Never done this kind of thing before, but here it goes...
First of all, this thing works best with artificials, namely Mew, Golem, Henger, and Durahan. I've never tried it with Zan.
Note: As with most methods this works best with 2nd gen, all those starting techs, higher stats, better traits, and a possible 40 loyalty.
Stuff you need/need to know:
Traits: The traits you'll want for best stats are Hi Power, Hi speed, Hi IQ, Hi Stamna, Hi Aim If possible get Elite. Raise a dummy or two while waiting for doctor Kohak, or raise those dummies, get the traits, and combine, hopefully they'll carry over.
Items: The best durables, enough flowers to max out loyalty in 1 week(only works if your monster is neutral or higher with flowers, this step is not required), alot of Mint candy, Mint leaf and nitro berry.
Coaches: Morgan, Aegis, Arthur, 2 of those 3, plus one of your best self trained ones, or just the 3 supercoaches if possible.
Basic tips/rules: Enter as few battles as possible in the beginning of it's life span(try to only battle at officials, later on you can massacre the big 4), don't spar until your monster is around 6 months or in desperate need of a new tech. Don't let your monster fail. Don't go on expeditions! Don't let your monster run away(this shouldn't happen anyway), if it does, restart you GBA, and keep going.
Now, on to the actual training part.
Week 1: (not a requirement but highly recommended) Flowers! Enough to max out your monsters loyalty. You can give flowers as much as you want in a week so I took advantage of this. If you have the loyalty, good enough stats, and a good tech enter an Official tourney asap. This won't work if you monster is anything below nuetral with flowers(i.e., they don't like 'em!)
Training order: I always do hard drills, It seems to maximize results, if someone wants they can test light drills. Raise stats in this order: Best, Second best, Second worst, Third best, ignore the third worst and the worst for a bit, those should get pretty high with the secondary gains. Follow the statgains from Tecmo thing. Once your monsters first 3 stats get to 950, start focusing more on the others, stats when you start this should be something like this: 950,950,950,700,500,350 (the composite is already 4,450, yay!). Eventually when your stats are something like 999,999,999,500,999,800, focus on the lowest one, let one of your 999's drop to 984, then train that stat to 999 again.
Sparring: If your monster has it's 3 best techs, you don't need to spar. Only spar when your monster is over 6 months, or really needs a stronger tech.
Resting: Rest when your monster seems well or seems tired(obvious).
Stress: Feed stress releiving items(duh), then rest/battle, depending on what your monster likes or can handle, if it "seems well" or lower, don't battle. Feed stress releiving items for one week(rest only for the first one though)
Battling: Only battle when your monster is really energetic, or if it likes to fight, you can battle when it is pretty lively.
Food: If your monster has a 2 or higher liking for bananas, feed those throughout it's life, if it has less, just rotate to keep it at a normal figure, and try to keep your monster happy and unstressed.
Spoiled: Spoil your monsters, they tend to live longer that way.
Using this method I find that about 4 of 5 monsters hit their "crucial period" over 1y3m
My best with this: White Mew, Normal size,1st gen, spoilt, 87 wins, 0 losses(he beat all the E class tourneys,and the big 4, the rest were officials), master class, 100 loyalty, 4y7m(at first warning), techs:all, traits:Hi IQ, Hi Aim, Hi Speed, Hi power, Charisma, Satori, stats: P:979 I:999 A:999 S:999 D:653 L:999 Composite:5,628 I have tried battling like that with other Mews and it doesn't work, they all lived to about 4y1m, this one fluked with the so many battles. The password for it was Nig_Cat starting stats: P:123 I:174 A:180 S:191 D:118 L:120, traits: BigVoice, Up Head
Okay GB, hand out some mallets and squash those bugs!
P.S: Is this thing understandable? Is this how it should look? Is all the information there? If not, tell me whats's wrong or what's missing.
By Seize on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 03:11 pm:
I'm glad to see a posted a method! It looks pretty good. Its strange but I haven't tried just letting a monster become spoiled before (too much MR2 I guess). The order you trained the stats was interesting. I've been training the mediocre stats until the "important stage warning" before working on the monster's best (again, due to MR2 influence). I'd like to see a sample schedual of exactly what your Mew did and ate each week for the first months or two (those are tricky). How you dealt with Glutton would also be interesting to know.
Yah, I should mention though, if you can't get elite you should get IronHeart for a trait, also don't forget to use oily oils. These 2 things together will expand training time greatly. I used to train the mediocre ones first too but it was just not working so I tried this and have been doing great with it so far.
Hmmmm...I forgot to mention that that was the Mew I unlocked the Mew legends with...so add those battles in(still the same record, just those shouldn't add up to 87). As for what I did for the first 2 months...what exactly do you mean for a schedule? week 1:... week2:... week3:...etc? As for what he ate, that's easy, bannanas throughout his entire life(I mean ENTIRE). As for glutton...he never had the chance to get glutton. I got him all those Hi traits and within his first 3 or 4 training sessions he got the other 2. Hopefully I can remember what he did for the first month or 2, I've already trained one monster after him and my memory isn't too great with those kinds of things.
By Seize on Saturday, April 5, 2003 - 01:57 pm:
It doesn't have to be that Mew in particular. You said you used hard-drills almost exclusively, right? What I was asking was: How many drills did you get in before needing to rest? What did you feed to get this?
If I'm reading this correct you never saw Glutton because you already had 6 traits (correct?). I believe Golden Boy was looking into this once.
By Infernus on Saturday, April 5, 2003 - 03:44 pm:
I usually got about 3 drills before needing rest throughout his life, I didn't really feed anything to him to help him along, just an oily oil every once in awhile. As for the hard drills...that's all I used...except for one drill, I was clicking through too fast and did an easy one. And yes he had 6 traits early on so I never saw glutton.