5th Gen Join Avenue

[Palamon]

Join Avenue was an area in between Routes 4 and Nimbasa City in Pokemon Black2/White2. In here, you can have eight different kind of shops run by NPCs you hire that pass through your avenue. Your Avenue can be at a maximum of level 100, and your shops can be at a maximum of level 10. Leveling up your shop and avenue requires you to talk to people that walk through your avenue and recommend a shop to them. Join Avenue has a lot of helpful shops, such as a shop to hatch eggs faster, EV train, level up your Pokemon more than one level at a time, (but it will not evolve, and learn new moves, etc), make your Pokemon friendlier, and even buying Max Revives. You can also get people you met via infared/wireless/wifi communication to appear in your Join Avenue. You can also, of course, name the Avenue anything you want, within character limit, and even nickname yourself there.

What did you think of Join Avenue? What did you name your Avenue, and what level was yours? What was your favorite shop in there?

 

[Sorviknight]

Everytime I reached that part in BW2 after Castelia, I'd just skip every dialogue and put random text where they ask you too as if I was doing a speedrun. If you search in speedrun.com you'll find that I hold the world record for Join Avenue%

 

[Janp]

Everytime I reached that part in BW2 after Castelia, I'd just skip every dialogue and put random text where they ask you too as if I was doing a speedrun.

Basically this. I never found it useful for my runs.

 

[Nah]

I remember liking the idea and used it a good bit back when B2W2 was new. The need for online though to get the most out of it makes it a bit less fun these days.

 

[Palamon]

I remember liking the idea and used it a good bit back when B2W2 was new. The need for online though to get the most out of it makes it a bit less fun these days.

Hmm? No, you don't need to go on wi-fi for Join Avenue. You can play it fine, normally. You don't even need another person to get your Avenue good, either.

 

[Nah]

It's not necessary to have wifi to make use of it yeah, it's just that I remember it going better/faster when wifi for Gen 5 was a thing. I could be remembering things wrong though.

 

[LucarioBread]

I can't remember what the name and level were (would have to dig out my w2 for that), but I remember I had several training shops so I could get my Pokemon to lv100. I specifically remember that the first Pokemon I trained this way was a Metagross, followed by Latias.