Super Smash Bros Brawl Leaks

As most of you have probably heard, there have been some leaks regarding the final roster of the new Super Smash Bros. Some reports have been fake, but it appears Kotaku has some news and the screenshots to back it up. Lucario and Jigglypuff Have been confirmed, plus a host of other characters and bosses. w00t!

http://kotaku.com/350347/super-smash-bros-brawl-leaks-turn-to-flood

A Little Closer

When you go to pokemon.com now, the flash animation directs you to a new site, darkrai.com. Still no word on darkrai's release, but I guess the news will drop there first.

PokemonCenter.com is shutting down

You may have saw the headline in the corner.
Shut down date is Jan 31 2008.
This is you last chance to get figurines for your gym/favorite pokemon.
I may pick up an Umbreon, since I already have a Weavile.

Pokemon Trainer Battle

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MLK Meet Up

So it seemed like today would be a good meet up day for a number of people. Who's still down, and where and when do we want to meet?

I Am Lucky...

Hey All,
It's a pretty well-known fact that the odds of getting a shiny pokemon are 1/8192, which is ridiculously close to zero. Well, for the second time in during a breeding project of mine, I have hatched a shiny. The first time was with that Cloyster (which I should have used in that battle that I lost against Mike yesterday) and this time was with a numel/camerupt. I don't know what its IVs are yet, but it least has the nature and ability I wanted (again). Nevertheless, regardless of its IVs I am really happy because it's my personal opinion that Camerupt is one of the coolest looking shinies in the game.

It makes me wonder though whether the odds of breeding a shiny are really the same as encountering a shiny in the wild. It could be that I did something that I only had a (1/8192)^2 chance of doing, but that seems kinda hard to believe. Although I also bred this awesome corsola the other day that who's lowest IV is 24/25 in two stats where 3 stats were 30/31 and the other was 28/29.

Also, ending this really long post, I noticed pokemon.com has changed and now has a flash section that shows Darkrai's silhouette and asks "who is this pokemon?"

More Additions

Two more invitations went out recently. I'd like to welcome Steve, who Aaron and I have already met, and (if my memory serves me correctly) Jesse, who I ran into at MAGfest.

I'll just paste this from previous posts:

We've been putting our Friend Codes in our profiles to facilitate wi-fi battles, so just click our names (the full member list is at the bottom of the page) to add people, and feel free to add your own to your profiles.

If you want to join a Gym, just let us know. It can be anything from just picking a Gym to show love for your favorite type, to training a full Gym team to become it's leader.

Finally, feel free to post any questions, comics, news, etc... That's what the Blog is here for.

Marginal Effects

I'm sure I'm not the only one to ever think about this, so I'll put this question out there. Have any of you ever thought about the marginal effect of a stat increase? It's kind of weird because we all try to get pokemon with stats as high as possible, but how much is enough or too much?

I suppose if one really wanted to be anal about it, they could do some calculus with the damage calculation function. But there are several unknowns and certain assumptions you would have to make in advance and I personally don't really want to wrap my head around what I would need to do to max D in terms of...well, you get where I'm going with this.

So what do you guys think about this? Does it really matter that a metagross' atk is 400 versus 405 (I think that's its max if I remember it right)? Or that my miltank's hp is 384 versus 400-something?

Sunny Park

I tried to do the Sunny Park challenge on PBR for old time sake. There are some cheating bastards in there. I used all level 1 pokemon and every single one of the CPU pokemon were 5. Don't tell me I need to EV train a set of 6 to level 5. That's F'ing ridiculous. Has anyone fought through there? I should make my gym level < 5 ...... syke

Darkrai

I'm assuming all of you have heard about or seen the Darkrai silhouette on pokemon.com. I checked a little while ago and that animation is already gone. I wonder how long it will be before Darkrai is released as the next event.

Challenge Team Discussion

How do we want to handle challenge teams, i.e. the teams trainers will use to challenge for gym badges? Do we want a trainer to have one fixed team with which he challenges each gym, or allow a pool they can choose from, or let them challenge with any team they want each time? If a set number of pokemon is decided, do we allow switching hold items, movesets, etc... Do we want to have a set battle format, or let each gym leader define his own rule set?

Please don't be shy about responses here!

Checking In

Hey All,
I know I've been kind of quiet the last couple of weeks and its mainly due to working on counter-strategies for some of the stuff I've been seeing on wifi lately. What I wonder though is when we'll begin letting people challenge us for badge (or possibily gym) status? I have all of the ice types that I'm going to use in my gym, but I've been doing a lot of work to come up with the six pokemon that I'll primarily be using for all wifi challenges. Also, if anyone has any ideas on the type of badges we'll be handing out, I'd like to hear them. I was thinking (especially since our group isn't that large) that we could each choose our own (not very expensive) pins to hand out.

By the way, if anyone wants to go up against my gym for badge status, just email me.

Battling Tonight?

Hey, anyone out there down for some battling/trading tonight? I have a Onyx I'm trying to evolve, plus there are a few TM's I'm looking for. Also, I have a new Weavile I'm looking to try out. Wi-fi is probably easiest, though if people are down we could always meet up somewhere.

Oh SNAP

For those who don't keep an eye on the BulbaNews RSS in the upper right, Pokemon Snap is just 5 days away. Time to get some Wii Points.

Just keep it away from Mankey

Apparently, someone going by "ecpl-matt" won the bid for one of these tonight...
weird...