Pokémon League/Tourney/Parade Party

[PoisonRamune]

So Pokémon HG/SS has officially been released in all regions and it seems many of us have Pokémon fever... Considering a major portion of this game is about battling other people, I figure it would be fun to have a sort of tournament or league type thing (ala that Mario Kart Wii race group Trapster runs).

If you're interested, let me know... And also mention if you'd be more interested in having a full fledged tournament or would like to do a league type thing (I'd personally prefer the league, since we can bring different teams and such to each match).

I guess we can also use the time to have a bunch of people running around in that carnival thing, since that seems pretty neat in a kind of screensaver way.

People Participating:
enigmaopoeia
lordbowser
Jogurt the Yogurt
neuzd
Trapster
Tides of Chaos
hansolo350
slavko123496
Shadesofgray
PoisonRamune
FroguinZX

Friend codes can be found here.

[enigmaopoeia]

I am interested in participating. I can't wait to get far enough in the game where I can go into the Wi-Fi areas.

[lordbowser]

I might join in for some battles after I beat Pearl.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

I'm in. I like a more free-flowing league idea. I'll use my team of cute electric and water pokerymanz! I need a Squirtle and a Piplup!

[neuzd]

I'm in.
Not sure to have understood all that's been said, but I still have to start my game (I guess in a few minutes I'm gonna run it, though).

I want to play just for the fun of it, so probably a more open league is what I'd vote for.

[Trapster]

I'm in. I'm probably not far enough yet in HG to be of any challenge yet. Might have to transfer some pokés from my other games later.

[PoisonRamune]

Originally Posted by Trapster

I'm in. I'm probably not far enough yet in HG to be of any challenge yet. Might have to transfer some pokés from my other games later.

I was thinking at least waiting until HG/SS was a month old on the NA side (so two more weeks at the very least). Unless people here have comparable teams sooner (which I kind of doubt, since I believe I'm furthest along here). Either way, it does seem to be the DS game I'm going to keep in my sidebar on the now playing, so hopefully we'll get a few sessions in before we get sick of the games.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Just a note, I don't care if I play people with better teams than my joke cutesy water team. I don't care if I get wrecked. I just think it'll be fun to take advantage of the battle mode etc. for a change, since we've never done anything pokerymanz related here.

[PoisonRamune]

I might keep 2 teams then... I'll use "Apes-A-Poppin'" as my joke/novelty team... And maybe make a trainer's choice team for the likes of Trapster and such.

[Tides of Chaos]

I'm interested in this. I'm not ready right now, what with only 3 badges, but it shouldn't take me too long to get a team in the 40's. And yeah, I guess a more open league thing would work better.

[hansolo350]

It would be pretty cool if we could get an open league going.

[PoisonRamune]

So we just realized that the online battles scale your pokemon levels to 50 if you pick the lvl 50 battle option. Now that we know this, do you guys currently have mons with workable movesets? We can possibly start a heck of a lot sooner, since we don't need to be concerned about "Are the pokemon strong enough" but more so "Do we have the right ones and do they know the right moves."

Also, I know there's a lot to do in the game and many of us here have not even gotten through the "story mode," so if you prefer to focus on just getting through the game first. That's ok too, just let us know.

[Tides of Chaos]

Ooh, is that how it works? Right now my Pokémon are all loaded down with HMs needed to get through the game so if it's moveset based, I'm kind of screwed. It might be best to wait until I at least get to the move tutor place, although that's only 1 gym away for me so it shouldn't take long.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

I'm perfectly happy to play against people with my current mostly crap moveset including HMs since there are other people like me who are still going through the game.

Most interested in seeing what the minigames are like, too.

[PoisonRamune]

So shall we start to collaborate on days/times we're free?
For me it's:

Monday - Thursday 7:00pm - 11:00pm PST
Friday 7:00pm - 2:00am PST
Saturday Open
Sunday Open until 11:00pm PST

[slavko123496]

I'm in, I just need to level up my Pokemon, I've only been catching Pokemon recently

[Shadesofgray]

I like the idea of an open league and would like to participate, but my school year is winding down to an end. Over the next few weeks I'm going to have a lot huge projects to work on and deadlines to meet. I doubt I'll be able to start participating until near the end of May.

[PoisonRamune]

Originally Posted by Shadesofgray

I like the idea of an open league and would like to participate, but my school year is winding down to an end. Over the next few weeks I'm going to have a lot huge projects to work on and deadlines to meet. I doubt I'll be able to start participating until near the end of May.

Since it's an open league no problem... I might just keep casual scoring so we know what worked and what was bunk.

[PoisonRamune]

Just bumping this to remind you that there was some fail league planned at one point. And also, I'll be debuting my trainer's choice team in 4 days (I think, it might actually be 8 since I'm not sure if i'm reading this whole beauty/Milotic thing right).

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Originally Posted by PoisonRamune

Just bumping this to remind you that there was some fail league planned at one point. And also, I'll be debuting my trainer's choice team in 4 days (I think, it might actually be 8 since I'm not sure if i'm reading this whole beauty/Milotic thing right).

When are we all going to fight?

[hansolo350]

I think we're all still interest in a league PR. I'm pretty much ready to start battling myself so if you want to fight later this week I'll be there.

[PoisonRamune]

Yeah, I just said fail league, since I did say let's list times when we're free to coordinate and no one did.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

I'm free during the day, sometimes, if I'm not out or working. Heh... I don't have a set work schedule right now since it's exam time. I'm often out/busy in the evenings.

[Tides of Chaos]

I'm basically busy all Monday-Thursday with school and AP exams coming.

[PoisonRamune]

Well, the game has been out for over a month on the NA side and it also seems that many of you tenacious European kids have at least tackled the Johto side of the game, so perhaps it's time to start getting into the heart (Gold) & soul (Silver) of the Pokemon world.

I realized in a crazy dream I had last night where I was driving a lobster car along the beach and picking up zombies with the car's claws; that we really don't all need to coordinate our available times, since this is a one on one thing (unless we want to march around in the carnival, which actually isn't very fun).

So basically, I'll make it that it's your responsibility to schedule at least one match a week with each one of the other participants. I think this will work out better since us working stiffs can can casually burn out a couple matches in the pm hours and on the weekends. And the kids and layabouts can work out matches around their busy schedules of watching TV and using the restroom. The game also has the advantage of being a handheld RPG, so it's inherently easier to get matches done here than with a competitive console game like MKW or SSBB.

We got about 11 participants (as of 4/19/10), so that breaks down to 10 matches a week. I'd really like it if you tried to get all or a majority of those 10 matches done each week, since it would kind of keep the momentum up and keep this from becoming a 2-3 player vacuum.

The league weeks start on Mondays (12:01 am PST) and end on Sunday (12:00 midnight PST), I probably won't be anal with the time, but it makes it look more respectable with it there...

Please feel free to post results (including the team you used and moveset, since we'll all get to learn each other's pokemen in time), commentary of matches (but keep the poo-poo talk to a minimum), strategies/what I could have done different, battle videos, etc of your league matches in the replies.

I guess we're starting as of now... However, I'll let these first few weeks be light weeks since it seems some kids have school stuff going on now and Trapster is still working on a better excuse as to why he can't battle.

[PoisonRamune]

Just to let you know... It's never too late to jump in and join, so just let me know and I'll add you to the list and let everyone know you're playing long.

Also, until I get my trainer's choice team going, you'll be playing against the Hall of Famers (a mix of my Kanto and Johto teams that beat story mode).

[Tides of Chaos]

Hopefully I get time to put together a joke team in addition to my regular team. Although if levels scale to 50, I would just have to worry about acquisition, not about leveling.

[PoisonRamune]

It DOES auto scale (there's also free battling, just in case you're a nut like that). So yeah, just focus and acquiring and movesetting.

[FroguinZX]

I guess I'll also be in, but I'll need a couple weeks to fine tune my pokemon with correct movesets, held items, and stats. When I get them to acceptable standards, how will we go about this for newbies?

[PoisonRamune]

Most of us have secondary (or in Jogo's and other's cases, primary) joke teams as just **** around fight fodder.

Like I'm working on 2 themed teams "Apes-a-Poppin": all monkeys and Charlotte's Web with pokemon representing the story's main animals.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

My primary team is six flying and surfing Pikachus.

[PoisonRamune]

So White/Black came out anyone wanna fight casually (or seriously, I guess) with some Unova pocari?

[Trapster]

Wow, I totally forgot this.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Originally Posted by Trapster

Wow, I totally forgot this.

Cool story, bro.