EV Training Gone Wrong!!! (HELP!!!)

[BD25]

I have a Latios and I decided to give it 252 Sp. Atk, 252 Spd. and 6 Def. So I Battled 76 Numels on Route 112, and enough Zigzagoons/Linoones to get 76 EVs. My Latios was holding Macho Brace. So now that I have those, I'm supposed to give it 10 Calciums and Carbos then EV Train to get 6 Def. I went to Slateport to get my Vitamins and bought 10 each of Calcium and Carbos and when I tried to give it to Latios it said it wouldn't have any effect. Whats wrong with my Latios??? I also took off the Macho Brace to see if anything was wrong and nothing is. Should I have given the Vitamins first THEN battled pokemon? Because I didn't think there would be a difference...

[Noelor]

maybe ur Lati@s had pokerus?
cos then it would have maxed out in the EVs, by x4'ing them it would get 304

[BD25]

maybe ur Lati@s had pokerus?
cos then it would have maxed out in the EVs, by x4'ing them it would get 304

if it had pokerus than nurse joy wud have said so and i wudda got my effort ribbon. not pokerus

[Noelor]

oh, well in that case i have no idea, maybe you do have to give the vits first, i honestly dunno :confused:

[BD25]

oh, well in that case i have no idea, maybe you do have to give the vits first, i honestly dunno :confused:

STEP FOUR: FEEDING TIME: Pick the stats you want raised then feed your pokemon Vitamins BEFORE you train it. For example; if you want to raise HP and SP AT, then feed it 10 HP Ups and 10 Calciums to obtain 100 EPs for HP and 100 for Sp. Att. After your pokemon gets 100 Eps in a a stat, it will refuse to eat any more vitamins for that stat, so feed to the max and feed early.
HINT: If you’ve beaten the E4 keep your eyes on the TV for the Energy Guru sale where you can pick up all vitamins for half price.

Great I raised my Latios wrong. I'm such a dumbum *restarts game*

[RareHunterX]

ur restarting game why? u didn't raise it wrong all it says is u can use Vitamins only to a max o 10 which would give 100 EV'S i normally when i hve very little money just do it the hard way...i'm normally nvr of my calculations well usually i'm ooff by 10 EV's or so...no neeed to restart just cuzu messed up..just shark one in

[shineyaltaria]

Yeah you needed to give all vitamins first, But do you really have to restart your game? Why not just keep EV training until with the numels/zigs or whatever until you reach the max. JUst because you missed giving them the vitamins doesn't mean your Latios is screwed up. It will just take longer now to complete the EV training! I hope you read this in time!

[Noelor]

yeah, and at least you saved money on buying another set of 10 vits for ur next pkmn that you want to have good EVs in those stats, right? (disregard this if you already resold the vits)

[BD25]

Yeah you needed to give all vitamins first, But do you really have to restart your game? Why not just keep EV training until with the numels/zigs or whatever until you reach the max. JUst because you missed giving them the vitamins doesn't mean your Latios is screwed up. It will just take longer now to complete the EV training! I hope you read this in time!

NOOOOO!!! I didn't restart the game. But I didn't know that I cudda just EV Trained some more with some numels and zigs <_< darn it! I just gave Latios 10 HP Up and 9 Iron and got an effort ribbon. =/ yay, behold my cr@ptacular Latios =/ meh when I get bored I'll restart. But this sucks. Metagross and Latios were the only pokemon I EV Trained. and I only EV Trained Metagross right. I only learned about EV Training and stuff like a month ago, right after I evolved Bagon into Salamence w/o EV training and he has pretty bad Sp. Atk and atk. Oh well, hopefully FR/LG comes out soon so I can forget about the problems of Ru/Sa and this time I actually have some knowledge about it. Heck, I thought Dragon and Dark type moves were physical attacks until like yesterday. Thats why I wasted my Dragon Claw on Salamence, because I thought a Phys Atk on Latios would be a waste =/ Restarting looks good right now but if I can't get my Silver Shield anytime soon :P and just a question, will I be able to use my Ru/Sa pokemon in pokemon colloseum? Like upload my pokemon like in the previous pokemon stadium games?