Strategy: Making our way back to the Handheld Lounge while dodging floating rocks!
Trainer’s Pokémon: Hot or cold, high or low, but really afraid of rocks!
Trainer’s Message: I dare you to kill 6 birds with one stone!
If you rock in battle, you will become the Champion of the League!
Strategy: Draw upon the powers of Olympus and the Underworld both to lay opponents low.
Trainer’s Pokémon: The finest fiends the gods and goddesses have to offer.
Trainer’s Message: The Underworld is a dark and unforgiving place, my friend. Choose your blessings carefully.
Orpheus can draw upon the strength of all the Olympians! Choose your favors wisely to earn the Lyre Emblem!
Strategy: With the power of ALL THE PAXes by my side, we cannot lose!
Trainer’s Pokémon: I picked up my Pokémon while traveling to all the different PAXes.
Trainer’s Message: NANA NANA NANA NANA PAXMAN!!! PAXMAN!! Paxman…!
Get in queue to face PAXMAN and earn the PAX Emblem!
Strategy: Unite the houses of Strixhaven to partake in the ultimate competition of martial and magic! Fight well for this one, the Silk Emblem isn’t a participation award.
Trainer’s Pokémon: A representative of each college in Strixhaven! Also the mother of the silkball we’ll be using during the match.
Trainer’s Message: Strike fast and hard, but try not and burn the ball. There’s a real Joltik in there ya know!
Score one over on the houses of Strixhaven to earn the Silk Emblem!
Strategy: Use the emotions of love and anger to overcome any competition.
Trainer’s Pokémon: Psychic to represent Love, and Fire to represent Anger!
Trainer’s Message: Tap into your inner emotions and the tides of battle will sway in your favor.
The Butterfly Rose Emblem awaits past the mental flames of anger and love.
Strategy: Power to overwhelm all with the darkness of the abyss!
Trainer’s Pokémon: Behemoths of the shadows, resilient and adaptable
Trainer’s Message: I will show you the truth of my world!
Prove that you can transcend my void and earn the Grim Emblem!
This year we are introducing a new automated queue system and digital trainer card. You will still receive the physical badges from leaders that you defeat, but now the digital trainer card will also track your progress. Follow the steps below to register at any time from now until you challenge your first leader and let us know if you have any questions.
Strategy: I’ll climb anything to get to the top!
Trainer’s Pokémon: The toughest trekkers!
Trainer’s Message: Leave only footprints, take only victory!
Knock Conifer off their perch to win the View Badge!
Strategy: Sleeping in ’til it’s time to battle
Trainer’s Pokémon: Sneaky ninjas and sleepyheads
Trainer’s Message: Oh? You want to battle? Ok, but after this I’m taking a nap…
Put Sayu’s Pokémon to rest to earn the Muji-Muji Badge!
Strategy: I’m a cut above the rest and so is my battle style!
Trainer’s Pokémon: Psychic Pokémon who can keep up with my fast thinking.
Trainer’s Message: The chairman hand-picked me for this role, it’s proof of my skill.
Make a wish on a falling star, because you’ll need it to win the Wishing Badge!
Strategy: Show off the power of Dragonite with help from other dragons!
Trainers’ Pokémon: Dragonite’s hand-picked team of dragons.
Trainers’ Message: Good luck and have fun, but beware of the power of dragons… especially Dragonite.
Stop these two dragon experts from boosting to earn the Double Dragon Badge!
Strategy: I don the impish cap of madness to confound my opponents with toxic tomfoolery!
Trainer’s Pokémon: Tricky fairy and poison Pokémon with the finest headpieces around.
Trainer’s Message: You think you can beat me!? Ha-ha-ha-ha-have-a-hat!
Steel your resolve to overcome insanity and claim the Mercurial Badge!
Strategy: Eat up! My friends and I have the bestest tea parties.
Trainer’s Pokémon: I hear them….my friends in the walls; they’re here for the party…
Trainer’s Message: Pretty please, will you join us?
Survive afternoon tea to earn the Tea Party Badge!
Strategy: Play it safe and challenge the welcoming shopkeep! Or are you crazy enough to battle the exotic peddler?
Trainers’ Pokémon: Nook has wares and furniture to sell, and mischief lurks among Redd’s gallery.
Trainers’ Message: A Cousin’s Discount or a hefty loan; these shopkeepers are ready to make a deal!
Bring plenty of bells or you might have to haggle to earn the Merchants’ Badge!
Strategy: A robot in disguise. Reports state this mechanical menace and his metal minions are highly susceptible to high temperatures along with fierce fists and earthly attacks.
Trainer’s Pokémon: The core cassette minions Soundwave has housed in his chest that have fought against the Autobots for centuries. Mainly metal in appearance and beastly in nature.
Trainer’s Message: Do you have what it takes to no longer make Soundwave superior?
Suppress Soundwave’s attacks to secure the Data Badge!
Strategy: I think you’ll find my battle style is quite severe.
Trainer’s Pokémon: As you can clearly see, I’ve assembled a team of all Ice-type Pokémon.
Trainer’s Message: So what are your top 10 favorite Pokémon? …That’s just how I break the ice.
If you can stand the cold, you’ll have a shot at earning the Ice Badge!
Strategy: Going old skool
Trainer’s Pokémon: My favorites from Unova
Trainer’s Message: Challenging the battle subway is the best, right?
Generation 5 is the best gen, change my mind to win the Unova Badge!
Hello everyone! We’re excited to be back in person again at PAX East this year! We’re now less than 3 weeks away from the convention and we have some exciting stuff going on this year that we wanted to share with you all.
We are adjusting our usual prize structure this year. Instead of doing raffles we will instead be giving out prizes for earning a certain number of badges. Below is what you can win.
This year PAX is introducing their Community Room, a place for the various communities that attend PAX to meet and hang out. We will be in the Community Room for a few hours each day.
Thursday April 21st: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Friday April 22nd: 12:oo pm – 2:30 pm
Saturday April 23rd: 12:oo pm – 2:30 pm
Sunday April 24th: 12: pm – 2:30 pm
These times will be when we have our usual meetups and you will be sure to find a lot of leaders accepting challengers. We will also be playing some Pokemon themed Jackbox games that you can join while waiting in leader queues. We will even be showing off some champion battles as they happen so you can watch and cheer on fellow challengers! When we are not in the Community Room we will be hanging out in the Handheld Lounge.
The Community Room is located on the first floor on the hallway to the left when entering the convention center through the main entrance. It is right next to where the Diversity Lounge has been in the past where we used to have a booth. The Handheld Lounge is located on that same hallway, all the way down at the end where it always is.
The rules for this East have been updated. Below is a mobile friendly version that you can save to your phone to easily reference during PAX.
