How's the difficulty with an EV trained team?

[Ronan Erudon]

Played to the end of Ep15 without giving a shit about IVs/EVs. I could train my entire team before Ep16 rolls around, but would that skew things too much?

[Personthing]

I've EV trained once. It killed the enjoyment of the run as it made everything so easy, and this was before a few nerfs to certain leaders.

[Masquerain]

I believe the post above mine sums it up pretty well

[Xiri]

If you want a challenge, do a EV Challenge Run

[laggless01]

EV training makes some challenges manageable without as much planning as normal. For example, I didn't have to train extra pokemon just to beat the Beartic boss, I only had to get its HP low enough with the other five mons so my EV-trained Combusken could finish it (yes, I did a new run with torchic, I wanted to know what all the OP-fuzz was about. Yes, it is adamant, too.).

[DJWongTong]

I wouldn't call having an EV trained team "unfun" It simply helps you not get overwhelmed when the leaders are throwing EV trained mons and fields back at you, if anything it makes a run more organized and less of a hair pulling struggle, though you're free to play the game however you like

Edited November 7, 2015 by DJWongTong

[Dragon116]

I would say EV training for regular reborn is not necessary. Well, except speed ev training for Ciel, unless you have some other method for stopping that Archeops.

[Skullgasher]

I didn't EV train my pokemon at all and I made it through all right. Even Ciel wasn't too bad

[Commander]

I mean I did test runs of hardcore in the original release where they all had zero IVs on everything more or less. You don't need it, but having some in the better stats helps. Leaders do have EVs as well but you don't start seeing teams of perfectly spread EVs until Charlotte and only recently in E15 have bosses started packing those (ie Taka). I doubt you'll ever need perfect EVs as it's a lot of work to do for not that much more strength until the very late fights.

[ty_taurus]

I use some weaker Pokemon that most people probably don't since I tend to use the ones I like aesthetically/thematically, Corsola for example. So I find EV training really helps but keeps the game challenging.

[felixng2016]

I think it depends on what pokemon you are using. If you are using an Adamant Blaziken with really good IVs and perfect EVs you can pretty much demolish and one shot everything.

[ty_taurus]

I think if you're using Pokemon as strong as Blaziken, you probably don't need to unless you want it to be as easy as possible. If you're trying to work with Farfetch'd, then you probably want to EV train it so it isn't that difficult to work with.

[wytch_doctr]

unless you have some other method for stopping that Archeops.

Heavy Slam + Levitate Bronzong. 'Nuff said.

[sound of silence]

Whether you need to EV train or not depends on how good you are with the pokemon franchise. I consider myself reasonable, but there have certainly been times I wished I put some more speed EV's into some pokemon (Ciel and Kiki especially)

It will probably become more necessary as we get closer to the end game though, as the game is very punishing for moving second without a very bulky team or one that abuses TR/tailwind

[Bessi]

i never gave a damn about ev's.i have built my team in a way that pokemon complement each other and have the right combination of moves.

[felixng2016]

For me I have slight OCD in that I like having nearly perfect or at least very strong mons. So I desire pokemon with good IVs. I have already acquired pokemon with good IVs 30-31 in most stats but havent really Ev trained yet.

To make the game harder I am thinking of switching to the hardcore version.