Effectively EV training your perfect IV Sylveon!

[VinceAndSylveon]

So you venture in Zorrialyn Desert and eventually you were told to head over to Alamissa Urben for some kind of mission. While you just got in, you had a somewhat long conversation with Ren, and he gives you items that once belong to Nancy, her Sylveon and Mysterious Black Box. Afterwards, upon closer inspection, you noticed that Sylveon has perfect IVs, 31 IV in all of its stats! Since that supersedes all other Sylveon that you were planning to breed, the next step would be to properly invest in EVs to reach ideal stats. Even though Pokemon Rejuvenation doesn’t have some sort of player-versus-player functionality like the main series games, even perfectly EV training your Pokemon can go a long way to giving you an easier time to deal against various AI trainers - both significant and insignificant ones - because their artificial team of Pokémon could be both IV and EV trained, unlike the main series games, giving AI some from of edge in battle.

 

Keep in mind at this point of the game, you still cannot go back to Gearen City, so going to those spar rooms inside Gearen Laboratory is out of the question. Two of the timesplicer crystal, one near the Blakeory mansion and one near Kugearen City close to the Gym, has been shattered sometime after the moment you hopped into the train departing from West Gearen to Grand Dream City. Here’s an ideal opponent that you would want to defeat to get the desired EV. Obviously, I’d be talking about between the time you got Sylveon from Ren until defeating Adam. If you finished V11, then you would, of course, go anywhere you wish, and the entire post would collapse due to irrelevancy.

 

HP: Audino - Nightmare City (Pokemon Breeder Tempo) - 2 EVs

 

Attack: Bruxish - Grand Dream City - 2 EVs

 

Defense: Sandygast - Route 9 - 1 EV

 

Special Attack: Clauncher - Grand Dream City - 1 EV

 

Special Defense: Mantine - Grand Dream City - 2 EVs

 

Speed: Liepard - Route 9 - 2 EVs

 

Some stats might not be appropriate for a Sylveon, but the option is there nonetheless. About those theee Water Pokemon, you have to encounter them by surfing, and fortunately, there’s a small surfing area to the supposed area where an NPC was turned to stone at this spot. As for switching nature, there’s an facility below Grand Dream City where you give up a Heart Scale and be will switch your current nature to a random one. Since there are 25 kinds of nature, there’s a 4% chance that you can hope to get a desirable one, so you should save your game BEFORE dealing with RNG. Depending on your luck, you could get one before anyone else. I recalled soft resetting for a Calm natured Sylveon, and it took me 10 minutes to eventually get one. My hands almost fed up with pressing buttons on the keyboard.

 

If you’re thinking of a faster method to get EVs while dealing with those targets, you can purchase Power items found on the second floor of the Department Store. You’ll need at least one Department sticker if you want access to the second floor. One I can think of is to do the Kimono Girls sidequest, in which you have to find all seven scattered in the Terrial region. Fortunately, they’re in the range of Route 7, 8, and 9, as well as some important landmarks like Darchlight Forest and Nightmare City. After you found all seven, you return to Rose Theater and endure eight straight battles without resting in between, fighting against every Eeveelutions. Not only you get a Level 5 Shiny Eevee with 20 IVs across the board and an Ice Stone, you talk to one of the NPCs in that same room the kimono girls are at and he’ll give you a sticker. These power items give you 4 more Effort Values of a particular stat that particular Power items gives.

 

Power Bracer - 4 Attack EV

Power Belt - 4 Defense EV

Power Lens - 4 Special Attack EV

Power Band - 4 Special Defense EV

Power Anklet - 4 Speed EV

Power Weight - 4 HP EV

 

Equipping one of those items can help you EV train faster!

 

Now that we get the stats out of the way, we can look at other aspects of this Pokémon. The original trainer name is Nancy, but the trainer ID is the same as yours. Sylveon is Level 65, so getting it to Level 80 isn’t too far away, since you’ve get Pokémon breeders, one in Nightmare City, one in Route 7, and one in Route 9 to battle with. I chose to battle the one from Nightmare City because she has four Audino while the other two breeders have just three. The ability is Pixilate, which makes Normal moves turn into Fairy moves, and boost them by 20% more. If under Misty Terrain, Pixilate grants 50% more instead of 20%. This ability can be changed into Cute Charm, but Sylveon will lose so much power without Pixilate.

 

As for the attacks, it has Hyper Voice, Moonblast, Psych Up, and Calm Mind. Hyper Voice may be a Base 90 Normal Special move, but Pixilate turns it onto Fairy moves, which grants STAB, as well as 20% more power, making it 162 base power (90x1.5x1.2)! When under Misty Terrain, Hyper Voice becomes 202 base power (90x1.5x1.5)! This attack also hits both of your opponent’s Pokemon in Doubles, though its power from spread attacks gets reduced by 25%. Also, Pokemon with the Soundproof ability is immune to Hyper Voice. Moonblast is a Base 95 Fairy Special move that has a 30% chance to lower your opponent’s Special Attack, making it possibly more bulky than it already is on the special side. 

 

Psych Up is a situational attack that copies stat changes. However, there are a few scenarios that can make Psych Up come in handy. There is a NPC character (named Enthusiast Alexa) in the Grand Dream Tournament whose Eevee is using Extreme Evoboost. Psych Up will chiefly copy those stat gains, and will proceed to rekt the opposing Eevee, Umbreon, and Sylveon with your own Sylveon with +2 in every stat! There’s another scenario where Reina’s Swoobat consumed a rift seed to gain +4 Special Attack. If you can copy it’s stat gains and survive two hits, then maybe you might be able to take it out, which is not easy despite your titanic Special Defense. Finally, Calm Mind is a good boosting move that boosts your Special Attack and Special Defense. Since TM04 is still not available in Pokemon Rejuvenation, this is one setup move that you shouldn’t get rid of.

 

And that wraps up this subject. Enjoy your prepped up Sylveon!