Breeding 101: Hidden Power

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Gather around the campfire children, today is the final installment in this wonderful series I like to call Breeding 101.  You are already armed with everything you need to breed competitive Pokémon.  You know how to breed for moves, Individual Values, and nature.  You can speed up hatching time with some handy Pokémon, and you know how to figure out your Pokémon's strengths and weaknesses.  But nothing can prepare you for the gelatinous hell-beast we in the breeding business like to call Hidden Power.

This week's installment comes to you with a very large disclaimer: No matter what you do, Hidden Power is going to be random.  No matter how much influence you have over your Pokémon's stats in the form of Power Items, you never truly have any sort of control over it.  So if you want to leave our digital band of heroes, I can't say as I blame you.  For those who are strong of heart, venture forth.  We shall slay this beast!

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Sunday Recap (Sept 27 - Oct 2)

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If you new to the site and Podcast, well then... WELCOME! For everyone else, here is your weekly run down of everything we posted, did you miss anything?

Breeding 101: Natures - Breeding 101

PKMN of the Week: Poliwrath Vs. Politoed - PKMN of the Week

Featured Team of the Week - Featured Team

Let's Draw Pokémon Day! - News

MOTW: Brick Break - Weekly Move

Pokémon Comics - Rare Article

Hippopotas - Found Item

Pokémon Comics

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We are going to keep today’s article short and sweet. Well... I think we try to do that every week. Never really works that well... but we are not lying this time! Searching the web, we discovered a couple Pokémon Comics. Who doesn’t like a good laugh, right? There surprisingly are a lot of comics out there, like anything in the internet world, but two stood out to us that we would love to share with you guys.

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MOTW: Brick Break

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So last week the move that we covered was earthquake. A fairly common move, and is used in large numbers throughout teams, and has been around for all 4 gens so far. A good example of this was episode 13 where the featured team that we covered had it in their team 4 times. A little overkill if you ask me, but, could be used well if implemented with the correct strategy. This week we’re talking fighting moves, and namely one more popular and useful one, Brick Break.

Now, fighting type moves seem to me, at least, to be a very good choice to put on your team. Many opposing Pokemon you’ll come up against will generally have a normal multiplier

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Let's Draw Pokémon Day!

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The guys over at ALBOTAS invented a new Holiday called "Let's Draw Pokémon Day"! It's taking place in just a couple days, Sept 30, to be exact. Want to participate in this amazing holiday? We know you do, so here is the details. You draw a picture of your Pokémanz of choice and sent it to them. The won't post any pictures until Sept 30th, then what they are going to do is unleash all of them on their blog throughout the day, pretty sweet, right!

You can join them on Facebook and find there site right HERE!

They have over 1000 people that say they are participating. Crazy right? 

We have you all you fans, and we think your amazing, so represent us well you PokéNerds!

Featured Team of the Week

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This week we are looking at Connor's team. Each team gets more and more impressive this week. Connor makes some very unique choices with his team. We see some old returning favorites, but we also see some new Pokémon on his team that no other team has done before. 

More importantly? What do you guys think? Leave Connor some feedback, some love, some hate, some anything. We'd love it as much as he would.

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PKMN of the Week: Poliwrath Vs. Politoed

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We have a very special Pokémon of the Week segment because we did two Podcasts in a two day period. So naturally, we picked related Pokémon add some relation to the episodes and water gun the week to a splashy start.

Poliwrath
It evolves from Poliwhirl when exposed to a Water Stone.

Politoed
It evolves from Poliwhirl when traded holding a King's Rock.

This is not going to be our last VS, but it's an awesome way to have you guys participate to say which one you like better! Let us know in the comments! Do you evolve your Poliwhirl into...

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Breeding 101: Natures

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Pokémon have distinct personalities.  Some are sassy, others are quite serious, and some are just plain rash.  To the untrained eye, these seem like mere personality traits, but to us, the Pokémon breeders, they mean so much more.  A Pokémon's nature determines which of its stats get a slight boost, and which take a slight decrease.  It also determines what flavor of Pokéblock and berry your Pokémon enjoy, but we will not be covering that in this article as it is not particularly pertinent to breeding.  If you want to know more about berries and flavors I suggest you take a look at Serebii's nature guide for that information.

Naughty by Nature

Every Pokémon in Generation IV has a Nature Value which can be found on its Summary screen.  Nature Values, or natures, adjust your Pokémon's stats by ten percent for two individual statistics.  There are exceptions to this in the form of Neutral Natures, which do not modify any stat.
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