To celebrate the game’s one year anniversary as well as 750 million global downloads, real-world events will be taking place throughout the summer and into September. The biggest of these will be the Pokémon GO Fest scheduled to be held in Chicago, Illinois on July 22. Ticket prices have not yet been announced. European players can expect special GO events held in Unibail-Rodamco shopping centers.
Furthermore, beginning on June 13 players can participate in the Solstice Event in Pokémon GO (iOS/Android) which will increase the rates of Fire and Ice-type Pokémon, offer bonus XP for Pokéball throws and also feature a Lucky Egg discount. The event will run only until June 20 though, so watch your calendars carefully!
In addition, Niantic has posted some cryptic words hinting at the long-rumored “gym rework” which will improve the system in which players capture and control Pokémon Gyms, “Soon thereafter, you can look forward to a new update focused on collaborative group gameplay features that will get you playing Pokémon GO in fun new ways. In preparation for these exciting features, we’ll be temporarily disabling Gyms for a short period of time.” We’ll have to wait and see what these new updates bring!
How are you feeling about all this GO news? Still out there catching Pokémon in the real world?
And I’m out for the Summer!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Now time to F*ck Sh*t UP
Summer is worthless if you’re working
Lets still F*ck Sh*t UP!!
I rather break everyone’s spines and skulls,
I’ve graduated college, so I guess you could say it’s eternal summer break now
What you graduated in?
Environmental Studies. I’d like to work as a zoo keeper eventually. I currently volunteer at a zoo, so I’ve got a little foot through the door
Ooh that sounds like it’d be an amazing job tbh, every day would be a bit different and you’d have the opportunity to work to help preserve animals and stuff
It sounds like a perfect job for a pokemon fan. The only thing left is to make them fight!
Pls don’t make actual animals fight :p
Oh speaking of zoo’s I found this in my news articles
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/07/531903235/angry-shareholders-feed-live-donkey-to-tiger-in-chinese-zoo
I asked myself why
Yeah it’d be awesome if there was a breeding program I could be involved in too to help increase numbers of low populations
😀 eternal break sounds fun!
Nice 😀
Random and generally useless piece of information about online tournaments: If your opponent disconnects during the battle (which sometimes happens if they know they’re losing) it still counts as a full battle. For the International April challenge I only did two full battles and the third one was cut short because the other person disconnected, but I was still able to get a code for the mega stones and the requirement was just 3 battles.
Today couldn’t have gone better no work, got to watch Mario Kart, got all the missing numbers of my friends and no more School!
This was a good day
Ugh, I’m still stuck at school DX
Aww I’m sorry about that 🙁
My day has been utter shit
Lost my A+ Ranking in Splatoon
Lost two important members of my NU team
That new fridge we bought doesn’t fit so we still can’t resupply the house haven’t had a freaking home cooked meal in over a week, have to buy everything myself
Work is giving me even less days
And I’ve got jabbing pains in my chest, arms and crotch
So yeah this day can rot in hell
Do you ever actually have a good day tho
Never, I spend them angry dissatisfied and alone
My siblings don’t really care
Not a single scrap of a meaningful social/love life
Parents are always working
I gotta take care of the house since my fucking job only gives me 2 days a week
And I have nothing to rebound myself with all this pain
I like how yall are finishing school but I’ve got 3-4 more weeks of it
Same
#justeuropeanthings
Wow and I thought it was bad when I still have one week left
I’ve been out for almost a month
Lucky
Samesies
Got out 41 mins. Ago
My worst move I threw my phone on the lawn out of excitement… it got all wet and I had to clean it
That’s insanely early for not being a college. I got out just last Friday, and go back like Aug. 16th or something. I feel like they cut a few days off of each end every year.
When you’re in college so you’ve been out since 4/24 :^)
🙁
Same
I Don’t go to school
That’s unfortunate. :/
How long does your summer go until?
7 weeks and it ends like a third of the way through June?
We get two weeks during Spring and Autumn too and a decent amount of long weekends and hank holidays throughout the year
August not June
Ouch, that’s shorter than I thought. :/
I think it’s because we have a month of study leave. They aren’t really holidays because you’re studying for exams but at the same time, I got my last week of it free and I wasn’t always studying
That’s not too bad then. At least they blocked out some time for studying so it’s not all crammed (well, maybe not as crammed).
Yeah, I’m super glad about it tbh 😀
Same here, I get an exceeding amount of random days off (not that I’m complaining, of course), and I get a full week for Thanksgiving and some random week and a half in Spring.
Ana is hands down the best hero once Total Mayhem
Mei tho
E3: And now, we’d like to show you a new port. Witcher III: The wild hunt!
*Puts the cartridge into the switch*
You could even call it “Switcher”!..
*Turns the game on*
*The Switch explodes*
Ehh, that would be fun, but can the switch even handle it graphically without looking like crap?
Considering PS4 and Xbox One don’t really handle it that well either I doubt it
Thats the problemo
Have you guys heard about the Babadook being a new queer icon?
Wat
The movie was listed under Netflix’s LGBT category by accident
LOL omg
Thanks for explaining it. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out the correlation. I was thinking “was their something i missed when watching the movie?” But nope Netflix made a mistake and the internet did what it does best lol?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBK7WFXWsAEWreE.jpg
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomvellner/i-am-babashook?utm_term=.rbeQlGo57#.qlNmPprG4
Educate.
So Shantae releases on the switch today and i couldn’t be happier
It Shan’t disappoint, ay?
I love the pun
I’m waiting for the Pokejungle crossover, Shandae
Its just a Chespin head on Shantaes body
https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/872844515085697025
Must be nice for Japan :I
And people who have a switch :IIIII
After seeing the trailer, I’m scared it’ll be Mario World instead of Nintendo World. I haven’t seen a single attraction that isn’t Mario themed.
My fist loss of NU because somehow a Non Scarfed Electrode outspeeds my Scarfed Emboar and Tyrantrum
Electrode is the 4th fastest mon in all of the game of course it does
Electrode has a base Speed of 150 you clod
65 x 1.5 = 97.5
=97
71 x 1.5 = 106.5
=106
97 < 150
106 < 150
∴ lol get rekt
How did Electrode kill a tyrantrum?
HP something
Probably Ice
Did it OHKO?
It was challenging another Tyrantrum for dominance
This is where fucking Pangoro could’ve drain punched it and Bullet punched it
I got zero freaking priority kills now
Other fightings work
And Scrafty basically walls it
Electoball maybe faster the user the worse on its target
Stfu that wouldn’t scratch a Tyrantrum
But it would do like 3 damamge
YES YES YESSSSSSSSSS
For the second year in a row, I have 9 days in a row off school after the new pokemon game comes out. 😀
I WISH I HAD THAT M8
It happened with SM, and now it’s happening with USUM. I guess I shouldn’t be suprised, the games are releasing on pretty much the same day as SM, just adjusted for a Friday.
*now
Yeh
Sorry for the late reply but the exact same thing is happening with me. Yea Thanksgiving Break!
YEAH! 😀
Yo Seraph where are you standing in the ranks
I just hit 1169
I only did one battle so far cause I’m trying to make teams along with the fact that I’m in school currently
I love creeping my gliscor out of defense just to kill non-scarf Xurk
Hmm question Altaria or Staraptor?
For Platinum
Have you used either before?
No never used either of them (outside of competitive at least)
Altaria
They are the only 2 who learn Fly and don’t overlap another type on my team (if I was overlapping I would easily just use Tropius)
Staraptor
I never got the Staraptor hype. What’s so great sbout it?
Close Combat? The edgy hair?
Huh. I guess it’s just not my type of mon.
http://pre04.deviantart.net/d54d/th/pre/f/2016/065/5/d/staravia_starly_and_staraptor_by_francis_john-d9u36x5.jpg
I think Staraptor works more in my Favor
What does your team consist of 🙂
It will be
Torterra
Now Staraptor
Gastrodon
Lopunny
Houndoom
Drapion
Don’t want many to know my playthrough team
It’s a beautiful emo bird and it gets close combat
Definitely Staraptor
Oh sorry for sh*t posting but where do PU tier mons fit in Competitive now? Can they be used in UU, OU and NU?
Of course but PU is not even out yet
Oh cause I want to try a Tropius in competitive but he’s classed in PU according to Smogon
Don’t use it… ever
But I love my little Tropicana
its super bad
Save yourself the embarrassment
Hmm then I’ll try Armaldo for Stealth Rock and just for my Fav rock type
The trash
I want to use one to see if I can make one work in another tier
I tried to make a Water Mono in PU only under the sheer desire to field test make my weather Fakemon aka revolving around Castform
It was god awful except the derp beaver using simple curse and spamming quick attack
Buzzwole is literally only in UU by like two flying types
Xurkitree outspeeds and OHKOS them both with scarf (Unless mega pidge is faster)
Anything Xurk can’t kill is killed by Swole or a coverage mon of choice
REAL GREAT SMOGON
Yooo got my full Soul Silver team at last 😀
Thats awesome!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ea366fef0ef77316336ee32a26b1bb932a9ab5436ad7f6391be060fa0ad7491.jpg
Was there a greek god named “Dion”?
Short for Dionysus, I got tired of looking for a male Venonat
You could change the name to Artemis or some other greek goddess name
Nah I’ve got ideas for all those
Noice!
Do you hold your phone upside down?
My phone’s an absolute douche, thought it would’ve been right side up -_-
FURRET YES
Lol Furret violated the Ecruteak Gym so hard
Shadow Claw x15 and it got me to Morty before I solod him with Noctowl
Furret is actually a demon.
I’ve got U-turn on it so even if it becomes less useful offensively it’ll be a sick pivot ??
I’m glad there are drawings like this that make me like new designs
http://pre03.deviantart.net/0c86/th/pre/i/2017/157/0/4/ultra_solgaleo_by_dryadese-dbbthcn.jpg
All the art of these guys has been amazing
Well my blood is full of salt and boiling hot and I often turn to rain to sooth myself
Which I need some group testing
My region has this counterparts Solasma and Dritzzle a living sun and a rain cloud
Do these names sound decent
Solasma-Hotomic-Photomix
Dritzzle-Stormist-Hurricos
Both lines are Fire/Electric and Water/Flying with Drought and Drizzle as their only abilities
Sounds like Good mons to me
Honestly the rain cloud got the better deal
They get Rainy Weather giving them free Hurricanes and Thunders and boosted Hydro Pumps
The only name I’m really iffy on is Photomix tbh and even then it’s not that bad
Hmmm well it’s a living ball of ultraviolet radiation so what about Photomic?
I like that better tbh
Nrrrrr it just seems lazy since it’s just adding a P in front of the prevo
Granted they did that with Swoobat
The thing is tho it completely changes the pronunciation too
It goes from a ‘Hoh’ to a ‘Fo’
Well photo means light and mix kinda a play of sun is a mix of light and heat
And this Pokemon is so super hot and bright it’s very presence alone can evaporate a lake
I think that mix references is a bit obscure, like even just looking up the word ‘mix’ wouldn’t get your point across
Well not every name is perfect I mean for example Croagunk has no fighting type relations in its name
I’m going through my list and changing the lesser names
There’s plenty of names without type references though? Stufull, Bewear, Vibrava, Solgaleo, Lunala, Nihilego, Guzzlord, etc all have names focusing on their concepts, not their types.
What’s your favourite ever:
In-game Team:
In-game individual Pokémon:
I have two favorite teams.
Moon:
Mimikyu
Primarina
Tsareena
Salazzle
Alolan Raichu
Lycanrock Day
and Soul Silver
Feraligatr
Slowking
Ampharos
Furret
Houndoom
Staraptor
I like how our teams were nearly identical in Moon XD
Think the differences were Lurantis over Tsareena and Ribombee over Mimikyu
I liked my Sun team: Komala, Decidueye, Golisopod, Salazzle, Minior, and Crabominable. It felt very well rounded.
My first ever pokemon, my beloved Torterra.
In-game team: Moon team
Decidueye
Wishiwashi
Lycanroc
Kommo-o
Ribombee
Magnezone
Individual Mon
Shaymin from my Platinum team
Hmmmmmmm
My black run
Emboar
Excadrill
Sawk
Leavanny
Eelektross
Golurk
In-game is my second Sun game
Incineroar
Shiinotic
Araquanid
Mimikyu
Muk
Dhelmise
Individual is either my Salazzle or Lurantis (Bablyon or Demeter) from my first Sun team
Favorite team:
– Decidueye
– Drampa
– Golisopod
– Alolan Ninetales
– Arcanine
– Lycanroc
Favorite in-game Pokémon:
My first Empoleon named Jules
IDK about in-game team, but I do know what my favorite Pokemon is: (As I’ve said a hundred times before) Lucario. It’s also on my current Sun team.
I want them to make a Super DS thing for the Switch. Like a cart that you put in and it sticks out and you can play DS and 3DS games on the Switch
But… Switch has a single screen
The Wii U had a mode where it showed both screens side by side. Just do that
I hated that, they didn’t even do a solid split down the middle
detach the joy cons and put the switch sideways, problem solved
Yeah, you people are so dedicated to the switch running these games but half of the stuff needs the main screen and the touch screen which cannot be used with it docked
Show them side by side perhaps and keep the screen horizontally?
And have the game painfully small?
Wait are you saying like top screen left and touch on the right or the top portion top screen and lower touch?
I just think the handhelds work just fine, I mean if they’re pumping out a new larger cheaper 2DS they clearly want to expand their consumer availability
I mean if a buttload of kids and adults buy nicer cheaper systems opposed to a hard to acquire expensive system I.E. the Switch they definitely want to make more games for it
I just want a super gigantic library of games
What about a Virtual Console with DS games for $15-$20?
How about no
I mean, I’m not going to take all those cartridges and adapter prone to breakage with me.
This is the first time I’ve actually played Heart Gold. I’ve always played Soul Silver. Time to Nuzlocke! >:D
Aaaaaand Cyndaquil will be my starter. The wheel has decided
Good luck, it gets no good moves other than flame wheel and quick attack
Um
Lava Plume?
Remember Earthen is always right in his mind
I’m looking at the long term picture
Taking into account moves it gets and available TMs from early on,
Not until mid game at 35
But it’s still a move it eventually gets
Yeah I’m just saying Quilava just has a very niche movepool which is very important
I mean Croconaw gets Water Gun, Ice Fang and Bite a solid range of cover
Then Chickorita who gets
Grass… Normal… and Status Psychic moves
I need a naming theme
Indie Games
Ohh that could be cool
Shack foods.
Colours
I mean… that is technically a theme..
Theme: themes.
Name one colors, one indie games, one shack foods, etc.
then one Theme
That’s meta
Characters from a videogame
I may just do fruits I’m not too excited about most of these themes.. or Disney characters but idk what to name Cyndaquil if I did that.
Important scientists and engineers.
Atlus?
Ok yep I’m doing Disney/Pixar
No Star Wars or Marvel though. Just the Disney and Pixar animated movies with maybe certain live action movies thrown in (Mary Poppins etc.)
Cyndaquil will be named Jack Jack from Incredibles
Everyone slept on Scrafty and Komala
Now that Goro and mega are gone, they put in endless amounts of work.
Because they’re unbearable
But… scrafty.. isn’t….. a bear
But he fights with his bearhands
Komala and Pangoro are