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This Week’s Big Stories
Pokémon Switch Hinted for 2018 Release
Help Save Small PokéTubers on YouTube
TPCi Announces Year of Legendary Pokémon
Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
- Quick reminder that registration for the 2018 International Challenge January competition has begun! Be sure to register for the battles running from January 26th to the the 28th!
Pokkén Tournament DX
- The Dynamic Fury Group Match is currently ongoing until January 22nd! As usual, this cup is a Team Battle competition, on a Fixed Battle Arena. Participates will receive special titles rewards based on Machamp depending on how high they place
Pokémon GO
- Version 1.59.1 for the ever popular mobile app is now available! This update fixes several bugs including an issue that sent you back up to the top of your Pokémon list, as well as revamping the Pokédex for easy jumps to Regional ‘dexs, and adding a symbol to indicate shiny Pokémon in your list
Pokémon Duel
- Requiring 247MB, Version 5.0.6 of the mobile game is now available to download! This update adds new Plates, monthly login bonuses and the new Ultra Space area. In this new area Ultra Beast figures can move into the space and power up. In addition, this update adds several new figures, and brings some changes to old ones:
- New UX Figures – Nihilego, Mega Mewtwo Y, & Mega Mewtwo X
- New EX Figures – Toxapex
- New R Figures – Toxicroak
- New UC Figures – Mareanie & Croagunk
- Drapion Balance Update – Movement increased from 1 to 2
- Arbok Balance Update – New ability Shed Skin added, increased power of Poison Fang from 40 to 50
- Seviper Balance Update – Added new ability Rapid Approach, Increase wheel size of Toxic Fluid & Poison Tail, Decreased wheel size of Wrap
- The Poison Gym Cup has begun! Running until January 24th, This Special Gym Cup increases the movement of Poison-type figures as well as the White & Gold Attacks of Psychic-type Pokémon by 20. Participates will recieve the special Alolan Grimer figure!
- All players who log in before January 30th will receive a Deoxys (Normal Form) Figure
Pokémon Shuffle
- The new Mareanie stage is live until January 30th, 2018
- Both the Mega Salamence competitive stage and Electrode stage (previously exclusive to Expert stages) run until January 23rd, 2018
- The following stages have begun repeat runs until January 23rd: Xurkitree, Palossand, Lycanroc, & Thundurus (Therian Forme)
Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked, or is now available for purchase this week:
Damn, that Giovanni nendroid would be so cool if it was Cyrus.
I really like the Alolan Raichu figure though
Well this week sucked complete ass
Reposting with improvements
Thoughts?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9aa1e25a612ed7acc34ee0e8e8ac3b3949b6a16939739109a7437f775659852e.png
Much better, but also the facial expression really puts me off sorry to say
I think it’s mainly the eyebrows
I’m kinda stuck with it at this point. I’m making it look a bit better but I really should’ve been more decisive on it towards the beginning. Gotta work on that in the future
Final version of the Serena Portrait I did
https://orig00.deviantart.net/cb41/f/2018/021/b/e/serenaportrait1_by_starstorm295-dc0rr2s.png
Very nice.
Wait a minute, Feraligatr gets Liquidation, Aipom gets Tail Slap, Decidueye gets both Leaf Storm and Shadow Sneak, and Riolu gets Meteor Mash?
Holy.
Barbaracle and Cloyster got Liquidation too
My god, that’s brilliant
Ugh this week just sucked on so many levels
This week probably won’t be any better
I need a game to dull my senses, I feel like a good GBA game that isn’t Pokémon or Superstar saga
Minish Cap
Wario Land 4
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Banjo Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge
Yoshi’s Island
Try Hollowknight
If your looking for a game to breeze through and to not challenge you too much, but just enough to get your blood pumping
Then my friend Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland is exactly what you need
Might as well, that god damn amazing mirror’s not so amazing with that blasted interconnected level design
Yeah I got it months ago and beat 1 boss because I got lost
Hmm I need a few move tips for my team
Bite or Shadow Claw for Simisage
Scald or Sludge Bomb for Seismitoad
Scald or Assurance for Emboar
Scald seems nice for Emboar for coverage against Rock and Ground type, Shadow Claw definitely for Simisage, and I’d say Sludge Bomb for Seismetoad
Alright I only ask because I want to make certain on my moves before fighting Drayden
I also decided I’m going to give Beheeyem Shadow Ball in place of Psyshock to give it better coverage (Probably will need something to replace Headbutt though too)
Shadow Claw
Scald
Neither
Why is cosmog so happy looking at necrozma? Necrozma is probably just waiting until it evolves so he can forcefully absorb it. This is kinda one thing I dislike with USUM opening. It makes it look like Ultra Solgaleo/Lunala are these super cool pokemon riding through space, but it’s actual Necrozma after it forced its way into Solagaleo/Lunala, which seems like something weird to be hyped up. Oh Well Probably thinking too deep into it.
This was a decent week. Made a UU team fairly successful, and I found love monotype. BUT still no shiny Ho-oh so thats annoying.
This week was… weird
It sucked in some spots… kind of a lot but I did draw a lot and fixed up my tumblr to look nicer so that’s good. Plus it snowed and that’s cool
well just downloaded Pokémon blaze black after seeing so many people play the gen five games last week. Question is which starter will I pick? 🤔
I’d say which ever one you’ve used the least and if not that pick the one you think will be worth playing with at the end (Oshawott)
I can already say I will most likely use oshawott in blaze black 2 since I never used it in the actual black and white 2 for some strange reason. I may flip a freaking coin to choose between tepig and snivy lol
Snivy is the only correct answer
https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/20/16913944/playstation-totaku-figures-gamestop-preorder
Well, my father’s car decided to overclock and shake so much you can feel the engine. And it smoked so bad i felt like a Torkal. There goes today’s plans.
OH F*CK
YOU GUYS
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
https://twitter.com/jynxclub/status/955423502026199041
That’s actually a really cool theme. I just wonder how they would convey the present
The Water starter will Dab and take a selfie with emojis in a meme shirt
I said the present
Well I mean dabbing and selfies still happen
Here is what I am speculating from the screenshot. It seems like the Fire Starter is going to be Fire/Steel (future). The grass Starter may be Grass/Rock (since it is associated with the past and I am associating it with the Fossil Pokémon which have all been part Rock). The water starter is completely up in the air for the present theme, I want to say Water/Fighting just because they love their part Fighting Type Starters.
GUYS THIS MEANS
THAT @FOOLISHLAYDE IS A REAL LEAKER
AND SHE’S A FRIEND OF THAT GEKOUGA GUY
My friends are amazing at sport, art, and music.
That doesn’t make me a Herculean virtuoso artist. It just means my friends have those traits. Gekkouga reeks of BS tbh because he just hopped onto whatever was circulating
you’re probably right. I’m still really surprised that she didn’t make that up.
I don’t exactly believe she’s a leaker, I’ve talked to her before.
she leaked the past-past-present-water-future-fire stuff over a month ago
Are you speaking about Jynx or the actual leaker here?
Uh, how is that leak ‘atleast’ 50% right? I think he meant that there’s a 50% chance that the leak is real right?
She may be saying 50% of the leak is real. Leakers have gotten things wrong before.
*cough*Alola Forms*cough*
But the only leak only says that the starters have a past-present-future theme which makes it confusing saying that 50% of that is right.
They could’ve got the theme right and the order wrong. Hence, 50% right. Or they could’ve gotten one of the matches right and the others wrong, which people would still use ‘half right/wrong’ to express because it’s easier to say and is pretty much used like ‘literally’ nowadays.
also she said “at least” so maybe she just heard about the past-present-future stuff and not the order
then “which 50%” wouldn’t make sense. I suspect that she could hear about two starters for example and she doesn’t know details.
I realize Jynx Club is from Hong Kong, but that tweet means almost nothing lol. She’s gotta try and fix her broken English in tweets. I think she’s trying to say it has a 50/50 chance of being real, but otherwise it means nothing lol. That said I believe that the past, present, and future thing is real.
What? Her English in this tweet is fine lol. Learn Chinese if it bothers you so much
Sorry wasn’t trying to mean. I glanced at it and for some reason it looked off…..my bad
*be mean
Ok now you’re just rubbing it in my face……lol
What are you on about
Just ignore me I’m an idiot lol
all it says is that the starters are past/present/future, and also grass, fire, and water type. the 50% that’s true is probably the fact that the starters are grass, fire, and water ;3
Ugh, I got midterms in a bit. Wish me luck, guys
ckuL dooG
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH
I am bored and unsatisfied I just need to scream
I want to perfect a pure water type associated with whirlpools
A mid stage Tadpole that swims in groups to create riptides and a gigantic bullfrog that creates life threatening whirlpools by inhaling gallons upon gallons of seawater merely by opening its cavernous maw
Rippole and Undyrtoad
And their signature ability and is Undertow which prevents opponents from switching out
I’m dropping Pokémon unless the next starters are Fire/Fighting tbh
I can’t lose 😀
They’re all frail feminine special attackers that can’t learn any ground or rock moves
Twinge…then I’ll just use a different Pokémon as a starter
He said they’re all
He never specified he meant just the starters ;3
And I’m dropping if the next fire starter is quadrupedal
I’m dropping it if there are Pokemon in the game
Okay let’s assume that the P-P-F leak is 100% correct. Knowing that there are big chances of Spain being the gen 8 region, what animals do you think we could see?
For grass (past), I imagine Grass/Rock, either a Dinosaur or maybe a Gigantopithecus with a caveman theme.
For Fire (future), maybe Fire/Steel, a Cyborg-like Minotaur, Bull cause Spain
For Water… I have no frickin idea
The starters are never super tied into the region, so I’m praying for dinosaur/hare/crustacean or something
both inci and deci are based on species that live/lived in hawaii
I’ve never heard about tigers in Hawaii
Deci isn’t even very blatantly Hawaiian as it doesn’t capitalise completely on the theme, as it’s never portrayed as very spiritual (like its basis). It’s a tie, but not as blatant as Spain and bulls considering Deci has barn owl and archery themes that compete with the hawaiian owl themes.
Isn’t Decidueye based on a few different owls though?
Like I know there’s an extinct one its based on too that was either Hawaii or tropical island native
There is one species of Tigers in Hawaii
Deci is actually based on the extinct Stilt Owl and an Old Hawaiian Legend ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Cla43ssgo )
Are you sure? I’m getting links to Detroit tigers and tiger sharks lol
I acknowledged that, I’m just saying it’s diluted by the five thousand other things Deci is based off of. It’s not blatantly Hawaiian.
Agreeeeeed! Either that or some sort of squishy thing for water. I’d gladly take this group though
Yes pls we don’t have any crab Pokemon.
…..what
Kuppo plz
The krusty Krabby ring a bell?
Crabrawler too
I forgot Crabrawler was a crab honestly (I know it’s stupid, but I am forgetful)
And is Clauncher technically a crab? Or is it more a lobster or Shrimp like Pokémon?
It’s a pistol shrimp
It’s a coconut crab
And clauncher is APPARENTLY based off a pistol shrimp despite looking exactly like a damn lobster
Sorry but I’m not familiar with those *disgusting* Digimons ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Digimons ;3
Sorry but what are the big chances of Spain being the region?
This has nothing to do with that
I know but I’m kinda tired to being shown this rumour without any real evidence backing it up
I mean like
It doesn’t matter in the long run
They traveled to Spain recently
That makes it much more likely than most other possibilities
They also traveled to Germany tho
Spain was some time ago, Germany could be for gen 9
I like how when you encounter kyogre in Ultra space, it’s silhouette drops from the ceiling and literally takes up the entire screen
Imagine seeing just a giant fucking orca drop out of the sky
That’s basically what it is
I feel like at some point in the franchise there will be a feature that lets us decorate the inside of a pokeball. Like we see how they look on the inside and can put tiny furniture in there and stuff. So it’d be a small luttle contained world in there. I mean we’ve gone into pokemons dreams and sh*t yet we still don’t know what the inside of a pokeball looks like
I feel this is a fifty fifty. This will either happen in Sinnoh as a expansion of the seals or never
Maybe. I could see that but I could also see it being its own thing
Hmm
Either way seals should come back
Just stick primarinas to the ball
That’s what I thought the little customization on the Amie menu in Gen 6 was supposed to be
That’s kinda the basis for the idea I had. But I didn’t really like that cause they couldn’t interact with the furniture or anything and they just kept rolling around the f*cking screen getting whiplash
I FORGOT HOW FUNNY THAT IS OMG
Well the innards of a poke ball have some insight
Poke balls seem to recreate a contained environment that which a housed Pokémon is safe and comfortable in order to keep the contained Pokémon happy, there is some arguments that they are in a state of suspended animation where they are put on hold until needed this is not true due to the fact trained Pokémon can react to commands moments prior to releasing
And the biggest mystery is the energized conversion where they’re broken down into code and stored within the pokeball for containment. Lucian of the elite four states that uncaptured Pokémon instinctively try to curl up and heal when captured to resist that is why the poke balls do not contain them on the spot so to give a chance to struggle free, then the whole bathed in a unique code that registers the Pokémon to the trainer’s ball to prevent other capture
This is bery interesting. What else interests me though is that they don’t need food within the ball. So you could bury one in the ground and someone could dig it up 10 years later and the pokemon would be aluve still I guess
I always just assumed a Poké Ball is a mobile gateway to and from the PC tbh
I can’t believe they’ve never made a region based on France
Yep
Never ever
They really should
Because they haven’t
It hasn’t happened
At all
Didn’t France have luchador birds?
No but the concept is very cool
XY isn’t that good, but you have to admit Kalos is a pretty region
And you missed the joke
Ehhhh not really
I’ve been to Paris and holy fuuck it’s beautiful. But Lumiose is so dull. Funny enough Pokémon Generations gets it right in the Lysandre episode which is also one of the best episodes.
Are any big city in Pokémon as good as there irl counterpart though?
Castelia didn’t really live up to NYC tbh
Yeah but those Pokemon cities aren’t a boring mess and actually pretty fun to travel in sometimes.
Yeah Castelia isn’t as good as NY but is a pretty fantastic Pkm city nonetheless
^^
And it doesn’t have the sh*tty parts of NY
That’s true
I wonder why they didn’t take the chance to do Times Square tho?
Maybe not in layout but hell yeah Unova captures New York City
Tru
I honestly am thinking Unova truely may be my favorite region
It’s up there for sure
I wouldn’t say so considering I myself am a yearly visitor
But it’s a real great city
Yeah
A pretty boring one
Meh I think it’s just ok
-The recreation of seasons wasn’t well done
-Some places were easily forgotten or overlooked
Wish we had a region based on Hokkaido as well
I wish we had a Pokémon region in Japan ;3
We only got New York and Hawaii smh
Crap dude, remember that region in Uganda? It was so easy they literally showed you the way
Seraph pls
Did you catch the Ebola mon and use it?
Yeah I love Endola, my fav Poison/Dark type
Best Poison type I’ve seen in a while
Poison electric too, it’s an amazing type
I liked Kalos, I just didn’t like the story told in it lol
It needed that extra year to develop it further
Pretty much every Pokémon game does tbh
They usually spend that extra year in making a third version so they can make more money
but for some dumb reason they didn’t. Maybe if they did, we’d see a Sun/Moon on the Switch (and it’d be more like USUM)
SuMo wouldn’t of been on switch if it was a 2017 release tbh
Unpopular Opinion: Pokeballs really don’t need to be explained
What does need to be explained is revives. How do they work? I used to think you just kinda jammed it in your Pokémon and it absorbed it but do you like crumble it up into a powder or…
… can you snort revives?
Revives are probably potions with smelling salts
I assume maybe it’s a type of candy and you can eat it? Or maybe you crush it and sprinkle it onto their skin?
And Pokeballs I agree don’t need an explanation, I think it’s just a space where they can live (Kind of like an apartment building)
I think it was shown multiple times that it’s in spray.
I recall none of those times, but I can get on board with that
But the bag sprite isn’t a spray
Maybe it’s a fancy bottle? Like some perfumes
They work like Senzu beans. That’s what i assume anyway
It is a medical mineral that restores fatigue
I know that I wanted to know how it’s ingested for use
My theory it’s similar to a pill or a smelling salt that The Pokémon either swallows or merely breathes in
Guess that when it touches a Pkm it shines, fades away and then the Pokemon is normal again? Idk it feels like they didn’t put much thought into that lol
Why would you snort a revive
For me the Pokeball explenation that makes the most sense is that it just has a shrinking ray. The pokemon lives inside in some sort of friendly enviroment, while stilll being able to see what’s happening outside.
I think that is an ideal thought
Also the Adventures manga heavily supports this theory
Nah it has to be a code stream, their molecular structure is broken down into a universal binary code which is stored in the pokeball’s computer
Hence why they can be deposited in PCs and explains why you must trade Pokémon which changes the signature code that transfers ownership to another trainer, because it’s all about trainer ID that’s registered
But that would mean each time we let a mon out of the ball it isn’t the same one you put in that ball, it’s just an exact copy from the same atoms. Each time we put a pokemon in a ball it’s killed by being broken down into code.
It is not being killed, it’s being broken down and reassembled harmlessly
And as the ID signature it is very unique very common practice where it just registers The Pokémon and makes recapture impossible (hence why if you tried to catch another’s Pokémon it would fail)
when you’re broken down, you’re being killed. It’s like being desintegrated and then building an exact copy from the torn apart pieces.
So what did I miss? I am seeing in the comments people talking about past present and future. What is going on lol
A pretty trustworthy leaker said that a leak is at least partially true. The leak says “Grass-Past, Fire-Future, Water-Present”.
Tf does that even mean
Nobody knows
That the starters are going to have a past present future theme
First it was goat,wolf and some other animal now it’s this. This ls leak is so vague the leaker shouldn’t have even bothered to leak it
Hmm interesting. I wonder how that would work in all honesty. Grass/rock fire/steel and water uh I got nothing lol
Grass-some kind of animal from the past maybe a dinosaur? Stegosaurus or spinosaur please gamefreak?
Fire- some animal that becomes part steel looking sort of mechanical? Not sure what kind of animal this could fit
Water- some animal that is alive right now I suppose. Platypus would be pretty cool
I think just about anything could fit the Future theme with steel, but my hope is a bunny
I wouldn’t mind a rabbit starter. Let’s just hope that all the starters aren’t slow like what happened with gen 7
If they make a slow bunny I think they finally have failed there job of making a Pokémon enough like it’s rl counterpart
We have a slow Tiger
Isn’t that already enough?
Especially considering purugly’s speed
It wouldn’t shock me if they did it lol so many Pokémon in gen 7 has potential for high speed but ended up slow. Incineroar Decidueye vikavolt to name just a few that come to mind
I’m not sure what’s going on either lol
Sometimes I look around at how beautiful this planet realy is and how everything on it is special…
Then I remember we have dumb f*cks here who eat TidePods
Clearly the human race is in the crapper
Well at least those who do eat them lower the stupid half of the population
If someone isn’t like the age of 7 or has a special problem where they have the mindset of a young child, they should know not to eat a Tide pod
Oh please this isn’t even the worst thing that’s happened the past few months.
Humans have always been shitty. It ain’t new
We have gotten progressively worse though
Humans used to bury children alive when they found out they were female.
In some parts, widows were burnt alive.
History is filled with many many wars.
It’s not gotten worse really. Weapons just get more dangerous.
The world is actually the most peaceful it has ever been.
History is a rollercoaster. Somethings get worse, others get better, but it’s mostly better
Trump
North Korea
Russia
We’re close to an atomic war
I think it’s not that good
Of course we have problems but those aren’t as big as they were in a 100 years ago.
Also we’ve been waaaaaaayy closer to an atomic war before
You aren’t worrying if your town is going to be tucking raided
https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/#/title-slide
Lol
Thinking that’ll actually happen
Putin, Trump, and Kim are just as scared of nuclear war as you lol, it’s not ‘they bomb one country and win’. Atomic war will lead to the mutual destruction of all their countries.
Remember the cold War? This is the subzero war because three edgy beta males are trying to intimidate each other with their atomic peens but are too afraid to whip theirs out first. Eventually they’ll give up or fall out of power lol
The World is both beautiful and terrible. People are also both Great and Horrible.
This world always finds that perfect balance of awesome and sh*t
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b80954e1d809cb14d0232cd8d195e94b59e12711f9699b8127298f6c8726392d.jpg
http://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*399/tide+pod+donuts.png
Now at Dunkin’ Doughnuts 😀
… There are Dunkin’ Doughnuts in Europe and Asia right?
There are some in Poland
Those look amazing
Toaster on bathtub challenge coming in 2019
At this point I wouldn’t surprised tbh
I can already hear the population dropping
Do you actually think Pokemon Switch will come out in December?
No
The question isn’t if you hope they will, it’s if you think they will
I know
Well maybe fall of 2018-19
I give it a 45-55 chance
45% December
55% next year
I rather wait for when they announce the date tbh, because I’m pretty unsure rn
No
Hard to say. Won’t shock me if it does though. That said I would say November is more likely so they can get Black Friday sales
Not really because it seems like that GF is taking their time on making these games and getting used to the system, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the Switch games come in 2019.
We don’t have anything concrete to state this tho. The last two main series Pokémon games were announced 9 months before release and we haven’t seen anything saying how much they’re working on it. For all we know the 3DS games felt rushed because they were worked with alongside PokeSwitch.
That said, I’m hoping for as late as possible for release. This needs to be polished
If it’s coming this year yes
If it’s coming 2019 not sure
Summer 2019 seems plausible at this point
Really depends on how long they’ve been working at it tbh. If it’s been a long burning background project I can see it coming this year, if it’s dramatically different from past titles and/or only a year or two into development I’m inclined to agree with you