Legendary Pokémon

Legendary Pokemon: The reboot.

This very website started off pretty much as a child's play. I've acquired numerous useful skills during these years, spent countless hours of irreplaceable time on it, and also through the microcosm it actually is, learnt a lot about life as well.

I'd like to thank the comrades and friends —past and present— whose personal work and moral support made Legendary Pokémon possible: Johnny, Eraleas, Blue, NM2, Serebii and my sister. I owe a big thanks as well, towards the community that survived in our forums. We should also thank The Pokémon Inc. for both their intellectual property and tolerance.

However, I've unfortunately made a mistake: I thought that I'd always be around. I've actually said that “I'll never be like Pokémaster Kevin”; I'm sure few will get the reference. It appears that throughout the years, Legendary Pokémon was raised like a spoilt kind of pet, so intertwined with me that it wouldn't survive alone. Poetic as it may sound it's actually true, the backend is a heavily customized abandoned blog platform, coupled with hundreds of lines of undocumented Pokédex code; but I was a kid learning how to code, right? You should always facilitate contribution and open source the hell of the things you do.

Sometimes things cannot be fixed, but taking care of plants has also taught me that you should never abandon the things you love, no matter how hard it is to nurture them back to life. Therefore what Legendary Pokémon needs is a reboot, not a fix. People's interest has swifted towards social media, The Pokémon Inc. is actually a decent news source nowadays, communities in the fandom that have overspecialized are staple and volume of information is nothing we can compete against. We don't need to compete, we just want to complement.

I believe we need a new niche, coupled with a basic Pokédex perhaps (though that would require tons of work) and swift news reporting. That niche should be unique and quality —episodic perhacs— content: articles, guides, comic strips, fan fiction and reviews that do not reproduce existing information. More like a magazine, written by fans, for fans.

The reboot process will be long, tedious; requires a lot of work on my behalf to make this site independent. It will take months, maybe a year. Most importantly however, it requires your participation: we need your quality thoughts, your insight. In return what we all get is contentment and the feeling of belonging; c'est la vie. Fandom ethics and Intellectual Property laws dictate that we shouldn't make profit out of it anyway.

What could you contribute? What should we do better different than the rest? What would you like in a Pokémon-related website?

Please contribute your thoughts in the related forum thread.

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2013 Spring Friendly

As announced in the Pokémon Global Link website, the next Wi-Fi tournament for Black 2 & White 2 is here. Registrations for the 2013 Spring Friendly start on Thursday, May 9th and last until Thursday, May 16th. The participant limit is set at 50,000 this time; first come, first served as usual. The actual tournament will run from Friday, May 17th through Monday, May 20th. The 2013 Winter Friendly tournament is open to players of Pokémon Black 2 or White 2 worldwide and, unlike most of the previous tournaments, it will not use the VGC rules. The battle format used will be Single Battles instead with Pokémon being turned to Lv.30 for the battles and every Pokémon in the Unova Pokédex of B2/W2 is allowed, including the often banned legendaries. Pokémon not found in the B2/W2 Unova Pokédex are banned. All participants in the 2013 Winter Friendly who enter the rankings will earn two C-Gear skins, featuring White Kyurem and Black Kyurem.

For more information and guidelines on how to enter the tournement, check out the announcement on the PGL.

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Deoxys Wi-Fi event announced

A new Wi-Fi event has been announced for Black, White, Black 2 and White 2. The Pokémon distributed this time is a Level 100 Deoxys and, while its moveset has not been revealed yet, it is most likely going to be the same as Masuda's Deoxys that is currently distributed in Japan which comes with Nasty Plot, Dark Pulse, Recover and Psycho Boost. The event will run from May 8th until May 31st. Deoxys is also going to continue the trend of the signature Pokémon of each new TCG set being distributed via Wi-Fi, picking up from where Mewtwo, Darkrai and Keldeo left, as Plasma Freeze is also released on May 8th.

Update: The announcement on the official site has been updated and it now says that Deoxys will be only available for Black 2 and White 2.

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A Legendary Connection Is Confirmed

A new trailer of the upcoming Pokémon movie "Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo's Awakening" has just aired on Oha Suta and it provides the first footage of Mewtwo switching into its new Forme. You can watch the trailer below:

Mewtwo's transformation scene was also uploaded on the English Youtube channel. New information keeps getting revealed simultaneously worldwide, that's a great sign.

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Who is this new Pokemon?

We've all seen the unconfirmed Mewtwo forme by now, but it's time to strike out the "unconfirmed" part! Although no name or relation to Mewtwo was revealed, Pokémon Smash has just confirmed that the Pokémon is real. So is it a Mewtwo forme? Is it a completely new Pokémon? We will have to wait to learn…

Update: The english official site has just updated with game footage of the new Pokémon. Check it out here.

Update: According to the description of the video uploaded on Pokémon's Youtube account, this is "…a newly discovered Pokémon … that bears an intriguing resemblance to the Legendary Mewtwo!"

Be sure to drop by our Pokémon X & Y thread in the forums to discuss the new Pokémon!

Pictures courtesy of Filb.de.

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European VGC dates announced

The official Pokémon website has just updated with the dates and locations for the European Video Game National Championships. The dates are:

• Italy

Date:

May 11th-12th

Location:

Mediolanum Forum, Milan

• Germany

Date:

May 25th-26th

Location:

RuhrCongress, Bochum

• United Kingdom

Date:

June 1st-2nd

Location:

National Exhibition Center (NEC), Birmingham

For more information regarding the tournaments' structure and prizes, you can check the official announcement here. It's worth mentioning that this year France and Spain will not get a National VGC, unlike previous years.

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