Pokémon Smash! — August 25, FINISHED! [UPD]

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Pokémon Smash!

Pokémon Smash will be airing soon in Japan. This week we’re not expecting a huge amount of information, despite the episode being a WCS and Mega Evolutions special. As such, this episode will not be covered live. Instead we will provide an episode write-up after the episode has finished airing.

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Episode Write-Up

  • The episode begun with it’s usual anime episode re-airing
  • Smash crew ran a section focusing on the WCS in Vancouver. Some of the crew got to visit the championships and talk to some of the fans attending, and even challenge them!
  • Next the hosts moved on to an X & Y section, including a game which required them to guess what was in a selection of boxes, without being able to see what they were feeling
  • As expected Mega Evolutions were shown, with a little new footage showcased feature Mega Ampharos
  • Back to the WCS, this time with a focus on the video game champion contenders
  • A quick look at Sylveon (they even talk about the Pokémon in English!)
  • The credits run with footage from the Pokémon Game Show running, featuring hosts taking part in various battles using X & Y

The preview for next weeks episode didn’t preview anything of interest, as such we will only provide a stream again next week.

 

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426 thoughts on “Pokémon Smash! — August 25, FINISHED! [UPD]”

  6. I’m hoping we get some information about MegaKangaskhan. I highly doubt we will see Oorotto- I think they’re saving it for us “discover” on our own. :/

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    • I like Victini’s color scheme…
      Except I find it creepy that before it was released I drew a picture of a pokemon that literally looked EXACTLY like Victini but was like double the height…(I no longer have the picture though…which sucks)

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    • people blew that out of proportion sooo much… it used one unknown punch move and everyone goes crazy.

      didn’t we already see it use psychic at that point? and nobody seemed to care about that, but one punch and BOOM, it must be fire/fighting…

      Thats not how pokemon works, its just as likely, if not more likely to be fire/psychic :3

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    • 100% sure they’re trolling us. They know how much we dont want fire fighting again so they show us that quick clip of fennekin “punching” something so we all freak out, and then be all surprised when we find out it isnt fire fighting

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  20. Okay, so I’m going to make a list of what I believe will be revealed in this episode:

    So what do you guys think? Am I being too optimistic?

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      • true, but i like the new pokes to be a surprise. But the anticipation for mega evolutions is killing me cause we literally have no idea how many or what types of pokes will be getting them or how drastic the changes will be.

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    • Ah now I see it, hmm looks ok, but I would like a more knight like look. I mean its jap name was Sirknight so its a meh for me.

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    • Not my taste. That could just be that it doesn’t feel Sugimori-ish at all. That, and I feel like poor Gardevoir has become the sex object of the older fandom, and this does nothing to fix that. I’m not sure Gardy will see a mega evo, seeing as it’s already getting bumped up by it’s new type change.

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      • Mawile became Fairy Type AND got a Mega Evo, so Gardevoir has a chance too. Plus, Gardevoir was on that trademark list for Mega Evolutions, too.

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        • No, I’m saying it’s ALWAYS been treated as a sex object by the fandom, and this doesn’t help remedy that. I didn’t say it made it worse, more that it just continues in the high-slit, come-hither eyes that people fetishize in Gardy. Though this is really a problem with the fandom, not just the design.

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    • I like it, but I would prefer something more androgynous (male Gardevoirs exist too.) Maybe a waist-cape, if you look at another way?

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    • I want something that looks a little more Wizard like, since it’s kind of based on a male wizard. I would rather it not look so feminine. Somewhere inbetween would be nice.

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    • Well think about Wally from RSE. He borrowed Norman’s Zigzagoon so he could catch his own pokemon. There are also trainers who are given pokemon by siblings or parents. And then there are the trainers who inherit their parents’ pokemon.

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    • I missed it as well. From the video, it seems Noivern is fast. Pangoro is slow. and idk but Topsy-Turvy seems like a really overpowered move…

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      • Topsy-Turvy does seem incredibly useful and powerful, but I think it will be a good way to balance intimidate and sweepers setting up.

        It seems like we are getting a couple stat changing moves, like Pancham’s Parting Remark, and Topsy-Turvy, so maybe they will be adding enough additions to keep it balanced.

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      • To be fair, the word “gorogoro” associated with Pandas in Japan pretty much either translates as “rolling around” or “being lazy”. I guess I’ve heard it a fair few times on Shirokuma Cafe to think of it as anything but laziness.

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  61. I’m kinda hoping for a reveal of Pokemon #666… I hope it’s a Fairy/Dark or Fairy/Ghost type. Like a deceptive personality, but a cute pokemon (I know Mawile is the Deceiver Pokemon, don’t start. That’s not what I mean.)

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    • Considering Froakie’s final evo will probably be #658 I would presume it will end up being one of the early pokemon, maybe even Fletchling, Bunnelby or the Scatterbug lines.

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    • It’s not going to be anything interesting. 666 has NO meaning to the Japanese, and something like 444 would have much more significant. (It’s Gabite). Basically, it’s unlikely that something that means nothing to Japanese people is going to play any role in numbering pokemon.

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  64. ok so while we wait for this weekend in Washington for “news” ill ask this question…….what kind of pokemon(animal and type or pokemon and type)would you like to see in X and Y……for me its a Dolphin Water

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    • Dolphin water and wolf or werewolf (either dark or ice/dark, I didn’t forget about mightyena, I just don’t like its move set) and a vampire (dark/something else)

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        • Something like a Redcap may work better for a dark/fairy, seeing as it’s a proper mythological fairy (That murders passers-by), and some kind of black dog myth (cu sith, barghest, black shuck, whatever) would also be a good dark/fairy.

          A vampire would probably be straight-up dark or dark/flying.

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      • I think the Werewolf and and more so the vampire should be Ghost instead of dark because they’re undead creatures well the vampire is.

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      • I think the chances of a vampire pokemon are slim. If anything it would be a bat pokemon, but they likely won’t add another one this generation. Though, I would be up for a vampire squid, but then we have Malimar. The werewolf motif seems like it has been covered by Zoroark. We can still hold out for an ice wolf though!

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    • For me:

      Water/Psychic Dolphin

      Ghost/Flying Vampire/bat

      Ice Wolf

      Fairy/Flying Pegasus

      Fairy/Flying Griffin

      Fairy/Dragon

      Water/Dark that’s either a Craken or Leviathan

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      • You mean like Moltres and Ho-Oh? One is a western phoenix, one is an eastern phoenix (Chinese Fenghuang, pronounced “Ho-o” in Japan).

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  65. Do you guys think the new way of transferring your Pokémon could help get all starters easier. Meaning you can start the game with on starter, play with it for a while until you get to where you can transfer, then restart your game until you have all starters?

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  67. Moving, is there gonna be a post talking fully about Pokemon :The Origins Anime and what you or everyone else on Pokejungle think about and what you hope to see?

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  71. I really don’t why, but I really want a Mega Arbok and Mega Weezing. Imagine, if Arbok and Weezing returned in the anime and got Mega forms. They would finally be able to kick the crap out of Ash and his friends!

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  72. Who else almost fell over when they heard the old R/B sound effect of Psybeam in that demo video when Fennekin used it? Game Freak, you’re awesome for that throwback!

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  74. Watch Helioptile from 6 Min:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwRTKOOPj0

    It seems that just as we have critical hits in the game to increase offense, we now have a chance to survive a hit with 1 HP, to increase stall. That seems so logical. I just hope the chances are the same as critical hits. I really like the idea. It is definitely connected to pokemon amie just like critical hits.

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    • i kind of dont like that ideo because we already have focus band/sash and sturdy for that. Although if its only through amie and dosent work in wifi battles ill be ok with it.

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      • I like stall but if someone lucks out and crits…its over. But those that go offense have no draw backs. +6 dragon dance…then its game over. I find it unfair that offense has no drawbacks, and they have a chance at critical hit. Honesty I would rather have neither crit nor surviving with one hp, but gamefreak has never removed crits since gen 1, it only seems fair to add a chance to survive.

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    • It appears it’s something related to friendship and Pokémon-Amie and stuff. The more you battle together, the stronger your bond will become, AND THEN YOUR POKÉMON CAN SURVIVE HITS WITHOUT STURDY OR A FOCUS SASH/BAND!
      (I like it)

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    • Probably. The Lake trio seems close enough and so does Celebi. I hope they retype all of them Fairy types, to be honest.

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        • Well, I believe Hiro said something about maybe Togetic getting retyped, so I figured there would be some chance with Celebi… IDK. We’ll have to see what XY bring!

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          • I could see it in the megalution. Most likely not for its standard form. Though, you never know if GF would actually remove a type completely…it just seems highly doubtful.

          • I could understand removing a normal type, in a way, but I doubt they would remove a type from a Psychic/Grass type. The Trio on the other hand is a better possibility.

    • Do you think they will make a flying type that looks like an actual fly?

      Even better, a grass type that looks like actual grass!

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  77. I know this is sorta off topic but who wants Bellossom to be retyped Grass/Fairy? It would give Bellossom some uniqueness for sure!

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      • I can see a lot of Fairy types having Grass and Normal as their secondary type. Sorta like how we have so many Normal/Flying types and no other dual types except for a few.

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    • I don’t really think it suits Bellossom well. Just because it’s small and cute does it mean it has an affinity toward the moon as well as magic power. Further, it has more of an affinity toward the sun, it anything. It wouldn’t make sense to make a fairy pokemon, of which power is tied to an affinity toward the moon to evolve via a sun stone.

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  78. It seems like shiny Pokémon are coming out of the woodwork these days.
    Well, it turns out that most of them, if not all of them, are fake.
    I think the only real shiny Pokémon so far are Gogoat and Skrelp, because they were shown in videos, unlike these “shiny” Pokémon who we’ve only seen through screenshots. We all know Photoshop can easily edit these non-shiny Pokémon into shiny Pokémon.

    There also seems to be a shiny Dedenne going around. As Jordin pointed out,
    that one is obviously fake, not because of its coloring, but because the fake pic is a cropped and edited pic of Dedenne’s official screenshot found on the official site.
    Plus, was Dedenne even featured in the demo?

    Also, I’m pretty sure that shiny Sylveon is fake as well…
    I remember seeing that pic posted on Facebook and in the comments someone posted the real pic. Although, I can’t seem to find the pic on Facebook anymore…
    October can’t get here any sooner.

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    • I thought the Skrelp was still unconfirmed coz we’ve all seen the footage and there’s no shiny animation when it gets sent out of it’s Pokeball?

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    • I was just making a post about this, lol (the tab was on “best” not “newest”). They are all fake. It was fan art from when they were revealed. Even Skrelp was fake :

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      • Skrelp, too? I think I remember people saying it was fake when it was first shown, but I wasn’t too sure because I also remember it was shown in a demonstration. Guess that was a screenshot from the demonstration that was edited.

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    • I had a feeling it was too good to be true. Besides, Fennekin’s ears I think would be a different color instead of a darker hue of the color it is now.

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  80. The only real shiny Pokémon we have seen so far is Gogoat. All the supposed shiny Pokémon from the demo were fake. A user on DeviantART called “KrocF4” made them as fanart from when they were revealed. His shiny Pokémon fanart includes- Mega Ampharos, Mega Lucario, Mega Absol, Mega Mawile, Mega Blaziken, Mega Mewtwo, Sylveon, Flabebe, Skrelp, Gogoat, Skiddo, Fennekin, and Chespin. (pictures in his gallery which is linked below) They all happened to be the ones in the edited pictures from the demo. As Claus H. Luíz said, “Photoshop can easily edit these non-shiny Pokémon into shiny Pokémon” The gallery with the fanart-

    http://krocf4.deviantart.com/gallery/41538338?offset=0

    (Fake shiny pictures below are either taken from pictures from the demo or screenshots from the official website and then edited, also included screenshot from his DeviantART saying his sources are correct)

    Credit to: http://kalos-pkmnacademy.tumblr.com/

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    • Apologies, I couldn’t get to it yesterday as I didn’t sleep until 5am. It’ll be up some point today. I really must say though, you are missing nothing.

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    • We need Frogsnewz, the rare Drizzle Politoed!
      It usually makes it rain with news up in this jungle village.
      Unfortunately, there’s no way to really predict its arrival.
      We’ll just have to wait for it to appear. Then, is when we’ll bathe in its rainfall.

      http://i40.tinypic.com/2qlzct1.jpg

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  86. So Serebii just added this.

    “The unique feature with Pokémon Amie is that after you have utilised the feature, you will come to see various effects in battle. These features range from superficial to largely beneficial for the trainer which allows for greater strategy in battle. Most of them occur randomly, with the rate currently unclear. The effects known are as follows:”

    -Text: The introduction message, and various statements throughout battle change in context.
    -Critical Hit Ratio: The ratio of Critical Hits is increased.
    -Evasion: The Pokémon’s evasion is increased.
    -Paralysis: The Pokémon has a chance of healing itself from paralysis.
    -Survival: The Pokémon has a chance of enduring a hit which would have knocked it out.

    Now it really feels like the anime with Pokemon shaking off status effects!

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