Croagunk Revealed as Next Pokkén Fighter

Contrary to popular predictions based on datamined information, Croagunk has been announced as the new fighter joining Pokkén Tournament’s roster. The game update will be coming to Japanese arcades on November 10th, with no details yet about Wii U release. Several characters have yet to debut on the console version as of writing.

We’ll update the post with a high-resolution trailer and more screenshots as they come.

What do you think? Toxicroak could have been so much better…

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1,115 thoughts on “Croagunk Revealed as Next Pokkén Fighter”

  1. Croagunk was super popular during D/P due to the anime, bascially the Braxien of Gen. 4, so I’m not all that shocked it was put in over Toxicroak. I’m also really glad another NFE got into the game.

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    • Think of it like this. Empoleon all but confirmed already. We know hes coming eventually. However pokKen doesn’t have a real trolls character, so this is a good break from the serious ones we’ve gotten. As well, I wouldn’t put it past gf telling the devs to hold off on empoleon as they likely have a design for a mega empoleon for the do remakes that are probably already in the works and they don’t want to date their game that quickly.

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  2. Croagunk/Toxicroak are some of my favorite pokemon, so I’m pretty pleased. I think having smaller, unevolved fighters makes the roster more fun and diverse. (:

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  3. Croagunk is the next playable character? Not what I was expecting, yet it’s understandable why they put Croagunk into the game.

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  4. With Sun and Moon we are helping to build a Pokémon league. So considering both the anime/manga and the games: What processes/requirements do you think is required to make a league?

    Which version do you prefer? The anime were you face your peers in a tournament-styled competition to have a chance to fight the Elite 4/Champion or complete the arduous trek through Victory Road to challenge the Elite 4/Champion?

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  5. I am pre loading Pokemon Sun and I pre ordered Moon from amazon. I have to starve my belly to satisfy my greed. All in search for temporary happiness.

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  6. I’m done today just done
    This

    I didn’t go home after a fire at school

    Too much homework

    YouTube refuses to let me listen to my favorite song

    Half my friends aren’t here today

    It’s not Halloween

    Today has been sh*tty

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  7. I was thinking of types combo that resist both of the starters types, and:

    DECIDUEYE stabs are resisted by: Grass/Dark, Grass/Normal, Poison/Dark, Poison/Normal, Bug/Dark, Bug/Normal, Flying/Normal, Flyng/Dark, Fire/Dark, Fire/Normal, Dragon/Dark, Dragon/Normal, Steel/Dark, Steel/Normal.
    Total: 14 types combo.

    INCINEROAR stabs are resisted by: Dragon/Fighting, Dragon/Fairy, Dragon/Dark, Fire/Dark, Fire/Fighting, Fire/Fairy, Rock/Dark, Rock/Fairy, Rock/Fighting, Water/Dark, Water/Fighting, Water/Fairy.
    Total: 12 types combo.

    PRIMARINA stabs are resisted by: Grass/Steel, Grass/Poison, Water/Poison, Water/Steel
    Total: 4 types combo.

    Now combo types that hit both super effective on starters types:

    DECIDUEYE is hitten SE by: Fire/Ghost, Fire/Dark, Fire/Ice, Fire/Flying, Ice/Ghost, Ice/Dark, Ice/Flying, Flying/Ghost, Flying/Dark, Ghost/Dark.
    Total: 10 types combo.

    INCINEROAR is hitten SE by: Water/Ground, Water/Rock, Ground/Rock, Ground/Fighting. Fighting/Water, Fighting/Rock.
    Total: 6 types combo.

    PRIMARINA is hitten SE by: Electric/Grass, Electric/Poison, Poison/Grass
    Total: 3 types combo.

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  8. The Genesect event for XY/ORAS has begun on several locations throughout the globe.

    United States – Gamestop – November 1st through November 24th

    Canada – EBGames – November 1st through November 24th

    United Kingdom – GAME – November 1st through November 24th – Note: Some stores are having issues printing the codes at time of writing

    Australia & New Zealand – EBGames – November 1st through November 24th

    Spain – GAME – November 1st through November 24th

    Germany – Gamestop – November 1st through November 24th

    France – Micromania – November 2nd through November 28th

    Italy – Gamestop – November 1st through November 24th

    Belgium – Nintendo Zone in Game Mania, FNAC CORA and Smartoys – November 1st through November 24th

    Austria – Gamestop – November 2nd through November 24th

    Netherlands – Nintendo Zone in Game Mania – November 1st through November 24th

    Finland, Sweden, Norway & Denmark – BR Stores – November 15th

    Switzerland – Gamestop – November 1st through November 24th

    Portugal – FNAC Stores – November 1st through November 24th

    South Africa – BT Games – November 1st through November 24th

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  9. I went to GAME to get some Genesect Codes, and their machines were messing up. I then tried the other 2 GAME near me, same issue. I dunno if it’s national.
    Though the guy did promise to keep a Mini NES to the side for me, so, theres silver linings

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  10. Who was your very first favorite Pokemon? Mine was Vulpix/Ninetales from Blue and Red (I had Red, and Vulpix wasn’t in Red unfortunately…). But I still managed to get one!

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  11. Wait, this reminded me, no one is asking the biggest question about Sun and Moon….
    What role does Looker Play?
    I doubt he’ll not appear, I mean since his first appearance the only game he hasn’t been in is B2/W2, and that’s cause he was in Kalos at the time.
    Lets look at his timeline.
    His story starts in OR/AS, Washed up on a beach with Amnesia (In the same area we discover a magma and aqua grunt in a starcrossed romance, these 2 are married in B2/W2, confirming this happens before that), 3 years later he’s in Sinnoh, then a few years later he’s in Unova, Thennnnn 2 years after that he’s in Kalos, and we discover Croagunk died.
    So, I feel it’s likely he’ll appear in Alola somewhere, the question is, where?

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    • This just made me realize how muddy all the remakes have made this timeline. I’m thoroughly confused about each games time and place now

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      • Simply the basic timeline stays the same.
        R/B/G/Y/FR/LG=R/S/E/OR/AS
        3 Years
        G/S/C/HG/SS=D/P/Plt
        Unknown time but not long
        B/W
        2 YEARS
        B2/W2=X/Y
        Unknown time but not long
        S/M
        Then from there, every new game in a new region takes place after.
        You can think of it as, Remakes take up the main canon, OR, lots of seperate timelines following the same basic events.
        I have no clue on Side games except for Colloseum, which is same time as Gen 1/3, then XD 5 Years later, meaning that takes place probablyduring B/W.
        It’s best to just not think about it and accept it’s a very loose canon with solid points in the timeline.

        I’m curios to see if Gen 4 remakes will continue this, and be set at the time of the originals, or will be shifted up in the timeline which will really mud up the whole thing.

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  12. Out of curiousity, who here gives their Pokémon personalities? Like, not necessarily fully fleshed out backstories, just personalities.

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  13. gotta be honest, this dlc makes me cringe really hard. also, it doesn’t really matter to us as long as it isn’t for the wii u version. one more thing, where are mienshao, golurk, and bewear?!? woulda made for much better dlc, and waaaaaaaaaaay less cringey.

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      • not the last 2, this one. the way croagunk is portrayed as some weird anime ganster, and that typical anime cliché character who does everything right on accident, and the cliché joke character of the fighting game. ugh. also, wasn’t croagunk an assist?

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        • I think the term is quirky
          Mellow but holds a unique unusual personality

          I wouldn’t call his fighting style “cliché character who does everything right on accident” it’s just harnessing its own bizarreness into a potent threat

          And besides every fighting game needs a joke character

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  14. You know, Stuffel is cute but, that Butt Tag kinda puts me off it and I dunno why.
    If it’s meant to be a red panda, why the tag?
    If it’s meant to be a Stuffed animal, why not say, (Outside the name). I guess it just confuses me

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  15. Do you get the Mew in America for downloading VC Pokemon games or is that Japan only? I really want one it is my favorite legendary/mythical.

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    • I got the mew! But if you have the RBY virtual games you can get a legit glitch mew to send to sun and moon! It’s really easy!

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      • Yeah, see I didn’t learn about the 20th anniversary until march when the games got announced. I then forgot about them until literally one day after the Arceus one ended xC. Luckily I got the Darkrai, Hoopa, Keldeo, and Victini even though I already had the last two from gen V. I mean I am only missing like five legendaries at most. A legit Mew(As my brother traded my gen iv event one without me knowing.) Celebi, Shaymin, Arceus, Diancie, Genesect I don’t really like and Meloetta I will soon have.

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        • Alright, but keep your spirits up and remember jerks are people who hate themselves and revel in other people’s sadness. You’re a Star so shine brightly amongst the darkness and illuminate the universe! 😀

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          • (low key loving my name choice) I’ve never really cared too much about what others thought about me as long as I was happy. All that matters is I have my friends’ support and I can be comfortable in my self

          • Well, I hit massive depression when I originally came out since I really had one to talk to and no one want to talk to me about it so I felt isolated, but you’ve got friends who you can talk to so you should be fine. I’m here for you and I’m sure others on here are, too! 😀

          • Plus most of my friends are super gay XD I’m just so excited. I’ve been waiting on this but it was really frustrating because like, I never really knew when it was coming but now I know it will be within weeks

          • Yup, but some people like to take their shit out on others, unfortunately. Lol But, yeah! Just be yourself, because at the end of the day that’s who you’re spending the rest of your life with. 😛

  16. Just a note to all of you (Americans, at least. Possibly others): if you can’t get your code card from GameStop because they’re out or the “machine isn’t working”, they can still print you out a receipt with the code on it. It just won’t be anything aesthetically appealing. They had to do that for me back during the Arceus event.

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  17. So I’m doing the pokémon league in Blue and its just making me think how much I’d love for a Kanto Remake with all the Evolutions of Kanto Pokémon in it (along with Larvitar, Sneasel, Houndour, Slugma, Murkrow, and Misdreavus seeing as they’re all found in Kanto in GSC)

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  18. *Is doing Pokémon League*

    Lorelei: Uses Underlevelled Raichu with 2 X Special and 2 X Speed

    Bruno: Uses Underlevelled Wigglytuff with 2 X Defense, 2 X Special, 2 X Speed

    Agatha: Uses 2 X Specials and 2 X Speeds on Wigglytuff but gets Hazed

    Lance: Sit Venusaur in front of him and Toxic +Leech Seed to victory

    Like jeez the first three were hard but Lance is a push over so far

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  19. I’m trying to decide…
    Later on I’m planning to do a Pokemon run after SM but its one that’s nostalgic. I would either play Pokemon Black again with my original team (Emboar, Stoutland, Galvantula, Seismetoad, Gothitelle, and Unfezant) or start a completely new run with Emerald (because it was my first Pokemon game, yet I barely played it).

    Which one do you think I should do?

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  20. Anyone wanna battle be in ORAS or XY in a bit? I can do any rules or whatever you want I just wanna battle someone! I don’t really have super competitive teams but jus for funsies

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  21. Gen I’s AI is hilarious

    Just Toxic/Leech Seeded Charizard to death despite it having a move that 1HKOs Venusaur by giving it a Rage boost and then it only used Rage

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  22. Alright guys! Time for a “Fairy” question! 😛

    Which region of pokemon would you want to live in? And where in that region specifically?

    Mine: Unova, Virbank City

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  23. Question time has started lads and ladettes ‘w’/

    What’s the most recent team you’ve finished a game with? Your most recent team doesn’t count if they haven’t been used to beat the Champion.

    Mine is

    Ven the Venusaur
    Wiggly the Wigglytuff
    Persia the Persian
    Nine the Ninetales
    Nido the Nidoqueen
    Rai the Raichu

    Pokémon Blue, was too lazy to give them proper nicknames and I don’t know their gender yet so I just used a part of the species name. I usually do better.

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  24. Just a question that popped into my head, but…

    In the anime, when there’s a Pokemon League Conference, it has 3 on 3 battles till the semi-finals. At for the semi finals and the actual finals, there’s a full battle.

    So the question is: For the 3 on 3 battles, what are the Pokemon you would use and rotate? And for the semi finals and finals, what would your Pokemon teams for each be?

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  25. Alright, my turn for a question (again), but this time a real question.
    First, take your least favorite type, then make a team of 6 pokemon out of that type.

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  26. Odd question: if we lived in a world of Pokémon, which member on the forums would you want to fight most?

    Probably either Earthen (force vs finesse) or Prince Fae (battle for the Fairy crown) tbh

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  27. I’m split between choosing a type I like more that is super weak (for the gym leader thing), versus a type that I don’t like as much but will be much stronger.

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  28. I want to see a Pokemon episode where a mother Primarina and her pup are being targeted by Team Skull or the Aether Foundation (with the pretense of wanting to help save the pup), and the mother goes ballistic and a massive underwater/near the beach brawl ensues between multiple Skull/Aether Pokemon versus a pissed off mother protecting her pup. I just see Primarina as a docile and jolly creature until one of its own is being threatened or it feels itself intimidated.

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  29. Now I have a different issue. If I choose a certain type, I’m banking on the only pokemon from the alola region of that type being good. xD

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  30. In preparation for my Emerald run, is Sceptile very fun to use as a Pokemon during normal gameplay? I’ve never really used it (sadly), and I’m just curious.

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  31. Don’t know if any other artists feel this way, but I get way more attached to a character when I draw them and I’m drawing Tsareena right now.

    Tsareena or Lurantis… the war has been resparked…

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  32. I felt like the Alola trio reminded of certain people and I finally figured out who:
    – Primarina = Sakura
    – Incineroar = Naruto
    – Decidueye = Sasuke

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  33. Hi guys, been avoiding the comments section since the demo was datamined…
    so its good to know its going to be a little bit easier to avoid spoilers… good to know….
    can you guys help me?
    I have a 3dsxl brought in atlanta (miss you usa!!!) and it came with a 4gb sd card 😐
    Now im going to buy 16gb one 🙂
    Thats where it comes your help…
    Is it safe to buy a micro sd with adapter?
    I managed to buy the nintendo 100 dolars shop card and im striving to pre download it sun(want the physical copy of moon) and maybe dragon quest 7or 8 or mario kart/party…..i dont quite know yet…
    any advices?
    I’ve posted this on the other article but i guess is empty now 🙂

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    • It is safe to use a micro sd with an adapter, that’s what I’m using (at least I think so). There’s no reason it wouldn’t work IMO.

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  34. Might as well post this here as well.
    —————–
    Here are the gym leaders along with typings:

    PercyEspeon – Psychic

    TheKecleonBandit – Normal

    Armageddon16 – Dark

    SilverRiolu/StarStorm – Fairy

    Wes – Ghost

    MelloMori – Steel

    Poekoko – Water

    Ithsme – Flying

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  35. So if you had to make a team, just an over all team of your favorites that would be your team across all regions, what would it be?

    Primarina
    Lopunny
    Gothitelle
    Lunaala
    Tsareena/Lurantis
    Mimikyu

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  36. Everyone is listing their ultimate teams and everyone has a gen 7 Pokémon in it! A testimony to how good this gen is and it’s not even out yet!

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    • It has so many diverse yet unique Pokemon in Gen 7, which what I mean is each one sticks out. Like for Solgaleo (my favorite Gen 7 Pokemon so far), it’s design and lore makes it stand out compared to previous legendaries, which is what I love.

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      • I totally agree. This is the only gen where there’s not a Pokémon I hate. I generally like all of them. And they put so much into the lore behind each one like never before which is so cool

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  37. Another question for today: What starter would you begin with on your Pokemon Journey? Mine’s pretty obvious because of the icon :p

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  38. Follow up question to Monferno’s. You can start with your favorite starter, but which region would you like to have been born/start your journey in?

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          • I like to write myself into my worlds, but I’m usually a minor or support character never the main character so this will be a new experience!

          • …Now I kinda want to do one. I’m Cynthia’s younger brother and she brought me a Rowlet back from her journey to Alola :3

          • Lol Okay, but remember being related to a major character can be difficult to sell if other people read it. 🙂

          • If I was actually writing a pokemon fanfic, it’d be easier not to be related to an established character. Maybe a Rowlet from Alola could arrive carrying a letter addressed to me, and it tells me to keep it as my first pokemon. But there’s no signature so it’s a mystery as to who it’s from 😮 That might be too Harry Potter though, but I can’t help it.

          • stories are always more intriguing when they build off of your own creativity and not the creativity of others, go for a backstory that suits you and you cant go wrong

          • The Rowlet with the letter would just be an homage at best lol. I don’t really plan on writing one though. For one, I don’t do fanfic. I just don’t like the idea of playing around in other people’s worlds. Secondly, I already have a lot of writing that I need to be doing for my creative writing course lol.

          • I plan to have my character have a breeder family friend from Alola visit me in Unova and gift me a Litten egg. 🙂

          • Are you a writer on the side as well then? or do you mean worlds as in like pokemon and such. For my actual stories some of the main characters have traits from me, traits that I hide from people and traits that I would have if I lived in that world.

          • I am an aspiring writer. I was always told that it was a foolish dream, but I’m finally pursuing my dreams and trying to write more.

            I don’t do non-fiction. So if I do a real world story it is changed to suit my needs or creative direction. So by worlds I just mean the one I come up with, but in this case I wouldn’t change anything about the Pokémon world except for making everyone vegetarian or vegan for obvious reasons.

            Well, I feel like I write myself into my stories I can relate more to the world, characters, and plot I’ve created.

          • holy cow! Me too, I’m actually working on my first book in my first fantasy series atm, screw the nay sayers I am going to achieve my dream and you should shoot for that too. I already have at least 30 stories I want to turn into books, I have had them just piling up in my mind since I was like 8 and I need to get them out.

          • Fantasy is a genre I’m enthralled by! I want to create a LGBT series that doesn’t play on stereotypes. Oh, and lots of magic!

          • I’m writing a fantasy/scifi short story right now and it’s very difficult establishing the rules of this world I created lol. It’s a hybrid society where magic/technology coexist. I think I bit off more than I can chew

          • Magic and technology is so difficult. I suggest researching the “Tales of…” game series. They explore that theme pretty well.

          • not if you’re canadian, if you’re american though yeah, I have noticed they tend to only focus on the negatives where we focus on the positives. its odd, but just remember you’re awesome and its your story

          • Aw, thanks. Actually they’ve been pretty helpful with other people’s stories in past workshops, I just wish my story was more polished. It could be, I still have a few days before I need to submit it

          • Well a thesaurus is your best friend, and there are tons of world building checklists you can find online if you’re really worried about that, they can cover enough of the basic questions you might forget to ask yourself

          • world building is a task, but for a short story I think its fine to have some inconsistencies, I have a leather journal I keep for my world where I write down little random things that the cultures have and how they work, but none of it really is made up by me, it kind of comes to me randomly and I don’t know from where but it happens

          • My main character is gay but its not the focus of his story, but it does influence it quite a bit, actually now that I think about it, all the like main MAIN characters are either women (3) or gay men (3) the like one straight guy got killed off

          • Well, sexuality won’t be a main focus, but it will be something that is established with certain characters.

          • it needs to be a more prominent thing, there are like no main characters really in fantasy that are gay, side characters sure, but main characters no, and it kind of sucks

          • Exactly. I want to make their sexuality known, but at the same time I don’t want romance to be the most prominent part of the story. I want to create strong characters and an exciting world filled with perils and adventures!

            Plus, magic! Omg, I’ve been exploring “Mind” magic and insanity. I’m excited about it!

          • You’d be surprised how often in a day I tell myself this! Lol its great inspiration, ironically one of those is a fanfic of the other.

    • Incineroar, but before gen 7 it was a tie between Blaziken and Delphox. As for the region id like to have been born in Hoenn, in Fortree even though I started with Yellow this region has always been one where I felt like I belonged and I love nature. I even made my secret base around there!

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    • It would be Charizard. But I would live in Hoenn. Probably a city near water kind of like my place in Florida. Possibly Lilycove..

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    • In an ideal world, they’d remake D/P & release GSC on Virtusl Console. Gen II was one of my favourite games tbh, so much content for a start.
      If they remake FR/LG, it’ll be the 6th time they’ll have made Kanto accessible (RBY, GSC, FR/LG, HG/SS & VC RBY) + not to mention Alolan forms being another nod to Pokemons roots!

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  39. Somethings wrong with my version of the Demo. The days until certain events haven’t lowered since I moved my Time Settings back an hour on sunday, the pikachu man still says it’s 4 days away, despite it supposed to have happened on Sunday. Is anyonw else having this issue?

    Also how do I find Dugtrio, Lilly and Dexio and Sina?

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