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 8th to January 14th!
This Week’s Big Stories
CoroCoro Reveals Ultra-Cool New Outfits for Ash & Co
Detective Pikachu Releasing Worldwide in March
Pokémon GO Community Day, Kyogre Now Available
Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
- The second Global Mission in Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon is underway and has already been completed! This Global Mission had players win at the Battle Agency, with the goal of reaching 100,000 wins by January 22nd. Since the mission is already successful be sure to head to the Festival Plaza to guarantee your 2,000 FC, or 4,000 FC if you have your Global Link account linked
- Details for the January 2018 International Challenge Battle Competition have been announced! This is a Double Battle competition with the usual VGC rules, where players can receive 50 Battle Points for participating, and earn CP towards qualifying for the World Championships. During the competition all Pokémon will be raised to Level 50. Registration runs from January 18th, 2018 to January 25th, 2018, while the battles will commence from January 26th through the 28th
Pokémon Crystal
- Pre-loading for the re-release of Pokémon Crystal is now available through the eShop across all regions
Special Edition Pikachu New Nintendo 2DS XL
- Released last year in Japan, the special edition Pikachu New Nintendo 2DS XL will go on sale in North America starting January 26th, 2018 – the same day as Europe – for $159.99
P-Sports
- P-Sports ~Aim To Be A Pokémon Battle Master~ is coming to Japanese audiences through Abema TV! This brand new show focuses on Pokémon Battles and features hosts such as popular Japanese Youtuber, Hajime Syacho and Hiroshi, a previous co-host of Pokémon Sunday and Pokémon Smash. The show will have trainer compete in an Elite Four fashion against the four hosts to become the P-Sports Champion. You can check out the trailer for the first episode, which will air on January 24th at 8:00pm JST
Pokémon Shuffle
- Version 1.5 is now available to download, and includes several new features to the mobile app:
- The Trainer Rank system will give different rewards based on the number of Pokémon that you have captured. With a total of 30 ranks, these rewards include Raise Max Levels, Mega Speedups, and Mega Stones.
- A new cycle of checkin gifts is now available: Hearts + 5, Moves +5, Exp. Booster S, Hearts + 5, Skill Booster S, Mega Start, Hearts + 5, Disruption Delay, Exp. Booster M, Raise Max Level, Hearts + 5, Exp. Booster L, Time + 10, Hearts + 10, 1 Jewel
- You are now able to use the ingame Jewel currency to unlock batches of stages you haven’t completed yet. This will allow players to continue on with the game and not get stuck on a single stage
- Upon login players will get their monthly gifts distributed to them
- The new Minior stage, and the Latios Escalation Battle stage are both available until January 23rd, 2018
- The Dialga, Palkia, Zekrom & White Kyurem stages have begun repeat runs until January 16th, 2018
Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked, or is now available for purchase this week:
Nothing beats waking up at 5AM under an anxiety attack causing me to frantically check every device and make sure all my DS games are working and accounted for
Awww, sorry to hear that you don’t feel well deer, get well soon!
I’m losing my mind
I just want to know if my Laptop is charging correctly
It has this thing where it’s always around 97-96% saying plugged in not charging but it always worked, and rarely it actually charges which should be a good thing but it hasn’t gone up a percent since like 6:20 and I’m losing my fragile mind
I am just mentally scarred when it comes to my devices having battery or charging issues
I think my favorite piece of recent Pokémon news was Ash’s Torracat evolving and the confirmation that Poipole will be travelling with the main group in the anime, possibly even being captured by Ash. Team changes were long overdue, Ash’s last one was Lycanroc evolving like 34 episodes ago. Also if his team consists of Pikachu/Any Rowlet stage/Incineroar/Poipole or Naganadel/Alolan Sandslash that’d be an amazing team.
I think so
Yeah that is a big problem for me, I really didn’t like how stagnant the Pokémon capture/evolution rate was in XY and SM
The Evo rate isn’t really bad in SuMo, it’s the fact he barely catches anything anymore. Doesn’t help he’s got five companions to take up Pokémon and Gen 7 doesn’t have much mons anyway.
True I’m still scorned by XY it pissed me SO MUCH that nobody caught anything good, I was really hoping Serena would catch an Absol to reflect her in game counterpart
Tbf, Serena wasn’t going to mega evolve it and it doesn’t really fit her anime character who went for cutesy Pokémon
She had Pangoro.
Wait a second… I think there’s actually going to be a Alolan Sandshrew and Sandslash debut soon, one of the upcoming titles mentioned Lillie and Snowie entering some kind of sledding contest and that seems like a right time for a sledding trainer to show up with a Snowshrew
I think the prize is going to be an Alolan Sandshrew egg and that the famous sledder they meet has an AloSlash with Slush Rush
Barf plot
So I’m losing my mind again and I need a project or some kinda time consuming zen game to ease my worrisome psyche
I feel Minecraft is the right direction, just make myself a lengthy project to keep myself busy and stimulate my creative mind, its times like this I wish I still had a good lego set to put together… and now I’m stress rambling
I hope you get better
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I just found out there’s a (Earthen don’t look) Seven Deadly Sins game coming, but sadly only for PS4
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Looks pretty cool
but I want it on the Swiiiiiiiiiiiitch
GOD FREAKING DAMN WHY IS THAT I GET INCOMPETENT PLAYERS IN ANY COMPETITIVE GAME
Holy crap, FighterZ is fun. This is so cool. I cannot wait for this game to come out later this month. Also, sorry you can’t get in, Govnah.
And my team is complete. Now I just gotta get Frillish and Axew up to level https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/801b07d181f6de5b8a2e7cf47adc492558bce5c819adbc6f10ccd78ccc4adace.jpg
I love this team, especially Klang
Thanks. Really enjoying it so far. Got Simisear as my point Pokemon. He’s my main guy. Grinding to get Frillish and Axew up to the proper level will be annoying, but certainly worth it.
Just added Axew to my wonderlocke. Don’t expect it to live long though :I
Yeah Axew seems like the kind of mon that takes a little bit to get going, but once you get it evolved it becomes a super powerful asset. God speed to you in hopes you can keep yours alive haha
Yeah it doesn’t evolve till, what, 38? And my team is only around lvl 24. I’m fully expecting Kiawe and Salazzle to wreck me. Ugh…Somehow Brionne f*cking destroyed Araquanid for me though
Woops, I meant Alolan Marowak and Salazzle. But kind of Kiawe as well.
Ok well we have a few options for the starters of Pokejungle Fan game (Being as we’re using a type triangle from the norm) and all these fit the bill for Starters so pls. Choose one of each type. (Though one thing, don’t choose Geodude and Aron only to keep from having 2 of the same type for starters)
Ice- Spheal, Vanillite
Ground- Geodude, Trapinch, Sandile
Steel- Klink, Honedge, Aron, Magnemite
Spheal
Trapinch
Honedge
That triangle is pretty borked considering Steel resists the majority of Pokemon types, especially early game types such as Normal, Flying, Bug, and Poison.
Blame Seraph 😛
And I’m always open to another Triangle set up if not everyone likes this one
Dark/Psychic/Fighting, Flying/Ice/Rock (still not preferable because Rock resists Normal), Fighting/Rock/Flying, Flying/Ground/Electric (not a full triangle, but somewhat close), or just three unrelated types that don’t have any advantage over each other.
Or we could just stick to Grass/Fire/Water because it’s tried and tested. Or an unconventional starter like Eevee.
Flying/Ice/Rock is bad as Rock is good against both the others.
Think I confused it for another combo lol
Ice/Flying/Fighting works.
Fighting, Rock, Flying works
Oh and I should mention a sad truth to y’all. Ralts and Litwick can’t be starters as both have way too low of bst to be one (Litwick at 270 and Ralts at 195)
You can change base stats if you learn to code right.
I guess (Knowing I just looked and not 1 Flying type has the stats to make starter material)
I’d do Dark/Psychic/Fighting or the regular G/F/W trio. Fighting might have more advantages though, also you’d have to make them 2 stagers due to the lack of 3 stage Fighting types outside of existing starters. Then just make some of those other types available earlier. If it’s set by an early beach route you can have Spheal for example.
Let’s just do Sewaddle, Litwick and Spheal
Fire is 4x effective against Sewaddle and Ice is 2x.
Hey I suggested fire for a reason
Vannilite
Sandile
Honedge
tho i’d still prefer fakemon starters
Honedge and Magnemite are far too broken to be starters. One has the best defensive typing in the game and the other has three immunities to relatively common types, and Aegislash is broken asf.
and agron has a mega
Which doesn’t have to be in the game.
Tbh honest, I’m not very fond of having some wild Pkms as starters, I’d usually prefer having all starters from every gen available like some fan games do. Also, having a Steel type is far too advantageous imo.
Anyways I prefer:
Spheal – I think Vanillite is a little too strong
Sandile – Geodude is very common in other games and Trapinch evolves in a Dragon
Klink – The others are op really
I would do all starters, but that would mean you have like 20 options and that would be a big table or thing to put them on
I honestly want the most Popular of each type to be the ones to be there (Though I have a hunch it will end up being Rowlet, Chimchar and Totodile)
Adding all starters would be worth it
Tbh you don’t need a big table, just a room containing the Pokeballs they’re in or just an open field with them walking around in it
That I guess works (But what would decide what Rivals get which?)
The one with and advantageous typing from a random generation really
But we lack a bulkier starter
That’s true I think the all starters included would work all I need is some system to determine which Rivals could get which
Do you think, with all the Wii U ports, that we could see a Wind Waker remake port?
Another port of it? I’m not so sure. It’s one thing for them to port games that were specifically for the Wii U, but to port a game that was already ported to the Wii U in the first place I’m not sure.
I mean, there still are people like me that would love to play it, but never had a Wii U
I get ya and I’m not saying they shouldn’t, but considering it’s already technically a port they may not put it in the forefront of things to port to the Switch. They’ll focus on Wii U games to port rather than a GC game that has already been ported to a “newer” console
I think it’s more likely they’ll remaster Skyward sword first. The switch has motion controls + they may institute a non motion control way to play it, which would interest a lot of people who didn’t like them from SS.
They’ll be looking to fill the gaps between BotW and whatever is next from Zelda, so it’s possible they’ll bring their already existing ports to the switch as well though.
Please let it be a Minish Cap remake or sequel or freakin Link’s Awakening remastered
They already crapped out WWHD so I don’t think so AND TP
Someone really needs to fix up Twist Mountain. Why would they allow the bridges and walk ways to stay broken? haha
I still love it though. UGH Unova had great locations. Even the routes were unique.
But yes, idk why they let that go on
Yeah that’s the thing about Unova. Despite it technically being a very linear region it’s routes are super robust and interesting to traverse. I never really feel bored walking through any given route. Its’ a very nice region on the hole
Yep! And I can remember every route perfectly. I wouldn’t even say they have a single bland route. I’d say it’s the best region despite Sinnoh being my favorite (music really wins out here). Hoenn and Sinnoh, while great, still have routes that are just kind of a slog/are boring.
This a hundredfold…. minus one of the postgame routes. 14 was kinda just there
Okay, true, but it did have the cool shrine area w/ waterfalls for Landorus
Oh for sure, just wish it had a bit more to it
Some of that merch is so cool! *o*
-I love the little pokemon in the environment vignettes
-Mimikyu Pokedoll plush!
-Villain team posters!
I wants it
Dear lord they made Pokemon Uno cards!! I want them so bad……
Mystery Dungeon balance
Red Rescue Team: Easy enough if you grind
Time: Can be legitimately hard if you act hastily
Gates: Wait this is supposed to be hard?
Super: LOL YOU’RE LEVEL 10!? FIGHT THIS SALAMENCE
Unpopular opinion: I hate the MD series……..I just can’t get into it and I have no patience for it. It’s not about it being hard I just don’t like it at all.
Understandable
I mean, I found ranger actually fun and I know plenty of people who despise it
If they ever brought back ranger they would need to change the capture function
For sure
(Inb4 motion controls)
Please no……..
It seems like a gf move
GF doesn’t make spin off games. It’d be whatever company TPC/Nintendo hires to make it
True
It actually makes sense, moving from one gimmick (touch screen) to another (motion controls)
Yeah, but it’s one thing to use a feature that involves moving your wrist and another to make you move your whole arm. Motion controls would be terrible for that
See I actually like ranger. I played the first couple and found them fun and engaging. I wish they’d make another. That or another Conquest……Actually yeah I want them to make another conquest game! haha
Conquest was greeaaaat
I loved it! Like if people really want to talk about spin offs that hold us over until a main series game gets released Conquest one one for the ages. I remember playing it Summer 2012 and it was amazing.
My God Super felt like its difficulty was fake difficulty, especially with the boss battles 😡
My absolute favorite was the fucking Mewtwo in the post game that could literally one shot everything normally, used recover and got back 900+ HP every six or seven turns erasing all your progress before proceeding to fucking mega evolve
#FairandBalanced
Or the dungeons full of only deoxys or only genesect
Genesect was 20 x worse cause it could basically snipe you across a rooom
So Nintendo took down another direct after putting up the min on we got the other day. Seems like we’ll likely get another direct in the next month or so. I’d be willing to bet it’s either a general direct or one focusing on something like Fire Emblem
Probably Fire Emblem, even tho I want a general one.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking too. They still need to talk about the new one if it comes out this year and an early year direct seems to fit it. Tho they could talk about it in a general direct I suppose.
I really want a general direct to show the games that’ll come later 2018, because so far this year doesn’t seem to hold a candle to 2017 in terms of games ngl
this year isn’t gonna be like last year where we got a big game almost every month. It’ll have it’s big hitters probably, but not like how last year had. Thus why Nintendo needs to release Pokemon, Smash, AC, or a really good looking FE this year. Otherwise you’re right they don’t have much to stand on. 3rd party games are great and ports are nice, but you can’t really make them the focus at e3. And if they really want to sell at least 20 mill Switch units it’s gonna take something special
I’m not sure about those designs, I need your opinions. These are my Regional Birds, the beak and legs are yellow in the 1st stage, Orange in the mid evo and red in the final stage https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7edb56ce85200b55bb5ea4dc41b320efa967dcc5312e0d46b7e80f5416df7551.jpg
Looks a little too much like an actual bird. It needs a bit more something to it
Yeah, I was afraid that was the case. I need to add something…
Do something cool with the legs
I also thought this. Fishing spears came to mind.
It’s supposed to be more Supervillain/Murderer themed, I’ll go more into that direction
It’s also a stork and Fishing spears can look like formidable weapons. With the ability sniper it could have an assassin type theme.
I’d say it needs a theme. Your rodent is a good example of this. You could have some basis in something like weaponry or fashion, look at things like Honchkrow and Scrafty.
Try to design them in a way that makes them stand out more, I mean all route 1 birds look like birds but they have small elements on their designs that make them not look like too much like real birds
Seriously super mystery dungeon was a mess. Eight floors of nothing but genesects wasn’t challenging, it was literally impossible
That sounds shitty as hell
That’s tame compared to later things like the mewtwo fight
That was a thing?
I never beat it because the final boss is impossible
I used Chesnaught as my partner
Imagine how I felt when oblivion wing cross mapped it
Literally depended on espurr’s random confusions to win
I pretty much think even their playtesters didn’t want to play their shitty game to balance test.
Even though admittedly Ampharos is like top 5 mystery dungeon characters
I never beat the mountain where you find out about Nuzleaf
I was way underleveled for that moment too (I was like level 15 for that part of the game and mainly had to flee every big battle)
Can Gamefreak PLEASE bring back the f*cking versus seeker!? No, rotom powers are not as good because it’s still random how you get them.
Rotom Powers are not really good at all. The main positive is being able to activate some in battle instead of before. Other than that O-Powers were generally better, even with the recharge wait.
They really aren’t, and I’m still not even sure how to activate rotoms green eyes to get them. The VS seeker would be so much easier to grind with
You mean the yellow flashing eyes for roto-lotto? You just tap the eyes when they glow.
Yeah, but I don’t know like how to get the eyes to glow green. Is it just over time?
I don’t know, never heard of them glowing green.
Well they glow greenish or yellow when it’s time for the lotto
Oh I see, well you need to interact with it a bit but mostly it does it after a bit of time. You need to tap the eyes when it looks sad before they’ll glow.
You seriously need to cheer it up? Ugh the rotom dex is just dumb
Yeah, it is annoying and not really that useful. I miss DexNav.
DexNav was amazing, simply put.
Sky was their best mystery dungeon and they will never top it
Good day madame
And no Pokemon game can ever top its narrative and story.
Like seriously it was too good for Pkm standards
100% agreed
The only thing I like on part with it from another game was super’s Ampharos
Only one way to top it
Make another and use all the same stuff and not tamper with it
No
Or better.
Make another one but actually improve the gameplay because that’s the only thing that keeps the series from being great.
Is it weird that I never played a mystery dungeon?
No and you don’t need to
Nah, but you can try Sky (imo the only good one) or rescue team ( it’s decent enough)
Rescue team was great for its time, but yeah Sky is the best (I lost mine, but I almost beat it with Riolu and Eevee)
Neither have I.
I tried it and didn’t like it. The dungeon designs are boring and basically devoid of life or personality. Not to mention they’re overly long.
It’s not for everyone. It’s kinda repetitive
It’s not uncommon to not have, but I admit they are just alright (Not on par with the core games)
But I suggest if you want to play one then play Red or Blue rescue team first, then move to Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky
Eh you can skip Rescue Team really, it won’t make much difference
True, I still do like how they have the habitats in the game unlike Sky where Chimecho calls them from an unknown place
So I wonder what he was doing at TPC last week. Prolly nothing crazy, but they don’t go there THAT often. Plus I wanna say they’ve been known to record….certain things there……But again prolly nothing XP
https://twitter.com/Junichi_Masuda/status/950938411552030721
It’s a mia, Super Pikario and my brother Luikachu
Won’t shock me if we get news on the switch game sooner than later. I think the March theory isn’t too far off. Reveal a bunch of switch games on the one year anniversary of its release
Hey GameFreak?
Why can’t we just have permanent o-powers?
Having a time limit is good enough
Also GameFreak? Can you stop doing dumb stuff in general?
Well it’s better than what they’ll do with o-powers next gen
Amiibos are goona be involved just watch
100% You best bet they’re gonna milk the pokemon amiibos
If they add an Amiibo only functionality in a Pkm game I’m going to die but ngl I’m actually surprised they haven’t yet
Probs because it’s 3DS and amiibo were more designed for home console. The 3DS was updated a year later to include them and that was just with the expensive adaptor probably no one bought
Ugghhhhhh… I’m bummed out… I have something that’d I call an artist block if I were an artist…
Oh something just reminded me
What Legendary/Mythical would y’all like for the core legend of the game?
So far I have one person who said one and it was Hoopa Unbound (Now if everyone likes that then we are good)
Either Zygarde or Leavanny (it’s almost a legenary)
I completely forgot Zygarde didn’t have a game XD
Zeraora. Either that or Diancie
but we’ll make it Electtric/Fighting
Pokejungle
Fixing very fixable Mons since 1992
No. Keep your furry bait cat away.
Shaymin I guess
Because it’s Jungle then Virizion would work.
Or the Sword of Justice all together
I thought that was cool, but would Keldeo be in it or?
Well yeah it’s basically the most important one
What’s this for? A rom hack?
Yesterday I asked if people are interested in reviving and rebuilding Jade Jungle. I would use RPG maker and wanted us all to work on it
Could you even use hoopa though? I thught most models that existed within fan games only had older pokemon
Nah all I gotta do is create a sprite for it with another system (I assume it will have BW like graphics)
That sounds incredibly difficult
Shouldn’t be too hard (Knowing I think Smogon has already done it before)
I think there’s a good chance of open source sprites or sprites you can use with permission being out there.
For reference, I chose Hoopa because it’s really connected to a lot of Pokemon lore considering the hoops of gen 6 ORAS. I felt like it was the most impactful legend we could pick without going OMG ARCEUS DANKRAI
I think your right on that one
Maybe the villains want to control another Legendary, but since it doesn’t live in the region then they try to use Hoopa to obtain it
Hoopa because seraph is right.
Or Shaymin or celebi because Jungle. Or zygarde Because nature.
Gamefreak reading all these complaints about them and be like https://i.imgur.com/kcivQIP.gif
When they cry they make it rain
Rotomdex: “I’ve got all kinds of useful features…”
Me: “It’s a shame shutting up isn’t one of them.”
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