"Pure"nell's Poke Help [Friendship]

Maybe one of you guys can help me out here.

I need a female Lucario. Right now, I'm working on growing berries to bump up my Riolu's happiness but I'd figure that if one of guys already had one, it would save me the waste of a day or two and the usage of however many berries I'd expend. Any takers?

Pokemon Ranch Update

Nintendo has updated the Everyone's Pokemon Ranch website with a few new details on the upcoming Wii Ware killer app that doesn't have Final Fantasy in the title.

Everyone's Pokemon Ranch (in Japanese, Minna no Pokemon Bokujou) is a downloadable Wii Ware game that lets you interact with your Pokemon. The game will feature connectivity with Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, allowing players to view and spend time with the Pokemon they've collected in the DS titles.

The ranch where you raise your Pokemon was built and is owned by Yukari, a girl who happens to be a friend of Mizuki, a character from the Japanese Diamond & Pearl.

Pokemon Ranch offers more than just a spreadsheet style view of your Pokemon collection. Once you've transfered your Pokemon over from Diamond & Pearl, your Pokefriends appear on Yukari's ranch in full 3D. They'll dance, parade around, and show off all sorts of other animations. Yukari herself will also interact with the Pokemon, as will your Miis.

One way that you'll be able to interact with your Pokemon is by taking pictures. Take a shot, and you can save it to SD for transfer to a PC, or you can send it to friends.

Those who do just want a means of managing their Pokemon will find it as well. The game will accept up to 1000 Pokemon that you've caught in Diamond & Pearl. A few screens have shown a ranch full of nothing but Pikachu, so it appears that you're free to use this tool however you please.

In Japan, Pokemon Ranch will launch with the Wii Ware service this March. We expect an international release to follow soon after.

Role Call

Quick pic from MikeTV's b-day bash.
(LTR: Xoy, Zero, PureNell, The Arsonist, Ace of Spades, and Mike TV)

2 weeks and no posts

I beat the elite 4 (Pearl) Monday. The new moon is scheduled for tomorrow, while the Cartoon Network "Pokemon: Rise of Darkrai" movie is scheduled for Sunday. I need you guys to keep you eyes/ears open. This time next week I'm hoping to have at least 2 Darkrai's Dark Void'in it up.

Please use this post to either respond to your personal Darkrai preparation, efforts to help me obtain Darkrai, or to prove that you aren't dead and this blog is still being read.

Red Brick, anyone?

Matt (Zero) and I will be hanging out at the Red Brick Station in the Avenue at White Marsh tonight around 9:30 if anyone is interested in battling, trading, or 99 cent pints. Anyone who's interested, send me a text or call me at 410-459-7001. Or just let me know here and meet in the bar area after 9:30.

Preping for Darkrai ....

As I told Matt (Zero) earlier, I currently playing through Pearl (Diamond is my master game). Just in case there is a "beat the elite" clause in obtaining Darkrai. I know it's a lot of work for someone I'll never get to use, but at least I will be able to get a Palkia.

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