Pokémon Movie 2017 Officially Announced

As per the usual Holiday tradition, the first trailer for the next Pokémon Movie has been released!

Airing on the Japanese variety show, Oha Suta, the next Pokémon movie will premiere in Japan on July 15th, 2017 and is called Pokémon, I Choose You!

The trailer showcased random landscapes, such as Pallet Town, and showed Ash putting on his hat and picking up a Pokéball followed by Pikachu looking a bit confused at the end. The official poster (shown above) features Ash & Pikachu in a field with Ho-Oh.

Thoughts on this departure from the usual yearly Pokémon film? Disappointed it won’t be focused on Alola, or ecstatic for this celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the anime?

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1,081 thoughts on “Pokémon Movie 2017 Officially Announced”

  1. Morty! Listen! Wh-whaf if…wh*burp*at if Kanto is Sinnoh, but in an alternate dimension. I-i-it’s a dimension where all 90s kids love all Pokémon except the ones from KANTO! Morty! We have to leave now and prove this theory!

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  2. It is interesting to note that Ho-oh is the Rainbow Pokemon and Sun and Moon were originally codenamed Niji, meaning rainbow… It all comes together?

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  3. I think its a reboot of the first episode. If you see the trailer posted below it uses the original pokemon theme (japanese one).

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  4. A world you’ve yet to see.
    Friends you’ve yet to see.
    A new journey…
    Begins.

    ARE YOU READY…

    FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL…

    ADVENTURE?

    This was posted on Serebii by reliable user Dephender so it’s not a retelling of the first season BUT A COMPLETE NEW ADVENTURE ALTOGETHER, I’m so freaking HYPED! 😀

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  5. So the movie is a nice surprise. It’s different from what we usually get. I’d bet it only covers the Kanto journey, but the idea is pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing how they make the journey fresh while at the same time keeping some of the charm of the old show.

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  6. Marowak is the single most ridiculous pokemon to get on the GTS. Not only is it not that rare, but people are demanding high level random pokemon, for a shiny marowak named something really stupid holding a stupid item. It’s like one person did it for fun and others joined in.

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  7. Honestly 5 Star Rare Kitchen or Treasure Hunt lottery should be an automatic correct answer for all “Take me to a place I like” people

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  8. this’ll be my very last Minecraft post
    but no less then a stone’s trow i find a village in my very new world “Earthen’s Overlook: and being the type of person i am this is how i greeted these strangers
    i slapped them everytime the said “Hrrrrrr”
    i ransacked every valuable item in the village
    stole their crops
    and burnt down their houses

    not even 10 minutes in and i’m a monster

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  9. A bit disappointed but it’s gonna be a very relationship-centric movie I guess. I think the story will be more sensitive because the earlier episodes of Pokémon anime are some of the best ever. Even with my disappointment, I’m ecstatic to wait for more information in the future. And, Ho-oh! Finally getting the attention!

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  10. Even in Pokemon I’m a procrastinator… this Saturday’s the VGC tournament already and I’m barely done with the team!

    Tapu Koko – needs to be level 100 to max out speed… and he’s only level 62!
    Oranguru – done
    Gyarados – for leveling to 50
    Drampa – egg moves done now only needs to 5IV’d
    Klefki – needs breeding
    Goodra – needs breeding

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  11. The movie seems like it’ll be interesting, its nice that Ho Oh will be getting a chance to shine hopefully. Can’t say I’m too disappointed tbh because we’re gonna get movies base off of Alola someday its just a matter of when. With this one I think it makes sense in the way that this is the 20th anniversary xD

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  12. We really need a movie that adds more info to the alternate world theory. Maybe have the UBs used as transporters between the two worlds?

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    • That would be very cool, I could see it could get featured in the next SM movies along with Solgaleo and Lunala being involved

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  13. Oh my gosh I have a fantastic idea! They should make either a movie or a TV series on Looker! It could be all about his adventures from SInnoh, to Unova, to Kalos, to a mysterious arrival in ORAS Hoenn, to Alola!

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  14. I’m at that point of dex completion where the rest of the stuff can be gotten on the GTS with castforms, but take like a day each, and I’m too lazy to go get one myself. -_-

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  15. uuuuggggghhhhh
    part of me realllllllyyyy wants to hunt for a shiny rowlet right now, but I know that’s a horrible idea with all of the stuff I have to do. The struggles of a new pokemon game

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  16. I have just discovered my newfound most forgettable pokemon.
    Musharna

    Seriously, I forgot this thing existed much more than the common ones like Mothim.

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  17. So I have a quick favor to ask. For some reason, the forums page for the league won’t let me respond, and it hasn’t for weeks. I keep thinking that if I come back later, it’ll work, but it never does. Until I figure out something, could somebody drop by and say that I haven’t forgotten about this, but rather that I’m just having issues? I haven’t replied in over a month so I don’t want it to look like I’ve abandoned the idea.

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  18. Lol Zygarde’s going to wind up being my first Lv 100 Pokemon in Moon. Just did a power level and need to train the last 2 levels.

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  19. The Magearna QR code will never expire right? I still need to get it, too pre-occupied to bother right now with Festival Plaza and leveling.

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  20. My guess/hope for the movie (no idea if someone already guessed it), all of Ash’s pokemon (past, present, Oak’d) will make an appearance and instantly makes up for the lack of Oak’s Lab episodes.

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  21. Gonna stop for the day with catching em all. So now I am done with 26% of the dex, a good 74% left. Been catching most of the Pokemon on Melemele.

    On a side note, what’s everyone’s trainer cards, like the ones below?

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  22. I must ask….. why the hell doesn’t Lurantis get defog legit rn? The only parent who can breed it on is shiftry who is a pokebank exclusive

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      • I’m using Pokeballs and haven’t got anything that can cause a status condition.
        And all my team (apart from the abra I use for Nature-Syncing) is lvl 78.

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          • Nothing I have at a high level though.
            I did teach the Abra Thunder Wave, but it’s usually gone before it can make a move, after which endurance is the main issue so I need high level stuff.

            It wasn’t so bad with Koko because I have two things with Electric immunity, but Lele is a pain because it knows a Fairy move so I can’t rely on a Dark type for the same trick. I’m hoping something with Sap Sipper will work on Tapu Bulu and something with Water Absorb will work on Tapu Fini.

          • Being dragon/grass makes Exeggutor 4x resistant to almost everything the tapus can throw out, maybe except Fini who actually has a fairy attack.

          • My strongest Exeggutor is probably Lv 41 since I haven’t trained any of the ones I caught.

            Doesn’t matter though, I got there in the end through sheer determination, and it only took ~40 Pokeballs since I got really lucky with the last two.

          • Nope, first one took me down from 96 to 66, second is currently at 30-40.

            I’ve had to reset on three of the captures though, twice because the Nature didn’t sync and once because I ended up with a 0 IV on speed.

          • Yeah, but I’d have to get it up to Lv 100 first which would take ages and not having a 0IV would make that easier. I got a better set of perfect IVs anyway – Def, SpDef and Speed.

            Also I wish hyper training actually raised the IVs instead of just feigning them being raised in battle. It would make IV breeding easier.

          • Fair enough.
            I would vastly prefer if Hyper Training did that, it only doesn’t because of perceived ethical reasoning, genetic alteration.

          • I thought it didn’t do that because of how Hidden Power is calculated (which very stupidly is also the reason why something with perfect IVs will always have a Dark Type Hidden Power and why a Fairy Type Hidden Power doesn’t exist).

            TLDR: They need to change how Hidden Power works.

          • Oh yeah, perhaps a combination of those reasons then?
            HP is likely more of a reason. Not sure how they can change Hidden Power short of letting you pick it and it always being normal type to start with. Alot of things would run the Fairy one if it became available.

          • They could change Hidden Power to work on the Personality Value. I assume that’s still a thing since Wurmple can still evolve.

            The only things stopping them allowing a Fairy (and Normal for that matter) Hidden Power are the current method for determining type and the fact they wouldn’t be able to get an even distribution (certain types would be more likely to occur).

          • The issue with personality value is that there’s no way to control it afaik.
            At least with the current method you can have some chance at controlling it through Destiny Knot providing a parent has the right HP Type.

          • True, but at least it would let something with 5 or 6 perfect IVs have a Hidden Power. It’s either that or introduce a new value for Hidden Power, but that would mean adding 5 bits to each Pokemon’s storage structure, which would probably translate to an extra byte.

          • Would an extra byte really be that bad? Also part of the point of Hyper training is to allow Hidden Power ‘mon to have the stats of a 5/6IV ‘mon while keeping the Hidden Power it had.

    • Less surprising then Komala tbh

      Priority recovery + Draining moves is beautiful

      It’s practically a Pheromosa check (I’d say counter but Phero wins if she’s sashed and Comfey already switched in or has enough boosts to 1HKO it

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  23. Regarding the article:
    I’m expecting the film is going to be a feature length remake of the first stages of Ash’s journey, and subsequently will have an underwhelming plot.

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  24. I haven’t caught that Tapu yet but my Pokedex completion is at 98% ftr

    (I went on a GTS rampage yesterday. It’s surprising what people will trade UBs for.)

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  25. All Tapus present and accounted for (and all in Pokeballs).

    Now all I need to complete my Pokedex are Silvally, Marshadow, Magearna and Crobat.

    I left Crobat till last because it’s in all four island dexes so I can complete them all at the same time.

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    • some one else who likes to catch all their pokemon in pokeballs! I feel that they seem more legit that way. I pretty much catch all of mine in the standard balls unless it’s a shiny then it’s a premier or luxury ball.

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      • I started in XY/ORAS because it bothered me that when the Pokeballs went onto the Pokecentre machine, some of them were different colours and it didn’t look as nice as when they’re all the same type of ball. Plus it’s more of a challenge which is nice because the games seem to be getting easier. Plus they almost never use any other kind in the anime.

        I tend to keep all my premier balls as a way of tracking how many Pokeballs I’ve bought in total, but I might consider that in future.

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        • I actually disagree. I hate when I see the poke balls together and they’re all the SAME. I need to have some variety. Especially because I like the pretty effects each ball has when the Pokemon is sent into battle but regular pokeballs don’t even do that so you guys are really selling yourselves short

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          • I never even notice what Pokeball my oponent’s Pokemon comes out of. If I hadn’t been told I probably wouldn’t have noticed they changed them up this time.

            Besides, the ball doesn’t affect the outcome of a battle.

            Besides which I like the challenge of trying to catch legendaries with the low catch rate.

      • I like to catch all my Pokemon in regular pokeballs too the only time I use different ones is when I run out cause I forgot to buy more

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      • Either Tapu Koko or Tapu Lele.

        Oddly I got lucky with Fini, it only took me a few turns. Bulu I caught on my first try with only one Pokemon knocked out – the Sync Abra.

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      • Thanks but nah, the other half of choosing Crobat was because I have a Golbat ready to evolve whenever I want, so I have total control of when I complete the dex. Besides I need to evolve Type: Null first.

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  26. It does look neat and will bring some nostalgia. But I have a feeling, like the Pokemon franchise is a little bit revolving around the genwunners these days. I know it’s because of all the anniversaries, but come on. Thank God they didn’t remake the first gen games once again, just because of the anniversary.

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  27. I completed the Passport for pokefinder. It was very tedious, but taking pictures is really fun. I wish they made it you could take the picture anywhere

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    • What’s the highest score you got for one picture?
      I intend to tackle that challenge at some point but I’ve only just made it past 250,000 points.

      And they couldn’t let you take pictures anywhere because it would mean they couldn’t take some of the shortcuts that they use to make the overworld render so nicely. They fix the camera angles so you don’t see the parts of the world that should exist but don’t (i.e. they make buildings onesided/backless, don’t load parts of the island the player shouldn’t be able to see with the fixed camera or even use the equivalent of cardboard cutouts to stand in for certain objects).

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  28. Oh, This is the film Ash Pikachu will be distrubuted for probably, that would make sense.
    Also, Kanto Remakes again possibly? Just the exclusive Mew Z move reminded me of the Latios/as megas.
    I mean, we all expect sinnoh remakes, but they’re not doing what we expect, so, it’s possible?
    I’m mean I don’t want them, kinda fed up of Kanto, but it kinda makes sense, what with alolan forms being kanto pokemon, and Kanto heavily referenced throughout Sun and Moon. I wouldn’t count it out. Pokemon Burning FireRed and Pokemon Crispy LeafGreen or whatever.

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  29. Just fought a low latter on showdown, the guy was using Blizzard Politoed for reference

    He crits both my walls, and crits flinches my sweeper… fml

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  30. Hey guys! I’m going to be having lunch in a minute, but I have a box of snow warning vulpixes with varies IVs [2 with good ones] and one with mimikyus with egg moves. Anyone want one?

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  31. I wish Hidden Abilities were guaranteed to pass down if the parent is holding an Everstone. The amount of 5 IV Regenerator Mareanie I’d have by now

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  32. Ughhhhhh an hour and a half left…
    All the stupid Christmas music is getting old quick…

    But as soon as I get home I believe the last of my Pokemon should be finally be EV trained and I just need to power grind and I’ll have a full team….that will just be walled by all those stupid legends hogging battlespot

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      • Bah I want to stab my ears with a sharpened piece of peppermint everytime I hear those overused songs

        Christmas is just another day, for the fifth straight year no big epic game or product to look forward too but I kinda lost faith in my parents being able to procure high end consoles for Christmas time since it takes a dedicated gamer to follow release dates and acquiring them before the market is bled dry (nothing against them but it’s just a very cutthroat market that you have to be informed)

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          • Just Gen 7 mons, waiting to transfer many from Gen 6. But I’m not like 100% breeding, I’m also ranking up Festival Plaza, enjoying Poke Pelago, and other daily things xD

          • Yeh I figured you were. Personally I’m just starting from scratch, breeding whenever I get some spare time. Got about 7-8 competitive mons so far.

          • Ahh, that’s great! The only competitive one I’ve bred and have ready for battle is Shiny Decidueye xD I also have Zygarde EV trained and Lv 100, but I’m not gonna be using him in battles haha, more of an in-game enjoyment for battling through the League etc lmao.

          • I haven’t collected all the Zyagrde cells, but honestly if I’m gonna use one competitively I would use the 50% forme with Sub Coil set. Had some fun with it last gen (100% is completely broken with the same set).
            Sometimes I don’t even know if I’ll do much competitive battling this gen, but i’m breeding just for the sake of it :p

          • That’s the Zygarde I have :3 I’m honestly the same, not sure how much I’ll battle, but I still enjoy collecting them and having the options available for the chances that I do 😀

  33. So I talked it over with some friends at YouTube and they agree that there is anti-white sentiment in Sun and Moon. There’s a good chance that conservative YouTuber E;R will do an exposed video on it.

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  34. So is no one going to take note of the newest anime episode rather than feeding the trolls?

    The fact that Litten isn’t immediately pally with Ash is great, we might actually get genuine development before Ash catches him

    Like a better Krokorok

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  35. i’m hunting for a shiny salandit. I have a cute charm male sylveon but the first 10 salandit were all males! How is it possible? It’s a 66.6% chances of getting a pokemon of the opposite gender…

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  36. I’m actually kind of excited, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched either the pokemon anime, or their movies. But with the Sun and Moon anime looking really good, and this movie possibly being great, it could get me back into watching pokemon

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  37. Just a random idea (not the best of ideas), but with all this trainer card stuff why don’t we use the teams on the cards and battle with them after Pokebank comes out? Like we train up the Pokemon on the cards that are avaliable in SM, then we use Pokemon only avaliable in past gens once PB is out. It would be fun IMO.

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  38. Comment Question: What is everyone’s signature Pokemon? What is the ability and moves you would have gone with your Pokemon?

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  39. So if anyone remebers, last night I was breeding to get the right nature randomly. Everyone told me not to do it, that it would take forever.

    Well I got the right nature on the first egg. 😛

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  40. Does anyone have a clip of the epic funky foot-stomping, bum-bumping, eye-erasing, nasal-nogging, mouth-massacring Marowak dancing?

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  41. Got my shiny salandit after 90 sos and of course it’s a male. Should I kill it and continue to 255 or the chances are over and I should end the battle better?

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  42. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! I GOT A POLYGON Z! TURN UP THE MUSIC! SPANK THE STUFFUL! KICK THE KRABBY! IT’S PARTY TIME!

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  43. One thing that watching all the Pokemon walking animations has me wondering about is how they’d look in the over world. As far as keeping up with our trainer that is. For most Pokemon it won’t be a problems, but I’m wondering about the much slower moving Pokemon like Slowpoke. Even while running I can’t imagine their animation will look all that fast. So when moving at faster speeds (running) or even while waking will the whole thing look awkward? Almost like we’re dragging them along? It wasn’t an issue in HGSS as they were sprites, but now that we can see their whole bodies in full I think it could be a weird looks. Any thoughts?

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  44. Breeding has definitely been my focus ever since beating the main storyline – I just now got Cosmog xD Does it become the opposite legendary if you evolve it all the way?

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  45. Do you think it’s humanly possible to sleep for a week….outside of being in a coma
    Kuz I want to sleep at least a full 24 hours…..mah bod feels sore und weak……l

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    • It’s another rumor from Eurogamer. Supposedly there’s a main series Pokemon game coming next year to the Switch. It’s either specifically called Stars or that’s just the code name of the game. Either way what ever it is is supposed to be a brand new story. Hard to say exactly what that entails tho. Given Eurogamers track record I’d say it’s pretty likely well see a game announcement sometime next year for a new game release for the Switch. The game will likely come out in late 2017. Presumably similar to SuMo

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  46. ROUGE ONE WAS GOOD OKAY ONE SPOILER ITS SUPER MINOR BUT IT MADE THE MOVIE FOR ME

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    DARTH VADER DID A PUN OMG I LOVE THIS

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  47. I never actually gave my thoughts on this 2017 movie teaser. The animation style is absolutely gorgeous, along with that glorious art of Ho-oh! I’m slightly concerned that they’re continuing the Kanto throwbacks into another year but I’m hoping that next year’s game is somehow connected. I saw a Pokémon Indigo rumor today, but I think it will be Pokémon Stars with a Kanto afterstory. You really can’t count the movies and anime out anymore, as they commonly hint towards the future. We all thought that Zygarde Complete would headline its own game but it was shoved off to the side. Who knows what’s happening now, all bets are off.

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  48. Found my shiny female salandit after 27 sos battles!!! Actually it’s after 287 sos cause yesterday I did 260 sos battles and i only found a shiny male salandit at 90 sos (and I had to kill it to go on). It has three ivs at 31(ps, def, speed) and one iv at 30 (which is attack, so unuseful), it has a mild nature, which is pretty good but a mediocre sp. att. (I have to give it a bottle cup). I must say this is the easiest shiny I have found cause the others were found at higher number of encounters (Bagon: 150; Dewpider: 147; Bounsweet: never found after 520; Eevee: never found after 500). There’s something in me that tells me that salandit has a higher shiny rate in sos battles then other pokemon cause 27 and 90 are really easy to reach.

    If you want to try for it, I’ll leave you my personal strategy:

    1) Find a cute charm male sylveon. Take it to lv. 45 or above and teach it Misty Terrain, Hidden Power (must be something not resisted by salandit), Psyshock and Shadow Ball. Let it hold the terrain Extender. Put Sylveon in first slot. This will increase the chances of salandit to be female to 66,6%.
    2) Find a pokemon with False swipe. No matters who, just at a good level (I used a lv 58 Fearow).
    3) Buy 30 Hyper Potion, 30 Full Restores, some Adrenaline Orbs and have about 50 Leppa Berries.

    Now, save the game and find a salandit in West Welia Volcano (better there cause at lower level), at first turn use adrenaline orb and wait for it to call for help even at full health. When the help arrives switch to the pokemon with False Swipe and use False Swipe on the last pokemon arrived, then swith again on Sylveon and first of all use Misty Terrain. Then kill the salandit at full health and go with the chain.

    IMPORTANT NOTES:

    1) Sylveon MUST be on first slot and must be active in battle, otherwise all salandit will be males.
    2) Kill the caller after 25 salandit, 50 salandit, 75 salandit and so on to avoid struggle. You can count them looking at Sylveon moves. Uses the turns in which no one comes to restore Sylveon PP with Luppa Berries or to set up the Misty Terrain or to restore Sylveon HP.
    3) When a new Salandit arrives Sylveon MUST be on the field. Even when you have to change the caller you need two salandit on the field, Salandit must not call for help while your False Swiper is on the field.
    4) The chances of finding a shiny with the shiny charm are 1/620 after 70 sos battles. After 255 sos battle the chain breaks, I can confirm it cause yesterday I caught my 260 salandit and it had no perfect ivs. So at 260 turn off the game (to save all the items you spent) and start again. Trust me, it’s better to rest a bit cause there’s really no reason to go on with the chain.
    5) If you find a shiny male salandit (It will probably happen, so be prepared) you can decide to catch it or to kill it and go on to 255. Your choice. I killed mine but found nothing after that in my first chain so I think I should have caught it.

    That’s all. Enjoy!!

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    • If you think about it, this is the best way to celebrate the Anime’s 20th anniversary but I really don’t see how they can make a whole movie based on Ash’s starting days as a trainer. We’ve seen the first few episodes of kanto,and they weren’t really that good.

      I do like this idea much much more than making a forced movie to advertise a legend like they do every other year though

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  49. I think my favourite thing about Dex Nav was that you could see which Pokemon were available on each route. I imagine it was great for people that like to catch everything.

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