Pokémon Movie 2017 Officially Announced

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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. 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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  3. 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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  5. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  17. 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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  21. 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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  23. 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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