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:
FINALLY MY TEAM IS COMPLETE *EVIL LAUGH* MY ROCDUSK IS NOW LYCANDUSK!
How did you manage it in the end?
I fixed the date and time for my 3DS
I’m gonna miss the little “zoodle oodle beep beep” but say hello to my feisty new Vikavolt https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7fe0cceddf3c76ba4455944bd9807cbdac2547c44b8e14f8b1e3df65dee88c09.jpg
I hope it burns and dies
Awww I love this evolution line
As much as I like Grubbin and Vikavolt my real favorite is Chajabug
It’s just so adorable with its accordion like cry
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.
I hate that i can’t navigate the ultra wormholes with the joystick thingy lol
You can, you change it at the Heahea Gamefreak office.
REALLY?! Oh thank god cause actually moving my 3DS is annoying
NP
NP…?
No problem…
It stands for no problem.
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?
I wouldn’t expect variants to stick around.
Don’t worry they’ll have a new gimmick soon enough
Oh they’ve already got it pinned down I’m sure
Mutations like 2 headed Arbok.
I think Carbink should also have a mutation. Who knows what it’d look like!
/s
It could be like some doll-type princess thing, with pink diamond earrings or something.
It also should have a mega evolution too!
I’m 50/50 on it. Z-Moves were the battle changing gimmick this time around. Regional variants are an easier way to design ‘new Pokémon’ and imo it’s reminiscent of Fairy being added alongside Megas. One was a permanent addition and the other was a fad.
I’d like it to be in the middle, around ~100 Pokémon, while having some sort of new variants, actually cross that, NEW EVOLUTIONS for older Pokemons, and instead of Gen 8 saying “you don’t need the past 7 gens” and making us play the entire game with a single men’s Pokemon until the end, I’d prefer both Gen 8 and all the rest Gen Pokemon to be available to catch. Yeah, I’d like a balance between the extreme homogenous Gen 5-esque version and the Gen 7’s version of diverse, natural selected-versions of Gen 1 Pokemon.
I also would like this
If it was only the two I could pick, I’d pick 150 new ones, but I’d love to see a ton of new, but still add something like regional variants to it
Tbh id rather have 150 new pokemon. Thats what made gen 5 so great was that you had to use pokemon you weren’t familiar with
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY BOYEE
I predicted this would be your answer, I can’t blame you I’m with you
Either. I’m fine with both. I guess 159 just because they can’t spoil them all again
I just want a good amount of good to great quality new Pokemon.
Eh, more like 68% New 32% variants, no new gimmick just MORE MEGAS, SERIOUSLY GEN V ONLY HAS AUDINO
I DESERVE A MEGA EXCADRILL
You’ll get your mega excadrill when I get my mega flygon, milotic, and volcarona
Flygon maybe, Milotic get off your Highhorse Power, Volcarona…maybe if you persuade me
Upon mega evolving, Volcarona explodes, leaving behind an actual mini sun. Pure fire type with contrary. Overheat for days
/s
This ultra necrozma music is pretty bomb
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.
I still think Carbink should evolve via stone, but depending on which stone will depend on its color and also a possibly signiture move
Fire for Red
Leaf for Green
Water for Blue
Thunder for Yellow
Moon for White
Sun for Orange
Dusk for Purple
Dawn for Pink
I also hope they make a 2nd shiny form for Diancie or replace it with Diancie being blue, because honestly a blue Diancie would look so cool.
No pre evos ever
Only regular evos
But pre evos help in getting a Pokémon line earlier
For example, Budew allows you to get the Roselia line early giving you another Grass type option before Roark
Don’t care.
They make breeding a huge pain
I just want Mimikyu to Evolve into a Shadow Fairy Kid in a Hoodie Made from the Costume.
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?
What, I don’t see a moon?
Both of those fakemon sound interesting to me, I would love a Slow Loris Pokemon.
That White pill shaped thing was the moon. We hit a bump and it shook the screen like that
And I could always make both knowing both sound really cool
Oh sorry, I thought that was a reflection on the glass.
It’s alright it was more a joke for me than anything
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
*Looks at the Hiker Rotom Dex*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ0ZQzQTt6Y
I still think Rotom is either mimicking or enjoys being stupid
But despite that Furball did it, even though Dusty is getting the crystal because he and Luna are the only two with none thus far
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
Hmm you could add a three stage to have it where there’s at least one of each kind of evolution
i was thinking that too, i wanted a 3 line for every type (unless you count Mothedral since its technically a 3 stage
if i had to pick……Embrr could have a shoehorned middle stage,
Ice/Poison Ancient Frozen Disease?
i’ve dabbled with that, some kinda Pokemon with a hyper immune system
Despite its sickly appearance it is extremely healthy (something about its cells overpowering any type of virus or disease, many researchers use it to find cures for sick humans or pokemon)
I was thinking more of an Ancient Virus That was Dormant in the ice, so a Pokemon that is a Colony of Bacteria or something.
nahhh too easy
Where does the Edral Part come from?
Cathedral
Its a white moth with multicolored icy wings that resemble stained glass
Fakemon Idea
Thermosphere
Steel
Becomes Steel/Ice in Hail and Steel/Fire in Sun, maybe evolves into a bigger thermometer
The Guzma fight in Po Town is kicking my butt. My team is 4-5 levels below his 🙁
You should probably train ’em a bit.
Guzma was honestly the hardest character to battle in the entire game. Lusamine was a chump and while Necrozma did put up a good fight I prolly wouldn’t have had that much of a problem if my vanguard had been taken out.
Good for him.
I have more trouble with Lusamine and her Bewear. Willowisp missed and I didn’t want to switch so I kept using potions waiting for its attack to miss lol
I’d make sure your pokemon are level 46 or 47 before you take on the AF then.
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
For that last one I would go with Final A and Final B instead.
Oh ok.
For Clar8ty in Formatiing
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
Life doesn’t hate you, getting new phones just has some weird stuff ya gotta work out
Try logging out and logging in again.
Crop your photos if your phone takes really high res photos
Those are just some suggestions
i have and i tried hard resetting and soft resetting
updated the ios and even updated the password and clearing the cache but STILL
and i don’t know how you can crop photos directly from the camera
I have the same issue and I have an iPhone 6
I say crop the photo’s works every time with me
Is Persian Persian?
Well it’s based on a Persian cat at least.
Do you suppose it could become the next Ayatollah of Iran?
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7btT1T9qpQZWhNlK/giphy.gif
Persian for what
I meant is it an official citizen of the former Kingdom of Persia?
Considering that the Persian Empire hasn’t existed for centuries I don’t think it does
Parisian.
I’m just about to enter Po Town, Sandygast finally learnt Shadow Ball but he still struggles with most threats, but very soon Snowshrew will evolve
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b320df62309297d718903a1a7adfcaad46dd471bbde8fd93b1cac6891333fb8.jpg
Now for some reason this was done on my new phone, either just everything was just glitchy or I lucked out
Are you gonna change the name of Snowshrew to Snowslash after it evolves? haha
Yes I have the DS right beside me waiting and standing by
That’s awesome. Sandshrew/slash were the only regional variants that I felt would have been better getting new names/being new Pokemon altogether. Their names are so specific to their type that it makes little sense to call Alolan Sandshrew/slash the same as the normal forms
I still dislike the typing, I just don’t like the dry leathery hide becoming a metallic alloy out of nowhere
Should’ve been pure ice like Vulpix but gained Steel via evolution
That’s fair. Especially since most of the metallic parts don’t fully come into play until it’s a Sandslash anyway with it’s claws growing out.
I would evolve Snowshrew now since it already learned Iron Head.
I’m pretty sure he needs an Ice stone and that’s found in that town. That and Poke Pelago.
Yeah I thought he’d have got it from Pelago.
It knows
Icicle spear
Iron head
Leech life
Brick break
Wearing Steelium Z
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?
Electric, we need more dual electric types. Electric/Fighting would be great, and Electric/Dark.
Zoraora could have been such a good Electric/Fighting.
I know, I so wanted it to be, I really thought it would be that or Electric/Dark. Oh well, I still love it.
Maybe there will be an evolution or form like Hoopa?
Nah the form or evolution would be in the code already if there was anything more to it. If it had anything else then we’d know for sure
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)
Fairy.
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
BTW, when you immediately see the UB standing, does that mean it can never be shiny or is it always random?
It’s random.
Thanks!
Shininess is determined by initiating the encounter
Ah, ok good. I’m going to try my first SR shiny, just was wondering. Thanks!
Well because I’m enjoying my night so much I wrote on Amino a very good imo story on my brawl v.s. the Trial
So here’s the links to parts 1 and 2 (Note I have terrible grammar when writing stories)
http://aminoapps.com/p/4mw8qd
http://aminoapps.com/p/cz0s18
Hope you enjoy ^_^
https://68.media.tumblr.com/bdd3275ab659de04e9078e481caa5e01/tumblr_miwta06kmq1qcng98o1_500.gif
Thank you! Also knowing this is one of my favorite scenes of Pokémon
Btw with regards as to whether you should write more, just do it if it makes you happy, doesn’t matter if anyone else thinks you ‘should’ or not.
That’s true ones that will be coming up next will probably be called
2. Howling at the hour of the Dusk
3. A Rumble in the Jungle
4. The Lone egg in the cave
Each celebrating my next three events, Dusk Lycanroc, Grass trial and Jangmo-o joining the team
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
Question about USUM:
do we only fight Lusamine once in this game? No fusion lusamine form?
Yes
Kind of a bummer they removed that. Honestly thought that was the coolest part about SM. Was hoping they would expand on it and the lore around it. Sigh
Yes and no https://www.serebii.net/ultrasunultramoon/elitefour.shtml
Look at the very bottom
I don’t get it, why can you only battle her on the 1st of every month?
No Clue maybe they wanted her to be a rare battle or something, still fits that she added Lopunny to her roster
She likes to go with the ‘flow’ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
??
Maybe it’s her ‘time of the month’
Like the Gatoraid Flow, Black Cherry flavor ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c268ac70b4d8df9ab3c5118ccdfce3723966fcd34e951669aa1ecabd3efbf74b.jpg
Note this is a real thing…
https://m.popkey.co/0896c2/rwmrl.gif
That thing literally is a mistake in its design
The name and color match in a very odd way
Booooooooo get off the stage…….Dat joke was gross…….
https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/im-sorry-gif-3.gif
Well technically, as this was confirmed by Serebii that on the 1st of every month she’ll challenge you at the Pokémon League, but only on the 1st so your next chance is next year in January
While that’s way too long of a down time, better than nothing I guess.
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.
But the one eye is a look out.
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.
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.
Eh…..I guess…..I still think it would be a cool slight change to it. Either way I guess……
They think he just kidding http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1512357779766.png
Oh right Monkeyfuzz what nature was Jangmo-o again? I want to give it a very unique personality
Modest, I can’t remember the other trait though.
Alright that works for me maybe it’s refined and honest, but is a tough battler in a pinch
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
Sounds good, like they couldn’t be there for it as it grew up so they are there for it in this way now.
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
hey losers ,new rumored switch games https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ce40e13852c49c5255ffa29df7c0a0ab2ac3c942b2895c9977a771415fbead0d.png
I care for all but Dark Souls as there’s no way I’m stressing myself out trying to play that.
Dark souls for Switch, lol that’s nice but hopefully it won’t suffer a downgrade like Doom did.