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 16th to October 22nd!
This Week’s Big Stories:
PokéLand Gets New Alpha Test, Screenshots
RUMOR: New Alolan Forms in Ultra Sun & Moon & More!
Mewtwo and Other Legendaries Catchable in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
Pokémon GO Announces Halloween Event Details
More Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Version Exclusives Revealed
Event Reminders
- The Kalos Cap Pikachu event will be ending this Monday, October 23rd. 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! Kalos Cap Pikachu comes with the moves Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, Iron Tail & Electro Ball, as well as the Pikashunium Z Z-Crystal
- For those in the Americas and Oceania the Marshadow serial code distribution is set to end on Monday, October 23rd. For a full list of where you can pick up a serial code based on your region, and details on the event ‘mon itself head over to our dedicated Marshadow Event post
Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
- An English version of the Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon story trailer has been posted on the official Pokémon YouTube channel, however it is purely a translated trailer and provides no new information about the games
- In an interview with IGN, game producer Shigeru Omori confirmed that Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon will be the final main series Pokémon games on the Nintendo 3DS
- Starting on USUM’s launch day, Pokémon Centers across Japan will be doing special once per day distributions of Rotom Power from the Roto Loto! The Rotom Powers you can receive include Roto Hatch, Roto Bargain, Roto Prize Money, Roto Experience Points, Roto Friendship, Roto Encounter, and Roto Stealth. No word on whether this daily distribution will make it to other regions by different means
- In their latest interview, Eurogamer Portugal has revealed that the points you earn from Mantine Surf can then be used to get items and other rewards – most notably to allow Move Tutors to teach your Pokémon moves that they couldn’t learn in Pokémon Sun & Moon. However the interview wasn’t explicit with whether or not these “points” are Battle Points, or an entirely different currency unique to Mantine Surf
Swapdoodle
- Despite it being a year old, the 3DS app Swapdoodle allowed use of all Badges from the Nintendo Badge Arcade except for Pokémon – until now! You can now attach any and all Pokémon related Badges (up to four per message) to go along with your handwritten Swapdoodle messages!
Pokémon GO
- Shiny Sableye has been confirmed to be available in game – making it the only newly released Gen III ‘mon to have it’s shiny variant available so far
- All Sponsored Starbucks PokéStops across the US will be having “Lure-A-Thons” everyday of the Halloween event from 3pm – 6pm. So stop by your local Starbucks and take advantage of some free lures!
- For those lucky to attend TwitchCon 2017, Unown T, W, I C, H are spawning at the event until it concludes on the evening of October 22nd
Pokémon Duel
- A patch for Pokémon Duel is now available! Requiring 163 MB, version 4.0.5 fixes several bugs and is required to update in order to continue playing the game. The more obvious changes include the new Pumpkin Time Booster (which are guaranteed to hold Ghost-types), and a special 10 pack booster with a guaranteed EX or UX figure. As usual, the update has also added some brand new figures:
- EX Figures: Lunala, Chandelure & Decidueye
- R Figures: Mimikyu, & Dartrix
- UC Figures: Litwick, Lampent, Rowlet, & Oricorio Sensu Style
Magikarp Jump
- The popular mobile game, Magikarp Jump is now available on the Amazon App Store and on Amazon’s Fire Tablet Devices
Pokémon Shuffle
- Both the new Alolan Marowak stage, and the repeat run of the Sableye (Costume) stage are available until October 31st
- The Spooky Safari, which includes Zubat, Golbat, Crobat, Drifloon, Pumpkaboo (Costume), Gourgeist (Costume), and Pikachu (Costume), is currently having a repeat run until October 31st
- The Bellossom, Kingdra, Ho-Oh, and Shiny Gyarados stages have begun repeat runs until October 24th
Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked or is now available for purchase this week:
Man, I’ve got to quit looking at these: the merch is so great! Rockruff…
And the Incineroar figure set is cool too. I’d want one of those.
That Necrozma figure is sliiiiiiiiick
THAT LILLIE ART <3<3
IT’S SO GORGEOUS!!
I try to find any and every excuse to use the image on the site and our socials as much as possible since it was official released back in September. haha
How did I miss that? Do you have a high res version of it? I’d love to have it as a wall paper
Best I can find. https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3a/Lillie_and_Lunala.png
thank you!!
No problem.
^Yeah, that’s the most HQ available online at the moment!
Do you have one of the Solgaleo and Lillie? I’d like to cycle them for my background
Here you go! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb3f1978c2b8af6582b71019944fabccc8df3da15a6cfd5cbbb6147fd5e63863.png
WHY IS THIS ONE ACTUAL WALLPAPER RESOLUTION FOR PC >.>
Thank youuuuu, you’re the best! Also thank you for compiling this cool merch
Of course, my pleasure!
This is clearly the superior one because cats are adorable asf especially when they’re metallic and extradimensional
Cats are cute
Lions are not
3′: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6136fce043749e5c738926952076de6f6bab443a082b70adc10bdefb040d8418.jpg
Okay, but this is why I really came here. What the hell IS this? I went in there in Platinum and nothing bad happened. Chansey’s expression… the “meal”… the girl…
What does it mean? Why is it so horrifying?
https://youtu.be/IBp1quVhbjo
Because in the game there are two ghosts that inhabit the Old Chateau. That of a little girl and that of a butler. You can encounter them within the house, though no one knows exactly who they are or what they want. The music is also quite unsettling there, eyes on paintings will follow you, and it’s the only place in Sinnoh to find Rotom
Yeah, but they didn’t *do* anything to you. Cheryl and Chansey are probably dead now.
Yassss Christmas merch. Need more winter themed plushies tho
I’m sure more will come as we get closer to winter.
Definitely. Hoping for a winter mimikyu 😀
Could be super cute. Heh.
That Japanese man in an ironed black suit holding a Magikarp satchel is one of the best things I’ve seen all week.
That Lillie art is awesome! And so is the winter merch x0
I want the Rockruff socks, I want the winter themed blanket, I want the Christmas stickers, I want the Christmas mug, I want the snow Pikachu plush……IO want ti all I really do lol
This is my chance to reference one of the best movies ever made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAlQf4WdiE
I miss Gene Wilder…………
I want these Incineroar and Necrozma
Daily dose of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX-NVJ122Sg
my actions are not my own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mWZxCmEzk
Waluigi is in Odyssey
honestly we need Waluigi’s character fleshed out a bit more, i love him as playable character but other then assumptions we know very little about this weirdo
yea thats why hes in Odyssey?
wait he is?
yes. he is one of bowsers best men along with Wario and bowser jr in the ring boy
STOP
thanks for spoiling it you jerkwad
also final boss is a dance battle between bowser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Mk3LTyIkQ
You want a Mario Character to be fleshed out? Good luck.
T_T well most of them have some defining character traits
I wouldn’t say they’re anything more than quirks. Mario would need voice acting or maybe an actual plot that’s not “save Peach.” They literally hardly have personalities. Can you really tell the difference between Mario and Luigi other than that one *sometimes* can jump a little higher and that they wear different colors? Nah.
you kidding luigi drips with his own personality
he’s cautious and accident prone
cowardly
has his own brand of personal swagger that often falls short but he still does it
I still say its high time Mario mixes it up and takes risks. In the story department of course. They’ve been killing it with gameplay for a good long while
I mean Donkey Kong appears in new donk city as retired Mayor
why are you doing this…are you just trying to spoil us
yea but remember that bowser finds all the chaos emeralds and does the fusion dance with Donkey Kong
boi
@BigGuyI:disqus you believe too much what I say. I dont know anything about the game 😡
well how the hell am i supposed to know that
because
1. you took me serious out of all people?
good point, maybe i should just blindly hate and disregard everyone because of their interior motives just to make me look and feel stupid
Honestly avoid twitter tho
Im ready
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMwJePVVQAAsmLO.jpg
OK BUT THIS OR ODYSSEY I DONT HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN THE DAY TO DO BOTH
Odyssey
The thangs that got a little strayngerrrr
Odyssey during day (or daylight hours in general) Stranger Things at night?
yes
but thats like 7 hours worth of episodes….
idk if ill be awake enough to do it .-.
Who says you need to watch all of them in one sitting? Watch some on Friday and then some over the next couple of days
nooo i have to binge watch it or else i get too excited about the next episodes
https://goo.gl/forms/WOLJ9kCqvJaEq3T42
Thought that since we’re approaching the 20 day countdown to SuMo I’ll take a popularity poll and then reveal the top 20 as we count down. You know something else hypey as USUM counts down!
First rule is you vote for as many as you like, as long as you like the Pokémon you vote for. Neutral opinions and hates are both just ‘don’t check this Pokémon’.
Second rule is no sharing results because that’s counter intuitive asf
Done, kind of a shame it’s only final evolutions though.
And it looks like a winner may be clear already, seeing as all five respondents as of the time I’m writing this comment have chosen it. Wonder if it’ll stay ahead or nah :0
Holy crap it just got snatched
its mimikyu isnt it
That would mean Earthen voted for Mimikyu
Like hell i would
Exactly, Earthen doesn’t have good enough taste for that to be true.
Eat sh*t
I pity him :/
Same, wish he would git gud
alright enough
Won’t spill but the votes are honestly surprising me rn.
Why is it only final evolutions?
Because I’m lazy and it’s meant to be a small selection to make decisions + voting time quicker
It’s pretty much meant to have the data collected ASAP
what if i like a pre evolution more
I like this idea though, I might do something like this…
I’d totally support you in doing similar stuff, it’s fun to see the data
Lol I could see which ones were Stars and Earthens immediately
Wait I can’t tell if Earthen voted twice with slightly different choices or we have someone who’s just like Earthen but pickier XD
Won’t the possibility of voting multiple times skew your results? Any way to remove that?
Suspiciously similar votes may be discarded if the number gets too high but so far there’s no sign of tampering
Even the two similar ones had a crucial difference
People spamming a Pokémon 28 times is not funny or creative
And if it was only choose one it only would’ve given you the option of one. Sorry if you voted for only one because you only like one, because I just chucked out all the solo votes
Which ‘mon was it?
Oh that’s kinda fun, it makes the wait a little more exciting x0
Okay, I voted for my favorites.
I didn’t realize how many of my faves in-game were actually Alolan forms, but Alola has a lot of awesome new pokemon too.
So I noticed that one of the Oricorio forms is not listed on the poll. Was this intentional?
I want me them squishies. Also the figures and winter theme blanket. I wonder what the secret squish is?
I drewa comic about how I cant draw
how meta
https://i.imgur.com/eDYWG3r.png
Did u draw this?
yep
So u can draw …..u need to be more honest next time
First time ever i’m using Weavile in a playthrough, and im so glad i did.
What version?
Moon
Was it a WT?
Yep im doing a wonderlocke and got a Sneasel via WT, fairly early on in the game. Think it was my 3rd party member
Nice to get it early on for a change.
I think it was a breedject because it had Bite and Ice Shard and to my knowledge Sneasel or Weavile dont learn those through lvl up
Was it Lv 1? Would be better if it had Icicle Crash too.
It was lv1 yeah
When did you get to evolve it? I don’t remember where Razor Claws are.
Wild Hakamo-o and Kommo-o hold them, so i had to SOS for a bit to get one
i love pokemon
Well that’s a total surprise!
Here’s a poll. You might need sign in just to avoid multiple responses (don’t worry it doesn’t save your email).
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V-V_edp-qpKl7CAwSPZHXx31PPqkIRMruql1Vvn-9bg/edit
This poll has 25 important characters of SM and it’s planned to be done the day before USUM. So Basically it’s kinda like Total drama, but no challenges. Vote for AT MOST 3 of your LEAST FAVORITE characters. And tomorrow, I will update the list and say who lost the day before. Vote away friends. First results will be tomorrow!
Alright, I voted for my 2 least favorites but I wanted to ask: where’s Wicke? And Looker?
I like them fine, but they had bigger roles than Kahili did. At least Wicke did.
And no Mohn? Sacrilege!
Sorry, I wanted to get it done by USUM release date, so I decided to choose characters you battle against + Lillie. and 25 characters gets it done by USUM
Makes sense.
Alright, I finished my Sun playthrough the other day and here is the (barely) winning team! Lusamine’s Clefairy nearly destroyed us, and let’s not forget Hala! No grass moves, no water moves, and no steel moves.
Trainer name was Gwen (looked like Gwen Stefani) and I was going to have 4 named Love, Angel, Music, and Baby but I dropped that idea. Only the Kangaskhan kept the theme. Baby the Bewear and Music the Primarina didn’t stay on the team till the end, and Snowy was going to be named Angel, but I saw the anime.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/819d2c4e2e0e867be1b05a3ae07533335325a36c1fa78e9abf0987e9f2ed9612.jpg
I like all except the first one.
mah fatcat
Nanu’s my favorite kahuna since he just lives in that old police station with like, 10 Meowths. And in the final celebration, you think he didn’t come, but he’s hiding behind a tree in the background.
Nanu is also my favourite, I also like Alolan Meowth, just not bloat-head.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/0c/5e/c50c5e858a94ede3b7df09bb8474c532.jpg
The link didn’t work.
stupid pinterest. I keep trying to fix it.
I see it now.
seraph is ruining platinum right now help
I’m not I’m making it harder
That’s a weird way of saying “improving”
;3
Mt coronet be like
*midstage Pokemon everywhere*
Bronzor evolves in 3 more levels….
I think Walrein is going to absolutely be the worst Pokemon in the game to fight 100% hands down
Extremely glad there’s only a few trainers who possibly could have it
Why?
I made it bulkier…..
Cosplays are such good art references ^.^
So today’s work in giga super seraph death platinum is done
What I’ve accomplished:
Route encounter changes, a lot of them. Up to Hearthome particularly
you added 0s to like maybe 4 Pokemon’s stats and added a new tree
Did you not ready what I said I accomplished today?
There’s a huge array of Pokemon you can get before even the first gym
Ok, sorry this comes from indecisiveness me with the poll
Do you guys like it exactly how it is OR
Should I add every important character from SM (excluding, Wally Cynthia and Grimsley) And just have some days where two characters are eliminated, and have it so you dont have to sign in (go off a honestly policy).
It’s not too late to change it before the first day ends
I like it sadly I did three, but Ryuki made third (even though I don’t hate him like I do Faba and Illima)
Sadly? No it’s fine. You voted like you should. It’ll be fine, I’ll keep it how it is. I dont want to alter the votes
Yeah Idk why, but Kyuki’s costume their looked really weird (he looked sorta Oni like)