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This Week’s Big Stories
Happy New Year! Giveaway Winners and More!
Pokémon Fans Should be First to Denounce Logan Paul
Kanto or Sinnoh: Which Will See Switch Remake?
Event Reminder
- Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon’s first global event is due to end this Wednesday! This distribution gives you a Level 10 Rockruff, holding a Focus Band, with the ability Own Tempo, and the moves Fire Fang (Ultra Sun)/Thunder Fang (Ultra Moon) and Happy Hour. This special Rockruff is the only legitimate way one can obtain Dusk Form Lycanroc in game (Evolve at Level 25 between 5pm and 5:59pm), however it can be bred to give offspring Rockruff the Own Tempo ability. As long as a Rockruff has this ability, it can evolve to Dusk Form Lycanroc.
Pokkén Tournament
- The Dynamic Fury Group Match has been announced and will take place from January 19th to January 22nd! This special Group Match is once again a Team Battle competition on a fixed arena. Participants will receive a special title based on Machamp, while those who place higher will gain other titles as a reward
- The first qualifier for the 2018 Pokkén Tournament DX World Championships will take place at the Oceania International Championships in Sydney, February 10th & 11th! There are 100 entry places available with the winners gaining access to play at the World Championships this August in Nashville, Tennessee
My Nintendo Rewards
- For those who are part of the My Nintendo rewards in Europe, you can now get a 30% discount coupon for Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon until January 11th – this brings down the price of the game to £24.49/€27.99
Pokémon GO
- Out of nowhere region exclusives Seviper and Zangoose have migrated between their two regions. Those in the Americas and Africa can now find Seviper out in the wild while residents of Europe & Asia can now catch Zangoose. There’s no word on if or when they will switch back to their original regions, so get out there and GO catch them while you can!
Pokémon Shuffle
- The new Guzzlord stage is now available until until January 16th – it requires 20,000 coins to play, and can only be done 10 times total during this run
- The new Kommo-o stage is also available until January 16th
- A new Pokémon Safari featuring Jangmo-o, Hakamo-o, Sandygast, Hoppip (Winking), Skiploom (Winking), Jumpluff (Winking), Cherubi (Winking), and Cherrim (Winking) is now live in game until January 16th
- The Shiny Mega Charizard X Competitive stage is running until January 9th
- The following stages have begun repeat runs until January 9th: Alolan Ninetales, Black Kyurem, Kyogre, & Reshiram
Unfortunately no new official merchandise leaked or was revealed this week. Check out this promotional poster announcing the new collaboration of Karel Capek Designs and Pokémon Centers! These tea-centric products will go on sale February 24th in Japan!
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO CATCH A SEVIPER!? NOW YOU CAAAAAAAN
That’s no seviper
Why…
read the article it’s relevant
Only in Europe or Asia which I’m not in last i checked
It’s here now
It randomly switched spots
I know they are here, but I can’t find any
And I’m out of balls (I can’t Glalie due to this 😭)
https://i.imgur.com/Rz3q2L7.gif
So that’s how they got here
Yep, must be horrifying with all the Sevipers raining down all over the place.
I want one
Oh look here comes one now https://pa1.narvii.com/6193/7b40189d31ed0bd671da650f85b35f0ba0da118d_hq.gif
Ayy
Well this week the Direct will happen or not, as for me just another boring Monday of putting my room back together and laundry until I’m forced to go to the gym, shifting from BOTW, Rocket League, my daily Showdown raging and now BW2
I better get cracking….or not who cares just not feeling it today
Don’t play Showdown, there’s a tier shift happening in like a few days.
Asplain
The usage stats for showdown will becoming in and a good amount of Pokemon (Probably like 4-6 per tier) will be moved either to the tier above or below based on usage statistics. I know for a fact NU is going to get flipped on its head considering what people are saying is going to drop
Ugh
Some mons you really like are gonna probably be in NU. I’m mainly saying Golisopod is probably going to drop.
Well maybe I can pull the Eject button Cofa and transition it to Golisopod but it’s risky since no Pursuit
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-685788075
Oh remind remind me to put Facade on Slaking
I don’t think that would be the greatest tactic.
As of now, I’m trying to look for a proper electric pivot for it considering how well that would work
As Winter break is coming to an end Im proud to announce I found 9 shinies (7 of which being legendary and Pink Lugia Last night), so I say it was a pretty successful break forhunting. Now the only shiny legends I need are
Regigigas, Ho Oh, Uxie, Mewtwo, Zapdos (debating if I really want Zapdos though), Tornadus.
Nintendo Direct wise. Idk I dont really think one will happen, but I will accept it though.
Are you counting ultra beasts?
Ultra Beasts arent legends, but yes I accidentally counted those. 5 legends 2 UBs
Coolio
And what’s your shortest hunt?
Overall? Idk I never keep count, but I did find Groudon, Articuno, Guzzlord all in one day each back to back to back
My quickest hunt was shiny Blacephalon in eight encounters
It was serious though so that stung
I found Blacephalon wrong nature too, but I SR over it. I dont have time for imperfections on it.
I’d say same but when I found thundurus there was no way I was doing that shitt again
it plus six’d with nasty plot and I was having a literal panic attack cause the stupid thing took like a full 30+ balls to catch
Nice. I found Shiny Lugia at full odds in Soul Silver which was great even though it’s Quirky, I think I’m getting Crystal VC so I’ll probably hunt it again in that along with Ho-Oh and maybe Mewtwo if it’s in Crystal (I don’t remember), and they’ll all have their HAs, though only in regular Pokeballs when transferred unfortunately. GL with your next hunts 🙂
I’d love it if there was a FRIENDS movie showing the characters in our times 15 years after the end of the show
I think it’s been rumoured alot, they could do it but it depends if they’d all want to. Can’t really do it without all of the main 6.
If they paid them enough the main 6 would agree for sure
I actually have something Pokémon related to say today! I have Pokken Tournament DX coming in this afternoon, mainly because my friend just got a Switch and wants to play it with me. I’m pretty excited to get used to the new characters and maybe even get good, because I never could with the Wii U version. Also, it seems like we’re not getting that Direct announcement today so…….
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uHqCuVrrePo/maxresdefault.jpg
There was a rumor about that Ariga is the designer of Ultra Necrozma.. …is that true?
I think you mean Zangoose is in Europe and Asia.
Also it’s buy one get 3 free on Animal Crossing Amiibo at Target and I just bought a bunch I didn’t need. Woops. Hoping they’re useful for whenever that switch version comes out…otherwise I just have like 12 amiibo that do nothing for me
Buy 1… Get 3 Free?? Are you sure about that
Yep! You just have to buy at least $25 worth of stuff to ship online but the offer should still be good in store
i only got
Wario
Dedede
Bowser
DK
Ganondorf
Pac-Man
Shovel Knight (Unopened)
Wolf Link (Unopened)
Guardian-Bokoblin-Daruk
Bowser Wedding
i have a urge to buy all the Zelda ones so i can get the stuff for BOTW, but then again i wish i had every amiibo in existence and a display case for them in vain attempt to feel whole inside somebody please help me
but other than that most Amiibo are just well made figurines and collectors items for me
Yeah I’d like more of the botw ones too…they just get kinda pricey so i rarely buy them full price
I cant think of a good nickname for Oshawott (yes i too have been hit with the gen 5 curse lurking on PJ)
I wouldn’t call it a curse
Hiro
Toyotomi
Scallops
Wotter.
Wott are you talking about
I think here are some good nicknames
Splash
Oshy
Schalop
Otts
Freckles
Blade
Cascade
Otto
Whoosh
Otter
Chuckles
Clams
Waves
Or Candice
Shellmurai.
Ooo that’s another good one 🙂
That’s what I always nickname mine lol
She here!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dc1f3ed73296a3227563128a2a70c82cb10f21c6f639bc1ae27fc56980126af8.jpg
Weird.. .
What’s weird about it?
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1515363808245.jpg
Do you have a source? These are awesome
I’m assuming Satan or some kind of Eldritch horror
http://www.kudaman-art.com/
http://www.kudaman-art.com/projects
Interesting what they done to Incineroar’s belt
Ngl, that’s the most unique and interesting way i’ve seen someone draw the starters, this is truly amazing :O
Hoorah!!! School lets out two hours early due to bad weather
I leave in 9 mins
Lucky, I have a full school day
Games Done Quick has started yo!
I know the leak was fake, but Pokemon 1 and 0 aren’t really bad names
They really are
Like actually the worst names
No. Zeros and Ones are important in coding, games could be related to that. And if the games will be a soft reboot, they being called 0 and 1 would show that this a new start for the franchise.
I forgot that. Actually that sounds like a pretty cool analogy, but with what Monkeyfuzz said I believe most people wouldn’t get it
“Zeros and Ones are important in coding”
No they’re not
Binary is the basic way computers interpret things. No programmers ir coders ever touch it
Plus/Minus? Those are pretty crummy names too unless they focused it on atoms and or mathematics
Minus would have negative connotations I feel.
Yeah and if old Pokémon did appear in a Plus or Minus. Then Plusle and Minun should appear, Klink also makes sense due to having these abilities
Yeah but if SM teaches us anything with the exclusion of Solrock and Lunatone it’s GF doesn’t care.
Better than motherfucking one and zero
I think they’d be confusing for alot of people.
That is kinda true, tho of the games will be a soft reboot, it could make sense.
Most it would confuse might not understand that.
Why tho? If they were some sort of a new start for the series like many people say, it could work.
Because a great many people are generally aware of Pokemon without knowing specifics about it. Calling it 1 especially may make some think it is an old game. Then there’s the 0, people might think it’s a prologue short game or beta version (which if it’s like SM it might be but still).
I agree unless they had a super meaningful reason like if they were based on the Pokémon that created the universe or planet and then its first creation afterwards (Just an example)
Honestly they could still have better and less confusing names.
Eh, for me it’s just overly simplistic and lazy, and also the fact fact that it may confuse people into believing that 0 is some sort of prequel to 1 when both tell the same story.
Then they should make 0 take place before 1, problem solved and both versions are worth buying.
Releasing a game with its sequel at the same time is not a good idea lol
Downloaded Uranium!
How? I thought it was destroyed and shut down?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonuranium/comments/54dodq/updated_installer_patch_installers/
Yay!
Most of what I like look to be late game or the same types.
Just looking at it I have a question. Why do none of the Pokémon in Uranium look good? Or why do the starters evolve only once?
Well, Uranium wasn’t finished, wasn’t it? Also, I like some of the Pokemon there
Wait it wasn’t Done? That explains the starters being only 2 staged
it was done, then it got canned, the starters being 2 staged was a design choice. and they have megas.
Imo a very dumb design choice
From what I noticed is a lot of the Pokémon look better once they evolve. And I have no idea why the starters evolve only once. They do get a mega though
They Do? I haven’t played yet? So I’ll probably like it more when I play it
I am playing it right now. Looked at some of the Pokémon Mom the pokedex and some of them having shocking evos. In particular Barewl
n a h I l o v e G a r l i k i d
There’s Catbird and Tofurang.
Trying to redesign my Fire starters. Any Opinions? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1a8e40fbfd6454cf19d26ad72d2e14b1dc951d855faade56656a07548964c93c.jpg
Sorry for bad photo quality
First stage is a big improvement. After that though the design kinda goes off the rails
i dont understand are those wings?
In the mid evo it’s split shed skin in the middle of coming off it. In the final evo, it’s more like arms made out of something like ectoplasma, that are also on Fire (I just realised how stupid that sounds)
maybe its skin hangs off and it become its own entity? so its like 2 in one
Sounds cool, but Idk if it would work for a starter
I thought those were heads and it was a hydra or something.
That doesn’t come across in the design. You may wanna either retry it or do a different idea
I like it something about the big Fangs of the very last stage and they look pretty neat
The second stage I will comment looks like it’s trying on a too big shirt
You could make it a Naga.
It’s a Slavic Vampire
You can still make it a Naga and incorporate the other elements. You said it gets arms anyway so it basically is one.
I’ve got a concept for a Psuedo down, a Normal/Ghost Sheet Ghost that evolves into a Phantom-y Ghost.
Normal/Ghost is a great typing I’d love to see.
it’s only weak to dark and has 3 immunities, and 2 resistances.
Yeah, it could be tough to take down depending on stats etc obviously.
Today is the 5-year anniversary of the Pokémon Direct which ushered in the 3DS era and announced Pokémon X and Y, subsequently bringing us all together. I remember waking up that morning and being more excited than I ever had been, seeing Chespin, Fennekin and Froakie. It all seems a bit primitive now in comparison to today, but it was important all the same. https://youtu.be/VzO6J981nAw
Would be cool if we got the Pokemon Switch Direct today
why?
It’d be a simmilar big event in the 5 year anniversary of the that one
Getting a Pokemon direct today with no warning whatsoever? lol
its live rn
Uh what’s live? I’m lost rn
The direct without any warning whatsoever
Welp I missed it,no one to blame but me ¯_(ツ)_/¯
there’s a rumor of a direct on the 11th. nothing about it being pokemon-y
I remember waking up 2 hours before i was suppose to get up to watch
They’re a great trio… until they evolved
Then they became even better
Nothing wrong with Greninja. The hype I felt when it was announced for Smash in April 2014 was incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y00focrfJQ0
I don’t forget this reveal. Instantly loved fennekin and friskier. Was meh on chespin. In the end I love all three but fennekin could have ended up a lot better. Froakie is awesome though!
After watching it it makes me want to pick up Pokémon x again. I may play it again soon.
What a magical day. I remember getting up early to watch it live. Was so exciting!
Man Such a monumental day. I remember seeing this early morning right before my bus came, and I was so hyped. Generation 6 really brought the community together. Even though most people dislike Gen 6 now, I definitely do miss the community it brought.
Only a matter of time before we find out if this leak is real or not. 9 AM PT/12pm ET tomorrow.
Also, one thing that was cut off from this image. The leaker said not to expect Smash Bros., Pokemon, Animal Crossing, or Metroid news for obvious reasons stated in the image. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bb6ff5b4a5c3ca17e42fde7004a12beecd8733270ccb954797fc3d5af8a69bd5.jpg
This lineup is highkey horrible man. Nier: Automata is kinda nice, but it will never be better than the PS4 version.
It’s so horrible, that it’s actually what makes it so believable, imo. If this Direct is announced tomorrow at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET, then I’m not watching it because I know what to expect. There’s nothing that interests me other than Kirby/Yoshi.
I haven’t played a Kirby game since the GameCube era & never touched Yoshi in my life other than in Smash.
On one hand, it sounds pretty bad, on the other hand, Pink Joy Cons and Fire Emblem are pretty hype
Time to fight my first Silver Lynel of Master Mode
And it mulched me
Ok it took spamming Stasis and nothing but eagle bow headshots to kill it dishonorably but now I’m outfitted with a savage lynel sword, shield and most importantly the bow, now I can hunt down other Lynels for top quality gear
How would a bearded dragon Pokemon work in terms of typing, ability etc?
Well I see it as two directions
A Dragon/Ground or Dragon/Rock desert dagon
Or the literal sense of a wizard bearded dragon being Dragon/Psychic
Dragon/Ice Santa
I wish this was real
https://twitter.com/nintendolife/status/950458353611935744
Hulu & Netflix on the switch man ffs make it happen @Nintendo
and crunchyroll!
I can not take enough of Saiyan’s Pride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0kcB5m7_8
Oh my god I’m not making it through this semester alive or at least sane.
Fucking kill me
I didn’t think it would be worse than last semester
Can this make it a little better?
https://youtu.be/thQ2NUY2Q80
No
Well I tried
I think his most recent post will tho ;3
No
Wow. You must feel extra sh*tty…
Welcome to highschool bae :p it only gets worse
Highschool. That thing that tries to force me to talk to people I loathe and take me away from my friends. Only one in my friend group who takes all average classes 😛
So Net Neutrality coming back doesn’t brighten your mood?
You’ll make it ma friend
heck if I could make it you can too, what are you taking that’s killing you?
My classes fucking suck
I don’t even get Art class to keep me a little bit sane
I don’t know anyone
It’s more work
They’re strict on phones so I can’t even distract myself with that
School kills my creativity and I’m less motivated to draw
My creative writing class has barely any writing from what I can tell and the teacher is so damn loud
I wish I could just fucking drop out and draw and do commissions and make money off that. I don’t want to do this sh*t
What about reading a book in school to distract yourself?
I’ve tried and failed that one, it’s difficult to have a big and happy life filled with all your desires when Highschool dauntingly watches over all you do
I got Pokémon Adventures Vol.1 for Christmas and because of school haven’t gotten to read it yet
Life is life, and I feel you on the motivation part gets hard to draw serious things. And the phones thing is to have you pay attention, I know it’s tough, but just trudge through and you’ll make it
Yeah no sh*t it’s so we pay attention but I don’t care.
That’s life and yes most may not need to know alot of it, but some jobs need certain skills and they want you to be prepared for a more versatile list of jobs you can do when you’re done with school
Ok I don’t give a sh*t about that. I’m goona fucking die because I’m not allowed any sense of choice or happiness or fuckin Antrim get for 8 hours every god damn week day. I’m going to be unhappy and miserable for most of my life for the next what like 5 months. I fucking can’t with this bullshit
You won’t die star, the strain of school may seem that bad, but let’s not kid ourselves its just going to take up your time so you can’t do as much and that will set a chain of emotions off that will just cause you to be like most teens… moody. Ok, it’s not that you will have no happiness or free time, it’s you’ll have less of it which means you’ll need to carefully balance your schedule while your outside school. It’s also just 8 hours, that’s 1/3 of a day so if you add 8 hours of sleep on top and about 2 hours to eat and do homework, you get 6 hours to yourself to do whatever leisure you desire.
I know I’m a tad hypocritical as I also complain about it, but it won’t kill either of us. And you really are having thoughts of killing yourself due to it then seek help so you don’t kill the greatest thing you have. Life 🙂
Education system is fun.
But eh, when you get to college/university and do the things that you like to do then it’ll be much better. Until now gotta deal with high school :I
WOWOWOWOWOW
OH MY GOD
GOOD NEWS FOR NET NEUTRALITY
PLs explain so we don’t have to ask
you just asked
Lol ok, nut about the news, yeah I kinda knew that the net neutrality wasn’t over and there’s still hope, so yeah I’m glad that this is happening :0
GUYS REALLY
https://www.cnet.com/news/democrats-force-senate-vote-on-net-neutrality-repeal/
Yeet! 😀
It’s alive
Whatsa da news?
TRUMP STAYS WINNING
what
This a meme where everything that trump fails to accomplish, you post an ironic WINNING