[Pokémon Yellow] Need advice on how the Speed stat works and how to best improve it.
I want a Porygon in my team, but it's rather slow. It has the possibility to learn Agility, but I'd rather stick to its other attacks.
My question is: Can I get the Speed stat up enough with the help of Carbos, or will I need Agility to get some decent speed?
Extra: The current attacks I'm going for are: Tri Attack, Recover, Conversion and Psybeam. I'll get it to forget Recover if Agility would be essential for decent speed.
Posted Jun 3, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC
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There are EV points in pokemon yellow, red and blue. Though they work differently. I'm not sure the numbers exactly, but they work just like EV's do now. A certain amount of points gives you a bonus point in that stat. Max amount of points added is 64 i think.Anyhow, each pokemon you beat gives you points in each stat based on the defeated pokemons base stats. So beating a magikarp gives you 20 hp points, 10 attack points, 55 defense points, 15 special points, and 80 speed points.
Anyhow, [there is a link on bulbapedia that explains it much better than i can. It's in the stat experience section] (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values#Stat_experience)
Edit: To answer your question, Porygon has a base speed of 40 back in yellow i believe. So he isn't going to be that fast, though the range of fast pokemon back then are much smaller. If I were you, to take advantage of speed better, run faster pokemon with Slash. The crit chance was based on speed back then, so a faster pokemon had a better crit chance.
Thank you!
So giving Carbos to Porygon is a waste? And is Agility a waste as well?
Not that it's a waste, it is just that he's one of the pokemon that will have a much harder time using it effectively.
Alright, thanks a lot.