>99 rare candies >99 master balls

>not using it for the based palette editor

Someone once told me that Pokemon in red/blue aren't as strong when evolved with rare candy as they would be if you evolved them by fighting.

I believed it was true for a long time, but methinks someone just really wanted me to waste my time.

>>4056398
you gan stat boosts by defeating gym leaders. but these can still be obtained with pokemon evolved with rare candy by using drugs and vitamins items

>>4056398
It's real, the stats gained by leveling via rare candies aren't the same as the ones gained by normal leveling up.
You can check it by yourself by creating a savestate just before a pokemon gains enough exp for leveling up. Make it eat a rare candy, save a pic of your new status and load your savestate, then go into a fight, level up, save a pic of your new stats and compare it with the previous one.

>>4056398
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values

>>4056407
>>4056405
This, but you can regain the lost stat points just by fighting as usual. So leveling up with candy only helps.

>>4056409
The way to do it is to candy up to 100, solo the e4 20 times, then deposit/withdraw your pokemon from your pc. That last part recalculates evs and in rby, theres no limit by stat.

The thing I remember most about the Monster Brain was giving myself a Pokemon with 0 max HP that knew all the HMs to beat Silver without any battles. Just a bit of fun.

>>4056462
>The way to do it is to candy up to 100, solo the e4 20 times, then deposit/withdraw your pokemon from your pc.
i know this actually works as intended but these kinds of really specific steps involved reminds me lots of goofy playground pokemon rumors back in the day

>>4056393
pfft, who needs that? with missngno you can get gsZaLGod!^^gg6 number of candies.

>>4056398
I was there when EVs were discovered. It was a crazy time.

>>4057016
So you were there shortly after the first game came out. Cool.

Cheaper alternative to Memory Brain if you just want to archive saves too.

>>4056393
yum