Finally, A New Event

In a very late afternoon change over on pokemon.com, they have announced that the "member's card" will be distributed via wifi connection starting August 3rd (until September 13th). For those who don't know, the member's card allows you to go through the in-game process of catching darkrai. For more information, click here.

A New Way to Get Shinies

So I happened to check pokemon.com this evening and there was a new article up about the GTS. Personally, I thought this was kind of odd since there is nothing particularly new about GTS....BUT! They tossed out a little known fact that may be a change in the game mechanics because they said that if you use a pokemon you got from a foreign country (via GTS) to breed, your odds of breeding a shiny pokemon increase. Now as is pokemon's style, they never actually publish their probabilities, but it is safe to say that the odds are better than the 1/8192 that you ordinarily have of breeding a shiny (or running into a wild one). Note the fifth slide on the GTS tutorial when you follow this link.

A little change...

Just bred me a poliwag with perfect attack, speed, and HP IVs with everything else at least a 20. It's all trained up, and now I need some help. It's utilizing a salac berry, and it's HP is not divisible by 4 at lvl 50. Is it too late to fix that? Will I only be able to use him properly in 100 set battles? I don't want to mess with it further until I get some feedback.