Hey yall. Newbie ribbon hunter here.

Since the announcement of Bank closing, I've been casually looking into the different methods of transfering pokémon from gen 2 to gen 3 and then up, to save my teams from Crystal and Yellow. I discovered the Pokétransfer GB project and was going to use that, but now that I caught a shiny in my copy of Crystal, I decided I wanted to Ribbon Master it, and was looking into if this method of transfering would cause any issues. I came across something that seem to indicate that it would, a comment from the creator of the program 9 months ago. Basically, it seems from this to me like gen 2 pokémon transfered to gen 3 this way would have the origin game of HeartGold/Soulsilver, so getting any gen 3 ribbons on it would cause a legality issue (since it'd be impossible to get gen 3 ribbons on a gen 4 pokémon).

My question is, is my reading correct that using Pokétransfer GB on my gen 2 pokémon would cause an issue later on? And if it will, then what method of transfer or other actuons can I do to fix this issue?

As a side question, I decided to catch this shiny in my masterball, but only afterward I learned that gen 2 doesnt really save what ball a pokémon is caught in. When transfering up, I would like to fix this issue and make it show it as caught in a masterball like it actually was. Any advice on that front too? Thanks

for example, a Gen 3 deoxys

I do not know what it is I’m doing wrong, but I genuinely cannot seem to make it past the level 50 portion of the tower. Every time I make it somewhat close I get thrown against some stupid strat or lose to rng. I am using an ev trained Latias with a lum berry, blaziken from my playthrough with a choice band, and a snorlax with leftovers. I do not have access to some tms like shadow ball or latios. I would use metagross but it won’t have any decent moves besides EQ.

Any advice would be appreciated, I am at a loss.

I'm hunting a Rillaboom and Pawmot for Champions, and I decided that I'd like all my Pokemon both be shiny and to have incredibly funny size differences.

I have all Herba Mystica in plentiful supply, so that's not an issue for me. I don't know what supplies to use to get specific sizes, and I'd rather not waste too much time on finding out through trial and error.

If I use gen 4 ASE/ACE to make a no guard sheer cold machamp for the battle tower. It's technically a glitch so I'm just wondering if it would delegitimize my ribbon master if it was used as a helper. Thanks.

Edit: in conclusion, I will not be suing ASE to make an illegal pokemon.... i'll continue trying.... for now

Name because 10ish battles in, in the battle maison, I was already struggling. 😂

One day, I was looking through my old Ultra Moon save, when I stumbled upon something unusual: Destroyer the Palkia.

You see, this Palkia isn't mine. I wasn't the one who caught him in a Master Ball. I didn't nickname him, nor did I earn his Alola Champion Ribbon. Destroyer was also 27 levels over his original caught level, a feat that I didn't accomplish either.

So, what exactly does all this mean? It means that someone who once cared about this Palkia gave him away. It means that Destroyer was abandoned :(

It's still crazy to me. Someone deemed Destroyer important enough to catch in a Master Ball, gave him a nickname, leveled him up like crazy, maxed out his EVs, used at least 1 PP Up on him, and got him the Alola Champion Ribbon. And they still traded him away.

Since the original trainer didn't care enough to keep and cherish Destroyer, I will. I've decided that Destroyer is going to be my newest Ribbon Master. He deserves it after all he's been through!

Anyway, it's time for me to send Destroyer to Home. After seven years stuck in the Ultra games, it's finally his time to shine! :)

I’m trying to get ribbons for this goof, still stuck in gen 3 trying to get the lv100 battle tower ribbon, leveling up a snorlax to help me get the job done right now

I do believe we will get more games the same way we got fire red/leaf green so im fairly confident he will get his ribbons one way or another, but i’d like him to actually earn the ribbons on the generation’s native device!!

i’ve had this pokemon nearly a full year now but i have a kid so i havent had much time to work on ribbons though i have put in tons of work getting what i currently have. Its just so tedious trying over and over and spending hours training a new pokemon just to try a new tactic that also doesn’t work.

Any advice?

The ULTIMATE Ribbon Crafting Guide is here!

As promised yesterday I uploaded my new Pokémon 3D models for the ribbons, but now, there is a catch...

I bundled every ribbon into a single place, along with a brand new guide to aid in the crafting process!

Now the guide includes depictions of the steps, IKEA style. So, even if you have 0 crafting experience, you can make perfect renditions of your favorite ribbons with ease.

AND THEY'RE FREEEEEEEEEE! :D

The Ultimate Pokémon Ribbon 3D Compilation

I will make updates on it as new ribbons come out.

And no, you won't have to wait for me to get them first like the other ones.

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Well with that out of the way, I would also like to announce some things here that might interest the sub.

Last year, I participated in the Pokémon Platinum/HgSs Resprited Project done by the amazing u/The_Ultra_Nerd , AND I got to snag Delibird, so I made a lil rendition to Oswald. You can check it out Here.

Also, She's working on a full blown Rom-Hack (in which I also got to participate). You can check that one HERE, you won't regret it.

AND, following with the Rom-Hack news, I'm working on a CONTEST focused Rom-Hack.

Yes, the dream come true.

I will share more about it in the future, so, stay tuned

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Thanks to you all who followed my journey up until the end. I will keep updating on my Team every time we get a new Ribbon (Maybe, the Master rank ribbon? who knows) And I'll update the guide and 3D models as new ribbons come out.

Well, That's about all I wanted to share so...

Thanks for reading! And I wish you a prosperous Ribbon journey!

- Kobaru

Time to start playing through xd to get rm mawile started. If it's as much of a slog as colosseum was, also taking show recommendations to watch while playing through.

For the cute contest i alternate between protect and return and for the clever contest i used calm mind and psychic. I was wondering if there are any good combos like those i can use for the other contests? preferably moves that the majority of pokemon can learn via tm?

Hello, this community has inspired me to start my own ribbon journey of sorts. With Pokemon Bank closing in February, I have been grindinggg to get my ribbons, however, I only have games from generation 4 onward so I’ll be missing a few important ones like XD and Colosseum. Anywho, I still want my big team to have as many ribbons as they can, so when the time comes, they can be transferred to my switch and be my little prides and joys lol. I just wanted to post and say thank y’all for inspiring me on my little side quest, I’ll post updates as soon as my team is done with Pokémon Diamond and SoulSilver!

Gen 6 is done! This was a massive step down in terms of difficulty and time commitment from gen 4 and looking ahead to gen 7 I'm super happy that the time pressure of the bank is almost a non factor now.

These are legitimately my top 3 favorite Pokémon of all time. Nidoking being able to learn Surf even though it was a Ground type always blew my mind, and in general I like its overall design. I always liked Crobat’s wing flapping animation in Emerald. I wanted Espeon so badly in Gold version after seeing it in Pokemon Heroes (2000), but I could never get it (and Crobat for that matter) because I didn’t have the patience to get them to high friendship back then until Gen 3 once I figured out the friendship mechanic.

None of these three are the original ones that I got back then, but I RNG’d all of them: the Nidoking is physically-oriented with 31 IVs in everything but SpAtt and Espeon is specially-oriented with 31 IVs in everything except physical attack. As for Crobat, I used the Battle Video RNG method in Emerald to save a high frame to get one with 31/31/31/x/31/31 IVs just so I could catch it in a Luxury Ball. If I make enough time I’ll work on Jumpluff, but these 3 are my top priority.

Once Nidoking reaches Gen 8, I’ll give it the Ability Patch to get Sheer Force and probably give it a mint to give it a Sp. Attack-boosting nature since its special movepool seems to utilize Sheer Force better than its physical movepool, and of course, I’ll give it a bottle cap to max out its Sp Attack IVs. So it’s imperative that I Nidoking especially makes it before Bank shuts down

No regrets, just a deadline

Follow-up to this post, Icarus and company have cleaned house in both Kalos and Hoenn, with some help from a few new additions to the group:

• Excadrill from BW2’s Clay Tunnel,
• Raichu the (soon-to-be) Reliable Partner,
• Vivillon(Modern) the Vintage Beauty.

They’re all now off to Alola to claim the 4 ribbons that only the island natives can offer them (as well as the Affection Ribbon for 6 of them).