BW/BW2 PUSA's official way of explaining EVs

[Chariblaze]

So at the 2007 Manaphy event at TRUs, I guess they were giving out little magazines that had instructions on how to get the Manaphy, as I recently found mine. But they also had a decent amount of general information. I present to you, Pokemon Fan:

Unlike this bout I was having with SuperMatt142, this guide is more official. Here are the credits: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9933074/Pokemon Fan/Credits - Resized.png

And the important part:

The editor-in-chief did the Prima DP guides, but this book is published by PUSA and not Prima, meaning they had a good deal of control over it. So, let's see their thing on EVs: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9933074/Pokemon Fan/EVs - Resized.png

And the important part:

Pick the stats you desire most, and go forth and battle!

So yeah, this isn't that important, but I didn't exactly want to revive an RNG thread for this.

 

[Rusty Sticks]

> pick two or three of the stats you desire the most

These guys. They know what they're talking about.

edit: oh god why do I see ads I have Adblock Plus what is this witchcraft

 

[Alan]

Interesting to see that nintendo at some point acknowledged the existence of such a training method. it is too bad not a lot of people had access to those books. It is mentioned by name (EVs) in the Platinum Prima guide, but its only licensed by nintendo.

 

[xxashxx]

I think Serebii has this info too. But I am not sure if it is the exact same thing but he does have this for all the Pokemon if that helps XD.

 

[Chariblaze]

So a bit of an update:

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/27/how-pokemon-blackwhite-2-were-developed-for-the-fans/

This site intervied Seth McMahill, dude who only does Pokemon stuff. It's about how B2W2 are better done in terms of deep mechanics and whatnot, but he very specifically says EVs:

“That’s a great question,” McMahill replied. “I mean, there’s even areas [in Black/White 2] in Join Avenue that specifically will lower and raise EV values. I actually found that out online, but if you look at Black/White 2, there’s a lot that really relates directly to that. Like the unlimited dungeon, where you can go and continue to level up, fighting Pokémon that are at an equal level to yours, and continue to get experience points.”

Obviously, he might have just said that because the interviewer did and he knows what's what, but I think that if he really didn't want to, he could have said something else, like "...in Join Avenue that specifically will alter hidden values within the game."