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.