot.
And then you have to level it up!

There's a thing which confuses me a lot. Since RBY some people told you: get a pokemon with the LOWEST possible level, because when you level up by fighting your stats grow more than those for a wild pokemon (or if you use a rare candy).
On the other hand some other people tell you to capture pokemon with HIGH level, at leas 50, so you can safely check their "genetic code".
Now this is a contradiction. Either you need good stats but only for BREEDING those high level pokemons, and not for direct use in battle, or I missed something.
Also i would really like to understand whether growing up pokemons at the daycare or by using the lucky egg has some drawbacks (like rare candy has) or not... I always trade my pokemon AND give them lucky eggs to double exp speed...

i think the "catch at lowest leverl" vs "catch at 50" is all pretty reletive, EVs are gained dependent on which pokemon you fight. so a pokemon that started its training at 1 and was trained against wild pokemon til level 40, would probally be stronger than the same species that was caught fresh at level 40. the trained pokemon would have gained EVs from its fights, the wild pokemon would not.......
on the other hand, if we then train the tame level 40 and the wild level 40 all the way to level 80, then they should even out in power. seeing as total EV gain is now capped eventually the "wild" pokemon should catch up with your orriginal trained one.

EDIT: sorry, forgot to say, i hope this doesnt confuse you more!

of course it depends what your training on. you'd need to be training against the right things i remeber whn i first started training evs in gsc, and didnt realise that it was capped. oh what folly it was to try and train a physical attacking espeon T_T

hmmm, it took some time, but I found some other infos and maybe now I have a clearer idea.

I learned that a wild pokemon or a pokemon raised at the daycare does not have (or learns) EVs. However he can learn them later, by fighting. This is as you wrote.
The only drawback *would* be that EVs are updated when the pokemon levels up, so if you get to lvl 100 without having enough EVs on a stat (and you have already used vitamins) it seems like that your pokemon will not attain its maximum stats!

But actually this is not true, or possibly it was true only in RBY, where raising only low level pokemon was strongly suggested (afaIk).
In fact, I read that, at least since GSC, EVs are also updated when you store your pokemon on your PC box!!! So even a lvl 100 pokemon can have its EVs updated. Thus, there's no reason to train a low lvl pokemon, unless you want a breeded one or you want some attack which is forgotten when the pokemon grows up.

However, in More recent Games, (Gen III onward) they did an overhaul on the games data system. And pokemon at LV 100 in Gen III can't gain Evs, however, pokemon at Lv 99 could, and get updated by depositing then withdrawing from pc. Just something to keep in mind if you do make your way to Emerald.