Trainer Card Stars Guide

Appendix 12

Trainer Card Stars Guide

As in the previous games your Trainer Card is where you look to determine which Badges you have earned and the various stats related to trading, battling, and the like.  HeartGold continues the established tradition of using the color of the card to indicate certain milestone events -- and if you like you can change the color by completing any of the following steps (the order does not matter):

(1) No Stars: Red -- This is the color you start with.
(2) One Star: Blue
(3) Two Stars: Green
(4) Three Stars: Pink
(5) Four Stars: Silver
(6) Five Stars: Black

To obtain stars you can do the following in any order:

(1) Defeat the Elite Four.
(2) Complete the National Pokedex.
(3) Collect 5 Shiny Leaves on a single Pokemon and have the Crown made.
(4) Set the top record in 10 Pokeathlon Events.
(5) Get a 100 win streak in the Battle Tower.

It seems like Black is the color that everybody wants, and no question, it is the hardest to get...  The events are listed above in what I view as the easiest to the hardest, but YMMV.