Marking Pokemon

[Lee]

Anyone have any info on Marking Pokemon, what it is and does?
Does anything special happend when you do?

[andyizcool]

Nothing special happens if you mark a Pokemon it just helps you if you use a certain coding system yourself for each mark. You could mark Pokemon when they have maxed their EVs so you know you can't EV Train them anyone. You could mark a Pokemon with the heart shape if it's going to be in Contests. This is just a useful idea I sometimes use and maybe you could use it too or make your own use for the marks.

[Chris 2.1]

I have members of my team with a square, shinies with a heart (although theyre distinguishable anyway) and Spinda with a triangle.

[have a stammer]

I mark my eggs. Often I breed so much, I am not sure what is in what egg, they get all jumbled. It's a great way to organize. Like if had breed a bunch of spinarak eggs then at the same time breed and got many eggs for aron's i would label them. And not walk around for ever with a spinarak egg which I thought was an aron egg when i had allready got a spinarak with the best nature and abiltlity.

[TeleFox]

I only mark Pokémon that need to be evolved for my Pokédex:
Triangle = Level Up Evolution
Circle = Stone Evo.
Square = Trade Evo.
Heart = Happiness Evo.

It's a nice little addition that I find quite useful.

[VampireCharizard]

for me:
Circle: PC pokemon
Square: Pokemon that need to be traded to other versions
Triangle: member of a certain team
Heart (always with triangle): my active team

[rinku]

I really only use it for eggs, the same as have a stammer does. Since you can't name eggs it's the only way of keeping track of which batch they are from.

[Crufidal]

Ha, I can't believe I never tried marking eggs before. Wish I knew that earlier. Now I have two boxes full of "Mystery" eggs that I trade to friends every once in a while. It's a good way for me to get rid of some, and it's fun for them, too - there's always a nice surprise in store. Sometimes it could just be a Machop, or a Tentacool with Mirror Coat or something. If I had marked them, I would have had at least some idea of what they are. Oh well, at least I'll use that from now on.

I remember when I did the Mystery Egg thing in GSC -- I had traded my friend an egg, and then he asked me where he could find Marill. Right then, the egg hatched into a Marill. Kinda creepy

Anyways, I used to mark my Spinda and Kecleon, based on their moves and such... but now I mostly mark members of my team. Members of Deception have the heart and circle, Nightmare Force has heart and square, and Team Wavelength's got heart and triangle.

I love the marking system, however simple it may be

[Carbonite4]

Nothing special happens if you mark a Pokemon it just helps you if you use a certain coding system yourself for each mark. You could mark Pokemon when they have maxed their EVs so you know you can't EV Train them anyone. You could mark a Pokemon with the heart shape if it's going to be in Contests. This is just a useful idea I sometimes use and maybe you could use it too or make your own use for the marks.

You could keep track of which EVs you want to level them up for, I suppose. Heart=special, etc.

I never use it.