>>23135908When I did some calculations to find if it was better to invest in HP or Defenses, I found out that EVs on HP have the 75% of the effect they would have if they were put in one defense.
I did that some good time ago, so I might be wrong and not be 75%.
But if I remember correctly, this meant that putting 100 EVs in HP would defend the same from a special attack that putting 75 EVs in SpDef.
This has a lot of uses.
For example, if you wanted to invest in both defenses it's better to invest first in the HP.
100 EVs in HP = 75 in Def.
This means that if you want 75 in each defense you waste 150 EVs in total, while putting 100 in HP has the same effect as putting 75 in each defense except you save 50 EVs.
If you want to maximize equally BOTH defenses you have to maximize HP to 252 first and then share the rest of the EVs between NDef and SpDef.
But if you want to maximize only one defense and use the rest of EVs in attack/speed, it's better to use 252 EV's on the Sp/Def stat as using them all in HP would be like using only 75% of the EVs in the defense (although it would also benefit both defenses so it all depends of what you want).
Basically if 100 on HP is like putting 75 on both defenses (and saving 50 EVs);
then 252 on HP is like putting 189 on both defenses (and saving 126 I think)
But of course it also means 252 in one defense stat is better than 252 in HP for that defense stat only (as in HP it would have the 75% effect), and that to really maximize a defense you need to put 252 in HP and 252 in one defense stat, making impossible to maximize both defenses (though this was already known).
I don't really know if I'm remembering correctly all of this, but when I did the damage calculations with different examples back in the time the results coincided with my calculations.
I had to find that 0.75 relation myself because no matter how much I looked, I never managed to find info about how the EVs in HP related to the ones in Def, I don't know why.
