Lyefyre

Spoilers for EP 13: According to the field manual, it activates the Elemental Seed to raise Defense and apply Trick Room. This doesn't happen however, elemental seed is not being consumed. Other consumables like berries work fine tho.

Thanks guys. Usually I don't care much for EV Training, I beat reborn without it. But yeah, since it's encouraged with the trainings center I will at least go there for a bit.

So I've recently beaten EP 18 of Reborn and gave Rejuvenation (Normal Mode) a try. Currently a little stuck at the second gym leader. Despite the field not being inherently to his advantage, he still one-shots my pokémon like they were nothing. I mean, I'm used to the one-shotting through Reborn, but there it didn't happen so often until lategame, running a tank-focused strategy was viable. And here, i'm kind of lost. While my current team doesn't have a true tank it still doesn't make sense for my lvl 25 shuppet to be a oneshot from a lvl 22 scraggy's feint attack, unless the gym leaders already go into full competitive mode. So I'm curious: Do the gym leaders max out IV's and have perfect EV's and nature already? I'm nowhere at a point where I would think about ev training yet.