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I'm just beginning to take Pokemon Y very seriously, I've finished the game and want to start getting into competitive battles.
I keep reading about Pokémon having specific stats (different per moveset etc). How do people go about changing their Pokémon's statistics to suit a particular moveset?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a picture from (what I think is) the official Pokemon X&Y Guide.
Every little thing you do in Lumiose City adds to your style. Stylishness brings all kinds of rewards, such as meeting various characters, getting discounts, and unlocking facilities and fasions.
Good luck fellow trainers :)
So I found all the mega stones in my game through this video (Except for the X version exclusives). Easy to follow, just pause the video at some places so you can fly there to get it. Only hard ones to get is Alakazite and scizorite.
Also, If you didn't already know,
Houndoomite, Aggronite, and Heracronite are all found in version Y. Although the pokemon corresponding to these stones are found in version X.
Manectrite, Tyraitarite, and Pinsirite are all found in version X. Although the pokemon corresponding to these stones are found in version Y.
I wouldn't reccommend trading your version exclusive mega stones for the other ones, since you can only acquire them once in the game.
Best Answer
In XY, there are generally two ways of going about 'changing their Pokémon's stats'.
First, they have to determine the purpose of the Pokémon in the team; whether it will act as a defensive role, attacking role, an 'annoyer', etc you can get lots of guides for building Pokémon teams on the internet and smogon university is one of the most popular ones.
When you know the purpose of the Pokémon, then you can proceed to build up the stats of that particular Pokémon though:
There is indeed a hidden mechanic in Pokémon that players call EV (Effort Values) and this is what determines the final stat of a Pokémon. Any Pokémon can have a total of 510 EVs and a maximum of 255 EVs in any particular stat. The stat now will increase by 1 unit for every 4 units increase in EV, which means that you can have a maximum useful EV of 252 in any stat (the remaining 2 'waste' EVs can be put anywhere).
For example, if you want a speedy physical attacker, you will want to have 252 EVs in Speed, 252 EVs in Attack, and most of the time, players put the remaining 4 useful EVs in HP. This also means that the other stats have 0 EVs.
Now, before starting any training, you would therefore want to make sure that the other stats have 0 EVs, and this is made possible through Stat reducing berries (Kelpsy, Tamato, Pomeg, Qualot, Hondew, Grepa; each decrease a specific stats' EV and the description is pretty straightforward in the game), the Reset Bag and the Perilous Soup.
Super Training
Super training regiments have different courses which increase the stat of the training Pokémon by 4, 8 or 12 EVs depending on the training level. You also get a training bag corresponding to the training undertaken, so that also helps in the training. Just make sure to keep track of the amount of EVs to maximise the effectiveness of EVs used.
Defeating Pokémon
In Pokemon XY, you now have the option to have horde battles, which I believe is another popular method among players to farm EVs. You need to look up the amount of EVs a particular Pokémon gives when it is defeated and decide on the species you want to grind on. Here also, you will have to keep track of your EVs gained.
Other
Since we're speaking about EVs, there are some ways to get those EVs faster: