Originally posted by Venusaur
A pokemon raised from youth by a trainer turns out better than a high-level wild one.

If you were to meet a 40th level wild Larion in Victory Road and compair it to your 40th level Larion that you raised from a 10th level Aron, the stats of yours would be about twice as good.

- Venusaur
Not exactly. There's a little more to it than that. The IVs from the wild Pokemon can be excellent, and the one you wasted time training "from youth" could have crappy ones. Also It doesn't take much to max out your EVs the way you want to at level 40 since you can pretty much defeat any wild Pokemon at that point, meanwhile the EVs you get at level 10 will be pretty much from whatever wild Pokemon you can manage to beat at that time.

Raising from level 5 is only really worth your trouble when you want to have an egg move on your Pokemon.