Weekly News!

June 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Welcome to the Pokefarm Farm Event Report! I’ll be giving a quick run down of the upcoming farming events of various farmers. We have two sections, the main site, usually the events you see posted in the “Farming News” section, and Forum Farming Events, these events will require you to visit our forums to claim one of these rare beauties.

Main Site Events:
Today we had Nikola Tesla’s Mystical Ninetails. They were all modest, and had the following move set: Energy Ball, Dark Pulse, Fire Blast, and Hypnosis. If you missed one of these beauties please post in the leftovers thread in the forums.

Forum Events:

On Sunday Narnad, the Farmer on the Dell, had his Soundproof Mr. Mime up for adoption. These clowns have a Calm nature, and the following move set: Thunder Wave, Teeter Dance, Substitute, and Baton Pass. Check out his farm if you’d like to inquire about leftovers.

This week from Noctem Ridge we’ll have Noctem’s Special Bagon. These guys will be of the modest nature and will have the following move set: Dragon Pulse, Hydro Pump, Flamethrower, and Draco Meteor. Supply will be limited to be sure to keep an eye out for these little guys.

That’s all for the events this week, be sure to join the forum, so that you can keep an eye out for these beastly pokemon! If you have any questions, you can refer to the respective farmers about their events.

Posted by Babael | Filed Under News 

Pokemon Farming: Ninetails

June 26, 2008 | 65 Comments

This time in Pokemon Farming: Ninetails, the fox pokemon!
Ninetails
During my years playing pokemon I have found fascinating parallels between the game Pokemon and the Japanese Shinto Faith. I have spent much time researching the two and have found that pokemon has definitely been influenced by the different Kami, Yokai, or spirits in the Shinto religion.

For me the most amazing discovery was the Kitsune.

The Kitsune, kitsune translated means fox spirit. It is these Kistune of legend that are said to possess great magical powers. The more tails the Kitsune has the more powerful it is. With nine being near deity like status.

As you can see from the above woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Nintedo and Pokemon definitely have their creative inspirations.

The Kitsune also play a large role in shintoism in particular, they play an important part in worship at the Inari temple, or temple of rice. Over the centuries it is said that the Kitsune and Inari have developed a great bond. Where there is Inari there is Kitsune. Since foxes often have a playful nature it became common place to try and appease them to prevent any whimsy or tricks that may befall someone. While the foxes have not been directly worshipped there are shrines within Inari to pay them homage.

Within the temple of Inari there are two levels; an upper served by the male Kitsune Osusuki and the lower served by the female Kitsune Akomachi. As such each benevolent Kitsune I am giving will be named either by its male or female name.

Ninetails

nature: Modest
ability: flashfire

  • Hypnosis to put your opponent to sleep.
  • Dark Pulse to combat ghosts and psychics.
  • Energy Ball counter ground and water pokemon.
  • Fire Blast A high powered STAB attack.

hold item: Wide Lens

These Ninetails are ready to battle. In addition to the moves above you may teach them dream eater with a TM or use a heart scale to re-learn Nasty Plot. They have quite a diverse set of moves. The wide lens boosts the accuracy of all your moves, so both fire blast and hypnosis will have a much better chance of landing a hit.

To get one of these legendary pokemon (I only have 30)

  • Comment with your Name and Friend Code
    • Even if we have traded before, I need your information again!
  • Get a Pokemon to trade (If you happen to have any of these pokemon to spare (Hayley wants me to get them) I’d be very appreciative.Armaldo, Poliwrath, Hitmontop, Glailie, Manectric, Lairon, Agron, Larvitar, Tyranitar, Kabutops, Omastar, Lickilicky, Wartortle, Blastoise, Ampharos, Typhlosion, Bayleaf, Meganium, Sceptile, Grovyle, Swampert
    Don’t have those? That’s ok I will take anything; please, no eggs!, items like Rare Candies and TMs are always appreciated! )
  • Be in the Wi-Fi zone at 11am EST (New York Time) on June 30 (Monday)
  • Make yourself available to Trade (Invite–>Trade) I will come to you when I’m ready.
  • If you are new to our site, your first comment will be moderated. Don’t worry if your post doesn’t show, we will get to it in time, and you will not miss out!

My Information:

Trainer name: Nikola

Friend Code: 3050-8616-6055

See you all then!

Posted by NikolaTesla | Filed Under Farming 

Pokemon Farming: Horsea

June 22, 2008 | 52 Comments

This time in Pokemon Farming: Horsea, the dragon pokemon!
Horsea
Horsea hails back all the way for the first generation of games, back when it was only him and Seadra. Kingdra was added to the mix in the second generation with the addition of Dragon Scales, and it created the monster we have today! Horsea levels up at level 32 to Seadra, than evovles into Kingdra when you attach a Dragon Scale and trade it.

I had a little dilemma with making a moveset for this versatile little swimmer, with its dual abilities being both equally awesome. It could have crazy critical hit power or it could be really fast, and they both have very different movesets. But I finally decided on speed and made up this little beast:

  • Rain Dance–With ability Swift Swim, it not only increases power of water moves, it doubles speed
  • Surf–Att 95 Acc. 100% STAB
  • Ice Beam–Att 95 Acc. 100%
  • Dragon Pulse–Att 90 Acc. 100% STAB (when it evolves into Kingdra)

All Horsea today will be Modest (+Sp.Att.,-Att.) and have the ability Swift Swim, which doubles speed during rain. Also, all Horseas given away today will have a Dragon Scale attached, so they will be ready to evolve for you!

So, want a Rain Dancin’ Sea Beasts? Here’s how!

  • Comment with your Name and Friend Code
    • Even if we have traded before, I need your information again!
  • Get a Pokemon to trade (preferably non-Sinnoh, though I will take anything, items like Rare Candies and TMs are always appreciated!)
  • Be in the Wi-Fi zone at 5pm ET (New York Time) on June 24 (Tuesday)
  • Make yourself available to Trade (Invite–>Trade) I will come to you when I’m ready.
  • If you are new to our site, your first comment will be moderated. Don’t worry if your post doesn’t show, we will get to it in time, and you will not miss out!

My Information:

Trainer name: God

Friend Code: 0602-6974-2308

See you all then!

Posted by TheTaterTot | Filed Under Farming 

Weekly News!

June 22, 2008 | Comments Off

Welcome to the Pokefarm Farm Event Report! I’ll be giving a quick run down of the upcoming farming events of various farmers. We have two sections, the main site, usually the events you see posted in the “Farming News” section, and Forum Farming Events, these events will require you to visit our forums to claim one of these rare beauties.

Main Site Events:

This week we have The Tatertot’s Rain Dancing Horsea. Her event starts on Tuesday at 5pm ET. Her Horsea will be of the modest nature, have the ability Swift Swim, as well as the move set: Ice Beam, Rain dance, Surf and Dragon Pulse. As an added bonus these lovely pokemon will be holding a Dragon Scale, so when the time comes to finally evolve them into Kingdra, you won’t have to go out and poach Seadra and Horsea

Forum Events:

This week as WCN’s Farm, we have his Timid Houndour which will be up for adoption this week. These flash fire beauties will have the move set: Sunny Day, Solarbeam, Flamethrower, and Dark pulse.

From Whitdjinn, we will have his amazing tough Rhyhorn. They will all be adamant and have the move set Stone Edge, Earthquake, Swords dance, and Avalanche/Megahorn. These monsters will already be EV trained for you, but be careful, you’ll have to keep your wits about you to answer the trivia questions you’ll have to get right just to adopt these guys.

Next we have Nikola Tesla’s Mystical Ninetails. These foxes will be of the modest nature, and will have the move set: Energy ball, Dark Pulse, Fire Blast, and Hypnosis. As a perk, these guy will arrive holding a Wide Lens, which slightly up the accuracy of Hypnosis. This event will begin June 30th at 11:00 AM EST.

And finally from Narnad, the Farmer on the Dell, we have his Soundproof Mr. Mime up for adoption. These clowns will have a Calm nature, and the following move set: Thunder Wave, Teeter Dance, Substitute, and Baton Pass. They’re going to be real team players.

That’s all for the events this week, be sure to join the forum, so that you can keep an eye out for these beastly pokemon! If you have any questions, you can refer to the respective farmers about their events.

Posted by Babael | Filed Under News 

Pokemon Farming: Tauros

June 11, 2008 | 52 Comments

Starting this week the Backward Seven Ranch will be open for business by Deneves in the Farming Sub-forums. With Father’s Day just around the corner, The Backward Seven Ranch premier offering will be the wild bull pokemon Tauros. These Jolly (+Speed, - SpAtt) dads are rampaging all the time. They can be stubborn, have a lot of stamina, and like to show off their strength. (Sound familiar to anyone) These proud papas have the following moves:

Return (Normal STAB, Power –, Acc 100) Power goes up as friendship goes up:
Because this is the day to return some of the love and guidance that your father has given you over the years.

Earthquake (Ground, Power 100, Acc 100):
This is for the dads who rock your world, one way or another.

Stone Edge (Rock, Power 100, Acc 80):
This is for the dads with a rock hard exterior, but deep down have a heart of gold.

Substitute (creates a decoy using ¼ of his HP):
While there may be no substitute for your dad, these papa bulls can create a decoy that will prevent status problems that can slow down your rampaging fun. This can be an effective way to activate a Salac berry for extra speed or a Liechi berry for more power.

Their abilities are:
Intimidate - One glare from these dads and they’ll lower opponents attack one stage
Anger Point - They can be pushed and pushed until you go to far then watch out. A critical blow will boost their attack six stages to a maximum level.

Tauros is one of the faster pokemon and all these big daddy bulls will all have a 31 IV in speed.

Comment with your Name and Friend Code
Get a pokemon to trade, I’m not looking for anything particular just something you don’t want. Stones or Rocks are appreciated but not needed.
Be in the Wi-Fi zone at 5 PM pacific (8 PM Eastern) on Saturday June 14
Make yourself available to Trade (invite->Trade) I will come to you when I’m ready.

My info is:
Deneves
FC: 2707 1196 0447

Posted by Deneves | Filed Under Farming 

Early thoughts on Pokemon Ranch

June 9, 2008 | 19 Comments

Pokefarm Preview

Steve asked me to post a few of my thoughts on the New WiiWare title Pokemon Ranch.

Read on for a quick tour around the newest WiiWare tile and the answer to all our overstuffed boxes!

After an initial step by step setup of the game you are sent to the Farm. When the game starts Hayley, the owner of the ranch brings 5 Pokémon with her to “get the farm started” and shows you around the farm and the game controls. Hayley indicates she will bring one more Pokémon every day but encourages you to bring as many of your Pokemon as you can to fill up her farm.

Naturally, I immediately fired up the transfer program. The rumors about a Pokémon per day limit are correct. There is a 20 Pokémon/Day limit, but it is actually a lot tighter than that. The initial batch of Pokemon that Haley brought also count against the limit. I was able to transfer 15 more from my game. so I’m guessing in the future I’ll be able to send 19 a day.

I have a lot of legends sitting around not doing anything, so they were among the first that I sent over. I ended up with something like this:

In a very nice touch, my shiny Goldeen retained her shiny colors when she appeared in the Ranch.

After that, I’m afraid there wasn’t much active to do. This is not entirely unsurprising as the game was billed as a storage system first and foremost. Haley hinted that there were more toys and features to come as her farm grew (read: as you deposit more Pokémon)

Still, my wife and I had a great time watching the goings on:

The Pokémon that I deposited wandered around the farmyard interacting with my Mii, my Wife’s Mii, Haley, and each other.

Pikachu gave piggyback rides, various Pokémon fell asleep, scooted around, and every few minutes everyone got together to do a trick:

Perhaps unsurprisingly, my MewTwo was a bit of a Jerk. He kept going around shooting confuse rays at the other Pokémon until my Marrowak Casey had enough and hit him (and my Mii, and several other Pokémon) with an Earthquake.

Darkrai particularly loved snatching me up and carrying my around:

All in all, this was very cute. The camera controls were limited but the instructions described a “free camera” mode I couldn’t access. I’m guessing that is probably one of the upgrades that will become available after I deposit a few dozen more Pokémon. There were also instructions on how to use the toys, which I didn’t’ start with. I’m therefore guessing that there will be more and more content as time goes on.

As a storage system, the Pokémon per Day limit kind of hurts, but as a little gadget to spend 10 min with every time you fire up you Wii Pokefarm is Brilliant. I suspect I’ll be leaving it on in the background while I’m working on something else. My wife described it as “like watching a Fish tank, but with Lighting Bolts”

And here are a few more screen shots. For those wondering how to get these out of the game, the player can take pictures with a “camera” in the game. If you go into the album within the game it give you the option to save it to a SD card. From there I just popped the SD card into my laptop and uploaded the images to my image sharing app.

(I was having a Pokémon Parade, in case you are wondering about the confetti):

    Editor’s Notes

  • The Pokémon per day limit increases as your ranch increases in size.
  • You only have one ranch even though up to eight Diamond/Pearl games can connect with it.
  • When you bring Pokémon into the ranch you assign a Mii to take care of them.
  • You can only withdraw Pokémon back onto the cartridge that deposited them.
  • Free Mode opens up on the second day.
  • You can use the “Time Travel” trick to unlock everything in one day.

Posted by jhamin | Filed Under News 

Pokemon Ranch Comes to WiiWare!

June 9, 2008 | 5 Comments

The day you have been waiting for has arrived, Pokemon Ranch is now on the Wii via WiiWare!

My Pokémon Ranch (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone—Comic Mischief, 1,000 Wii Points, 123 blocks): The Pokémon phenomenon debuts on WiiWare with My Pokémon Ranch, a game that lets you watch as Pokémon and Miis interact with each other for the first time. Enjoy the relaxing ranch life by viewing your ranch and its Pokémon, taking pictures and sending those pictures to your friends via the Wii Message Board. The more Pokémon and Miis you bring to your ranch, the more fun it becomes. My Pokémon Ranch can be linked with the Nintendo DS™ Pokémon® Diamond and Pokémon® Pearl Game Cards to deposit the Pokémon you’ve caught in these games in your ranch. You can deposit a maximum of 1,000 Pokémon from up to eight different game cards. Make your ranch livelier by playing with your friends and family.

Many of us have been looking for something to replace Pokemon Box for the GameCube. That wonderful title allowed you to store massive amounts of Pokemon from your GBA games and arrange them. It’s sorting capabilities are a bit lacking but when your box is full in your GBA game you need someplace to store those extra Pokemon!

My Pokemon Ranch is not a straight up clone of the original Pokemon Box, which is a good thing. One of the problems with Pokemon Box is that you had to have 100 Pokemon in your Pokedex before you could move Pokemon out of Box and onto your GBA. My Pokemon Ranch uses a different mechanic where you can only send so many Pokemon a day into the ranch. This game uses a level system that increases the size of your ranch as you deposit more Pokemon inside.

NOTE: The storage is tied directly to the cartridge you use. If you restart the game you can never get those Pokemon back!

Posted by HMTKSteve | Filed Under News 

Arrival of the Gemini Gym

June 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

Ever since the concept of two-on-two battles were brought into the franchise in the Gameboy Advance era the Doubles Battle has been fully supported part of the competitive battle experience. With the arrival of Diamond and Pearl we even have the ability to conduce WiFi battles in single or double mode. But somehow Double Battles always remained the redheaded stepchild of the competitive battling scene. The “real” battlers are all about singles matches. Read any strategy article or Pokémon move set and it doesn’t even bear mentioning that the advice is for the Singles Battle Environment.

I have long wondered why this is so. I think the reason ultimately boils down to the unpredictability of the doubles environment. When your opponent only has one Pokémon on the field you can make some guesses about it. You can guess what attacks it has and how well it will weather the attack your single Pokémon is about to unleash. You can decide if you need to attack or if you need to switch out your current Pokémon for another on your bench. When there are two Pokémon on the field everything suddenly gets more complicated. Is he going to launch an attack? If so which of my Pokémon is he going after? Or does he have a move that will hit both? Or is he going to do something crazy like boost his partner before his partner attacks me? There are more variables, and a lot of strange moves that are designed to work only in the Doubles environment. It is a whole new world.

The concept behind this gym is to bring the “other half” of Pokémon Battling to Pokefarm. This has long been a private wish of mine. When I was awarded the Forest Gym a few months ago one of the first things I did was ask about the possibility of transforming it into a Doubles Gym. At the time the Pokémon League judges thought that might be a bit too off the beaten path. A challenger working his way through the League needed a few things he could count on in his battles with the Gym Leaders and only facing one Poke at a time was deemed one of them.

Imagine my delight when the concept of “expansion gyms” was brought up in that seedy smoke-filled room we Gym Leaders meet in to plan the fate of the Pokémon League. It was decided that the time had come for a shakeup in the Gym system. It was time for two new Gyms. Buzz was awarded his Bug Gym in the culmination of his long running ambition. And then someone remembered that I had lobbied for a Doubles Forest Gym. That wasn’t the way they wanted to go, but maybe a doubles gym all by itself was a good idea. And so I was awarded what came to be known as the Gemini Gym.

Thus I am thrilled to announce the arrival of the latest new gym to Pokefarm! The Gemini gym is not a formal part of the Pokefarm League, and will live in the Battle Tower alongside the Chrysalis gym. Winners in the gym will receive a badge, but defeating the Gemini Gym will not be required to become a Pokefarm League champion. I also will not have any “types” associated with my gym like Grass is associated with the Forest Gym or Bug is associated with the Chrysalis gym. Gemini is all about doubles battling and it was decided that it doesn’t need any other theme than that. My goal is not to be invincible, but to be a challenge. A challenge that is different from what people have seen in the Gyms so far. So teach your Pokémon Discharge instead of Thunderbolt, or Heat wave instead of Flame Thrower, and enter a new arena. I look forward to seeing you.

(And because many will ask, I am not stepping down as Forest Gym Leader. After all, who better to lead the Doubles Gym than a leader with two gyms?)

The Gemini gym awaits.

Posted by jhamin | Filed Under News 

Deoxys at GameStop June 2008

June 8, 2008 | 20 Comments

Deoxys Flyer

Rumors are flowing all over the Internet about a Deoxys giveway at GameStop. I have received confirmation about the event and the particulars are as follows:

  • Event is GameStop only.
  • First Chance: June 20th-22nd.
  • Second Chance: 27th-29th.

Hold Item: Nevermelt Ice

Deoxys is one of the harder Hoenn rare Pokemon to get. Unlike Jirachi (GameCube Bonus Disk) the odds of finding someone willing to trade you a legit Deoxys are quite low. Deoxys was given out during the “Pokemon Rocks America” tours but those have been over for a while.

No word if the event will be carried over at the Nintendo World Store in New York City.

Special thanks to MissingNo. from the forums!

Posted by HMTKSteve | Filed Under News