Catch Alolan Pokémon in Pokémon Shuffle!

New and special stages have been added to Pokémon Shuffle, a free-to-pay 3DS/mobile puzzle game, which feature creatures from the newest Pokémon games: Sun & Moon!

New Alola-themed stages and new Pokémon that hail from the Alola region are now available in Pokémon Shuffle, a free puzzle game available for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems as well as mobile devices.

For a limited time, special stages will provide the chance to get Alola’s first partner Pokémon. Play Litten’s special stage until May 9, Popplio’s special stage from May 9 through May 23, and Rowlet’s special stage from May 23 through June 6 to try to capture these cool Pokémon.

Also, be sure to log in to your game between May 2 and May 30 to get a special gift – Alolan Vulpix will join your collection!

Any Alolan Pokémon that you’re excited to get in Shuffle? Let us know in the comments!

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1,938 thoughts on “Catch Alolan Pokémon in Pokémon Shuffle!”

  1. Well its nice to see that the games getting more content for those who like it. Though while I”ll admit the game kind of becomes a bit too difficult for the non-paying player, it is good to see that our gen 7 pokemon are being added in.

    In other News, its International Penguin day. Probably the best Non-holiday there is.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-QWZhYXoAAlDNb.jpg

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    • Id be nice, but there’s not that many species of Penguin’s really. Though we do need more penguin pokemon. We really only have 3-4 of them(Jury’s still out if Delibird’s a penguin in my eyes).

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    • Pinguin
      Ice/Water
      The teetering Pkm
      Bowl Over: Evasiveness increases the lower the HP (they increase by 25% reductions like 75-51% one stage, 50-26 two stages and 25-1% three stages)

      It is a very tall navy blue cylindrical avian Pokemon with a skinny neck and a round head, it has short webbed feet at the very bottom of their flat bottoms and long flippers they keep close to to their sides, a tall oval shaped stomach pattern with two red stripes on its neck, it’s eyes are beady and unfocused and a short white beak, and finally three dots on the top of the head
      “Clusters of ten bunch up on icy floes to socialize, their strong feet allow them to grip icy surfaces, even the strongest of blows cannot knock them down”

      They have stupidly high HP and decent defenses, but their true strength is actually touching them to knock them out before they whittle you down first

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  2. In my fakemon games there’s a new class of pokemon: Tale Pokemon. They aren’t exactly legendary but there is only one of each “species”. There are 4 of them (in this games) and three are owned by characters and you can catch the last one. They are based on slavic tales and legends that affect current culture in slavic countries. Here is some information about three of them (I’m still working on the last one):

    Cragonfur (Cracow (a Polish city) + Dragon + Sulfur)
    Dragon/Fire
    Owned by the leader of Team Spring in the Summer version
    Based on the legend of the Dragon that terrorized Cracow and was killed by stuffing a sheep it was going to eat with Sulfur.

    Birdocklisk (Bird + Rock + Basilisk)
    Rock/Flying
    Owned by the leader of Team Autumn in the Winter version
    Based on the legend of the Basilisk you can know from Harry Potter. If you don’t know Basilisk is, It’s a bird-like monster that can turn you into stone by looking at you (like Medusa).

    Badlicho (Bad Luck + Licho)
    Dark/Ghost
    Owned by the Elite Four Tatiana (a Dark type specialist).
    Based on the Licho, a demon bringing horrible bad luck that looks like an old woman with one eye.

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  3. Bored….I’ve had so little work to do and there’s on and off torrential downpour keeping customers away I’ve just been hiding in the bathroom half the day

    Somebody say or do something to chew up the last 45 minutes of my shift

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    • My first thought was ‘discuss programming’, but nobody here understands when I start talking about that ; n ;

      So insead: I was considering writing a Pokemon-centric story and basing the characters all on people from PJ.
      Please talk me out of this, it’s a horrible idea.

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  4. Hmm making a Shiriken weilding tree (Its based on Star fruit) what should its second type be? (Its already Grass)

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  5. I miss real news. Every week or so last year we would get either
    A) New information
    Or
    B) an announcment of the date of the announcment of new information

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  6. So Nintendo announced a Splatoon 2 Tournament for E3 2017 today! I’d say there’s a good chance we’ll hear their full E3 plans on Thursday to coincide with their huge earnings report (expect to be amazed by that). Remember, the April meeting last year was where they announced that Zelda and NX would be released in March 2017!

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    • Hopefully we’ll get a Pokemon announcement soon. It’s unlikely we’d get an announcement at E3 for Pokemon so it’s most likely got to be May. ORAS was announced out of the blue in May of 2014 so we could be mere weeks away from a big tease. Hopefully they don’t dick around with trailer info like they did with ORAS hahaha

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    • Sooooo…will it be like the smash tourney from 2014? That was awesome. But the best was the NWC, even though 2015 sucked.

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  7. Possibly one of the greatest exchanges I’ve ever heard
    Courtesy of 4chan

    “Why is Buzzwole so popular? I thought everyone hated mosquitos.”

    “The ones that drain blood. This one drains gains”

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  8. so aside from driving my brother to school tomorrow i have the entire house to myself
    so i think i’m gonna dedicate that day to 100%ing Yooka-Laylee

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  9. So apparently Ultron and Rocket Raccoon are confirmed for the next Marvel Vs Capcom game
    Still no deadpoool yet….

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    • I feel like not many good videogames are coming out this year except mario odyssey unless Nintendo announces some fall/winter ones at E3

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        • IF THEY REVEAL A REAL PAPER MARIO I WILL KILL UPON REQUEST
          and if Paper Mario is completely done for i demand they develop a brand new Mario RPG with carbon copy elements from Paper Mario, i still want to see my fan game come to life where Bowser Jr from the future goes back in time and kidnaps Mario in the present and drags him into the future (which is now a dystopian society ruled by Boswer with a iron fist) so mario must find a way to escape and find a way to get back (probably with 5-6 parts of star for it is always stars)

          and the best part is bowser in the future is the biggest source of comedy because he’s senile and crazy

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      • I absolutely can’t disagree more. Last year, I played 3 games- FE fates, a lot of pokken, and SM. But this year I already feel overwhelmed by all the games I want to play, and we haven’t even reached E3. IMO this might be the greatest gaming year I’ve lived through for me. But it isn’t over yet, so I can’t say for sure. Let me rattle them off for funsies:
        – BotW
        – Specter of Torment
        – HZD
        – FE: Echoes
        – ARMS
        – Splatoon 2
        – FE Warriors
        – Xenoblade 2 (hype)
        – Super Mario Odyssey

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          • That’s fair. Maybe I get excited too easily for things I don’t even know will be fun, but each game on this list excites me incredibily, so I know it’ll be an interesting year at least for me.

            And play Xenoblade. Seriously, it’s my favorite game and I really wasn’t expecting much.

    • I really hope it does

      Also, haven’t people said this is going to be a good year for video games? I mean when you look at the games coming out this year, it makes sense.

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  10. HP Ice for Nihilego right? I caught it in a Net ball, Attack is Decent, I’d have liked no good but the likeliness of that is very low. It is Pretty Good/Decent/Decent/Best/Best/Best.

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          • because in Poison monos i have to constantly deal with Weezing tanking everything which nothing in the ground type kingdom can effectively kill one without running smack down or mold breaker which i don’t on this because it ruins my synergy
            and they’re pretty fast
            (have a extremely spitfire game involving one)

          • Those are the only ones I use and bug doesn’t need sticky web to live btw. It’s helpful but there are other options
            And ghost is honestly really passive

          • oh please Sticky web is universally run by all bug monos
            it’s like a brain program like Smeragle running spore

            Seriously i did this Sinnoh team on AG, and this Smeragle used Spore on my Abomasnow (and this was not a switch in)

      • Its really simple. All you have to do is play so many games of Heroes of the Storm, Blizz’s moba, with people on your friend list. No idea how it’s earned exactly and how it works for consoles, but that’s how it works. This will be the reward next week. The current one is Oni Genji(skin, spray and player icon).

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        • Actually just read into it slightly more. It’s just playing 5 games with at least one friend. Week two gives the skin, week three will give the spray and player icon, and week four will give 10 loot boxes.

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  11. I’m dead apparently the episode Gladion appears in is called ‘Get Out! Red Eyed Lycanroc’

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  12. Question: why the fuck is seventh gen getting so much shit for having bad competitive mons? Like I know a bunch aren’t that good and we don’t have any ultra busted ones this time (disregarding legends and UBs) but there are quite a few decent mons this time around
    Plus, the starters are quite literally on the same tier as the Sinnoh ones (except Incineroar is a tier higher than Torterra)

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    • It’s not harder to be a tier higher than Torterra ?

      It’s also just because it’s the new one, Kalos got shit for ‘brokemons’, Unova got shit for having a few good mons and a ton of ‘shitmons’ and I can remember anything before that because I was like 10

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      • Hmmm
        Well Kalos did have some pretty busted shit

        People legitimately think things like Araquanid , Vikavolt and Tsareena are bad

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        • AV Tsareena is pretty decent. I am currently running it on a vgc team on showdown, and it has been working out pretty well. I don’t really think that we’ve actually received any unusable Pokemon this generation.

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          • Huh…. I never thought of AV

            We did receive one very unusable one in the form of Alolan Raticate.. my god.. it is friggin bad … it has hustle sucker punch but JESUS Christ it sucks at literally everything

  13. So I’m actually planning story for the joke anime thing

    Yall should feel bad for encouraging me to make this disaster

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  14. Can I point out how we needed a physical ghost type and got FOUR IN ONE GEN
    I mean sure, Dhelmise is garbage, Mimik is a little predictable (still good) , Deci is literally mauled by pursuit and Marshadow is unreleased but seriously, we’re goin a step in the right direction

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  15. Plot twist, Lillie is upset to see Gladion because he’s the overprotective brother who embarrasses the shit out of her

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  16. I just remembered why I stopped playing Pokémon shuffle… its faaaaarrr to addicting….
    and the Mega levels are actual bullshit

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  17. I just saw a fusion of all three of the Alolan starters… it was just the head and I really friggin want to die….
    Like it was Incineroar’s whiskers and facial expression…. on Decidueye… with Primarina’s ponytail

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  18. So Ash’s most likely team looking at hints that we have and his current team is:
    Pikachu
    Inci
    Deci
    Midday Lycanrock
    Golisopod
    and one more (maybe Kommo-o)

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  19. Yo Kurusu thought I’d catch you up on this while anime thing

    Basically I’m writing a joke anime adaption or Pokejungle, and since you’re one of the most frequently posting people here I decided to include you as part of the main three characters along with Seraph and Kuppo if that’s okay with you

    I’d need a team of three from you tho and it can’t include

    Pokemon that Kuppo, Seraph, myself or Star chose, or the ones I forced onto Earthen

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  20. Sorry guys I gotta go cause I’m in a free period but need to study for my History test next period see y’all at 3-ish!

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  21. So I just discovered something in Zelda. I beat a Lynel, but was gonna reset so I could try and mine star fragments from it to power up my OoT outfit as that’s the outfit I plan on beating the game with. It got me thinking “What if I reset after using an amiibo?” I still need the tunic and pants for the set so it may take me a while to find them normally. Anyway I tried resetting my Bokoblin amiibo and I was able to swap a shield out for a club. I still need to do some testing, but it would seem you can reset amiibos for the items you actually want by saving, using the amiibo, and then reloading if you don’t get what you want. Very interesting lol

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  22. What should be the next food pokmemon (banana buddy doesn’t count)? I’d say a Fire/Psychic Pizza combined with an UFO

    (jk)

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  23. What if anime Lilly is an Ice type specialist? In game she only takes care of Nebby and we have a specialist for each type except Ice. She could catch a harmed crabrawler that would evolve in the same episode, a Glaceon, A. Sandshrew and a Delibird (It’s so underrated). I really hope that’s the case it sounds so cool!

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  24. If you were a world travelling character like Ash, what would be your ‘All-star Team’ and from which region did you get all six?

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  25. Plot for the joke anime thing, if it sounds cliche af that’s because it is I’m not investing that much plot ideas into what’s mostly a joke

    The Jungle Guild is an average guild on the continent of Athos, the Continent of Neutrality. On the summer break, young Seraph and his friends, Kuppo and Kurusu, decide to hold a picnic to celebrate. However, an Incineroar is attracted to Seraph’s cookies, and interpreting him fearfully dropping his cookies as an offer, it eats them merrily before waving them goodbye.

    Seraph decides on that day to destroy all Incineroar and make Everstones mandatory for all Torracats, and drags Kurusu and Kuppo along for the ride, even if they don’t share his mutual goal. Along the way, they meet various members and alumnus of the Jungle Guild, crossing paths with foe and friend alike…

    Along the way, our heroes get wrapped up in a plot centering around the eighteen Elemental Crystals, the sources of all Type Energy and Type Magic in the world, as well as mysterious figures who identify themselves as ‘Agents of Chaos’.

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  26. Yo last anime shitpost before I actually start writing this bs (or attempt to)

    Need teams of three from

    -Pharap
    -Star
    -Kuppo
    -Earthen
    -Ultron

    I think Kuppo and star have already gave there’s but I’m lazy with the memory of a sieve so could I bug you to post again? Also avoid being a type specialist pls just use ones you like

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  27. Okay I know I said last fanfiction shit post

    But this is like the last one for real

    The fanfiction is set in an original Pokemon inhabited world and is in its own dimension (no relation to pre existing Pokemon media). I’ve decided it’ll be very fantasy heavy, with magic and tribes and that. However, should there be modern equipment and clothing, or more fantastical clothing? Modern would be more convenient for me as a writer, but fantastical imo blends better with the concept.

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  28. What’s everyone up to? I’ve finally started to write the thing that shall not be named whilst money grinding in Bravely Second 😡

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  29. The Battle Circus: Welcome to the battle circus! This wandering battle facility is one of many sponsored by the Battle Frontier! Here, trainers enter deadly battles in order to get the opportunity to battle the ringmaster! Be warned trainers, you must first beat the seven specialists of these trials, all of which who have special talents that you must take into account. Some may have their fields be covered in a constant weather condition while some even alter the entire battlefield to their advantage! The specialists all utilize the conditions of their fields to their full potential! In order to fight the specialists, you must do various battle related tasks, such as fighting trainers or even hordes of wild Pokemon in order to advance! Once you fight all the specialists, you may take on the ringmaster who’s able to use any of these tactics the specialists had at any time along with a few tricks that they hide up their own sleeve.

    Boss Pokemon: On certain occasions, you may be locked into battle against a singular Pokemon against all of your own. Of course this wouldn’t be fair if the single pokemon didn’t get any support so all of its stats are buffed by a large margin. In addition to these stat boosts, they may have access to moves, abilities, or even types they wouldn’t normally have! Naturally you are unable to catch these Pokemon. Beating one can sometimes reward the player kindly. Nevertheless, it is guaranteed that you will be kept on your toes throughout the battle one way or another.

    Legendary Battles- These are very reminiscent of Alola’s Island Challenges in the sense that a trial (much harder than those in SuMo) in order to gain access to the area where the legend is. When you get there, you fight the Legend in a boss battle and are forced to defeat it. You cannot catch it. After defeating it, you get to fight it once more but with the chance to catch it (Don’t worry you can save after you before catching it)

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  30. Pokedex Entry: 61
    Chickarrion
    Classification: The Baby Condor Pokemon
    Height: 1’03
    Weight: 4.3 Lbs
    Type: Ghost/Flying
    Ability: Egotistic/Moxie (Hidden Ability: Perturb)
    Stats:
    HP: 30
    Attack: 70
    Defense: 30
    Special Attack: 30
    Special Defense: 30
    Speed: 60
    Base Stat Total: 250
    Pokedex Entry: Despite the grim look of this Pokemon, it is actually rather curious and carefree. This appearance also wards off any predators and lets it travel around without much worry. It is a good flier from the moment it is born and almost never walks. They swoop in on prey and gulp it down in one swoop. Unfortunately, they are not very bright so they tend to eat prey that is too big, choking in the process.

    Pokedex Entry: 62
    Condread
    Classification: The Pokemon
    Height: 5’07
    Weight: 79.6 Lbs
    Type: Ghost/Flying
    Ability: Egotistic/Moxie (Hidden Ability: Perturb)
    Stats:
    HP: 60
    Attack: 100
    Defense: 60
    Special Attack: 60
    Special Defense: 60
    Speed: 85
    Base Stat Total: 425
    Pokedex Entry: These Pokemon usually hunt alone due to their ravenous appetites and not wanting to share. However, since nothing else approaches them they become rather lonely. They are rather bitter and may cry out at whatever approaches them but if one is persistent enough in an attempt to befriend them, the Condread will never leave their side.
    Evolves: Level 27

    Pokedex Entry: 63
    Macondor
    Classification: The Great Condor Pokemon
    Height: 12’3
    Weight: 384.9 Lbs
    Type: Ghost/Flying
    Ability: Egotistic/Moxie (Hidden Ability: Perturb)
    Stats:
    HP: 75
    Attack: 130
    Defense: 80
    Special Attack: 80
    Special Defense: 80
    Speed: 100
    Base Stat Total: 545
    Pokedex Entry: One day this Pokemon settled outside a rather barren town. When the people saw it arrive, they began to worship it, mistaking it for a bird deity of sorts. They would slaughter livestock and bring it to the Pokemon in order to sate its hunger. When they began to wisen up to the fact that this Pokemon was not the deity they once thought, they began to stop bringing it food. A few days after this happened, the town was reduced to rubble.
    Evolves: Level 57

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  31. Fearless: This Pokemon’s attack is raised two stages upon entering battle but it cannot switch out. (With the exception of Whirlwind, dragon tail and roar)

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  32. Overcharger: Moves that would force the user to recharge now cause recoil but they no longer need to recharge

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  33. Bit of a crapshoot idea but who cares
    Icymetric
    Polygon pkm
    Ice/Psychic
    Icymetric is a bizarre Pokemon consists of a cluster of 27 crystalline cubes which a sphere shaped core with blinking dots,
    “Humans discovered this Pokemon in a frozen wasteland on starless night, it controls each block with psychic waves and arranges them to attack or defend, by collecting light it can focus light through it’s block and fire a devastating blast

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  34. Is there anyone else who turns of battle animations the first time they boot up the game and has absolutely no idea how the moves look like? I feel like the time saved is worth more than seeing the animations for every move.

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  35. So I just realised all my first sun team has (had in one case) set up moves

    Lur & Lycan – SD
    Sal & Rai – NP
    Rib – QD
    Prim – Work Up (got replaced tho)

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    • Do you follow the standard move set up of

      Slot 1 – Primary Stab
      Slot 2 – Secondary Stab (or good synergistic move with primary STAB)
      Slot 3 – Status or Set Up Move
      Slot 4 – Filler

      But yeh I have to ensure I have set up on at least some of my Pokemon.
      A Salazzle with NP basically runs through Lusamine’s team is SuMo

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  36. If anyone’s curious, the reason why I changed my username to an Arcanine one was bc of this set I made:
    Arcanine @ Firium Z
    Intimidate
    Adamant
    4 HP, 252 ATK, 252 SPD
    -Sunny Day
    -Flare Blitz
    -Wild Charge
    -Extreme Speed/Close Combat
    Essentially Z-Sunny Day moveset. I’ve been in love with these z-moves lately 😀

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  37. Lol enjoy this trash

    Can’t tell if intentionally vague and simple vague backstory or shitty first draft

    Seraph. Kuppo. Kurusu. Star. The four had planned this moment for days, a perfect day witch an idyllic picnic with a healthy balance of carbohydrates, meats, vegetables, and desserts. But that all changed when the Fire – Type attacked.

    Seraph smiled to himself as he blissfully munched on his cookies, unaware of the advancing feline behind him. By the time that Kuppo – who had been sat opposite him – even managed to muster up a warning, the boy was in the beast’s shadow.

    He immediately jumped to his feet, scattering all of his delicious cookies to the floor as his head collided with his Hakamo-o’s cold, hard scales.

    Seraph’s world went as black as his little edgelord soul wished to be.

    ~Line Break~

    A gentle, caring breeze gently caressed Seraph’s face. It slowly awoke him, leaving the boy confused as he looked around the room he was in. His dorm room, which he shared with Kuppo.

    His roommate rushed to his side as he let out a yawn.

    “You okay?” Kuppo asked.

    “Forget me! What about the cookies!?”

    Kuppo grimly shook his head.

    Seraph’s eyes began to well with the tears of a thousand emos. “My… my cookies… They were fresh… New to this world…”

    Kuppo patted his friend’s back, and handed him a hot drink.

    “I’m sure the Incineroar didn’t mean to scare you like tha-”

    “THAT’S IT!” Seraph cried. “IT WAS THAT YAOI HANDED BASTARD THAT DID IT! I’LL DESTROY THAT INCINEROAR! DESTROY THEM ALL! I’LL KNOCK ‘EM DOWN FROM RARELY SEEN TO NEVER SEEN!”

    Kuppo had nearly lunged to the other side of the small apartment-style dorm room in order to avoid the hot beverage Seraph and unceremoniously thrown to the floor. He murmured to himself.

    “You must of hit your head off of Hakamo-o harder than we thought…”

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  38. Well…
    CND is waiting outside NYC for three days for MK8 Deluxe. I mean I get it’s fun to hype things up but waiting for three days outside for a game that 90% came out 3 years ago? xD

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    • ironically i just got a Araquanid via WT this very second
      Talk to Seraph he gets boners for that thing
      I run Adamant Max Atk HP with Leftovers/Life orb
      Liquidation
      Leech Life
      Poison Jab
      Mirror Coat

      I think Raph uses a special wall but i like this one

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  39. I wish I had anyone who would listen to me about how much I love Breath of the Wild. I just love it so much. Like everything is perfect. You just get totally lost and omg i lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvee it

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    • I get ya. While I have friends to talk nerdy stuff about for sure, I don’t really have anyone in particular that I can just gush over stuff with. I can do it with my brother, but mostly we just listen to each other talk about nerdy stuff because nobody else would put up with our shit hahaha

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        • Yep, yep. I began the game on release date, and I likely won’t finish until late next week. I’m far from completing everything, but I think I’m close to doing everything I want to with the game.

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          • I’m a bit distracted because I need thirty of these stealth fish guys so I can get my Sheikah Armor to level 4… but now I’m distracted by the Korok trials… and then I need to get another heart to get the Master Sword… then I still have two more divine beasts to do and there is an island I want to find and…

            god, this game is insane

          • I’m in the middle of my Eventide island quest, this part of the game is so fun. I killed a hinox using nothing but bombs and a rock.

          • One of the most frustrating thing to me in some games is when I do a side quest but that opens up 3 other side quests and it just keeps giving me more. BotW is the definition of that but it’s so engaging and perfect and I don’t know why.

      • Size as in physical dimensions or size as in memory density?
        I’m not actually sure about that point, I’ll have to check since I don’t work with discs very often.

        Modern cartridges do indeed have faster read speeds.
        It’s marginally debatable because the data on discs can be cached, which makes the cached part of data as fast as the memory it’s written to.
        If it’s not in cache though, it has to be written to cache, which is slow, so debate over – discs are lame.

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        • Physical dimensions, should’ve been more specific. 😛
          But yeah, it would be awkward to have a disc drive on a portable.

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          • It depends on the disk size. The PSP did quite well as far as using discs for portable things, but the size will limit the memory density:
            A PSP disc can hold 1.8GB (if dual layered) and is 64mm wide.
            Your standard SD card is 32mmx24mm and can hold up to 128GB.
            The Switch cartridges (not sure what size they are) can hold up to 32GB.

          • That’s tiny. No wonder they had to give them the weird coating.

            I would have been tempted to put a larger case around them just to make them harder to loose, even at the expense of requiring a larger port.

    • AHEM *resident programmer*

      Reason 1: Random Access vs Sequential Access

      Disks have to be spun so they tend to be accessed sequentially, whereas cartridges are flash memory, which admittedly still has to be accessed in blocks, but it can be memory-mapped so it’s easier to interface.

      Reason 2: Custom Peripheral Modification

      Disks are stuck being plain old disks.
      Cartridges can contain other devices like extra RAM (DS Browser Memory Extender), small processors, gyroscopes (Like in the Wii motion plus), light sensors (Very rare GBA games I can’t remember the name of), motors (GBA Rumble Pak).

      Reason 3: Nostalgia

      Admit it, cartridges are more nostalgic.

      Reason 4: Proprietaryness

      It’s easier to region lock Cartridges because you can do it in-hardware rather than in-software, so clever programmers can’t trick the system into ignoring the region locking. Clever hardware engineers still can though.

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        • They have, but I was just listing general reasons.
          They probably removed region locking precistly because of the workarounds I mentioned (never forget the old Gamecube DIY Region Switch trick).

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          • Pricing depends on the number being manufactured and whether you’re using a public standard or a proprietary standard (which is why so many things use USB and SD these days, although not all obey the standard properly).

            As for whether other companies follow, it depends how much noise people make about cartridges and what the company’s design team says. If the company thinks it will boost sales they’ll use them, otherwise it depends on what the design team and the accountancy team say.

          • WIth one caveat:
            They made them too small.
            They should have artificially made them at least GBA cart size.

          • It will depend on how the technology evolves.

            I also prefer cartridges (larger ones though, not tiny tiny ones), but if they go for disks again they should do a gamecube style slot – passing a disk to my wii for it to ‘eat’ always unnerved me.

          • Not just that, but there’s no way to tell how far in it’s supposed to go before eating it so it often tries to snatch it before your ready.

            Also no way to check if there’s a disk in there without powering it.
            With a GC you just lift the lid.

  40. Last WT for the night and going to bed
    place your bets
    Route 1 crap
    Starters
    or anything in the OU tier
    or Trash

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  41. Hey everyone, long time no see! Finally got a job, actually earning money now (it’s great).

    Haven’t played Pokemon much after my Dunsparce run… thinking about doing some shiny hunting tonight. Not sure what to hunt for… probably one in SunMoon. The only one I’ve caught in Alola so far is a Cubone (A-Marowak is great) that I named Indigo. I really want a shiny Lapras, but Perish Song…

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      • I might have to, but I’ve been so lazy… I still want a shiny Dunsparce and I hatched a few hundred eggs and then got bored. One day, perhaps. Another one I want is a shiny Rockruff. I’ve SOS chained for those numerous times. I’ve got the shiny charm and everything.

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          • Yeah, it definitely has advantages. I have a competitive-ish shiny Houndoom in a Moon Ball from that (12 eggs woot!).
            I remembered that I have some Master Balls in case I go after that Lapras. I can paralyze it and the caller, and catch it that way.

          • Nice! Moon Ball Houndoom is a good choice. I wish you could breed master balls onto things, but I guess that would defeat the purpose of them :/

  42. This video just had the kid suggest that a shortage of tomatoes will cause south America to fall to Communism
    WHAT THE FUCK

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  44. Today’s episode was extremely cringeworthy
    Nothing happened and that angers me, not even any debutes or foreshadowing

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  45. A little analysis
    Midnight Lycanroc
    Abilities: Keen Eye, Vital Spirit (Hidden Ability: No Guard)
    Type: Rock
    Stats:
    HP: 85
    Attack: 115
    Defense: 75
    Special Attack: 55
    Special Defense: 75
    Speed: 82
    Base Stat Total: 487

    This mon seemed to be a really focused upon pre release, so it would make sense to have slightly higher stats. Maybe around 510 (Zoroark) or 525 (Lucario). Where would those extra points go you may ask…. literally anywhere besides Special attack….
    Anyways, my suggestions to fix this mon…
    -Type Change: Rock/Fighting
    Moveset Additions: Cross Chop, Accelrock/Mach Punch, Iron Tail, Earthquake, Ice Punch

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  46. Just so you people know,I changed my pfp to this because I thought it looked funny.I’m not depressed (at least,not anymore than a high schooler would be) or sad about anything,but I doubt you’d get that from the picture.I just like to make sure.Also,anyone else here excited about Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite?

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  47. For once my work station isn’t a freaking mess, and everything was organized AND PUT IN THE RIGHT PLACE?
    …..I died in my sleep didn’t I

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  48. Alright right now I’m at 148 Pokemon for my dex and that’s good and all but I feel like I can add a few more
    I definitely need another Ice type

    And I really need a name for my Pure Grass Bear Pokemon that has berries growing on its body “fruit bearing”

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      • My brother says using mythology is a creative crutch,
        It’s basically an idea grab bag that anybody can pluck out, change or reword and use

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          • They do, I’m trying not to
            I try to focus on a creature, a element and a overall theme

            Like right now I’m considering my Ice/Steel Moose
            A burly cold weather dwelling creature with magnificent antlers made out of ice cold metal after years of consuming iron rich water in northern springs

          • How does it not?
            Moose thrive in cold environments and the reason why it has a steel type is from iron rich water which is a very real thing, and it’s just better then just saying it has metal antlers plain and simple

  49. I made Midnight Lycanballs an extremely potent threat. I wonder what other “trash” mons can be made decent

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  50. Until Xmas I’ll save enough to buy a Switch with:
    BOTW
    Mario Kart
    Arms
    Splatoon 2
    Mario Odyssey

    I think I could buy one more. Any suggestions what should it be?

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  51. Yeesh slow day
    Ferrumooz or Moozetal (Work in progress it is very difficult to have them mesh organically)
    The Moose Pkm
    Ice/Steel
    Sturdy/Stamina HA: Lightning Rod
    A massive elken Pokemon with a furry muddy white coat, it has a sturdy build with thick strong legs and a large hump, it’s snout is very wide and bulbous with a long tuft of fur under its chin, sleepy blue eyes and flat ears, atop its head is a massive pair of antlers of solid iron, flat and wide with 7 points like a claw
    “Stoic and reclusive, their antlers grow throughout their lives and can easily shatter stone to bits, if their drinking water is rich with minerals their antlers grow even stronger”

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    • Huh apparently Moose’s antlers are covered with a felt like skin which sheds off yearly even with blood and the horns can be shed, like they just pop right off

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    • Here’s what it’s looking stat wise
      HP 100
      ATK 115
      DEF 105
      SpAtk 45
      SpDef 95
      SPD 50

      Some moves
      Iron Defense
      Avalanche
      Endure
      Iron Head
      Horn Attack
      Double-Edge
      Frost Breath

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  52. Inspired by Earthen: Do you have a Moose Fakemon/s? If yes describe it/them

    Mine are:
    Fomooset (Forest + Moose)
    Grass
    Looks like a baby Moose with a leaf at the end of his tail
    Evolves when it learnes “Nature Dash” at level 28 into:
    Rademooset (Radegost (the slavic god of nature) + Moose)
    Looks like a big Moose with leafs in his fur and at the end of his tail with a calm expression on his face.
    Signature move:
    Nature Dash
    Grass
    Phisical
    15 PP
    Deals extra damage on Pokemon Grass is weak to

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      • Basically advertisers have started to pull their ads from YouTube after finding out that their ads can be placed on highly offensive content. YouTube has now started demonetizing videos like crazy causing creators to make very little money. I think H3H3 said it was like an 80% drop or something like that?

        H3H3 productions has already started preparing to leave YouTube if they have to and other creators may fall suit if something doesn’t change.

        YouTube seems to just want to control content

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          • To put it simply, the market will adapt. If youtube cuts their money, they’ll simply move to another streaming service and create their own website or set up a pareron for people who want to directly support them. This is a case of growing pains and it’ll be a distant memory in a few months.

        • This is entirely new to me, but wow. Are advertisers really that oblivious that they’re just now, on the 12th year of YouTube, finding out that there’s offensive content on there? Or am I simply misunderstanding something?

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          • That’s it in a nutshell. Someone told the ad depts “you can make money though this” and they signed up without thinking.

          • But that’s another thing, if it’s money for them why do they care?

            And what qualifies as offensive content to them? It’s a serious question, I really don’t know what they count as offensive.

          • The stuff that youtube’s (and pretty much ever other website’s) guidelines state are supposed to be not allowed on the website.
            Racism, sexism, beheadding westerners. (Yet somehow buzzfeed still exits because it gets views.)

        • Part of the problem is that the advertisers signed up to have their adverts on any random video instead of backing specific channels.
          Anyone with half a brain cell would realise that means their ad could end up on offensive content.
          The problem is they were all too busy thinking “yay, lots of viewers, lots of money” to consider the consequences.

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          • Because someone thought “oh no, the idiots, I mean customers, might think we support isis or racism if our adverts appear on offensive videos”.

            Which goes to show what high regard they hold the general public in.
            Heck, they’re running on the belief that adverts actually improve sales anyway, as far as I’m concerned their entire system is founded on a false belief.

          • Oh, so offensive stuff is terrorist stuff? That makes sense. I would assume most people know that the ads are video specific, but who knows.

            But, then again, that same logic could be used for websites too. If an ad is seen on an article about racism or terrorism or anything of the like, then the same unaware consumers will think the same thing as if they saw it on a YouTube video.

          • Might be more than just that, but that’s one of the things.

            That’s why it’s broken logic and only an idiot would think that way. Anyone with half a brain would know that seeing a Daz advert on a beheading video on youtube doesn’t mean Daz supports ISIS/IS/Daesh/whatever the lunatics call themselves, but they’re approaching it like people will think that.
            Technically it does mean that it’s possible that they’re inadvertantly funding *insert terrorist organisation here* but that’s down to having a flawed ‘any advert on any video’ system instead of an ‘advertisers only back what they want to be affiliated with’ system.

    • But seriously, there’s a creator that got over 80% of his revenue cut and is having a really bad time. I just hope this ends soon.

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    • I find it somewhat odd that it’s only coming up now. Also I thought ads were based on browser history? Some content does unfortunately need to be controlled but isn’t being. Various things like hate preaching, beheading videos and other such horrible things are making it onto places like YT, Facebook etc and aren’t being stamped out. Advertisers are getting the message out for their products regardless and I think the video they appear on should be irrelevant as it is a persons choice to watch that video, unless it appears within the video itself it doesn’t feel associated to it to me.

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      • Ads are based on browsing history, but not the history in your browser.
        They use cookies to track people and build up profiles of said people, which they then store in their databases so you can’t delete it.
        Worst bit – that’s perfectly legal.
        The internet age is a scary place.

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          • Imagine one of your family gets ill and you google the symptoms. You decide it’s something serious so you google your local doctor’s surgery to find the number for it.

            Google now knows roughly where you live and something about the health of a family member. If you used google voice they also have a clip of your voice on their server and can collate it with other voice clips they already have of you by identifying the phone you used.

            After many weeks this information stacks up and they can build a profile of you. Pretty much the only things they can’t guess are your name and age (unless you’ve searched those too). Imagine a hacker gets that info. 3 weeks go by and your house is burgled because you use your phone to post on facebook that the whole family is having a meal out.

            A’int technology grand?

        • That’s what I was meaning. I always wonder where they store all the information and how effective they think it is. Personally I ignore all ads.

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          • The point is that target had enough information about them to be able to tell such a thing. It doesn’t take much metadata for a website to be able to build a comprehensive profile of an individual’s interests, habits, political views etc.

          • Yeah I get what you mean. I just wonder if that is really benefiting them financially, though I guess it must be if they are doing it more and more.

          • It does because older generations and some less clued in people still tend to click the ‘other people bought’ stuff, and sometimes it does genuinely produce decent results.

            It follows the same analytic philosophies as correlating weather with products bought (e.g. if the temperature is 25c then people are more likely to buy ice cream, so order more ice cream for next week) and putting all the chocolates right next to the check-out to tempt people to buy one (people have less time to think “it’s unhealthy” if they’re just moments away from paying than if they’ve still got half a shop to traverse).

            (And now I’m worrying that I know all this useless trivia.)

          • It’s not necessarily useless if it helps you be more savvy about the exploitation you could have targeted towards you (and your finances). The check-out thing is something that has been debated quite a lot, I have done it myself but tbf I would probably have bought that sweet elsewhere in the shop if I could be bothered to go up and down looking for it. I wonder if they put more healthy stuff there if that would work in the same way.

          • People are lazy though, dangle them a convinient expensive carrot and they won’t find the cheaper one buried in the back 😛

            If it does genuinely work for chocolate they should definately do it for fruit instead. If I saw a nice apple by the checkout I’d probably go for it, but there’s no guarantee it would convice children. It would probably keep the healthy people healthy but have zero affect on the unhealthy – you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

            Removing the chocolates from the front of the shop would mean no more kids throwing a tantrum if they don’t get a chocolate bar though – out of sight, out of mind – so there would be some benefit.

            The shops won’t do that though, they care more about the revenue the chocolate brings 😛

          • They should do alot of things that they don’t due to greed, I’ll not expect that to change unless law is passed against it which equally won’t happen.

          • If the governments really did care about health it’s what they would do. Instead they just attempt daft things like extra taxation on sugar and give speaches and look angry.

    • Won’t affect me much, I already block ads and don’t actually follow specific ‘youtubers’.
      The only thing I watch regularly is the Space Engineers update video explaining what they’ve added in the update.

      Tbh I don’t like ads anyway.

      If ads have to be there, I want them to be static images on the edge of the screen where I don’t have to look at them, not in-your-face unskippable minute-long videos.

      I wouldn’t buy a product because it advertised on the internet, but I’d certainly stop buying one if it had an advert that annoyed me.

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      • I agree with you on this and personally don’t use youtube much except for if I need help with a game or if I want to find some music or a movie trailer. Ads on this site can make it laggy and painful to use. I understand the need for advertising, I don’t understand the need for unskipable stuff as I just go to another tab and wait it out.

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        • I’ll admit there are times I’ve genuinely been interested (e.g. film and game adverts), but in those cases the ads were skippable as they should be.

          Lag is a very good point, one of the reasons I suggest static images.
          The internet world treats people as if data transfer isn’t expensive, but some people don’t have fast internet and some people still don’t have ‘unlimited’ internet, so every unneccessary byte of data is extra money the customer has to pay.

          To a western world that’s not so bad, but the third world is on the internet and they don’t have the intrastructure we do, so there’s lots of things they can’t handle and end up missing out on just because some rich company saw that using videos instead of images might boost their revenue by 0.6%.

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          • The worst ads are the video ones that loop, they are usually deafening and you have to click them off when you eventually find them, which if you don’t have pop-up blocker will likely bog you down with pop-ups to their website. Thankfully these aren’t as common any more. Oh and then you have the ones that are clickbait for morons like ” you won’t believe this trick Donald Trump used to make his hands grow” or ” people who you don’t know what look like now and didn’t know were dead”. These don’t appear on YT but I’ve seen them here and elsewhere.

          • Thankfully most browsers have built-in popup blockers these days.
            One ad that really used to annoy me (it was for some sort of washing machine detergent like Daz or something) was a video that used to come on wikia pages. It would randomly start playing really loudly and the button to pause it was so tiny. That’s why I eventually gave in and installed an ad blocker in protest.

            The clickbait ones are hilarious. I’m actually almost ok with those because they tend to be static and occaisionally give me a laugh. They’re still on the big side, but less obnoxious than some.

          • I think the last really annoying one I saw was for a detergent too but I can’t say I take notice of them anymore. I mute my TV when the ads start too or just watch stuff on unofficial streaming sites that tend to have one ad before the video which I mute and ignore.
            I just wonder who actually clicks the clickbait? Some are just so ridiculous I can’t even imagine who would come up with that and say “yep this’ll get ’em” XD

          • We tend to record stuff and skip through the adverts on TV where possible. It makes more sense with 30/60 minute stuff because toilet breaks and things, but it makes no sense for 5 minute videos unless the advert is only 5-10 seconds.
            (I adblock onunofficial streaming sites. Double evil :P)

            The ridiculousness is part of the trick. If someone is stupid enough to believe the hook, they’re stupid enough to get scammed.

          • I don’t have the luxury of recording stuff at the moment or I would do that. I don’t know what ad blocker is good so don’t have one.
            You have to be seriously lacking in brain cells to click some of those things.

          • I don’t watch that much television these days anyway. Mostly just soaps and reruns of old series like NCIS.

            I had the original AdBlock back when I was using Chrome, along with Ghostery to block beacons. On Firefox I use Ad Block Plus, which still misses the clickbait ones but blocks all the most annoying ones, and you can give it exceptions if you want to specifically view the adverts on a page to support the website.

            Sadly people do.

  53. I’m so… fucking… salty.

    I FINALLY get a legendary in a loot box and it’s a Tracer skin I already have…

    I’m never getting this Widow Maker skin apparently

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  54. –__– WTing is soooooooo boring, nothing good except Dhelmise from the other day, and no good breedjects

    ….and a Pheramosa mid-sentence

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  55. Well Pokémon Go today
    Finally gets enough for Nidoqueen
    Hatches Shuckle from 2K egg
    Hatches Igglybuff from 2K egg

    I have good day today

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  56. Trying to catch Nihilego again after my mishap and my synchronizer isn’t working much at all or it has max attack IV all the time :/

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        • I miss the old Sneasel colours. I’m not a fan of the pink and yellow shiny for it, the original colours should be its shiny.

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          • That probably is the reason tbh.
            They did a lot of strange things in G2 because they thought it was the end.

          • Remoraid -> Octillery

            The sheer number of non-evolving Pokemon: Heracross, Stantler, Shuckle, Corsola, Misdreavus, Sneasel, Skarmory, Miltank, Mantine, Qwilfish, Sudowoodo, Aipom, Yanma, Murkrow, Wobbuffet, Girafarig, Dunsparce, Delibird, Smeargle,

            (I’m convinced Octillery wasn’t originally supposed to evolve from Remoraid and I’ve got a feeling Scizor was supposed to be a counterpart rather than an evolution.)

          • I heard a theory about Remoraid -> Octillery but can’t remember it now. I always just thought it was a weird monster thing like Graveler -> Golem but more shocking.

            I guess that’s why so many of those received evos/pre-evos later on.

          • Graveler -> Golem isn’t too odd.
            Seeing Bellossom and Vileplume and realising they’re supposed to be equals is though. Bellossom looks more like a stage 2 😛
            They’ve trumped the level of weirdness since though thanks to Oshawott and the regional variants.

            Yeah, that’s one of the reasons G4 was so good. G3 and G4 are still my favourites.

          • It goes from a rock to a turtle thingy, that was pretty weird to me as a kid. If only Bellossom had something of Gloom in its design. Of course it did use to be a closer colour to it until racism was called out.
            Regional variants do have proper basis in nature though, even weird stuff like Exeggutor.

          • I justified it as it developing a much harder casing made of stronger rock.

            Never understood that argument. Soon they won’t allow any pokemon to have black skin (completely ignoring the fact that ‘black’ people don’t actually have black skin, they have dark brown skin), and Alakazam will have to be recoloured because it looks too much like Fu Manchu (which tbh makes more sense than gloom being offensive).

            Tbh Exeggutor is probably the most sensible regional variant. Makes more sense than Persian’s swollen face or Golem’s scary beard and stubby arms. (And let’s not forget ‘pancakes’ Raichu.)

          • Bellossom was deemed offensive to Polynesian people. It was odd because I remember it being Dark Blue in the official art but whatever.

            I personally find Muk to have the most sensible regional variant. Persian, Fugtrio and Golem are probably worst. The best I can come up with Golem is that those patches where its ‘beard’ is are just particularly magnetic and just happen to make the iron filings attracted to it form into a beard. The weirder part is the back launcher thing.

          • Yeah, I really don’t get that.

            http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/15787/bellossom.gif

            The idea is sensible, I’m not sure about the colours they chose though. I like Dugtrio purely because of its hilariousness and the memes its generated. If anything alolan Golem seems pretty offensive: an angry guy with a beard blowing itself up 😛

            The back launcher is probably only there for rule of cool, but I don’t see how that should make its arms stubby. The facial hair can be justified but it looks awful.

          • Also Bellossoms’ original shiny used that blue and looked much more like an evolution of Gloom http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/1/17/Spr_2g_182_s.png

            The colours for Alolan Muk are a little garish but it is meant to be like an oil spill type of thing. I don’t really find Alolan Dugtrio funny and I don’t look at many memes.
            Alolan Golem looks like it should be head of a Gulag, like some angry Russian commander. (No offense to any Russian people). If I could be bothered to get one I would call it Gulagem or Zangeef. The stubby arms are awkward, it shouldv’e just kept Alolan Gravelers’ Lego hands. I always thought the point of Golem was that it like its’ pre-evos was meant to roll, like a boulder down a mountain, the back launcher stops that being feasible really.

          • Yeah, the back cannon broke the rolling (somehow it can still use rollout though (I think)).
            I’d call mine “Gossama” or “Ossama Bin Golem”.

  57. The Global mission is at over 4x the goal and it’s not even quite 3 days in yet. If you haven’t done so I would sign up to it and the Global Link if you want a Level Ball too.

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          • Although I have collected every breedable in every Apricorn Ball already so I’m using them on Legendary Pokemon now.

          • Nor do I, but other things have been calling to me more than Pokemon, like Elite Dangerous and programming, and tbh Sun didn’t live up to the hype, I still enjoy ORAS more.

          • Shiny breeding is way easier in gen 7 though and that’s what I do most now. I generally can’t buy loads of new games etc so I tend to get as much as I can out of what I have.

          • Eh I guess. SM just doesn’t have much to hook me back. Not even shinies.

            I haven’t bought a new game since January.

          • I haven’t bought a new game since Sun.
            There needs to be better post-game stuff but GF seems not to care too much about that anymore.

          • They spent too much time upgrading the graphics and writing the story. Graphics and story are nice, but they don’t make up for a big wide world and a variable after game. Even without the delta episode, ORAS still has contests and soaring and mirage islands and the battle maison.

            Tbh I didn’t like SM’s story that much anyway, the idea was there but it didn’t feel like it had been properly handled, and it felt quite short.
            Plus it was really linear, there was never a reason to backtrack. Hoenn forces the player to double back on themselves after the incident at the volcano, Johto made the player traverse the ocean twice and let the player loop back after getting rid of Sudowoodo, Sinnoh has the player cut through the central mountain several times, etc
            But Alola only gets you to visit each place once (aside from where the Pokemon league is and the places where the ports are).

          • Well the main story doesn’t get you to go back but the Ultra Beast missions do. I spent more time getting my team together than on the story but that’s because I wanted all but Kommo-O to be shiny. Most people want Battle Frontier to come back which ORAS should have had. But I agree, with the Hyper Space holes, contests etc there was more to do. I feel like the real evil team could have been integrated a bit more into the story too without revealing their true intent. I’d also have liked more trainers with more than one Pokemon. More post-game level-up opportunities would be nice, oh how I miss Blissey Bases, or even the Battle Chateau from XY.

          • I can’t be bothered with the Ultra Beast missions because I don’t like any of the Ultra Beasts.

            I would have much rather had a battle frontier than the UB missions.

            Yeah, the player should have gone back to Aether Paradise several times instead of just visiting it once before having to infiltrate it. If they’d made the Aether foundation get involved with the player more, and fleshed it out a bit then it would have been more impressive when the final confrontation came. Defeating Faba didn’t feel like much of a victory when I’d only met him once before. Even if I hadn’t known Lusamine was evil it wouldn’t have been a shock because I’d only met her once before so she never seemed particularly benevolent to begin with. Team Skull showed up a fair bit, but even then they didn’t feel particularly threatening since Guzma only showed up once before the battle at Po Town.

            Compare to ORAS: the main villain shows up as early as the oceanic museum, then again at meteor falls, then you battle him once at the top of the volcano, then you infiltrate the lilycove base, and then you meet them again at the bottom of the ocean, and finally once more after the main story when they’ve decided to stop being evil. You get more invested in stopping them because they turn up more so the character is more developed.

            I forgot about the secret bases, those were great too because of battling for levels, easy evolution items and massages, and people showing off their legendaries and shinies.

          • I’m mostly interested in catching the Ultra Beasts because they are there and I am obsessive.
            Guzma had so much potential I feel he needed more presence. I did create a rivalry in my mind between my Golisopod and his which made it slightly better. I feel like even Giovanni had more of an impact in Red/Blue, maybe because of how his underlings worshipped him, maybe because he appeared more than once and was also a Gym Leader.
            Before the games were released I thought we’d have some story confrontations with more of the UB’s and Rotomdex would translate for them. Maybe with more interactions with Lusamine that made her more and more enamoured with the idea of them.
            Aqua and Magma had ideals, they also had a rival in the other team to argue the opposite ideal. They had more definitive goals and although twisted, more of a sense that they wanted to achieve something they thought was for the good of the world.

          • Normally I’m a full on collector, but this time I’m just not feeling it.

            Giovanni’s entrance was well written though because team rocket was a proper organisation that even police were struggling with, not some rag-tag gang of hoodlums. When Giovanni appears it’s momentus because his underlings really look up to him, the police fear him and his organisation has caused chaos in over half the towns. His was the rare case where not knowing who your enemy is makes them have more of an impact because you still know a lot about them before they appear.

            Guzma is hardly mentioned until his first appearance and his gang are just being a nuisance, they aren’t really evil.

            Yeah, the single instance of a Nihilego wasn’t really much to write home about.

            Exactly, they were developed before fighting them. Lusamine doesn’t get any story until you actually turn up to fight her. They should have made you encounter her a few times before under the guise of wanting to protect pokemon and the ultra beasts from harming each other. Or at the very least make her reveal her true colours beforehand (so it’s clear that she’s evil but there’s nothing you can do about it until later).

          • An earlier Battle with Lusamine where she says she’s helping you because Tapu Koko took an interest in you and she thinks you could be a great member of the foundation when you’ve completed the island challenge could’ve been good. I assume she would know about Tapu Koko giving you the Z-ring. In reality she is testing you to see if you can help her achieve her goals.

            Guzma should have appeared early on to call his goons back after you beat them for the first time. Instead this is partially split into what Plumeria does, meaning she also isn’t particularly developed because there isn’t enough focus on either. Which is an issue with having 2 antagonistic teams both against you, each having characters that need screen time. Wicke is also just there really and imo should have done something more, like trying to help you. I actually thought she might be an android an that’s why she just stood by and let stuff happen. Also Team Skull are largely aimless, I know they are set up by Lusamine as a distraction but it kind of leaves them a bit flat. They are funny though.

          • Now I think about it the island guardians were never tied to the Ultra Beasts apart from those fights they had.

            Yeah. Plumeria got more character development than Guzma though. They painted her as the ‘big sister’ figure who attacks you for attacking her grunts and later sort of swaps sides.
            At least Wicke was shown to be quite kindly. She should have had more screen time but she got development when she helped the player infiltrate AP.
            Team Skull are flat because they’re more of a street gang than a proper Pokemon ‘conquer the world’ team. They should have made it so they interfered more with the trials and made their ultimate goal ‘payback on the trial captains’.

            That settles it, next time round we can write the script 😛

  58. The best thing to ever just happened. For like three days now I’ve been thinking of a song from Skyward Sword in my head and trying to search my brain for what it’s called. I couldn’t think of it for the life of me, and suddenly it appears in my YouTube feed. I haven’t even watched skyward sword videos in months.

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    • As good of a character as she is, that’s one of the only dissapointing things in the game for me. Maybe I was expecting too much, but most of the memories were just for her character development. Though I do feel this game is one of the most fitting of the title “Legend of Zelda”.

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  59. Wow there are so many games coming out this year I want to play.

    Still gotta finish Zelda
    SnipperClips
    Mario Odyssey
    MK8D
    Splatoon 2
    Sonic Mania
    Pokemon (?)
    Mother 3 (?) please
    Spector of Torment

    Plus I still gotta get around to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus

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  60. since the new 2ds has no outer camera does that mean it wont come pre installed with the best 3ds games? Face raiders and AR games!

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