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

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Radiant Blutle

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

  3. I’m on phse 3 of shiny Timid UB Burst.
    Phase 1 non timid shiny blacephalon
    Phase 2 was a Bold shiny Trumbeak.
    It’s annoying how it’s not timid. I swear Sync never works. 50% more like 5%

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  4. Am I the only one who thinks the use of the Joycons for throwing Pokeballs and doing the Z move dances is not that amazing of an idea? I can’t imagine myself wanting to do it like EVERY time. Like most of the time I’ll be using a pro controller when playing on TV and when I’m on the go the Joycons will be attached to the Switch anyway. It’s a fun gimmick, but I can’t see myself doing it more than a handful of times.

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  9. Well i hate my brother again, he thinks that the whole Net Neutrality outrage is just one gigantic emotional pandering panic to win media
    that anyone voicing their displeasure (mostly celebrities) are just doing it for some alternative motive

    i really just want to punch him in his big fat brainwashed stoner face

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  11. Wow apparently development on the next Zelda game has already started. I dont have any links to an interview but HMK made a video about it

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  14. So like obviously we were speaking about Net Neutrality which upset. Alit of people but what’s everyone’s greatest part of 2017 so far?

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  16. To all upset about NN’s loss. I suggest becoming a well researched conspiracy theorist. Not a looney.. Don’t watch Alex Jones.. He’s a double agent. But, think about it.
    Trump Didn’t win the popular vote…
    Meaning he didn’t get the most votes…
    Electoral college decided 4 us.
    A bunch of creepy old people in each state we know nothing about and have never seen.
    Because of some old outdated system We never even voted for..
    Next.. All it takes is a little research to see that Everyone and their grandmother was against NN’s removal. Even many Republican’s.. they are just the fall guys for everyone to point their finger at and blame.
    Yet it Still went through. We lost NN.
    Why?
    Because our opinions and votes are an Illusion.
    Media is only around to brainwash us. Get us use to their next idea for us. And make us Feel as if we are winning each time when They really are. Or if they can’t do that.. they choose a common enemy in plain sight we can all point blame at. Ie Republican this time.
    Don’t give up.. loose hope. Just knowing this means no one can ever play you again.
    The system is a joke.
    I’ll leave you this: Research “Lee Harvey Oswald Patsy quote” The Man who allegedly Assassinated John F. Kennedy (who was supposedly about to reveal something big about our government) he was a well known communist.
    Everyone hated communist at the time.
    He claims he was a patsy.. and killed no one..
    It’s chilling

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  19. Let’s see, what would happen if EVERY single Clinton voter moved to Canada:
    Clinton voters: 65,853,516
    Canadian citizens: 35,151,728
    Most likely cities that Americnas would head to: Missiauga, Toronto, London, Windsor, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Montréal.
    Canada after the addition of the clinton voters:
    101,005,244
    % of the new Canada population Canadian: ~35%
    % of the new Canada population American: ~65%

    So Canada would immediately become a majority American country, and most likely would shift to the right because of this, politically (The US is fairly more right-wing than Canada overall). Most likely independent movements in Quebec would pick up speed as most likely the new American arrivals wouldn’t really try to speak French and they’d get upset about that. Also, considering the U.S hated any British influence over their land, they’d demand Canada to exit the Commonwealth.
    So yeah, Canada would go from a bilingual constitutional monarch, at a safe and low 35 million population, to a staggering 101 million, majority Americans, and turn into most likely a republic like the U.S. This isn’t mean to be anti-American but yeah, you could see the issues with all the Clinton voters who hypothetically move here.

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  21. I’m going to make some baseless and not-so-baseless predictions about “Zelda 2020” since that’s a big news story right now.
    -Release: probably 2021.
    -Will make complete use of HD Rumble and technically be the Switch’s first and (possibly only) exclusive 3D Zelda game. Aonuma said he wanted to use those features but couldn’t.
    -Will rely heavily on BoTW’s engine but run at better than 30FPS most of the time and have better visual fidelity, since it doesn’t have to cut corners for the Wii U.
    -Possible return to a concept from early BoTW development…alien invasion? That would be crazy enough to warrant a Majora’s Mask-like apocalyptic story. It’s no coincidence that there are aliens in that game as well.
    -Stronger focus on masks, further connecting to MM.
    -optional Skyward Sword-like motion controls
    -Hyrule includes artificial portals to the alien world which is merging with Hyrule
    -Completely baseless prediction: there will be other alien species that Link encounters on his journey which fight the alien menace, which are very very very VERY distant relatives to the four species from BoTW (Goron, Gerudo, Zora, Ruto). They evolved and left Hyrule millions of years ago

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  24. We all know that a regional variant of Rhyperior would irritate Earthen to no end, but what would anger him more…if Rhyperior became Rock/Fairy or Fairy/Ground?

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