Legendary Pokémon

Pokemon Standards Initiative

Greetings fellow Pokémon fans,

The Pokémon fandom is truly remarkable: loyal, evergreen, creative and vast. However, while the sheer size of the fandom has certainly positive effects on the quality of the information produced, it also results into cluttered, cut-off bits.

As common sense dictates, localized communities are not water-tight, meaning users roam around using different related programs and visit several websites / forums, often with equally active accounts on many of them. Not only they have to keep several instances of their online presence, they need to move their Pokémon data along, whether that is their team's information, "trade material" and whatnot.

It would be overly optimistic (at the moment at least) to think of a portable "Pokéfan" identity across fansites; it is however possible to break all the rest free.

My vision (in lack of a less pompous word) is that anyone will be one day able to Copy a line of text and Paste it in their favourite application, forum, website and let the software format, translate and display it, never to worry about having to input their information over and over again.

A Pokémon data structure is merely a graspable example; such a set of rules / standards could facilitate anything related to information exchange within the community, for the benefit of the end user, that is… us.

Like any other fandom, we occasionally quarrel, become fanboys and flame each other, often forgetting how we all enjoy playing the same games. This can be one of those different, rare cases of collaboration beyond personal grudges and language barriers that can easily yield efficient and palpable benefits for years to come.

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Combination Attacks

As revealed in a scan of the CoroCoro Special magazine, Double and Triple battles in Black and White will have a new feature called Combination Attacks. This will allow Pokémon to combine certain attacks into a new effect, if used in a specific order. Three new attacks that work this way were introduced: Grass Oath, Fire Oath and Water Oath.

• If you use Grass Oath and then Fire Oath, the result will be a field of fire that damages your opponent's Pokémon each turn.
• Using Fire Oath and then Water Oath will result in a rainbow which raises the chance of an attack's secondary effect to happen.
• Using Water Oath followed by Grass Oath will result in a swamp-like field that lowers the Speed of your opponent's Pokémon.

Whether these combinations apply to all moves or just specific ones and whether those 'specific' moves will be available in Single battles as well is still unknown. However, it is certainly an interesting update in the battle mechanics that will definitely change the strategies for Double and Triple battles.

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We've just turned 9 years old!

It's this time of the year again, when you come to realize the age of this this keel that is.

According to our records, we've been running continuously for a whopping 9 years, and we'll continue to do so as long we've got a tiny bit of that precious thing called free time.

We keep going on from this small stronghold because we do believe there still a lot to be done in this evergreen and promising fandom. Thank you for your continuous support and for valuing our work.

See you around!

artwork by velisianna & yours truly

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Yanappu!

Pokémon Sunday just finished airing moments ago and they revealed the Pokémon with the broccoli-like head. Its name is Yanappu [ヤナップ], it's the Grass Monkey Pokémon and it stands 0.6m tall and weighs 10.5kg. It is a Grass-type, its ability is Gluttony and it learns a new attack named Acrobat [アクロバット], which can hit opponents out of its range in triple battles. Its power also doubles if the user has no held item. We didn't get as much new information as we believed, but still, it's a new Pokémon.

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Behold, a classy octopus!

Two photos from a demo unit in Japan, reveal what it seems to be a blurry blue octopus(?) (I'm afraid the beard and top hat are just accessories for the Pokémon Musical), the previously seen Tabunne, and a second blurry one as well.

Source: SPMB

In other news, the 2010 Pokémon World Championship is over, so make sure to head to the official website and check on some cool videos and photos. Also, congratulations to the winners.

The Pokémon GTS website is closing, in preparation for the for the Pokémon Global Link:

Thank you for your interest in Pokémon and the Pokémon GTS website.

The Pokémon GTS website will close at 11:00 a.m. PST on 9/14/10.

Although the website is closing, you can continue to use the Pokémon GTS service to trade Pokémon in your video games.

The Pokémon GTS website is closing, but there is a lot of Pokémon fun and excitement on the way. Stay tuned to Pokemon.com for the latest news!

And last but not least, PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure will be released on November 1st, 2010 whilst Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs will be released on October 4th, 2010 in America.

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YANP

Yes, YAPN, which henceforth means "Yet Another New Pokémon". Tabunne [タブンネ] from yesterweek's rumors has been confirmed through a photo from the BW Bus Tour; it is supposedly of Normal-type and can learn Growl, Helping Hand and Double Slap. Next are clearer screenshots of Darumakka and Basurao. This brings us to a whopping total of 40 new Pokémon that have been revealed so far.

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