Weekly Wrap Up 10/30-11/5

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:

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

  1. Anyone want a Love Ball Chikorita, Lure Ball Totodile or Fast Ball Cyndaquil? They’re not tuned comp wise but I have some spares after breeding for my USUM teams

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  2. Positivity Pieces

    Some nice things about some of your least favorite Pokémon?

    – Unown is fun to collect, which is the point of its existence

    – Illumise and Volbeat work really well together concept wise and they look similar yet different enough to work

    – Plusle and Minun are cute asf with a unique gimmick

    – Decidueye is actually an extremely well put together design, it’s just a shame it doesn’t convey ghost well outside its shiny

    – Blaziken is a total badass and I loved using one, I just don’t like normal Blaziken’s design so much (really like Mega)

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  3. Assuming no Alola Forms-seems very likely at this point with the decided leak up to ~180th Pokémon of the Alola Pokedex- this is what my team looks like, not sure if this will be my US or UM.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/248267f0dcfa49130327930b908e6421e48aef76171a62acacd17d783c548caf.jpg

    – Verduous The Decidueye
    – Sunny the Volcarona
    – Chromacandy the Muk
    – Infinite the Togedamaru
    – Bashnior the Minior
    -(Read following paragraph)

    For the last Pokémon I am stuck between 4 Pokémon that I haven’t used yet Oranguru, Comfey, Bruxish, and Komala; and Mimikyu, a Pokémon that I have used before but I am quite partial to. What is everyone’s opinions of what I have now (team makeup, nicknames, etc.) and who I should add?

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  4. I’m really peeved, I was going to preorder that Zelda 2DS on Target last night but I said “nah, it’s been up for like 6 days, I’ll do it tomorrow” and of course, it was sold out today. I guess this as good of a time as any to learn my lesson. Hopefully another store lists it sometime, but I just found this hilarious.

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  5. I posted this half a year ago.. times have changed
    The theme of this Pokemon Region is Growth. As a franchise, Pokemon has been with some people since they could first learn to speak. Others may have been introduced to it later on by a friend. Regardless, it holds a special place in the hearts of people. As we grow older and change, so does the series. Consequently, it’s the perfect topic to touch on in a Pokemon game. This region is called the “Incrum” region, a named derived from the Latin word “Incrementum” which means growth (Unless I mistranslated). The two legendaries of this game refer to the concepts of dreams and reality; two vital parts to growth. Ambition and dreams are important as they allow you to be motivated to move forward. However being engrossed in them may lead to a person being too obsessed with their ambitions, no matter how logical or illogical, to move forward. It is important to balance these dreams with reality, to not lose sight of the world around you. If you are too obsessed with seeing the world in a literal sense, you may end up disregarding dreams that would have a lasting effect on the world. That is what the legendaries, and evil teams correspond to. One of the teams is too engrossed in trying to make everything better that they disregard the suffering they cause, and the other team is one who refuses to look forward and see things in a more abstract light, not just pure logic.

    Pokemon Carnelian and Sodalite

    Coming: Whenever the fuckk I learn to Program

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  6. So today’s the best day ever. PlayStation announced what I’ve been waiting for for years: PSVR Skyrim Bundle with revised headset, PS move controllers, new camera, everything you could want. It’s going to be mine one way or another. Christmas is going to be pretty neato.

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  7. “What’s a trainer doing in a desolate place like this? The gym is the other way and the temple has been closed to the public for the last ten years. Perhaps…. was the guardian calling to you as well?” ~ Ghostly trainer, ???

    “I’m actually curious, what ARE you? We started at the same time yet you keep beating me! What am I possibly doing that you aren’t?! I’ve been the prodigy of the town for year (Player name) before you suddenly show up and ruin every single thing that even gave me a name in the first place! Mark my words, I’m going to make you wish you never started this journey, got it?” ~ Connor

    “You’ve grown quite quickly! Is someone having a growth spurt? I kid, but seriously you have come so far in such little time. I already know that you’re strong but the Pokemon within here isn’t like anything you’ve fought before. You’re going to be up against a legend kid, that’s not an easy task. Let me gauge your strength through a battle! Give it all you got, (player name)!”
    ~Professor Sakura

    “For as long as I can remember these darn meteors have been pelting the region at random times! In fact in my younger days I almost got hit by one while riding good ol’ Noivern here!! Ohohoh! Regardless, continue onward young trainer. Your quest is far from over.” ~ Soren, flying type gym leader

    Just some scattered quotes from my fangame story :3

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  8. Hey guys. So… serebii posted this pokemon data file with part of Alola’s Dex. And at first glance everything is normal, except Zubat’s line silhouette color. If you look at arbok’s color, it’s purple (poison type) and Zubat’s color is brown (just like the dark type pokemon).
    Is it just a color mistake, or perhaps it’s a new alola form?
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2eb1345423277231a424ef48c924f0b26475f0826bc92834b587d5427a5d9d5c.jpg

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  9. Well, I think my phone charger finally broke. Crap, this sucks. I don’t know if I’ll have enough money for a charger after I pre-order Ultra Sun (Planning on doing that tomorrow). Hopefully I’ll get paid again soon.

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  10. FANGAME LORE DUMP Y’ALL

    “Many years ago, there was a Pokemon named Arceus created the universe. This task left it weakened, leading it to use its thousand arms to create two eggs out of debris scattered from the universe’s creation. These eggs hatched into two all-powerful legendaries called … and … . Due to its weakened state, these two Pokemon were in charge of creating the planets and galaxies. After thousands of years, these Pokemon began to grow tired and almost perished from pure exhaustion. To remedy this, Arceus made a third egg which became a Pokemon that created pure elemental energy. While this new Pokemon was nowhere strong enough to help Arceus recover, it was enough to power the two Pokemon he had created. For millennia all was well. They birthed legendaries like Palkia, Dialga, nearly every Pokemon was created by these two. Over time they began to grow greedy and they both attempted to steal all the energy that third Pokemon had created from each other. They both wanted absolute control. Power began to shift back and forth for ages before Arceus finally stepped in and put an end to the fighting. In a last ditch effort to prevent a catastrophe of this size from happening again, Arceus sacrificed its arms to create two separate realms which we know today as fantasy and reality. To them, it locked each of the two in a separate dimension and created guardians from the very same material the two Pokemon had been responsible for creating. These guardians would be responsible for keeping the boundary that separated the two realms secure forever. The third Pokemon had vanished, never to be seen again and Arceus went dormant. To this day, it still has not awoken. As of now, cracks in the boundary are beginning to form, so your task is to locate the guardians and prepare to fight alongside them once this barrier breaks again. I know it’s a lot to ask (player name) but you’re the only one able to do it.” ~Argus

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