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The PAX Pokemon League (UPDATE: HALL OF FAME!)
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Keep in mind, if you swap someone in to face 1 Elite 4 member, they're in your team for the duration. So it better be able to handle that iron 'mon challenge.
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First off, the immoveable object, formerly a gym leader has been chosen as the successor to former elite four member Lance, after having been put to shame by The prince, our first elite four member. He has chosen his successor to bo the immoveable object based on his skill and accomplishments on th battle feild as lance retires (for now at least)
Also, I'm having some tech difficulties with pictures, and it is taking a bit to get them up online and displaying on the first post (and when they are showing, they are all in varying sizes) so please bear with us while we sort all that junk out. some pictures are still missing dues to the respective leaders not sending me stuff, but they are just a small minority of the total group.
there will be annother update a bit later tonight (or maybe tomorrow...) with as many other pictures as I can wrangle.
EDIT: updated with 2 new pictures. more to come soon.
I'll also soon have a picture of the distinctive armbands that we all will be wearing. you'd be supprised how hard it is to find a color that stands out from most cosplays and clothing...
We now have our own hashtag for our tweets, that we want you challengers to use too.
Tag your PPL related tweets with #PaxPokemon to tell the world of your acomplishments over various gym leaders, Team Rocket grunts, or even the progress on training your team. All our tweets from here on out will be tagged with that as well, and we hope you tag likewise so we can find your tweets and congratulate you.
That would make the Elite 4 travel together, or placed on each floor of the convention center so you take the mysterious stair/escalator ride up to the next level, oh and an Enforcer will have to block off the path you just took so you can't go back
yeah, ideally you should face them with all one team, and in order, but we can't enforce that you keep hte same team (we can make sure you do the order right.
EDIT: also fixing the HUGE sizes of some stuff...
EDIT EDIT: fixed.
update coming tonight, and the SECRET SUPPRISE UPDATE is coming tomorrow.
any guesses as what tomorrow's awesome supprise is?
You finally spell surprise correctly?
;p
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First of all,I'm cosplaying as a team rocket grunt. Is there something that sets the "infiltration" team rocket members from anyone who may just be cosplaying regularly as one?Or perhaps I'm just doomed to have tons of random people wanting to wi-fi battle me?
Also,how hard are these gym battles going to be? I have a team,but I have never competitively battled before. I have never once paid any mind to EV/IV stuff.I'd really like to be able to win badges still...=(
The gym leaders each have varying difficulty, but the elite four will be the toughest. some gym leaders will have fewer pokemon than others. EV/IV training is only done by some leaders, even through to the elite four, so you don't need to do that to be able to win.
suprise! I just did.
I'm a physics major, not an english major
maybe...
also, going to add in the last Elite four member now!
So close, yet still wrong! You really need firefox to underline those pesky words for you.
ADDED : Elite 4 member #4 The illuminati
also, a GYM LEADER (who I missed, on my own fault) eva lucian. go look up that bio and read it, its a good one.
note: eva lucian is not the secret suRprise, that's coming tomorrow
also not the secret surprise.
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The route right in front of Mt. Silver is my recommendation if you can get to 16 badges. Shy of that, Victory Road would be good as well.
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this is also not the secret surprise...
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Pfft, that's just creepy, plus I'm no narcissist.
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Also are the GLs/Elite4 allowed to battle each other to get badges as well?
We're pretty much committed for gym leaders, but we're definitely looking for people to help us advertise! We will have a bunch of fliers ready for the event, so if you want to help publicize just give us a line.
We prefer gym leaders not to battle each other for badges - it's kind of cheating since all the gym leaders know each others' teams and levels - and will know where everyone else is at most times. We prefer to save the prizes for the actual challengers!
I had no idea that Pokemon's battle system was this deep!
Basically my question is, do I need to have a bunch of different teams built to try and take on the Guild leaders and the Elite four, or is there a chance that a team of different typed pokemon could put up a fight without having to min-max to beat the themes?
Thanks,
Whitewolfjm
Levels? If we challenge a GL and let's say we both have HG/SS, what levels their team is wouldn't matter would it? Since we'd be doing flat battles?
Q: do I need different teams to battle the different leaders?
no, not really. sure, you could stack on an extra of a certain type to give yourself an upper hand, but it shouldn't be required.
Q: am I ALLOWED different teams to battle different leaders?
we don't have a way of enforcing you using the same team, so you're welcome to either use the same team, or switch up each time if you want.
Q: what levels should my pokemon be?
We'll be using flat battles whenever possible, so if you have a copy of HG/SS and choose to flat battle, then all pokemon ABOVE level 50 get scaled down to level 50 (pokemon won't scale up).
any more quesstions?
I wouldn't recommend against it. As its been said before, since there will be scaling levels of difficulty between the gym leaders and the ability to rematch them once a day, as long as you have 4 solid Pokemon you'll be fine. Using just your favourites (despite their ratings by the 'pros') will net you a few badges at least. We want you all to get badges and have a blast. It's really only when you hit the Elite 4 when you want to start carefully choosing your mons.
We learned (thankfully) that flat battle only brings Pokemon down to level 50 and not up to level 50.
Example of flat battle:
Level 75 Gyrados becomes level 50 with level 50 stats.
Level 35 Beedrill stays level 35.
Best of luck to everyone at the show. Illumination awaits!
as for an ending time to the PPL, it will be midnight sunday night.
That should give you ample time to face the entirety of the league.
this is also not the sercret surprise.
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yeah, this.
deploying secret surprise in 3...2...1...
EDIT: one sec... went over the character limit...
I'm getting rid of some of the stuff in the "archive" portion.
EDIT EDIT: done. it's up.
Can't wait