Breeding and EV Training Updates

Hello, with Heart Gold and Soul Silver there have been some updates to the breeding system that I'd thought I'd make you all aware of. We all know that when you breed two pokemon, the Individual Values (IVs) for the offspring take three from the parents (one randomly from the father, one randomly from the mother, and one randomly from either) and then the game generates three random values for the remaining IVs. Now, however there is a way to definitively pass on an IV from a parent to the offspring. The Power items, namely the Power Bracer, Power Belt, Power Lens, Power Band, Power Anklet, and Power Weight, will allow a parent Pokemon to pass on the relevant stat IV (Attack for the Bracer, Defense for the Belt, Sp. Attack for the Lens, Sp. Defense for the Band, Speed for the Anklet, and HP for the Weight) to its offspring. With this you can pass up to two IV's from parents to the pokemon you are trying to breed, but be careful as this means you can't control the nature of the resulting pokemon by equipping the mother with an Everstone. I've already used this method to breed a Pokemon, and I can say it is a much easier way to go, especially if you want a perfect IV for an important stat like speed.

Additionally, I think I've found a better way to train Effort Values (EVs). Before, I always gave the pokemon I was training the Pokerus and equipped it with a Macho Brace, effectively quadrupling the amount of EVs it received in battle. The Power Items speed thing up even more, however, especially if you have the Pokerus. The Power Items add 4 EVs to the related stat after every value, so if you have the Power Anklet equipped and fight a Magikarp, which normally gives 1 EV for speed, you would gain 5 speed EVs. Now if the pokemon you are training has the Pokerus, this value is doubled to 10 EVs ( (1+4)*2=10). I used this method this morning and it was much faster than my old way, although it gets a little confusing if you try to EV train while fighting different pokemon. This problem is easily remedied by the fact that there are a number of areas in HG and SS where only one pokemon shows up most of the time, a topic which will be covered later.

**Special thanks to Serebii.net for cluing me into a lot of these things. All information was verified personally while breeding and training my new Aggron over the past couple of days.