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I wasn't counting Missingno. :P I was actually one of the earlier researchers into that, actually -- once I learned about how to acquire Missingno, I dug into the effects it had and how they interacted with things. That led to me discovering how EVs worked by using Missingno to generate identical level 0 Dittos and grinding them up to level 20 against different kinds of opponents. (Since the community hadn't coined the term "effort value" yet, I called it "stat experience".) I then theorized that the vitamins gave massive doses of EVs up to a certain limit and only training would push it past that -- and that turned out to be correct. I also discovered that stats only got recalculated under certain conditions like leveling up or using a vitamin -- again, correct, although I hadn't noticed that depositing it into a box would force a recalculation too.