Pokemon Training Guide(Platinum/Pearl/Diamond)
OK, so with Pokemon Platinum having been out for a while, you probably will want to raise a powerful Pokemon to own your friends in a battle. Training a single powerful Pokemon can be a difficult task, but in the end will be very rewarding.
Effort Values: Your Pokemon accumulates stats from every Pokemon it is able to kill. This is known as an Effort Value. An example of this would be if you were to kill a Geodude, killing a Geodude will award 1 defense point in effort values. Your Pokemon can only absorb about 200 effort values, and about 100 of one type, leaving you two choose two type of stats, so make sure to pick a stat that you want for that Pokemon.
Individual Values: Individual values are the stats a Pokemon is born with (along with their nature).
Nature: When looking under the Pokemon stat tab you will see a nature such as Hasty, Docile, etc. These natures will determine special aspects of your Pokemon, which will aid it in becoming the best.
Using effort values, individual values, and natures to your advantage will make a powerful Pokemon.
Step 1: First of all, you want to choose which Pokemon you want to train to be powerful (I recommend a Pokemon that can use many different elements like Machamp). Machamp is a suitable Pokemon because he can use multiple elemental punches like Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, and Fire Punch.
Step 2: Breed for individual values and natures. A Pokemon's individual values are random, so you want to breed many Pokemon to determine which one has the highest. I recommend breeding a Pokemon about 10 times at least and choosing the Pokemon with the highest stats and the best nature that you are looking for.
Step 3: Effort value training. At this point you have bred your Pokemon to find the perfect one, the Pokemon with the best stats and nature. Now you want to further his abilities by killing the proper Pokemon to increase the correct stats. Note: Always use Pokemon that have never been leveled up before by any means for effort value training. (you can use Rare Candies just make sure you leave some levels open for effort value training)
Here are some of the Pokemon that raise stats from killing them that you might use:
Wobbufet: HP
Krabby: ATK
Geodude: DEF
Gastly: Sp. ATK
Drowzee: Sp. Def
Ponyta: Speed
Killing many of Pokemon like these and no others will give those kind of stats. For example, killing 50 Gastlys to get from level 49-50 will dramatically increase your Sp. Atk for that one level.
This process can take quite a while, but in the end, you will have a non-legendary Pokemon that will single-handedly baffle your opponents.
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