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Indeed. Tories have been around long before Trump started making noises about being the President, and Brexit happened years ago. Take responsibility for your own brands of idiocy.

It's entirely random, but it seems to me that if you keep tapping your pokemon to punch a standard bag you tend to find a whole lot more of them.

Gibs of all kinds. I can't think of many other games where your comrade's corpse can physically shield you from incoming fire.

The EXP Share certainly makes things a lot easier, or at least makes it so you don't have to grind nearly so much. People also say that the newest gens are easier overall, so perhaps that's another factor.

If you want to catch low-level pokemon, I suggest seeking out the TM False Swipe and teaching it to something. False Swipe can never, ever, bring an opponent to less than 1 HP. Even if that opponent is already down to just 1 HP. It's too weak for normal battle but it's incredible for catching. Add in a source of reliable paralysis (Thunder Wave) or Sleep (Spore, Hypnosis) and catching anything becomes a lot easier.

Basically, if something is hard a Fighting type can break it.

See, that might make sense if any number of grass or bug types weren't part-poison and/or could learn poison moves. Sure, things like Muk and Trubbish obviously represent manmade pollution, but things like Beedril and Seviper are completely natural.

I tend to agree; at best I'll do some focused EV training (ORAS's Super Training is pretty nice for that) but other than that I let my pokeymans be what they are. I have no interest in competitive battling, so I don't worry too much about the in-depth mechanics and grind.

IVs and EVs are both numbers that affect your pokemon's stats.

IVs are hidden values that are inherent to each individual monster, and cannot really be changed except for certain very rare items (and even then only in later games). Having one or more stats with max IVs can turn a merely average pokemon into something more powerful.

EVs start at 0 in each stat with a freshly-caught/freshly-hatched pokemon. These values increase when a pokemon earns experience, based on what type of pokemon they earn experience from. Each pokemon can only earn so many EVs, and each stat has a certain cap, so it's impossible to max out all EVs no matter how much a pokemon battles. This, by the way, is where the rumor about rare candies resulting in worse stats came from; if you glitch yourself infinite rare candies and raise your monsters to max level right away, they will lack the EVs that a more honest player would earn, and thus have worse stats.

EVs were once hidden in much the same way as IVs, but more recent games offer ways to see your pokemon's EVs and even train them outside of battle.

Basically, unless you want to get competitive you can almost always ignore IVs. Figuring out which IVs each pokemon has is a somewhat painful process with a great deal of uncertainty built in (you basically get different messages based solely on how many max IVs you have, and little else). Since you're playing OR (good choice) you have access to Super Training for easy access to EVs.