USUM Pokémon Bank Support Coming + Release Goodies

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It’s been announced that the latest Pokémon games for the Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon, will be able to use the storage app Pokémon Bank at the end of November.

Currently you can import Pokémon from past games into your copy of Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, but it requires having a copy of either Pokémon Sun or Moon from which you need to import them first. Depositing Pokémon will also become much more seamless, especially with new Ultra Beasts that are not compatible with the first Gen VII games. Pokémon Bank requires a yearly subscription of $4.99 to hold your Pokémon and may delete them if your subscription lapses. Please be careful when using.

For those who already have a copy of Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, remember to download the event Rockruff via Mystery Gift! The little guy comes at level 10, holding a Focus Band, with the moves Tackle, Bite, Happy Hour, Thunder Fang/Fire Fang (Ultra Moon/Ultra Sun respectively), and is currently the only way to obtain Lycanroc Dusk Form in game. In addition, a special 3DS Theme featuring Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings Necrozma, accompanied by the main background theme for Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon, is now available in the Theme Shop!

Happy USUM release! Excited to expand your Bank collection in the near future?

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  1. Yo you had storytime with Earthen so now prepare for story time with Fairy children

    The Totem towered over Antheia, its shadow eclipsing the Floette’s small, fragile body. All appeared to be lost as the Floette’s flower laid ahead of her in the shadows, all her comrades fallen. The rain bored down like the pressure she and her trainer felt.

    “Antheia! We’ve came too far to fail now! Let’s do it!” her trainer called, becoming increasingly worried.

    But the Floette didn’t respond. She had given up. The Totem Araquanid and its ally Dewpider, although both heavily damaged, were closing in on her. The sticky webbing that clung to her slowed her movements. Her trainer sighed, closing his eyes before readying the Heal Ball to retrieve his inevitably fainted Pokémon.

    The Totem was mere inches from Antheia, readying up an attack. However, something caught its attention. The golden flower laying at its feet. Smacking its head down into the shallows, the small blossom was sucked up into the Totem’s bubble.

    And in that moment, as the ally Dewpider launched at her, Antheia released a gale of Fairy Wind. The ally was blown back, and Totem Araquanid launched another Bubble to cover it from a follow up attack.

    The attack exploded towards Antheia, who was now surely a mere hit away from fainting.

    The trainer smiled as he came up with a plan. “Antheia, get into Araquanid’s bubble, and grab your flower!’

    Despite the absurd command, Antheia didn’t flinch. She needed that flower back at all costs. The totem flinched as the small fairy dived into its bubble, grabbing its property.

    “Now, use Giga Drain!”

    The flower shined with an intense mint colour, as it began siphoning energy from Araquanid. Small green orbs from Araquanid began to hit the flower, which then flowed into Antheia. Revitalised, she hopped off of Araquanid and landed in the shallows, absolutely soaked.

    A mighty crash sounded as the Totem succumbed to its wounds. Antheia and her trainer celebrated, before turning to the ally which had taken the opportunity to use another Bubble attack.

    The attack left Antheia in an vulnerable state, but her foe wasn’t in the best form itself.

    The Dewpider showed visible panic as the yellow flowered Floette grinned at it. Her trainer shared this expression.

    “You’re next.”

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    • Paragraph 4 of your narrative (“The Totem…bubble.”) was hard for me to follow. I couldn’t visualize the first part of the fourth sentence. The second and third sentences could be better by combining them via a colon. Be careful of the repetition of launched in paragraph 5 and flinch in paragraph 8.

      Other comments:
      That trainer is so doubtful (looking at the third paragraph).
      Why would the Totem take away Antheia’s flower instead of just fainting her?

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  2. As I reached the Hau’oli Pokémon center (that’s What its called in Melemele right?)
    I look to see a small dirty figure limping towards me in the glow of the sunset, I run towards the creature to discover its a Rockruff in pain and alone it was a stray, it was starved and in serious need for aid. I rushed in and Nurse Joy was able to nurse it back to health

    Afterwards as I look to the Sunset wondering what else lies beyond Melemele and look to my side to see the Rockruff sitting wagging its little tail at me. I pull an Orange Pokepuff out to feed it as it gratefully accepts it. I ask if it wants to come with me and it happily agrees and I pull out a Pokeball and it nuzzles the ball to get in. I look out to decide on its name and see some dust float by and remember it was covered in dust so I named it Dusty

    And that’s how I met Dusty (Sorry Earthen I too wanted to make a story) oh and my trainer and team https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/63c0eca1671c2e963770c6e162034cafa0be32307e1357b6047a84313b7f133f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5c7d0655be618edc62c459c144e3db720ff11818d38b220e2261adc5b00001ee.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/801b202fc1e2f5f3728cd5b5bdcb35d2d83c211055bfb7b049363532063e3f39.jpg

    Oh Dusty is Timid natured, so what do you think?

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    • The first sentence is horrendously long. Try converting the commas into periods. Your first sentence also switches verb tenses (e.g., reached, look).
      Sunset shouldn’t be capitalized in the second paragraph. “Afterwards as” is awkward; use one or the other but not both. There should be a comma between sitting and wagging. Be careful with repetition of look throughout the narrative. The “seeing some dust float by” is so contrived it hurts — just have the main character remember the state the Rockruff was in because that’s what they want to base the name off of.

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  4. I’ll write a sort of cringey bio too why not

    Ultra Wormholes opened up all over Alola bringing with them Pokémon from other universes. As I explored Alola I reunited with some of the young unevolved Pokémon that I had explored with in previous regions. Starting with the most reliable team member I had ever had, Riptide the Totodile

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  5. So the USUM Steelbook will apparently be back in stock on the 20th and I’m contemplating returning my Unopened Copies to get it, Thoughts?

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  6. I’m super pissed Gamefreak didn’t seem to fix one of the worst, if not THE worst, parts about SM: that you can only get one of each apricorn ball. Just why? Why do they hate us? It was such an easy fix.

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  7. The people who made Pokémon Go must be idiots

    What they classify as socks, are underneath your pants and don’t touch your feet at all…

    Why does this piss me so much I wonder, or the fact you could only get one pair of pants till USUM clothes were added to the game?

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  8. Extremely minor spoilers for after Totem 3

    So is anyone gonna speak about the fact Mohn is wearing Green in this game? Like they literally randomly gave him a palette swap for no reason. Instead of another Lycanroc did we get Dawn Mohn?

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  14. Just beat Illima, I get what Star meant by him being difficult, if I hadn’t stockpiled on Potions I would have been in real trouble.

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  18. Honestly they could’ve avoided this third version trap of it being a bit too similar if they had just reordered a lot of the plot and had us take on the islands in a different order. That would’ve been so much cooler. I remember when a lot of us speculated that might happen based on the Z-ring. And that way it wouldn’t have made SM so obsolete because it’d be a different journey still.

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    • Eh, maybe if it was the typical two year gap but it was a one year gap. Not an excuse, just an explanation.

      I literally think they just pumped this game out because they don’t want two year gaps in a row and/or they didn’t want Gen VII to only have one set of games

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      • Maybe USUM was supposed to be a real third version before Sinnoh remakes, but they decided Sinnoh would be better on the Switch, so they turned the 3rd version into two games.

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      • Yeah, but I don’t think it would’ve been too much extra work. Just kind of fix the levels on the trials and stuff, shift locations of important plot events. Idk. I think it was possible, but who am I to really say

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    • This is what i said. All they needed to do was reorder things, change around wild encounters e.t.c

      Hell if they wanted to go the alternate dimension route at least change the personalities of the characters…

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  20. I’m about to take on the first trial. I both feel like I’m over leveled and under leveled at the same time. Both my Rowlet and Rockruff are level 14.

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  21. Played a bit more. So far: changes are welcome and good, but it still sucks that the base is fairly the same. This should have been the first version of SM tbh.

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  22. Okay the petting the overworld pokemon gets real old real quick. Don’t really get the point of it, you don’t even get anything from it.

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  23. Is it bad that I actually like the base bucket hat and shorts of the male player character? I almost want to keep them on my entire journey and just wear a different shirt.

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