Pokémon GO Gearing Up For Something Big

Several leaks and announcements are pointing to Niantic gearing up for something huge in Pokémon GO!

Pictures, screenshots, and more have popped up from a confidential notice for Starbucks employees about a new sponsorship deal with the popular coffee shop beginning on December 8th. This sponsorship includes making most, but not all, Starbucks locations a Gym or Pokéstop in game and the introduction of a brand new Pokémon GO inspired Frappuccino! But what’s bigger than the appropriately Raspberry flavored blended drink is that the employee notice says “Pokémon GO is about to expand with new Pokémon” and a “new update.” This, alongside an official partnership with Sprint to make 10,500 locations Gyms or PokéStop adds to the hopefully growing list of sponsorships, and the possible introduction to Generation II Pokémon.

But if Gen II is just around the corner, what about the still omitted legendary Pokémon from Gen I? What do you think, will this holiday season mark us being able to catch Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile and the rest of Generation II in GO? Whatever the case, the update on Dec. 12th will definitely shed some light on the matter.

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1,684 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Gearing Up For Something Big”

  1. Starbucks is really off the damn mark with the fashionableness of this promotion haha, but lucky for them, about half my friends will fanatically buy starbucks without pokemon go welded to it

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  2. Niantic instead of being a corrupt, cheap and ignorant company like you are, how about implementing all 6 OTHER GENERATIONS?! No stupid events, no stupid sponsorships, JUST FOCUS ON THEM! If not then Pokemon Go will be known as the game of disappointment.

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  3. Serebii updated with info about go and I’m really torn over itv

    For one I would love to make it to gen 3 to see a Flygon in it… but at the same time it’s such a casual game and really just needs to die already. It’s done nothing of use for the Pokémon community

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    • Pokemon go is just horrible. It completely strips away the main components of the damn game. I don’t think there’s ever been a more watered down Pokemon experience

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  4. found code referencing the entire second generation of Pokémon including mentions of Chikorita, Totodile, Qwilfish and others,

    Why the hell is Qwilfish mentioned

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  5. Sad to say I’m over SM. I can’t get myself to continue the game after finishing the main story. I think the game mechanics are really starting to bore me, even if SM changed them a bit. Still very excited for the pokemon themselves though

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    • >implying Pokémon still isn’t the greatest thing ever.
      >why am I green texting outside of 4chan?

      But seriously, at least you made it to post game. For me personally, finishing th main story is satisfying enough.

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    • honestly I feel you, XY I played the hell out of but once ORAS came I found myself kind of bored with pokemon in general, I was a big shiny hunter/breeder, but this generation I don’t want to really do either, I thought the games were simply amazing but I’m starting to feel as if my pokemon days are coming to an end

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      • Exactly how it happened to me. For me to be really interested in pkm again they’ll have to actually make games targeted to an older audience, and not always kind of the same story (kid discovering the world, beating the evil organization etc). Maybe there’s some hope with the Switch

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        • At least I still have zelda, so Im ok, but then again the last of us part 2 is coming so ill also be throwing my money at playstation, hopefully they are also working on a new dragon age game

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          • Besides Pokemon and Animal Crossing I don’t play video games that much. I recently watched a playthrough of the two last Lara Croft games and they’re so good, but I could never play such games though ahah (too much violence for me)

          • How is competitive battling boring? You must be a boring person or maybe this game just isn’t cut out for you. The strategy it takes to win a competitive battle is so entertaining. And then when you outsmart your opponent and actually win its the best feeling

          • I’ve been playing pokemon since I was very young and never felt the need to play competitively lol. No patience to breed and do all that shit just to get “decent” pokemon to then battle against people who use basically the same pokemon. I still love the franchise, gamefreak just has to step up their game and actually target it to young adults too.

      • You guys need to BATTLE. You wouldn’t be bored if you stopped just collecting and actually get into the competitive play swing of things. I’m at work right now itching to get home and just have a good battle

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        • …. wth I battle all the time, online battles are the least fun part of every pokemon game because all people ever do is use the same pokemon over and over again, boring.

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    • At the risk of sounding like I’m kicking you out, (and I’m not,) it’s really not a good use of time playing something you no longer enjoy, so just take a break if not quit entirely, and use your free time for something better.

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  6. Guys! Guys! I think I’m getting really close to finding the anti-Ou for this gen!
    All I’m going to say is that
    Araquanid Zygarde 50% is a scary combo
    And that scarfed roserade can kill every Tapu in one hit while only theatened by scarfed lele

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      • The only thing is that I still have testing with fire sivally
        But let me say
        Zygarde counters all of the less spammed threats (Minior, Salazzle, Minior)
        Roserade counters tapus
        Araquanid is an EXTREMELY good bait for Xurkitree, most people switch in to damage it but Xurkitree can’t OHKO outside of Gigavolt or a crit. Araquanid OHKOS Xurk
        Araq seems to tank Pheramosa
        The other members of my team cover other specific roles, coverage mainly

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          • But I don’t want to use Pre Bank either
            Just wanted to make a new team with new stuff, but like always I’m stupid to believe it could work against the legends

          • Oh ( I swear I always get them mixed up)
            Araqunid is scary, the other night it totally botched my team because of it going bulky

          • Exactly! I said in the beginning
            Calling it! My boi is OU!
            Everyone doubted
            ability effect was discovered?
            Still no one believed
            Game came out
            Smogon doesn’t believe, its not getting an OU analysis despite being better than a good 70% of the new meta, 80% if we don’t count legends and UBs

      • There’s a Youtube video showing files of content that are in the games’s folder, but not actually in-game. Lillie has two Pokemon trainer models and so does Mohn, the guy from Poke Pelago. In fact, Mohn is pretty high up the list, above Guzma and Looker and in the same group as the Aether models. Which lets me to believe the theory that Mohn from Poke Pelago is the same Professor Mohn who used to work for Aether and created Type: Null.

        There are also overworld sprites for Zygarde and the rest of the Alola dex, so that tells me they were planning on bringing back the partner mechanic from HGSS.

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        • Oh yeah I saw that. I thought you meant that they officially said they needed to scrap some stuff or something. And yeah I’d say this stuff adds credence to the Stars rumor. Not that I didn’t believe it from the beginning given both Emily Rogers and Eurogamers track record, but still this is good stuff. That said I wouldn’t say that this stuff was cut. Rather maybe more so just left in as they were testing out the mechanics. Also having certain models in there lets them have flexibility with their ideas. So if they had really wanted Lillie to be battle-able then they could have done it. Either way I look forward to seeing what Stars has to offer. I’m incredibly excited about the prospects of the first main series Pokemon game being not only on the TV, but also in full HD! lol

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  7. Here’s a summary of the video I just saw, the first one most of us probably already knew though:
    1: Marshadow+Marshadium Z, 6 exclusive Pikachu forms, Pikashunium Z and Mewnium Z
    2: Default and 10% Zygarde overworld models
    3: Fourth type of enemy
    4: Lille trainer model
    5: Mohn trainer model, listed above Guzma and in the same bracket as the Aether Foundation

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  8. Nintendo issued a $20,000 bounty if you report hackers to them. They’re clearly very pissed about Sun and Moon got leaked 2 weeks before release

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  9. ”Gamecube games coming to the Switch VC, sources confirmed to Eurogamer. Gamecube VC has already been tested, and is working as intended. So far three GC games have been prepped for the Switch. Super Mario Sunshine, Super Smash Bros Melee and Luigi’s Mansion”

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    • The big three
      Hmmmmmm what GC games would I pay to relive….
      Hmm Paper Mario TYD and Mario Kart Double Dash honestly maybe Mario Power Tennis (but they have the new play control out)
      I mean I have a ton of old games that enthralled my younger self but seeing them as a Virtual Console seem unlikely
      Bomberman Generations/Jetters
      Sonic Adventure 1/2
      Super Monkey Ball
      Pikmin 1-2 seem possible but….I just played them all a month ago
      Oooo Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness could be good

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          • I really just wish one day all games can be “absorbed” into a mega emulator that never breaks, never runs slow or glitches out, all games run like clockwork and a “Everycontroler” that attuned to each game…
            And it has a sexy layout library that resembles each boxart instead of text….
            One day

          • Well if Amazon introduces a store where you can grab what you want and walk out, I’m sure your idea can be implemented as well somehow.

    • My hopes for coming back

      -Double Dash
      -Mario Sunshine
      -Luigi’s Mansion Original
      -Pokémon Colloseum (maybe remake with up to Gen.7?)
      -Paper Mario and Thousands year old door

      Maybe more if I think about it

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  10. Also a little update on the Sun and Moon anime. Confirmed that Ash gets to meet Lusamine in episode 8 and gets to meet Hala and starts his first trial in episode 9.

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      • I don’t like Hau so if he plays a minor role in the anime I’m okay with that. I still feel that Kiawe becomes Ash’s rival

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        • Kiawe is more the stern mentor type, keeping Ash in line when it comes to Z-Moves but valuing the more strict traditional ways of doing things which clash with Ash’s unorthodox methods

          I still greatly want to see Ash ACTUALLY GET SOME RIVALS EARLY
          Honestly as great Sawyer was he still didn’t get a ton of activity, unlike Paul the greatest rival ever…

          But my idea is Hau is basically Ash’s other half, a stupidly cheerful battler who takes on everything he sees, he has his own Pikachu who shows almost as much power as Ash’s but he also wants to be Island Champion and this fuels their Frivalery

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          • Gladion? Honestly I see some similarities with Paul in him. Strives to be strongest and doesn’t allow anything to get in his way.

          • He’s secretly good, because his psychobitch mama is of the deep end
            But I would like to see him have a bigger role

            I mean they can’t confine every episode to the school house

          • The school is just a front I think, for semi-filler episodes maybe? I really doubt they’re going to dedicate an entire season to Ash’s shenanigans in school.

          • Indeed, I gotta go take a grunt, maybe later we can get a LC Royale later tonight
            Take first stages and load them with TMs

    • So freaking happy about that. I figured they wouldn’t confine him to a school the whole season. How could they take away the traveling aspect? They can’t lol

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    • Just a question, but would you say the SM anime is worth watching? Like does it seem better than XY and Z anime or as good as it?

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  11. Well my three-Pokémon pre-bank Normal Gym is ready! Unfortunately not all of our badges are finished so I guess there will be more waiting before the challenges start..

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  12. Just tried chaining for a S-Boost sharpedo
    The other sharpedo use swagger
    The original gets confused
    OTHER dies
    Original kills itself

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  13. I set out to catch a Stufful ready to endure a long agonizing grind
    First thing I see and catches it in a Heal ball at full health

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  14. I’m really excited to finish my competitive team today. Just need to Train Sp.Atk for Salandit as well as Speed for Salandit and Mimikyu then EV training is done! Then all that’s left is leveling up and getting the right moves .-.

    Level 100 for Magearna and Silvally lets go I guess

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  15. How come Bulbapedia includes Mohn as Lillies Dad despite it not being said in game or by anything official, basically saying it’s because theres enough evidence, and yet won’t include Zygarde as part of a trio with Xerneas and Yveltal despite it being clear as day?

    (ps, I know it’s obvious that Mohn is their dad, but my point is the double standard)

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  16. Alright Guys I have decided for my fan region since I need Gym leaders I want to host a round robin tourney to select 8 Leaders for this region (No not related to Poke jungle Gym leaders this is completely different) But I need help setting it up Isthme or someone mind helping me out how to start a registration for it

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  17. Why is Dhelmise so hard to find! I’ve gotten 8 sticky barbs and 3 bottle caps and god knows how many pearls! Am I doing something wrong? I’m pretty sure I’m in the right place. (The Steelix boat right?)

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  18. Hello guys, I was wondering if any of you had a fail bounsweet with play rough or a male confey with play rough as well to give away basically for free ? 🙂

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  19. I just realised, 4 of the 5 Zygarde Cores are in Kahuna Houses, the 5th is in yours.
    That’s some really clever placing, I wonder if there was an in game reason, like they went to 5 Important places, it was hinted that Zygarde sensed something was gonna happen.

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  20. I’m bored….anybody for a Littlecup Royale?
    Only prevolved Pokemon
    Pokemon must be lowest level, and cannot be one that was introduced (no sneasle or Yanma)
    Anyone in?

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  21. I’m a tad confused on this Hyper training…for it when it means lvl 100 do you mean you NEED a lvl 100 pokemon to unlock it, or it only functions on Lvl 100 Pokemon?

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  22. Hello guys, I was wondering if any of you had a fail bounsweet with play rough or a male confey with play rough as well to give away ? I can give aaway the ash-greninja 🙂

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  23. I’m so conflicted. I really want to keep breeding my first team, but I feel obligated to finish the pikipek quest at this point.

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  24. Can we just take a minute to ponder the fact of how busted James’ Pokemon will be? He’s got a bottle cap collection….

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  25. Alolan Sandslash is slowly becoming my favorite Pokemon to use on Showdown. People assume that Alolan Sandslash is useless because of that 4x Fighting and Fire weakness. And while that’s true, Slush Rush completely throws people off, so I’m able to bulldoze through entire teams with it XD

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  26. I have a fun little challenge (if you can call it that) for everyone. Name your top 3 favorite gen 7 pokemon, and predict what tier they will be in. I want to see where you think some pokemon will be!

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  27. Alright guys: Top 10 favorite new pokemon! (You can include alolan forms if you want but I’m not even though I love Raichu and Ninetales)

    1. Primarina
    2. Mimikyu
    3. Magearna
    4. Salazzle
    5. Tsareena
    6. Pheramosa
    7. Lunaala
    8. Ribombee
    9. Nihiligo
    10. Toxapex

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  28. 1. Marshadow
    2. Araquanid
    3. Decidueye
    4. Rowlet
    5. Kommo-O
    6. Jangmo-O
    7. Lunala
    8. Nihilego
    9. Golisopod
    10. Tapu Koko

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  29. Ok now for top 10 all time favorites. So all regions
    1. Primarina
    2. Lopunny
    3. Mimikyu
    4. Magearna
    5. Salazzle
    6. Gardevoir
    7. Tsareena
    8. Lunaala
    9. Sylveon
    10. Gothitelle

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  30. My friend is SUPER lucky with shinies.
    He got a shiny in twenty chain encounters a few weeks ago, he got a shiny from WT (probs hacked), a shiny randomly in the wild, another chain shiny in two hours, and he just texted me that he got ANOTHER chain shiny.

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  31. If gyms made a return in stars, which characters do you think will be gym leaders, OTHER THAN TRIAL CAPTAINS (because those are obvious and boring)?

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  32. I think…..I think I might vive up on completing the dex until the Bank opens for SuMo……..It’s such a grind and it almost feels like a waste of my time when I know I have mons to fill the spots just waiting in the bank. *sigh* Shiny hunting will have to officially start in 2017 I suppose. Well at least ti was a good way of training my main mons for a little while. I’m just so tired of having to grind for mons I’ll never use lol

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  33. Festival Plaza may be a step down from PSS, but one thing remains the same: finding a passerby to battle with you is a miserable process…

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  34. So apparently “new Pokémon” have been announced for the 12th. Whether this is gen 2 or The Legendary Pokemon of gen 1, I don’t know.

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  35. Does anyone play Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Wii U virtual console? The idea of playing an older Animal Crossing, rather than the most recent, always seemed like such an odd idea. Plus to play a handheld release on the Wii U? It’s hard explain my thoughts on how surreal of an experience that sounds like. Like you’d be living in a hidden town everyone forgot existed.

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      • yes I am a human being of the female variety 😛

        I just got to the Koopa Village. I got set back a tiny bit because I died on the way back to the village and didnt save until before I met the blue koopa

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        • KOOPER IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE
          Kooper is by far one of the most powerful members to use because of his ability to damage everybody

          also might i ask what are you investing level ups into, since i’m a hyper legend veteran i invest in BP and FB so i can crush everything

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          • every detail
            i don’t want to brag but i think i know where everything and how to get it
            minus some Badges and Star Pieces

            speaking of which collect as many Star pieces as possible because at Shooting Star Summit’s base you can trade them to Merlow for badges and the two ones to really aim for is called Peekaboo for 10 which allows you to see the enemies health meter at all times and the best one for a whopping 25 Power Plus which increases Mario’s damage by one

  36. Pardon my many typing mistakes in comments below.
    Between my fat thumb, autocorrect and the way I’m sitting, my typing is not very accurate.

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  37. What are some good nicknames you’ve come up with this gen?

    Magearna – Curly Brace (i love you if you know where this is from)
    Salazzle – Sulphia/Sedfeur
    Tsareena – Matri (Like Matriarch)

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  38. Has anyone got a Gen 7 Pokemon that’s really starting to grow on them? Because Araquanid and Alolan Sandslash are becoming one of my favorite Pokemon.

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  39. Apparently both Reggie and Miyamoto are gonna be on the Tonight Show on NBC tonight. Might tune in, but at the same time I’m kind of tired…..idk….lol

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      • I used to watch Fallon all the time, but as things went on I watched less and less due to wanting to go to bed. I guess I’m just getting old lol Anyway I like watching his beginning stuff the most. Find that way more entertaining than the interviews unless the person he has on is SUPER interesting to me lol

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        • I’m so against watching television at specific air times that I literally don’t even know what channel anything is anymore. If I can’t watch it online somewhere it just doesn’t get watched.

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  40. Mimikyu for the love of Arceus… If you don’t appear as a shiny. I will hunt you down with curse-proof stuff and de-pikachu you in front of a crowd. I’m well over 500 eggs at this point. Sigh.

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  41. Amazing how I can do so well in single 6v6 battles and then suck so hard at VGC 3v3.

    Also interesting how, once I got below 1500 on the ladder, I started seeing fun, interesting teams.

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    • Because those fun, interesting teams don’t win consistently. I think it’s weird how only in deck/team building games to people complain about and shame others for trying to win. The point in the competitive sport is to win. Many people find it fun to try and find the most consistently winning team and figuring out how to play that team well. Others want to win but they want to be handed the win for being “creative” (aka using their favorites)

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    On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
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  43. I finally beat the game, and it told the story of Lillie, after all. I’m really happy with this, but leaving Nebby is the most stupid thing GameFreak did in SuMo.

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  44. I SRed for the first time in my life for about ten times to get a female Rowlet so I could name her Hedwig. Decidueye’s ghost typing is especially relevant here. :'(
    Lycanroc midnight form is Lupin.
    Cutiefly is navii
    Dewpider is Aragog
    Alolan raichu is Alphys

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  45. I finished the main storyline of SM and oh my god this is the best gen yet. The story is so great compared to the other gens and I loved every single bit. Lusamine is such a great character and I loved her interaction with Lillie and Gladion, which are some of my favorite characters of gen 7 too. I found the captain of Poni Island such a lazy attempt to do something different, but well, she’s one of the most minor characters, so I guess that’s fine. Guzma was really great too, and I loved Hau. The E4 was pretty hard as well, harder than usual. I liked how they used recurring characters. I just wanted Kahili to be someone else, she came out of nowhere (like most E4 trainers, but oh well). I wanted a main Flying type male character unlike Falkner. Overall such a great game, this definitely was even better than my prior favorite gen (gen 4). Now I’ll stop boring you with my thoughts. <3

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    • I liked Team Skull a lot. They were funny, but also sad. There was that one scene where two guys were attacking a bus stop… so much frustration on their part.

      I didn’t really understand Guzma’s reason for going with Lusamine though.

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        • I mean, I get that he wanted to be strong, and his family was mean or too strict with him… but going to another dimension with some scientist woman possessed by a space jellyfish seems kind of weird. Being a cruel gang leader I can understand. Ultra Wormhole has me drawing a blank though.

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  46. Oh the one thing I hate is that I can’t use Silvally since it’s my favorite Pokémon this gen, but I’m glad I got to use Decidueye and Drampa, such great designs.

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  47. I’ve officially finished the main story in Moon, and WOW, the last time I was this impressed with a game was in Gen 5 lol. The story, the difficulty, and everything in between was done so well, I have almost nothing to complain about. I do wish a few Pokémon were available a little earlier, and I wish we hadn’t gotten so few regular (as in non-legendary) Pokémon this gen, but that is usually the case with most of the games anyway.

    Updated Ranking of Generations:
    B/W,B2/W2
    SM
    GS
    DPPt
    RSE
    RBY
    XY

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    • Yeah, I wanted a Jangmo-o to raise from a low-ish level, even if I had to hunt for it like the much-sought after Bagon. By the time they show up, they evolve right away. Something like in HeartGold where I wanted a Larvitar (which show up low-level late in the game) but I managed to snag one early in the Safari Zone. Still mad about Houndour (only in Kanto? Really?)

      That’s why I traded for a Drampa and bred it in this game till I got one I liked that I could name myself. Ironically, he’s the youngest member of my team.

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      • Yes, this exactly! Houndour, a Johto-native Pokémon, only being found in Kanto has always been one of my biggest pet peeves. I never understood that.

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  48. So when I went through Poni Island and finally reached the Battle Tree with half my Pokemon fainted and most weak HOPING for a Pokemon Center I was dismayed when and Red and Blue met me instead. Blue immediately challenged me to a battle before I could heal up and I remembered: he hasn’t changed a bit, the jerk. He almost beat me, but fortunately my Incineroar loved me enough to withstand a KO and his Arcanine fainted itself with a Flare Blitz.

    I had to laugh. THAT’s the vintage Red / Blue stuff there, not them being there.

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  49. Decided to update my Bewear avatar a little bit with something more festive. Tis the holidays and I figured Bewear could use a scarf, hot chocolate, and a snowman friend lol

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  50. Toxapex was the most used Pokemon on Showdown last month. Followed by Alolan Marrowack.

    The rest of the top 10 are just UBs and Tapus.

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    • yet ive been destroying those on battle spot with a team of pokemon no ones using. alolan marowak gets eaten by my goodra, Metagross vs tapus = GG, bewear tanks UB hits, especially behind the aurora veil set up by ninetails, and speaking of which, the great and terrifying tapu bulu hates 100% accurate Hail boosted Blizzards. Fairy/Dragon/Steel is a solid core this gen with all these guys on everyones teams. I’m running dual weather, and its insane how hard Araquanid hits with liquidation and choice band and water bubble in the rain.

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      • Goodra vs Marowack I can’t say much but sounds like hit and miss. Marowack with Thick Club hits Goodra quite hard on its weaker defensive side.
        Metagross does well against Bulu and Lele, but doesn’t Koko beat it? and I can’t imagine it enjoys switching onto Tapu Fini repeatedly.

        Anyway Battle Spot is 3v3 (unless this has changed). The 6v6 singles is quite a different game.

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  51. My god, Tapu Bulu would have been an immense sustained tank if it wasn’t for the Grass/Fairy typing. Just too many weaknesses imo

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  52. Nyarghhhhhh
    I need to figure out my Moon Ground Mono
    Mudbray
    Alolan Diglett
    Sandygast

    Ughhhhh this sucks, nearly every other type gets plenty of types to work with but Ground gets the raw deal (Dark and Ice got screwed but they got decent Alolan Forms)

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  53. Wow the Switch runs Breath of the Wild in 1080p and a solid 60fps. Meanwhile XB1 and PS4 IPs can’t even maintain 30 fps lol. Nintendo beating them again after 6 years of falling behind.

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  54. freaking battle tree…
    the opposing dugtrio used substitute!
    Bewear used Façade! Bewears attack missed!
    Dugtrio used Fissure! Its a 1 hit KO!
    You can do it, Goodra!
    Dugtrio used Fissure! Its a 1 hit KO!
    You can do it, Metagross!
    Dugtrio used Fissure! Its a 1- hit KO!
    -_-;

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  55. uh battle tree standard doubles…? what are you doing?
    the opposing darmanitan used Will-o-wisp!
    Araquanid’s Water Bubble!
    -next turn
    Darmanitan unleashes its Z-Power! Z Will-o-Wisp!
    Araquanid’s Water Bubble!

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  56. So, what’s everyone’s teams in Sun and Moon, and what are your character’s names and where are you in the games?

    Jeff (Sun): Currently about to face the Kiawe trial
    Dartrix
    Lycanroc
    Trumbeak
    Crabrawler
    Salandit
    Whishiwashi

    Cosimo (Moon): Just finished the Kiawe trial
    Torracat (MY FAVORITE STARTER LINE!!!)
    Crabrawler
    Lycaron
    Fomantis
    Trumbeak
    Wishiwashi

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    • beaten almost 2 weeks ago is my current point in the games.
      Edea (moon)
      Primarina
      Bewear
      Tsareena
      Drampa
      Lycanroc (midday)
      Salazzle

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          • Maybe I’ll have to put him in. He was originally on one of my teams but as they released more Pokemon he faded out… And Kommo-o was on my team until the day before it was released then I kind of dropped it… It didn’t work with my teams… and I saw the move pool it had and I wasn’t impressed.

    • I’m in postgame so I’ll just list the team I used to defeat the final boss with.

      Pandora (sun)
      Primarina
      A. Persian
      Magnezone
      Snorlax
      Alakazam Decidueye
      Araquanid

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    • Just beat the game.

      Saulo (Sun)
      – Dante, the Incineroar
      – Tina, the Toucanon
      – Jacob, the Crabominable
      – Gellert, the midday Lycanroc
      – Credence, the Wishiwashi
      – Queenie, the Tsareena

      Gellert will be replaced by Nebby, the Solgaleo.

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  57. I really want to try that new drink. It sounds really interesting. Also I have never been more in love with a Pokémon game and Sun and Moon have revitalized my interest in the series and I can’t wait to see what the future of the games looks like. Hot male characters like Kukui and Guzma, awesome Pokémon, even the ones I didn’t like at first have grown on me, characters from past games, and the gesture that something big is about to happen in the Pokémon universe.

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    • I just hope at some point they finish the project AZOTH thing, it honestly really bugs me that Zygarde has no plot development. other than that, these are probable my favorite in the franchise now.

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      • There is no telling what Gamefreak originally had planned for the Gen 6 and Gen 7 connection. I’m sure it was affected by a major NX game. Who knows though. If the main series game rumor for the Switch is real though, I hope they play more on AZOTH.

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        • It is looong gone
          Face it Gamefreak skewered the story just to have those Pokemon in there
          They didn’t bother to make it better or give other characters significant impacts

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        • Well unless they’re gonna pull a BW2 its just gonna be there just to be there

          I mean the story fell apart halfway through I MEAN HONESTLY WE GOT ONE SINGLE UB BATTLE MAINSTORY AND THAT WAS IT, AND FOR THE ULTRA DEMENSION WE JUST WALKED HALF A ROOM AND FOUGHT LUSAMINE, NO GLADION STORY NO TYPE NULL DEVELOPMENT, JUST BUTCHED HALF-ASSERY

          BECAUSE GAMEFREAK IS LAZY, THEY DONT GO ALL THE WAY ANYMORE JUST SHELLING OUT GAMES AND LETTING SMALL DETAILS COVER UP THEIR LAZINESS

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          • Lol, it’s true. We meet and battle Gladion, then the next time we see him he’s telling us to get out of his motel. Then the next time we see him, he’s warning us about not letting anything happen to Cosmog. Like what? xD

            Watch Stars focus on Necrozma, and Zygarde/Kalos are left to be what could have been. Even Dexio states Zygarde is a Pokemon that protects the Kalos region and questions why it is in Alola xD Yet it does nothing in Alola!

          • i wouldn’t mind if it focused on Necrozma, hes mysterious enough to hold my attention. i just hope Stars is on a much grander Scale, being on a home console and all.

          • I am not easily swayed by new game’s charms to ignore such a slapdash story
            Stars better be real and Gamefreak better get their shit together

            The plot of Stars should be fairly similar to Platinum and BW2, where its 3 years after the events of first game where a new family arrives in the Alola Region and he/she takes on the Island challenge, but they learn that the Aether foundation under new rule is completely good now, but a splinter group now plots to bring about the Ultra Beasts by all sorts of crazy terroristic plots, something involving Fallers and how you are one, yadda yadda Zygarde comes in and goes berserk which was the splinter group’s plan all along

          • Yes they are, honestly whatever happened with that whole climatic battle between Tapu Koko and UB-02? Any deeper reason for Type: Null? slapping random old favorites just for cameos and nothing more, just very lackluster story that everyone is fairly blind to

      • Project AZOTH is nothing but a glorified plot to return the world to its primeval state by literally having the Primals wipe out every living thing on the planet
        So realizing that is bad they abandoned the project then those buttwipes restarted the project and through some convoluted plan to warp a meteor to strike the planet so it does it for it…..

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        • i know that, but now that zygarde exists… why didn’t it interfere? same with the situation in kalos, i don’t see why zygarde isn’t doing anything major in these plots, and i kinda wish they’d just go all out with it instead of “hey its a fetch quest with no plot!”

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  58. great, now I’m forcing the battle tree to have mono water teams so they can deal with araquanid. i really wish the loadouts were random instead of focused on stopping you. still though, araquanid buddy, doing 75% to bluky waters with a water move…

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    • They should just send out Rocky Helmet Alomola and Wish Stall you :p

      To be fair if bulky waters are the best answer to Araquanid you just need an electric or grass type in your second slot and you’re good to go.

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      • they aren’t. my araquanid set deals about 75% damage to common(ish?) bulky waters (I’m in the battle tree). Milotic takes about 75%, Slowking takes about 80%, gyarados about 60% (after intimidate). this is all from my Araquanid’s liquidation, not even a neutral hit, and he picks up these 2HKOs, while tanking hits like a boss. I gave him a speed decreasing nature just incase they want to get silly and try trick room (figured he wont be outspeeding too often anyways, so it wasn’t worth investing in.) he partners with goodra, M-Metagross, and Shiinotic mostly. (sometimes ninetales gives him an aurora veil to work with)

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  59. so, would anybody be willing to hold onto some of my mons if i restarted my game, until i could get to a point to trade them back?

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  60. Right, since I’ve had 5~ days away, I’ve kinda got a rough time frame of when I’ll be back, and why I’m on my little hiatus.

    Basically, kinda sick of the Pokémon Fandom as a whole. Don’t get me wrong, I honestly wouldn’t change a single thing here, or about anyone here, but there’s trends in the fandom that just bug me to the point of mild anger, especially in regards to opinion-which does sadly come here, but if this was my only exposure to the fandom’s flaws I wouldn’t really care, I’d just suck it up and deal with it. However, it is wide spread and extremely irritating, which is why I’m taking a break.

    Secondly, and more importantly, school’s busy as hell right now. The sciences are starting assignments, I’ve got my second half of my English folio to do, and Modern Studies and Health & Food Technology are having their counterparts to assignments and folios coming up soon. I’m mostly taking time off to compose myself with all the spare time I can afford before it all collapses on top of me.

    As for when I’ll be back? Don’t expect me to post any time except to wish you guys a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I’ll probably be back sometime in mid-to-late January, but even then it’ll probably be less then my regular activity due to the fact my Prelims (basically practice exams) are coming up in February. I only get away with how frequently I post because I’ve mostly been focusing on minor studying and the weather has drove me and my friends indoors. I’m also probably going to post less because, as typical as it sounds, am making it my resolution to live a healthier lifestyle: which along with a diet consists of plenty of physical activity. I’m not going to have this ‘awkward lanky teenage boy metabolism’ forever after all :p

    Third reason is dumb but I’ve literally just bought Bravely Default and the first two Magnus Bane books so I’d probably be barely posting anyway.

    I only really made this post because I didn’t want anyone worrying about me or thinking I’m gone forever (as much as some of you would enjoy that :p) because my last post had a very ‘I’m leaving. Bye.’ vibe to it.

    See all ya huge nerds later, see you later Feraligatr, in a while Krookodile, adios, sayonara, I’m hungry, be back soon.

    ‘Jesus was in me’ Fairy Dazzling Moon Golf OCOS

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  61. I recently finished breeding and training up a utility Stoutland, but after some failed VGC 3v3 battles, I’ve decided it’s not best for my gym. Battle Royal and doubles, however…dang. That thing is messing with everybody.

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  62. Hmmmm I want to run an experiment
    I want to see if a Pokemon holding a Lucky Egg will gain more Exp in the level up session
    Since there is no level up methods this time around which totally sucks

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      • Well I need to get rid of leftovers and you cannot possibly deny the norms of wting route 1 fodder

        I have over 2 boxes of Minior I gotta get rid of, and so far mostly those three

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  63. You gotta be kidding me, I just got a Love Ball Stufful with both Elemental Punches….and I just put my Stufful in a EV session….granted the IVs are piss poor

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  64. Is Mohn father of Lillie and Gladion? I’m sure someone told he discover the Ultra Beats, and he is blond and has green eyes…

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  65. Did I ever mention how much I hate december? Cause I really really hate december.

    Don’t get me wrong I love christmas and the break, but I’d much MUCH rather have a normal school month. It’s completely unfair that because my teachers didn’t plan well, I’m completely drowning in work right now. I haven’t eaten lunch on a weekday since november because I’m trying to chip away on large assignments, and tackle medium size assignments that the teacher “forgot the assign earlier” that are due in less than three or so days. Not to mention that this is the first year of my life where I’m not “the gifted kid”, I just feel dumb this year. I had this genius idea to take all advanced classes this semester, and it’s really beating me up. I’m getting terrible sleep, and I’m not eating enough because of school, it’s almost literally killing me. The worst part? Even on break they’ll assign huge projects, going agaisnt the term “break”. It’s not called “hiatus from school, but just as much work as school”. What is it now, the 10th? When will it be over already?

    Rant over, sorry you had to read that, I just wanted to get it off my chest. I feel a little less stressed now, so I’m glad that helped. Everyone else having similar experiences with the worst month of the year?

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    • 1. Eating is important. I’m sure you know that already, but really you shouldn’t skip eating to work. I used to do that too, except I’d go entire days without eating, and just working. It sucks and it makes you more stressed if you continually work all the time. Take some time off to relax, even if that’s just eating. 30 minutes or however long it takes to eat isn’t going to kill you — not eating will.

      2. Recognize that teachers are people too. Understand that they make mistakes. If they forgot to assign something, then yeah you can blame them. But what good does it do? It doesn’t change the fact that the due date doesn’t change, so you just gotta deal with it. Also, someone forgetting to assign something isn’t characteristic of the month December, so I wouldn’t hate the month because of it. If all your teachers happened to all forget to assign something, then that’s something we call a coincidence. I’m not sure how much scapegoating you’re doing, but I’ve never had a teacher forget to assign an assignment, let alone more than one at the same time.

      3. Everyone feels dumb once in a while. You’re not alone. But what you’re forgetting is that you’re in advanced classes. You’re not dumb. And I don’t know what grades you’re getting, but remember that a C corresponds to being average per class. Getting a C in an advanced class still means that you’re doing well. You’re not failing. And if you’re so concerned with being the “gifted kid”, then I urge you to drop that mentality. You don’t need to be at the top of the class. You don’t need to be perfect.

      4. Teachers give work over the break because you have a long time to do it. I’ve also never heard of a teacher assigning something over the break and collecting it on the first day back; usually you’re given an extra couple of days to a week to finish it. I don’t like it either. I don’t know anyone who does. And I don’t know any teacher who likes grading that much work. It’s just something we all have to deal with. Furthermore, it’s important to realize that teachers don’t coordinate giving a ton of work to do at the same time — at least not from what I’ve seen. It just happens to build up at times for one reason or another.

      5. It gets better when you get to college. You’ll still have days where you just spend the entire time working. But, at least in my experience, you’ll have more time off.

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      • Your advice works if I’m thinking rationally, but. . . too busy. I appriciate it though, it means a lot that you would take the time to write all that for my benefit.

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    • It’s definitely difficult for sure. Not crazy, but I’ll have to give two presentations and take a few tests next week. One thing I don’t like about the midterm scheduling is that we have the three weeks in December leading up to Winter Break, but midterms are AFTER two weeks of doing nothing and likely forgetting a lot of important details. It would be much more efficient to start midterms BEFORE break, giving us one less thing to worry about when we get back. Although, for me, there are three more weeks after break to prepare for midterms… eh. Whatever. Best of luck on your work and hang in there. 🙂

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  66. So I’ve been hearing stuff about this weird flash series that goes by the name “No Evil” anyone know what that is?

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  67. I’m so bored
    I’m sick of grinding battle tree
    I’m sick of breeding things that will never kill Chanseys
    And I’m sick of not getting good faculties in FP because those stupid elitists hog all the FCs

    Anyone for Little cup Royale

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  68. I can’t tell if I accidentally traded a shiny lillipup….
    I think I didn’t but I think I might’ve….the face fur looked a tad brighter

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  69. The very second I enter showdown…..Mimikyu used toxic… Then protect then sub….then protect….
    The a stupid Attract Sensu… And then just a normal stupid Z-Splash Mimikyu
    Three bad losses in under 5 mins

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  70. You got to be kidding me…
    I fight a Gourgiest… Thinking yeah I could use Minior’s shell smash combo
    It uses Z-Trick or Treat
    ALL OF FUCKING GOURGIEST’S STATS RAISED AND IM A GHOST
    Minior doesn’t kill it… It used Phantom Force….
    Dead….

    Just never ends

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        • I know it might sound weird, but it’s black all over, and explodes in clocks which I find very amusing. Also I recently let stuff go and red became my second favorite color next to green, after years of hating red.

          Also, do you want the female HA mareanie still? It’s in a timer ball but if you breed it with any male mareanie you can get it (50% chance each offspring) in a ball of your choice.

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          • I appriciate the offer, but I’ve bred my own. Thank you though! 🙂

            You’ve peaked my intrested again, I’m sorry for being so nosy. Is there any particular reason you hated red for years?

          • I don’t consider it a sensitive topic, fortunately, so I can talk about it. 🙂

            I’m angry all the time, and whenever I see any red I get angrier, so I can’t stand looking at anything red.

            Months ago something* just happened to me and it’s like a switch got flipped–so I was not only able to forgive the people from my past that I swore vengeance upon–and I have been able to channel my perpetual anger to motivate me instead.

            So not only don’t I mind seeing red from then on, I now have red stuff on my work and home desk.

            * That “something” might have been watching Inside Out. Anger is my favorite character. 🙂

      • 1162 eggs. Lol I was keeping count since this is the first time I’ve had the shiny charm(also used the Masuda method).

        I don’t know which name I want to go with for it though. :/

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  71. And just like i am finisheed with my very first pokemon team in sm. Starting tomorrow i will be taking names of my victims

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  72. *sigh*
    Seriously. . . I’m just at a loss for words right now. It’s taken around 20 times longer than I’d expected and still counting.
    Pikipek count: 1650

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      • But I don’t want fodder in exchange for fodder
        I spend way too much of my valuable worthless time resending the endless slew of wingulls and Yungoos

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          • Ive never seen an abra through WT, I spent and hour doing it once (had a box to get rid of) and only got like 5 different early route pokemon

          • Consider yourself verrrrry lucky. Abra are the bane of my existence this gen. Don’t get me wrong. Alakazam is a good Pokemon, but I certainly don’t need 35 un-IV trained Pokemon that have the same Synchronise ability over and over. It drives me mad when I send a decent Pokemon and get that.

          • …. no abra was the one thing I was specifically hoping to get out of wonder trade. To this day the best thing I have ever gotten from WT including gen 6 was a 4IV Ladyba, and I have used it a lot

          • Are you still looking for an Abra? I got a good natured one for you and it’s 5IVs(If you care about comp. battling) so hopefully it’ll be good. I don’t need one( NEVER. AGAIN.) So do you want to trade?

          • oh no thats ok thanks, I was just looking to get some with different natures for syncro but i have all the ones I need now, but thanks ^_^

  73. I caved, I’m breeding for Shiny Rowlet now instead of waiting for HA now that I have the Shiny Charm lol. I’ll breed another when the HA is released, but I need my Shiny Decidueye <3

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  74. I have a ton of Rowlet 5 IV (missing SpA). Careful nature with egg moves Haze, Confuse Ray, Defog, and Baton Pass. If anyone wants one, lemme know haha.

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  75. OMG. fesszfsfvedvdv…Sometimes I hate Wondertrade. You SHOULD NOT be able to trade the same Pokemon to another person if you are trading that Pokemon. What kind of sense does that make?

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  76. Huzzah! Soon we shall be done with clickbait such as “Apparently Niantic is adding 100 new monsters…”, and “Will baby Pokémon replace eggs!?”, or “You’ll never believe which monsters are getting new evolutions…!”
    …at least until gen 3 update when the “apparently adding” crap starts again or gen 6 if it gets there. “Niantic is adding a new Pokémon type! Is your favorite going to be changed!?”

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  77. “A special distribution has been announced to be in this month’s issue of CoroCoro. To continue the recent addition of Rockruff as the mascot of the magazine, the special distribution is to give you special Rockruff enhancement tools. In the magazine, you will receive a code which will give you a Lucky Egg and Choice Band in Pokémon Sun, or a Lucky Egg and Choice Scarf in Pokémon Moon. The code will run from December 15th 2016 to February 14th 2017”
    ….

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  78. I love how my Shiinotic can Strength Sap my Metagross in a double battle to fully heal, and clear body prevents my attack from dropping because of it 😀

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  79. Bonjour, I was wondering if any one of you could help me transfer an egg from my Sun version to the moon one since I need it there, I can of course give you something you wish for and that I can provide in exchange 🙂

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