Question regarding levelling up with Pokemon

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Does your Pokemon become weaker if you use EXP.SHARE and rare candy on them, rather if you train them?

From what I remember, Rare Candy does not raise the pokemon as well as leveling it via battling.

Thank you for the advice.

No, it takes longer to increase the levels of your pokemon holding the EXP.SHARE, but it still increases the stats by the same amount as if you weren't using EXP.SHARE - the same applies to rare candies, but when I use rare candies I use them when my pokemon has recently leveled up.

It is because your pokemon receives up to ten percent of a given stat (Edit: That's ten percent of the stat at level 100.) from the pokemon it faces (regardless of victory, I think) in battle.
Each species has a set type and amount of stat that it grants to every opponent. For example, Geodude gives some defense to the pokemon it fights.

This little extra bit only manifests when the normal points are added during a level up - so if your pokemon is already at level 100, it will never be able to cash in on those points.

Exp. Share is perfectly fine if you let the pokemon enter battle and then switch it out, instead of keeping it out of battle the whole time.
If it carries Exp. Share and is switched out in this way, it will receive 75 percent of the exp instead of the usual 50 percent.


Edit: For the benefit of Bradleigh, I will also add:
Touch the untouchable.
Break the unbreakable.
Row; row; fight the power.

In short; battling pokemon, either wild or that of other trainers in the game, earns your pokemon Effort Values, or EV's for short. Generally speaking, fast pokemon give speed EV's, high HP Pokemon give HP EV's, and defensive types (like Geodude) give defense EVs. There are also EV's for attack, special attack, and special defense, and some pokemon give two or more (up to three) spread across two different stats.

All Pokemon have a maximum number of Effort Values they can store, which will effect their stats upon leveling up. That number is ~512, which your party Pokemon will probably have by the end of the game. To be sure, you can go to Sunyshore city in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and talk to one of the girls in the Seal Store. If your values are maxed, you'll get a ribbon.

When you use a Rare Candy on a Pokemon, they level up, but gain no effort values. So if you used 100 Rare Candies on a Pokemon, they'd have terrible stats. But Pokemon that have their EV's maxed out can be leveled up any way without any negative effects.

As an addendum: The maximum amount of EV is generally enough to reach the limit on two separate stats plus a little bit on some other stat. To clarify, you shouldn't be able to put all of it into a single stat.

Second addendum: "Vitamins" work via EV, but even with Rare Candy and "Vitamins", you won't reach the maximum amount.