A Simple Guide to EVs, IVs, Natures, & More in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Just an fyi. V 1.1.0 fixed the EV berry usage. Before the update it would let you use all your berries, now it’ll stop at the max needed to reduce your EVs to 0. If your EVs are 0, THEN it’ll let you use all of them. Hitting down like I showed works. (I actually did a long explanation on this during recording and learned they patched it WHILE recording, so I just left the new update info.)

An important point of note - the game will allow you to use as many of the EV berries as it takes to max your friendship OR completely lower your EVs, whichever is greater. If it takes 59 qualot berries to max your friendship, it will let you use them. Don’t accidentally waste all your berries on one mon to max their friendship

I have needed this. Thank you so much. As a person who does not do competitive, I have never seen the need of this. Terra dens have thrown me for a loop. Thanks for all the help you give.

Little tip idk if people know, but when your at the TM machine if you need a select few of items you can hit the “plus button” and it will bookmark the TM and once you leave the machine if you hit the button that you use to check the time on sandwich’s that TM you bookmarked will be there with the ingredients and it’ll notify you whenever you have collected all the ingredients.

I'm a gen 1 and gen 2 player returning to the series, so I've had a lot to learn about modern Pokemon game mechanics. You're the best! Also, I've found the cave near research area 3 in Area Zero (where you find Roaring Moon) has common Chansey spawns so you don't really need a sandwich, and they are level 55 for even more exp and faster leveling up.

I wouldn't have all the shinies I have if it wasn't for you! Your videos are amazing in depth with detail! Really helpful, and fun also! Thank you so much. 😁

I've been playing since RBY and never cared about this as a kid but after stepping away and getting back into it, I realized I was desperately unable to compete at any real level and have just felt behind since then. Thank you so much for this. I feel like a light bulb just clicked and all the stuff I knew is now connected and makes sense. I cannot be more appreciative of the work you do for this channel and community since I've watched the last few years.

Man for a casual Pokemon player since the 1st gen Austin you are a Pokemon god send. Thank you so much for your guides from breeding to this for online competetive and raid play. I never even considered playing online if it weren't for your quality guides 😁😁😁

ANNOUNCEMENT: NEVER USE MORE THAN 26 BERRIES! if you have low friendship, it'll let you use UP TO 60 berries to max out your friendship! don't do it! 26 berries only applies to stats that are maxed out! feed them 1-3 at a time and look at the EVs until you get a feeling for how many berries you'll need. the most you will ever need is 26, you can eyeball the graph and see about how many you'll need. usually it's less than you think you'll need by eyeballing the graph. usually for teams you used to beat the game, it's gonna be less than 15 because 510/6 ≈ 90, each berry reduces by 10 points. that's 9 berries on average. it used to be that using a berry on a stat that was over 100 instantly reduced it to 100, so the most you ever needed was 11 berries, but unfortunately** now each one is just an anti-vitamin; it reduces the given stat by exactly 10, always. **or fortunately, depending on whether you'd prefer using less berries, or being able to control a high level of EV's more precisely without feathers or calculating and killing a very precise number of wild pokemon. i find that i would much rather be able to reduce a stat to 0 with 11 berries much more often than I'd prefer being able to achieve exactly 232 EVs in a given stat, and even when i want the latter, i always have two feathers i could use. pokemon, please bring back the berry drop!

Love this, a 30 year old been playing since cartridge days. Even if you know about the info Austin is explaining, very pleasing to hear again for Scarlet and Violet! Good luck out there trainers!!

You did a great job simplifying all this! Definitely a good way to explain IV's & Ev's, Much appreciated 🙏

Thank you for making this video. I started playing Pokémon when I was too young to even realize there were stats at all. In recent years I’ve tried to understand EVs, and got so overwhelmed that it honestly made the game less fun for me. The moment you said you were skipping all the math, I actually teared up. Thank you for making the content you do. Thank you for making videos like this not only for the hardcore competitive players, but also for those of us who love the game and just want to keep up. Thank you.

I knew every piece of information in this video but I still clicked and watched all the way through just to show you some support. Thank you for continuing to make these videos. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the isolated encounters videos!

As someone who's gonna get back into competitive after not having done it SINCE GEN SIX this is gonna be a HUGE go to along with WolfeyVGC's videos for guides on competitive. Things change up in each gen too, so it's important to remember that. A LOT of things are different this gen which will shake things up.

I've been waiting for this video, I love your formatting and thoroughness and the way you explain it is super digestible, I like putting them on in the background while I work

I’ve been trying to figure out the whole EV concept. And this video helped so much. Really went in depth and left out anything and everything confusing. So informal. Thank you so much

This video was insanely needed for the community. A lot of people don’t do these things to put their Pokémon to their fullest potential and it’s crucial in the raids. Also learning that you need to combat not only the tera type but also the type of the Pokémon. Stop bringing irons hands too 6 star gallade battles because it has a normal Tera type. Instant loss, very frustrating too the people who know what to do.

This video was SO NECESSARY and SO HELPFUL to me! I was dealing with this last night and getting very frustrated. Thank you, Austin John! ❤

Every time I need help/information on anything Pokemon, you got my back. Appreciate what you do, Austin!

Thank you for this!! I was loosely into competitive play back in XY (just locals at school with friends, nothing serious) so I only really knew about the importance of natures, but not fully understanding EVs/IVs and this was so helpful!! I want to get back into the competitive scene maybe and this is nice to have as a guide!