Weekly Wrap Up 1/8-1/14

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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 8th to January 14th!

This Week’s Big Stories

CoroCoro Reveals Ultra-Cool New Outfits for Ash & Co

Nintendo Switch Mini-Direct

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

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:

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702 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 1/8-1/14”

  1. So based on the most recent poster for the anime it seems like the Necrozma stuff will be exclusive to the show itself. Certainly seems like they’re rushing through a lot of content. Rushing enough that it would surprise me if the Switch game was able to come out in 2019 fall. Otherwise it wouldn’t make much sense to rush all this content in the anime. Something seems fishy.

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    • I don’t think they expected the Switch game to take until 2019 so they rushed it and they are probably panicking now. They do still have ‘Ula ‘Ula to do and if they have to, they’ll pull a BW and make a filler season

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      • the anime team goes pretty in line with what TPC and GF tell them to do. Seems unlikely they wouldn’t know the general timeline for how production was going. Also for them to rush through all of gen 7’s content just to get to a massive filler arc it’d be ridiculous. If at this point they were told that the game was coming late 2019 then they would have already slowed their roll for the pacing. They can get through Ula’ula in no time at all. They could honestly get through the remaining trials in like a month if they wanted to. They blasted through Akala after all. I doubt they’ll do a filler arc like they did in BW. I think the game is coming out at latest early 2019 and that’s why they’re rushing all this content. Otherwise it wouldn’t make sens to be advertising Necrozma just yet.

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  2. Just a few more games to review before my 2017 list is done. After I review em all, I still gotta edit and fix up the reviews but yeahhh

    I’m having a lot of fun talking about these games. Especially the new Life is Strange analysis/review which is sitting at 1402 words. I’m wondering if i should release them all at once or one at a time. Idk

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  3. So in an update to that Direct situation, there might seriously be another one this Thursday. Crazy I know, but I think it might actually happen. From what this person on ResetEra has been saying, it will 1) Be shorter in length than the Direct Mini, 2) Not focus on a particular game or series, 3) Not reveal Fire Emblem on Switch and 4) Relate to “games and accessories”. They’re also claiming the big Direct we’re all waiting for will be in February and include that announcement along with Dragon Quest XI and many others, of course. Now to me, this sounds like a Direct to re-reveal the Switch Online service, but they’ve never ever done something like that before. So far, 2018 has been a bit of a trailblazer for Nintendo so none of this seems outlandish to me. Maybe, just maybe, it’s something to do with Nintendo’s QOL service? I dunno, we’re in anything goes territory here. Here’s the person’s Twitter in case someone wants to do some research: https://mobile.twitter.com/theprinceofiris

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    • I’d def like them to do a direct of new features coming to the Switch like the online service, netflix and apps, virtual console, backgrounds..all that good stuff that we need

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      • I have a theory, now it’s nothing more than a pipe dream but hear me out. If it’s about “games and accessories”, it may reveal an accessory for the Switch like the ones Kimishima mentioned were in development back in 2016. And they would have to show at least one game that uses this new accessory. And there’s a certain franchise which pioneered the e-Reader on the GameCube, helped market the Wii Speak on the Wii and used the amiibo reader on both the Wii U and 3DS…

        ANIMAL CROSSING.

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      • Oh thank you, but honestly I struggle to find another place to put my wall of text 😛 I’m enthusiastic about all that’s been going on with Nintendo this year since it’s all been so uncharacteristic. If they do release another small Direct this week it’ll definitely be something unique that we haven’t seen before.

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        • Honestly, I’m obsessed with all of their games and if they can keep up the momentum from last year, this year is sure to be amazing. I am excited for more details about yoshi and kirby, the possibility of smash and AC, and of course, even just the slightest details about pokemon switch!

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  8. I made a wishlist of games I want to be announced for the Switch this year:
    Pokemon Switch (early 2019)
    Smash port (Summer 2018)
    Arms 2 (Late 2018)
    Mario Super Strikers 3 (Late 2018)
    SU: Protect the Light port (Spring 2018)
    Super Mario Maker Switch (Christmas 2018)
    And Finally
    Overwatch Switch (Christmas 2018) (unlikely, I know)

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  12. With how fast the anime is moving it’s looking more and more likely that the switch game will release this year. Exciting times ahead for the Pokémon community by looks of it.

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  15. My predictions for the Pokémon series for next few years. May be wrong but whatever
    2018- generation 8 games(with how things are going in the anime it makes sense to me)
    2019- break year maybe a mystery dungeon game on switch
    2020- gen 4 remakes
    2021- gen 9 or gen 1 remakes/sequels
    I did this due to boredom lol what does everyone else think?

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  17. I think I firgured out part of why I dont really like the Alola region: the routes are super boring. The towns are generally all great, but getting there is a slog

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      • I think it depends on the person and the hype season. Because so much of Gen V were leaks and we weren’t totally spoiled about everything, I loved Gen V even more than the hype season. BW2 hype season was something totally new and exciting.

        Gens VI and VII were defo examples of hype > product

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    • I think that’s likely because once we get the games we already know a bunch about it. If they kept most things a secret then the games would be more exciting for you I’d guess.

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    • I am mainly excited about seeing the starters lol I plan to leave this time once that happens! Try to stay spoiler free and pick my starter not knowing what to expect ^.^ I want the feeling I had with gen 4 again!

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  22. Fun little world building fact
    To become a member of Team Grandeur, one of my fangame teams, you must be able to perform sleight of hand.
    Additionally, Morelull , Zorua, and Ledian are the three most common Pokemon grunts on the team recieve

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  24. I am so freaking tired right now. Going on three hours of sleep and have managed to stay awake. Off tomorrow thankfully so I can hopefully catch up on my sleep tonight.

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  25. Well I have beaten away all the areas trainers and am about to face Clay (I also have removed Moon and Archepelo to try and train up my permanent team members) so going into Clay I have
    -Pignite lvl.29
    -Simisage lvl.29
    -Palpitoad lvl.29
    -Vanillite lvl.29

    Wish me luck!

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