Weekly Wrap Up 12/11-12/17

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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 December 11th to December 17th!

This Week’s Big Stories

Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round II Grunts & Admin

PokéJungle Christmas 2017 Giveaway

Pokémon Crystal to be Released on Virtual Console

Groudon Now Available in Pokémon GO!

Showdown: Villainous Teams — Round III: Plans

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • Version 1.1 of the games is now available for download in the Nintendo eShop! Requiring 539 Blocks, the patch fixes a number of bugs:
    • Fixes a bug where Ion Deluge doesn’t work
    • Fxes a bug where Wide Guard reduced damage from all Z-Moves instead of just Clangorous Scales
    • Fixes a bug where the first move is deleted if you teach a Pokémon with 3 or fewer moves a move at the Move Tutor
    • Fixes a bug where the game would periodically freeze shortly after selecting Litten as your Starter Pokémon
    • However, due to the changes all Battle Videos recorded before the patch will unfortunately not be accessible anymore
  • The second Global Mission has begun! This time around our goal is to collectively earn 1,000,000 Beach Points through Mantine Surf by Christmas day. If we succeed all participating players will receive 2,000 FC (4,000 FC if they have a Global Link account attached to their game) while a failure will result in a 1,000 FC reward (2,000 FC if connected to the Global Link)
    • The Global Mission goal has already been exceeded as of December 14th
  • The games will have a robust online maintenance on December 18th, 5:00pm-7:00pm PST

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • The Thunderclap Press Cup will be ongoing from December 22nd to December 31st! Participating players will receive a special title reward based on the Pikachu Libre fighter, gaining even more unique titles the higher they place in the Special Group Match

Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You!

  • For those who didn’t catch the film in theaters or TV, or just want to rewatch the film, it is now available digitally on iTunes, Amazon, and the Google Play store to purchase or rent in the US and some parts of Europe. A physical release of the movie is set for next year

Great Detective Pikachu (Film & Game)

  • The Detective Pikachu film has been slated for a May 10th, 2019 release date
  • The Detective Pikachu game that was released exclusively to Japan last year has been given a PEGI 3 rating by the European Game Rating board. The rating release also came with an attached release date of December 31st, 2020, however this date is purely a place holder

Special Edition Pikachu 2DS XL

  • It has been confirmed that the special edition Pikachu 2DS XL that was released in Japan earlier this month will be available for purchase in Europe starting January 26th, 2018. No word on release in other regions

LINE

  • For those with the popular messaging app a new set of stickers from The Pokémon Company International are now available to purchase for $1.99//£1.49/¥240

Pokémon Trading Card Game

  • The upcoming TCG set will be called Ultra Prism and features over 150 new cards! This set will introduce the new Prism card which, when discarded or KO-ed, is transferred to the Lost Zone and can’t be recovered. As per official rules only one Prism card can be included in any given deck

Pokémon Duel

  • The Fairy Gym Cup has begun in game
  • Version 5.0.3 of the turn based mobile strategy game is now available! 247MB in size, the update brings new figures and plates, and is required to download in order to continue playing the game:
    • New UX Figure: Mega Scizor
    • New EX Figures: Scizor & Magearna
    • New R Figures: Mr. Mime & Metang
    • New UC Figures: Mime Jr., Beldum, & Togedemaru

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The new Chespin (Winking) stage is now available until December 19th
  • The Shiny Mega Diancie Escalation Battle stage has begun and is available until
  • The following stages have begun repeat runs until December 19th: Nihilego, Tornadus (Therian Form), Deoxys (Attack Form), and Delibird (Holiday)
  • With the latest update several new main stages have been added to the game

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

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Smearg

Foil Island

Conglome NERD

alcremie sundae

Radiant Blutle

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Dragoniteo

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1,123 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 12/11-12/17”

  4. Those transparent pokeballs are pretty cool. I also rather like that evil team phone cover or whatever it is. Also sleepy Rowlet in the bag <3

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  6. If Detective Pikachu comes in 2020… I will not be too happy

    But happy note I caught a Voltorb in Go that randomly spawned

    And question for those who saw the last Jedi
    Does r2d2 die? I thought I heard this, but I could be wrong

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  7. I’ve been looking for Poipole on the GTS… The first time I started looking I found one that was requesting a Dewpider (which I had), but someone got it before me :/
    I’ve not been able to find another one since

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  9. Headcanon Time:
    Sinnoh’s routes are 201+ because it’s the northernmost Region in the Japan
    Hoenn’s are 101+ because it’s the southernmost.
    Kanto and Johto are 1+ because they’re central.

    headcanon is odd hundreds are between Hoenn and Johto and Evens are between Sinnoh and Kanto.

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    • I think it’s more just a way of keeping Gens 1-4 connected but still different.
      Kanto obviously would have the route numbers in the 1-10s because it was the first region
      Johto it makes sense to continue from Kanto given that they’re directly connected
      Hoenn is farther from Kanto/Johto, so its routes start from 100 (like a half-reboot)
      Sinnoh does the same thing b/c it’s not directly linked to Kanto, Johto, or Hoenn, and starts from 200 b/c Hoenn already started from 100
      Unova is an actual reboot of sorts, so it started from 1 again. And then there’s no point to go back into the 100s/200s again so Kalos and Alola each start from 1 as well (you could also make some sort of distance argument).

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          • Yes I understand, I felt bad b/c I didn’t know that was the official reason, nor that there was one in the first place

          • Oh sorry dude I presumed you were apologising for not knowing his headcanon was official or something and I’m just generally confused

          • My Headcanon was the Even/Odd Routes thing and He Responded with the official Reason GF gave to Route Numbers Resetting and Didn’t know that was a thing.

          • as you said, the official reason was because Hoenn and Sinnoh weren’t directly connected to Kanto and Johto, and the Sevii islands have no route numbers as to not make people think you could go to Johto in FRLG, and since New York, France and Hawaii are so far away they started over from 1.

  10. So We know Lieutenant Surge is American and took part in some Modern Pokemon War, we just don’t know where from, he could be from Unova, Orre or Alola since all of them are Based on parts of the USA, or somewhere they haven’t invented yet. I want to know how/why he decided to settle in Japan.

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  11. Question: Have you ever tried designing a region based on a place in the real world?
    I’ve been trying to base one on greece for years now.

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  12. *SPOILERS for TLJ*
    Can we have an appreciation thread for how great the Cruiser lightspeed crash scene was? Like, one of the best moments in cinema ever and a great use of using silence. Even though you knew what Holdo was trying to do, the whole theater jawdropped for like half a minute when you saw what happened. Really amazing.

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  15. I hate myself…..I want the Pokeball 2ds, but that’d be such a HUUUUGE waste of money that I can’t possibly justify it. Especially since Pokemon will be going to the Switch anyway (eventually)………*sigh*

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  16. So apparently I haven’t played Ultra Moon since November 25…I’m still at the beginning of Poni Island, but I’ll make the completion of the story a priority for the day. Things have just been so crazy with finals and life stuff, I guess I never realized how long it’s been.

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  17. Oh right I forgot to mention how pissy I am that then ended season 1 one of SuMo while in Japan its still going on

    So we were 7ish episodes behind in the US, now because season’s take typically a month or so breaks we’ll 15 or 16 or more behind. Not to happy about it

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  18. I have a feeling that Nintendo of America is waiting to reveal the Pikachu 2DS XL until the January Nintendo Direct. Just a hunch that I have, for anyone who is waiting for that.

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  21. Ughhhhhh i’m bummed out…..my brother let me in on what he’s buying for the family for X-Mas and he’s already spent 500 bucks on stuff making me feel like a cheapskate……

    I suck at getting people gifts

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  22. Interesting… according to the wiki,

    SuMo sold less than XY and BW sold even less than both. And HGSS is the second lowest Pokémon game in the Top 41 most sold Nintendo games being in 32 while beating FRLG by one place

    And oddly BW2, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum aren’t even on the list at all (Note yellow and ORAS are on the list so they aren’t just clumped together)… Also RBG is the 5th highest sold video game in Nintendo history only beaten by the original Mario game, Both Wii sports games and Mario Kart Wii

    Don’t believe me?
    http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_selling_Nintendo_games

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    • XY was way more hyped than Sun and Moon because they were capitalizing on the growing 3DS hardware and transitioning from 2D sprites to 3D models. The same thing will happen with the Switch game(s) for obvious reasons, and then Gen 9 will likely dip again.

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  25. Well my crystal run is going….swimmingly as planned
    Feraligatr
    Donphan
    Ursaring
    Crobat (newly evolved after nine proteins and a shiatsu)
    Pupitar (which i’m enjoying actually leveling for once)

    i feel like doing RSE after this

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