Start, End Dates for Legendary Bird Trio Announced for GO

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Niantic has announced the official start and end dates for the original legendary bird trio in Pokémon GO via twitter!

  • Articuno: now until July 31st
  • Moltres: July 31st to August 7th
  • Zapdos: August 7th to August 14th

Like Articuno and Lugia, Moltres and Zapdos will only be encountered and caught via Legendary Raid Battles. Each only last one week, so catch ’em while you can! No official end date was given for Lugia.

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  6. Im ready more Emoji Movie reviewsand found this one

    ”
    Disregard that PG rating and keep your children far away from director Tony Leondis’ vile animated faux-comedy. Beneath its trippy surface lurks an insidious philosophy hazardous to impressionable minds.”

    wtf??

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    • The philosophy is:
      Do what the focus groups want (which is what they saw in other movies)
      Do what’s trendy
      Do something with no passion
      Pay famous people so much money they’ll agree to do anything
      And you’ll earn a lot of money

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    • The Emoji Movie was secretly co-directed by a board of dangerous Satanic cultists who desire to leech off of innocent young children’s minds and make them entirely dependent on technology so they don’t resist the robot uprising in their adulthood. Duh.

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  9. And level 20, Something occurred to me, i realized that a lot of my teammates are not Japanese
    Back in the olden days i was the only American player for miles

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  10. “What The Emoji Movie gives us is literally and actually predictable from the start. It lacks everything creative and everything that makes a movie successful. The Emoji Movie asks for your money so bad they had to literally do the impossible. New low for the year and possibly for the rest of this decade if there aren’t as many cringeworthy movies in the near future. The crew behind this embarrassment that you call a movie will probably regret working on this a few years later when it comes to that time. If you give this movie your money, you should feel ashamed of yourself.”

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  11. -Walking Pokémon
    -Pokémon World Tournament
    -Battle Frontier

    If you could choose two of these to be in USUM, which would you choose?

    I’d go for Walking Pokemon and PWT, don’t need any more RNG in my Pokemon tyvm

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        • >Because it was made only for Gengar and Hypno and was made before Darkrai
          > Not inherently associated with ghosts
          >It was supposed to represent Nightmares, a pretty abstract thing sooo

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          • > Hypno is a Psychic type tho? And I’m just saying it’s not too far fetched seeing as the only other thing associated with nightmares in Pokemon is ghost based

            > Gengar is based on shadows
            > Shadow Claw
            > Shadow Force
            > Shadow Ball
            > Shadow Punch
            > Shadow Sneak
            > Shadow Shield
            > Shadow Ray (Moongeist Beam’s Japanese name)
            > Marshadow

            I think it’s safe to say that in Pokemon, shadows are represented by the ghost type.

            > The design still looks like a ghost, I’m not listing that as a reason for why it should be ghost, I’m just saying that it wouldn’t look out of place if it became a ghost

          • You may be listing reason as to why it wouldn’t be illogical for Darkrai to be ghost type but you just said that Darkrai SHOULD be ghost type sooo

          • ‘should’ implies correctness, so you’re implying that making Darkrai pure Dark was incorrect?

          • No? I’m literally saying ‘I think it should’ve been Dark/Ghost’, not implying it being Dark is wrong, using the forceful ‘it should’ve been’ combined with the humorous ‘don’t @me’ to imply it’s subjective

            Fam I didn’t come to a Pokemon website to be grammar nazid lol

    • I agree with this but do not wish to think of the consequences a Fairy Cresselia would bring

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  15. Tbh I wish Deci’s wings had some purple in them and had a bit of a “wispy” feeling to them
    (Also I’d love for it to get fucking Will-o-Wisp)

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      • Froslass also gets it
        And before anyone comments that it burns things with ice
        “The user shoots a sinister, bluish-white flame at the target to inflict a burn.”
        So it’s CONFIRMED to be fire
        Plus… it would shoot it on an arrow, is that so hard to imagine?

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        • Maybe they feel Decidueye is too corporeal for it? Unlike Trevenant, Shedinja, and Froslass, which may be more intangible, Deci does appear to be completely physical in the main line series

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          • That’s my point tho, the Ghost Pokes with Will-o-Wisp either have a neutral relationship to fire, are non-corporeal, or have a special reasoning

            Like I won’t complain if Deci gets Will-o-Wisp (tbh I like anything that makes any starter more competitively viable) but I kinda understand why it doesn’t get it?

          • Tru dat

            How tf did Inci not get Knock Off and Sucker Punch? Why give Deci a shitty hidden ability when even Sniper is better? Why give Prim the shittiest wannabe – ate ability?

          • Why they gave Deci and Prima unique abilities and just said to Inci “No, you get intimidate”

          • Inci probs got the best ability our of the three of them is the worst thing tbh, and it’s not even that good

          • All of this
            Actually better question
            Why did it not get fire punch considering its pre-evo was KNOWN for having punches
            And Prim’s would be good if it got boomurst

          • They saturated its movepool with too much shit
            Replace Leer (it already has a stat lowering move) with Bite earlier, get rid of Outrage because who tf uses that

            Give it Fire Punch and Sucker Punch in those two empty slots, Knock Off through move tutor

          • Deci had like fifty moves it should have got
            Leech seed, Will o
            Hell honestly? I would have loved it to get laser focus. Not for competitive, but because it kinda fits

          • I went to Torracat and Inci’s bulbapedia’s page, I did the ctrl+f thing and wrote “punch”

            The only result I got was from its dex. It’s incredible how they wrote about their punching ability yet didn’t even bother to add a punching move -_-

          • Well Emboar is actually pretty good, i’ve been using him all over UU NU and even AG
            and Reckless Scarfed Flare Blitz is the scariest thing ever

            also Head Smash and Wild Charge, the downside it needs Submission to be an effective fighting type wallbreaker

    • imagine if it set out a series of wisp flames out on the battlefield and then shot them with spirit shackle it guarantee a hit

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  16. This has bothered me for the longest time…
    WHY IS GOODRA MONO DRAGON
    Like there was at least three other types it could have been as well but NOPE

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  17. I love how everyone was freaking out over how broken Gen 7 mons were going to be….
    And gen 7 happened , Drampa, Mudsdale, and even Alolan Raichu ended up falling into the depths of PU

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  18. Does anyone else get the feeling that GameFreak doesn’t understand competitive play? At all? You would think wth how important that scene is to fans they would design Pokémon to be more flexible with it and tone down the insane power creep that’s has happened

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    • They thought Guzzlord would be a good competitive Pokemon cause of its HP stat
      I think that should be enough of a clue

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    • They understand it, they just have to struggle to balance it with in game which takes priority most of the time (easier to find Pokemon such as birds and rodents should inheritly be worse), and they’re balancing for a double battle format with no tiers.

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    • GF doesn’t understand a lot of things. Sometimes I wonder if they’re even good game designers or if they’re just sitting on a cash cow.

      That being said, I do feel a lot of the abilities introduced in SM specifically were designed with competitive in mind.

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    • Tbh gamefreak doesn’t understand a lot of things about game design. But i disagree with the powercreep. Heck, pokemon is the only long running franchise i know where the old is on par with the new.

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      • Well tbf they did do a lot to help that with the physical/special split and updating stats/movesets but you can’t deny there is still a crazy power creep. Pokemon can’t just be ok. They have to be extremely good and or gimmicky to match up with high tier Pokémon. If they are not then they are forgotten. Just look at gen 7 for proof

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  20. So apparently Marshadow is A rank in uber and caused Lunala to drop to B+ and Solgaleo to C+

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  21. If they bring back the battle frontier I want a facility that lets me use legendaries. Or even better, make a normal rank and legend rank. One with no legends and one with legends!

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  23. How to make small improvents to Gen 7 starters whilst keeping ‘sense’

    Deci: Reduce Sp. A by like fifteen and put ten in HP, ten in Defense. Don’t reduce Sp. A too much because that’s meant to represent its projectile skill, 90~ is still decent ish for representing what it’s meant to

    Replace Long Reach with literally anything else in the game, fuck give it Defiant to laugh at Defoggers, Technician because Archers are very technical, fuck even the mediocre Sniper is better

    Incineroar: Switch Sp. Attack and Speed. Give it Moxie or Sheer Force. Slap a Scarf on this bitch. Goodbye NU, hello like mid RU

    Prinarina: Slap Wish onto that bitch. Turn Liquid Shit into Magic Guard, Friend Guard, even Water Veil or that cancelled Soundproof clone Cacophony would be better. Or you know slap Pixilate onto it and prepare for Sylveon v2

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