Pokemon Made Real

[Space Jawa]

Wow. I applaud those peoples' efforts for putting that much work into that. Makes me wish I could actually get to one of those conventions sometime so I could take part myself (and would totally bring a hat to turn or something).

Pokemon: For! The! Win!

 

[Rararaz]

That is seriously awesome!

Wish they would do something like that in the UK...

 

[MalevolentJim]

Thats overwhelmingly awesome.

Who would John Funk's ice team consist of I wonder.

The one I have? Abomasnow, Weavile, Mamoswine, Glaceon, Walrein, Froslass.

You should include the hilarious Ice-Cream Pokémon for Generation V,it's made entirely of win!


The PokéLARP idea actually sounds pretty epic, I wish there was something like that in Ireland

 

[Rawle Lucas]

Off topic, wow, there's been a lot of people appearing as Touhou characters at conventions lately.

Would you say that there'd be at least (9) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAJNCzU5TE] people dressed as Touhou characters? Perhaps there'd be (9) badges?

But yeah, a real-life Pokemon league sounds awesome, though my own Pokemon, despite their strength, are nowhere near level 100.

 

[randommaster]

Off topic, wow, there's been a lot of people appearing as Touhou characters at conventions lately.

Would you say that there'd be at least (9) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAJNCzU5TE] people dressed as Touhou characters? Perhaps there'd be (9) badges?

But yeah, a real-life Pokemon league sounds awesome, though my own Pokemon, despite their strength, are nowhere near level 100.

I'm pretty sure that gym leader's useless, only good for her sex appeal.

I believe pokemon agmes can now auto-level pokemon, though, so you don't have to worry about grinding.

 

[snowman6251]

That is the coolest thing I have ever read about.

I really wish I'd been at PAX to see that.

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

Unbelievably unfair :'(
Nothing cool ever happens in Tasmania Australia...

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Sounds good, I would like to see 1 gym in each state and vitural battling

 

[icyneesan]

Man, I can just imagine the Pokemon Company setting up 'offical gyms' throughout every major country for everyone to go and battle.

I want to learn a Water-type gym here, but first I need more Tentacruel.

 

[Rawle Lucas]

Off topic, wow, there's been a lot of people appearing as Touhou characters at conventions lately.

Would you say that there'd be at least (9) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAJNCzU5TE] people dressed as Touhou characters? Perhaps there'd be (9) badges?

But yeah, a real-life Pokemon league sounds awesome, though my own Pokemon, despite their strength, are nowhere near level 100.

I'm pretty sure that gym leader's useless, only good for her sex appeal.

I believe pokemon agmes can now auto-level pokemon, though, so you don't have to worry about grinding.

Auto-leveling? How does it work? I'm guessing that you're referring to the daycare and the Pokewalker, but you have little control over which moves are learned.

 

[Buizel91]

How did this work...? Did they use DS's? Or... did you bring Pokémon to life?

I hope DS...

I can't imagine people in Pokemon costumes breathing fire...

 

[twm1709]

wow, that's almost worth getting back in the game for.
My second generation team: Miltank, Steelix, Blastoise, Arcanine, Zapdos and Umbreon... they're still chilling after almost 10 years in my gameboy color, a few meters away from me .

 

[Gilhelmi]

Dang I wish I lived somewhere where I could go to conventions. They sounds awesome.

 

[Polaris19]

Oh I so want to get i n on this....

 

[McBurks]

That sounds cool,but considering the amount of hardcore people who follow the metagame it'd be hard for any casual fan to win any badges.

 

[SilverUchiha]

I really want to be a part of this. Not just this little league thing, but also just going to PAX sometime. I'd love to check it out. Hopefully I will some day.

 

[lumenadducere]

How did this work...? Did they use DS's? Or... did you bring Pokémon to life?

We used DSes. The good thing is SoulSilver and HeartGold have a flat-battle option that sets all the pokemon to level 50 to make it equal, so if you had those versions you only had to make sure to level to 50 or above. Anyone with an older version unfortunately was going to be facing level 100s without the flat-battle option, but it worked out.

That sounds cool,but considering the amount of hardcore people who follow the metagame it'd be hard for any casual fan to win any badges.

Nah, they actually had it set up so you don't really need to worry about the metagame to win a few badges. Only a few of the leaders bothered with the EV/IV stuff, and even then it wasn't for the whole team but for one or two specific pokemon, but even the gym-leaders in the games have one that's the rear guard of the team and is tougher to beat (Lucario, Miltank, Dragonite, etc.). They wanted to design it so even casual players would be able to win badges. Plus you only needed 6 to challenge the elite four instead of 8 like the games, so if you were able to meet up with everyone else you had a decent shot. Only catch was that gym leaders could only be challenged once per day, and if you lost during the elite four then you couldn't re-challenge them.

I wasn't a gym leader this year, but I think I'll go ahead and apply for next year's PAX. And John, I will specifically be looking to challenge you next year - I want an Escapist badge!

 

[Unesh52]

I don't have much to say, but I feel the need to express how completely awesome this idea was. It was pretty freaking awesome.

 

[randommaster]

Off topic, wow, there's been a lot of people appearing as Touhou characters at conventions lately.

Would you say that there'd be at least (9) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAJNCzU5TE] people dressed as Touhou characters? Perhaps there'd be (9) badges?

But yeah, a real-life Pokemon league sounds awesome, though my own Pokemon, despite their strength, are nowhere near level 100.

I'm pretty sure that gym leader's useless, only good for her sex appeal.

I believe pokemon agmes can now auto-level pokemon, though, so you don't have to worry about grinding.

Auto-leveling? How does it work? I'm guessing that you're referring to the daycare and the Pokewalker, but you have little control over which moves are learned.

No, nothing like that. Since each pokemon has fixed base stats, it's very easy to figure out what all the stats should be for any particular level. You can then factor in IVs and EVs to get the final stats for any particular level. This way you can have EV-trained pokemon that are fully evolved, but not level 100, fight pokemon that have been trained to level 100. It only works for the PvP, though, so your pokemon revert back to their original levels when you go back to normal play.

It's what the battle tower in D/P/Pl does to prevent you from simply having overleved pokemon smash through everything.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Awesome! I missed being literally face to face with my friend Robin, battling it out furiously in his parents basement. Now that it is all online, the feeling one gets while battling in the same room has disappeared for the most part. If I ever have a chance to attend one of these conventions featuring this, I'm going to bring my best Pokemon hat and my best team and beat them all!

[sub][sub]Or, optionally, take my place as Giovanni. MUHAHAHAHAHA![/sub][/sub]