Weekly Wrap Up 10/2-10/8

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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. If you’d like to get real time updates about what’s mentioned here you can follow our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. Here’s what you missed from October 2nd to October 8th!

Event Reminders

  • The Sinnoh Cap Pikachu event will be ending this Monday, October 9th. Be sure to use the code PIKACHU20 in Mystery Gift to get this event ‘mon while you can, and remember: you can only get one of the Ash Hat Pikachu – use the code wisely! Sinnoh Cap Pikachu comes with the moves Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, Iron Tail & Volt Tackle, as well as the Pikashunium Z Z-Crystal
  • For those in America, be sure to head to your local Target store by October 14th to pick up a serial code for a special Charizard! This Charizard is Level 50 with the moves Dragon Dance, Flare Blitz, Fly, & Earthquake, and holds a Red Card.
  • For those in Europe, the Marshadow event has begun in multiple countries. Codes will be available until November 16th at the following locations:
    • Belgium – Intertoys, GameMania, Cora, Smartoys & FNAC via Nintendo Zone
    • France – Micromania
    • Germany – Gamestop
    • Italy – Gamestop
    • The Netherlands – Intertoys and GameMania
    • Spain – GAME via Nintendo Zone
    • UK – GAME

Pokémon Video Game Championship

  • The VGC 2018 ruleset has finally been confirmed! Coming into effect on January 1st, 2018, the new rules are as follows:
    • Battles will be Double Battles using Pokémon Ultra Sun & Pokémon Ultra Moon
    • Almost all Pokémon within the National Pokédex are allowed as long as they have the Alola Black Clover symbol. The standard Legendary Pokémon bans such as Mewtwo, Groudon, etc. persist – No Mythical Pokémon, duplicate Pokémon, or Ash-Greninja are allowed
    • All items are allowed, but duplicate items are not allowed
    • All Pokémon are set to Lv. 50, including Pokémon below Lv. 50
    • Player time is 5 minutes

Pokémon Sun & Moon

  • For those of you who participated in the recent Mega Melee Battle Competition, the 50 Battle Points entry gift is now available to all qualifying players! Simply log into the Global Link before October 30th and click this link to redeem

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • More special clothing codes have been released for Pokkén Tournament DX! The following codes unlock a special Training outfit and can be used across all regions:
    • Feminine style: ABZMNSU8D7QN
    • Masculine style: 8RMGLXANVZ3R

Pokémon Trading Card Game

  • October 6th marked the release of the special Pokémon TCG Set, Shining Legends! This set contains 78 cards of various Pokémon with a focus on Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, with several having Shiny variants

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Pokémon GO

  • Pokémon GO v. 0.77.1 / v. 1.47.1 is now available for download!. This patch now gives a confirmation message when transferring costumed and prevents mass transfers for costumed ‘mon in general. In addition to this, it fixes various Raid related bugs such as  Raid Battles displaying the wrong number of trainers in the lobby, glitch making the Pokémon selected reset when you go to items in a Raid lobby, and other general network errors in Gyms.
  • The Pokemon Company International has confirmed that there’ll be a Halloween event in the mobile game – no other details have been revealed about the event yet

Pokémon Duel

  • Pokémon Duel, has a new patch that bring the popular mobile game to v. 4.0.4! This This update contains several bug fixes and requires 163MB, and is required in order to play the game going forward. It also added new Steel & Psychic-type Plates, a new Orange Time Booster which are guaranteed to hold Psychic-type or Bug-type Pokémon, a special 10 pack booster with a guaranteed EX or UX drop, and brand new figures including Mega Evolutions:
    • EX Figures – Solgaleo & Tapu Lele
    • R Figures – Cosmog, Cosmoem, & Espeon
    • UC Figures – Igglybuff, & Oricori P’au Style
  • In addition to this, several figures have been updated to be more balanced:
    • Mega Beedrill – Removed Twineedle and replaced with Pin Missile, Increased wheel size of Poison Shock, Decreased wheel size of Miss
    • Beedrill – Removed Twineedle and replaced with Pin Missile and added Toxic
      Decreased wheel size of Miss
    • Mewtwo – Changed Annihilate’s effect, increased wheel size for Annihilate, removed Psychic and replaced it with Psycho Cut
    • Gardevoir – Increased Super Psy power from 40 to 100 with a larger wheel size, increased wheel size of Warp Hole, and decreased wheel size of Moonblast and Miss
    • Metagross – Increased Metal Claw power from 90 to 100
    • Bronzong – Removed Confusion and replaced it with Heavy Slam, increased Extrasensory power from 80 to 100 with a smaller wheel size, increased wheel size for Iron Defense
  • Along with Pokémon Duel’s brand new update comes the Poison Gym Cup! This event has all Poison-type Movement 0, 1, & 2 figures increase by 1 and gives  Psychic-types figures an Attack increase of 20.  Ending on October 9th, an Alolan Raichu figure will be given to all players, as well as the usual Trophies that are always given out at the end of cups to display on your ranking screen.
  • Pokémon Duel is also now available on Amazon’s App Store! With this, the game is available on all Amazon Fire devices

Pokémon Shuffle

  • A new Pikachu is being distributed for all qualifying players as part of the September login bonus
  • A “new” Pokémon Safari is available until October 10th, 2017. This Safari mimics a previous one that includes Roggenrola, Boldore, Gigalith, Fletchling, Fletchinder & Numel while adding Female Hippopotas and Female Hippowdon
  • The new Tapu Fini stage is available until October 17th 2017 – it costs 600 coins to play
  • The following stages will have repeat runs until October 17th, 2017: Totodile (Winking), Feraligatr, Zygarde 10%, and Zygarde Complete Form
  • A “new” Pokémon Safari will be running until october 10th, 2017. This Safari repeats a previous one that includes Roggenrola, Boldore, Gigalith, Fletchling, Fletchinder & Numel while adding Female Hippopotas and Female Hippowdon.

Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked or is now available for purchase this week:

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143 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 10/2-10/8”

  4. I would like all the Ditto stuff and that Cutiefly, I’d like to stick it to the ceiling by my window so it flutters round in the wind.

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  7. Man these USUM posters are so awesome. Can I buy these please? I never care for merchandise until now. Not even for ORAS. Man, USUM is gonna be so good. I want to buy the merchandise!!!!
    VGC 2018 is gonna be so interesting. Probably not as interesting as 16/7, but still cool. Also in weekly news, I finally decided on a USUM team. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85b81073a67b3d19cb126c9a08d03d2be3395657265599ef1371781c58bed484.png
    If Zygarde isnt in the game then It will be Alola Dugtrio

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  10. My final team for Kalos E4

    Lvl 59 Dragonite
    Lvl 59 Pangoro
    Lvl 62 Greninja
    Lvl 59 Durant
    Lvl 58 Dragalge
    Lvl 62 Charizard Y

    thoughts??
    Also my team was rotating another 20 mons in the end these guys made it!

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  12. So I’m wondering what CoroCoro might have for us this month. Seeing as we just got two huge reveal trailers I can’t see much, but who knows…….I feel like it’d be odd for them to go 2 months with news (Dusk Lycanroc and the new Necrozma forms names) and then just not do anything for the 3rd month. Especially since this is the last full month before the games come out. Again I’m a little bit skeptical Corocoro will have anything crazy since we just got two big trailer this past week, but there has to be something I think. Something minor at the very least. I just wonder what it would be. I imagine it’d be something relatively new, but I’m not sure. Is there anything we currently have info wise that they could still talk about? Like a new form/mechanic that doesn’t have a name or something?

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      • Hmmmmm I guess I could see the Necroforms abilities and types. Not sure about the UBs names tho. I feel like they’ll want to either get closer to the release date or just wait until after to give the new UBs names. You could be right about Necrozma’s abilities and types tho. Otherwise idk what else they’d talk about for things we already sort of know about in some capacity

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        • Other than maybe character stuff, more info on Ultra Recon Squad etc I don’t know. I’d like a new form either regional or other but I’m not sure how much there is left.

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          • I’d LOVE new Alolan forms!! I won’t hold my breath tho………Also I just checked and I while I didn’t realize, it seems we already know Necrozma’s forms take on Solgaleo and Lunala’s typings….so we really just don’t know about it’s ability, but really lets be honest. It’s either gonna be Prism Armor or Full Metal body/Shadow Shield. That leaves me baffled then at what CoroCoro could possibly show hahaha

          • Oh I must’ve missed the part about the types then. I guess it makes sense since they are all already Psychic. I guess those probably would be the abilities, still wouldn’t surprise me if that were part of their ‘scoop’.
            I think a new Alolan form, providing I like it, would pretty much definitely go on my team unless it conflicts with either Mimikyu or Araquanid in type.

    • I would say they might leave some space to review some info revealed in the last 2 trailers, but that would be nearly two weeks after the trailers would have dropped and I feel that might be too late for a review. I am really hoping for an announcement of Johto Alola forms. I mean we already have entirely new Pokémon, new forms of old Pokémon shouldn’t be that hard. It would also promote the sales of the VC. However, I do have my doubts of it happening. Kanto Alola forms may have been Gen I pandering which I now realized has happened in every generation-except for 5th generation-and/or because it was Pokémon’s 20th anniversary last year and they wanted to give some attention to the generation that started it all.

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      • They have done something before in CoroCoro that recaps trailers released before hand, but I’m not so sure that would fit in this case……Like you said it’d be kind of late at that point. Usually when CoroCoro shares the same info as a trailer they come out at least with a week or so of each other. this time it’s be a like a week and a half. Idk maybe more like a week and some change. either way it would seem a bit removed to recap info like that. I’m just not sure what they could cover then tho. Unless they really do have new Alolan forms in the chamber and have just been holding off I have no idea what else they could show. I doubt they have many more new mechanics to talk about and they’d prolly want to hold off showing us anymore brand new mons (UBs) until next month when the release date is closer. I can tell you tho if they reveal any new Alolan forms this month I may freak out. I don’t even care I don’t end up using it. I just like the idea of more forms for older, possibly rarely used Pokemon. I love regional forms because it gives Pokemon I may have never thought to use before a second chance at life.

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  14. Drasna was surprisingly annoying. Her Altaria lived an ice beam and dragon rush. Dragonite and Zard Y dealt with her

    Wikstorm: Zard Y. Ouch

    Malva: Dragonite easy play

    And now the only one I fear. Siebold.
    This wont be easy but I hope to get Dnite boosted with dds and sweep otherwisw gl to me lol

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    • Got any Pokemon with electric type moves? If you do you’ll be fine. He’s very easily dealt with if you have the right mons

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      • I have Tbolt Dragalge but im in a ruthless mood tonight. If Dragonite gets a chance it will wreck Siebold and his team with brute dragon force!

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    • UB Adhesive is positively one of the BEST Pokemon EVER. I mean really it’s not only cute, but it super cool too. Kind of wish I could use one during the main story lol

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      • I’d definitely consider it if it was obtainable early enough and wasn’t too OP to use in-game. It would be even better if breedable and thus shiny hunt-able.

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          • Yeah, I mean I’ll breed my team but I’m not gonna over-level, use Exp.Share etc. I also often use ‘mon I know are weak to what I’m fighting and don’t switch if a random trainer has a type advantage over my ‘mon in front. Makes it a bit more challenging. Of course I’m not in a Nuzlocke position so can heal.

          • Yeah cause I find games where you can get a really unfair advantage early on, I’m not fond of

            An example is when getting an A or S Rank Yo-kai in Yo-kai Watch when I myself am only like Rank D. Cause it’s unfair that I can just sit in a battle and one character now’s down an army in seconds

            Same with Pokémon (its a reason Legendaries are more a novelty Pokémon for me)

  17. Is there a place to download Dark Violet for GBA4iOS? I’ve been searching on the app’s browser and I have yet to find a good download site for the rom.

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    • I still don’t understand this pose and this will just be embarrassing when the ‘craze’ ends. I did watch a few episodes that didn’t make me want to kill, but it still isn’t great.

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      • I kinda like it, but it’s still not great. It’s better than TTG and PPG 2016, I’ll give it that. And honestly, I only do that ironically, like just to joke around with my friends

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        • I just find it odd we can have so many good to great iterations of stuff like Batman and then they just churn out crap like TTG. Oh and I hate the trend of short episodes that lack substance. You’ve got Adventure time that whilst silly often you feel really tells a story each episode, then there’s TTG that has an episode about needing to pee.

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      • NRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        I see a very very large plump swine pokemon with a lighter shade of violet and black coloration, its iconic tail nearly tripled in length and rests on the floor holding its body up it seldom walks on its legs and bounces as a locomotion, it has a meditative pose holding a very large black onxy pearl (it is not directly attached to its body as it freely switches from caressing it in its lap or balancing on its head, it has three pearls on its “crown” doughy sleepy eyes and a large snout
        “It concentrates its psychic powers by balancing on its tail achieving focus, if ever stands on its legs its psychic link is broken”

        “Its large pearl gleams when stared deeply into, if it was reading your mind, the brighter it shines the stonger your esp is”

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  20. Oh btw @TheLastKurusu:disqus you want the Skitty’s now? Also want to borrow the foreign (almost definitely hacked) Ditto?

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  22. nargh……….well i got nothing, i gotta work tomorrow and thurs is my birthday
    YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  26. Started up a FireRed Omega nuzlocke run, not too much for where I’m at right now, just grinding for anything ahead in Viridian Forest (and also the rival battle on Route 22). This is the team so far:
    – Hi-Voltage (Elekid level 10)
    – Razor (Pidgey level 10)
    – Caesar (Mankey level 8)
    – Whisk (Barboach level 9)
    – Treeico (Treecko level 10)

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