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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:
Finished every single kingdom’s moon and coins except for the Darker Side and the Mushroom Kingdom
Good luck you gonna need it
when you get to Darker change the music to Honeylune Escape fits it so much better
I’m almost done getting all the moons but I’m not daring to get the 100 Volleyball/Jump rope challenges
There is a pretty easy glitch you can do to get the jump rope one and the volley ball is actually really easy. Just use 2 player mode and use crappy because he’s faster
Hey, I really like Cappy! Attack Alolan rotom not that beautiful hat.
I finally finished Ultra Moon’s main story! I could have done it weeks ago but I didn’t feel like it for some reason. I love the little animations that happen during the final credits – it brings me back to Drill Dozer for some reason. On to Rainbow Rocket, wormhole shiny hunting, and of course Pokedex completion!
Give me this Umbreon cub
Damn us update. Just got the sun flute. But my medicine has me tired so I will continue in the morning. going to hold off on a team update until after I get my final team member which I am getting really close to! So excited to use this particular Pokémon! That said I am off to bed lol
1100 encoutners in I got shiny Latias
….rash natured…
Fugg
Gl next time :/
It happens I ‘spose
Seraph I gotta tell you something in private
Nani?
Are you trying for Timid?
Was
Oh, I had this when I went for Shiny Uxie in Alpha, I reset and got Bold later after a long long time.
Reset
Not after last time
Woooo
https://twitter.com/AllSourceGaming/status/942636669575905280?s=17
Okay seriously I just lost to trash cause they got a 10% paralysis off thunderbolt on my scarfer and it got paralyzed and died…
Fucc Pokemon..
Be nice to Garbodor.
I can’t be man
I always loved Trubbish
Yeah Cloyster is SOOO easy to counter
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-675856366
Jesus christ that was the dumbest player I’ve ever seen in my fucking life XD
If they clicked umbreon from square one they would have killed it
He be like
Yo want this W? Here’s my entire fucking team
Because his team was bad
Just salted down to 1100 on showdown
Why does this fucking happen
Happens to me all the time
But I’m working on my you-know-what strategy and it’s getting better
Battle meeeee
Not when im this tilted
This wont make you more mad. Plus it wont eve affect rank
I’m gonna start Showdown again and get rekt ?
Hey did you ever find all the members on that type list?
Yup, I actually got someone for rock which was a surprise and a half
I actually like quite a few Rock types, it just isn’t close to being my favourite type.
I like individual rock types but I don’t like the type as a whole
Now lets make a tournament
If you dont want to, give me the list and I’ll make it
Don’t know how much people will sign up for it but part of the reason I made this list was so if people pick types again it’s easier so here it is:
Normal – Kuppo
Grass – Carrot
Fire – Govnah
Water – Kurusu
Electric – Legume
Bug – Ultron
Flying – Butter
Poison – Fairy
Rock – Chaos
Ground – Earthen
Fighting -Alex
Psychic – Monkeyfuzz
Ice – Armaggedon
Ghost – Seraph
Steel – NintendoChip
Dark – Shady
Dragon -Cascoon
Fairy – Star
Yea probably no one tbh. Maybe 5 people here battle. I’ll make it if most people want it, but it doesnt seem that way. But it is quite an interesting list to look at. And see what people picked
I’ll join depending on when it is, I want to get back into comp so it’s a decent incentovwb
*incentive
If you make some kinda tourney I’d be interested to join just let me know when and what :]
If you enter it
I’ll destroy you entirely
Yes, this is haiku
Lets do this fam!
Common symptoms of playing Showdown:
1) Literally turning into Earthen
IE: making a update every time something happens on showdown, letting the world know youre salty for losing,
Next is posting your wins and bragging even if you got lucky/played bad player
Here’s this amazing win of me beating a team of six Golisopod
Hey Golisopod is awesome it’s just difficult to use
Like I say bulky build with SD Leech can work
I’m experimenting if things like red card can negate EE
It doesn’t negate it, it might slightly offset the negatives of EE but the ability still activates.
your just terrible
You’re back, are you OK? Sorry if I spoiled any of SW for you.
it was more personal issues i was dealing with and went a bit over board
Oh, well hope it’s resolved or at least better now.
Suck my %#@
lol you would like that wouldnt ya
Maybe not from you
so dont tell me to do it then
Then quit picking on me
Its just who I am.
https://youtu.be/QVssgfHwNHc
right back ya
I mean it’s sorta trash and running swords dance on it is basically about as useful as running calm mind on a komala
That’s why you don’t set it up its exactly my kind of Pokémon
No status moves just brute force attacks (I hate using status moves)
Status moves help you win though
Status moves take up time and waste a move slot
My in game team almost always has only attacks and status (unless it’s something like protect or those kinds or healing moves like Moonlight)
Ok but that doesn’t fly in competitive
I add status in competitive, but there is one thing I refuse to do
4 status moves, as if you get to it being your last Pokémon your dead because it can’t do anything
Finally finished my Charmander apricorn collection. Still a lot to go to complete my full Apricorn collection. If anyone has any of the new USUM combinations and wants to trade let me know.
Okay stopping showdown for today
I need to retain my sanity somewhat
you are the smart one of the showdown duo then
Yee, I finished up on a good note so
Oh now you stop without playing with me/ Really feeling the love here
I just got dicked like thirty times man. I gotta stop
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c5225e07eabb2850955b31220c4c810659a4ee992ea4321c6f00fb3df780942b.png
Jesus fucking christ
Exactly
And I thought Rhyperior couldnt get uglier.
I was right
Earthen during high school
Introducing mr. pedoperior
you kunt
Yay I looked up how GF actually draws starters and this is what I have created (Note I haven’t shaded, outlined or colored yet) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45fc9c303c987cc4dd0b89f947711ed1945bfc7a42f113c0758a8b2d95456a62.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/53997d8edca8bb91ab327e8ae8bd7543c7db9d70ddcf5159fd7017da817b6ed3.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1f8ccbf624808e60a65bf6e68d983c4cdcaadc919b658ab6a438aae716e30833.jpg
You’re definitely improving but your drawings are very flat, which is okay for concept art (useful, even) but not so much for showcase art. Although that’s hard to do so all you can do is improve dude 😀
True, I know there’s still much to do, but I am proud I finally came up with a drawing for Womberry that I like (The Legs were the problem so he sat down this time to make it easier to do)
Well I finally did some shopping and all remains is two people
Me and whoelse?
nope that diseased alpaca carcass is scheduled to arrive a little after the 25th
My family will get cards and they’ll damn well like it
Ok?… someone explain this to me and tell me if I’m wrong that its stupid
http://www.animemaru.com/smogon-bans-pikachu-from-pokemon-anime/
Like what does it mean “Pikachu’s banned from the anime”? This doesn’t make any sense to me at all
It’s a joke about how Pikachu is too strong in the anime and they crossreferenced a fake Smogon decision as the punchline.
Oh… alright then, that’s probably why I was so confused
At first I thought either Ash hat Pikachu was banned or Ash was going to lose Pikachu
Christmas, a time for family. What do you think your role is in the Pokejungle family?
The youngest child who asks many questions as he understands nothing
Earthen is probably the grumpy dad or uncle
Earthen is the uncle that makes all those silly jokes and laughs too hard at them.
=__=
Oh that’s cute
no….it’s morbidly appalling
Bossy mom.
You’re not my real MOM
I’m a gay sister who everyone is slightly disappointed in because I want to do art and not something that would make…. money
You’re so not going out in that dress, you hear that, lady!
Shut up mom I can do what I want
Not with those shoes child
Fuuck off I payed 200 dollars for these
And peoples faces when they see you in that tacky outfit will be priceless young lady ?
Bitch you don’t know fashion
The forgottn/avoided one. Sass level probably too high here to be listened to
The one that merely exists.
You’re the Great electron!
https://youtu.be/woFPXbC-Zoc
Pls. Tell me this is the correct video
If not try this one
Son of a… I forgot the link
https://youtu.be/UfJhPbFW6qk
I’m honestly suprised Kurusu knows who George Carlie is
I know him well, I think he’s hilarious
I bet he’s down there now, screaming up at us
No. More like the level headed Jungler that people can count on!
Probably the weird cousin who keeps trying to talk about conspiracy theories at the dinner table.
Who made the pyramids cuz?
It was the Annunaki my man.
Bitchy uncle who judges you and appears to have obvious favorites but low key actually loves everyone and wants them to do their best
Great! Maybe I’ve misunderstood you and you’re quite nice after all!
I’d say I’m the adventurous warrior of the Jungle.
What the hell does that mean
Sit down at the table and eat your peas
You’ll have to give me more than peas to sit me down, sister!
You’re adopted you bitch stop making a scene. We’re trying to have a nice dinner for one
With that attitude you’re not getting deserts, how disappointing!
Everyone else here just wants to have dinner. This is why you weren’t invited to Christmas last year
pretty much designated crap and ridicule receptacle
Naah. A better description of you is I’d say the Jungler who is tough,resilient in character and someone who likes to take risks and enjoy life.
You’re low key one of my favorites
Earthen’s one of my highkey favorites because he’ll say whatever he wants and he has those rare sweet moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFyJIDGztA
Earthen is a low key sweetheart
Shaddup
:3
Nah you the sorta grumpy uncle who speaks his mind and does as he pleases
That one who genuinely has their life together
Jokes aside I’m actually glad to hear that someone on here actually has a well composed life :p
im the mama
Oh cool we have two moms :0
you my daughter
Ye
Its a hoax designed by corporations to leech money off civilians, like with Valentines Day.
The adopted one from a foreign country.
The one who does nothing but spout memes and shitposts
The rebellious kid who never comes to family reunions
The brother who gets outboyed by the goils
The young cousin from some weird country
The one people aren’t even sure if it’s part of their family or not
The guardian of gen 4/ The asshole who can sometimes be nice.
Wise grandpa who realize that that humanity was a mistake
I CANNOT post the image for some reason, but late last night I found a shiny Sigilyph in the Ultra Wormhole! I just unlocked it yesterday so I consider this to be a great achievement. It’s also Docile nature which doesn’t seem all too bad. Don’t forget, it’s Psychic/Flying like a certain green bird, meaning I’ve always liked it a lot!
Sucks disqus being weird, Thts an amazing shiny too! I would train it and use it in RR since I know you just beat thegame
Thanks, I love it too! I’ll keep trying until I get Drapion, that’s my goal for sure. I was actually going to ask a question about that, I’ve read that if I wanted to hunt shiny Stakataka yet also unlock Rainbow Rocket I could catch one Stakataka and kill the other one, then return later to shiny hunt the remaining one? Does anyone know anything about this before I do something stupid?
You dont have to kill it. What Im doing is Ty to find the first one. Not shiny then SR then encounter first again not shiny RE. so on.
Personally Im gonna use a team of 6 shiny legends for RR it would be pretty fun
So you’re saying I can run away from both of them, unlock and beat RR, then come back and have another shot at them being shiny? That doesn’t make much sense to me.
Well you would have to SR after you encounter both. So it resets the UB’s odds again
There was a guy on Gamefaqs who said he caught one, killed the other one, beat RR and came back to soft reset for the one he killed, and claimed that he was able to find the shiny. This is possible or not?
Not sure…
I’m at that part in the game, and I did some testing. The only thing I’ve concluded is that if you run away from both Stakataka, the “mission” ends. I don’t know if you can go back and get them though after doing RR — I don’t want to lose them for good on accident.
All I know is that they keep respawning after you run away or knock them out until you catch both, but you have to exit the area of course. In an ideal world, I’d like to catch one for the pokedex and save the other one for later to soft reset, but I’m hearing mixed reports about whether it’s possible. I don’t want to wait until I finish soft resetting (which may never happen) to unlock Rainbow Rocket.
That’s exactly what I wanted to do too. I’ll see if running away from both, then exiting and coming back will let you get them again.
They’re encounters in Poni Grove (so it’s not like they have an overworld that you interact with). I think the first two encounters are always the UB, and then the mission ends, but I’m not sure if they’ll come back or not if I leave and come back.
Thank you, however my main question beyond that is whether that resets the shiny odds or not. Apparently this did work for someone, and I guess I can take their word for it since they made the topic asking about it in the first place.
So when the mission ends, you’re transported back home and then immediately thrown into the RR story. So I can’t fly back and see if they reset or not.
I don’t see why it would change the odds…do they have greater odds during the mission?
Well i steamrolled the E4 in Crystal
Feraligatr 52
Donphan 50
Ursaring 51
Crobat 51
Heracross 50
Pupitar 51
definitely gonna do some RES but maybe try to find a better randomizer
Pupitar being a late Evo keeps me up at night
true dat and the sheer fact that they made this thing severely late makes me all the more angry
yeah Mt. Makes sense but maybe just maybe they could’ve made Larvitar be available in Mt. Mortar at like a 1% rarity
I’m glad i got one as early as Headbutt because not only is having a decent Rock type really good for any in-game team but its one of my unacknowledged favorites and i feel the best way to really bond is to use it right in the beginning and yadda yadda i love this cute little dino bug
you are always angry
And this is news how?
Should’ve been a rare Mt Mortar who that evolves at Level 25-30 and then Level 50 imo
Houndour, Murkrow, Misdreavus and Sneasel also should have been rare instead if none existent (Granted Sneasel moved in Crystal, but that’s beside the point)
Zwelious keeps me up at night
Latest evolving Pokémon in the game
At least it has evolved once. Larvesta is the worst for evolution level.
^This, so much.
I’ll probably start my sillver soon
Looking forward to the anime New Year’s 2-hour special next week. They promised to showcase information for whats in store in 2018 in regards to the anime. Hopefully some captures and evolutions soon because it cant go on like this
Splain?
what?
Inb4 it is only the last 30 seconds of the show that has new footage.
I wish the season didn’t end in the US…
Volcarona should’ve of been a pseudo and we should’ve had a cocoon like middle evo to the line
Volcarona is still perfection
Perfection that should’ve been a pseudo
http://archive-media-0.nyafuu.com/vp/image/1363/74/1363747410586.png
Are those sneaky pebbles
Yeah
Bug pseudo
That sounds cool :0
We’ve only had 1 non-dragon pseudo so far. Hopefully gen 8 introduces another
2..
I hope that you forgot Metagross and not Tyranitar.
Metagross is in my top 5 favorite mons how can i forget it :O
I hope that you Tyranitar as more highly ranked than Metagross.
I like TT a lot but it doesnt make my top 5. Probably top 15 tho
True. Still an amazing mon
Seeing how the family comment got discussion revved up, what would your role be in a Pokejungle pantheon?
Idk what that is
A Pantheon is a set of Gods in a Polytheistic Religion. Also a Roman-Temple-Turned-Church, not to be cpnfused with the Parthenon, which is a former temple of Athena in Greece.
It has been a tough week because of last exams that can’t be called finals because of Hurricane Irma but are still treated like Finals. However, after tomorrow I will finally be free of this semester and can once again pick up UM. I am kind of glad that they released the 3rd Gen on Pokémon Go. It has made walking around campus more enjoyable. I am quite glad with my roster as is. Despite breaks that lasted between 3 and 6 months I have plenty of strong Pokémon.
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My best in GO has like 1025 CP lol i hardly play it
It probably has to do with my area. I lived at and now near a college campus so there is a *beep* ton of Pokestops.
My highest is my 1940CP Rhydon, Killa Drilla
My top 6 is
Rhydon, Ursaring, Arcanine, Starmie, Houndoom and Vileplume
I am holding off on a Vileplume and Bellossom (even though I have 450 Oddish candies and a Sun Stone because I want one with near perfect IVs) because I have been unlucky with my catches. So that is something you have over me!
I have good luck with Oddish oddly enough
I always find them with like 400 to 900 cp
You should force your Exeggutor to learn neckcerizes.
I don’t know what to do about Christmas…I’ve never really given gifts before but have always been given big gifts by my parents, and now that I have all of this money of my own I would feel guilty if I got the PSVR I asked for and gave nothing in return. None of us are that close and I just don’t know what they would like. Any advice for me during this moral dilemma?
Give them a gift card to their favorite food places.Or maybe give some pajamas. You can also never go wrong with a jacket
F*CK YEAH!
https://twitter.com/jynxclub/status/942827530695819265
….Or maybe they’re discussing about the arts of Joy-Cons.
Repost cuz reasons:
What so F*CK YEAH about that? This doesn’t show anything that interesting other than Z-Moves coming back ( which is obvious) and…. the fact that it uses joy cons? idk
A main series pokemon game where you throw Poke Balls with motion controlling sounds frickin awesome!
Yeah, like Wii Sports! Everyone still loves that game!
Wii don’t!
… really? If anyone still uses that lol
I think they should make Gen 8 based off of a NON-EXISTING country, you know, one that died off long ago. Siam, Yugoslavia, Abyssinia, Kampuchea, Rhodesia, Aztec Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Zanzibar, so on…I’m serious.
Why tho?…
Nah, unless the game takes place in the past as well (which it won’t)
They should have it be that you awake 100 years after the main game and have to look for memories of you doing the gyms.
That’s confusing like, you mean in a cultural way? Cuz in a territorial way that just ridiculous lol
But why would they do that instead of doing real and more recognizable countries and regions?
Because there are no good countries in the world except of course Finland, Canada, Norway, Slovenia, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile and Cuba.
I like how this barely answer my question because some of these countries are recognizable enough to be a Pkm region :p
Sure but it’d be nice if we explore a current region that was once an old region based off an old country.
What about Australia or New Zealand?
New Zealand yes, but ehh to Australia.