Has anyone else passed by anyone such that they can use the Join Avenue? I've got five residents in mine: a raffle, an antique store, a florist, a dojo, and a beauty salon.

The raffle is just what it sounds like: a free item every day based on luck.

The antique store is similar to the raffle, except you have to pay for the items, but they're still cheap.

The florist sells berries and mulch (for profit from the mulch guy).

The dojo raises EVs or levels for a fee.

The salon lowers EVs or increases friendship for a fee.

I have 2 Barbers, a Restarurant, a Dojo, a Florist, a Market, and a Raffle. I'm already rank 4.

I've only got 3 shops open: A dojo, an antique shop, and a deli

The dojo and antique shop will probably be the most useful to me, but the deli is kinda disappointing so far. I don't know what it does besides heal your Pokemon at a price and maybe increase happiness. (If anyone knows for sure what a deli does, feel free to tell me ) I haven't seen anyone new recently though, it might be because I switched to my 3DS from my DSi.

I have two antique shops, but all they've been giving me are Hard Stones.

Every single time.

I have a deli, a dojo, a raffle and a salon... I'm rank 2, but that's because I've been lazy and haven't connected my Pokémon White (JPN) and Pokémon Black (NA) for them to become friends and stuff with Black 2. Oh man, can't wait for 3-way Xtransceiver!

What does the deli provide?

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Originally Posted by Idno58 I have two antique shops, but all they've been giving me are Hard Stones. Every single time.

Rank 3, one of every shop, except the raffle, in which I have two.

Two raffles means two daily prizes, and if the raffles are upgraded then more than two daily prizes which means lots of free items!

My Join Avenue's current rank is Rank 5. I have the max amount of shops at 8. 2 Marts, 1 Barber, 1 Raffle Shop, 1 Deli, 1 Florist (ME~!), 1 Antique shop, and 1 Dojo. Most of them, except for the last few, are at Rank 2 or 3. The rest are 1.

Like Turt, I'm also Rank 5, because not only did I connect with Black and my Japanese White, but also my sister's American White too! (4-way Xtransceiver!) I have 6 people just milling around (the ones who ask you questions), and I have the maximum amount of shops! They are:
Barber - Rank 2
Deli - Rank 2
Raffle - Rank 2
Antiques - Rank 2
Raffle (Me~!) - Rank 1
Florist - Rank 2
Deli (Me~!) - Rank 2
Dojo - Rank 3

My join avenue is rank 7 right now so that's pretty cool. I'll list my shops later.

The strangest 3 things just happened to me. For one, plenty of people visited my Join Avenue. Not just the regular 3 per day, it was like over 5 people who showed up. The second strangest thing was that when I recommended a shop to this girl, she was chain recommended to ALL of my shops, and she leveled up 2. The 3rd and MOST strange thing that happened was Clay (Yes, THE Gym Leader Clay) showed up and said word was spreading about it. Cool, my place is popular. He says something about where he wants to go, and it sounded like Raffle Shop. I direct him over to my friend's place and he's pleased, so he makes it go up by 1000 points. One. Thousand. Points. How did this happen and how can I make it happen again?

I believe that Musicals and success in movies and maybe even defeating the gyms leader helps bring people in to your Avenue. I've made as many friends as I can on the Dream World so they can come to my avenue (and water my berries). I have a bunch of people saying "Qué tal?" ("What's up?" in Spanish). Which is weird, because most of my DW friends are from Japan!

I'm barely at Rank 2 right now. Man, I think I need to get myself connected to the Internet more often with GTS and random stuff...

I've noticed a lot of seemingly random stuff also does something to the visitor count.

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Update time!

It's now Rank 5, and it's now partially replaced with real people from around the world!

...Though, having it mostly Japanese and Singaporean sounds a bit... locally centric?

Rank 7 avenue. This is getting good.

Rank 4 stalls get a cool looking makeover.

Rank 4 Marts sell seriously good stuff. Ethers, Stat Drink Bulk Packs, even Honey which I have no idea what purpose it has in Unova.

And even though I haven't got it yet, I'm sure the Florist will sell some pretty good berries when it reaches a high enough level.

I love the Join Avenue feature they added! I have all the shops so far except the Egg shop which I can only unlock after I beat the E4 haha

I'm currently Rank 11 and gave it a (silly) nickname of Catfox St.

Raffles seem to be mostly Berry Juice, but the most annoying is getting Hard Stones at the antique shops. I have 76 of the dang things! I remember getting quite a of few of them in the Underground back in Gen 4, but never this many. Also, I love getting Heart Scales, but when you have 29, it makes you question the "extremely rare" phrase in the description. I get the feeling I'll actually be using a few of them this time around. I've won a lot of shards too.

I do hope the salon and ring come in handy when trying to fix poorly raised Pokémon.

Also, if you have a florist selling them, buy a Leppa Berry every day. You'll never need to worry about using your limited supply of Ethers during Pokémon League challenge runs (which are required).

I got to Level 10 in Join Avenue yesterday! Raffles are only giving me berry juice and ultra balls :0 My favorite shop is the mart and berry shop haha

Just got to Level 10 last night, and now I'm resting in my place "Twig Plaza." I'm loving all the visual upgrades to level 4 shops. Even Cheren visited my place and gave me 1000 points for looking at... a Dojo I think.

My Avenue is at Level 16 right now. All of my shops besides my nursery are at level 5 and up. Roxie visited my place so many times it isn't even funny.

Mmm, gotta love losing two days of shopping due to DST. Anyway, the Join Avenue is quite a sink for money, and it is easy to spend a lot there. I know I'm going to use the salon and gym to help my Zoroark out.

Well, after researching the Join Avenue, it seems like you need more shops than you can fit to accommodate shop-keepers from each version, too. For instance, the antique shops greatly vary between Black 2 and White 2.

Yeah, I'm having a tough time deciding who's going to get axed next. I hate having to start over on certain shops, especially when I need what they had at higher levels.

Just got mine to 15 seems the Antiques and Market get more stuff also what gets added for me is useless, hatch eggs faster

Got mine to level 10 and renamed it to Wal★Mart.

I want to get my Deli to Level 10 so I can buy 8 levels. ;D

mines up to lvl 16 here we go to 50

Has anyone found a Nursery yet? I hear you have to change an existing shop to one from compatible people, like Nurses.

Not yet, but they sound useless to me.

Rank 17! Also, just got a PP Max from the raffle.

I've been really emphasizing the dojo and salon lately. Getting all of the options open is very important for anyone who works with EVs and such (not to mention the cheap berries on Route 5).

Also, 157 Hard Stones.

Currently working my way to Level 10 on all shops. But EVERYONE seems to want to go to the stupid lottery thingy. "I wanna be thrilled!" "Is there anywhere where boys can get excited?" "I wanna see who's number one in ... (Because the guy I assigned to it is the ONLY actual B2/W2 player)" I told my friend how everyone loved him and he laughed. The good side is I got to see a Level 8 shop transformation, it's really grand.

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Originally Posted by Cat333Pokémon Also, 157 Hard Stones.

After gaining a few ranks in my Join Avenue, I got the chance to upgrade my Raffle shop to a Nursery. The Nursery is useful for hatching Pokemon eggs, but that's just about it. I think I'll just stick to my Flame Body Litwick for hatching eggs quickly.

I think my rank is 19 right now. I think it's cool how your shops get a different appearance every 4 ranks or so. I also saw Cat running through my Join Avenue and wanted to use my Dojo. (I see you sneaking around my Dream World house ;P)

Oh and I have 98 Hard Stones, whooo!

My Rank is 1 unfortunately.
I currently have two raffles, two gyms, and a salon. The only person I can invite or recommend a shop for wants to start up a gym or go shopping, but I don't have the store.

I think my Rank is 8, Not quite up there yet.

And yes, I get a lot of Hard Stones, too. "Pit Pat" my right eye, GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD for once, dangit!

Also, chaining up shops is a welcome concept to pull. Especially if you don't want to level up shops individually.

The only problem with the C-Gear is it really eats through the battery, so I learned an interesting trick at school. Turn it on only when at the cafeteria or while moving. The cafeteria, though, is by far the best choice. Now only if all your BW2 friends took that advice as well.

Another easy way is to go onto GTS Negotiations, and look for someone. Once you find them, you don't even have to trade, they will automagically go to your avenue.

Rank 25! You get a free Stardust every level starting at level 21.

Also, the record stuff is not transferred from Black/White. I had someone asking for a person with at least 25 link trades and chose my Black game, which I know has easily done over 100 trades. Nope, no good.

Oh hey, I got second place in the raffle and won a Rare Candy! Also, it seems like when the antique shop hits level 10, you get good stuff for at least 2/3 of your purchases. Definitely worth leveling it up, but you need multiple raffles if you want everything.

...But if you want those medals for building a lot of shops, you have to fold down a lot of shops too, so you can only have at most 7 dedicated shops, but once a place gets to level 10, it doesn't accept points anymore.

Rank 3 atm... but I only seem to get 3/4 visitors a day to be honest, but maybe I will get it up eventually.

Hm, I'm thinking of demolishing my coliseum. It's so expensive compared to actually doing the training. The salon comes quite in handy, though, so I'll probably keep that.

I'm thinking about taking down my Salon for another Raffle Shop. Half of my shops are already Rank 10, so I could use something new to give points to. Also, whenever I go to the Museum shop and buy an S-rank box, I always get a Nugget or something really rare. (I got a Big Nugget from that today)

Rank 6 Join Avenue now and I have 1 Lvl 4 Shop, 2 Lvl 3, 2 Lvl 2 and 3 Lvl 1. I have 23 of these annoying Hard Stones now >.>, does anyone know where I can get rid of them without loosing money?

Well I got rid of my Salon and put in another Raffle Shop. Once you get a lot of EV-reducing berries, the Salon becomes near-useless. Oh and my avenue is at rank 30!

Rank 29!

I pretty much agree that the salon can be useless if you get a lot of the berries, but I'm gonna keep it until I have at least 60 or so of each berry (currently at 57 Hondew, 46 Kelpsy, 38 Tamato, 35 Qualot, 26 Pomeg, and 12 Grepa). Lately, I've been focusing on getting shops from different games.

I really need to go sell those Hard Stones (370?!), other berries (159), Casteliacones (269), Pass Orbs (82), TinyMushrooms (44), Pearls (32), Nuggets (20), Big Pearls (18), Big Mushrooms (16), and mulch (152). I wish the item maniacs would take more than one item at once. It'd take a few hours to sell all 1,032 of those items!

New tip: Random Matchup battlers will visit your avenue! Another tip: expect a few CoD kids with foul language. I already found a few yelling the F word--and one yelling it in another language.

I know one of the maniacs is in Iccuris City but where are the other maniacs to sell TinyMushrooms ect?

Food is actually on Route 5. Check the motorhome on the east side, next to the breeder who sells the aforementioned berries.

Just a quick question, what are the odds of getting the Masterball in the Raffle shops? The best I have got is Prize #2- Rare Candy.

I'm getting to the point where I'm not sure what to have. What shops do you guys recommend? Here are my opinions:

• Florists: Lots of handy berries, but use wanes after hoarding.
• Market: The discounts are pointless once you break 1,000,000 Poké and hoard Ethers. Besides, the florists sell Leppa Berries.
• Dojo: Incredibly expensive compared to using the Power items, but buying levels might be handy once you get to the upper 90s.
• Café: A dojo clone?
• Raffle: Free stuff, but questionable for filling a slot.
• Salon: Very useful if you don't want to use the berries.
• Antique shop: Lots of fun and lots of great items as your level goes up.
• Nursery: Seems useless.

I would get rid of the Nursery and put in either a Raffle place (chance of good items) or an Antique shop (chance of getting shards).