Equation 16 · Part 1 · The EV Formula Is an Exact Production Function Trainers Solved by Accident
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Writing x for invested Attack EVs and y for invested Speed EVs and relaxing the two internal floors to their continuous approximation for tractability, Garchomp’s Jolly-natured sweep index becomes f(x,y) = (296+x/4)(264+0.275y) , and maximizing it subject to a shared budget x+y=B through a Lagrangian
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…hits hard but moves last contributes nothing, a sweeper that moves first but hits softly contributes little, and a product (rather than a sum) captures that the two failure modes compound rather than merely add. Writing x for invested Attack EVs and y for invested Speed EVs and relaxing the two internal floors to their continuous approximation for tractability, Garchomp’s Jolly-natured sweep index becomes f(x,y) = (296+x/4)(264+0.275y) , and maximizing it subject to a shared budget x+y=B through a Lagrangian
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- [7] Generation 9 OU moveset data (Garchomp: TankChomp, Swords Dance) ↗
- [9] Generation 9 OU written analysis (Garchomp) ↗
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