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 November 20th to November 26th!
This Week’s Big Stories
Pokémon GO Travel Event + Pokémon Bank Update
Through the Years: Pikachu & the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Farfetch’d Now Available Worldwide in GO
Pokémon GO
- Niantic has announced another new patch for the GO! This update includes several bug fixes and optimizes the display for those on the iPhone X
- Raid Battle rewards will be altered soon so that more Golden Razz Berries and TMs are given, than Potions and Revives
- Magikarp is set to return as a Raid Boss
- For those trying to catch Mewtwo, Niantic has also put out the official list of criteria and general guildines so trainers can better understand how they can get their hands on an EX Raid Pass:
- Trainers with a high level Gym Badge at the specific Gym are more likely to get an EX Raid Pass
- Trainers who raid more often are more likely to get an EX Raid Pass as
- The EX Raid Battles themselves will happen in places such as parks during their highest Raid Battle times to ensure optimal attendance
Pokémon Duel
- Details of the popular mobile game’s Version 5.0 update have been revealed via a Japanese promo video. Not only will this update include the introduction of Mega Sceptile, Mega Blaziken, and Mega Swampert figures, but it will also feature the new UX Ingot and UX Rare Metal items as well as a updated user interface!
- The Shiny Magikarp figure will soon be available in game via a new Time Booster
Pokémon Shuffle
- The Zygarde competitive stage is available until November 28th
- In addition the following stages have repeat runs until November 28th: Popplio, Sandslash, Araquanid
Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked or is now available for purchase this week:
Me and my new holiday form are first! Wooohoooo!!!!!
I love how you guys are displaying the merch, very non-intrusive and compact
which allows for the article to have more content without being dauntingly big
I like how the merch is being displayed so it doesn’t make the article too long. Now it’s way better to see all this christmas stuff :3
I also like the new way they are displaying the merchandise here
Some of you already have, but let me know if y’all like/dislike the new way the merchandise pictures are presented!
I think it’s an improvement. Let’s us see all the new merch, but doesn’t clog up the screen like ti used to. At times when there was a crap ton of merch it felt like I was scrolling down to the comments forever.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought so too. Here’s to more organized posts! haha
While it was nice to see everything in one glance, this definitely looks more professional so it should stay this way.
Yer, that was the main reason I kept it in its long form for so long. haha I felt it was better to see everything at a quick glance…also I’ve actually been trying to get the slideshow to work for a good few weeks now, but for whatever reason there was some weird issue where it would always screw with the formatting of the post until now. haha
I really enjoy this one because of its modernist look and how organized it is. The other version was also nice but it took up too much room, this is more dense and has a better way of looking through them.
Yeah, the posts were always a little bit daunting when there was hella merch. Thanks for the feedback!
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For those of you in the post game, here’s a QR Code for Magearna
Is there an actual QR code for Ash-pikachu or is that just a myth?
Yeah, hold on
Try this
k thnx
R.I.P “This QR code cannot be scanned with this.”
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Here, this should work
Yay thanks.
Thanks it worked! Also is there just the Kanto version?
As far as I know, yes
Ah, k.
I feel like i need a grass pokemon on my team to make it balanced but im a bit too far in the game to train one i feel
You should try to make sure your team is as balanced as possible.
I definitely try… right now my team is komala, Mareanie, vikavolt, mimikyu, rockruff and incineroar
Nice, just need a grass-movie at least.
Komala learns wood hammer right?
I don’t know.
I’m happy to say that today, I filled up an entire box of USUM shinies! 🙂 Granted that a lot are shiny repeats, I’m still proud of myself, as at most I got ~1-3 walking shinies.
Bored….I want to try for a shiny charm or a living dex but I just don’t have the motivation
Its super easy
Not as easy as last game.
True, but that’s why if you’re gonna do it, probably do it in ORAS
Yeah but I took out literally all my Pokemon from there and hunting Pkmn there would be impossible without any of ’em there to help XD
Not entirely, still requires a astronomical amount of time and energy
I did it in like a week in ORAS.
Yey I now have Sinnoh + Kanto Pikachus.
Ugh, I wish I didn’t have to complete the Pokedex to get the Shiny Charm. It’s so tedious
Make a live dex. Do it once and you never have to again
??
… a live dex.
Live Dex?
It’s when you just have one of every pokedex so you can just drop it into the game and complete the dex right away
I still don’t get it
Capture every single Pkm, put them in the Pkm Bank so when next time you have to complete it just transfer the Pkms from Bank to the console
Oh. I don’t have enough money for a Prepaid Card nor do I have the Pokemon
It’s 5$ a year…
Isn’t the minimum for pre-paid card like $10?
Just get your parents credit card or something like. 5 dollars Is nothing
ah.
The whole point of it is that it’s a reward tho
Sorry but I don’t want to get just a diploma for completing a whole dex, the Shiny Charm is basically the perfect reward for it
Even with the Shiny Charm, I just don’t feel an incentive for completing the Dex. I can’t think of any other ways, but just something other than that. Whatever, that’s just how I feel.
Anyone know what time dusk arrives in USUM? I just got to the reverse world with this Solgaleo and it’s 5:05 pm right now (in my game at least)
Are you trying to evolve Rockruff to Dusk Lycanroc? All you have to do is level it past 25 between 5 and 8. It shouldn’t matter what the game is loading for the sky. If you’re on US then it’s pm and if your’re on UM then you gotta get up in the am to evolve. At least I think that’s how it works
Not 5 and 8………I meant 5 and 6
Yep. I went to the reverse world and am waiting for evening but it is 5pm here, but I refuse to believe the only way for me to evolve is at 5 am. If that’s it, I demand the Moon to be denied.
It;s not how the game looks tho. It’s the time you have to look at. Even if the game is loading a blue sky in US when it’s past 5 you’re Rockruff will still evolve. It doesn’t matter if the sky is orange or not.
Yay
5:00-5:59PM EST in US
5:00-5:59AM EST in UM (Unless you’re in the Reverse World, of course)
OK, good.
Guzma has been defeated and I have Bugium Z. Now to go rescue Lillie I assume. Unless the story takes a hard turn anyway. Either way it’s exciting to finally be getting to the point where the story picks up. Should be a lot of fun!
I wish you could breed Lunala with Lunastone and create a moon-breed exclusive Pokemon, same with Solgaleo and Solatone. It’d be pretty cool!
I wonder if and when they’ll release old color pallet Magearna. Seems like a waste if they don’t. And before you bring up Eternal Floette, at least Floette had a story thing going on for it. Old colors Magearna wasn’t ever shown in the game period so it seems like a waste of time and effort is they don’t release it
Uhh, what? My RockRuff didn’t evolve. I’m:
– At the reverse world
– It’s between 5 and 6 (my 3DS is an hour ahead so although it’s 4 now it’s 5 in the game.)
– Evolving it.
What is the deal?
Im havin the same problem lol only mine is at level 40 ?
Something’s going wrong!
Idk what time im supposed to be lookin at
Me 2
Well it says 5:40 in my game time but i think it might be 17:00-17:59
So far it’s 5:47 in my game but it’s still day.
Well, I can officially confirm Dusk Lycanroc is purposely programmed to be unobtainable other than 5-5:59 am. It appears Dusk Lycanroc is a taboo Pokemon in UM. What a shame.
Alright here’s the plan
I’m gonna wait until FuzzMonkey has my Sandshrew ready for breeding (only now I’m realizing that I can’t nickname it Snowshrew and Snowslash so I gotta figure that out)
And once I finished Ultra Moon it will be my new holding space for the gigantic amount of bank stuff while I work on my living dex, region by region
Hopefully a region every week it’s not gonna be all bad but I’m the type of guy who’ll probably try to get everything from scratch
I wish Audino grinding was a thing… Seriously a job like this is gonna need a hell of a lot of leveling
Just breed off the Sandshrew he sends you so it doesn’t get the Exp boost and you can nickname it
…….but I want the exp boost…
Scrub
Well is it wrong that I want my Pokemon to level up fast
Yes.
Or should I just relentlessly torture myself by hacking 0iv Pokemon and after every battle I feed them EV lowering berries and have toxic orbs equipped
Oh here’s a thought! Every time I level up I jam this rusty screwdriver into my thighs!
Learn to take a joke you dingus
Of all people I’d thought you’d enjoy my pain
I don’t live off of pain
I live off regret and Chinese food
Do some Roto Lottos and hope for EXP Boost.
Do Refresh.
If I, Monkeyfuzz, give it to you as an egg then you can nickname it.
Whatever you say UzzkeyFmon
But no can do I still want Icicle Spear and Metal Claw
He can give you icicle Spear and metal claw in an egg?
…I rather do it so its Adamant with 5ivs minus SpAtk
It’s just easy if I just got the seed, then I can worry about the details later
Earthen. The egg will hatch the exact same thing Monkeyfuzz sends you if he hatched it in his own game.
I’m not paying for all that effort on his behalf
I just needs a heavy ball, nothing more nothing less
Youre not putting in any effort lol, he doesn’t have to do this at all
I am referring to him making sure everything is right including nature, IVs and egg mores, I don’t want him to do so much for something I can do entirely myself
Just a female in a heavy ball is all I need
Then you clearly didn’t understand what I said then. I said that him sending you an egg, which is actually easier for him, will give the exact same results as him trading a live one for you. He’s willing to send you a ready one and you’re just making a fuss about it
It can have Spear. It learns Metal Claw at level 14.
Ugh fine rely on Icicle spear for a short while
It’s pretty much gonna rely on that and metal claw until I get X-Scissor or Shadow Claw or Leech Life
Audino, grinding takes a long time….get it….heh…I made a funny…
Groan
Hmm, maybe it’s from 6-6:59 (with my DS time)
Are you sure it’s the event Rockruff?
Yes, it has a red ball.
You should really consider neutering
I should really consider Poke-bribing.
Maybe you should check yo clock and everything
I really hate military time
It says 5:54 for my 3DS and 4:54, so probably something going on.
Did you breed it? Is it the exact one you got from the event?
I’m pretty sure it’s the exact same one I got from the orange-blue mailman.
Isn’t it 5-5:59?
Yes but for some reason it’s still day, I’m in reverse world BTW.
Uh, maybe it’s because you changed the clock on your DS, and the time changes depending on the version also. If you’re using UM then it has to be 5-5:59 AM and US 5-5:59 PM
This could be it. Changing the time on your 3DS locks you out of time based events for two days
I didn’t change it for weeks if not months though, it was always like this since I bought the game.
Watch me hatch a shiny Cutiefly before my Rockruff or the sky listens to me.
Welp, dusk never came and instead when I returned it was night. Well, it appears dusk Lycanroc is not working in UM. I don’t know who to blame, the lousy sun or moon, or Rockruff.
Maybe you pissed off a Dialga
I am going to use Solgaleo and Lunala to destroy the real Sun.
When you suffocate and burn up when trying to escape the mesosphere can I have all your stuff?
Are you sure you did it in the right time?
Yes, I went there at 5:00 pm. I constantly checked for the dusk; wasn’t there. After, I thought maybe I had to leave and return; didn’t work. I thought maybe it worked with the real time and not the 1-hour ahead time of my 3ds; it didn’t. Something went wrong and I have no clue what. All I know is I am considering trading my Rockruff for a Weedle.
5pm real time or 5pm game time?
5pm game time, right now IRL it’s 5 but my 3DS is set at 6.
Right. In Ultra Moon, to get Dusk in the reverse world you enter it at 5am in game time, which is 5pm irl time.
I did, but my 3DS is an hour fast, so that’s probably why it failed.
You’ll need to reset your time then or wait until tomorrow :/
I want to reset it but then for a day I’ll not be allowed to go on Festival Plaza/GTS, at least I think 🙁
What’s your version? US or UM?
UM
Welp that’s the problem, in UM you have to evolve in 5:00 AM, not PM
Ah. Well, I guess I have no choice, but to GTS hunt.
I really don’t want to sound bitchy but can you keep your similar comments to comment chains? Just makes navigating the comments a bit easier, sorry if I’m coming across as a bit rude.
Sorry bout my spamming people, I deleted lots of comments of mine except for replies, didn’t meant to bother y’all. I’m not really that upset about not getting a dusk Lycanroc, but I’m certainly disappointed in the way things turned out.
It’s ok man, I do give ya
I live by the leave no bridge burned policy (unless my plans for the day are burning bridges)
Thanks
You’re not really bothering anyone and you didn’t have to delete anyone, I was just saying for future reference because it’s more convenient for others 😡
Ah of course, I just deleted just so it would clear it up.
*delete any of them, not delete anyone
Well today has been a successful as I have finally revived an old idea that honestly had so much potential and I never really pushed it forward
It’s a split evolution bear where as if its Physical Attack is higher it evolves into a Fighting type black bear, but if Special is higher than it evolves into a Psychic type bear based on Ursa minor. I also now added they evolve again into a Fighting/Dark and Psychic/I am not sure yet at a certain level
Sounds plausible, I feel something like this would be a night or day kinda scenario
Kinda similar to my Pebble Pokemon that either becomes a golem if evolved normally or a lava beast if leveled up in a area with high geothermal energy
Hmm that could work too like how I did want an space observatory so maybe that could work into it
Well, good news! I got a Dusk Lycanroc; although it was someone else from GTS, at least this problem is resolved.
So i just got my toxapex and i want it to learn baneful bunker… what should i remove:
Water pulse, recover, toxic, posion jab?
Toxic
It’s not necessary in game
Neither is Baneful Bunker if we’re being honest.
*makes a shady face and raises finger in agreement*
Keep Toxic it wears down the Totems… and it can combo with Venoshock and Merciless if that’s its ability
Edit: Sorry that’s not answering the question… delete Poison Jab or Water Pulse
No its got regenerator
I stand by my point (lol bc Toxapex is an urchin)
So then leave recover/toxic…
And delete water pulse or poison jab…
Deleted poison jab