Through all of my years playing Pokemon, I frequently notice while EV training that the EVs just don't seem to add up. While all of my instincts tell me that the game is secretly working against me, I have decided to accept the possibility I may be doing something wrong. I have grudgingly decided to ask for help in this and see where I'm going wrong.
Okay, so here is the latest development. In Leaf Green I'm training a Parasect for Special Defense EVs. I'm doing this via Blastoise and Exp Share while fighting Tentacools. From everywhere I checked, tentacools give special defense EVs and exp share gives the pokemon holding it the full EVs from the pokemon defeated. Anyways, so I counted 26 Tentacool defeated in the time for Parasect to level up once. This should have given him 26/4 EVs, so he should have gained at least 6 on the next level up (although he usually gets 2 special defense each level normally). Come the level up, he only gets 5. A fair bit less than the 7 or 8 I was expecting.
To clarify, I'm POSITIVE that he is not full for EVs, I have only trained him with Blastoise and the Blastoise is still getting bonuses from the EVs despite having 40 levels of EVs prior.
What am I doing wrong that is having an effect on the benefit I get from EV training? Is there a cap on how high a Pokemon's stat can be at a particular level or something else I'm missing?
Okay, so here is the latest development. In Leaf Green I'm training a Parasect for Special Defense EVs. I'm doing this via Blastoise and Exp Share while fighting Tentacools. From everywhere I checked, tentacools give special defense EVs and exp share gives the pokemon holding it the full EVs from the pokemon defeated. Anyways, so I counted 26 Tentacool defeated in the time for Parasect to level up once. This should have given him 26/4 EVs, so he should have gained at least 6 on the next level up (although he usually gets 2 special defense each level normally). Come the level up, he only gets 5. A fair bit less than the 7 or 8 I was expecting.
To clarify, I'm POSITIVE that he is not full for EVs, I have only trained him with Blastoise and the Blastoise is still getting bonuses from the EVs despite having 40 levels of EVs prior.
What am I doing wrong that is having an effect on the benefit I get from EV training? Is there a cap on how high a Pokemon's stat can be at a particular level or something else I'm missing?
