Weekly Wrap Up 10/30-11/5

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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 30th to November 5th!

This Week’s Big Stories

Legendary Beasts’ Last Migration in GO

PokéJungle Halloween ’17 Fan-Art Celebration

Rainbow Rocket Teased Ahead of Ultra Sun/Moon Reveal

New Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Trailer & Features Revealed

Silvally Event

  • For our European readers, the Shiny Silvally event is now live in various locations throughout Europe until November 16th! You can check our dedicated Shiny Silvally Event post for details, but the distribution channels are as follows:
    • Belgium – Nintendo Zone, FNAC, Game Mania & Smartoys
    • France – Micromania
    • Germany – Gamestop via Nintendo Zone
    • Italy – Gamestop
    • The Netherlands – Game Mania via Nintendo Zone
    • Spain – GAME via Nintendo Zone
    • Sweden – Gamestop

Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You

  • For our readers in the US, two new dates for the theatrical release of the film have been announced! You will now be able to get tickets for showtimes on November 11th and 14th through Fathom Events. Unfortunately, the TCG Promo Card and QR Code for the I Choose You Cap Pikachu will not be distributed at these screenings

Toys ‘R’ Us

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • A new “Strange Evil” trailer has been released on Nintendo’s official English YouTube channel, along with a new overview trailer on the official Japanese Pokémon channel! Neither show any new info aside from a few short bits of new footage, but still great to watch nonetheless!
  • The games are now available for digital preload across all regions in the Nintendo eShop
  • The next bit of new information for the games will be released on November 9th, 10pm PST (November 10th, 2pm JST/5am UTC)

Pikachu Talk

  • The newly announced Pikachu Talk app lets you talk to Pikachu via Google Home or Amazon Alexa devices! This is a completely free app that will be released in Japan later this year and in 2018 everywhere else

Pokémon GO

  • A new Pokémon Safari event will be held at the Tottori Sand Dunes in Tottori, Japan on November 24th, 25th, and 26th! This Safari Zone will show an increase of spawns for several Ground and Water-type Pokémon, Fossil Pokémon, as well as spawns for Mr. Mime and as of yet unspecified letters of Unown. Unfortunately, it’s been confirmed that there won’t be any special Raids. In addition to the in game festivities a pop-up Pokémon Center store will be open for business, and Pikachu will make special appearances at the nearby Aeon Mall.
  • Shiny Shuppet, Banette, Duskull, and Dusclops are now all available in game
  • The Raid Battle Bosses for each tier have been updated with new Pokémon! The list of new bosses is as follows:
    • NEW LEVEL 1 BOSSES: Metapod, Ivyaur, Charmeleon, Wartortle
    • NEW LEVEL 2 BOSSES: Mageneton, Sableye, Sandslash, Tentacruel, Marowak, Cloyster
    • NEW LEVEL 3 BOSSES: Ninetales, Scyther, Omastar, Porygon
    • NEW LEVEL 4 BOSSES: Poliwrath, Victreebel, Golem, Nidoking, Nidoqueen

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The new Ultra Challenge stage featuring Xurkitree is available until November 7th – This stage can only be played 10 times and requires 20,000 coins to play
  • Palossand’s stage runs until November 14th
  • Both the Litten and Drifblim stages have begun repeat runs until November 7th

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

Supporters

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Smearg

Foil Island

Conglome NERD

alcremie sundae

Radiant Blutle

Zachery

Dragoniteo

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1,922 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 10/30-11/5”

  1. Okay, there is some seriously awesome merchandise this week. I actually really want the Necrozma and Ho-oh plushes, and that Ho-oh + Lugia jacket! I usually say “I want this or that” but this time I actually think I’m going to get something. Probably the jacket and Necrozma.

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  3. Great to see that USUM merch is in full swing! Not even two weeks anymore and it finally feels like a real hype season ?

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  4. Pokemon I choose you review & Gen 8 predictions!

    – Movie and post credits combined IMO make it the best Pokemon movie of all time!
    – Past movies such as power of one, mewtwo returns and Luke’ mystery of mew all were better in many ways but this as a combined package was amazing
    – Essentially the USUM of the movies. It was like an alternate universe with many alterations but with many references to original saga!

    – The graphical animation was AMAZING! Best so far! The story was good maybe not as great as say Lucario and myst’ of mew but it didn’t need to be this is a diff kinda film

    – The post film credits were absolutely out of this world, it basicallly was 10 minutes of nostalgia service of the entire series.  

    – It was screaming the end of an era, the film just like USUM is doing threw everything in the anime together and it was amazing. The nostalgia I got from there was unbelievable! Past characters, regions, films and anime sagas from Kanto to Kalos all had involvement 

    – GET READY for a MASSIVE REBOOT of the whole series games and anime. Not like BW even more, the post credits as well as USUM are screaming reboot.

    – It also hinted at Team rockets return in USUM in a very subtle way 

    – Post film scenes where just amazing maybe even better than the entire film thats how good they were!

    – Overall one of the best especially in terms of nostalgia! Loved it!

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    • Yeah uh… no. Anybody expecting Pokemon Switch to be anything more than USUM with slightly better graphics and the usual new gen amenities like a new region, evil team, and a handful of new Pokemon, etc. they are fooling themselves hardcore.

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          • Why do that to yourself though? USUM is showing exactly how GameFreak cares about us, while I am personally pretty happy with USUM it is definitely a HUUUUUUUUGE middle finger.

          • Because it gives me temporary happiness that I know will fade away with the reveal trailer but damn it I can’t take any more disappointment with this series right now

          • At least you can hold on to that hope for at least another 2 years. But seriously if the series is upsetting you that much maybe you should look into a different series or hobby in general.

          • Well the series can’t make decision, it is the company behind it and I mean they’ve pretty much always been like this so I mean… eh? And besides it is kind of hard to change a series too much without making it a completely new series in the process.

      • Exactly. The thing that stands out for me is all the actions and choices being made my gamefreak with the games and with the production team on the anime are screaming not just any old reboot it feels like its going to be huge, honestly I’m confident on this!

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        • The anime is it’s own thing and nothing about USUM screams anything but we are celebrating our 20 year anniversary but needed a bit more time and fan feedback to make a game that is actually worthwhile instead of the trash that SM was.

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          • It seems to me that you just like to oppose other peoples views just for the sake of it.
            How can you possibly say that the anime is it’s own thing? If that was the case then Ash should be chilling in Kanto until he’s won the league.
            Why is he in Alola? A major purpose of the animes existence is to promote the games. Sometimes they reveal new next gen mons through the anime/movies.
            So no, there is a clear link and if you haven’t watched the I choose you movie then sorry you don’t have any legs to stand on.
            The manner in which they are throwing all their balls into one pot is a clear indicator of this being the final hurrah of this era. Go watch the movie you might learn something.
            SM being trash unfortunately that’s your opinion dude, not reality.

  8. It’s these sleepy rainy Sunday’s that I want to invent a helmet that can hold the switch’s screen while I lay in bed

    Now if only there was a way I could make joycons link with 3DS buttons

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        • That is different per region? You think I don’t know that, I am just saying it is like completely dry for me. I would honestly like a little rain.

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          • *fights using electric and grass types* I don’t like rain all the time and I hate being in rain and getting wet, but a little bit here and there while I am inside a building is nice. I had plenty of rain earlier this year, I dunno how widespread it was in the news but earlier this year my area was flooded for like a week or 2 because of how much rain we had.

      • I live on an island….a Long Island…

        And I say this because if i want to play a DS game in bed I’d have to constantly hold it up or lay flat on my stomach while I put the DS on the floor (which the blood flows to my face and lips and I get dizzy after a hour)

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        • Couldn’t you just… Lie down on your front and put the 3DS in front of you? That’s how I play it like 99% of the time.

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        • So what you are saying is you want to link the joycons because due to how they work with the head mounting it would result in a play… style? that is comfortable for you? Makes sense to me I suppose. I often would like something like that sometimes I don’t even need controls because I am just watching videos but yeah. Seems like something that would be readily available to be honest.

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          • I dunno I’m rambling at this point,
            I just like the ability to have a suspended monitor with my game and the option to have my arms to my side or sprawled out not confined to my front when slothfully gaming

  14. reply to this with your team ideas/Starters for US UM personally im going to try to solo beat the game with a team of smeargle any team at all

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  20. 20 responses already! Guess I’ll post the results of the type poll already because I can’t see it going much higher :p

    Small response pool so it’s obviously extremely inaccurate, but probably reflects the current pool of junglers well

    Favorite types!
    1) Electric – 13/20, or 65%
    2) Dragon & Fire – 12/20, or 60%
    4) Water & Ice – 10/20, or 50%
    6) Ghost – 9/20, or 45%
    7) Grass & Dark – 8/20, or 40%
    9) Fairy – 7/20, or 35%
    10) Fighting & Psychic – 6/20, or 30%
    12) Bug & Steel – 4/20, or 20%
    14) Flying & Ground – 3/20, or 15%
    16) Normal & Poison – 2/20%, or 10%
    18) Rock – 1/10, or 5%

    Least favorite types!

    1) Rock – 15/20, or 75%
    2) Normal – 11/20, or 55%
    3) Flying – 10/20, or 50%
    4) Poison & Ground – 9/20, or 45%
    6) Bug, Psychic & Fairy – 8/20, or 40%
    9) Fighting – 7/20, or 35%
    10) Steel – 6/20, or 30%
    11) Grass & Water – 5/20, or 25%
    13) Dark, Ice & Dragon – 4/20, or 20%
    16) Ghost & Fire – 3/20, or 15%
    18) Electric – 1/20, or 5%

    Make of it what you will. Will begin analysing ‘type controversy’ in a few minutes. I’m certainly shocked with the results. And if looks like one type hit rock bottom…

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  22. Kind of shocked for those who have seen the Pokémon movie not mentioning this already.
    Did anyone else have a WTF moment or expected it when Pikachu started talking to Ash? Everyone in my screening was probably feeling that way or astounded (the younger crowd).

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  24. Im going to do a pokejungle run of UM and I already have to people
    Me-Greninja
    Butter-Incineroar
    I dont know what to do for anyone else

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