Weekly Wrap Up 11/27-12/3

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 27th to December 3rd!

This Week’s Big Stories

Ho-Oh Now Available in Pokémon GO!

PokéJungle Advent Calendar 2017

Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round I: Leaders

Launch of new Pokémon Centers

  • Opening later this month in Hong Kong, Pokémon Hub will be the first official and permanent shop licensed by The Pokémon Company International outside of Japan since The Pokémon Center in New York closed for business in 2005! Although an official opening date hasn’t been announced it will be located at Tsim Sha Tsui, K11, Shop 217A
  • Opening March 14th, 2018, the new Pokémon Center Tokyo DX and attached Pokémon Cafe will be located on the 5th floor of the Nihonbashi Takashimaya SC East Building in Tokyo! We’ll be visiting the new shops on opening day, so stay tuned!

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • With 5,442,088 Pokémon captured, the games first global mission to catch 10 million Pokémon has resulted in failure. For those who participated you can pick up your reward of 1,000 FC (2,000 FC if you’ve connected your games to the Global Link) at the Global Mission counter. The next Global mission will be related to Mantine Surfing and take place from December 12th to the 27th
  • Details for the Johto X Alola battle competition have been announced! This Double Battle competition allows you to only use Pokémon from the Johto and Alola Regional Pokédex. For this competition the usual Legendary and Mythical are banned, transferred Pokémon are allowed, and all Pokémon will be raised to Level 50. You can register for the competition between December 7th and December 14th, and the actual battles will commence from December 15th to the 17th.  All entrants will get the 50 Battle Points. As always you can download the full rules within the Festival Plaza

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • From December 8th until December 11th you can participate in the Iron Meteor Dive Cup! Participation in this Fixed Battle Arena, Basic Battle competition gets you a special Scizor centric title, and, as always, the higher your placement in the competition, the more titles you’ll receive!

Pokémon Duel

  • Requiring 247MB, Version 5.0 of the popular mobile game is now available! This patch is required to continue playing and contains several changes to the user interface, adds special UX versions of The Cube, Rare Metal and Ingot items, and some brand new figures:
    • UX Figures: Mega Sceptile, Mega Blaziken, & Mega Swampert
    • EX Figures: Primarina & Tapu Fini
    • R Figures: Brionne & Golisopod
    • UC Figures: Popplio, Wimpod, Delibird, & Stantler
  • In addition, a special 10 pack booster has been released with a guaranteed EX or UX drop, various new Plates centered around the new Mega Evolutions have been added, and a few figures have had some balance changes:
    • Xerneas: Increased Moonblast’s Power from 70 to 99
    • Yveltal: Increased Oblivion Wing’s Power from 100 to 111
    • Lapras: Removed Pound and replaced it with Ice Beam, Increased Surf’s power from 60 to 70

Pokémon Shuffle

  • Upon login all players will receive a Shiny Gardevoir
  • The new Celesteela Ultra Beast challenge, and new Froakie (Winking) stage are available until December 5th
  • The Ribombee stage and new Magearna Escalation Battle are both live until December 12th
  • The Mudsdale stage is currently having a repeat run until December 5th, as well as the Alolan Raichu stage until December 12th

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

 

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345 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 11/27-12/3”

  1. Fun fact: There’s actually an official Pokémon Center vending machine located in a mall here in Seattle – making it the only official “shop” outside of Japan currently. It’s just in a pretty boogie, old mall, within a notoriously dangerous area, and weirdly no where near the TPCi US HQ a few towns over. Surprised it’s still open in all honesty. haha

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  2. Really like those pokeball figurines with different pokemon inside. In Ultra Sun and Moon news I’m nearly done leveling up my team to level 60 and then I’ll start the final trial!

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    • Finals JUST finished for me so I can finally take the time to finish the game – I’m just taking down the the Team Skull HQ in Po Town. I keep getting distracted by all the sidequests haha

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      • The sidequest in this game are a real nice touch and hopefully they expand on them in new switch game. Hopfully I can finish the main game by tonight. Btw how do you think you did on your finals?

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  3. Ugghhhhhhh why is every bit of technology i own give me battery related paranoia
    iPad, 3DS and laptop…

    Still having the issue with my Ipad where it burns noticeably faster than usual making me absolutely terrified to leave it unplugged, i could handle shelling out for a new battery or a new Ipad all together but my gigantic cache of Showdown replays are on there and i don’t know how to do a mass exodus

    the 3DS battery might be a bit simpler but as Kurusu said i must be critical with choosing a screwdriver for the screws, but i’m still scared i might botch it up

    and my ancient laptop i keep in my room has a habit of saying X aamount of % (Not Charging) which freaks me out, i want to move my rig into my bedroom but there’s no space and if that happened i’d probably never leave my room’

    I just want peace of mind with my devices knowing they are working properly and will continue to work unless major complications afflicted them

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      • It’s great, especially if you like the original Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii. It does have some flaws (navigation is sometimes confusing in these big spaces and the minimap ain’t great, performance in handheld ain’t good, voice acting can be offputting, character costumes are sometimes pretty bad, like oversized breasts, skimpy g-strings,..) but you get a game with a pretty good story (it has some cringey depths, but overthetop heights), rewarding and complex combat where you feel like a god, plenty of stuff to do and gorgeous environments.
        One final warning: it’s very long, rushing would take you 70 hours to finish the main story and you can easily invest 100 hours in this game. Don’t pick it up if you don’t like overly long JRPGs (like Persona 5, Dragon Quest VIII,…)

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  4. A problem I have with an USUM plot reworking: So Gladion is all like, “mom, don’t hurt cosmog. Don’t open the portal.” And then after I defeat her he immediately changes his mind and goes, “let me come and help!!” Really? Now you’re suddenly okay with hurting nebby so long as you and type null can defeat necrozma? F*ck you, Gladion

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    • It’s less ‘Omg lol I’m going to kill Nebby with you mom’ and more ‘We can work together, you’re doing it completely wrong.’ as well as a bit of ‘If this is the only way, then let us help you’.

      The story still makes more sense than SuMo where Lusamine has a boner over extradimensional Pokémon that she doesn’t even see until the games begin. Whilst SuMo Lusamine is great for setting up Backstory, she’s a poorly developed antagonistic force. Her UB obsession doesn’t make any sense because the dialogue makes it pretty clear she hasn’t seen an Ultra Beast until Nihilego at Aether Paradise… But she’s still trying to get to them before she sees one at Aether Paradise? And the one thing that causes her obsession with Ultra Space (Mohn) is something you have to dig around and figure out yourself when it’s really something that should’ve been explained off the bat because she was an attempted sympathetic villain. When in reality, she just seems like an irredeemable psycho who suddenly snapped and gained an obsession with something she hadn’t even seen before.

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      • Yeah, I can see it that way. But at the same time, I feel like he could’ve tried a different approach as well? All well, it’s pokemon. They’ve already got enough cutscenes and dialogue in this game.

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  5. Ok its official technology just hates me
    I took advantage of Cyber monday and bought a sexy new controller for my computer and the stupid bluetooth isn’t connecting to it

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    • I want to see it, like maybe on TV or something, not before a movie that I’ve already had to sit through both ads and trailers for.

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  6. Ok what the freakity frack my new phone makes me re-log into disqus every time I get on or refresh the page

    I can’t even upload photos directly anymore because reasons

    I’m getting seriously frustrated by technology lately

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  7. It’s been four years, five months and twenty two days since the Fairy type was revealed (or 1636 days since the 11th of June 2013)

    Pokémon Red and Green were released on February 27th 1996 in Japan, meaning it’s been twenty one years nine months and six days (or 7950 days)

    The Fairy-type has been around for roughly one-fifth of Pokémon’s post-release existence

    How old do you feel

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  8. Ok i am not enjoying my new Sandygast
    He’s frail, slow and got no powerful moves outside of Psychic

    they really should give it Hex at 25

    and a new Special Ground attack
    Something around 70 base power
    Gritty Gale, Sand Cyclone or Dust Devil

    a 25% chance to flinch

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  9. If PJ users were Pokémon:

    Star – Primarina
    Seraph – Decidueye
    Earthen – Rhyperior
    Govnah – Rotom
    Kuppo – Golduck
    Butter – Spinda
    Alex – Mr. Mime

    1v1 me if you think it’s wrong ?

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  10. I’m thinking of changing up my fakemon region a bit.
    I’d change the regional bug from Electric/Bug to Bug/Normal.
    I’d change the first gym leader (electric) from a chef to an engineer of a small hydropower plant and his Signature to Regional Bibarel (Electric/Water)
    And finally I’d change up most of the teams of my gym leaders (Might post on that in more detail soon)

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  11. Hubolt
    Electric
    Innovation Badge
    Pichu (Electric) lv 13
    Slavian Bidoof (Electric/Water) lv 15

    Dulce
    Fairy
    Candy Badge
    Swirlix (Fairy) lv 23
    Canedy (Fairy) lv 25

    Les
    Grass
    Tree Badge
    Deerling (Summer/Winter) (Normal/Grass) lv 28
    Slavian Tangrowth (Grass/Fairy) lv 28
    Radamooset (Grass) lv 30

    Svar
    Steel
    Iron Badge
    Alloyma (Steel/Normal) lv 31
    Steelix (Steel/Ground) lv 32
    Meltetal (Steel/Fire) lv 34

    Drakoslav
    Dragon
    Epic Badge
    Terrept (Ground/Dragon) lv 35
    Shelgon (Dragon) lv 36
    Turboise (Dragon/Electric) 38

    Gale
    Flying
    Wind Badge
    Unfezant (Normal/Flying) lv 40
    Coeleon (Flying) lv 41
    Seekfowl (Ghost/Flying) lv 43

    Clark
    Fighting
    Super Badge
    Polecante (Fighting) lv 47
    Hawlucha (Fighting/Flying) lv 48
    Superine (Fighting/Fairy) lv 50

    Typica
    Normal
    Home Badge
    Miltank (Normal) lv 58
    Slaking (Normal) lv 58
    Furnibeast (Normal) lv 60

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    • I feel like some of the names have like, no sense of nuance. Like, at all. Even Gen I had less obvious names, as they’re either real names with obvious puns/meanings (Brock, Misty, Giovanni) sound like a word that’s related to the type but is still nuanced (Koga, Blaine) or are a pop culture reference (Sabrina).

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      • I mean, I’m ready to change some of them, but I think these names actually fit the types you mentioned. Gale is a real name, but also related to wind, Drakoslav sounds like a real Russian/Polish name and contains ”Drak” (Russian for Dragon) and Clark is a popculture reference. Which ones do you think are the bad ones?

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        • The ones you picked out are the ones I don’t have much issue with.

          Typica is imo a bad name because it’s just a letter off of word relating to normal. Norman works despite being one letter off of normal because it’s a real name. Typica just sounds awkward imo.

          Hubolt as well. It’s a portmanteau of a human name and something to do with electricity, but imo it sounds off because it doesn’t sound like a normal name someone could have. Volkner and Wattson work because the electricity terms are worked into the name so it still sounds quite normal, whilst Elesa works because it sounds like a variety of existing woman’s names (Alyssa, Aylsa, Elsa, Eliza, etc) but Hubolt just doesn’t sound like something you’d name a person. Even names where the pun is super obvious visually are pronounced in a way which feels natural (such as Brawly).

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  12. I hope for Gen 4 remakes they have Dex Rotom has a new form of him, all you need to do is obtain an “Alolan Dex Shell” from a visiting Alolan, such as Kukui or even Samson, and then when combining with Rotom, you’ll get a Ghost-Steel type. It’d fit Gen 4 and be a good way of referencing Gen 7.

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  13. So question of interest.
    Would you rather…
    Have Gen.8 be have around 70 Pokémon, but with like 30 Regional Variants and a new gimmick?

    Or, Gen.8 be 150 brand spanking new Pokemon with no gimmicks or regional varients?

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  14. For Gen 8, I’d like them to introduce adding random Pokemon new evolutions/pre-evolutions. I know it sounds silly, but I liked that a lot when they did it in Gen 6 for Eevee, G4 for a ton and so on. Here are some Pokemon I’d like new evos in G8:

    – Comfey: I’d like it’s evolutionary form to be a flower bouquet tied up with a steel wire, known as Floquet, and it’d be Fairy-Steel.

    – Oranguru and Passimian having a pre-evolution known as Simpape, being a Normal type and being neutral.

    – Mimikyu having a pre-evolutionary form called Michu, being a baby Mimikyu wearing a Pichu outfit.

    – Lurantis having a final evolution known as Verantis, with it having sharp petal legs and new petal arms, and it having a vine-made hairdo.

    – Lickitung having a pre-evo known as Licky who’s a baby with a tongue holding it up.

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  15. Two things

    First look how great at photography I am while being in a fast moving car trying to take a picture of a super moon! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0b70024cdfd8980cae2befa57f17fb7b134cc36d9d2b7e11042688e034a41501.jpg

    Second I found new knowledge making me want to possibly change one of my fan Pokémon. Should I keep Cyeye an Aye-Aye that is literally a pun off of the name sounding like it has multiple eyes (Its evolution is Multeye) or make a Normal/Poison Slow Loris which is a kind of lemurs that’s bite is actually known to be poisonous?

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  16. That was a close one

    Lola gave her fleeting attempt at saving the team and took down the Totem’s Salazzal, Luna stood boldly in Marowak’s cold Shadow and flew to close as she fainted from its mighty Flame Wheel, but not before she secretly poisoned it with effect spore, down to the wire Dusty knew he wasn’t meant to be the hero of this tale so he bought time for Alex to revive Furball for her bite was powerful enough to win the match, as Dusty fell in a heap at the weight of Marowak’s Brick Break Furball charged at the mighty Totem to avenge her fallen friend and with her mighty jaws she snapped down right on the Totem fainting and winning the match of a life time

    After which Alex obtained Firium Z, while Rotom had a little too much fun playing with Hiker Dave
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6e010ae32e6dec8bfeeaaee55c70dc5b428a55e5759fbf9f4ba58a058166cb5c.jpg

    This is actually what happened, as Minty sadly fell at the hands of Marowak’s Brick Break

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  17. i’m bored, angry stressed and depressed and i need an idea for a fakemon
    Something particularly Icy and dangerous or do i have enough ice types
    Yekid Ice/Fighting
    Coldossus Ice/Fighting

    Snowl Ice/Flying
    Glacasiso Ice/Flying

    Mothedral Bug/Ice (its prevos Shiverpillar and Bundelbug are pure bug)

    Weewhal Ice/Water
    Northwhal Ice/Water

    Embrr Fire/Ice
    Inferozen Fire/Ice

    Shaggolin Electric/Ice

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  18. I too wish to share my Fakémon idea with y’all!

    The Electric Tree Pokémon
    Zapling – Electric/Normal
    Evo 1: Shockitree – Electric/Normal
    Final Evo: Coniferaze – Electric/Grass

    Volcanic Pixie Pokémon
    Volixen – Fairy
    Final Evo: Lavalia – Fire/Fairy

    Elemental Bee Pokemon
    Calmbee – Bug
    Evo 1: Burrbee – Ice/Bug
    Evo 2: Magdoman – Fire/Bug

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  19. ok i officially hate my new phone, EVERY TIME i want to upload a photo directly to Disqus i get the BS message [You must be logged in to post photos] or the more annoying [Please verify that the image is under 5mb]

    why does life hate me so freaking much

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  20. NEW REALITY: All gen 8 pokemon besides starters share one type. There’s only 25 new pokemon. What type would you want it to be and what pairings would you want with it?

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        • I had a vision

          Zerazora is a rogue warrior, thunderclaps echo through the alola region as Zerazora fights, in his pursuit of seeking new opponents it willingly entered a Ultra wormhole, after years of fighting in Ultra space and a cataclysmic fight with Necrozma a splintered wormhole sent it crashing back to our dimension, Ash and co find it injured but its pride let it refuse help as it wants to fight (Ash is the only one who understands its POV)

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    • Poison. This is gonna be Kanto 2.0.

      And Poison/Fighting, I know that combination already exists but I wish it’d get more explored

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  21. The rain poured in Po Town as Team Skull ruled it with a fingerless gloved fist, the old mansion once thought to belong to some wealthy family now is trashed and reeked of spray paint and used bandannas, we snooped around evading the lazy eyes of grunts until my foot kicked open a loose board with something inside, a lockbox worn out and rusting away, inside its velvety laced innards was a silken bag holding something solid, a white stone with a snowflake pattern. Snowshrew sniffed it inquisitively and gently clasped it in his paws! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a3e94a6cfc08a8f4307e65329cb5e16336e1b6dc64d8de59042329fb459f83df.jpg

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  22. My god I wish Stakaktaka would turn yellow….I know I should have waited to shiny hunt until after I got my shiny charm back, but I started SRing for Stakataka and now I’m in too deep to stop now………Also……I wish Stakataka had a different name. It’s too goofy and dumb. Blacephalon is way batter of a name. Also, also I kind of wish Stakataka’s eyes were entirely hidden until it attacks. Normally it has one show while the rest are hidden, but I wish even that one eye was also hidden. I think it would add to it’s weirdness if it was just straight up a stone wall at first glance and then when it attacks all the eyes show up and glow red.

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      • Be that as it may I think keeping the eyes entirely hidden would have made it feel weirder and almost creep. Like it drops out of the wormhole and you’re like “what the hell is this wall doing here?” Then suddenly it turns red and all the eyes flip out staring evilness at you as it attacks.

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        • But then it loses the blue ‘calm’ eye thing. If it were Rock/Psychic or Rock/Ghost and could sense things then it wouldn’t need a look out.

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          • Eh…..I guess…..I still think it would be a cool slight change to it. Either way I guess……

    • Oh God I just had a super awesome twist for Jangmo-o!

      What if Totem Kommo-o and its significant other had a kid and that kid was swiped by a Peliper and that’s how it ended up with me, but during the battle my Kommo-o meets it and neither can battle at full strength knowing the two are family and we’re separated, but upon that reconing that decide its time to see who is the true Victor? And mine comes out victorious

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        • I at the very first second thought it could be like Ash’s Goomy and it would stay in the valley, but then I thought why on Earth would it leave me after being hatched and raised by me

          And I think you portrayed it perfectly it couldn’t be there for his son, but now he’ll be there to test its true strength

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  23. I just watched Coco and I was extremely impressed by it! Some of you may know that I’m a huge Pixar fan and have been to the headquarters in Emeryville (which is only 20-30 minutes away). When I went there back in 2015, they had a whole upper floor blocked off filled with colorful Post-it notes and skulls and other things when this movie was being developed…and now it’s real and AWESOME. By far one of Pixar’s most intelligent and moving stories with animation that is way more detailed than it needs to be. Xatu Review: 9.9/10, because perfection doesn’t exist!

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  24. So i probably wont be active for a few days. The past few months i’ve been busy with getting everything done for my move overseas (idk if i mentioned this here already, if i didnt now you know lol)

    I’ve been told that everything regarding internet and such has been sorted in my new home, but i’ll be in a plane for 10 hours tomorrow so naturally i’ll need some time to rest up properly and adjust a bit.

    Just wanted to say this & make sure you all now know why i probably wont be posting stuff for the rest of the week.

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  25. One thing I wish wasn’t athung in the Ultra Warp Rise was that after you go to a place it kicks you back out to the altar. I wish it gave you the option to get back into the wormhole so you could go from one place to another. Just feels too stop and go

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  26. Well I am going to try to get my drivers license today in a few hours. 24 years old and this will be my first time taking the test hoping it goes well. And random but there is a twitch stream later today for megamans 30th anniversary and they are hyping it up as can’t miss. Capcom you better not be playing with me lol I want a new mega man game so freaking much

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