Where to find those EV’s

October 14, 2007 | 11 Comments

Hello everyone!

I have seen a lot of information floating around the PokeFarm forum on the subject of EV’s or Effort Values. I took some time and wrote up a few pages on my web space about where you can find the EV’s you need for Pokemon training. If you are like me, you want EV training over and down with as quickly as possible. So what makes it go quickly? Well you can always go and find a Pokemon that gives the most EV’s for the stat you want. What if it is a low spawning Pokemon? Maybe a Pokemon that gives less EV’s, but spawns more frequently is the answer.

What is the best Pokemon to battle for this? Well I hope this guide will help.

HP EV Pokemon			ATTACK EV Pokemon
Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location	Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location
Chansey	2	Route 209	Bibarel	2	Rt. 208-210
Clefairy	2	Mt. Coronet	Kricketune	2	Rt. 206
Lanturn	2	Rt. 220 - Super Rod	Luxio	2	Feugo Ironworks
Lapras	2	Victory Road	Crawdaunt	2	Celestic Town - Super Rod
Gastrodon	2	Rt. 213	Corphish	1	Celestic Town - Super Rod
Skuntank	2	Rt. 222 Diamond Only	Shinx	1	Rt. 202-204
Bidoof	1	Rt. 201 - 205	Chatot	1	Rt. 222 & 224
Shellos	1	Rt. 205	Gible	1	Wayward Cave

DEFENSE EV Pokemon			SPECIAL ATTACK EV Pokemon
Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location	Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location
Hippowdon	2	Rt. 228	Beautifly	3	Eterma Forest Diamond Only
Cascoon	2	Eterna Forest Pearl Only	Gloom	2	Rt. 224
Graveler	2	Rt. 211 E & 214	Golduck	2	Surf Anywhere
Geodude	1	Oreburgh Gate	Kadabra	2	Rt. 215
Hippopotas	1	Ruin Maniac’s Cave	Girafarig	2	Rt. 214
Kricketot	1	Rt. 202 - 204	Budew	1	Rt. 204
Bronzor	1	Rt. 206, Mt. Coronet	Gastly	1	Old Chateau
Bonsly	1	Rt. 209 & 210 S	Abra	1	Rt. 203

SPECIAL DEFENSE EV Pokemon			SPEED EV Pokemon
Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location	Pokemon	EV’s Given	Location
Dustox	3	Eterna Forest Pearl	Staravia	2	Rt. 209
Ledian	2	Rt. 229	Floatzel	2	Rt. 213
Mr. Mime	2	Rt. 218 Diamond Only	Lumineon	2	Rt. 205 S - Good Rod
Tentacruel	2	Surf Anywhere	Purugly	2	Rt. 222 Pearl Only
Tentacool	1	Surf Anywhere	Glameow	1	Rt. 218 Pearl Only
Mantyke	1	Rt. 223 - Surf	Buneary	1	Eterna Forest
Cleffa	1	Mt. Coronet	Pachirisu	1	Valley Windworks
Spoink	1	Rt. 214 Swarm	Starly	1	Rt. 201 - 203

These small guides are just the tip of what can be found throughout Sinnoh. You can find most of these Pokemon very early in the game. EV training early could also speed up your game play. These guides will also help pick the right Pokemon to EV against. If you are training an Electric Type in Defense you will not want to go battle Geodude, so this guide helps you find something weak to your Electric Type. I have all Pokemon and their EV’s listed on my site. It is separated by Stats just like the guides here.. The site is still a work in progress. I also used Excel to make the charts, so sometimes all the lines don’t show up, but if you refresh the page it should work. Here is a link to my site with the entire Pokemon listing charts.

C.W.A. Stables Presents: An EV Guide

The guides seem very long, when you consider half of the Pokemon are not found in the game and can only be obtained by evolution. I put all Pokemon and their EV’s just in case Nintendo and Game Freaks add away in another version to EV train like you could in Emerald. I have used this guide since I wrote it back when I played Ruby and Sapphire. New Pokemon have been added and some old Pokemon have had their EV’s change, but this guide is up to date with Diamond/Pearl and should be 100% accurate. If you find any inaccuracies please let me know. Drop a comment or even send me an e-mail.

Posted by Buzz | Filed Under Tips

Pokemon Farming: Egg Moves - A How-to

September 1, 2007 | 10 Comments

Greetings everyone!

Unfortunately I’ll be out of town all day Saturday, so instead of a Pokemon to offer, I’m going to take you step by step through my efforts in my only major moveset breeding attempt.

Skarmory. My goal with Skarmory was to end with the following moveset.

Spikes
Brave Bird
Aerial Ace
Roost

Why these moves? Well because they were about the best set you could get. Spikes is a must have for any hope of competitiveness in Skarmory. Brave Bird is the most powerful flying move and it doesn’t take 2 moves to complete. Aerial Ace is a nice never-miss Flying move that gets the STAB bonus. Finally, Roost is the only healing move available to Skarm, and this helps recover from too many Brave Birds.

So now that I had my moveset figured out, I needed to decide how I was going to accomplish it. I started by checking my TM’s to see what I could get done the easy way. Aerial Ace was the only TM I had on hand. I needed to make sure that I had it all figured out to make sure my TM didn’t go to waste. So here’s how it worked.

Roost - Pidgey learns this naturally - which is important because I didn’t have the TM. And, because it is a TM move as well, it’ll move easily through breeding. Check

So I took a Pidgey and stuck it in the daycare with Ditto ( I only had a female) I bred 3 eggs and hatched them, luckily one of them was a male. Here we had the first step almost completed. Off to the Elite Four!

I use the elite four as an easy peasy way to level up pokemon. I used that method here until Pidgey had received Roost at Lvl 37. Move 1 down.

Next, I need to get Roost onto a Pokemon that will be able to naturally learn at least one of the other moves I need. Since I knew Aerial ace transfered easily to all bird types, I went ahead and taught it to this Pidgey. Now what would the next target be? The next move to look at is Brave Bird as it is the only move remaining. (Spikes must come from Skarmory itself)

Looking through the various Pokemon that learn Brave Bird the choices weren’t exactly thrilling, but there was a nice easy one on the list. Starly. One quick check shows that Starly is also capable of learning both Aerial Ace and Roost, so we’re all set! In goes Pidgey and a freshly caught female starly. This works perfectly. My Starlies all hatch with both Aerial Ace and Roost!

In this case, again, I needed to breed until I had found a male. It took about 5 I think before I had a male, but it eventually happened, and I was on my way. What’s next? Yep, the E4.

Here’s where I notice a mistake. Have you spotted it yet? I’ll give you some time.

Ok, my mistake was that Starly learns Aerial Ace on its own already, naturally so I didn’t have to use up my TM. Oh well. Lesson learned.

I level up the Starly (Nicknamed Google, by the way) until he reaches level 37 and learns Brave Bird. This Starly now knows Roost, Aerial Ace, Brave Bird and Wing attack. Not horrible eh?

Alright. Now I have 3 of the moves I need on a male Starly that will be able to breed with my Skarmor…..waitaminute. My Skarmory is a male. Oh well - minor setback. I throw Skarmory into the Ditto-ready Daycare and breed until a female is hatched.

After that setback, I put the Starly into the breeding business with the new female, all of that just to end up wanting a male again…who designed this system anyway?

Alas, I have what will eventually be the Father of all my perfect Skarmories. Male Skarmory with Roost, Brave Bird, Aerial Ace, and Peck. Excellent one last move to take care of and we’re in business. I quickly take this guy through the Elite Four and have him learn Spikes as soon as possible.

YES - I am done messing around! I place this guy who knows all four moves into the daycare with my original female Skarmory, then I get on my little bike and start pedaling away! One egg, then two, then three…soon my party was full and I was on my way!

Once the first egg hatched I had a bit of trouble deciding on a theme of nicknames, but then eventually settled on European Countries. I started naming, and checked his summary so that I could take a look at my first perfe…. waitaminute!

What did I miss this time? This new Pokemon didn’t know all of the moves it should. Which was missing? Spikes. Why was it missing it? I hadn’t the slightest clue…unless…yep, that was it. For naturally learned moves, BOTH parents must know the move in order to get their offspring to hatch with it. I took out the original Skarm and really lucked out. It was about 3 levels below where it would naturally learn Spikes. After I finished that up, I truely was all set and the rest of the new Skarms had everything they should. My mission was complete!

So, lets review what we’ve learned about egg moves.

There are 3 types of moves to transfer.

Moves that a pokemon will learn naturally.
Moves that can be taught by TM.
Moves that are ‘Egg Moves’ for the target Pokemon type.

We all know that the mother of a given egg will determine which species the pokemon is, and the Father has some major input on the moves it will know. Here are the rules that I’ve discovered in this process.

In order to transfer a TM, only the father needs to know the move.
In order to transfer an Egg Move, again the father only needs to know this move.
In order to transfer a move that the Pokemon will eventually learn on its own, both parents must know the move.

Once you get the hang of these rules, you should be able to plan out even the most complicated of movesets!

Best of luck in your future breeding endeavors!

Whit

P.S. - I’ll be back next week with some genetically altered freak of a Pokemon!

Posted by Whitdjinn | Filed Under Tips

Hatching Eggs: The Fast and Easy Way!

August 14, 2007 | 25 Comments

So you have a big batch of Piplup eggs you’re itching to share with friends or use for a bargaining chip in a trade. Hatching the eggs is simple, just walk around with the egg in your party until it hatches. In normal game play that can take what seems forever, but as Pro Egg Hatchers, we farmers have all the tips to get those eggs hatched in the simplest, easiest way.

First off, you know you have to do some stepping to get results, some 5,000 to hatch one little Piplup egg. Some eggs even take upwards of 10,000 steps to hatch. You can cut this step count in HALF by having a Poke just in your party at the same time as the eggs with one of two abilities:

Magma Armor - Prevents Pokemon from getting a Freeze condition

Flame Body - Afflicts opponent Pokemon with a Burn condition 30% of the
time when it attacks Pokemon directly

These guys act kind of like an incubator. These include

Magby/Magmar/Magmortar (Flame Body)
Slugma/Magcargo(Flame Body or Magma Armor)
Camelrupt (Magma Armor) *it can also have Solid Rock as an ability so double check for the right one

Now, if you want to knock down a big batch of eggs fast you can’t really do it in normal game play, you need to get a lot of steps done in an efficient manner. One way is to hop on down to Solaceon town with your incubator of your choice, jump on your bike, set it to the ‘fast’ gear and work your way up and down route 210 and 209, until you are stopped by a line of trees or a mountain. If you lined it up right you should go up two of the muddy ramps and walked about 123 steps.

Another trick for a lot of steps fast is go to Fuego Ironworks, where you walk on tiles that send you places. There are certain tiles that send you back against a wall, so if you set it up right, you can just press the d pad toward the direction of the tile that will send you back to a wall for as long as you press it, racking up steps. You can just tape down the button and leave the game alone if you like, and wait for the hatching! (This is really nice for when you want to raise happiness too!)

So, with these tips in hand, you should be able to churn out babies like the best of us!

Thanks to Farmer Bott for lending some good info on the abilities!

Posted by TheTaterTot | Filed Under Tips

Pokemon Global Trade Station Tips

May 8, 2007 | 59 Comments

My Pokemon One of the most anticipated features of the new Pokemon games for DS (Diamond and Pearl) has to be the GTS, or Global Trade Station. Using the GTS players are able to trade their Pokemon with players all over the world.

Parents need not fear this as the GTS does not allow for any real interaction between players. You either seek a Pokemon or you offer one.

The GTS is located in Jubilife City. Inside the building there is a big globe. If you look at the globe you will see little markers that indicate where in the world your Pokemon came from. The most recent trade will have a blue marker and by pusing the “X” button while your cursor is on top of a marker you can find out the name of that place.

The GTS is a great idea but, they fell short in a few areas.

GTS Problems

You have to have seen a Pokemon to trade for it - The problem with this should be obvious. Because many Pokemon do not show themselves in this game you can never get them via a GTS trade. Starter Pokemon from other games fall into this category as do “event” Pokemon.
You can not search by what others are looking for - I brought some Eevees forward from my Emerald game via the Pal Park and I have hatched a number of Eevee eggs. I would like to trade these Eevee away for Pokemon I want but I have no way of finding out if anyone wants an Eevee without looking at every trade or just offering them up for trade. There may be somebody out there who has the Pokemon I want and would accept an Eevee in return but I’ll never know from just using the GTS.
Hacked Pokemon - Unless the Pokemon has an illegal move set or is under level there is nothing in place to stop people from trading “hacked” or “cheat” Pokemon via GTS.
Untradable trade offers - There is nothing in place to stop me from asking for a level 9 or under Gengar in a trade. This is an impossible trade as you can not get a Gengar level 9 or under without cheating! Some people are using this to exploit a loophole in GTS to duplicate Pokemon and items.

The biggest problem, to me, has to do with having to have seen a Pokemon to ask for it via GTS. I thought I would be able to use GTS to acquire those rare Pokemon that I have not seen but I can’t!

A minor problem I have with GTS is that it will show me results where people want Pokemon I have neither caught or even seen. If I’m looking for a Pichu and someone wants a Pidgey in return I’ll agree that it is a fair trade but, If I don’t have a Pidgey (or have never even seen one) why does GTS show me this trade? With a limited number of trades able to be displayed on the screen why clutter it up with trades I can’t perform?

The only other minor problem has to do with people who expect me to trade them a level 100 Dialga for a level 5 Starly. Are you insane? Do you lack any concept of rarity and value? The only person who will make that trade with you is someone who is going to send you a “hacked” Pokemon!

To combat some of the minor problems on GTS that are caused by other players, not Nintendo, I offer the following tips.

GTS Tips

Select your location - Before you do any trading be sure to look at the globe in the GTS and enter your geographic location. I have passed up many trades in GTS that, though fair, lacked a trainer location. I don’t just want Pokemon I also want dots on my globe!
Offer a fair trade - By offering a fair trade I mean that you should trade your Pokemon for another Pokemon of roughly equivalent value. If you are looking for a starter Pokemon you will likely get it very easily no matter what you offer. Well, as long as you don’t specify a high level starter that is.
Don’t specify gender or level - If you just want a Pokemon to fill out your dex, and it need not be male or female, then leave off the gender and level selection options. By leaving those two as “any” you increase the chances of your trade going through by a great degree. I can’t count how many times someone asked for a female starter when I had five male starters of the same type.
Sweeten the deal - If you are looking for a better Pokemon than you are offering you should sweeten the deal by having your Pokemon hold a valuable item. Evolution items work best for this.

Pro Tip

Certain Pokemon are more valuable than others in the Pokemon community. If you go to a Pokemon fan forum you’ll see that many favorite Pokemon are shared by a lot of people. I recommend trading something from the evolution lines of, Raltz, Eevee, Gibble, Dratini, Bagon, and Shinx. Any Pokemon that Ash or a main anime character uses will be in demand. A female Pokemon is always more valuable than a male Pokemon because it can learn new moves through breeding with other Pokemon.

I hope these tips have helped you become a better GTS trader.

PS: I will be opening a Pokemon Farm at some point in the future. I’m still in the proccess of migrating Pokemon over to my Pearl game. Once I complete the migration I will be offering to do Wi-Fi trading for any “breedable” Pokemon you may need. Stay tuned!

Posted by Jolly | Filed Under Tips

Pokemon HowTo: Mystery Gifts in Diamond and Pearl

April 25, 2007 | 832 Comments

A feature many people have come to love in the Pokemon games is that of the “Mystery Gift”. This is a feature where you enter a special passcode somewhere in the game that opens up the ability to get special bonus stuff from Nintendo.

This feature (in the past) has been used at the Pokemon Rocks America events to allow you to get special tickets. These special tickets open up new areas of the game to catch the super rare legendary pokemon such as Celebi, Mew, Deoxys and others.

Guess what! It’s back in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and I’m going to tell you how to access it right here and now!

1) Go to the Jubilife TV station in Jubilife City.
2) Go to the 3rd floor.
3) Talk to the man in the lower room (he’s on the left).
4) The first two words you tell him are “everyone” and “happy“.
5) the second two words are “Wi-Fi” and “Connection“.
6) This will then unlock the Mystery Gift feature on the main menu.

NOTE: Some of the above words may not be available right away. Be sure you can go into a Pokecenter basement before trying this.

The Mystery Gift feature has three options:

1) Get from a Friend.
2) Get via Wireless.
3) Get via Nintendo WFC.

Did you catch the last one?

The best (and worst) part about the previous Mystery Gift system has been that you had to go and find a Pokemon event to go to. It’s not that bad for me because I only live about 50 miles from the Nintendo World store in New York City but, for many people, a Pokemon event never comes within 500 miles of them!

As I learn more I’ll let you know more!

Posted by Jolly | Filed Under Tips

Pokemon HowTo: Trading Manaphy to Diamond and Pearl

April 23, 2007 | 32 Comments

A lot of people are wondering how you go about trading the Manaphy egg from your copy of Pokemon Ranger to your copy of Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. Here is the short and sweet of it!

1) Start your Pokémon Diamond or Pokémon Pearl game.
2) Go to a Pokemart and save the game.
3) Restart your DS and go to the title menu for your game.
4) Using a second DS start up Pokemon Ranger
5) Enter Ranger Net and check on your egg.
6) Start sending the invitation.
7) Diamond and Pearl will pick up the signal and begin to walk you through the process.
8.) After a few taps on the touch pad the egg will be transferred to your Diamond or Pearl game.
9) Go back into the Pokemart and a man in green will be there to give you the egg!

It is that simple!

What’s that you say? You don’t have Pokemon Ranger? Well there is a way to get a Manaphy that is not quite as good as the real thing. See, Manaphy is the first legendary Pokemon that can breed.

If you know someone who has a Manaphy they can breed it with a Ditto to hatch a Phione (#489). This Pokemon is a more “generic” Manaphy and has base stats 20 points lower than the real thing. It also lacks two of Manaphy’s signature moves; Heart Swap & Tail Glow. Everything else is the same.