What are EVs?
EVs are points that you get when you battle and defeat other Pokemon. Every Pokemon gives a certain amount of EVs for each of the six stats – HP, Attack, Defense, Speed, Sp. Attack, and Sp. Defense. For instance, defeating a Starly will give you 1 EV in your Speed stat. Defeating a Machop will give you 1 EV in your Attack stat. Every 4 EVs is equal to one stat point (the numbers that show up on your Pokemon’s stat screen in your game). So defeating 4 Starlys will raise your Speed stat by 1 point. Each stat can have a maximum of 255 EVs before it cannot be raised anymore. And you can’t have more than 510 EVs total for all of your stats. But wait! If 4 EVs equal one stat point, then 255 and 510 aren’t divisible by 4! That’s right. If you put 252 EVs into one stat, you will have 3 EVs left over since 255 – 252 = 3. Those 3 EVs won’t help that stat anymore since you need 4 EVs to raise 1 stat point. Since 510 is the double of 255, that means you will have 6 EVs leftovers since 6 is the dou
