You're probably wondering why I would own japanese copies of diamond and pearl right? Well, at the time that I found out about them...there was no US release date, I think. But I got the brilliant idea of buying them in japanese, get all the best pokemon and then transfer them to US copies of the games. Thus I would be able to beat all the newcomers to the US versions, trade for all sorts of really great pokemone etc etc.
During the event, which started on June 18th, 2010....I lived on meridian hill, which is located in the South Hill/Puyallup area of Washington State, USA. Unable to do the wifi event from the apartment I was living in, due to the fact our wifi connection was WPA and not WEP, I had to search for alternative means to obtain the Goon's Scizor.
I went on to nintendo's site to locate DS WIFI compatible locations, I found one in a place where I used to live. I had to bus from South Hill/Puyallup to Sumner, and then walk to the Sumner Library near the Sumner Sounder/Pierce County Transit Center. This was the first time I have ever done a wifi anything with a ds, so I had to look it how to connect to the pokemon wifi event because I was operating on a japanese game.
If I recall correctly, it took 2-3 tries before I got it working. Finally the Goon's Scizor was mine, and it was a great companion on my journey through pokemon diamond. My Empoleon aka Empor and the Scizor were a great duo, they helped carry me through the rest of the game.
Eventually I gained access to a Pokemon HeartGold and wanted to continue using my scizor, but I knew that it wouldn't listen to my commands due to a lack of badges...so I had to breed the scizor with a female scyther I caught on my game. I saved the only metal coat I had at the time for this very purpose, and thus Blade the scyther was born. Blade became my principal pokemon for HeartGold and we kicked major butt together in our travels. Having him follow me outside the pokeball was immensely awesome, reminded me of my pokemon yellow days.
But after I traded in my ds to get a wii, my poor blade and a few other pokemon were trapped on pokemon heartgold, after I got a 3DS XL I was able to rescue them. But before that, I caught another female scyther, trained up a mightyena to learn thief, and went in search of steelix. In pokemon diamond, steelix which have a low encounter/spawn rate of 5%...in turn have a 5% chance of having a metal coat on them (the irony is astounding). For those of you who don't know, Metal Coat was something introduced back in the pokemon gameboy games of Gold and Silver, it's what allows Scyther to evolve into Scizor and Onix into Steelix.
Hopefully soon, I will have a pokemon heartgold or soulsilver, and thus the next scizor to arise from what has become the Goon's Scizor lineage. And that scizor will be bred, and that scyther shall be sent over to a pokemon black that I will own either this month or next month. And after that, it well be bred again and sent over to a pokemon black 2 that I will get when I beat pokemon black.
Scizor is one of two signature pokemon for me, the other being Deoxys, but back in the summer of 2010....I had no idea that the Goon's Scizor would have such an impact on the pokemon games I would get later. Quiet recently, I had picked up playing pokemon diamond. I am happy to announce that the Goon's Scizor is lvl 100, and a real power house.
We all have that special pokemon, our favorite or one that we truly feel suits us the most. For some it's one of the starter pokemon, or mewtwo...but for me, it's Deoxys and Scizor.
