Alola Friendly Competition Details Announced

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Ready to get friendly with others playing Pokémon Sun or Moon? There’s a new official competition coming up for trainers and the rules have just been announced! You can find them listed below, but don’t forget to sign-up from January 19 through 26. Participants will all earn 50 Battle Points!

• This competition uses Single Battle format.
• Players may use only Pokémon from the Alolan Pokédex.
• All Mythical and Legendary Pokémon are not allowed.
• Mega Stones are not allowed.
• Items are allowed, but Trainers may not have duplicate items in their Battle Team.
• Register three to six of your Lv. 1–100 Pokémon to your Battle Team.
• All Pokémon in this competition will automatically become Lv. 50 for the duration of each match.
• Three of the Pokémon you register to your Battle Team will be chosen to battle in each match.
• A 10-minute time limit for each player will automatically be enforced in-game, beginning at the start of each battle. If the outcome has not been determined when the time limit expires, the game will automatically apply tiebreakers to determine a winner.
• At the beginning of each battle, players have 90 seconds to select three Pokémon with which to battle.
• At the beginning of each turn, players have 60 seconds to select a move or change the Pokémon in battle. If a player has not made his or her selections at the end of this period, the game will automatically make selections for the player.
• Players may battle up to 15 games per day of the competition. Any unplayed games will carry over to the following day. A new day begins at 00:00 UTC.

The ruleset should be available to download now, so get practicing!

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  4. Yay I finally got all old one pokemon that aren’t recieving new evos. or new forms down and out of the way from each region also any ones with other forms or ones that are in the uhh special place are not included either (its why Alola is so low)

    Kanto- 36
    Johto- 24
    Hoenn- 25
    Sinnoh- 30
    Unova- 24
    Kalos- 22
    Alola- 15

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  5. Hey guys, I just did an E4 Rematch to level up my Bruxish, and I discovered today it’s Sophocles who challenges you. Water-type users, beware!

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  6. We need conversation, and I need more hype (if it was even possible), so…
    What do you think Monolith Soft’s new project will be like? Like Chronicles was mores story driven while X was more open world exploration-y type of game. What will the next one be?

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      • I don’t even know if I’d pick it up TBH, wasn’t a huge fan of Earthbound.
        However, I NEED more xenoblade in my life, now.

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          • I really liked:
            – The world
            – The music
            – The weapon system
            – The plot (even though it was too short and SERIOUSLY A CLIFFHANGER!? If we don’t get a sequel I’ll be really suprised, why did they leave the plot so untied like that?)

          • -Open world is getting over done and it wasn’t that interesting a world to begin with.
            -Subjective. Didn’t care for the soundtrack and found it inferior to Chronicles
            -A horrible system for a bad game.
            -Subjective, but I found it incredibly boring.

          • Well love what you love. I won’t hide the fact that I kinda regret buying a Wii U for that game as it was a colossal disappointment to me and honestly is one of the worst RPG’s that I’ve ever played. It felt like they stripped away everything that was good in Chronicles and handed us a shell of what it once was with a big sticker on it saying “now with a much bigger(empty and Boring) world and mechs).

            Honestly if they ever do continue on that franchise I really do hope they just cut their losses and try to make something better as it really wasn’t a well designed game. But again to each their own. I’m the guy who kinda half expects Breath of the wild to under perform and probably be a 70-80’s score on Metacritic given the game really looks like its a year or two too late.

          • Ok, wait. That world is ANYTHING BUT EMPTY. It’s full of enemies, items, and quests. Even if the actual gameplay of the world was empty-ish, the world made up for that with beautiful continents and landforms and such, it all felt so alive to me.

            Also I fully expect to enjoy BotW, but I have to agree that I feel like reviewers won’t. IDK why really, I guess it seems like the sort of game that you really need to play at your own pace and such, while reviewers will be simply trying to finish the story.

          • Agree to disagree there. Yes there are monsters to fight, items to find, and the occasional quest(though I remember the bulk of them being in the city hub), but that’s not a lot when you really think about it. Its kinda like the difference between playing skyrim, where in a game like that you can simply go off in one direction, ignoring the story and find a fantastic journey because the game was built with that in mind. That you could just go off, wander into a city and get one of the best weapons of the game, become a werewolf, and become an elite assassin before hitting level 2.

            X felt a lot less hollow of an open world like say something of the assassin creed series if you’ve played a more modern version of it. It has big, vast worlds, but your generally doing a lot of busy work with it. Monsters are fine, but most sidequest feel like padding and busy work to keep you from rushing the story, and the massive borring collect-a-ton that was that game just felt like more busywork.

            As for BotD, its more of a concern that it has a big emphasis on being open world, and might be seen as bad for that. Ignoring that Open world is starting to become bad stock in the gaming scene right now, it does look like its full of a lot of busywork that’s common to open world games. Weapons break so you have to make sure that you repair them or carry multiples of them in your bag. You’ve gotta eat food to restore health which requires you to go out and hunt and forage for it. It seems like their are very few people you’ll engage with which can work(look at Shadow of the Colossus), but I don’t think we’ve scene anywhere that can act as a hub to give the player a good sense of going from point A-B after every dungeon that is kinda needed in these sorts of open world games. Really It just seems like its interesting in concept, but it might leave a lot of people upset with the final product being more of an experiment then a satisfying experience, but ingeneral that seems to be half of Nintendo’s design philosophy, and doesn’t really seem to work well when looking to the big picture.

          • Also, I’m sure they will continue the franchise. The “Xeno” name is sorta like the FF title, it just shows that the game was made by Takahashi rather than being related storyline or gameplay-wise.

  8. Earthen siiiiiiiick
    and i make this to reflect my misery
    Inphlegmza
    Poison/Ice
    Contagious (physical contact erases opposing pokemon’s ability completely)
    a large gooey teal and purple mound like Pokemon with a bulbous pink nose and grey and green splotches on its body
    “This Pokemon’s immune system is extremely powerful, scientists often introduce many viruses to their pokemon in hopes that it creates cures and vaccines”

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          • (Please note this was way before Gen VII)
            Well it starts out as Stoofy
            Stoofy
            Fairy
            The Plush PKM
            Fluffy (was Fur Coat but this is better)/Healer
            A small light pink spherical Pokemon with long floppy ears tied in a knot and rabbity feet, large blue sequin like eyes and a big fluffy tail
            “With their soft bodies and cute appearance it is a very popular Pokemon but they lack the instinct to fight back so they are easily hunted”

            But when a Stoofy’s happiness is raised to the maxium with their trainer they evolve into the hulking Mashmellow
            (i’m actually very proud of this one)
            Mashmellow
            Fairy/Fighting
            Overstuffed PKM
            Fluffy/Healer
            a very very large round pinkish Pokemon with long tubular arms, dumpy feet and a large patch on their stomach, they still have the sequin eyes but the right eye is now a large X shaped patch, they have bits of fuzz popping out of parts of their body and one of their ears is ripped
            “these Gentle giants protect their young and their trainers with their very lives, no matter what pain it feels it will solemnly protect their friends”

            The whole idea is the idea of a security object like soft blankets and toys that children often use to shield themselves from pain, and this pokemon replicates this idea by having a shit load of support moves

  10. You seriously don’t know how happy I’d be if Nintendo really embraced Swoof, the switch puppy. They could really use a cool new mascot like that.

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  11. New Pokemon for my region:

    Sewerotte
    The Sewage Rat Pokemon
    Type: Poison
    Ability: Strong Jaw/ Venomous Teeth (all biting moves inflict poison status. Biting moves that are the Poison type inflict the badly poisoned status)
    Height: 1′ 00″
    Weight: 23 lbs
    Dex Entry: Sewerotte lurk in many dark places, especially the sewers. Living in the sewers made their physiology full of many hazardous chemicals, so their fangs are very lethal and full of poisons.

    Evolutionary line: Sewerotte -> ??? -> ???

    Name origin: Sewerotte is a combination of sewer and rotte, Norwegian for Rat.

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          • It’s kinda like the Rattata of the region, but its attack and speed are on par with one another, its defense and HP is ok (with HP being slightly lower than defense), but its Special Attack and Speed suck

          • Well in the first form it’s meh because it’s a first form, but in its final form, it’s:
            HP: In the middle 70s
            Attack: In the low 100s
            Defense: In the 90s
            Sp Attack: In the low 40s
            Sp Defense: In the middle 50s
            Speed: High 100s

            It’s really an average mon, sadly

          • Plus it’s signature ability can be really good, so if it were competitive it would be in RU, and barely in UU

          • I just looked, and that Seedot line is sound very awesome. Steel is something I would have never expected, so nice job on surprising me!
            And an Electric/Poison Platypus would sound dope 😮

          • 😀
            THanks!
            And those weren’t all the ones I meant
            The Shiftry line was one of the three I mentioned

            The other two are further

          • Just saw Puffusket and Locurse:
            First off, Locurse is the best fakemon idea I’ve ever heard of. It combines the general concept of a Locust, while also adding in the elements of death, therefore relating to ghost. I will say its ability might be a tad bit op, but thats just me lol.
            As for Puffusket, pretty clever idea to have it be the ice version of Pikipek!

    • funny coincidence
      though not a pokemon, i did have a Sewer Rat monster for this other game i wrote Middle School to High School (which i now have a sequel)
      but it was called a Mutrat where it was a rat the size of a pug with a giant eyestalk growing out of its back, they could log that eye like a grenade and explode with slime very very nasty

      it is was for the Waste Management Plant underneath Darknite City where you save the forth and final playable character from the trash grinder, his name was Steel Metway 16 yr old cyborg who’s family is threatened by mobsters that run the city to make them weapons

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        • The Main characters are
          Flash Motors: a young world traveling youth with a prosthetic metal claw, from birth he’s had a unique ability to generate electricity which this metal claw helps manage
          Zap; a tiny floating spherical robot, zany and happy go lucky and Flash’s Best friend and “adoptive brother” thought to be a defective consumer model of a Cy-Bot Zap’s sense of humanity makes him far different than a machine with a unknown past

          and the other playable characters include
          Abby “lanch” Winters: Young Girl with freezing powers
          Bruce Grover: a feral teen with plant manipulation
          and Steel Metway: Cybernetically enhanced teen genius

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          • (Avalanche) She’s timid yet hot headed, Daughter of the Eskmode Mining Town’s Mayor
            She’s the fastest of the four but weak physically

          • oh Bruce his placeholder name was just Oak
            (i imagine him being voiced by greg cipes)
            He’s lazy, carefree and a joker, he spent the last 6 years living in the depths of the Zo’ming Jungles by himself when he got lost from his family, he has a weird mental connection to plant life and can control them, he fell butt first into a puddle of pollution and grew a tail

          • chill with the furbait crap it is just a regular monkey tail, and besides this game is filled with all sorts of aliens and monsters its kinda super futuristic which allows a diverse cast of characters but the main ones are all human

            BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTT
            there is one Anthropomorphic bat named Com (placeholder name Combat) who’s a martial artist and gets possessed by the villain’s parasitic robot
            i gave him a unlockable story arc where you play as him and learn his past

            (i have a pages and pages and pages of notes)

          • and he has flaming blue anime hair
            And just for giggles, during this little story mode, you meet his master
            Master Sakamashiro which is just a frigging Koi fish with really big lips
            he has a deep intimidating voice and lethal martial art skills but…he’s a !@#$ing fish
            where you meet his fellow students
            Mok a Monitor Lizard (and sorta adoptive brother)
            Eleanor a cheery tall elephant girl
            and lastly Kenny a smart turtle

          • and during this story you are attacked by Sakamashiro’s Enemy The Steel Samurai Darashi
            along with his henchlady Aracid (a kabuki Dart Frog) and Tok-Tok a childish but gigantically brawny ogreman thing with a metal mask (he becomes a good guy at the end because the other two constantly pick on him and he only stays because they’re his only “family”)

          • one of four unlockable episodes at the end of the game the others include
            Journey to the center of Abby (might change it to Bruce): Fantastic Voyage ripoff when a virus epidemic threatens the city so they need the cells from patient zero
            The Under Race: (bringing up to speed Steel’s cousin Cecil is the go-to guy of the game smarty brainiac nerd type) a rival from Cecil’s past returns and she challenges him to a race to get a rare metal that was recently discovered deep underground
            Com’s Story; the one i just said
            Alpha: the beginning of the ancient civilization the story is based on

          • Oh yeaaaaaaah there was five
            Green Moon Rising
            I hope i still have the picture i drew for it (some of my best work)
            Bruce discovers a new power to assimilate animal powers into his body during the Druid Eclipse, soon after a wolf like creature begins attacking the city and in a dire attempt to fight it he copies its powers and he fights it
            Still angry and hotblooded his power go crazy and runs rampant, at the final night of the eclipse he sends out a gigantic pulse of assimilation borrowing traits from every animal in a 10 mile radiance MegaMutating him into a colossal chimera of a thousand animal parts

          • I have a whole game written since 6th grade all the way to college
            this was my life’s project

            I even have a sequel

          • the sequel is about time travel and reforging a lost machine that can travel through time
            The Blade of the Chronics
            a evil man who goes by Pariah crashes (spoiler) the cured Dr. Corbit’s Scientific Award Party on his newly discovered Temporal crystals which Pariah steals and uses to fuel his very own Blade of the Chronics and opens a portal to the beginning of time in hopes of invoking a doomsday event known as “The Temporal Cataclysm’ where all known parts of existence will violently be eradicated so he can re-write time in his glory

  12. IT’S TIME FOR ME TO START MY MOON NUZLOCKE!!!! I’ve had moon since day one, and really want to play through alola again (but with an infuriating twist).
    I’ll let you all vote.
    For my starter, should I go:
    – Litten
    – Popplio
    – Munchlax (wait is that over now?)

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      • It has attractiveness appeal and a gorilla version of the Hulk along with an edgy teenage fanfiction character who wields shotguns

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          • 1. I play Battleborn, this is legitimately 20 different reasons in itself, including salt.
            2. Everyone credits it for character, and I personally find the characters kinda bland…
            3. Tracer being adorable can only keep me entertained for so long
            4. SOOOO much overhype
            5. Stereotypes…stereotypes… was there even one character who wasn’t one?
            6. People say it requires skill. If your team isn’t braindead, you win.
            7. That shady Origins edition shit
            8. How long it takes them to make a dlc
            9. Some of the fanbase is pretty fucking cancer
            10. EVERY PERSON KEPT PESTERING TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME
            11. How fast you die….
            12. Finally, I honestly didn’t even find anything remotely likeable about the majority of the cast

          • 6. That’s exactly what skill is though. If your team can still win randomly if it were braindead, then the game does not reward skill.

          • I mean, a braindead team who works together wins…. I feel like things like character matchups and actual individual skill are pointless which kinda pisses me off

          • Individual skill matters, but it’s better in the context of team play.

            The game should not allow one person to consistently carry, because that defeats the purpose of being a team game.

          • I know
            I’m more annoyed about the first part. I feel like matchups should have some role…

            But honestly, this wasn’t that bad to me compared to the other reasons I hate overwatch

          • 1. Get over it. Battleborn kinda killed itself

            2. They are all really diverse and at least have more personality than TF2

            3. Fuck you she’s precious

            4. Not really tho?
            5. Well when you have a game that doesn’t allow for much character exploration stereotypes are needed.
            6. Well that’s not on the game. That’s just true for any team game.
            7.???
            8. You mean putting actual effort into their expansions they are giving for free?
            9. How does that reflect on the game?
            10. Cuz it’s good
            11. Git gud
            12. Maybe because you don’t want to?

          • 1. Not really, also I need to deal with Overwatch fans coming into our fanbase and acting like cunts constantly. Plus, it was the comparison of Battleborn being compared to Overwatch again and again that killed it…
            2. Eh
            3. I guess
            4. Yeah… Too much far too much
            5. Still
            6. I guess
            7. You were basically forced to pay 20 dollars more to get it on console
            8. I’ve seen other games do it. Sombra was not effort. Sombra is literally every stealth character ever made.
            9. It doesn’t, it just adds up
            10. Still, it gets annoying
            11. I mean you legit lose so much health so fast
            12. I wanted to when I first started, and I’ll admit I liked Roadhog….. and Tracer for a while… than it started to stop resonating with me

          • 1. Battleborn got cocky and tried to steal Overwatch’s spotlight and it failed because of it. It doomed itself

            8. Ok so yeah making a whole new haracter just takes a few days. No! There is slot that goes into it. Modeling, animation, voice lines, skins, PR and the animations, it takes a long time.

          • 1. When? I’ll admit the marketing was absolutely shit, but the idea that two entirely different games got compared to each other kinda pisses me off…
            8. I’m saying Sombra was literally just a copy paste and it ticked me off

          • I mean shes a stealth character with the abilities of EVERY SINGLE STEALTH CHARACTER EVER
            With all the freaking teasing that was done for her, you think she could have been a bit more innovative

          • 1. It released a week before Overwatch trying to take the spotlight. It was also i king with Overwatch on social media.
            8. No she wasn’t though. I mean there is only so much you can do with stealth characters. I mean Soldier 76 is just a regular FPS character and no one cares about that

          • 1. It was announced MONTHS before Overwatch was, who is taking the Spotlight now? Battleborn Announcement: July 2014, Overwatch: November 2014. This can go on for days, but Battleborn was announced first and thus deserved the earlier release date.

            Sombra was a drag, it took so much to figure it out it got old and she was extremely disappointing.
            Still hot af tho.

            I don’t own Battleborn but I do own Overwatch, and it is a shame how Battleborn died.

          • I’m sorry, but as a HUGE TF2 fan, I digress to number 2. After the 8 years TF2 has been out and the 3 years I’ve played it, I realized how Sex and Race doesn’t decide the diversity of the characters. Sure everyone is male in TF2 and 7 or 8 of the 9 are white, they are all extremely different. Heck, even the white ones are diverse, you have someone from Germany, Russia, Australia, France, and 3 distinct parts of America. Demo is from Scotland and Pyro is from… No one knows. But that is besides the point, they all have CHARACTER. I have both games and have spent money on both, but I feel more attached to Scout than Tracer, as he is a fun, talkative, lovable guy. Through comics and the Official SFMs valve had released you grow to love the characters and how they interact. Overwatch is full of cliche stereotypes and characters you just can’t feel attached do. TF2 is born on character and having a tragic backstory won’t cut it to have ‘character’.

            For example: “The freakin’ cart stopped!” Who from TF2 said this? Scout! Of course he did!

            “We need to move the payload” Uhhhh… This is the most diverse line Mercy says for a Payload being stuck.

          • THANK YOU!!! I CAN AGREE TO THIS!
            I’ve played neither for all too long compared to most… but I can tell you Scout for example IMMEDIATELY stuck out to me,I just enjoy him
            I enjoy everyone in that game

          • “The bloody cart stopped!” Obviously Demoman, Scottish as can be
            “Get the cart moving, maggots!” Obviously Soldier, as Soldier’y’ as can be

            And might I remind you of the Player Economy in TF2, it Is like a whole other world there, there is an actual trading system made by players! And the cosmetics outshine OW’s cosmetics by a mile. But I digress, they are different games and deserved to be treated as such.

          • When the game came out (Idk if it still exists) You basically had to pay 20 dollars more for it on console and were given a few cheap skins in return

          • Yeah…
            Basically, I know people will hate me for it, but I generally hate Overwatch… I didn’t enjoy my experience with it, I didn’t enjoy my friends pestering me over it, and I didn’t enjoy the fanbase shitting on me for enjoying another game that was killed because of the sheer fact that it was compared to overwatch despite being a game that I thought was more enjoyable and more passionate….
            but that’s just me i suppose

          • I somewhat agree, but to a lesser extent. My only reason for not liking it is that I just didn’t have fun lol

          • XD
            (On the other hand, I prefer the game where I can play as a snake assassin with the personality of a psychotic Australian Billy Mays, but hey, my opinion is apparently wrong)

          • How is your opinion wrong when no one (here) is saying Battleborn sucks? 🙂

            If I played FPS (which I don’t since it makes me dizzy), there are some Battleborn, Paladins and Overwatch characters I like if I played any of those.

          • I know… it’s just I’m so used to being shit on repetitively for liking it…
            Plus…. I’m literally the best person in the whole community with a character… I got ties to the game man… it hurts to watch it die

      • It’s a really fun team based shooter similar to TF2. You have a bunch of unique characters to choose from all with lots of different abilities and play styles. It’s super fun!

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  15. Here’s a second Pokemon of my region:

    Malvanize
    The Malfunction Pokemon
    Type: Electric/Ghost
    Ability: Cyberhack (Reverses the effects of all of the opponent’s abilities)
    Height: 3′ 04″
    Weight: 0.9 lbs
    Dex Entry: Scientists tried to up grade Porygon into a more powerful form in cyberspace, but the data became malformed and corrupted, resulting in the Porygon subject to become a horrifying abomination. It roams cyberspace, feeding on the data of another person’s information and then proceeding to leave a virus. Because it was deemed a failure, it was called “MissingNo” for awhile.

    Malvanize -> ???

    Name Origin: Malvanize is a combination of Malware and Galvanize

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    • Its a sign. The game wants you to play eye-patch Grandma and be a super good support. She’s even a hip sniper so your aim doesn’t matter that much.

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  21. I just thought of something: Kukui really should have been the move re-learner. He knows a ton about moves, so surely he knows how to teach them to pokemon.

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    • Building off from that, I think they should move the old lady move relearner to early game and make her limited to moves your pokemon can learn at lower or same levels… then unlock Kukui later and he can teach all moves regardless of level.

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  22. I have a dex entry for y’all from my new Pokemon region I’ll share two

    Cubernate
    The Emotion Pokémon
    Normal
    Ability:Face Change
    “An attempt at creating artificial intelligence lead to this pokemon’s creation; it can change its mood at will based on its facial expression.”

    Doliave
    The Dollar Pokémon
    Ground
    Ability:???
    “They slink along the ground with its mouth eating prey that lives under the sand; when in peril it uses the slits on its body to build a sand cloud to escape.”

    Well good night see ya tomorrow

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