New Pokémon Bank Details Revealed

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Details about Pokémon Bank’s operation have finally come to light. Nintendo posted the above trailer with a brand new Pokémon Bank website. Bridgette, the “creator” of Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire has returned to host the new Bank service. It launches on the Nintendo 3DS eShop on December 27th.

Some new details:

  • Multiple games can use the same account, dependent on your Nintendo Network ID
  • Regardless of region you may use any Pokémon X or Y copy on any 3DS to access Bank
  • Pokémon ARE at risk of being deleted forever if your trial or annual subscription concludes

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      • Yup! 😀 So far I’ve gotten to see Seed Flare, Lunar Dance, Crush Grip, Mist Ball, Luster Purge, Aeroblast, Shadow Force, Psycho Boost, Doom Desire, and Judgment! :O

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        • How do Mist Ball and Luster Purge look? Does Mist Ball look threatening? Does Luster Purge get its Gen IV sound effect back?

          I used Metronome and was lucky enough to get Spacial Rend!

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          • OMG DO YOU HAVE THE SPACIAL REND BATTLE VIDEO!?!?

            Mist Ball isn’t too exciting, just a white ball forms over head and fires at the opponent. Luster Purge looks sweet, the top of the battle field lights up and then the opponent is attacked!

          • Sadly I don’t. I used Metronome in wild encounters.

            For Spacial Rend, There’s a pink glow around the screen with slashes across the opponent. Then, the screen “breaks” like how it breaks when you encounter the Swords of Justice in BW and B2W2.

            That’s a shame about Mist Ball. I was hoping they would have upgraded it. Luster Purge sounds sweet! My bro and I can’t wait to transfer Latios and Latias to XY so we can Megaevolve them and try them out!

          • Ohhhhhhhhhhhh that sounds amazing!!!! The only 3 moves I haven’t seen yet are Spacial Rend, Roar of Time, and Sacred Fire.

          • If I’m unable to see Roar of Time (saw Shadow Force in the Bank trailer, albeit briefly), then I’ll just wait until the Bank is out and use my Shiny Dialga to see it’s signature move.

            Out of curiosity, can Metronome use Relic Song and Techno Blast? I’m afraid I might not be able to transfer my Meloetta and Genesect because I got them from PokéGen (although I made them legit but still).

          • Metronome can spawn any move I believe, except of course Metronome itself xD

            Forgot to mention I’ve also seen Fushion Flare, Fushion Bolt, Bolt Strike, Blue Flare, and Glaciate 😀

          • Jeeeezzz that’s some luck you’ve got!!! Hope I get lucky enough with Metronome as well.

            If I can’t transfer my Meloetta and Genesect, then I’ll ask for them on GTS. I’ve got a few shinies I’m willing to offer. I’ll give them Pokérus and a good item (like a fossil or EV increasing item like HP Up).

          • I hope so too. They’re from “A Faraway Place” but the Keldeo I got from Game Stop is from “A Lovely Place”. That’s what worries me. Everything else is legit.

  17. Lol, some Passerby challenged me this morning. Battled me the first time, he used Yveltal, and other Pokemon like Blaziken, Tyranitar, etc. Mush (Breloom) swept his team xD Spore, Spore, Spore.

    So then he got mad I guess, and challenged me again 2 minutes later, this time he also had Mewtwo on his team. I led off with Robin, set up 3 Swords Dance, and swept :3

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      • Yeah reading through some of the threads, a lot of them don’t seem like the most amicable people, but there’re nice people everywhere! 🙂

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        • well it’s just…sure if you want to use smogon rules for fun, both players agree, then that’s fine. but since most of them think that smogon is the official rules and get pissed off and even start bashing you for not going by the rules constantly, i just can NOT stand them at all so I try my best to stay away from them. Do what you want, but don’t be a dick to others about it (talking to them not you). but it’s up to you haha. sorry about the mini rant, they just make me that mad….

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          • Yeah I agree with you, I only use there rules for singles (Evasion and Sleep clause makes everything a lot less frustrating XD), but in doubles I only do VGC because thats the official battle style according to game freak 🙂

          • i don’t use smogon rules at all. and that makes it all the more satisfying when i use Darkrai to put all their pokemon to sleep

          • truthfully I only like sleep and evasion clause, and I like the tiering system because it lets every pokemon get a place to fight, but I only expect other players to follow smogon’s rules when I’m playing on pokemon showdown 🙂 I don’t expect them to follow any rules if I’m playing on wifi

          • well that’s good then haha. showdown is smogon’s place really (last i knew. i don’t know that much about them). hell, i’ve been planning on putting together a team that is completely against smogon just for the hell of it haha. i don’t care if that makes me sound like an ass, but it’s my way of getting back at them for being assholes about it.

          • well have fun with that then haha. and another fun thing about going against people that only use smogon rules, you have a huge advantage if you aren’t using them. they’ve restricted themselves so much so there’s so much they won’t do to you and so much you’ll be able to do to them haha (sleep, evasion, drizzle/swift swim, etc.) it’s awesome.

  20. passerby battle rules:
    1.always spam moves
    2.use the most op pokes evar!
    3.dont switch
    4.use earthquake on levitators ect.
    5.dont predict anything.
    don’t use items.

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  22. okay guys I’m ready!! For the past few days I’ve been doing a project that includes a parasect, ninjask and a magikarp.
    okay this is what happens
    parasect uses spore (or poisonpowder)

    ninjask comes in
    ninjask uses swords dance
    ninjasks speed gets boosted
    ninjask uses swords dance
    (if opponent is up by now stall with subsitute)
    continue pattern
    baton pass to focus sash magikarp that is well EV and IV treained.
    hang on at 1 hp
    FLAIL AWAY!!!!!
    now people I know this wont work everytime. That is why I will keep trying until it does which will take a while. BUT WHEN IM DONE I WILL POST THE BATTLE VIDEO ::::DD

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  23. Before I start studying, I want to leave the thread with an intriguing question:

    If there were to be Hoenn Sequels instead of Remakes, what new things could be introduced, gym leaders, rivals, protagonists, villainous teams, plot, etc.? What Generation VI elements would you like to see in those games, Mega Evolution for example?

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    • I’d want it to be 10 years after the original games. Tate and Liza will have split up, and Tate has become the second member of the E4.

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          • Cool Idea, but I liked that they were the only double gym battle leaders. We need more gym battles like this, like a Sky Gym Battle, a Reverse Type Gym Battle etc.

          • I’ve heard that Winnona should have a sky battle against you when you challenge her for her badge, but the problem with that is that not everyone uses flyers or levitaters, and if they do, they probably haven’t evolved into flyers yet.

            Perhaps you could have an Optional Sky Battle with her after the beating her.

            I’d like to see a reverse gym battle, but that kinda ruins the idea of having him/her specializing in a certain type. Good ideas though.

          • Yeah but Mega Evolution is such an important mechanic now. It’d be dumb of them to have waste their time drawing the designs and including these new evolutions if they weren’t going to be able to mega evolve in other regions.

    • I really hope they don’t do Hoenn sequels.

      If they did, it would be cool if they did an alternate dimension where one of the teams succeeded. Like the world either flooded or dried up, and the environment changes depending on which game you play, while the people have adapted to that environment.

      But I doubt it. If they were to do Hoenn it would be remakes.

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    • -Wallace as the 8th Gym Leader in the new Ruby, Juan as the 8th Gym Leader in the new Sapphire.
      – A new friend safari place with updated Pokes, like 1st stage Hoenn Starters.
      – Able to Pick 2 Starters like in XY, but this time Hoenn/Johto Starters
      – Two New Protagonists, Brendan/May are your friends ala Trevor/Shauna
      – Wally as the Elite 4 Champion, has Mega Gardevoir
      – Steve Stone researching Mega Stones in Hoenn region

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