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:
Definitely think I will get Crystal. I never owned it for real and I think I want to shiny hunt Ho-Oh and Lugia on it.
There’s some merchandise here that interests me but we probably won’t get it here, might be on ebay I guess. The Salandit plush, Chimchar line figures, Decidueye figure, Alolan Marowak figure and clear Pokeballs all look good to me.
Shiny Huntin’ in Crystal…..have fun descending into madness
Why? Sure there’s no shiny charm but I think I’ll manage. Also I don’t need to worry about nature since that’s decided by exp.
Just Remember, because Shininess and Gender are both tied to the Attack DV, Female Starters and others with that Gender Ratio can never be Shiny. Females also have low Attack.
That’s fine, I’m only going for the legends shiny really.
10 in Speed Defense and Special and 1 of 8 values for Attack DVs
OK thanks, though I’m not sure if there’s a way to affect those or not.
I know just wanted to put it out there.
It was the first pokemon game i actually properly played all the way through, it has great emotional value to me. Definitely getting it as well
Yay, Pokemon I Choose You is on Kissanime now! Should I go for the dub? That’s what I’m most used to listening to, I’m probably immune to the toxicity.
It’s more Lactose Intolerance, because THE CHEESE.
although the last time I actually remember watching the Dub was one of the Nacrene City Episodes.
The best version of that movie to watch is the one where you don’t watch it at all
God damn…however, I’m a masochist so I want to see what the kids are watching these days. Sub it is.
wait sub? don’t you mean dub?
I may be a masochist, but I don’t want to die just yet.
I won’t lie……the dub is REALLY bad, i felt like punching my face to protect itself from permanent damage
It’s not that bad….it’s pretty par for the course. Not great, but not the worst thing in the world. There are worse dubs
whatever i punched myself to spare me the cringe
and i came out with only minor drain babage
Hey, that’s my dad’s joke. We have patent pending.
Pending schmending
……crapballs, I beat Clair and i forgot i need some sucker to know Whirlpool and now i gotta find something i can use since normally i used Gyarados but i kinda….made it a Scizor which can’t do it
https://pa1.narvii.com/6399/7a7292d4a999943dd913f25b59c4072eb23d2ab5_hq.gif
looks quenching
Let’s be real here. I may have asked this before.
Is money a bad gift?
Personally I say no because thats like a wild card and can spend it on anything they want, but I know some people who say money is a very terrible thoughtless gift. What do you guys think
I remember one time my parents gave us each $500 dollars for christmas, and I thought it was one of the best christmases
O_O on top of presents or just that….
Just that. It’s usually $250-$350 on top of bad presents because my parents suck at giving gifts.
and you say you’re not rich
…………… I hope you realise how batshit crazy amount of money that is and that although there’s nothing wrong with getting that amount, just know that not everyone has such things in their life.
? I guess? I still don’t have a switch so they slacking. But I guess I dont need it until Pokemon comes out
Are your parents like this?! https://media.giphy.com/media/yJu2jIQZgPubm/giphy.gif
No my parents are not rich lol. It kinda It’s just Christmas you know. Giving gifts, silly. Go all out on Christmas. It’s about time I get some gifts too. There’s 9 of them (8 kids including me and 2 parents) so I just want to give money so I dont accidentally mess up on something
Not rich, maybe not multimillionaire but I doubt your parents make anything less than six figures together.
No, I think it’s better than getting something the other person might not want if you aren’t sure what to get them.
Giving money to people who dont make their own is fine (kids, nephews,…), for your working friends just give them personal stuff, they can buy all the things they actually need anyway.
So is there a reason why Ultra Necrozma just one-hit KO’d all of my Pokemon and had priority every single time, or do I just suck?
Nuroforce and all buffs
Is that some kind of hip and trendy punk rock band?
Neuroforce Raises the power of Supereffective moves, and also should be.
no it means that Ultra Necrozma is a big pile of bullshite
But if I literally can’t land a single hit I don’t understand how anyone ever beat this game.
you need a dark type or priority
I just realized, Focus Sash is an answer for getting at least one hit. But I need to stock up on revives, which means I need to leave Megalo Tower. Great stuff.
Grinding, Grinding could work, maybe get some X items?
also Quick Claw?
I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to grind in a Pokemon game…what is this parallel universe?
X items might even the playing field since he gets free boosts.
they were Buffed this Gen too.
maybe gen 4 was the last one
This is going to sound crazy but my Focus Sash literally disappeared after the Necrozma fight. I think there’s some kind of bug in the game, I’m not making it up.
Focus Sash? it disappears after it saves you, in exchange it always activates that one time. unless you meant band.
Yeah and sadly Band is a pretty risky item as you have a 1/10 chance of saving 1 hp
I was able to beat it fairly easily
I had max affection with incineroar which saved me twice and in turn allowed me to setup two roto boosts after which i OHKO’ed it with malicious moonsault
It’s bad game design IMO. There’s challenging but thats actually bad game design.
Stats higher than Arceus+ totem boost+ Ability that boost SE moves (Its moveset is SE 8 types)+ Level 60 (highest level until you fight champ)= it’s totally just bad game design. You have to cheese it honestly.
Sash+ Toxic+ Heal Spam
oh crap your right it’s the second straight up stronger than god(the other being both Mewtwo’s who are 26 points better than Ultra Necrozma)
Well I mean plenty of people manage to beat it legit so I’d say it’s more dependant on team which happens when you have over 800 different characters in a game
It’s pretty touch actually. That’s why. It was quite the hard battle and if my Decidueye hadn’t kept a single hp for multiple turns I may have been wiped out too
Did it use Smart Strike only? That’s why, Smart Strike has Priority unless your also using one and you have a higher speed stat
Smart Strike just doesnt miss. no priority
IT’S SWIFT!
Oh nvm then
I thought it was Priority
You probably were cursed by Necrozma’s Evil Eyes.
So I’ve finally started my journey to SR for all the UBs that can be shiny. It’ll be a long journey, bit by the end I’ll have them all. Then maybe I’ll go after the legends. I’ve already caught a small handful of the non legend Pokemon in the wormholes as shinies so I thought I’d try my luck. Got the charm so hopefully it won’t be the worst thing in the world, but there are no guarantees
@TheLastKurusu:disqus you able to trade today?
Atm my DS died and I’m in the car, but once I’m back at home I 100% am ready to go
I am a tad bit sad only cause I wanted to evolve what I was going to give you, but my DS died before it could 🙁
It’s a Natu with a Naive nature that I found
It’s fine, you really don’t have to give me anything. Let me know when you’re ready.
Ok I will it should take anywhere from 20-40 mins. (40 if Traffic is super bad, 20 if we have light traffic)
Alright, I’ll be around, no rush.
Well my DS may be dead, but I got Mr.Mime finally and I’m so close to getting Lanturn and Xatu
Funny how my Chinchou is the same level as my whole team and I need to level it up one above my team to evolve it
What game are you playing?
Ultra Sun
I caught a random Chinchou as they are rare for my dex
Quick question: should i buy an eshop wallet code from a european website, would it still work on my 3DS since i dont live in europe anymore? i havent changed my 3ds location if that helps.
Yes
As long as it is for the region you’re in, then yes.
what does that mean? so i do need to buy a code thats compatible in the Americas?
No, but if you buy a french code for a dutch eshop, it won’t work.
Oh ok but i live in the Caribbean now, which falls under America i think. So if i buy a dutch eshop code, it wont work despite my 3DS location still being europe?
It will work, but you can’t use a german or french eshop code even though they are in Euros.
great, thanks 🙂
I am going to si ng the nations of the world
United States
Canada
Germany
Africa
Anguilla
Somali Brazil
Czechoslovenia
Italy
Turkey
Ricocolombia
Paris Peruvian Pill
why
Quality PokeJungle content #431,189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU
Czechoslovakia doesn’t even exist anymore, and africa isn’t a nation.
1st of all, why was my comment removed?
2nd of all, I know, i was just joking. I can name at least 150 of the 197/8 countries of the world off the head. Here we gp:
– United States
– Canada
– Mexico
– Panama
– Haiti
– Jamaica
– Peru
– Mongolia
– Albania
– UK
– Uganda
– Togo
– Tonga
-Swaziland
I didn’t remove your comment, I’ll check.
Moving did it.
UK isn’t one country.
I know but it’s internationally recognized as a union of four smaller countries as one large country.
Ireland isnt part of the UK
Northern Ireland + Scotland + Wales + England
Forgot NI cos they’re so irrelevant
Still, the UK is a single country, having one unified government. It’s just not the same as Great Britain which is about the islands it’s made off.
It is lol.
Alright it is a country made up of other countries.
There actually is a foolproof way to beat Ultra Necrozma really easily, I just did it. Get a Zoroark, use Toxic the first turn and wait a couple more turns. That’s it.
Additional question: should I not have wasted my Focus Sash? I might restart and do it again without using it, since I think I’m capable of it.
Depends if you need it. You can buy more for BP later.
Okay so it’s unlimited? I won’t bother then, thanks.
It’s not one time use lol.
It is actually, and I can prove it because it disappeared after I fainted from Ultra Necrozma.
What lol, that shouldn’t be happening.
For Sash it does. Only in competitions like online, online battles or battle tree it doesn’t.
Oh, that’s why i thought it was infinite use. Stupid design :P. reset and keep the sash, it’s a useful online item.
Reminds me of Baton Pass Swords dance speedboost ninjask :O
You can still buy more for BP later though.
Well now that I know it’s unlimited stock, I’ll be getting at least 6 of them anyway. Not going to reset, fight the power.
Aren’t most items now? I think so.
Its so easy to farm BP in these games you can easily buy another Sash after doing 2-3 runs of mantine surf
orrr….
Quick Claw Destiny Knot
*Destiny Bond
Does that work on totems too?
hell yeah
What’s the first bonder you can come accros lol? :p
Gastly I think.
Well i used Gardevoir but Gengar works
How do people soft-reset for Poipole? They go through the entire Ultra Necrozma battle and then do it all again each time? Screw that.
Just reject poipole and come back later
Brought to you by the datings tip for jerks toolbook.
I’ll just wait until Ultra Sun to soft reset for it anyway, I’d like to get Naganadel for the ‘dex.
ZL + ZR + Start/Select
My favourite countries: Siam, Persian, Sassanid Empire, Crete, Kampuchea, French Indochina, French West Africa, Rhodesia, Yugoslavia, Prussia, and Zaire.
Why you spamming though?
It’s only two comments.
Yes but it is totally pointless and leads to no meaningful conversation so it doesnt need to be here
^^^^^^
Fine, me and my two comments will take our business elsewhere! Humph! /s
Verlis is too jokes lmao. Man complains about other poketubers for their clickbait, yet most of his own videos are captioned in big fat capitals yanno.
I see only one problem with your argument.
“Man”
He has a beard so he at least has some male attributes tho 😛
It takes more to be a man than just having a beard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyqb0GMfvE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Didn’t some scandalous event rock Versify and his YT career? Something involving his mother or grandma or grandpa or something around those weird lines?
hmmmm… i dont know how im going to do backgrounds and lighting for this piece… maybe ill just stop for tonight? idk…
Lucky I haven’t even started yet
You probably should fam. The end date is coming up soon.
It’s best to just start
Yeah knowing mine shall be done in colored pencil and Sharpie outline… I don’t have enough access to make art online
Well you can still get pencil sketches done.
Ya know how when you write stuff you never wanna use your first draft? Art is like that. It’s good to correct stuff and make multiple tries at first.
Art has the benefit that you dont have to put in all the detail for your beginning sketches :3
Yeah I may change mine a bit
It was supposed to be a snow day where Pikachu and co. make snowmen
-Pikachu and Mimikyu make a snowman together
-Oshawott finds a Snow Sandygast
-Rowlet gets spooked when Cosmog lands in its and becomes the snowman’s head
-Litwick gets confused when it finds an Alolan Sandshrew curled up like an igloo and Sandshrew likes its head out
But I may change it to just one of these ideas instead
I’d just say keep it simple :3
I forgot my sketch pad and won’t be able to go back for it for a week so I might just crudely draw something on paint.
Just get a piece of paper or something lol
I guess, my sketch pad came vacuum sealed and clean. I have to get some that also feels clean to me. OCD problems :/
Oh Monkeyfuzz I’m ready to trade now and almost online
OK, I’ll be there in a moment.
Aww it’s little Oshawott
Thanks dude!
NP, it has perfect IVs and some egg moves including Sacred Sword. I was breeding them and though you might like one.
Thanks man I love It! I didn’t even know it learned Sacred Sword
It’s a special USUM egg move. I got it on my Smeargle through Kartana and a wild Smeargle and then bred it through.
Thanks man!
Thank you for the Xatu btw, I’m sure I can use it with synchronize at some point.
Your Welcome
Why did they feel the need to turn A Christmas Story into a musical? I’m so confused.
They felt the need to turn Spiderman into as musical
There is no logic to it
Me too it looks so weird
Why is don’t shoot your eye a musical number?
Why is any of this necessary? It’s just obnoxious and disruptive.
Ok so let’s see which idea should I do for PJ art?
-Litwick confused at Alolan Sandshrew because its in an igloo shape
-Rowlet shocked that Cosmog has sat atop its snowman
-Oshawott looking at a Snow Sandygast wondering what’s going on
-Pikachu and Mimikyu building a snowman
Which idea should I do?
which ever one you see yourself enjoying making the most
I can’t decide, mostly torn between Rowlet and Litwick ones
I like the Rowlet one a lot!
Ok I think I’ll do that then
Rowlet will look scared and sort of offended because Cosmog wanted to have a bit of fun
You should draw a Piplup pecking away at a Boldore.
Hmm I feel a Piplup opening a stocking and a Roggenrola falling out because it was naughty would be funnier
Draw a bloody corpse in the snow
But Mimikyu wouldn’t kill a snowman
…..who wouldn’t try
Lol why are most of these something being shocked. I choose the last one
With Litwick its more confused like
“Wait… Why are you moving? You’re an igloo?”
Be honest; what are the chances of me finding as Pheramosa shiny without a shiny charm. 0.5? 0.05? 0.0005?
1 in 4000 ish according to the guy in that building in Heahea.
1 in 4096 in Gen 7, they doubled the Shiny Rate in XY
So a 0.025% chance eh.
I gotta be honest I haven’t turned my 3DS on in over a week… I’m just losing my mojo and my 3DS Battery issue has me too afraid to turn it on
And I’m really having a Skyward Sword craving, mainly the first half when you get to Lanaryu
how old is it? have you replaced the battery before? they’re like 7-14 bucks on Amazon.
Like 4 years and HEAVILY used (and lots of instances where the battery was drained extensively)
And no I never replaced a battery but it’s three screws and a simple pop out, just gotta be super careful with choosing a screwdriver
Thank you for listening to my warning to pick the perfect one
Mine all are stripped so I need to still figure out how to open it fully
A lot of the ones on Amazon(including one I bought but didn’t actually need) come with one.
Totem Ribombee is driving me UP THE WALL. It’s been a month so this isn’t a spoiler anymore. If you don’t beat it within the first few turns you’re basically completely screwed. Ultra Necrozma is like a baby goat compared to the ethereal beast that is Totem Ribombee.
Mudsdale crushed it
Oh never mind, I got it this time with 2 of Archeops’ Acrobatics. Last time it didn’t work because of a second Quiver Dance.
Can someone explain to me why Dragon Claw just beat Blissey in one hit like it was a level 3 Pidgey? Was it a bug? It wasn’t even super effective.
Well despite its overwhelming HP you must take into account level and their piss poor def
I’ve been slaughtering Blissys in Crystal via gameshark and plenty of them die in one hit
Why the heck is Blissey not part-Fairy?
It’s a big fat egg,
I don’t know, it should be. But there seriously is no way that Dragon Claw could beat Blissey in one hit (quickly) at full health.
You want to break the meta?
It opens weaknesses to Poison and Steel, but gives it STAB Dazzling Gleam
……are you seriously?
When have you EVER seen a Blissy attack that wasn’t Counter or Seismic Toss
Few, very few
This would give it a new move to utilize that will never miss
…that’s dumb it’s always
Stealth Rock
Soft boiled
Aromatherapy
Counter/Seismic Toss/Toxic
No exceptions
It’s just stupid for a Fairy type to suddenly lose its Fairy typing at the final evolution, considering they LOOK EXTREMELY SIMILAR and have no physical traits showing them dropping it.
Chansey isn’t Fairy, neither is Happiny. They never have been.
Oh wait a second Blissey isn’t Clzfairy’s evolution why was I thinking that?
10 base def
Well here’s what I’ve done tonight https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/799e8d9275c9f766a5198b4e243fba1ca09e307697aa025232bab53e907c1f85.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ed2cc97062adca23d65e453a0e66ac48cb10061dfc6cc77cb47591738cf8d261.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/439ee3b91d991adbe3e1269b323331e0d674dbd4f52cd4f40c6a3c96230f8f79.jpg
I always like seeing Xatu with shades.
I thought this was perfect for it
The smart glasses, the Lunar theme
It just fits
Ok I got a fun little question say you had to live in a video game world
What series would you pick and what level or world you pick
(Please note that you’re most likely going to have to build your home and need supplies)
The Sims.
But as a god or a pathetic insignificant coded sheep constantly getting trapped in the bathroom or drowning in a pool?
Oh, do we have to abide by controls? I thought we just had to live in the world on our own.
Well I mean it kinda goes without saying that elements of the game have a factor
Probably Kirby Triple Deluxe and World 1
Lots of trees and little Waddle Dee’s roaming
Mmmmmm Waddle Dees make…..I’m assuming bland tasteless meat but there’s plenty of them
Oh I was meaning for them helping me
I’d probably attack that bug enemy where you need to hit its shell off
I can’t decide between BOTW Hyrule because let’s face it it’s just so much variety and with plenty of Bokoblins to piss off it wouldn’t be boring
Or maybe Fallout, me and my brother adore the series and often talked about post apocalyptic scenarios
Or maybe in the Luncheon Kingdom in Odyssey I do like big food (I wanted those mussels)
Gerudo Town or Zora’ Domain.
Hmmm my choice of mocha Amazons or seafood…
Gotta go with a nice 8ft tall Vai
Sorry, I change my answer to Zora’s Domain.
You just wanna be close to Sidon
Pokemon of course.
Probably Slateport City. Next to a contest, Gym is ahead. It’s a pretty nice place. And the music is awesome
Mmmm right on the beach and a dandy outdoor market I’ve always wanted that kinda place
But the music I feel could get old fast it ain’t like Sunyshore
Waitasecond
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/88/Slateport_City_RS.png/250px-Slateport_City_RS.png
Outside maybe those two buildings there’s very little residential housing
Golden Sun. Vale.
Jeebus that looks big
Persona, but only if I get one (A Persona, I mean).
FFXV. Altissia
So apparently on the 28th there’s going to be a special or something that’ll talk about past episodes leading up to the current and then also whats’ to come in the series as well. Maybe we can get a good idea of how much the SM anime seasons has left. If they tease a long arc like the Orange islands/Decolore/BF then that should be telling us enough to know how much we have before a proper announcement of the next gen. If we only see teases of Ula’ula and maybe some small stuff the who knows. The anime has been burning through content left and right and a sudden slow down would be jarring. Unless they have another filler arc that has a TON of content then I can’t imagine what they would fill almost 2 years with.
We shall see I guess. I think a lot of people are jumping to conclusions right now just because zeraora wasn’t revealed. Some are automatically saying that means gen 7 will last three years and gen 8 won’t come until 2019. 2018 is still very possible same with 2019. We can only wait and see. Either way I expect our first trailer for the switch games at E3 at the latest
Yeah I’m still on the fence. I’m willing to wait and see before definitively saying anything one way or the other, but things are definitely looking odd. Something has gotta give. Either the anime has to slow down rapidly or the game will be out this year
Personally I think the games come out late 2018 to early 2019. We shall see. Either way I am planning to try and go in blind and only see the three starters and cover legends. Botw is what made me decide to do this. I managed to remain spoiler free with that game and it was one of the best video games experiences I have ever had. I want that feeling of not knowing what to expect in Pokémon again. The shock of seeing a new Pokémon for first time and being shocked at how my starter evolves