IMPORTANT Global Link Warning for Friendly Competitions

It has been confirmed by The Pokémon Company that a glitch is currently affecting Friendly Competitions for Pokémon Sun & Moon. Players who scan QR codes for competitions which have not yet begun are sometimes being locked out of competing in them or losing their spot in the tournament.

Right now it is recommended to not scan QR codes unless a Friendly Competition has officially started.

We’ll post more as it comes, Pokémon is looking into the issue!

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433 thoughts on “IMPORTANT Global Link Warning for Friendly Competitions”

  1. Such a pleasant day outside from where I’m at

    Anyway, finished up at the Striaton Gym, and this is the team so far:

    Tepig
    Male
    lv 12
    Blaze
    Modest Nature
    Moves:
    (Tackle)
    (Tail Whip)
    (Ember)
    (Odor Sleuth)

    Lillipup (Lloyd)
    Male
    lv 11
    Vital Spirit
    Naive Nature
    Moves:
    (Leer)
    (Tackle)
    (Odor Sleuth)
    (Bite)

    Pansage (Vert)
    Male
    lv 11
    Gluttony
    Lonely Nature
    Moves:
    (Scratch)
    (Work Up)
    (Lick)
    (Vine Whip)

    It feels very nice to use Tepig once again almost 6 years later 😀

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      • Just for fun really. I mean I really want to do a nuzlocke soon (maybe for X w/out Exp share) but this one I would want to do as for fun since its been awhile playing Black.

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        • Ah thats always nice. A refresher. Due to the small number of pokemon each gym leader has, I recommend using the same number of pokemon the gym leaders do. It’s always fun to do it, and more like the anime

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  2. One thing I love about Sun and moon how some characters do actions in the background while someone is talking. It’s a little thing, but it makes it more lively and I love it

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  3. I think that we can all agree that the Pokemon Company should do a separate anime series about the Black/White games. Like the story and animation would be fantastic.

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  4. I thought I needed another Fire Pokémon for my game, then for some reason I look up Rabbits

    Now I have a Fire type Rabbit based on a Volcano Rabbit!

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  5. So how’s this sound
    Olympeetle
    Bug
    The Endurance Pkm
    Huge Power
    It is a large purple black rotund beetle like Pokemon with powerful forearm and legs, they have humanoid hands and feet (but with claws) and impressive horns, but their most notable feature is they constantly are hoisting a massive circular Boulder on their backs
    “Olympeetle possesses tremendous strength as they lift several tons with minimal effort, they search for heavy stones not only as a weapon but for covers for their burrows at night”

    Cross between a Dung Beetle and Atlas Beetles (and Atlas)

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    • i really wish they didn’t X out Jasper, because lapis clearly shown signs of Stockholm syndrome an d that would’ve made a KILLER plot point

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      • She has all the personality of a plank of wood and I hate it.

        – I love her design
        – Her powers are rad
        – She has so much possibility for character development
        – just… uhg… i fucking love her and the crewniverse just put her in the barn and gave up

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          • That is a lame excuse for bad writing because she is such an interesting character up to Same Old World. Same Old World should’ve started an arc like Peridot where she spent time with each gem and- and wtf like, Connie literally addressed that Lapis tried to drown her and she’s just like “oh.. yeah lol”

            Alone at Sea hinted that she may have stockholm syndrome with Jasper but she just punches her off the boat and Jasper later gets corrupted. That’s it.

            Lapis never has to face the consequences of her actions, she loses all personality and interesting traits, and only exists to be shipped with Peridot.

  6. @spectralseraph:disqus you changed your name and I didn’t realise. Do you want the Dugtrio I caught you? It’s taking up space I need.

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  7. So I beat the first grand trial of my moon nuzlocke 😀
    My team
    Eva (Popplio)
    Horaki (Grimer)
    Gendou (Zubat)
    Angel (Magnemite)
    Rei (butterfree)
    Wittenz (Meowth)
    This nuzlocke is going pretty good for such a hard game… is what I WOULD have said if Hala didnt kill all my pokemon except Eva. This is already a great start ;~;

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  8. Honestly the Team Plasma from BW are one of the most horrible teams ever. What I mean is not that they suck or anything, but they are very deceptive. Utilizing the belief that they are “freeing” Pokemon for the “benefit of all” allows them to do anything they want, creating chaos and criminal activities. Like for kicking Munna and kidnapping the kid’s Pokemon on Route 3, they can use their agenda of liberating Pokemon to halt most those who oppose them. Deep down, some of these grunts are probably crooks who joined Team Plasma.

    GF, you guys made one of the best Pokemon villains ever

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    • Black and White never got the praise it deserved because EVERYONE wanted to make fun of it for THE ICE CREAM POKEMON WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHH AND THE TRASH POKEMON WOJFIWEJFIWJIQJ ALSO A CANDLE???

      PFFFFFFFFFTTT GAME FREAK IS RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS

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      • My Response:
        Yeah, so running out of ideas cause they made a AXE DRAGON, A BUG WITH A FRICKIN LASER BEAM, A HYDRA, AND A ELECTRIC ZEBRA

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      • I love the Chandelure line. I always liked Vanillite, the evos took time though. It’s taken me a while to like Trubbish, like until Alolan Grimer tbh.

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      • People don’t give the game (and by consequence, the story) a chance because of the pokemon designs. It’s a game, shouldn’t the story matter? Use the mons you like and forget about the one’s you don’t. It’s simple. I played B/W at least 4 times within a year of the Jap release b/c of how much I loved them!

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        • It has just been cool to make fun of Pokémon designs since Gen 3 or so. That’s what you get when your first game is a giant fad and the hype for it fades even if the games are actually improving with each iteration.

          It’s was childhood for a lot of people and so people who didn’t keep up with the series are pre-disposed to hate the newer games. The ice cream and the trash bag Pokémon argument is just an excuse to rip on it

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      • I never understood why people didn’t like some of the BW mons I like them a lot more than I like say most of gen 1 and non of them are as fugly as Gumshoos so

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        • I don’t like a lot of the BW mons honestly, but it was just personal preference. The story was pretty interesting; more interesting than ORAS or XY, I thought.

          And it was a gutsy move putting only new pokemon in the first part of the game. I like a handful of them: Volcarona, Scolipede, Whimsicott, Braviary, Mienshao, Liepard, Haxorus (except the color), Chandelure, Seismitoad, Zebstrika, and even Swoobat (I think it’s cute).

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  9. Is HP Fire worth it on Alolan Ninetales? Also what Ball for it? I’m thinking of trying to breed it shiny, I will probably choose Dream as I already have Moon Rockruff. Although I’m still undecidueyeded on if I should use A-Ninetales or A-Raichu. I hate being so undecidueyesive, or do I? I just don’t know.

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    • I don’t think HP fire is good on Alola nine tales, there are better options for it, and I don’t think you can get aLola nine tales in a Dream ball, so I would try Love Ball

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          • I have, I’m trying to breed the perfect HP Fire spread now. I will need to get a foreign HP Fire Field ‘mon to Masuda Method it with but I think I can do it. The only issue I have with using it is I might find Snow Warning annoying in-game and it only covers Fighting outside of what my team does already, whereas A-Raichu covers Fighting and Poison. I’d probably breed that shiny and in a Fast or Dream Ball.

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