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.

Secret Key Event (Part 2)

For those who may have missed it the first time, Pokemon.com announced another chance to obtain the secret key. You can find the instructions on how to get the key here. It appears that this is only obtainable if your ds has access to WiFi at home, or you can get to one of the many places that will let you access their WiFi for free. It ends on July 19th.

The Results Are In!

How many gyms must a trainer defeat to be considered elite?
All Gyms 17/17 ..... 19 votes
8 out of 17 Gyms .... 8 votes

How many Pokemon (registered roster size) should a challenger be allowed to use to face ALL gyms?
1-6 ......... 11 votes
7-12 ........ 11 votes
13-18 ....... 3 votes
Unlimited ... 2 votes

Stay tuned for more polls!!!!

Bundled pedometer with Gold/Silver remakes

June 8, 2009 - Nintendo is remaking Pokemon Gold and Silver into Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. We've known this much since last month.

But what no one knew about until now is the little special extra Nintendo is preparing for the title. In Japan, each copy of Heart Gold and Soul Silver will come bundled with a PokeWalker, a pedometer that looks like a Pokeball.

You can transfer a single Pokemon from Heart Gold and Soul Silver into this device, carrying your little friend with you when you go out. As you walk, the internal Pokemon gains experience and grows happier.

Additionally, the PokeWalker converts your steps into watts, a currency that can be used to catch wild Pokemon and shop for tools. These can then be sent back into Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

Philly VGCs

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share the pictures my girlfriend took while we were at the Philly VGC's. Too bad this and our milotic are the only things Mike and I have to show for it. I can only hope Nintendo returns to a Journey Across America format or something because they way they handled this tournament kinda stunk.

Sample Trainer Card

Really Small Post

I don't want to overshadow the post that R.C. did, so I'll wrap this up by saying that the vs. recorder code for the final match of the Dallas Seniors' Tourney is 11-07776-66386.

Pokemon Event at R.C.'s House

Okay, so here is my effort at getting something going. I have invited pretty much everyone I know personally that plays pokemon to my house on June 20th for a pokemon event as I described it, this list is about fourteen people, NOT including myself or you guys. I have a couple people already saying that they can come and a couple people I know will come. My estimate is around eight of them will actually show up. Now this may not be as glamourous as going to some place and renting it out for the weekend and having a huge tournament and all that other crap, this is still a good start if you ask me. If most of you come, as well as a fair amount of others I have invited, this could be considered a decent pokemon event and a fair chance to get the league rolling. And its still more then just seeing the people we see every time we get together.

I think we should hold official gym battles for once, rather then using our gym teams and not counting them as real battles. I was even thinking of creating stickers for our gym badges and maybe printing up personalized member cards for the league. The date is subject to change.. but I think by this point we need to actually get moving, have some set league rules and actually do something more then just five or six of us hanging out at Jason or Mikes house. Granted, this is still somebodies house and its not a LARGE event by any means, but its still a chance to double the amount of activity as a league and get things running... officially.

Of course... if we do this we have to have our rules set in stone.
I think gym rules are a pretty easy one...
Anyone can be part of a gym so long as they have a full team of that gyms type.
Gym leader can use any pokemon in each battle so long as they are of that type.
To become gym leader you must either be the first with a full team of that gyms type, or beat the gym leader with your own team of that gyms type.

Other rules have been discussed, but nothing has really been set in stone. As far as your 'challenging team' what are you allowed and not allowed to use? How many reserves do we get? We can't be limited to JUST six pokemon to battle everyone.. so we should be able to have like.. a total of ten or twelve pokemon we can use. and of course it has to be limited to such, otherwise if we were free to use ANY pokemon in our roster we could just use all water types vs the fire gym, all ground types vs the electric gym and so on. Not exactly fair. But we can't be eternally limited to those ten or so pokemon either.. so how long do we have to wait to change our roster? One month, two months? More? Which pokemon are banned from use for official league battles? Legendary is an obvious choice. Most likely Wobuffet too. Anyone else?

These are things that as far as I know, still havn't truly been decided and if I am wrong, please correct me. But If I'm right, I think we should get to it. I also think those who have yet to, should create their gym badges... or else suffer having... generic badges created by me used for your gym badge! I made my fire badges, and Arsonist(I accidently said his name first and realized my mistake!) made a Dark badge, did anyone else?

I just want to see more progress as a league and though my little event isn't huge progress, I think if we get ready for it, and enough of you guys, and enough of the other people come, it will help alot.

Half Way Finished

For some reason, people haven't been as youtube crazy with the Phoenix tournament, but here is the final match of the seniors' competition. Just a reminder, this coming weekend the Dallas area gets their turn and then it's the east coast's time to shine.

San Francisco Seniors' Video

And once again, another regional competition has come and gone. Fortunately, people have been willing to videotape competitions that have taken place thus far. You can view the video here. In my opinion, this battle was a bit more interesting that the final battle from Seattle. Looks like the Smeargle/dark void thing is popular, but considering there's no sleep clause, it makes sense.

Seattle Seniors' Video

I would have loved to actually put the video into this post, but since I can't download it from youtube, you'll have to settle for seeing it here. I was actually kinda surprised by the make-up of the final teams, but it was a cool match nevertheless. Enjoy!!!

One of Six Is Now History

Hey all,
I really hope there will be video available of some of the latter matches, but pokemon.com has an article up about the outcome of the Seattle competition. You can find that article here. One important thing I noticed when I read it is that battles were displayed on a large screen. The teams the finalist used were also pretty interesting as well.

The Vs. Recorder Is Very Cool

Hey all, just had a second battle with Dreamer (Jesse). The video can be seen using this code: 30-44234-30077. If we get to do a second battle this evening, I'll post that code after that battle as well.

Intense Battle

So yeah, I'll just post two of these in a row. I'm really liking this vs recorder. Anyway, here is a really close battle between myself (NormalGymLeader) and Jesse (Dreamerofryleh).

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