Magikarp Jump iOS Release + Sun & Moon Update

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After being shrouded in mystery for months, Magikarp Jump is beginning to roll out to countries in the iOS App Store!

Currently only available for a soft launch in the Italian App Store, Magikarp Jump has you play as the titular, weak Magikarp as you face off against other ‘Karp in jumping contests. There’s also a pet simulator aspect to the game where you’re able to collect, feed, train, and grow your Magikarp collection; housing them in a customizable aquarium where other famous and rare Pokémon will help you out along your journey. No word yet on when this mobile game will be released to the Japan, US, UK or other App Stores.

 

 

In main game news, Pokémon Sun & Moon version 1.2 is now available for download in the eShop! This 296 block update fixes multiple glitches within the game:

  • Fixes Sky Drop glitch where Pokémon active would remain active despite being knocked out
  • Fixes an issue where Scatterbug wouldn’t remember Egg Moves properly
  • Fixes a problem that allowed Poké Pelago to be manipulated with the 3DS calendar
  • Fixes a glitch where Eggs could be given items and it
  • Resolves a glitch where the game would crash if an Evolution Item was the last item in your bag and was used

As usual, these patches are required to go online in game and to participate in and at official events.

 

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542 thoughts on “Magikarp Jump iOS Release + Sun & Moon Update”

  7. Thoughts on the direct: ARMS looks fun but a little bare bones. But then again, that was said about Splatoon before it got its updates, so who knows. I’m just glad they’re doing a testfire thing, I can’t wait for that. Splatoon 2’s story mode just looks like Splatoon’s on steroids, and that’s a good thing.

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  9. I could not have cringed harder when they said Kid Cobra was trying to promote his “radical livestreams”. Ouch. Besides that, I got a good laugh out of Byte & Barq and I think Twintelle’s hair gimmick is pretty cool. Also, FREE NEW FIGHTERS AND DLC! Also also, Splatoon 2 will be amazing, no doubt about it.

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  18. Yep I believe it. Years ending with 7 are the best years for gaming. This year is going to be incredible. BotW could’ve been the only game this year and it would be true but like… THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT GAMES

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  19. This is what is so genius about the Switch. Nintendo is already treating the system as if it’s been out for 2-3 years and are organizing their first-party games as if they already knew what would work. Splatoon 2 bundle with attractive Joy-Con colors 4 months after the system releases? It’s just crazy. Imagine what it will actually be like in 2020…

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  21. I can see it now. Animal Crossing, releasing April 2018 for the Nintendo Switch alongside Animal Crossing White Edition Joy-Cons (like that 3DS design with the little colorful houses), a White Pro Controller, and new Animal Crossing amiibo. This is Animal Crossing’s year, I can feel it. Otherwise, end my suffering…

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  24. ok now that more people are here and live
    I’m deleting an old copy of Black that has every pokeball and i’m offering the service to catch anything in the Unova region (that is found wild) in your choice of Pokeball

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  26. Waitta second wasn’t everyone complaining about the impossibility of catching a Heavy Ball Beldum?
    hypothetically if i went to Giantess Crater and fished out a Metang do you think it be heavy enough to work?

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  31. So seriously anybody want want Unova found Pokemon in any kinda apricorn balls
    I’m also gonna go find a Metang and get a Heavy Ball for it and mass breed them

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  34. oooooookaaay i feel embarrassed apparently the Apricorn balls don’t work………..
    But Star Dream Balls work….

    Seraph wanted a Quick Ball Blitzle and Luxuary Ball Cryogonal…..

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  35. Man I feel like Nuzlocking a game, but idk which game I should do.
    4th gen has these grinding points, and I ran out of rare candys
    XY has been done a lot, to which I never win
    ORAS is WAY too easy
    I almost beat Moon
    Hmmm. Black 2 is looking pretty good for this, but I cant restart B2 I will lose all my pokemon for PWT

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  36. I’m watching the Direct (I was asleep for it) And I noticed biff says “Oh ramen gods why must you forsake me” (Something along those lines)
    I want this to be a meme

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  45. I wonder what characters will be available during the testpunch. I wouldn’t think all of them, more likely just the original 5.

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  50. alright officially deleting the game these are what people asked
    Quick Ball Blitzle
    Luxury Ball Cryogonal
    Dream Ball Audino
    Luxury Ball Stunfisk
    Cherish Ball Golett

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    • I love Digimon, but sometimes I wish the monsters were much less complicated…..Like why the hell can 10 different Digimon digivolve into the same thing? sometimes it makes sense, but most of the time it just feels like they’re forcing certain evolutions because they have too many monsters and not enough continuous lines……Also is it too much to ask for a newer series where the Digivice is just a regular Digivice and not some crazy thing that only fuses Digimon or some other kinds of dumb stuff? lol

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  53. uhgggg I can’t find a good Twintelle reference picture. I only have the official art and the hand blocks part of the shirt and I cant see it and ahhhhhhhggg

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  56. Deleting all save data, normally if i say that message i’d have a panic attack and start sweating profusely

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  60. i really love this site, as opposed to (ugh) calshroyalearena, and even if you guys dont think so, you actually have one of the best comment sections on disqus, really peaceful and great, and not like 1000 spam comment on each discussion

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  62. The ARMS Direct said that there were thousands of combinations. If we only consider versus (1 v 1), then the exact amount is 1980. I want to prove that this is true, but (they still made it seem like there were more) Warning: Math ahead
    Let’s simplify for a bit, and only look at when there’s 2 fighters (A and B). The possible fighter combinations are AB, AA, BB.
    Now what about when there’s 3? We can call the fighters A, B, and C. Each match only has 2 fighters, so we group them by 2s. Start with A and form the pairs AA, AB and BC. Then start with B; there are now 2 pairs left: BB, BC. Starting with C, there’s only one pair left: CC. So when we have 3 fighters, there’s 6 (1+2+3) possible combinations. What about when there’s 4? Now we use A,B,C, and D. Pair A with the 4, so we have AA, AB, AC, AD. Then pair B with the remaining 3: BB, BC, BD. Then pair C with the remaining 2: CC, CD. And finally D with itself: DD. So there are 10 total (1+2+3+4). In general, if there are N fighters, there are N(N+1)/2 combinations of fighters.
    What about the arms combinations? Well we’d make two lists like above, and multiply them, so if there are K arms, then there are (K(K-1)/2)^2 possibilities for arms combinations. Consider when K=2 (Fighter 1 has arms A,B, fighter 2 has arms C,D) : AA,CC; AA,CD; AA,DD; AB,CC; AB, CD; AB, DD; BB,CC; BB,CD; BB,DD; = 9 = 3^2
    So we can make two columns, one for fighter 1’s arms and one for fighter 2’s. Look at one column (they’ll have the same amount if each fighter has the same amount of arms available, which is why our number is squared). Form two columns with each arm listed once, then match them starting with the first. Then move to the 2nd in the first column and make lines, neglecting the first in the other side (This is because we have that AB = BA). So we’ll have something like
    A A
    B B
    With lines from the first A to the 2nd A, from the 1st A to 2nd B, and from the 1st B to the 2nd B. Like before, the total is 3, which is 1+2. In general, it will be 1+2+3+…+K, where K is the amount of arms available. This is equivalent to K(K+1)/2 Now because we have 2 fighters, the total arms combinations is ((K)(K+1)/2)^2

    So the total amount of combinations is going to be N(N+1)(K(K+1))^2/(2*2^2)=N(N-1)K^2(K+1)^2/8

    We know that there are 10 fighters and 3 arms per fighter, so let N=10 and K=3. This reduces to 1980.

    I guess you can up the amount by saying that AB =/= BA, in which case the total amount is 4455. Instead of having (K)(K+1)/2 as the amount of arms combination per fighter, we have K^2. And the total number of combinations is (N)(N+1)(K^4)/2.

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  65. I’m not sure I really like Aquamarine. Her voice is annoying and I don’t see how she’s a very useful gem. How is she so high ranking? Her powers rely on a baton that she has to reach for…and even then she was quickly overpowered by brute force. And she’s pretty dumb as well, considering she didn’t once question the legitimacy of Steven being Rose.

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    • This…Is actually very good. Her fact is perfect which is the most important thing. As for the hair, it might be easier just to cheat it a little. Try drawing it as cylinders, then use that shape to kinda create the spiral shape of her hair. Her hair is already just two cylinders, so it should make it a lot easier on ya.

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  69. Ughhhh took literally all morning but I finally caught a Male Drilbur
    The worst part about being a veteran trainer is that Matures mean everything to me now
    And the sight of a Rash Drilbur makes me sick

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      • oh booo friggin who gives a shit when you can go farm them yourself, at least you don’t have to wait for a dust cloud and hope its not trash items, also in a cave so i gotta buy a shit load of repel and since i just started its only regular repels before the era of reapplying repels

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          • explain how it is,
            you gotta weed through a small place, dealing with every tile being a encounter, the water sometimes takes the spot and its not a 100% encounter its 40% for a Drilbur and the rest by gems and stones
            and add the coin flip of wanting a male that turns it to a 20% encounter
            and you only get 100 steps per repel and starting early only gives you so much money

          • But in some cases it’s literally the ONLY encounter
            And you can get it stupidly easy
            It just takes a few minutes to find

          • My houndour for a friend took longer in X 2 freakin’ hours of my life that in the end he said never mind to!

          • But he wants one in beginning of the game where he can control more on it like which moves it learns and more training on it

          • I agree they take to much time to find and Rogs. And Woobats can wear down a low level team quickly

    • Well the final episode airs this Saturday. Its an amazing series right now that pretty much feels like a 5 hour Samurai Jack Movie. The Series has been fantastic and I dare say that its perfect down to the fact that nobody seems to really have a solid idea about how everything will come to and end.

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  73. So registration for the May competition has started, but we still haven’t gotten the Hoenn starter mega stones for participating in the April compeition….unless I missed it and just can’t find it anywhere? Wtf Pokemon, the mega stones should’ve never been distributed this way. Having to wait over half a year after the game’s released until I can start using my favorite megas. Fcking asinine.

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    • To add to the list of asinine things about Sun and Moon is the annoyingly small dex, I hope this won’t continue

      Same with the gimmick for every single Pokemon, half the signature moves and abilities are squandered on such bad Pokemon

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      • Indeed. I wonder how much longer it’ll take before people fully start admitting that Sun and Moon are worse games the X&Y given the crap that the game tries to pull.

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        • I liked XY better than Sun and Moon, tho that isn’t saying much. Content across the 3ds games has been non-existent.

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        • They’re just blinded by Lusamine flashing her bad parenting, Riding Pokemon and brief previous character cameos to realize that Sun and moon gives us less Pokemon and just as little post game as everything else

          And those “Grand Trials” are an absolute joke, they take 1/4th of brain power to figure out what to do and the fights are just so watered down

          Next region G’Bonzah Region
          More Pokemon, and keep it only new stuff until post
          Better features like the PSS, a good place to powerlevel, horde battle and shaking spots
          A Pokemon league with competent AI
          Fair and equal distribution of types and the inclusion of all unused type combinations
          No over the top gimmick that substitutes everything like Z-Moves, the only gimmick is getting back to the basics and buckling down on it
          More customization aspects
          A rival that makes you want to tear your DS in half in terms of strength and douchebaggery

          Hell I’d even let this thing be on the switch so they can include all this stuff, I mean everyone forgets size limitations and memory used in the process

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          • I liked Sun and moon for a few good Pokemon and some decent story line but still more than XY that really just delivered me some of my most disappointing Pokemon hence not a fan of
            Pyroar, Talonflame, Kinda Tyrantrum and finally Gourgeist!
            But I love all Pokemon games just recent ones are kind of getting sadder like as said the dexes aren’t getting bigger

          • Yeah. I won’t pretend that X&Y don’t have a lot of problems, but as games they were over all a better experience then what Sun and Moon provided.

  77. I’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored
    2 moar hours until my shift ends and there’s nothing to do

    Normally I’d try and ride it out but ughhhhhhhhh

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  79. Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?
    …
    DOLODOODOLODOO
    HUSBAND TED WOULD LIKE TO BATTLE

    That will be 345$…
    DOLODOLODOLODOO
    CASHIER BOB WOULD LIKE TO BATTLE

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        • With all respect FUCK NO, FIX THE DAMN POKEMON FIRST THEN MERCHANDISE IT

          It has shitty everything from stats to moves, I personally want it to be special fighting type since it is painfully lacking so to do that
          HP 80
          Atk 90
          Def 110
          SpAtk 125
          SpDef 100
          Speed 95
          600 (Holy shit I was right on my first try)

          And it learns Aura Sphere and are you a fan of Overcoat or no… I honestly got nothing for abilities

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          • I mean I only plan to run Scarf
            Clanging Scales
            Aura Sphere
            Flash Cannon
            and either Flamethrower or something to counter psychic types, Shadow Ball or Dark Pulse kinda work but unlikely to get them since Kommo-o is kinda anti-dark and evil

            Totally a Paladin

  89. Alright I’m going to do my first
    Pokemon Walkthrough for my video series so out of these 3 games which one do want me to play most?

    -White 2
    -Platinum
    -Soul Silver

    So choose one please…

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  90. Perhaps… maybe I have an idea?

    Pokedex Entry: ???
    Mega Kommo-o
    Classification:
    Height: 6’07
    Weight: 239.3 Lbs
    Type: Dragon/Fighting
    Ability: Grand Stand
    Stats:
    HP: 75
    Attack: 145
    Defense: 150
    Special Attack: 100
    Special Defense: 135
    Speed: 95
    Base Stat Total: 700
    Pokedex Entry: When it is unable to defend those it cares for against a threat, Kommo-o takes on this form in order to ensure its victory against the foe. Its scaly armor is able to deflect and withstand anything thrown its way and a single punch from it can level an entire mountain with little effort. Kommo-o that can mega evolve are revered by both people and pokemon alike due to their overwhelming strength and courage.

    Grand Stand: The more Pokemon that are fainted in your party, the stronger this Pokemon is.

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      • I would but I just feel like it kinda fits Kommo-o more to be physical… but I dunno… Whaddya think otherwise?

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        • Otherwise it’s good, although 105 speed would help it outclass a few more things. And it still needs close combat, but a mega won’t fix that problem.

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          • That too..a better sp attack stat would also be nice so that focus blast and clanging scales aren’t worthless

          • Tbh every gen is full of them lol. I was also a very harsh critic of gen 6 when that was around

          • Diantha sucks! Lysandre sucks! The rivals suck! The region is bland! The music is meh! The bandlands and lumoise are cancerous! The gym leaders have no personality! The starters are the worst trio! Diggersby hurts my eyes! The event legends were handed so poorly! Where the fuck is Z?! They put Zygarde in another region because they realized the amount of work it would take to fix Kalos would outweigh the effort to make a completely new gen!

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          • Araquanid
            Decidueye
            Primarina
            Mimikyu
            Tsareena
            Oranguru
            Toxapex
            Comfey
            Minior (To an extent)
            Drampa
            Salazzle

          • It can do some scary shit. It’s not amazing but it’s scary on the right teams
            Should I mention alolan forms too?

          • Alolan Muk
            Alolan Marowak
            Alolan Ninetales
            Alolan Raichu
            And, to an extent, Alolan Persian

            (The other ones are shit tbh tho)

          • There aren’t even eleven alolan forms
            I’m saying Alolan forms plus actual mons puts it over 11

          • Actually Incineroar is the better starter and Decidueye is the worst (I am talking about battle).

          • We get it, your delusional, please look at the tiers before saying anything. No offense, but Incineroar is not good in competitive my friend.
            Decidueye is in UU, the same tier as Primarina
            Incineroar is in RU currently and has usage that that currently puts it in NU

          • I am not looking at the tier I am talking about showdown (with their HA) and my experience tell me Decidueye is bad Incineroar is not perfect though but he is the best of the starters.

          • Dude…. showdown is tiers
            Hidden ability won’t make Incineroar the best
            Primarina is the best one competitively, I’ll admit
            At least Decidueye has it’s own unique role
            Incineroar? It’s literally just worse Arcanine.
            Intimidate doesn’t prove shit, Arbok has intimidate and look how good THAT is

          • One source said it.. literally one source said it about an unreleased ability.
            As much as I shit on showdown, they have hundreds of people playing per day and testing. Inineroar doesn’t get used… at all

            Please, use statistical proof

          • Actually I depend on my personal experience at the first place. Fake Out and Intimidate r very great combo u keep switching him and Intimidate ur foe with free fake out.

          • Personal experience isn’t valid compared to group tests
            yeah but what good is switching out over and over when stealth rocks are up? Or Spike? Or toxic spikes? Or sticky web

          • Yeah I would talk about hazard issue but he is very useful in double ……I didn’t know wat r these humanz thinking but how in the hell u could say that Decidueye is better than Incineroar no way I can’t believe this……I mean r u blind look at their stats making Decidueye mix attacker is just a shit.

          • Incineroar is a bulky pokemon with a type meant ONLY for attacking
            Decidueye may have less attack but its still good. Please, for the love of god, please open your damn eyes and realize your starter is a pile of shit and that it’s the worst of the gen

          • I know that humanz I didn’t said they r the best starters u need to open your damn eyes and realize wat am I saying Decidueye is a fucking mix attacker and he almost have good special move not even Leaf Storm this is such a waste.

          • It’s still better than Incineroar though sooooo
            I get it’s a waste, but it’s still better
            This conversation is done, I’ll argue you again once you have facts outside of “Personal experience says it’s gr8!”

          • This just ur arrogance and ego that tell that’s ur right but u r far from that and I have nothing to say more than that.

          • Toucannon.Vikavolt,Ribombee,Lycanroc,Wishiwashi,Toxapex,Mudsdale,Shiinotic with Strength Sap,Salazzle,Bewear,Minior,the 2 monkeys,Mimikyu,Bruxish…….and we have alot of op legendaries.

          • I’ll give it that

            I would have given it that speed but it doesn’t even look remotely fast… that’s why I didn’t make it over 100

          • Well, yeah, but I’m sayin it doesn’t look fast if you didn’t know anything about it. I still find it weird that it can fly

          • Well i feel there’s a lot of misinterpretation with that
            the way i see it it can fold its body while running to at the very least glide fairly low to the ground or at the least shoot straight into the air with its own leg strength,
            while people assume it starts floating upward or flapping its fins and fly like a bird or jet plane

          • It’s like some weird levitation shit in the anime. I guess it like runs and jumps and then is suspended in the air and glides lol

          • I’d maybe be okay with it getting in close and then whipping its hair at the opponent or something, but yeah it extending is just odd

          • that’s fair
            i do like the idea of Diglett’s Metal Claw its three whiskers glow steel and rakes opponents

          • Yeah that’s neat. I still just think that they could’ve made a way cooler pokemon based around Pele’s Hair…I strongly prefer regular Dugtrio. I remember when Alola Dugs was revealed in the demo and a lot of people thought it might just be a joke. Too bad it wasn’t.

          • I love its animation for Flash Cannon how it blasts flashing light from the scales on its arms through its palm

    • Around 12:00 AM near the Eldin Great Skeleton for Dinraal, 5:00 AM for Farosh in the Faron area and Naydra by the Lanaryu road east gate.

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    • It gets easier. The more you unlock confidants, the easier the game gets as you eventually get some pretty absurd skills, some of which pretty much break the game.

      Really its a game that’s designed to always keep you at a disadvantage until you can break it, and then immediately remind you that your not invincible and you’ll get your arse kicked if you get cocky. I can’e remember which Persona those cav’s are. Are they the blue knight, or the orangeish red knight(eligor).

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        • Pretty much every party member will get a baton past first, then a few will get a skill that occasionally will wive you a saving roll of recruiting persona’s, then the “paper fan” which randomly will let them cure status ailments, 8’s always the ability to survive a deadly attack with one hp once in a battle, the 9th’s pretty much always the ability to eat one deadly attack for you so long as they aren’t hit as well once, and the 10th rank gives you something special. Makoto’s probably my favorite of them, though Reuji’s is kinda perfect.

          As for Sojiro’s, his you can take some time with since I think you’ll need some pretty high understanding at some point, or that might be someone else. A lot of the confidants have requirements where you’ll need high stats to proceed with them. Really the only one that I remember kinda taking me by surprise was the Priestess a couple dungeon’s down the line that requires max rank Charm. You have to be like Danny Sexbang levels of fabulous. Sojiro’s though is one you can put off a lot in favor of others. His items(coffee and Curry later) are fantastic, but once you get to work on Temperance you can pay them to make the items for you so you can do other things with your time, and once its maxed they’ll do it for free. The cost before that though is a seep 5000 yen, and you have to pay that fee to spend time with them as well, so mostly I’d recommend only paying them to do your laundry since that tends to pay for itself with how expensive armor gets.

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  96. Here are some version exclusives:

    Exclusive to the Summer Version:
    Ballite (Ball + Bite)
    Dark/Ground
    The Beach Ball Pokemon
    Ballite pretend to be normal beach balls, so they can eat pokemon that want to play with them. Scientists say they are in some way related to Sandygasts.

    Evolves after you give it a Sharp Stick (an item) into:

    Umbrable (Umbrella + Sable)
    Dark/Ground
    The Beach Umbrella Pokemon
    Umbrable are even more dangerous than Ballite. If you’d stand under it, like you would under a normal umbrella, it would close, killing you with its sharp teeth. They often “team up” with Pallosands to make a more believale “beach” that they would both get food from.

    Exclusive to the Winter version:
    Snoboh (from “Snowball”)
    Ice
    The Snowball Pokemon
    It consists of a group of 4 smaller pokemon. They literally throw each other into the enemy pokemon. They look like Snowballs to make the predators confused.

    Evolves after you give them Pieces of Coal (an item) into:

    Snomeh (from “Snowman”)
    Ice
    The Snowman pokemon
    The four pokemon transform into 3 bigger Ball-like pokemon and they pretend to be a snowman. In this more powerful body, they can easily defeat some of their former predators. They also really like playing with children that think they are a real snowman.

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