Pokemon Legends: Arceus - How To Raise Effort Levels

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If you're a veteran of the Pokemon battling scene, you'll be intimately aware of Effort Values (often shorthanded to EVs) and their impact on a Pokemon's stats. Usually, you'd have to use a Pokemon in battle against specific foes to train up the stats that are important to them.

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This system is no longer present in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, but is replaced with a more visible and more impactful system: Effort Levels. These make a significant difference to your Pokemon's stats and it's important to know how to raise them!

As you'll likely know, Pokemon have six stats: HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed. In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, each of these stats is assigned an Effort Level. This is a number from zero to ten that may signify how much effort a Pokemon has put into training that stat, or what it's good at. Either way, the bigger the number, the higher the stat.

When a Pokemon is spawned in the world, whether it's through an event or in the wild, each of its stats will be assigned a number from zero to three. This is random, though the number will never be above three.

To increase a Pokemon's Effort Level, you will need certain items. Each will raise an Effort Level by one, but they can only be used under certain conditions.

As you can see from the table above, if you wished to raise a Pokemon's Effort Level from zero to ten, you'd need three Grit Dust, three Grit Gravel, three Grit Pebbles, and a Grit Rock.

While in the traditional games Pokemon had a limit on the amount of EVs they could get, in this game a Pokemon can reach level ten in every single stat. This will require a lot of Grit items, so