A Made-up Trainer Has Just Earned 7 Badges

This is the newest example of a trainer card. This time it shows the earned badges. From left to right (top then bottom) ... Bug-Poison-Ground-Rock-Fire-Fighting-Dark. A message to all gym leaders send the DarkGymLeader a copy of your badge so he can store it in the trainer card generator program.

New Shiny Beasts Event Coming in January!

In coordination with the new Pokemon movie releasing, "Zoroark Master of Illusion". Nintendo has recently announced that US gamestop stores will be promoting the movie by offering *shiny* versions of the Legendary beasts Entei, Suicune, and Raikou. Later, by transferring these to B/W you will be able to take them to the Illusion Forest to receive Zoroark.

Dates are as follows:
Raikou - Jan. 3rd-9th.
Entei - Jan. 17th-23rd.
Suicune - Jan. 31st-Feb. 6th.

Ghost Gym ready for Challengers

I have assembled my Ghost team and it is ready for battle.
The gym is open, enter if you dare....

Quick Comic

http://www.damnlag.com/wp-content/uploads/mewtwo1.jpg

The Results Are In!

Which Pokémon Black & White Pokémon has peaked your interest?

Chiramii - (Normal) The Chinchilla Pokémon - 5 (16%)

Munna - (Psychic) The Dream Eater Pokémon - 3 (10%)

Gear - (Steel) The Gear Pokémon - 3 (10%)

Mamepato - (Normal/Flying) The Baby Pigeon Pokémon - 2 (6%)

Hihidaruma - (Fire) The Flaming Pokémon - 1 (3%)

Shimama - (Electric) The Charged Pokémon - 6 (20%)

Meguroko - (Dark/Ground) The Desert Crocodile Pokémon - 7 (23%)

Reshiram - (Dragon/Fire) The White Yang Pokémon - 8 (26%)

Zekrom - (Dragon/Eletric) The Black Yin Pokémon - 11 (36%)

Zorua/Zoroark - (Dark) Monster Fox Pokémon - 8 (26%)

Votes so far: 30
Poll closed

The Results Are In!

When playing Pokemon, where does most of your time go?

Catching Em All	2 (4%)
Effort Value Trainging	13 (30%)
Breeding	17 (39%)
Hunting Shinies	1 (2%)
Battling Other Humans	2 (4%)
Earning Battle Points	2 (4%)
Playing through the story	6 (13%)

Votes so far: 43
Poll closed

 

ECPL Forums are Open!

Attention ECPL trainers and Gym Leaders. The new ECPL Forums are now open!
Located at http://ecpl.orgfree.com/smforum

This new forum provides another venue to communicate with trainers and gym leaders in the ECPL, post battle videos, find battle partners, and just keep up with general pokechat. The forums will also make it easier to keep track of any challengers who rise to battle the ECPL gym leaders and their progress.

Dark-Fighting-Rock

Hello all, I've created Trainer Cards for the gyms I'm associated with, Dark, Fighting, and Rock, and posted the images below. Officially I'm only the leader of the Dark Gym, but I suppose until further notice I'll be serving as leader of the other two. The cards shown below highlight the pokemon & items you may encounter although I reserve the right to use trained Dark, Fighting, and Rock pokemon who may not appear on the respective card. When you defeat any of these teams you'll be award the Corona Badge (Dark), Title Badge (Fighting), or Asteroid Badge (Rock). I can be contacted using the ECPL Administration email address: ecpladmin@gmail.com

 

Winner's Path Pokéwalker Route Distribution

The official Pokémon website and the official Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver website have both updated with information the Winner's Path Pokéwalker Route distribution. This Route will be available to players of the North American and PAL versions of the games via Wi-Fi starting May 6, the day after the distribution of the Yellow Forest ends. The distribution will end June 25.
This Route allows players to capture Pokémon with moves they cannot normally learn by leveling up, such as a Munchlax with Selfdestruct or a Horsea with Muddy Water. Several items useful in battle are also available. This Route was initially available to players of the Japanese versions of HeartGold and SoulSilver from Oct. 17 to Dec. 17, 2009 and from Jan. 13 to 27 earlier this year.

New Team

Hey all, I've just finished making a new Steel team, and thought I'd let people here see what I've done.

Pokemon: Aggron, Scizor, Empoleon, Magnezone, Bronzong, Lucario, Metagross, Steelix, Forretress

Items: Wide Lens, Occa Berry, Leftovers, Salac Berry, Light Clay, Choice Specs, Lum Berry, Life Orb, Bright Powder

And don't worry Pernell, I'm not gunning for your gym. I just saw that Aggron now has access to the Rock Head ability and Head Smash and couldn't resist.

Hello all, I've created Trainer Cards for the gyms I'm associated with, Ground, Poison, and Bug, and posted the images below. Officially I'm only the leader of the Ground gym, but I suppose until further notice I'll be serving as leader of the other two. The teams and their items consist of:

Ground
Pokemon: Claydol, Garchomp, Rhyperior, Gliscor, Dugtrio, Mamoswine, Hippowdon, Camerupt, Gastrodon
Items: Lum Berry, Life Orb, Expert Belt, Yache Berry, Choice Band, Choice Scarf, Bright Powder, Choice Specs, Leftovers


Poison
Pokemon: Nidoking, Toxicroak, Gengar, Roserade, Weezing, Venusaur, Crobat, Tentacruel, Drapion
Items: Choice Specs,Wide Lens, Life Orb, White Herb, Black Sludge, Leftovers, Choice Band, Choice Scarf, Scope Lens


Bug
Pokemon: Scizor, Shuckle, Heracross, Yanmega, Forretress, Armaldo, Shedinja, Drapion, Ninjask
Items:Life Orb, Occa Berry, Choice Scarf, Lum Berry, Shed Shell, Iron Ball, Leftover, Scope Lens, Focus Sash



When you defeat any of these teams you'll be award the Quake Badge, Toxic Badge, or Swarm Badge, respectively, which are also posted below (please forgive the MS Paint-ness of the images) . My Soul Silver FC is 5414-2680-3128 and my PBR FC is 1935-3441-4975. If you want to battle, just give me a buzz.

The Results Are In ....

How many times do you reset to catch a Pokemon that appears once in a game?

0 resets (I keep the 1st one)                - 5 votes    [33%]
01 - 10 resets                                     - 1 vote    [06%]
11 - 20 resets                                     - 3 votes    [20%]
21 - 30 resets                                     - 1 vote    [06%]
as many as it takes, even if it's weeks   - 5 votes    [33%]

ECPL Trainer Card

Well I have all of the Dirty work done. It would be nice if I had a place to host this. It turned out I needed a scripting language to get the card to display correct. So any place I put this will need PHP.

All images, and the trainer name were outputs from the form. There is a little more real-estate on this card, so I know I could include a few more things.  Here are some samples:

Breeding and EV Training Updates

Hello, with Heart Gold and Soul Silver there have been some updates to the breeding system that I'd thought I'd make you all aware of. We all know that when you breed two pokemon, the Individual Values (IVs) for the offspring take three from the parents (one randomly from the father, one randomly from the mother, and one randomly from either) and then the game generates three random values for the remaining IVs. Now, however there is a way to definitively pass on an IV from a parent to the offspring. The Power items, namely the Power Bracer, Power Belt, Power Lens, Power Band, Power Anklet, and Power Weight, will allow a parent Pokemon to pass on the relevant stat IV (Attack for the Bracer, Defense for the Belt, Sp. Attack for the Lens, Sp. Defense for the Band, Speed for the Anklet, and HP for the Weight) to its offspring. With this you can pass up to two IV's from parents to the pokemon you are trying to breed, but be careful as this means you can't control the nature of the resulting pokemon by equipping the mother with an Everstone. I've already used this method to breed a Pokemon, and I can say it is a much easier way to go, especially if you want a perfect IV for an important stat like speed.

Additionally, I think I've found a better way to train Effort Values (EVs). Before, I always gave the pokemon I was training the Pokerus and equipped it with a Macho Brace, effectively quadrupling the amount of EVs it received in battle. The Power Items speed thing up even more, however, especially if you have the Pokerus. The Power Items add 4 EVs to the related stat after every value, so if you have the Power Anklet equipped and fight a Magikarp, which normally gives 1 EV for speed, you would gain 5 speed EVs. Now if the pokemon you are training has the Pokerus, this value is doubled to 10 EVs ( (1+4)*2=10). I used this method this morning and it was much faster than my old way, although it gets a little confusing if you try to EV train while fighting different pokemon. This problem is easily remedied by the fact that there are a number of areas in HG and SS where only one pokemon shows up most of the time, a topic which will be covered later.

**Special thanks to Serebii.net for cluing me into a lot of these things. All information was verified personally while breeding and training my new Aggron over the past couple of days.

Pets of the Future on CRACKED

I'd like to direct everyone's attention to #6 on this list of pets of the future.

ECPL Trainer Ryan

Items

Choice specs
Focus band
Life orb
Focus sash
Leftovers
Choice scarf

A New Challenger Has Entered the Game!!!

Calling all Gym Leaders .... I'm going to make a call here and say 8 is the limit for the challenge roster. We left that up in the air for too long. Our poll results had 1-6 and 6-12 get the highest votes, so why not 8. Also Gym Leaders that read this post make a comment here if you are not getting forwarded messages from the ECPL site. Currently that is the only way a challenger can contact us.

So Did You Guys Get These?

Another chance at Pichu

If you missed it, Pichu is now available over WiFi for the next few weeks.

Pokémon Video Game Championships returning in spring 2010

Returning participants will notice that most of the rules and guidelines are the same as last year, but we've been working hard to make exciting changes that will make the 2010 Pokémon Video Game Championships better than ever! These changes include:

• Players now using Pokémon HeartGold or SoulSilver Version games exclusively
• Pokémon Level 51 and higher being automatically graded down to Level 50 for the duration of the battle using a new auto-leveling feature
  • Each Pokémon keeps all of the moves it knew before being adjusted
  • Pokémon that evolve after Level 50 don't devolve
  • Any Pokémon below Level 50 will stay at its current level
• Virtually every Pokémon found in the National Pokédex of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions is eligible, including Pokémon traded in from earlier games, with the following exceptions:
  • Arceus, Celebi, Darkrai, Deoxys, Jirachi, Manaphy, Mew, Phione, and Shaymin cannot participate
  • A team cannot contain more than two of Dialga, Giratina, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, and Rayquaza during a battle

Stay tuned for more information regarding the upcoming Pokémon Video Game Championships! Look for details around March 14th when Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions arrive in stores!

Jirachi Event

Receive the Pokémon Jirachi during a distribution event at GameStop from February 27th to March 13th!

Kimjongil Pokemon

I like the Pika-missiles.

Better Late Than Never Shiny Pichu Event

Sorry if anyone missed this event. Here is some info on what you missed.

New Pokimanz

http://ds.ign.com/articles/106/1065010p1.html

Not that it's a surprise, but the announcement gives us some sort of idea of a timeline.

Pokemon Redesigned in Traditional Japanese Style Artwork

Some these pokemon are pretty cool looking.

Ho-oh and Lugia figures to come with pre orders

http://kotaku.com/5451757/catch-ho+oh-or-lugia-when-you-preorder-pokemon

Also Arceus if you get both, but the GameStop dude already gave me one (I think it was used for black friday Platinum pre orders as well).

ECPL at MAGFEST

Hey folks, just wanted to let everyone that the ECPL was well represented at MAGFest by myself (Mike TV aka Ground Gym Leader and PokeMatt ( aka Normal Gym Leader). We both took place in the Pokemon tourney there, where Pokematt and I engaged in an epic battle in the semifinals. I moved on to the final round, but was defeated in a very close battle that pitted my Rain Dance team against a very well-trained group of pokemanz, including one very tough Breloom. Congratulations to all that participated, and I hope to see some of you here!