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My experience with PBR is limited to the Game Stop pre-release tournament. For that one, there was no problem using the DS as a controller for the game. PBR automatically imports the pokemon in the party on the DS cards, which were checked at the start of the tournament for legitimacy, depending...

I think the requirement that it must be on a Wiimote is a bit redundant. PBR will let you play with a team directly from your DS. Why do you need to transfer it to your home Wii, then bring it into the Wii on-site? This also unfairly excludes anyone who may not have a Wii for themselves, when...

I'm guessing they're doing this on purpose, hoping that fanboys like us stumble upon the page and start clamoring for the game, and using our pressure to convince Nintendo that there is a demand for their game.

The site says "A player’s team must consist of exactly 4 Pokémon. Players may change Pokémon between rounds, though each Pokémon must still meet the rules outlined in this document." My reading of that (I used to read the rules to MTG for fun o_o) is that you could theoretically EV train a...

Managing luck is a skill. And what you all are calling luck could also be called chance or probability. Poker players deal with a game that seems to be pure luck. You either get the cards that win or you don't, and you have to suck it up and play with the cards that lady luck gave you. But any...

If you're new to the site, you should wait a while and check things out, aka 'lurking'. Trial and error isn't the best way to learn these things.

I appreciate the color tags, but the font tags don't work. Ugh. Edit: I actually read it, and found the commentary to be a bit "bleh". Many times, you simply restate the events of the prior turn. ("He switched in X, as expected") without expanding on, say, why you expected such a thing. You...

I've never done a mystery gift event. How does it work? Really my question is, could I get Darkrai more than once on a single card? If it were given out via trade, the way the Mew was all those years ago, I could supposedly show up once each day (I live in Austin, so there are two Toys'R'Us's by...

Is this on WiFi or Shoddy or something? Because I don't think you could reliably EV train anything in-game without leveling it up to level 2 at least. It also puts some interesting restraints on movesets, or at least makes you scratch your head about how to get them. I also see how at least some...

I think it raises the chances of getting a similar nature, but it's not 100%. And your chances of a Shiny, modest or not, are still 1/8000+, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

I felt the same way at first, but then I went back and compared them and found that they were actually somewhat different. His legs are somewhat stumpier than before, and his wings are actually broken up into six pieces, rather than just re-shaped. Also, go back and look at the Deoxys'es. I...

Are you using a ditto as the "Father"? Because that can screw up Everstone nature passing.

Is there room here for stories where the luck was in your favor? I just got out of a battle where my Toxic/Wishing Umbreon was my last poke, up against a Miltank, also last poke. I know the only way for me to win is get Toxic on the Miltank asap and then wait out the poison damage. So I start...

So then, why implement it at all? I agree that I don't want it easier to make fakes, and if you can't make the change without revealing code, and the change won't make a big difference, its not really worth it, is it? Props to the high caliber code-crunchers who have figured out exactly how...

I've spent the last week EV training my team - first time I've ever done that. I'm hoping that it'll put me at a big advantage over the little kids without any idea about the hidden facets of the game, but with my luck I'll probably lose in the first round anyway. X_X Not sure about the rules...

The idea is, if you have Darkrai, Sheimi, or Arcerus data, you must have cheated to get it, and thus the rest of your pokemon are equally suspect. Obviously a false premise - You could have aquired them through the Japanese surfing glitch, or you could trade for Darkrai after the release event...

I'll go to the one at the one in Austin, TX, at the Arboretum, if anyone knows what I'm talking about. 4v4, single? That's a bit weird. I'll prolly call them and see if they don't have any more details about the rules. Also, I need to get myself trained up in a week and a half. GO HYPERSPEED!!!

I personally don't mind the various random aspects of the DS version. Yes, if you want a pure match of player skill, Competitor is a better way to get there, but even then, random effects from moves come into play. Randomness is a part of almost any game, from Poker (or anything using a deck of...

Good read. And yeah, Pokemon makes pretty good use of game theory. Especially now that it's got a worldwide multi-player system built in, it's one of the best strategy multi-player games out there. For anyone who can't convince their parent to get them the game (I'm so glad I outgrew that...

When you put a pokemon in a box, the EV values are applied to its stats, rather than waiting for the next level up as usual.