EV effects on pokes

[SoulBurner]

After your EV's are maxed out what exactly do they do for your stats? I got my Absol maxed in attack and Speed before lv 50 and after they were maxed, I began gaining the normal +3 and +4 on attack and +2 and +3 on speed.... does it really serve a purpose after the point where the values are maxed out? from the looks of my absol, it doesn't...

[RattataGuy]

That's because you're looking for immediately huge gains. That's not how EV work.

For the exact same Absol without the EV distributed, you'd see a marked difference between the attack and speed between them. It's not like you see a +11 raise in stats every level... you look at the end point: better stats in the long run.

[rinku]

Every 4 Effort points adds 1*100/Level before roundoff and personality mods.

So 255 effort will add 63 points to a normal L100 stat, 31 points to a L50 stat and so on. Note that the effort points/4 is rounded down before being applied to the rest of the formula, so 252 always gives the same effect as 255.