(Nov. 12, 2013 9:50 PM)Anchor Wrote: I really prefer super training rather than just battling. I don't know why, but it seems faster for me. And I buy the vitamins for my pokemon that i'm super training because it's basically 100 evs to the stat so it goes by quicker. And the Restaurant Le Wow helps me level up my weaker pokemon, and get a lot of money in the process.
Horde training =/= Regular training, and horde training is faster than super training, especially if you need to get the same stat EV trained on multiple pokemon.
EDIT: Quick calc, if you have pokerus and one macho brace (i.e. no spending BP on power items) and a tropius (gets sweet scent to attract hordes, earthquake to kill them (100%acc) and fly for transportation - though the latter isn't 100% necessary, so ursaring, venusaur and meganium could be used (the point being to leave maximum slots available for trainee pokemon, this leaves 5)), and use weepinbell hordes on rt 19 (2 atk per ko/10atk total, afaik the best hordes for a single stat only that are common (also not EQ immune as sweet scent/surf/fly is limited to smeargle (if you don't mind not being able to fly back for heals (eg have farmed leppas) ludicolo gets sweet scent and surf), though to be fair rt 19 rains quite often in my game).
You get one pokemon with pokerus+macho brace getting 40ATK per battle, and four others getting 20 each = 120IV's per battle, even if you're slow to get 12 ev's outta super training is going to take you about as long as finding a weepinbell horde and killing it, so this is about 10x faster.
If you for some reason have 5 of the appropriate power item and pokerus, then for 2EV things like weepinbell you get 12EV's per pokemon, so 60 per horde, times the number of pokemon you are training, for a max of [b]300[b]EV's per horde - though at that point you probably spent more time getting said power items than you'll ever save haha.
If you only need to train one pokemon in a stat with only 1EV hordes, as long as you have pokerus and macho brace (20EV's per battle) it's still slightly faster than super training (20EV's) as long as you don't need to train attack when both route 14 (bellsprout/ekans) and 19 (weepinbell) are rainy and therefore must use one of the routes where there is a common horde with EV's you don't want (which seems to happen to me every time I want to train multiple atk pokes lately). It still requires less attention/effort though, so you can do it while watching tv or whatever too.