Gotta Catch 'Em All? Top 10 Pokedex Strategies
07. Event Cards, e-Cards and Tickets
One of the most popular methods for distributing Event and Legendary Pokemon prior to the shift to WiFi and the Internet were Event Cards, e-Cards, and Tickets - all of which while no longer in use for new Event Pokemon are still valid routes and so remain a widely traded and shared resource among trainers.
These historically include the following - just to give you an idea of how popular and prolific this approach is:
Darkrai -- Member Card from Nintendo events via Wi-Fi or Wireless Communications to access Newmoon Island and Darkrai.
Deoxys -- AuroraTicket e-Card from Nintendo events to access Birth Island and Deoxys.Ho-Oh -- MysticTicket e-Card from Nintendo events to access Navel Rock and Ho-Oh.
Lugia -- MysticTicket e-Card from Nintendo events to access Navel Rock and Lugia.
Mew -- The Old Sea Map e-Card from Nintendo events giving access to Faraway Island and Mew.
Shaymin -- Oak's Letter from Nintendo events via Wi-Fi or Wireless Communications to access Flower Paradise,the Gracidea, and Shaymin
Victini -- Liberty Pass from Nintendo events via Wi-Fi or Wireless Communications to access Liberty Garden and Victini.
The Nintendo e-Reader
As is often the case with emerging tech judgment of relative success - or in this case failure - was made by looking at raw sales numbers for the first quarter following release and, when those numbers failed to approach the same figures in Japan, the e-Reader in North America was declared a failure.
Which is too bad since it had nice potential and, had it received the love and attention from Nintendo like the JP version did, this might have ended up a very different story indeed!
Created for the Nintendo Game Boy Advanced and Nintendo Game Cube, they were relatively crude - having just 8M of flash and 64M of ROM storage. They were also relatively expensive - the e-Reader originally retailed for $79.99 (they are a discontinued tech today and do not work with the 3DS anyway) so most trainers did not own one.
On the Pokemon side the e-Reader Cards included New trainers to battle in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, as well as an entire library of special Berry e-Cards (including the coveted Enigma Berry if you were lucky), special Battle e-Cards, and a limited set of special Item Cards.
Happily they ALSO included Event e-Cards such as the EON Ticket, which was given away at E3 (that is where we got ours) and at special events at Toys 'R Us. The EON Ticket card gave the player access to the Legendary Pokemon Latias or Latios - whichever one did not come with your version of the game that is -- for Pokemon Ruby or Sapphire.
Digital Card Distribution
When sales of the e-Reader did not reach anywhere near the level that Nintendo was expecting (the numbers never even got close to those in Japan), the decision was made to take a different road, and the e-Reader Cards were quickly de-emphasized in favor of a direct-to-player distribution scheme using devices that are now called Pokemon Wonder Stations.
Basically they used the exact same system that was used to distribute Event Pokemon at Events - with the e-Cards and Tickets being transferred in place of a Pokemon.
This was used for the Old Sea Map (Mew), Mystic Ticket (Lugia), and the Aurora Ticket to name a few. That worked out far better, and when they made the Tickets and Cards sharable - if your buddy had say an Aurora Ticket the system would allow him, when he mixed records with you, to share the Ticket WITH other players up to 10 times.
So in theory for every Ticket that was delivered via the Event distro scheme,another 10 were shared by players with mates who did not attend that event...
While that worked out okay - and in fact both schemes are still technically active even now - they ended up opting to go a different route with newer gen games and thanks to the rapid spread of high-speed broadband Internet along with WiFi the obvious move was to take the events and distro online. Which they did, renaming the scheme Wondercards.
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In gen 6, it actually IS possible to ask for pokémon in GTS trade which you haven't seen yet. Let's say you want to have Pikachu; when you're viewing the list of letters, you look up the letter P, and from there you can select Pikachu (if you've seen it). If you haven't seen it yet, you scroll down the list of letters until you reach the bottom, where there is an extra option "Which Pokémon?" (not too sure about the name, but it's at the bottom of the list, so you can't miss it). You can fill out the name of the Pokémon you want - in our case, Pikachu, and the GTS will look up available ones for trade. So even if you haven't seen a certain Pokémon, you can still ask for it on the GTS.
in my honest opinion the only strategy u need in the games r have veriety of types lvl them equaly and beat them all DOWN with that said all pokemon games are crap there worthless if u cant catch any good pokemon (cough)legendary pokemon(cough)