Originally posted by Keitaro
You can buy rare candy? The hell? I don't recall any game that had this. Rare candies are pointless anyway as they raise your level but not your stats, so you could in theory give a level 1 Pidgey 100 rare candies and it would be no stronger than when you caught it (and now can never get stronger because you maxed its level ) the only time I've ever used my rare candies in game was when I was filling my Pokedex and got too impatient on a couple of evolutions. Even then I'd limit the use to about one per Pokemon so I'd still give myself something to do
Rare candies raise stats but not EVs, same as the day care people. Level 100 rare candy Pidgey will be weaker than trained Pidgey, but it will be stronger than the same Pidgey if it was encountered in the wild at level 99. This also means that if you max out the Pokemon's EVs (you can get the effort ribbon in Canalave at this point), you can Rare Candy it up to your heart's content. Or put the Pokemon in the daycare center, find a muddy slope, tape the "up" arrow down, and leave the game running however long it takes.
Also, Battle Tower (D/P) or Frontier (Pt). 48 Battle Points per candy. Alternately 2000 points in the Pokeathlon Dome.
(Incidentally, if you track a Pokemon's stat gains over several levels while raising it with only Rare Candy and vitamins, you can use this data to calculate its IVs.)
...I'm amused by math. This makes Pokemon very good for me.
EDIT: Since that last post showed up while I was typing this, as long as HG/SS is like Gold and Silver, you can buy large quantities of Lemonade at once at Mt Moon Square, as long as you visit between 10 AM and 6 PM.
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