Pokémon Sun & Moon Special Battle is One-on-One

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Ever felt like having 3 or 4 Pokémon on a team in official battles (singles and doubles, respectively) felt too crowded? Wanted things a little more… personal? Well Season 4’s Special Battle ruleset may be just up your alley. Although both trainers will register teams of 6 Pokémon, only one will be brought into battle for a head-to-head fight against the opposing trainer.

In this Rating Battle season’s Special format, Trainers will create a team of six Pokémon from the National Pokédex, excluding Mythical Pokémon and some Legendary Pokémon. You can use Poké Transporter to bring Pokémon into Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon from previous games. Then, when the battle starts, each Trainer will select only one Pokémon to battle with. You’ll be allowed to use items, but Mega Stones, Z-Crystals, Focus Sashes, and Eviolite will not be allowed. The battles will have a five-minute match time, a 60-second Pokémon preview, and 15-second turn times. Expect speedy battles and plenty of surprises when each Trainer’s Pokémon hits the battlefield! See the Special Format Regulations for details.

This may be a great time to bring in your favorite Pokémon and fight as one a la Ash & Pikachu. Season 4 will run from May 16 at 00:00 UTC until July 17, 2017, at 23:59 UTC.

I also have to say I’m loving these Special Battles, they add a fun new dynamic to online play 🙂

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820 thoughts on “Pokémon Sun & Moon Special Battle is One-on-One”

  1. Well starter time first three favorites then 3 least favorite

    Favorite in greatest to least order
    Samurott
    Torterra
    Chesnaught

    Least Favorite in greatest to least order
    Blaziken (this is not in any way disliked by me though)
    Serperior
    Delphox

    So now yours?

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  3. Digital media class project; Get four videos, take two homemade videos, mash them together and put four songs on them

    My initial thoughts: Make it as trippy as possible, choose trippy backgrounds, use the shooting star meme music, the Ultra Dimension theme, and something from Super Paper Mario as three of the songs

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  6. You know what bothers me? THE INCONSISTENCY OF NEW EPISODES OF SHOWS FOR CHILDREN… ONLY THE WESTERN ONES THOUGH, JAPAN HAS GOT THEIR SHIT TOGETHER.

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    • See that’s why I can’t get into shows like SU. If it’s not on a set schedule for me to at least record then I’ll never get caught up. It’s almost as bad for show that aren’t children shows like Brooklyn 99 and New Girl. they go a few weeks without interruption and then part way through the season they’ll be gone for a month. At least they have set times and days. Shows on cartoon Network are all over the place.

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      • I’m fine with the idea of Mid-Seasons… but I don’t really have a say since I only watch stuff that’s on Netflix…

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      • 5 months between episodes is insane… and there shouldn’t be a gap like that between seasons ESPECIALLY with shows that have less than 20 episodes a season like R&M. I’m re-watching all of Archer because the New Season (to Netflix) was so short… as in as long as the first season… but I digress.

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  9. THESE BIGOTED FUCKING STABLES WONT LET ME BOARD MY SKELETON HORSE FRIEND. THEY THINK HE WANTS TO EAT HE OTHER HORSES? HES JUST A HORSE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER. HES NOT A MONSTER. I SAVED THIS HORSE FROM AN EVIL SKELETON MAN AND GAVE IT LOVE AND CARE NOW YOURE FORCING ME TO ABANDON HIM? WHO ARE THE REAL MONSTERS HERE?

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  10. What Element would you rather be a mage of?
    Wind(Healing/Cleansing Wing, Vacuum, Cutting Winds, Control of Gases, Speed)
    Lightning(Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electron/Particle Manipulation, Sound, Limited Nervous System Manipulation, Speed)
    Fire(Flame, Heat Manipulation, Nuclear Energy)
    Metal(Metallic Element Control, Magnetism, Explosive Force, Defense)
    Earth(Stones and Dirt and Sand, Seismic/Impact Force, Defense)
    Wood(Limited Biological Manipulation, Healing, Poison, Alchemic healing)
    Water(Cleansing Healing, Water and Water Vapor Manipulation, Liquid Manipulation)
    Ice(Heat Removal, Ice Manipulation, Slowing Biology via heat removal)
    Light(Lasers, EM Radiation, Visual Illusions, Very Limited Time Manipulation, Speed)
    Darkness(Sensory Illusions,Spatial manipulation, Shadow manipulation)

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      • You have the potential to have the power to accelerate a single grain of sand to an absurd speed and launch it into someone.

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        • i’ve studied so many earth abilities its not even funny
          -Earth Gliding which lets me move through solid rock as easily as a fish moves through water (which i call terraporting, but i cant figure out if the ramifications still require me to breathe)
          -tectonic rupturing to jut plates forward aka stone spikes
          -the classic elemental exoskeleton where stone and sand encase my body enhancing my physical strength and defense in exchange for mobility
          -compacting the composition of sand to made it as dense as iron
          -Geokinetic flight through repulsing magnetic fields (or just frigging ride a slab of rock like a board)
          -Earthen Camouflage by collecting nearby minerals to layer onto my body to blend in the surroundings
          -seismic sense to feel vibrations
          -Earthen healing by pulling the earth’s natural nutrients and healing my wounds (this skill is extremely hard to use in a pinch, a gradual slow heal)
          -Transmutation: ie i can destabilize solid ground to be as loose as i want, so loose that i could push you down and you’d sink into the ground like water (and for extra spite resolidify it)

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          • a little more complicated
            like i could sense and move around bits of sand and dirt in objects and move them further apart causing them to weaken and fall apart

            one crucial law of all Earth based abilities is that i cannot generate matter it has to exist

          • you could just transmute your lifeforce into oxygen in your lungs/circulatory system…

    • their is also non-elemental energy… or Star/Void Elemental… which is both it’s own element and the power that becomes these elements come from and the combination of their energies combined… and Dragon… which is Genetic and can’t be absorbed unless the person absorbing it can also produce it…

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          • Also if you manipulate anywhere to have no light or no darkness in it at all(trace amounts of each remain even in a totally dark room) it causes the remainder to go out of control since Light destroys everything in it’s path and spreads infinitely and darkness absorbs everything it comes across and grows infinitely… it causes a sort of annihilation effect

          • question are you gonna make light and shadow a morality effect?
            like prolonged exposure corrupting you or you forgoing that

          • Darkness and light aren’t alignment… Evil is an alignment and can create corrupted versions of the regular elements. Good doesn’t have such a thing but people with strong wills and emotions are much stronger than normal due to the way magic works in this universe…

          • And don’t get me started on Godly Power… which the Gods and Goddesses or Nere have… Nere being personifications of the fabric of Reality like Time and Space or Life and Death.

          • it has nothing to do with godliness
            in most rpgs or fiction light and shadow are the holy elements good and bad

          • In this they aren’t… Darkness even has a branch of magic that specifically punishes those who do “evil” and don’t give a damn about the consequences of what they’ve done

          • as long as you can feel bad about it your alignment is the “good” or “neutral” one… although it’s mostly about things like murder and shit.

          • aside from shadowy tentacles and blades what else
            there’s shadow mimicry where you’re body is enveloped in the darkness giving you ghostly abilities mostly moving as a shadow and solid objects phasing through you
            Shadow absorption, you steal/draw in all existing shades to empower your own, objects and people without their shadow slowly lose power something to do with the dark side of your chi (from this one episode of jackie chan adventures)
            also a personal best
            Shadow Marionette- aka using your shadow to control people like a puppet

          • That sort of stuff
            Plus y’know , attacking people through their shadows

          • Oh a variation of Shadow mimicry
            you can travel through shadows (not entirely true but each shadow could be a gateway to the realm of darkness, a parallel world opposing the light world

          • 😀
            (Hence, why Giratina and Marshadow are some of my favorite Pokemon)

          • well phasing through stuff in this world is mostly accomplished by going into a subspace which is audio-visually overlaid on regular space… and becoming tangible by phasing partially back later.

    • But in all seriousness. My number one choice is Ice. easily Followed by darkness. Then lightning then Light then water then wind
      (Ice>Dark>Lightning>Water>Wind)

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    • Oh and Water and Wood and Metal can Manipulate blood… but only your own or that of someone who’s been dead for up to a few days or has been removed from the body for a while because a person’s soul which generates Energy which is used to cast spells and break physics by creating matter irradiates it with your signature… also strong mages don’t need a lot of armor since the soul creates the aura which has an aura-y layer around you but also a super thin clothing-tight layer that diffuses damage from attacks and other impacts… like being hit by a truck. also at some point the soul crystalizes and you can take it out of you which makes your body never age or rot but if you aren’t in contact you’re basically disembodied and in a coma… also you get one power called a soul gleam which there are a lot of but are not unique… people also have aura types of the ten elements (or dragon) which is the element you start off being more proficient at using.

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  11. Uggghhhh
    I’ve studied for 9 of the past 24 hours and I’m wondering whether anything I do at this point is worth it.

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  12. since we got elements on the brain, what would your greater elemental form look like?
    a Greater Elemental is a bigger stronger form of common elementals which could range from anything, it could look like a ball or flames or a stone giant, or a water wolf if you so cared, as long as it embodies you, and your element
    go nuts

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    • Kalos started sucking for me around the badlands where I noticed the sudden lack of variety… seriously how did they manage to put all of the variety into just route 1.

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        • Kalos really failed to me because after the second gym almost every town was the next gym with a few short routes between them and you never had to backtrack. in Kanto you at least had to go around the saffron roadblock and fight a bunch of rockets to do stuff.

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    • By Region:
      Kanto:
      -Mt Moon
      -Cerulean Cave
      -Silph Co
      -Rock Tunnel

      Johto:
      -Persian statue part of Rocket Headquarter
      -Redone Victory Road with 0 trainers

      Hoenn:
      -Fast moving water route

      Sinnoh:
      -Swamp route
      -Great Marsh
      -Route leading to Celestic Town w/Defog

      Unova:
      -I love everything about Unova. Literally everything.

      Kalos:
      -Badlands
      -Leafy autumn routes
      -Swamp Forest
      -Lumiose City
      -Santalune Forest
      -Lost Woods-type forest

      Alola:
      -Aether Foundation
      -Po Town (ducks and hides)
      -Desert
      -Pretty much all of Ula Ula island other than Malie City and the Observatory

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  21. Warning. Im about to write up my entire 6 hour journey I had today through Hyrule in BotW because I found so much and it was awesome and I wanna talk about it

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  22. WOoooooooo

    I started off by killing the Rito divine beast. It’s probably my favorite so far and has the special ability I’ll use the most. I grabbed the bow and looked over to see a waterfall in the distance. So of course… I go to it. I find this camp of monsters and one of them has this awesome boomerang. I tie an octorock balloon to a bomb and hit it with a korok leaf and send them flying. It was awesome.

    I had some soul orbs I didn’t cash in so I filled up my Stamina to the max. 😀

    I bought a bunch of furniture for my house and did more quests and shrines and shrine quests. I went exploring a bit and eventually came across a white horse I actually needed for a quest. I named her Princess and got her the royal armor 😀

    I filled up a bunch of the Hyrule Compendium (and bought quite a bit of it too) and came across Papyrus the skeleton horse. You guys know how that ended…

    Trying to recover, I went out to finish up some more quests. I didn’t realize there was one more korok trial I had to do so I went ahead and finished it up. I just wish I got more than just a diamond.

    At this point it had been 5 hours of exploring so I decided to look for a memory to end it off. So I chose one in Hyrule Castle because I’m an idiot and it looked like the location would be easy to find and get to. It was not. I ate so much food because of all of the guardian turrets. I came close o death multiple times. I blindly walked into a small room with a purple lynel in it, panicked, and crawled out spooked.

    Hyrule Castle is huge though. Like it’s unbelievable how much there is to see in just that one area. It’s beautiful at sunrise too. When you aren’t being targeted by guardians that is. I accitdentally walked into a boss fight and had to close the game and load to a save I made right before walking in there. I didn’t find the memory but it was cool seeing what was in store.

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    • I just climbed one of the pillars outside the castle (took a detour around the castle but that’s Guardian free. Saved, then jumped from the pillar to one of the towers. Just climbed that one and I was already in Zelda’s study :). Memory is not that hard if you are smart.

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  23. Nintendo America and Nintendo Co. Ltd have both completely removed the Pokemon Direct 2016 from their Youtube channels. However, the one from September 2013 (right before XY release) is still on it.

    Fun fact: 2011 is thus far been the only year where there has been no Pokemon news in May at all. Safe to say chances are very, very high we’re getting something soon

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