Weakness Cup Announced for Sun & Moon

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Ready for a new challenge to take on in Pokémon Sun & Moon? The Weakness Cup has been announced and requires players to create a team of Pokémon that have 5 or more weaknesses! Some of those Pokémon considered too frail for normal usage may just get their time to shine. That’s not all though–players will also earn Ampharosite, Altarianite, Latiosite, and Latiasite Mega Stones if they participate in 3 or more battles! That means Mega Ampharos, Mega Altaria, Mega Latios and Mega Latias can be yours to use in Sun & Moon! The official site shares more details about the competition:

Registration for the Weakness Cup begins Thursday, July 20, 2017, at 00:00 UTC. The competition goes from Friday, July 28, at 00:00 UTC, until Sunday, July 30, at 23:59 UTC. Trainers will be limited to 15 battles per day.

It is also worth noting that according to Serebii.Net the battles will actually be double battles, not single battles.

Be sure to hit up the link for all the rules! May the WEAKEST Pokémon… WIN!

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1,179 thoughts on “Weakness Cup Announced for Sun & Moon”

      • I know hands and legs are my weakness
        But Goroko is the name I would go by

        Immense physical strength and unmoving defense, equipped with the Iron Boots allows his Boulder form to be so heavy I can probably be catapulted into a mountain and tip it over

        And with the combined power of the Golden Gauntlets with each hand holding the Ball and Chain or Megaton Hammer makes him a lethal contender

        The downside is slow outside Boulder rolling and if the magic in the mask depletes the form falls apart

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    • Mine is whenever someone

      A) Overlevels
      B) Uses the new exp. share
      C) Breeds competitive Pokémon for a run

      But then say the game was too easy ?

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      • I breed competetive for a run and then keep them underleveled. I just like to be able to use the ‘mon on my team long after the main story.

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    • How every gen everyone decides one game is unplayable trash. I’m guilty of this too. Gen 5, Gen 3, now it seems its both Gen 6 and Gen 4 are the hated ones at the same time.

      I dont like Gen 6 but there are plenty of good parts of it.

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    • – When they say that gen 4 is the best, gen 3 I can see it, but 4?
      – Complains about Gen 5 Pokemons design
      – Wanting the game to be hard like the 1st gen
      – Mixing electric type with Grass, fire and water when making fanmons

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    • When people won’t accept that some people like certain Pokemon and not others and it’s actually OK as that’s their personal opinion.

      Saying a Pokemon is trash because it doesn’t perform that well competitively.

      Saying how bad earlier games are basically because they aren’t as good in their view as newer ones. For example people say how bad gen 1 was in direct comparison to the games of today, without taking into account both limitations of the time and the fact that they didn’t know the success it would be. Also if those games weren’t any good we wouldn’t be here talking about Pokemon today.

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  4. If you lived in the Pokemon World, where would you live, what would your team be and how did you get each pokemon (try to make the team logical to your town so for example, if you lived in blackthorn you probably have lots of dragon and mountainous pokemon)

    I would probably live in Castelia City. I fell in love with New York so I need a city. 😛

    Lopunny (Castelia Park)
    Sylveon (Castelia Park)
    Whimsicott (Castelia Park)
    Cincinno (Route 4)
    Salazzle (Caught on vacation to Akala island)
    Gothitelle (Route 5)

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  6. You’re a part of the evil team in the region you answered for Star’s question. Make a little (or big if you want) backstory for why you joined

    Aether only counts as an evil team if you’re in on the dark secret stuff

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    • Because I use six mons instead of 1-3 like most people do, Team Plasma grunts got angry at me and kidnapped half of my Pokemons and made me join the Team so my ideals can change. They promised me that when they finish their master plan, they’ll let my Mons stay with me, but of course, it was a lie.

      The whereabouts of my kidnapped Mons are unknow

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    • I was in Team Plasma 2 years ago because I was scared i was doing more harm than good by capturing pokemon. Team Plasma made many speeches in Castelia so N swayed me over. After Hilda/Hilbert defeated Team Plasma, I rethought everything and returned to life as an artist in Castelia City. I caught a bunch of new pokemon after I released all of my old ones and tried to readjust by taking a vacation to Akala in Alola.

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    • (mine makes so much sense it almost hurts)
      The very second i heard of some red clad nut jobs say they wanted to expand the land by drying up the ocean, i immediately found them, trounced them and demanded a spot on their organization. i joined because of their goals I knew this would effectively reduce the amount of Water type pokemon which is my biggest problem as a Ground Type Master

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    • Basically, my fam would be acquaintances with Lysandre, be influenced by him and eventually kinda brainwashed by him in a cult like fashion. Bc inner Flare circle is probs more like a cult tbh. However Pokéme is used as a grunt because he likes battling so much (sisters are left out of Flare stuff because younger) and due to this is kept out of the loop. Learns of Flare’s ideals, but conflicted, continues to serve Lysandre in hopes that he isn’t being literal about his genocide stuff.

      His family are distraught after Lysandre dies/trapped forever, but I’m low-key glad, get disowned, become a speaker travelling the world warning about the dangers of such teams and trying to prevent young people from joining them

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  9. I’m so freakin excited for Splatoon 2. I’m not sure what weapon I should main though. I like chargers but i absolutely suck at using them. I loved using the paint brushes. Sneaking up behind people and just swinging the brush like crazy is too much fun. But then I also kinda wanna go all tracer and use the dualies

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  11. A gym leader in your region (sozzles for taking over your question Star, but it was a good question :p) asks you to replace them. You use the same number of Pokémon, and around about the same level (only important for level up evos really). Whats your type, badge, team and TM?

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  13. Within the next couple days, we should be seeing a teaser for the 2018 Pokémon movie (because of this year’s movie launching in Japan). This could be huge, and could show whether Gen 8 is coming next year or not. My bets are on Dialga and Palkia returning…but a Gen 8 Pokémon would be insane.

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    • I think it might be a new Pokémon regardless of whether it’s Gen 8 or Sinnoh, all our events have been used up and Hoenn showed Pokémon a good whole before they were released

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        • That’s actually ridiculous, though. I don’t even follow the anime and I know that’s blazing fast progress.

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          • That’s what the episode titles make it look like and I’m honestly wondering where the hell it’ll all fit :v

            Especially the one at the Volcano Park, since it has a whole other plot as well

        • He’s really doing them all that quickly? That seems very odd. I wonder if they’re rushing Akala for a specific reason. I feel like even with their school formula they could still pace the trials out episodes wise relatively well. Makes you wonder what they have planned.

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    • Honestly I think the teaser will show the UBs. They may touch on the guardians in the main show, but I can see very much the UBs being movie exclusive. Then in that movie they have a surprise appearance of a new Pokemon ala Munchlax/Lucario/etc

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        • Maybe. I’m still not sure we’ll get DP remakes in this gen. I feel like if they were gonna do it then it would have been in the place of USUM.

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  14. all is right with the world, i’m on a 3-month subscription
    now i’m gonna do all my toon’s professions for Darkmoon Fair

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  15. Not pokemon related at all but…
    I have a bunch of Junkrat skin ideas

    Hunkrat – Junkrat that has a Kukui look going on kinda. He has a white shirt with his chest showing. Maybe he has sunglasses too.

    Luckrat – Hes like a leprechaun

    Pirat – a Pirate skin. Hes got a Pirate hat and an eye patch. (his alternate colored version of this skin is called Sunkrat)

    Punkrat – A punk skin. Give him like a green mohawk.

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  18. So I’m surprised that we haven’t even gotten a date for when they plan to release the first real info on USUM. Last year we’d get an announcement of and announcement like two weeks prior and then we’d get well…..the announcement! I wonder when they’re planning on telling us when the info will come.

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  19. @shinyxatu, I think I have a plan to help you beat Colosseum

    Your Team should be with all dis stuff to help you win

    -Hariyama lvl.55 or higher
    Moveset: Arm Thrust, Seismic Toss, Endure, Knock Off
    -Suicune lvl.55 Or Higher
    Moveset: Aurora Beam, BubbleBeam, Bite, Gust
    -Umbreon lvl.55 Or Higher
    Moveset: Feint Attack, Pursuit, Confuse Ray, Screech
    -Raikou lvl.55 Or Higher
    Moveset: Quick Attack, Roar, Spark, Reflect
    -Entei lvl.55 Or Higher
    Moveset: Flamethrower, Stomp, Roar(Or if above lvl.61 Swagger), Fire Spin
    -Altaria lvl.59 Or Higher
    Moveset: Dragon Breath, Dragon Dance, Sky Attack, Perish Song

    Do this set and you are certain to beat the game cause each of them covers a Pokemon from all 5 trainers you fave in a row

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    • You just made my day, thank you so much! I’ll have a lot of training to do in order to make this team but as far as I know I have all Shadow Pokémon ready in my box, so it’s just a matter of dedication.

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  20. NEW IDEA!!! What if the reason they’re doing the trials in such a weird pacing is because once Ash get’s done with them the normal Pokemon league opens up in Alola. If what everyone is theorizing about there being gyms in USUM is right, what if that’s the reason they’re doing the school thing for Ash this time? Have him do the trials where he’s basically stuck at school most of the time and then once they introduce the gyms THEN he can be cut loose and travel like normal. That way they don’t burn off too many middle ground towns and make it seem like he’s traveling the region twice.The whole school thing was a weird one to begin with and while I actually really do like many of the episodes I feel like the formula they have set up now wouldn’t work very well for any other sort of thing. The only problem with my theory is then it might feel like the gyms will feel rushed themselves. They always do a late series amendment for each gen’s adventure so I really do wonder what USUM bring to the table that will be incorporated into the show.

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      • Last boss was pretty hard but that’s why you you use the reaper. I was level 79 with yoshitsune which help a lot.

        the trick is to use
        concentrate+blazing hell with ann and charge+agnystra with ryuji to destroy the arms.

        Also having Max star allows you to switch out party members mid battle which helps a lot when you run low on HP.

        Make sure you always debilitate him with Trumpeter and never let him use his ultimate attack with more than two arms.

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        • I don’t have Agnystra, I do have the ability to switch out teamates mid-battle, but it’s tough considering I’m super limited on healing, SP, and revival items.

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          • Which level are you on? And what persons are you using?

            Having morgana means you don’t need healings items plus if you can switch out mid batte you don’t need sp recovery items either. In my fight all of my characters ran out of sp so i was left using physical skills with ryuji haru and joker with morgana constantly​ healing

          • I have Joker, Ann, Makoto, and Morgana to heal, but I don’t have any SP items to restore it. I think I’m Level 70 something.

          • Don’t use Joker or Ann to heal.
            They can do the most damage so don’t waste their sp.

            I started off with Ryuji,Ann and makoto. After makato and ann ran out of sp i just switched them with morgana and haru.

            Also equip SP adhesive accesory if you have it.

    • I need to get back on P5. I got busy and couldn’t play for a week or so. I’m in the second dungeon tho. Enjoying it quite a bit and would like to beat it by the end of the summer. I wish it was on the Vita tho. Being able to play P4 Golden anywhere and anytime was such a plus and I wish P5 had that kind of thing too.

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  22. God Coliseum and XD talk……I swore I’d never play those games again
    I have bad memories of my Memory Card corrupting before a big fight area

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  24. So I’m going to camp on Saturday and the meals are at 6am, 8pm, and 10pm

    If I don’t make it back I love all of you ;-;

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