Volcanion Distribution Now Live!

For those stateside, from today until October 31st, you can head to GameStop and pick up a serial code to download Volcanion for your XY and/or ORAS games! Rounding out the 6th Generation a month before Pokémon Sun & Moon hit stores, the event Volcanion will be level 70, holding an Assault Vest, with the moves Steam Eruption, Flamethrower, Hydro Pump and Explosion!

Don’t live in the US? Check out a quick list below of where you can pick up your event Volcanion serial code:

  • Australia // EB Games
  • Belgium // Dreamland, Broze et Fun
  • Canada // EB Games
  • Denmark // GameStop
  • Finalnd // GameStop, Pelaajashop, Verkkokauppa, Viihdepysäkki, Discshop & Konsolinet
  • Germany // Muller Stores
  • Mexico // Gamers
  • The Netherlands // Bart Smith, Intertoys
  • New Zealand // EB Games
  • Norway // Neo Tokyo, Gamzone, Spillsjappa
  • Spain // GAME
  • Sweden // GameStop, Webhallen, Spel & Sånt
  • UK // GAME

//ozymandis

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1,388 thoughts on “Volcanion Distribution Now Live!”

  1. STUPID THANKSGIVING, THE EB GAMES ISNT OPEN! I’d like to ban whoever invented October thanksgiving, i want to stuff them with a turkey!

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      • You could get it on the Eshop but like, who wants a digital game am I right? I regret every digital game I have ever bought because I cant play them on other systems

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        • Um why would I? I want to save as much room as POSSIBLE for- oh that’s on the WII U. Well nah, what if a Wii U Pokemon game comes? I might want it digital and it might be 705,000 blocks!

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  2. Might stop by my Gamestop before I go home from work today. I hate going in their, but I’d rather rip this off like a band aide. I want to officially have completed the dex! lol

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  3. Ugh, I hate going into GameStop. I miss the good old days of sitting in the parking lot for the wireless events and not having to go in.

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  4. Was super bummed I had to drive all the way to gamestop but was glad I did because they had the GS exclusive Darth Vader funko and also the NYCC exclusive Kitty Pride with Lockheed :3

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  5. Yeesh y’all sound like going to Gamestop is a grueling chore, it takes me literally ten minutes to drive there, pop in, ask (or threaten) them for the code, then leave

    Volcanion is just another Heatran to me but I needs a legit one to finish my Legends vault

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  6. Am I the only one who feels they should change the daycare so that the pokemon you put in don’t learn moves as they level up? Or maybe at least have the option? That would solve the problem of them overriding egg moves you want to pass on

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    • It would be nice, but I could also see it being a coding nightmare. Here’s hoping though they have done something like that for Sun and moon, given they clearly have been putting resources into the features and not the engine this time around.

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    • But Egg moves will always be passed down when in the day care
      It only changes when you take out the Father of the egg moves after it learns new moves in place but that doesn’t occur unless you remove the father

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      • But if it’s like a level 1 father with egg moves won’t the daycare just get rid of them quickly? I thought that’s how it works? So you’re saying as long as you keep the father in there the whole time the egg moves will still transfer even thought they’re overwritten?

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        • Yes that would be stupid
          Example Time
          You leave a lvl 1 3IV Gible with Iron Head in the day care with your Ditto in hopes of getting 5-6ivs
          It manages to grow 16 levels in the time you check on it
          all Offspring will still know Iron Head unless the Gible is removed because only after its out its move set would fill in by naturally learned moves

          I.e. The now level 17 Gible It would now know Sand Attack, Sandstorm Dragon Rage and Take Down

          Daycare never delete Eggmoves by growth

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          • There’s still the problem of when you take it out you’ll have to go to the move relearner and waste heart scales. I feel it’d just be easier if they don’t learn moves at all. -shrug-

          • Dude you just replace the father with a egg hatchee
            You don’t need to go to the relearner

            The goal when breeding competitively is three things
            Nature
            Attacks/Abilities
            IVs

            You constantly replace fathers of increasing Ivs and nature and egg moves until they’re perfect

          • Well yeah there’s certainly a way around it but I still just think it would be slightly easier if they didn’t learn moves. It’s not a big deal but I guess some people would like it

          • False I tried with Skitty’s the first 27 learned cosmic power the other 30 did not after it lost the move

    • I’ve wanted this for a long time, it would mean using way less Heart Scales, or not having to level up the parent Pokémon until they can’t learn any more moves. At least you can evolve stone evolvers at level 1 and they largely don’t learn anything new naturally after that.

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  7. So what are people expecting in Corocoro apart from Type:Null info? I’m expecting the fossils and maybe a new Alolan form or two. Not expecting a blowout or anything though because GF have been toning down pokémon reveals in favour of features recently, which is great.

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    • Just give me my freaking Ground/Fighting type
      I’ve been incredibly patient for years and everything so far has been crap……
      I just know they’re gonna screw me out of that type combo and I’ll have to wait 5-7 years for Gen 8 for another chance

      They already cheated Passimion by being pure fighting, and the likelihood of getting Ground/Fighting at this freaking point is slimming down faster and faster as each reveal goes on…..

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      • I honestly hope they introduce one this gen and it’s up to your wishes.
        But hey, you’re exaggerating, following current trends you’ll only have to wait till 2019 to be disappointed yet again… Jk jk, but honestly though “rugby monkey” sounded like a good candidate for ground/fighting, as it is Passimian would make no sense as a ground type.

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        • I’m not exaggerating
          We already have 4 Fighting types and the chances of them introducing anymore with Ground is getting extremely slim we are running out of freaking time

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          • I meant you were exagerrating the time between generations, not the odds of not actually getting a ground/fighting mon this gen 🙂

  8. So a bit off topic, but something just dawned on me this morning about the riddler leaks from before. Sorry if someone has already purposed, but What if those four possible guess weren’t randomly selected. What if one of them is the evo for Salandit, and the other three are yet revealed pokemon. We already have a hint at this given were assuming that the water starter line is going to end up as a Siren. Just my random thoughts.

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    • I think you shouldn’t think that Salandit will evolve into any of the listed pictures

      You may have not paid enough attention and he states that Salandit’s evo will relate to those mythos not become one of them

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        • No no it doesn’t
          Related means it shares something in common
          Inspiration is what it aspires to be

          Which is exactly what this botfocker is doing, he took one tiny word from Salandit’s description, and used that as a jumping point to convince gullible people into believing i.e. The one tiny detail about female Salandit using will controlling pheromones with common mythology to create a well spun lying web of assumptions which the Gullible type fall right into

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          • Because all Pokemon under the sun have flavor text about their biology

            I don’t trust this riddler for a second because he could say anything ambiguous and never be officially wrong because something might fall into place

          • You gotta admit a “rugby monkey” is an awfully specific thing to “cold read” correctly. I see where you are coming from, but look at the previous things he’s leaked: litleo and zubat before solgaleo and lunala were revealed. These mascots could have been anything, any troll leaker could have said they were dragons and it would have beeb more believable. Pikachu covered in a sheet, again is pretty specific. When asked about bewear’s english name before it was revealed, he simply replied “beware of fake leaks” and once more, awfully specific. I dont doubt this guy one bit, but i do think he’s a bit too inconspicuous sometimes.

          • I haven’t heard a single good argument against the riddler. He’s gotten plenty of things correct that weren’t just guesses.

          • And again, I disagree. Inspiration and relation can be synonymous in this context. Its like saying its design is inspired by it to some degree, like saying that you could see Infernape connect to Sun Wukong. Is the pokemon a freaking monkey god thing? No, but it clearly is based off of it, and you could say that it relates to it. As well, you have to keep in mind that these hint are coming from someone who speaks Chinese. Translators will do their best to make sense of it, but sometimes they’ll use poor choices of verbs.

            As well, no need to bring in name calling Earthen. I could just as easily call you a cynical fool in denial given this person hasn’t presented any factually wrong information and is trying to leak things that wouldn’t jeopardize their job. if this was coming from someone random person of 4Chan, I would be right there with you, but it isn’t. Its coming from a leaker that time and time again has been right, and once the game comes out, we’ll probably look back on the leaker and realize that they were 100% right.

  9. Lol for some reason they’re only making Volcanion available in France in November, no idea whatsoever why that is. Good thing I’m at uni over the channel and can just pop down to Game on wednesday.

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  10. What if they introduced the concept of inbreeding in S/M? Like if you breed a parent with an offspring (like you do sometimes in IV breeding and such) its stats are actually worse or maybe it has deformations lol. That would be an awful yet slightly more realistic take on breeding.

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  11. CoroCoro will most likely leak tomorrow or the day after, in the past 4 years it has always leaked the 11th or the 12th of September.

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  12. I’ve already spammed the hell out of Steam Eruption Volcanion on Showdown…and it was glorious.

    ….anyway I haven’t touched my 3DS/Game Cartridges in almost a year now.

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    • I hate you and that oversized Water Heater
      People already abuse scald the one move that can easily cripple others and now they made a halfway bulky Heatran clone with a scalding hydro pump

      I swear they NEED to create a status condition where it halves special attack, it is extremely unfair that only physical attacks have to fear burns 25/8

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      • Yeah it really would only be fair to give Special attack an equivalent nerfing status. They should also introduce an Intimidate variant that hits special attack IMO.

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      • That is unfair to special attackers, since good special attackers are very few and most of them have very shallow movepools compared compared to physical attackers

        For physical, we have abilities like Tough Claws,Huge Power,Strong Jaws.
        Easily accessible coverage moves like earthquake,The Elemental Punches,and priority moves.
        Great boosting moves in swords dance and dragon dance shift which almost every pokemon has

        Special has none of this

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        • unfair huh figures
          do special attackers have to worry about iron barbs, rough skin, intimidate, fur coat, burns and confusion damage?

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          • Both have their pros and cons.

            Physicals attackers have better abilities and movepools,but they have to worry about Burns, Rocky Helmet etc

            Special attackers have generally weaker moves and shallower movepools, but they don’t have to worry about these things

            It creates balance, and if you would just create physical/Special variants for everything, that would remove variety

          • balance my fat ass
            that still doesn’t stop burns from shutting physically completely
            if it was balanced Special Attackers need a cripple

          • Then by your logic special needs a moxie,Huge power,tough claws equivalent.Nasty Plot and Quiver Dance should be given to every one like SD and DD are.

            Special needs priority moves, as of now it has one. Which very few pokemon have

            Special needs multiple hit moves and a special attackedwith skill link to take advantage of said moves

            Special attackers need better moves in general, since physical moves are better than special most of the time

            If that happens,only then can we have a status that cripples special attackers as well

          • some are out of the question
            Moxie Fine Berserk is almost the same
            huge power fine
            Tough claws can’t transition into special attacks so denied, maybe in return a ability that increases the damage slightly of non contact moves
            nasty plot to Move Tutor
            Quiver Dance denied its Butterfly Dance not free 3 stat buff all around

            i had an idea of a multi stinking psychic special “Force Volley”

            and most special moves are 80 and above i don’t know what the hell you’re talking about everything already slays with decent STAB

          • Berserk isn’t the same
            You could make Mega Launcher applicable to more moves I guess
            Dragon Dance,yet Crawdaunt Gets it…
            Most special moves are 80 and above well the physical moves of the same type are generally stronger excluding ice water and electric.
            Plus that doesn’t excuse the fact that all special attackers have next to no coverage moves.

          • I always seen some kinda Asian Mythology feel with Crawdaunt DDance (don’t forget its in the same egg group as some dragons)
            i find that an exageration, Special Attackers get plenty of coverage, but you can’t blame me just because a Water type can’t learn Flamethrower or ice not learning Scald

          • No doy Earthquake is just a universal move and Stone Edge/Rock Slide as well

            and i will give you that Special is lacking in Priority
            But i still firmly stand pro Special Cripple no matter what you throw at me, because everything you say true or not cannot deny the sheer one sidedness of who gets crippled by what and Specials never have to worry

          • An example.

            Zard Y has Solar beam and Flamethrower/Heat wave as it’s only reliable moves.

            Zard X has DD,Flare Blitz,Dragon Claw/Outrage,Brick Break,Earthquake,Rock slide,Thunder Punch,Shadow Claw,Belly Drum,Swords dance,crunch.

            So it’s only fair that Physical has other cons

          • well what freaking else would it learn?
            its not always about just blindly giving pokemon attacks they’res clear limitations
            what should it learn Psychic because it’s worried about having to deal with a Fighting type, no because it has Air Slash, Coverage is good but why focus on using attacks you don’t benefit from just to take out a type,

          • Easy there.
            It was just a simple example showcasing my point of how special attackers have terrible movepools.
            And as for what freaking else it could it learn.
            How about a good special flying type move,since the only good flying type move is Brave Bird
            How about a special Boosting move?

  13. Great……Now I get to go into my annoying GameStop once again to get a code card for a Pokemon I wish they would just send out a signal for lol

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  14. Unrelated to Volcanion, who is awesome btw, I think that when you Breed a Shiny, the offspring should have a Greater chance of been shiny, even if not by much.

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      • Yeah, I mean if it can happen for Abilities and Moves, and in Nidorans and Illumise’s case a related pokemon, (The other Nidoran and Volbeat) why not Shinyness?

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    • Meh I think they should revert the chances of finding a shiny to a 0000000000.0001% that way they’ll be worth something

      I tell ya i am sick of Shinies everywhere and everyone collecting them in a collective day or so, I want see a new Pokemon age where Shinies are actually 100% by chance and you can’t use methods to increase your odds and a super infinity prevention code that prohibits hacking under penalty of data deletion

      That way when you have a shiny it means something special

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  15. Those are actually amazing moves and item for it.
    It would seem that GF got a little confused or rushed with their timing though.. something. I mean did hoopa even have a small story in the game… Will this pokemon? It seems they left it to the movies to make them relevant and cut them out the games. I don’t understand. Maybe this is typical.

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  16. Whelp I got my code….I got in and out and was only a tiny bit annoyed. It helped that the girl working at my GameStop ended up being kind of cute. So I had to give a pass hahaha Either way Now I hopefully won’t have to go back in there for a while……wait I think there’s another Mythical Pokemon code next month or in December there…..damn…….

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  17. Yay just got it for me and My brother it’s his birthday so now his presents from me

    X version
    SD card
    Pre-order of Sun

    He practically bankrupted me off this

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  18. Booooooo!!!! So before the demo was announced I opened my availability at work so I could work in the mornings on Tuesday. In the past two weeks it hadn’t kicked in yet………but next week of course it does…….so I’ll have to wait until 120 before I can play the demo………

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  19. What a shame I’m not near a Gamestop where I am.

    Not that I’d have a full dex with Volcanion. I’m still missing Arceus and Meloetta.

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  20. Only counting Pokemon we already know and their evolutions, we have 67 Pokemon (Alolan forms not included). Add in Alolan forms we know about and we get 77. Assuming Govnah’s estimation is correct, we have yet to see 43-53 new Pokemon.

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      • I’m assuming they’ll be lower though because we’ve no way of knowing if the unknown Pokemon’s types overlap, so our calculations simply can’t be accurate. Therefore 53 is a maximum.

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      • He has my trust as well. His info’s been good, and even factoring in some over lap, it seems safe to say the new pokemon range will be around 100. Though it does make me wonder with those form ranges. I’d assume for now that the low range is those we know about, and the large number is the total number. Like Normal is listed as 2-4. We know of only two normal pokemon that have any new form, but it could be possible that their are two more yet announced. This seems to follow along when you look at Grass, fire and Ice as well.

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      • Yeah the riddler had my trust until now, but as a defence mechanism not to be disappointed I’m calling this too good to be true and reserving judgement.

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          • “A snowman pokemon is overdue, perhaps its moves, will make icicles faaaaaaall!” That is the worse way to get someone to stop doing something fyi xPP

          • GGGRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH
            *My Hand shoots right through your arm (muscles and bone being stabbed right through) into the side of your chest and I pull up a large fistful of vocal cords and innards back out the entryway and on the exit more muscle tissue and bone get painfully dragged out*

          • *My eyes bulge wide open in shock, instinct wanting me to clutch at the injury, but find it too painful to move. As darkness starts to envelope my vision, I look at you and make a wet gurgling sound as the blood fills my lungs. As I begin to succumb to my injuries the vocal cords in your fist inexplicably make a sound that sounds like, “Ok byeeeeeee”* (You make me want to be the Deadpool to your Cable Earthen xDDDD)

    • True, but then we have the Alolan Sandshrew line and Alolan Vulipix line. Plus I would imagine there is at least one more Alolan form for another Pokemon that’s ice too, but that’s just speculation lol

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  21. I missed the party on the other article so I’ll post this here:
    I think ORAS best shows the problem with the number of new pokemon in XY. If you look at the Kanto Pokedex in the top screen, the screen is filled with sprites of Gen One pokemon. However, if you look at the Kalos pokedex, the number of pokemon barely cover the top half of the screen. I am really hoping that S/M doesn’t repeat this, seeing that made me a bit sad inside.

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  22. the list makes me mad because Pikipek is in both Normal and flying with 3 meaning it could not gain the steel type 🙁

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  23. Forget ice type, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY POOR POISON TYPE?!? One Pokemon other than Salandit and NO ALOLA FORMS? GF why have you done this? We have like 11 fairies so far!

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    • But what does the (0-5) thing mean then? And the question marks after salandit? And the (5-7) at the end? Am I the only one who thinks these are intervals and he’s not sure of the actual number, meaning we’re getting at least 5 new poison types after all?

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        • No but look more closely, it’s ??? (0-2) for the new pokémon and (4-6) for the forms, with (4-6) overall, as if the riddler’s not even sure there is a snowman but knows there are 2 ice types of unknown nature (meaning they could also be alola forms, thus 4-6 possible forms overall) left to be revealed!

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  24. I hope this a hint towards this week’s trailer being titled
    “More Pokemon Evolve in Alola” showcasing strictly some evolution

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  25. So I averaged the presumed estimated for the Alolan forms (ex: 4~6 theoretically equals 5), then subtracted each of the types we’ve already seen in Alolans. This got me to a total of 31 unseen Alolan forms, assuming they’re all monotype. This is unlikely, however, so let’s say 1/5 are monotype (since that’s the current statistic based on what we have). This gives us roughly 6 monotype, and 12 dual types. 18 unseen Alolan forms. 18 plus the 10 we have is 28 total Alolan forms. And by my previous calculation of 67 Pokemon that know of, we have a minimum of 95 new Pokemon.

    TL;DR
    Roughly 28 Alolan forms.
    95+ total new Pokemon.

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    • I did the math its max number i got 126 if its 123+28 it will be 151 new pokemon+ alolan. so maybe i did a extra 3

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    • Sounds completely reasonable as a relatively optimistic estimate of what we could get. Hyped, will meltdown if this is yet another fake leak.

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    • Hmmmm interesting…..I’m god with this. It seems like GF want to slow down a little in terms of making new Pokemon and that’s understandable as we’re getting to very high numbers. With just a little over the amount we got from XY, plus the Alolan forms we have a decent amount of new designs to pick from. The Alolan forms I think in this respect are better than megas were in XY as they are base Pokemon without any need to use and item and they are forever essentially. they are in their own right new Pokemon so that’s why I think I don’t mind there being less new Pokemon in general.

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  26. This shit is confusing to look at. I just hope that last Electric line is dark/electric. I’ve waited too long. Also he’s suggesting that pikipek stays normal/flying, which is unacceptable

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  27. Apologies for the frequent math updates, but I’ve reached the conclusion that our minimum is 108 and our maximum is 144. (see math below if you’re absolutely curious).

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  28. So I just had a bit of a realization. Sorry if someone has already brought this up, but I just realized that the forms list from the leaked dex is not just Alolan forms, its all forms period. Take a look at it. It says according to them we’ve already scene a new water form, but we haven’t gotten any new alolan water pokemon. However we have gotten one new water form min the form of Ash-Greninja. Assuming this, the total number of Alolan forms might actually be less, and perhaps some of those numbers could even be new Megas if you’ll allow me to reach.

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          • Relive though doesn’t really mean anything though. It simply means that they want you to re-experience mega evolution. Its a poor choice in verbs and nothing more. At least that’s how I see it. As well their’s still the elephant that the Japanese Trailer didn’t feature mega evolution, so perhaps they still have something bigger going on?

      • perhaps, but to me their still that elephant in the room with the Jhoto starters being in the Alolan dex, and seeming being featured in trailer footage. Honestly the safest guess as to why would be them having mega forms. At least I’d argue so.

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  29. I find it curious that there are supposedly 6 dark types (at max two 3 stage lines) and yet none have been revealed. Also, this list means the other leaker saying the snowman pokemon is ice/ghost is incorrect, no? If I’m interpreting this right, there’s one more 3-stager for ghost pokemon and only 1 two-stage or 2 single-stage ice pokemon.

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  30. Man, one disappointment I will probably always have with Sun and Moon is no Alolan dragonite with a closer appearance to dragonair. I would love for it to gain a water or fairy type

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      • It will get 10k if there’s a major new article… and they haven’t got a new article in days. Also we need djja back. He’s the biggest commenter.

        Though honestly, I like more articles.

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        • Djja is long gone. I heard alot of reasons why he left never heard the real reason. Djja also had problems with causing a bit of drama too and not respecting peoples opinions.

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    • Reminds me of the days before Disqus and all the people keeping refreshing the page because they wanted to load the new comments. Then the site just crashed.

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  31. Well this was just another slice of disappointment, I think my eyebrows are frozen in anger, and my freaking dog broke something trying to raid the trash cans AGAIN
    Now I have 6 hours of bad sleep until I got to go to work and be a fucking cog
    Night

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  32. Lolz! I just saw a full Pokémon Generations episode as an ad before a YouTube video. Not that full Generations episodes are long, but 4 minutes for a pre-video YouTube ad? I didn’t think that was even possible ? What does that say about TPC’s confidence in the series?

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          • The people who own the product advertise their product through the ad and pay the website to host it for them.

            But most ads (as far as I’m concerned) don’t actually interest me or make me want to buy something. If anything they do the opposite 60-70% of the time. The companies making the ads could have used the money for something better, like paying their staff more.

          • It depends on the person. Certain people are interested in certain things.

            Chances are if you put an ad on youtube someone will be interested in your product.

          • I feel this way about all ads, including TV ones. There are very occasionally ads that are enjoyable, but I still don’t want the thing being advertised. Not like I have money for most stuff anyway.

          • The only reason I’m not so harsh with TV ads is that A) it gives you chance to get up and go to the toilet which you otherwise wouldn’t do, B) if it’s a recording you can just fast forward through them, C) it’s a chance to talk to people you’ve been watching it with if there are any. I still think 80% of TV adverts are crap, especially the loan and PPI ones (whch really shouldn’t be allowed IMO since they’re exploitive), but at least one or two of those are amusing and typically they’re more proportionate to the programme. And sometimes they’re actually advertising other programmes/channels. If youtube adverts were advertising other youtubers I still wouldn’t look them but it would be more relevant at least.

            I almost never spend money. Buying Sun & Moon will be the first games I’ve bought in 4 months assuming I don’t suddenly buy something between now and then.
            And the only adverts that could actually make me think about buying something would be video game adverts, stuff advertising food available in supermarkets, and maybe deoderant or soap at a push. Even then that’s probably 5-10% of things from those categories that would actually succeed.

        • Well I mean, 4 minute ads are pretty damaging for content creators. Sometimes if I like the person and the ad is short I will let the ad play so they will make a bit of revenue but I’m not sitting through a 4 minute long ad

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          • I always skip at the first opportunity.
            Sometimes I just get rid of the ads alltogether.

            Besides, I don’t really watch individual channels, I just watch videos as and when I need them.

          • As a YouTuber who’s been trying to grow my channel for the last 1+ year, I definitely understand the importance of ads. But 4 minutes is just ridiculous.

    • When the ad is longer than the video I want to watch.

      I have nothing against people wanting to advertise. I have a big problem against ads specifically designed to ruin my browsing experience…how on earth is that gonna make me buy your product. In fact it puts me off ever having anything to do with your company .

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    • Last Corocoro leaked on the 12th at about 7pm JST. It’s currently 5:37pm JST on the 11th, so if it doesn’t come within the next 4-5 hours, tomorrow seems more likely.

      Having said that, Corocoro can leak anytime before the 15th.

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  34. And then it turns out the riddler’s post is just estimates and all our dreams are screwed…
    I bloody hope not.
    Suprised pokéjungle hasn’t posted an article about this leak tbh.

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  35. Bewear for first Sun and Moon pokken DLC would make my life. I don’t know why I just thought of that. i’d totally get the game again if this were the case. I was quite good at it.

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  36. so rn the riddler posted something related to corocoro from 2chan
    The method of removing Type:Null’s mask is unconventional, When removed it is Normal/Dark Type.

    Alolan Form of Ekans and Arbok, both are pure Fighting Type. Brown and white stripes, no pattern on Arbok’s belly
    Persian type is Dark Fairy? It has a blue jewel on its head instead of regular persian’s red gem.

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    • I like this! too bad the battle hall was a joke of a facility. and the arcade. the castle was the best ever though. all in all, hoenn battle frontier > sinnoh battle frontier.

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      • that would singlehandedly make the game. a lot of people say the battle subway was great, when it was just as awful and boring as the maison, albeit less…. cheaty as all hell.

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        • We will get something unique I’m sure (as in, not a clone of the battle tower (i.e. battle maison, battle subway, etc.)) because the backpacker from XY said “we have this facility you wouldn’t believe!”, but then again, it may be the aether paradise (for some reason I want to call it aether heaven). Also yeah, if that happened SM would likely be my favorite games of the series with all of the content we’ve seen. It looks great so far, but I need to know that there’s a substantial, challenging, and fun post game before I can rest. Well, it won’t be long now before we know. I trust the riddler, and he hinted at it, so idk.

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          • the frontier is like a gym challenge except actually fun and challenging. I remember collecting the symbols in both platinum, then later emerald. it was awesome!

          • I did it in platinum, and it was so much fun. I also loved the fun environment that the place had, it was just fun to be there. I want them to bring it back more than anything, but at least there is hints:
            – ORAS stuff
            – “facility you wouldn’t believe!”
            – Anabel

  37. Tbh I really hope Alolan Persian isn’t Fairy, no idea where people are getting that desire :s

    I mean at least Ninetales makes sense if you think Fairy = Magic but I feel like Alolan Persian would be too forced tbh.

    The only Fairy Alola Form I can see realistically happening now is a Flying – > Flying/Fairy Alolan Rapidash tbh.

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    • tbh they kinda went too far with fairy type this gen. Fairies are supposed to be mythical creatures that are rare, and, yes, I get that they’re new, but they’ve already passed ice type in number, and that’s not even counting the 15 or so we’re getting in gen 7, compared to the dismal 2 ice types we’re getting supposedly. Plus it’d be fine if the pokemon they were giving the type to actually made sense, I mean, what about a blue jewel makes something fairy? Same with Ninetails, why is that fairy?

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        • It could be worse. Ground could have no effect on fairy, and fairy could be good against ground. But honestly I love fairies for buffing poison type, but hate them for nerfing dark (WHICH WAS WEAK ENOUGH GF!)

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          • You do realise that they need those ‘hand outs’ to normalise them into the series, right? Build them up to the same level as the other types and then give them equal treatment.

      • Fairies aren’t really rare in a lot of cultures, in fact they’re quite common, with a lot of minor fae with a handful of stronger ones… Exactly like Pokémon.

        Also, Ninetales is based off of a Yokai (practically Japan’s counterpart to classical fae) and is associated with magical power, like Fairy (Geomancy, Magical Shine (Japanese name for Dazzling gleam) and Moonblast/Light (the moon is heavily incorporated into depictions of magic).

        Although I do feel Alolan Persian would be taking it too far unless it’s made some sort of mythical cat or a Witch’s cat, but that should of been associated with as Alolan Meowth too.

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      • Fairies are not supposed to be on par with the rareness of ghost and Ice, they are supposed to be on par with Pyschic. Now fairies may not be my favourite type but I totally understand why they are announcing so many, any one who thinks they’re making too many seem like they just don’t like the type to me.

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        • The issue that most people have is that the Fairy Type seems to be tacked onto a lot of Pokemon that don’t really need to be Fairy Type. It’s like the go to secondary typing. I understood in Gen 6 when it was first announced, but now it’s becoming tedious.

          …and yes, I’m not a major fan of the typing, but one of my favourite Pokemon, Gardevoir, is part Fairy so I’m not that against them.

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          • Gardevoir is a guardian angel

            Alolan Ninetales is a magical fox yokai

            Azumarill is another one I forgot tbh but arguably you could use the ‘it’s an inanimate object/animal fusion’ aspect of Spritzee/Swirlix and loose moon rabbit ties

          • They slapped on the stupid fairy for the green Waifu just for being a Waifu
            Alolan Ninetales has no business existing in the first place, Alolan Viariants could be a thing but only if done right which they didn’t
            And The fat blue water rodent definitely didn’t deserve to be a fairy, barely a fairy and barely learns fairy moves should’ve stayed Pure Water

          • Personally I don’t think Alolan Ninetails needed it. Azumaril could have done without.
            Mimikyu didn’t really need it either.
            Wiglytuff would have been better off staying pure Normal Type imo. Clefable was already retconned to Fairy which I can live with.
            Don’t think Cutiefly was all that necessary either.

            I understand wanting to boost the number of Fairy types, but keeping them rare to start with would have been better in my opinion.

          • Azumarill-Moon rabbit, possibly inanimate object came to life

            Mimikyu-More insidious/impish classical fae imitating the appearance of something, spreading curses (like Mimkyu’s apparent ill consequences if you lift its disguise)

            Cutiefly-Based off a species that lays its young in another species’ area to allow their parasitic young to thrive, just like changelings. Some insects have Fairy like wings.

            Wigglytuff-Even stronger moon rabbit associations than Azumarill, the ‘cutesy fae’ trope

            Alolan Ninetales-magical fox yokai

          • You can explain away all you like…not that any of these fill me with confidence.
            I was just sharing my personal opinion and the reason I think people are getting tired of the Fairy Type being tacked onto everything.

          • And I’m just throwing around ideas for why they could be that type /’-‘/

            And I’d hardly say it’s ‘tacked on’, I’m sure gamefreak knows more than random peeps on the interwebs

          • We aren’t random peeps
            We’re a highly untrained community of Pokemon nerds and we know a lot

            We could run Gamefreak is given the chance

          • I’m sure they do. It’s just we don’t know their reasoning, therefore it seems unnecessary to us.
            It’s all good and well having a reason for doing something, but it’s also good and well for us to question it.

          • True, true, I’m just sick of people attacking Fairy-Type for no reason. Not saying you are of course, in fact you’re probably one of the most pleasant people I’ve debated with in an while

          • Seriously that’s like the other 50% of me hating fairies
            FAIRY TYPE THIS
            FAIRY TYPE THAT
            THIS SHOULD BE A FAIRY
            WHY ISNT THIS A FAIRY
            WE NEED MORE FAIRY MOVES
            WE NEED MORE FAIRY TYPE POKEMON
            THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE BUFFS
            OTHERS SHOULD BE WEAK TO FAIRY

            All. The. Time. I have to listen to this

          • You could just ignore it ‘-‘

            Like I find dragon fan boys really Obnoxious but I’ve learned just to ignore them tbh

          • I mean to be fair, dragon fans never really go around saying that a fire turtle should be dragon, it’s usually only for literal dragons.

          • Ok how the ever loving hell is Azumarill an inanimate object and they whole moon rabbit thing is stretching

          • Just because it has properties of something doesn’t mean it is that thing, that’s a very broad assumption. :/

          • Nice pun. xD Honestly you can defend the choices all you want, but you’re not going to change the opinion of certain people here (including me). Only GF can do that, and at this point I’m scared for my favorite types in favor of fairies. 🙁

        • Don’t tell me that I don’t like the type because I think we have too many. Go look at the number of fairies we have, then the number of ice types, and then go ahead and tell me I’m only saying this because I don’t like the type.

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          • Types aren’t meant to be balanced equally though, and often fall down the region its based on. Icy areas tend to be bland and repetitive, thus uncommon, thus a small number of Ice Types. In the meanwhile, Normal, Fairy, Flying etc are easy to place in any sort of region due to being vague enough.

          • It’s bad planning then, fairies are mystical creatures, ice is frozen water, yet somehow fairies are more common after ONE gen? I like the type when it’s used properly, not when it’s slapped onto anything that’s either cute/beautiful, that’s NOT what the type is about!

          • And I just told you that they are not supposed to be as rare as the ice type… why on earth their numbers compared to another type are making you upset is beyond me

    • Ninetails should have been Ice/Ghost. No reason for it being fairy. Ghost could have given it cool flavour text. Like the fire inside it died due the harsh environment or something cheesy like that….Fairy is bullshit.

      If they wanted Fairy they should have retconned standard Ninetails to Fire/Fairy.

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  38. i am expecting a good amount of water types this gen so hopefully they are based on cool water animals and not plain fishes

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  39. Pokemon GO is so much fun if you are in a city. Like, I played in a suburban area so I just kinda accepted it to be kinda boring but in a city, there is more variety, more pokestops and more gyms! I just captured a gym then watched it fill up with another exeggutor and an arcanine. I wish it was this fun no matter where you live

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    • It’s fun but it got boring really quickly. I have 3 pokestops directly around my building so I don’t even need to go out, and there’s this huge garden 5 min away with a lot of them (and gyms) and people flocked there in the beginning. After a few days the game became so repetitive though :/

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    • for real though, ice should resist fairy. and dragon. and be immune to ghost. there you go, ice types have now been made usable.

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      • YES! Honestly Ice type isn’t that weak in type weaknesses and strengths, but GF hardly ever gives it love. I feel like they put one ice area in each game, give us like 1 or 2 mediocre lines, and call it good. :/

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        • it is that weak
          its ice, not a magical resisting alloy
          its frozen water that can be smashed, melted and easily destroyed

          why is it so hard to grasp that ice will always be fragile

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          • Then at least make it a hard hitter. The snowman better be cool, because it seems I’ll have to wait another 3-4 years to see another ice type. D:

          • yeah because you can’t have the perfect wall otherwise it’s too broken, that’s why Evoilte should be removed to finally be rid of Chansey, Porygon2 and all the other annoying walls

          • no shit, you talk about wanting a defensive ice type then pitting it against something it naturally fails to
            oh my ice type died to a super effective attack, no duh

          • yeah and the dirt IS EVERYWHERE
            a large amount can crush anything, an earthquake can level cities, a fissure can be your tomb as well a choking slowly in quicksand

          • And you can literally freeze to death from the cold. Too much of anything is bad so saying ice is fragile therefore ice should continue to be the worst type is a bad argument

          • well unlike many other scenarios Ice is always be a glass cannon and no amount of gripeing will buff it

          • Game balance should take a front seat to logic. Ice is weak against way to many common attack types, has too many defensive mons, doesn’t resist enough and most ice Pokemon can be outclassed by a Pokémon of another type with ice beam. It needs a buff

          • its not about what makes sense. its about a much needed balance to the game. ice type pokemon really are that bad. I don’t want to vouch for smogon, but their tier list shows only 2 ice types that ever get used, ones a legendary (kyurem-b) and the other is weavile.

        • well, being weak to fighting, fire, steel, and rock, there are types with more weaknesses. however, fighting and rock are such common attacking types it pretty much makes ice as a defensive type obsolete. ain’t no one switching in an ice type to take an attack. fairy and dragon could use the slight nerf, not that they are op, but they are 2 of what is arguably the best types, offensively and defensively in the game. ghost has only 1 type that resists it after the gen 6 nerf to steel, and normal type switch ins aren’t that common to block ghost type attacks.

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        • well why is psychic weak to bug? heck, why does fighting resist bug? ghosts bring cold chills as they suck the energy out of the room, if you want an explanation.

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          • Fears
            a insects are very resilient and it would be hard to punch a giant beetle or kick a fly
            they don’t exactly do that, it is the heat sink phenomenon where they pull existing energies to manifest leaving a chilly sensation

          • my apologies
            i think it has to do with Fighting Types being naturally tough
            it’s a give and take kinda thing
            Bug’s are elusive and resilient to physical blows
            Fighting types wouldn’t be phased by a lowly bug

          • it is kinda wishy washy huh? I never really thought about the fact tat they resist one another. heracross is a boss for resisting both lol.

          • see, you thought the resistance was unknown but now this explains the whole thing to a believable degree

          • I knew that they resisted each other, I just never thought about the relation between them until it was brought up.

    • Inside your mind, when you posted that: “Hey, people are already arguing about fairy type, let’s stir up the pot a bit!” >:D
      ——–
      In reality, my problem with fairy type is the loose definition and loose usage of what a fairy type is, I don’t really have an issue dealing with them, because I tend to carry about a poison type.

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          • are you kidding? who was using moves like gunk shot before this gen? poison jab? only jirachi used iron head, now its a much more common move. pokemon like scolipede and tentacruel are used way more than they used to be.

          • but they’re used because of their nich
            Jirachi spams it because of its insanely broken ability
            everyone used Tentacruel as a wall ad a spiker
            and everyone runs Speed Boost Baton Passer

            these pokemon aren’t being called upon just to cover fairies
            i’ve never seen a Tenacruel actually use a poison move, same with gengar

          • what gengar doesn’t carry sludgebomb? its the very reason bulletproof chesnaught became so popular that gengar had to start running dazzling gleam.

          • nope, but it wouldn’t be too impossible, don’t forget M. gengar lose levitate which is their biggest strength
            all i need to do is survive and counter

        • Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that it’s in, but I want to know: what makes a fairy type? Sometimes they say it’s extraterrestrial, sometimes it’s an actual fairy, yet other times it’s simply cute or beautiful. This loose definition IMO causes it to be everywhere, which is why it bugs me a little bit.

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          • exactly everyone thinks fairies should be this for a plethora of stupid reasons
            like the infamous Rapidash being a Fairy

          • What makes a big type? Pokemon like shackle, crab pokemon but not all crabs, etc are bug types. Not all flying pokemon are flying type. Not all fish are water type (stunfisk for example) so fairies CAN be elegant, cute, pink, mysitcal. They don’t have to be all of those things but they tend to fall into one of those. Heck, there are pokemon with water typing (palkia) that don’t exhibit water type traits at all!

          • Palkia is easily explained by the sheer relationship with space and pearls
            -Pearls are found in the ocean
            -water offers the same weightlessness of space
            -astronauts used underwater training techniques to gear them for space

          • I don’t think that’s the kind of space they are going for. I think they were going for, like, Area, not the actual outer space. that is a better reason for it being water than ive been able to come up with however.

          • I guess my reasoning is how cute/beautiful Pokemon are fairies now, and that used to be a contest stat. I know it’s dumb, I realize that, but it’s just my two cents on the matter.

          • oh I see what you mean. it is a very loose definition. like, why did jigglypuff and clefairy become fairies but not, say, blissey or audino? I miss having togekiss on my mono normal team. if it is extraterrestrial, id imagine the beeheeyem line being fairy…. I wonder if beeheeyem is any good? its one of those pokemon I forget even exists.

  40. we are pretty luck to have the pokejungle community. we can work together to benefit one another, getting things some of us may have a hard time getting, or giving advice and hints. I feel the festival plaza will really benefit us.

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  41. This is sorta off topic, but still kinda Pokemon related.
    My friend and I chose Badminton for this term in gym. We need a Pokemon (Or any other Video Game) Team name. I’ve gotten Shuttle Knights, but that’s it.
    Any ideas?

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  42. You guys Do realize this weeks news is something to get excited about. . . Correct?
    If you read from serebii, there will be a Lot revealed on this weeks episode. Meaning coro will likely get to it first, meaning it will likely be leaked first.
    I’ve seen y’all get hyped over practically nothing -,- now is the time to get excited! 0,0

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  43. I was just thinking: have you realized how lucky we’ve been having the final evos of the starters leaked in June?
    I mean, imagine a fire type trainer, who has always chosen the fire starter since 1996, seeing in November another four legged pokemon standing on two legs and looking part fighting. It would have been the biggest troll ever and Beltigre would have died in the pokemon community that day. Instead we have almost accepted its existence right now 🙂

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  44. Speaking of in-game animations for the starters:
    Rowlet 3 will most likely use his feathers and wings as bow and arrows and probably will make the leaves open and close on its face. I don’t think it will fly or have a continuous flying animation (It could not use its arrows I think, but that’s just a pity).
    Litten3 will certainly move its huge hands in some scary way (Something like: Hey I’m scary, you know?) and will release flames from its belt.
    Popplio3 will for sure stand up and untie its hair and pearls (and fabulousness). Don’t know what’s more, maybe will do that snaky move that Brionne does turning around.
    What do you think?

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  45. I’ve come to accept the starters are supposed to be relatable to children. They show the many faces they go through to adult hood and finding themselves. Shown more this gen than any other if u ask me. It’s more obvious this time around.
    Side note: My laptop doesn’t know “relatable” to be a word. . . -,-

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  46. So the pokemon center is selling official pokemon badges now for only….$179.95! What a bargain! It’s not like I can get the same 8 badges online for $20 where they’re also probably better quality. Now that’d be ridiculous.

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  47. I swear Corocoro better be here tomorrow morning
    And it better be worth it, since it will be my Birthday and that’ll probably be the only high point

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  48. So here’s the issue laid out how I see it. Dragon types needed nerfing- not because they don’t have enough weaknesses (although that might be part of it) but really because almost all dragon types are three stages, pseudos, or all around pretty powerful. Compare that to most bugs, normals, and grass types….There are some good ice types to counter, but not when compared to the beasts that dragons are. Then comes fairy. This helps poison be more viable, but unfortunately, half the fairies they create won’t stand a chance against a Salamence or Haxorus. The power levels are different. So we get random, inconsistent fairies (because not every cute normal poke can become a fairy) and they still don’t really nerf dragon. They’re still powerful except if a florges, gardevoir, etc are thrown in the mix. Fairies do a fairly good job at what they’re supposed to do, counter dragons. But to top it all off, they’re immunity makes them so much more usable over ice which has enough problems.

    People can attack so many aspects of fairies (listed above) that it’s hard for this new type to exist successfully.

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    • Here is my two cents:
      You hitted the nail with your Dragon analysis.
      The main problem with Dragon types was never the type itself but the pokemon
      Dragon as an type is terrible offensive and average defensive
      But the Pokemon that are dragon types: Above average//High stats.

      when it comes to Fairy the problem is that the typing itself is amazing, and the stats they gave to most fairies are good too. There is really no balance there. In my honest opinion, the fairy type is the best type in the metagame rn and quite frankly the only way to change that is to nerf the type itself ( and buff ice types but that just personal because i love ice types)

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      • If you made ice effective against dragon and fairy it would become a monster in the game. Plus limit maybe one of its weaknesses.

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        • offensively, the ice type is one of the best. It really have a good coverage on the metagame (grass, ground, dragon, flying). Ice only need more resistances and less weakness to be better

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          • Offensively theyre great. But like someone said elsewhere, you’d never switch them in on an attack- theyre too frail.

      • Also, I’m not sure if I would call it the best type offensively. Moonblast and play rough are great moves, but fairies are pretty limited in their moveset. Also, they tend to be pretty special oriented. I for one am pleased with the amount of fairies we are getting this gen, it varies up the pool to pick from instead of a select ten maybe that are useful (though I would like more ice and ghost types too). The fairies we have and that are being added make sense. They all fit the type (except maybe Ninetales but I guess you could say that’s because of its magic but whatevs). That’s whats so great about types like water- theres such a wide variety of strategies, moves, tanks-sweepers-etc., that you can put a water type on your team for coverage and not have to worry about your opponent knowing exactly how to counter you.

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        • here is the thing. fairy type is effective against Dark, Fighting and Dragon which are basically top tier types in the metagame. Having steel, poison and fire as the only resistance makes them even stronger because from that group steel is the only one that have the defensive niche.

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          • imo. what fairy needs is more weakness and drop either fighting or dark as an effective move. Also its immunity to dragon was too much

          • Immunity to dragons was great lol just because it made everyone with a dragon have to scramble for other moves in their sets (granted, dragons can learn a ton of different moves so that’s not really a problem)

          • That’s bit of an understatement
            The only thing Fairies truly fear is Excadrill since it has the bulk to fend off them and stab Iron head but even so you got to deal with the Mawiles which are bulky, Azumarill with it high HP, Togekiss paraflinching and all have high Sp Def so sludge bomb has to be Stab to make a dent, people rarely carries PJab offensively these days so saying that they’re easy pickings is very much wrong

          • Scizor and Crobat usually do a decent enough job for me.

            My Scizor one-shot my friend’s Mega Gardevoir with an Iron Head once.

    • Dragons don’t need nerfing to be completely honest. Dragon is one of the rarest typings in the game, so yeah they’re obviously going to be more powerful than say a grass type.

      All typings have their advantages and disadvantages, Dragons happen to be hyper offensive and as a result everyone wants a nerf. Dragons are fine as they are, those that have a problem with it aren’t very good at playing Competitive Pokemon.

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      • To be fair (I am agreeing with you for once and never again) but Dragons are still mega tough, ever see a generic Dragon Mono? They’re nightmarish if you don’t have a Mamoswine

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          • “theyre fucking dragons lmfao. they’re supposed to be tough” I would quote this as my senior quote in a yearbook

          • Seriously every dragon mono consists of
            Garchomp
            Latios
            Latias
            Black Kyurem
            Hydregion
            And Dragonite

            It’s just too much sometimes

          • but like I said before, there aren’t THAT many dragons to begin with so, team building mono dragon is much harder than mono water.

      • If this was the case, I feel like fairies would never have existed. Obviously there was a problem. I agree that every type cant have the same amount of weaknesses or strengths or overall stats, but ice (with terrible defenses most of the time) and grass having so many while dragon having so little AND being hyper offensive, it makes for an unbalanced system.

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        • But we’re talking about NOW, not previously. Dragons are balanced NOW with the addition of Fairies. We’re not talking about previously.

          To be fair, it’s much harder to slay a dragon that burn a blade of grass or smash a block of ice.

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          • Touche good sir. I agree, dragons are pretty balanced now, but fairies have a bit of an upper hand as we’ve listed below (with their weaknesses being easy to take down for the most part and the immunity of course). IDK how to fix all of this. I would just love for ice to get more love. After everything that’s been done to the metagame and all we’ve talked about fairies and dragons, at the end of the day, defensively, ice and grass are super weak. Now, I know not all types can be equally defensive but come on, take one or two weaknesses off and it would make it that much more balanced. Not perfect, but maybe imperfection and unbalance between all the types is the right balance.

          • I don’t think the problem with ice is the weaknesses, it’s that Gamefreak isn’t making competitively viable ice types, all the stats are in the wrong places. Weavile is a great Pokemon, so is Froslass and Mamoswine. What do they have in common? FAST(esp with a scarf) and hit Pokemon hard.

            Other than that, ice has become a coverage typing because not many competitively viable Pokemon have STAB ice attacks.

          • Yep you nailed it. Ice is strong when its allowed to be. Two or so every gen new mons does nothing for the type. But the issue is that there is such a variety of pokemon within types like water and such, heck even electric types like Electivire does okay not being fast like most of its peers in that type. But you get one defensive ice poke like avalugg and it struggles at its one job. A type sucks if it can only succeed in one area.

    • Basically it gave psychic another weakness, which due to a bug in the game it had none in gen one, and steel was probably invented so they could have more metal based designs in pokemon. Why not really. Steel’s still the best defensive type in the game, and it has led to a lot of interesting designs as “being made of Metal” pretty much means you can design anything you want.

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    • Dark is immune to psychic, so psychic gets a weakness that it quite literally can’t do anything against, and steel was invented to give fighting types a boost (and create a good defensive type).

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  49. I’d be willing to bet that any Pokémon revealed from now, until release, will be (pre)evolutions of ones that we already know. For example, I doubt we’ll see the supposed snowman and dolphin Pokémon until the game is out because they’re not connected to any Pokémon that we’ve already seen.

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    • I would love that. Although I do get nervous when that happens because that either means they suddenly got conservative with how many theyre revealing…OR… there aren’t a lot left to reveal and they don’t want to spoil every single one. I would like some evolutions to be left in the dark for me to discover however.

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          • Well I didn’t mean the designs I just meant the names. At very least, a confirmation that there will be more than 70 new Pokémon in the game. Even if it’s only 80 – that’s still better than X/Y!

          • I thought Gen V had too much. Gen VI not enough. 100 is the perfect amount IMO. Just another reason why Gen II is my favorite.

          • G5’s issue wasn’t just the amount, it’s that the quality suffered for the quantity, and that most of their pokemon were created as reinventions of Kanto Pokemon.

          • So true. I’ve always seen Gen V as the hit or miss gen. For every Chandalure, Bisharp and Mineshau, there’s a Maractus, Druddigon or Bouffelant…

          • Unfortunately it looks like spanish bird bitch oricorio is about to steal its signature move and also volcy might be hit hard by that priority rock move, especially if a lot pokemon get it as an egg move. Ugh..

          • True..I just don’t want oricorio to get fiery dance. It makes so much sense for it to, but it should have its own move.

          • It will, they’re all about ruining signature moves these days.

            Remember when only Beedrill learnt Twineedle, only Raticate could Super/Hyper Fang and only Sneasel could Beat Up?

          • I’m half and half about Druddigon, I don’t outright hate it but I think they went OTT with the pointy bits. The colour scheme was good and at least its body looked like it belonged to a dragon. I prefer it to Hydreigon.

          • I’ll be honest, I actually liked Bouffelant more than Tauros and didn’t like Mienshao, but I agree they had a handful good ones and a lot of pretty awful ones.

          • Which ones don’t you like? Just curious? I don’t like Conkeldurr’s line or the monkeys. Darminitan has recently grown on me. I also don’t like Gothitelle.

          • I hate the Gothitelle line.
            I love Seismitoad but hate both its pre-evolutions.
            I have mixed feelings on the monkeys. I feel like they had potential, and were obviously intended to become super popular…but then they went and screwed up all three evolutions..

            I could go on and list my opinion of every Gen V Pokémon, but I’m not gonna do that right now 😛 I do love all the ghost types though. Gen V hit that nail right on the head.

          • It taught me to appreciate the underrated move that is Snatch. Sure it requires a lot of prediction, but nobody ever expects it.

          • I’m ok with the Monkeys, they feel a bit wasteful though (I think they should have done a wormadam/eevee type thing, have a normal monkey at the bottom, evolve it with a stone to the ‘pan’ form and then level up or friendship to the ‘simi’ form, and maybe make those just different forms of the same pokemon instead of different species).

            I dislike Conkeldurr’s line (but in fairness I never liked Machamp’s line either).
            I don’t like the Gothitelle or Reuniclus lines.
            I don’t like Trubbish’s line.
            I don’t like Samurott but I like it’s prevos.
            I don’t like Lillipup’s line, but not enough to want it erased.
            I liked Purrloin but Liepard always felt off to me.
            Pidove’s line is yet another boring flying/normal Pidgey/Starly. The sexual dimorphism of Unfezant slightly makes up for it though.
            Earthen’s gonna hate me because I don’t like Excadrill much. I’d be ok with it if it didn’t have the metal bit on its head though.
            Basculin was the pinnacle of pointless.
            Sigilyph is like a really uncool version of Xatu.

            I’m gonna stop there or I’ll be here all day XD

          • Lol I agree on most except I find Reuniclus to be adorable. Trubbish and garbodor grew on me (tho I wish garbodor’s pebbles were a different color and didn’t look like fish tank rocks). Lilipups line is the pinnacle of using too many jagged lines for fur. I have tried so hard to like Excadrill but I just cant. I like drilbur, but something about the black lines outlining the jagged designs on his back but not his front looks sloppy (look it up on its sprite. Maybe its just theyre way of showing shading and maybe I’m being wayyyy too nitpicky.) I also don’t like the white on its face or those little red lines. The spike on its head is unnecessary too… I also really want to like Basculin but I cant….

          • Reuniclus looks like snot and I will never like Trubbish or Garbador, their only redeeming qualities are their faces.
            I don’t like Drilbur much either tbh.

            It looks cool, but it serves no purpose.
            If they’d given it an evolution it could have been a cooler version of Goldeen or a new Magikarp, but on its own it’s just a wasted slot.

            A lot of G5 pokemon either should have been 3 stage instead of 2 or evolved at a much earlier level. Yamask and Drilbur are particularly notable for this since they’re both tiny pokemon and become hulking brutes in their 30s as a sudden transition when they could have an intermediate form that would do much better.

          • I’m not too bothered by Conkeldur line.
            Yeah, Trubbish line is trash…
            I agree with Samurott. They had such strong designs going and then THAT…
            I love the Lilipup line. My favorite dog-based Pokémon line, for sure.
            I feel the exact opposite on your opinions of Purrloin and Liepard.
            The Pidove line is VERY boring. My least favorite regional bird.
            I agree that Excadrill could have been slightly better designed. That metal bit on its head is weird. I’m also sick of seeing them so much in competitive.
            I wish I liked Basculin more than I do.
            Siglilyph may not be as cool as Xatu but I still like it. Just wish it had connection with the Unown in some way.

          • It’s obvious Conkeldur is trying to be a new Machamp, and the iron beam/stone pillar is just a pointless addition. Plus its legs are tiny.

            I prefer Arcanine personally.
            I don’t hate the Lillipup line like I do some of the others, but it feels bland. They should have at least given it a second type by its third form.

            The only regional bird line I like is Talonflame. Pidgeot, Staraptor and Unfezant all bore me to tears.

            Yeah, remove the metal bit on its head and stick a form between it and Drilbur.

            I think Sigiliph looks horribly horribly derpy. I’m not even sure which of its 3 eyes are real. It looks like an absurd caricature of a pokemon. I can see why it would have a connection with the unown, but I think the unown at least look decent and their meaning is aparent, sigiliph is neither use nor ornament.

          • Mainly the reinventions bugs me (but then I think about the reinventions we get every gen and I feel better). Quality wasn’t too bad. There are a few where they like to throw in some extra jagged lines for fur and such and call it a day.

    • I’d actually prefer the other way. I’d rather see Pokemon from many lines, even if it’s nearly every line, but keep final evolutions secret for us to discover ourselves.

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  50. Well I downloaded this stupid Skylanders maker app just to make a Skylanders since I won’t get the Imaginators…. There I said it….happy now…wasted half a gig on it

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  51. I know leaks don’t follow any schedule but is there a time frame to expect on whatever day we do get leaks? In other words, should I sleep now, or is it worth staying up?

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    • I think you answered your own question about if it’s worth staying up by saying “I know leaks don’t follow any schedule”

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      • I only ask because I always wake up to them, so it’s always sometime in the night for me. I just wanted to know if there’s any trend with which to make a rough time frame, even if it’s not guaranteed to follow it.

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  52. I saw somewhere on Twitter that Wishiwashi school form is supposed to represent the “dolphin” pokemon? haha can you image the rage of the Pokemon community if that were the case.

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          • lemurs are primates, and ihas simian in the name… seems more than plausible that soe could connect it to a rugby monkey. people just don’t want to give credit where credit is due. I lost respect for the riddler after he blatantly insulted cresselia (not the pokemon, the lady from smogon trying to translate the riddles for everyone)

          • Lemurs are Primates, but they’re not Monkeys.
            Monkeys are Simians, Lemurs are Prosimians.

            I’m not saying it’s not the “rugby monkey” I’m just saying the person who called it a “rugby monkey” doesn’t do their research and clearly knows very little about the animal kingdom.

            I have suspected all along that the Riddler is dragging its heels with revealing info because it’s too concerned with making itself popular.

      • A baby sardine saw his first submarine,
        He was scared and looked through a peephole.
        “Oh come, come, come”, said the sardine’s mum,
        “It’s only a tin full of people”!

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  53. I just have to say that I am so pleased to have found this community. I’m busy with college right now but I’m on occasionally and check every day, and I have to say that being able to chat about something like ice types and nerfing and good designs in pokemon with people who care and who are genuinely respectful is just so cool. I cant wait to see what the community side of sun and moon will be like for me now that I’ve found you all.

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    • A fun respectful community with a pinch of salt :3

      How did you find PokeJungle. I found it after Mewtwo Y was announced and I was searching the Internet for any news on it. Back when we had no idea what it was and thought it was mewthree or something

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      • I remember being here when noivern was revealed at that big Q and A I think? Idk I didn’t have an account and I think I knew of this site before that.

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          • yeah. the jungle doesn’t care that I like normal types, or that I like bewear and purugly. that’s why its the best. I don’t get ridiculed because I have different tastes.

          • Ok no I hate you for liking Purugly and I hope you have a canoe paddle thing shoved through your body vertically then somebody drops you in a lake while using you to paddle their canoe.

            Did I do this elaborate insult thing right? This is a joke if it wasn’t obvious btw

          • usually its like that. “Why don’t you use something that will win? nobody uses purugly because its useless!” I like to use what interests me, not only strong pokemon. Karen’s words ring true. also, that’s why the sugar daddy in ORAS battle resort is my least favorite character in all of pokemon. his advice is a slap in the face to Karen’s philosophy. he says something along the lines of “Truly talented trainers will need to learn to use stronger pokemon instead of their favorites in order to win.” that really bugs me, the game giving advice like that.

          • I like Bewear.
            I’m ok with liking Normal types even though generally they bother me.
            Purugly though… you’re dead to me ; n ;
            (Seriously though, I liked Glameow, Purugly was kind of disappointing)

          • purugly, excellent speed stat, access to fake out, U-turn, knock off, resists ice and fire, immune to ghost. Life orb fake out/last resort punches holes in things… people don’t expect purugly to come in guns blazing but it does and its a very effective pokemon. and its super cute to boot.

          • The magical forest with a layout that’s outdated as hell and appears to be organized by a 5-year-old even though the sites database itself is impressive and helpful

    • I really wish that I could be here more often with you guys but my life is so overbooked right now 😐 I’m glad you’re having fun.

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  54. am I the only one that has lots of problems with disqus? sometimes it doesn’t display what I type, it makes me click outside the type box and I don’t realize it until ive been typing for awhile, doesn’t let me reply, its just a pain all around.

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  55. GUYZ
    .
    I just realized.
    .
    What if this really is the final Gen, and the third legendary to round off Solgaleo and Lunala is a giant jigsaw puzzle of the cosmos.
    .
    Think about it. IT ALL COMES TOGETHER.

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  56. Wel goodnight! Hopefully the leaks happen overnight and this comment section gets flooded with the people who are only here for news days. It’s legit one of my fav parts of this site- the stark differences between droughts and news days.

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    • That’s because the Japanese names of the starters were trademarked earlier, and they appear to be based on an owl, cat, and sea lion respectively by their names. Since then, lots of fan-art was created before the official reveal

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      • I agree that Flipup is a bit better than Popplio but I prefer Litten to Tygro.
        Barrot would be a good regional bird, the holly on its beak is very christmassy.

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  57. http://img03.deviantart.net/9551/i/2016/131/1/5/rowlett_and_litten_by_simpleguitar-da26csu.jpg

    The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

    In a beautiful pea-green boat,

    They took some honey, and plenty of money,

    Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

    The Owl looked up to the stars above,

    And sang to a small guitar,

    “O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

    What a beautiful Pussy you are,

    You are,

    You are!

    What a beautiful Pussy you are!”

    Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!

    How charmingly sweet you sing!

    O let us be married! too long we have tarried:

    But what shall we do for a ring?”

    They sailed away, for a year and a day,

    To the land where the Bong-Tree grows

    And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

    With a ring at the end of his nose,

    His nose,

    His nose,

    With a ring at the end of his nose.

    “Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

    Your ring?” Said the Piggy, “I will.”

    So they took it away, and were married next day

    By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

    They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

    Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

    And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

    They danced by the light of the moon,

    The moon,

    The moon,
    They danced by the light of the moon.

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      • It’s a poem by English poet Edward Lear.
        It’s usually read to primary school children in Britain.

        Also there was originally no such thing as a runcible spoon, but the world later gave it a meaning, which kind of defeated the purpose.

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  58. i just finished breeding a 6 IVS Minccino with HA and 4 egg moves , and with jolly nature.
    The egg moves are : mud slap , flail , endure , aqua tail.
    So If any of you guys wants one i could rebreed/give them one !

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