EV-berries
Okay, so the following regards the possibility that the EV-reducing berry mechanics have been altered (beneficially):
I was EV-training a pokemon, but messed up and got 4ev in HP, 4ev in SPDef, 255ev in speed, and 247ev in spatk (I knew I messed up because the stats didn't agree with expected calculations). I then used an EV-reducing berry on speed, thinking it would go down to 100ev in speed. However, I noticed its lvl50 stat did not change (and spoke to the one effort-value-ribbon person in gen5 and they told me my pokemon wasn't ev-trained). So then i got my extra 1ev in spatk (and then 2ev wherever) and my stats were good to go. So my question is:
If your EV-s in a stat are beyond 252, will an EV-reducing stat bring it down to 252? I should note that I've never used an action replay or any method of cheating. If someone would like to test this, that'd be great (I know that none of my other pokemon have 252+ evs in a single stat so it may take me a while).
I was ev-training a zoroark 31/x/30/30/31/31, timid. originally it had like 170spatk, 172 spe at lvl50 (and EV-person said it was ev-trained). after using berry it wasn't ev-trained (510 evs). and when i got my extra 1 ev in spatk - i was holding a poweranklet (because i thought my speed evs would be reset) and i had pokerus and killed a litwik.