Weekly Wrap Up 7/24-7/30

Weekly Wrap Up is our end of the week digest of smaller news stories that are just as important, but didn’t get a dedicated post. Here’s what you missed from July 24th-July 30th!

 

Pokémon Sun & Moon

  • Global Mission #9 has begun! Win As many lotos as possible at Festival Plaza and Tourist Bureaus until August 7th. Both targets have already been completed.
  • Japanese Solrock/Lunatone serial code released. Code: OYAJI30YEARS

Pokémon International Championships

  • Pokémon Sun & Moon will be the official games used for the 2018 Pokémon Video Game Championship circuit. There was no mention of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
  • The European International Championships will be held at ExCel Lonfon on November 17th-19th, 2017
  • The Oceania International Championships will be held in Australia, February 2018
  • The Latin America International Championships will be held in Brazil, April 2018

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • A special controller will be available launch day in the US – check it out here!

Pokémon GO

  • Pokémon GO is in the process of being updated to v 0.69.1 for Android, and v1.39.1 for iOS – official update notes can be found here

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The following stages have begun repeat runs from July 24th to July 31st: Hitmonchan, Entei, and Kyurem
  • The Shiny Mega Tyranitar competitive stage is available in Pokémon Shuffle from July 24th to July 31st
  • The Survival mode has been updated with new stages
  • Shiny Tyranitar, 30 Hearts & 10,000 Coins given to all Pokémon Shuffle players as a special gift

Pokémon Duel

  • New trailer was released confirming that Mega Evolutions will be coming in the next update – you can watch it here

Camp Pokémon

  • Camp Pokémon has been updated to version 1.3 – update details here
  • You can watch a new trailer showcasing a 360 tour of the update here

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559 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 7/24-7/30”

  1. Bored…….
    I want to make a fire type pokemon based around fireworks
    maybe something along the lines of

    Kabango (placeholder)
    Combustion Pkm
    Fire/Dragon
    Soundproof/Flame Body HA: Aftermath
    it is a very bright yellow and red colored bipedal dragon, it has a face sililar to those festive dragon costumes with fins and a kooky grin with crazed eyes and eyebrows that resemble fuses, its arms and legs have three golden spikes on their arms and human like hands and feet and a long flamed tail
    “it sweats fireballs from its palms and throws them at high speeds, these fiery blasts explode on contact resulting in a sparking ember shower”

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  2. Do you guys hate Supergirl? I’m catching up with with Arrowverse, I’m at the first season of SG and it’s pretty great! Of course, it has the feminist filler stuff, but looking past that it’s worth watching!

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  3. I bough Splatoon 2 last night, but haven’t been able to play it yet………I’ve either been in pain due to this weird sickness I’ve gotten this weekend or working on an edit for a client………I’ll get to it eventually lol

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      • It might be some sort of flu. Friday morning I woke up feeling a little stiff and sort of in some pain like I had been doing physical labor my body isn’t used to. Then that night I got the shakes and was freezing. The last couple of days have followed that pattern where I wake up stiff and in pain, then I’m sort fo fine in the afternoon, and then at night I’m suddenly in fever town. Idk what’s wrong with me lol

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    • Times have changed… Typical gamers too. It wouldn’t be worth it to put the BF in just for people that wanted it. HGSS had many features, but they were all meant for the typical gamers of the times when it came out.

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      • Thats fucking bullshit. If games like GTA, BotW and Monster Hunter with hours of content sell well, then there is no excuse to put such little effort into your games. Typical gamers don’t give a shit about mobile games

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          • Intended? Yes, but typical? Not really. The average demographic of players is tends to lean toward the early adult side of things.

            But that’s beside the point. Regardless of whether or not people are able to play mobile games easily, wouldn’t you want to at least attempt to compete? Giving up and saying “they probably won’t even finish” is a horrible take on the game, especially for the position of a director.

    • I’ve seen the second quote before, but not alonside the first quote. This seems like a euphimism for “we care about profit more than the quality of the games and the dedicated fans.”

      Side note, we need Morimoto to direct another game. With Emerald and HGSS on his record, I’m not sure they could go wrong with him.

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    • That reminds me, do we know who’s directing USUM? I mean, I know it’s unlikely since we know virtually nothing, but that seems like the kind of tidbit of info that might have been dropped silently.

      Fingers crossed that it isn’t Ohmori or Masuda. We need fresh blood.

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      • Battle frontier, walking with pokemon, extensive safari zone control thingy, tons of significant characters to battle, easy rematches, superbosses, etc.

        They really went above and beyond with HGSS. Honestly if they could create a game on par with that, I’d wait like 3 years for it.

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    • I don’t know I’m not exactly excited for Pickle Rick. I will probably find the family therapy storyline (the storyline that I am guessing will be occurring concurrently in the episode) more engaging.

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  4. I feel a combination of joy and salt

    Pros:
    -Rick and Morty….. enough said “My sister died in the spaghetti” (if you missed this line I’ll tell you when it was
    -Doomfist is fun as fuck my dewdz

    Conz-
    -My second dualshock broke so no multiplayer
    -The SU leaks… I knew about them like a few days ago but goddamnit they’re still ticking me off
    -Today’s been a bit of a shitty day

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  5. Ngl I’ll never get why people worship the Battle Frontier, with the exception of the Battle Hall and Battle Castle (both of which are in Sinnoh’s Battle Frontier) its just a bunch of RNG effects with a boss at the end to make you feel like you’ve achieved something. It’s artificially prolonging your gameplay and imo is a poorly designed feature. If they’re going to bring it back, I’d rather they focus on stuff that isn’t a pure RNG bullshit filter onto the Battle Tower. Also the Battle Tower clones should just have the rental feature added to them like the PWT did, all imo

    Tbh I feel like they should focus on their main story more than some post-game attraction, because if you can’t get the most played part of your game right you shouldn’t even bother with the bells and whistles you tack on.

    There should be difficulty options (with the current level of difficulty being ‘easy’ or ‘normal’) and they need to work on a better level curve – half of the games end with you in your Level 50s unless you grind a lot, with the exception of Kalos, Alola, and Kanto in HGSS (and the last is depending on how much you grind overall). Honestly in game, nothing above Level 70 really matters besides teaching Pokemon certain moves they should get at lower levels. And iirc we’ve never had a trainer with Pokemon over Level 90, but Barry in Plat and Red in HGSS are pretty damn close.

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    • Eh, I guess people want a BF is because they want a SO is because they’re tired of the repetitive battles from the Battle Maison/Tree. They actually want more variety even if it’s just RNG bullshit.

      Focusing in the main story is important indeed important but Pokemon is a game that always makes you want more and more. And to fulfill that need is what the post-game is for.

      Anyways, even though my favorite game is lackluster in post-game, I don’t want Pokemon to be lackluster on that department as well, especially when the older games (like HGSS) kept me playing for hours.

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  6. I have two fakemons ready to be shared and a third one in the works… these were some fun one to make ;3
    Just give me a few hours

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  7. Here’s some Fakemon Dex entries :0

    #033-Flitterbug
    The Firefly Pokémon
    Literal firefly
    Bug/Fire
    Acid: Flitterbug can change the colour of their tail-fire. Trained Flitterbugs can put on shows that have many unable to believe their eyes.
    Base: They create beautiful scenery in forests that leave even their predators stunned.

    #034-Vespul
    The Wasp Pokémon
    Oriental hornet (exaggerated electrical properties)
    Bug/Electric
    Acid: As Vespul are busy, demanding, and snobby, their name is used to refer to a certain class of people.
    Base: It absorbs light to produce electricity in their tail. Due to this, they’re often around Flitterbug at night.

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  8. Some regional variants

    Regional Roggenrola (Rock/Poison)
    Based on granite and its radioactive properties, it doesn’t change much aesthetically besides changing colour to mostly silver, but the shape of its gems as Boldore/Gigalith changes and it looks a lot meaner.

    Regional Barboach (Water/Rock)
    Based on a bird-eating catfish, it’s much faster and offensive orientated. It’s an ambush predator that waits for birds to gather around rivers, but when it’s desperate it’ll use Smack Down for a more risky method of getting food. Looks much more slick as Barboach and Wiscash, as well as more savage looking.

    Regional Gurrdurr (Fighting/Grass)
    Based on a caber tosser, it has kept its affinity for wooden weapons from Timburr rather than changing it up. In fact, it’s partially plant itself due to a deep affinity and respect for nature. Its Wood Hammer is ferocious. It has a kilt made of vines.

    Regional Ryhorn (Steel/Normal)
    Based on Dürer’s rhino, looks way smoother in all stages than the Kantonian counterparts. It’s much more cold and calculating than past Ryhorn.

    Regional Solrock and Lunatone (Fire/Cosmic and Ice/Cosmic)
    Are now more reminiscent of the sun and moon than simple meteorites in the shape of them. Lunatone is now a full moon. They’ve adapted to the larger amount of cosmic energy in the Caledes region, which gives them more strength and less need for their defensive rocky shells.

    Regional Bonsly (Rock/Grass)

    It’s an actual bonsai tree now, I guess. Totally original concept I swear.

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    • Justification 4 nerds

      Roggenrola – Lives in quarries and ate more granite

      Barboach – Couldn’t compete with other fish Pokemon and thus partially eat birds, based on an irl phenomenon

      Gurrdurr – Actually the original branch, but as they live in remote areas their name reflects the newer variation that was brought in for construction. Thus they use wood rather than construction materials. Original names were Timburr, Lumburr, and Caburr. Caber tossing was inspired by them in this universe.

      Ryhorn – Hardened for predator protection

      Sol/Lun – No need for rocky outer shell due to better offensive properties and speed

      Bonsly – Moved into forests to avoid Water-types, became actual trees due to lack of competition with other tree Pokemon thus evolving to fill a niche

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      • Tbh Barboach just gives me a hillarious mental image. All I can see is this schlong shaped fish just jumping up and flailing into birds to kill them in order to eat them

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        • Imagine a Whiscash breaching the murk leaping several feet in the air and swallowing whole a swellow or Swablu

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          • Nah fam, bird eating catfish lunge whilst the birds are near the water, flying up is dumb it’s a cat fish

          • So why the frack are you making them pull this remoraid crap when you showed me they just eat at the shoreline

          • They shoot rocks when they’re desperate, because they birds they shoot down are gonna be free food to other regional Barboach that get to it first. If you actually read, you would’ve seen me mention desperation.

          • Shame those are the only holes you’ll ever poke ☺

            And also lol you didn’t poke holes, you’re pathetically nitpicking over a kids series that has used even shittier justification then I have before

          • Symbiotic moss earthen, if you’d bother to read rather than just trying to argue :=)

          • It lived in nature more.

            More contact with nature.

            More chance to pick up the moss.

            If you live in forest, you adapt to forest.

            Understand, kid?

          • I understand you just added that after I debunked it

            “Regional Gurrdurr (Fighting/Grass)
            Based on a caber tosser, it has kept its affinity for wooden weapons from Timburr rather than changing it up. In fact, it’s partially plant itself due to a deep affinity and respect for nature. Its Wood Hammer is ferocious. It has a kilt made of vines.”
            No mention of moss

            Gurrdurr – Actually the original branch, but as they live in remote areas their name reflects the newer variation that was brought in for construction. Thus they use wood rather than construction materials. Original names were Timburr, Lumburr, and Caburr. Caber tossing was inspired by them in this universe.
            And still mentioning of moss or symbiotic relationship

            all your words only added it after my hole poking :]

          • I didn’t mention the moss, I just told you that it got the moss from living in nature, and both of those mention it living in nature. 🙂

            Bitch I’m more likely to poke holes than you lol

          • Yeah which doesn’t make it a plant
            Sawk and Throh live in forests and their not plants hell they weave their own belts out of vines

          • It’s not a plant, it has a symbiotic moss only found in the Caledes region.

            Think before you speak bitch

          • Paras isn’t a plant, it’s an insect with fungi on it

            Exactly the same as Regional Conkeldurr

          • Also you didn’t debunk shit lol, it’s just that I didn’t give enough explanation because I’m out and about and messaging in breaks

            Maybe you should try getting out ?‍♂️

          • Maybe you should come up with regional forms that make sense and don’t have to stretch so far to justify

          • Tell GameFreak to do that first boo, I’d like to see you make a fun Alola form that makes complete and total sense

          • Grass/Flying
            Bigger lighter petals that are so “drapery” they are whisked into the air via strong gusts, years of being airborne allows them to scatter it’s spores easily and is closer to sunlight
            (And no the petals don’t spin like a propeller just kinda parachute or parasols)
            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceropegia

          • Vileplume isn’t that sort of flower? Why would it become that sort of flower? Why would it need to parachute or parasol? #debunked bitch

          • They don’t become that plant it is inspired by that plant which is a parachute flower which is what the theme is a flower that works like a parachute, its already gigantic petals change due to super perfect climate making them bigger and longer and thinner, they become so big that strong gusts of wind uproot them into the air, and they gently float in the sky, soon after years of living in the air they develop a lifestyle around it

            Same with Exeggutor plenty think that it’s type was inspired by the Madagascar dragon Palm

          • That’s dumb. If Vileplume was exposed to more sunlight, it wouldn’t do jack shit. Why? Because the flower it’s based off of doesn’t do photosynthesis. Hell, Oddish doesn’t photosynthesise using sunlight, it uses moonlight. It can’t learn synthesis or morning sun, but it does learn Moonblast and Moonlight.

            And if Vileplume did photosynthesise (which it doesn’t because it’s not green and has no leafs of any colour) the petals wouldn’t change. It’d be the leaves. The petals would change to get out of the way of the leaves to allow more sunlight, or not at all unless the things it wants to pollinate changes.

      • Dude better idea scrap the granite radiation and go for Cinnabar, cinnabar is by the books a toxic mineral and is 100% more believable then radioactive granite

        So it’s diet of poultry turned it into a rock… Barboach live in murky waters and use their whiskers like a super radar to find prey (if anything other Pokemon should be in competition with them)

        …..its partially a plant out of deep affinity and respect of nature… Yeah calling bullshit how does respect for nature affect them on a biological scale

        So the Spikes Pokemon who’s body is tough enough to take down an entire building isn’t tough enough…

        Where are you getting rocky shells from? honestly these would be better as megas not regional because the rock parts are their bodies, you should make the Rock/Fire and Rock/Ice because they would live in extreme cold and heat that outgrew their cosmic ties

        THE ENTIRE FREAKING POINT OF THIS POKEMON IS TO NOT BE A GRASS TYPE, Bonsly and Sudowoodo live in freaking forest period where would you find a water type in a heavily wooded area, you should’ve gone the extreme and have it live in the desert and it turning into a rocky desert tree Sudowoodo love arid regions even less chance of water

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        • 1) It’s because granite is associated with the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, my region is based in Scotland. Cinnabar isn’t special to Scotland at all, at least what I know of.

          2) It turned into a rock type because it hunts Flying-types. Rock resists flying. Uses rocks to smack down birds. Do you even read bro. It also camouflages to the rocks in the river.

          3) They became integrated with nature and formed a symbiotic relationship with some moss, suck it. It’s also a reference to caber tossing, another Scottish thing because get this – it’s a Scottish region. Them worshipping nature means they’re in nature longer than and thus have a higher chance of developing the grass typing.

          4) Their bodies are made of rock. I decided to go a Minior style and presume they’re not solid rock the whole way through. Why would they lose their Cosmic (or if I didn’t have cosmic, Psychic) typing? They’re still from space? You don’t ‘outgrow’ being from earth. It’s never been confirmed whether their rocks the whole way through or not, so I’m using creative liberty. It’s also just a reference to the sun and moon.

          5) The whole point is it becomes more defensive because the whole line has shit Special Defense and a shitty defensive types. Not that it becomes more offensive.

          5.1) We’ve never seen a Sudowoodo in a desert.

          5.2) Every time we see Sudowoodo it’s usually not been deep forest, and the few times we have there’s other tree Pokemon taking up the niche.

          5.3) It’s just meant to be straight bonsai, because we’re probably never gonna get another bonsai Pokemon due to Sudowoodo and I want to make a bonsai Pokemon.

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          • Im just saying the granite radiation thing is a humongous stretch and if anybody should ever make a Rock/Poison type it should be based on cinnabar

            It’s just stupid that such a newfound diet would shift their composition from fish to mineral, and why would they need to spit rocks to down them, they have perfectly good lure like whiskers they can use to attract prey fish or bird and swallow them down

            Not denying the whole caber toss thing (I’ve actually done it) but it’s just like plenty of humanoid Pokemon could thrive in the forests and not turn into a plant it’s just really stretching just to justify a on the fly idea

            I said lost their cosmic ties as a similar means to Alolan Exeggutor as they said they outgrew their reliance to psychic telepathy, and I’m pretty such lun and sol are solid to the core, this Pokemon in theory just can’t exist without three typings unless you cut out the middle man

            Dude it’s already a defensive Pokemon all of its dex entries state it has extremely powerful armor that resist magma and direct cannon blasts,

            Exactly, Sudowoodo and Bonsly are timid Pokemon that avoid confrontation via mimicking plant life but it is scientifically proven they are minerals instead of plants, I say that some Sudowoodo could easily adapt to live in deserts since they would never have to worry about water which is their enemy

          • Rats can’t shoot electricity, fish can’t shoot water, cats aren’t actually evil – it’s all exaggeration in Pokémon lol. Why should it be cinnabar when exaggerating something relevant to Scotland makes more sense for the region?

            It’s not actually changing into a mineral, it just uses rocks, maybe having rocks on a few parts of its body. Rock =/= being a rock, Lycanroc just has rocks on it, Magcargo just has a rocky shell, etc. It adapted the ability to manipulate rocks for camouflage and hunting – it’s not that far-fetched for a fantasy series.

          • But cyanide is a chemical
            Cinnabar is just a toxic rock that works soooo much better because they are found in volcanic deposits

            Roggenrolla could have their bodies be made of the stuff and they fight by releasing toxic dust and as they evolve they get poisonous shards that cinnabar can be, it just makes so much sense

          • Earthen. It’s a reference to the fact that it’s Scottish. Granite is important to Scotland. Can you not get that though your thick skull

          • It’s just pushing it just to fit a theme, it should just be how the Pokemon itself adapts

            It’s like if the region was Greenland and half the Pokemon became ice types

          • The Roggenrola ate granite at one of the many granite mines in the Scottish region, and became granite. It’s exaggerated like a rat shooting electricity and an arctic fox spitting ice. There are concerns over granite being hazardous.

          • It eats in refresh, and Gigalith has a mouth so the Gigalith are the granite and the babies were mutated

            Boom

          • Granite is radioactive, Pokemon biology isn’t the same as real biology, radiation mutates

            ?

          • Pokemon biology is different fam

            And pancakes don’t give you psychic powers, sunlight doesn’t make you a dragon.

          • It could end if Earthen wasn’t such a stubborn ass who can’t accept when he’s wrong ?‍♂️

          • You’re wrong for not realising this is a fantasy kids series that exaggerates stuff for it’s design contents and straight out ignores logic when it conflicts with their interests™

          • so then why are working on stuff that requires a decent amount of logic to work? I mean regional forms need it to justify why they change

            I mean duh it’s gotta be logical

          • Boldore (Moon) : It explores caves in search of underground water. It’s not comfortable around water, so this Pokémon takes great care in lapping it up.

          • Sure you’ve done an actual caber toss lol, picking up a log and throwing it isn’t a caber toss lol, there’s strict regulations and shit. And as I said, symbiotic moss because it handles plants so much. Not every humanoid Pokemon handles plants that much.

            So you’re allowed to headcanon that Sudowoodo likes deserts based on nothing but typetbut I’m not allowed to speculate their not completely rock based on a similar Pokemon? Your logic sucks lol also the whole point so they’re from space. Exeggutor isn’t ‘from’ Psychic, it has psychic abilities. But Solrock and Lunatone are from the cosmos. Also, if I had to sacrifice a type for ‘sun that came from space’ and ‘moon that came from space’ I’d eliminate the shared rock type because it’s less interesting and the sun isn’t made of rock, whilst moon also changes to make it more of a duo.

            Dude the whole point is they’re in very deep forest (weather is only from rain pretty much) and they’ve became Grass types to fulfill a niche of having no other grass types around. Their shape is already perfect for becoming a tree, it’s just the inner workings that need to change. It’s also just a cute reference to how it wants to be a tree

            If pancakes are good enough for GameFreak these are good enough for me. You’re just being super nitpicky when even Pokemon isn’t that specific lol

          • (It was at a fair so complain to them if it wasn’t by the books and stuff)

            Why does it have to fill a niche they aren’t obligated to turn into a grass type they are rocks that look like trees but not plants themselves, I am saying a desert is the perfect environment for them it has nothing to do with type it is the sheer known fact Sudowoodo hate water and deserts have little rainfall but since there are no trees in the desert it changed to local desert plantlife like dead trees and cacti to avoid confrontation with other Pokemon

          • We’ve never seen Sudowoodo in a desert, if Sudowoodo loves the desert so much why haven’t we seen one in one?

            Fam. It became tree because it was deep in a forest, and could fulfill an unfulfilled niche. Became tree because it wanted to become a tree, similar to Bagon to Salamence. If Exeggutor could become dragon through pure bullshit, Sudowoodo can become grass.

          • Because of its natural camouflage wouldn’t let it blend in with open deserts that’s why it changes to look like desert plants, are you just not understanding what Sudowoodo is?

            Well Salamence it just grew wings it’s not like it’s changing its body composition, and the Exeggutor thing is hairy but I like to believe that the dragon traits were locked deep in its genetics and the non Alolan bodies couldn’t access these traits

          • Bitch I’m just saying that if Sudowoodo was so perfect for the desert it would’ve stayed in the desert, why would it move to the desert if it does fine in plant based areas?

            Then Sudowoodo had deep grass traits in its body, and non Caldesian Sudowoodo can’t handle the grass energy hence why they want to be trees ?

          • It can live in both but a desert dwelling Sudowoodo makes much more sense as a regional then it actually becoming a plant because of bullshit

          • Exeggutor becomes a dragon out of bullshit.

            Raichu becomes psychic out of bullshit.

            Bitch the whole franchise is bullshit, you just can’t accept it for some dumb reason

          • Raichu is the only one I will agree with you with the bullshit
            But taking into account of genetics and so forth it is possible that Exeggutor were always Dragons but their bodies could not access these genes but this form allows it

            It’s not as solid as I like but it’s the only thing we can work with

          • And Exeggutor was psychic until it wasn’t 😉

            Admit it you cornered yourself biatch, ‘deep down genetics’ can be used for anything.

          • how many times have you used the Pikachu excuse (and Archer fish boom suck it, and cats are evil)
            Well we don’t know where else Lycanroc has rocks who knows maybe its organic
            And saying Macargo isn’t a rock is dumb because it’s freaking lava it’s melted rock

            So if it’s not a rock itself them why is it a rock type by all means it should stay a Water/Ground type if that’s you logic

          • Not all fish Pokemon are Archer fish. And suck what earthen? Hold on I’ll get the microscope

            So why can’t the Barboach have organic rock? It’s already part Ground lol

            It’s not a rock itself, but it has parts of rock in it and uses rocks.

          • Because it has parts of rock coming out of its body organically, just like Lycanroc

            Why do you even bother replying if you can’t get the meaning though you thick skull lol

    • I love the idea for the Regional Barboach, it’s also ironic that it becomes the predator for bird Pokemon.

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  9. Well I think for now I have game names for my fan games in like my fifth something scrap and revive process (I have a problem with keeping ideas) so how about

    Pokemon Spirit and Nature versions?
    Based on Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland (Just about my range of livleyhood)
    Starters are
    A still unknown Grass starter
    A Fire type Ram
    And A Water type Bubble (Yeah I said it, a Bubble :P)

    The Legendaries
    Spirit Version is a Dark/Grass Snake
    Nature Version is a Water/Steel Otter

    They are based on the Abenaki tribe Deities of Glooscap (The otter) and Malsumis (The Snake)

    So thoughts?

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  10. I love the way you wrap up the week the same way I have to wrap my man-cock around my meaty leg to keep it from thrusting forward and creating a gay-boy shishkabob. Skewering you through and through on accident because so much poke talk makes my spire very erect and pokey. Taha become legend trainer peace lil whore

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