Weekly Wrap Up 1/1-1/7

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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 January 1st to January 7th!

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!

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  6. Started Uranium, got the Water starter, nothing else has interested me much so far, caught a Dunsparce but not sure I can cope with using it until it evolves.

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  9. Yaaaaaaas Muh boi Pansear coming through for me to defeat Elesa!!! Held on with only 2 HP to get that final Dig off on Zebstrika. Love Pansear so much. Wondering when I should finally evolve him into Simisear. I’ve got this head canon that he is like my Pikachu where he hangs out on my shoulder instead of his Pokeball.

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  14. For anyone who’s played through Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (at least halfway)…NEVER have I spent more time trying to cut some power lines. You know what I’m talking about. I must have tried this fight about 150 times so far and I’ve gotten close only a couple times. It’s stupidly tough and I’m upset about it.

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      • I haven’t really been stuck up until this point, but I’m only at the end of Chapter 5. This is my first real attempt at playing Xenoblade and I’m surprised I’m doing so well…until now. There must be some strategy I’m missing, and for some reason this game makes me want to keep trying. It’s awesome.

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      • I finally did it, I used a chain attack and some Spike Defense aux cores. It was a lot easier than I expected, but definitely not easy.

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  16. Ok guys I have to say I have found possibly the most cringy movie of all time, The Snow Queen from 2005

    You thought 80’s movies were cringy? I have seen better from the early days of film
    https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&client=ms-android-verizon&q=The+Snow+Queen+2005&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecToyi3w8sc9YSmbSWtOXmM04-IKzsgvd80rySypFNLgYoOy5Lj4pLj0c_UNjIoKTArLNBikeLiQ-DwAfQHhaEoAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBycvn58nYAhWONd8KHYv9B-8Q3LoBCCowAw&biw=360&bih=560

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  19. Question/Opinion: Will there be more or less hand holding for the Pokemon Switch game? It’s pretty frustrating in Gen 7. I’m inclined to believe there will be less due to there being a more young adult/adult audience for the switch. But it’s hard to say. Depends how effort much GF really puts into this new generation, what boundaries they want to push, and who their target audience is.

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  22. Ugh…..I wish there was a quicker way to get Frillish….. having to wait until getting Surf is gonna kill my momentum. Also in the mean time I’ll have to find an alternative to fight Clay with

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  23. Today I made it to Chapter 6 in XB2 and also made it through the Green League in Pokken. I’d consider that a job well done. I hope that when I wake up tomorrow there will be a tweet from Nintendo of America announcing a Direct on January 11, to finally put our minds at ease. I know the Direct likely won’t be until Thursday, but I’m still going to post some Animal Crossing music for good luck. Dear god, I think I’ve been doing this since 2015…what year is it again?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zjNkKrq-Tc&index=52

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  25. Ok, I am quite curious about something…
    Does anyone fully understand how a meme starts?
    It’s like asking where little Deerling eggs come from, we all know the answer, but we decline to offer any insight and let it be the Donphan in the room when brought up.
    I seriously wanna know how meme mechanics started and the best reason why they’re so relevant to our lives now.
    As an intellegent species, humans sure are strange to think up a common idea such as this to go viral, I though it’d be an interesting topic to gather data on, deers.

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