So I finally got around to fighting Adrian today. I must say, his battle was short lived. I opened with Emboar and noivern who managed to just pull off one hurricane and they went down. After that I bought out Magnezone and Nidoking......I don't think Adrian likes them anymore. Earth power, sludge wave and discharge, flash cannon completely anhilated Adrian and his team. His mega Mawile didn't even get to display an attack! Though togekiss took Magnezone down, it went down immediately next turn via Nidoking's sludge wave.
I should mention that in the huge break between episode 15 and 16, I completely ev trained my pokemon in their best stats, while still leaving some evs for other stats.
So magnezone for instance will have close to max in sp attack and speed, but also some evs in defense and sp defense. Of course the only reason I did this was because I was anticipating a battle with Lin herself. She's becoming more like N though (I mean she's even got the same hair color!!).
So I wanted to ask that is ev training considered as over the top training or will I get some kind of battle where ev training actually matters?