EV and IV

[Gravekeeper Golem]

I still have a hard time understanding what IV's stand for, but anyway...

Is there any way to raise these on the game, other than cheating? Or does it just assign these automatically?

[Dark Magic Attack]

I still have a hard time understanding what IV's stand for, but anyway...

Is there any way to raise these on the game, other than cheating? Or does it just assign these automatically?
IV are values that CANNOT be changed, along with natures. IV stand for Individual Values
there are also numerous IV calculator around the net

[Gravekeeper Golem]

Are EV's trainable In-game?

[scizandor04]

yes
the ruby/sapphire help thread might be a big help for which pokemon to battle.

[Ultimate_Evil]

yeah they are trainable.