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EV Training Guide and Locations for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Posted on December 9, 2022December 9, 2022

EV Training is an easy way to give your Pokemon free stats. EV is short for Effort Value, which are points awarded to your Pokemon after battle. Each Pokemon is assigned a stat that rewards EV points after its defeated. For example, Psyduck gives 1 EV in Special Attack to your Pokemon after its defeated. Each Pokemon can have a maximum number of 510 EVs with 252 in each stat.

EV Training Mechanics in Scarlet and Violet

EV Training is largely unchanged in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet from previous generations, but there are a few things to consider first:

  • There is no Pokérus in Scarlet & Violet
  • Defeating a Pokemon rewards EVs to every Pokemon in your party
  • Auto-battling does not give EVs
  • You can check a Pokemon’s EVs by pressing L in its summary menu

Since receiving 1 or 2 EVs per battle would take forever, it’s important to utilize Power items. By giving your Pokemon a Power item, it will receive an additional 8 EVs. Thankfully, these items are pretty cheap — you can buy them for $10,000 each at Delibird Presents from the “General Goods” section.

Power Bracer Attack
Power Belt Defense
Power Lens Special Attack
Power Band Special Defense
Power Weight HP
Power Anklet Speed

EV Training Locations in Scarlet and Violet

Now that you know how to EV train in Scarlet and Violet, you need to know where to train.

Here are the easy and low-level training locations:

EV Pokemon Location
HP Paldean Wooper, Azurill, Lechonk South Province (Area One)
Attack Yungoos and Shinx South Province (Area Three)
Defense Tarountula and Scatterbug South Province (Area One)
Special Attack Psyduck South Province (Area One)
Special Defense Spoink South Province (Area Three)
Speed Rookidee and Fletchling South Province (Area One)

Here are the harder and higher-level training locations, which have Pokemon that yield 2 EVs instead of 1 EV, which makes training slightly faster:

EV Pokemon Location
HP Chansey South Province (Area Six)
Attack Flamigo, Paldean Tauros East Province (Area Two)
Defense Carkol East Province (Area Three)
Special Attack Girafarig Area Zero
Special Defense Floette Area Zero
Speed Jumpluff Area Zero

Vitamins, Feathers, and Berries

You don’t necessarily need to do traditional EV training. If you have enough money, you can buy vitamins from Chansey Supply for $10,000 each, which will raise one stat by 10 EVs:

HP Up HP
Protein Attack
Iron Defend
Carbos Speed
Calcium Special Attack
Zinc Special Defense

You can also use feathers, which will raise EVs, but only by 1:

Health Feather HP
Muscle Feather Attack
Resist Feather Defense
Genius Feather Special Attack
Clever Feather Special Defense
Swift Feather Speed

And if you somehow screw up your EVs, don’t worry. You can use berries to get rid of EVs. Each of these berries reduces the Pokemon’s EV by 10:

Pomeg Lowers HP
Kelpsy Lowers Attack
Qualot Lowers Defense
Hondew Lowers Special Attack
Grepa Lowers Special Defense
Tomato Lowers Speed

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