Weekly Wrap Up 1/22-1/28

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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 22nd to January 28th!

This Week’s Big Stories

Look Out For These 5 Upcoming Nintendo Titles In 2018

More Gen III Pokémon Now Available in GO!

Pokémon Crystal Now Available on eShop

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • It’s been revealed through the official 2018 VGC rules that Version 1.2 of USUM is on its way soon. Until this update is rolled out the following moves are banned: Curse, Forest’s Curse, String Shot, and Power Trick
  • The third USUM Global Mission has concluded in success! With 1,111,490 battles won at the Battle Agency we blew the 100,000 goal outta the water! You can now pick up your gift of 2,000 FC (4,000 FC if your game is connected to the Global Link) in the Festival Plaza

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • Reminder that the first part of Pokkén Tournament DX’s Battle Pack DLC is available later this week on January 31st! This DLC adds the playable Pokkén Fighter Aegislash and new support Pokémon Mega Rayqauza and Mimikyu to the game
  • Along with the DLC’s release on Wednesday a new update for the game will be available for download. This patch includes several balance updates for the playable Pokémon as well as a compatibility with the Nintendo Switch’s capture feature – allowing to record and upload the last 30 seconds of game play
  • From February 9th through February 12th you can participate in the Psyfirecracker Group Match! This cup features a Fixed Battle Arena Basic Battle competition with participants receiving special title rewards based on Braixen depending on their placement

New 3DS Themes

Pokémon x Amazon Prime

  • For those Amazon Prime subscribers in North America, Amazon has announced a special Pokémon channel that will let you watch seasons 2-5 and 10-16 of the Pokémon anime series, along with a regularly rotating selection of the Pokémon movies

P-Sports

Pokémon GO

  • The next Pokémon GO Community Day has been announced for February 24th and will feature 3x Stardust, 3 hour lures, and a special Dratini with a yet to be announced exclusive move! Check out the event time period for each region:
    • The Americas & Greenland: 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST (GMT -8)
    • Europe, the Middle East, Africa, & India: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
    • The Asia-Pacific region: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM JST (GMT +9)

Pokémon Duel

  • Version 5.0.7 of the mobile game is now available for download

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The new UB Challenge Kartana stage is available until February 6th and costs 20,000 coins to unlock
  • The new Golisopod and Azumarill (Winking) stages are also available until February 6th
  • The Tapu Koko and Tapu Fini stages have begun repeat runs until February 6th, while the Mikiyu stage is currently having a repeat run until January 30th

Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked, or is now available for purchase this week:

 

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  3. on the subject of pokemon moves, is there any moves you wish you enjoy using but aren’t necessarily powerful or even decent?

    Example I like using Horn Attack on Heracross apposed to upgrading it to Strength out of the fantasy of Heracross stabbing with the horn (or thrusting under the opponents and flinging them)

    And another ks Metal Claw over Iron Head on Excadrill and Drill Run over Earthquake

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  4. So I’m SRing for Musharna. Musharna’s shiny is soooooooooooo much better than Munna’s. By millions of miles. Hopefully it doesn’t take too long, but since I don’t have a national dex filled in this Black version I don’t have the shiny charm. So it’ll likely take forever. Maybe I’ll have the same luck I had when I found my shiny H0-oh in HG.

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  11. How would you rate each Pokemon generation on a scale of 1 to 10? I’m rating them with their debut games, third versions, sequels, and remakes in mind for each of their reviews.

    Generation One – 8/10
    Generation Two – 7/10
    Generation Three – 8/10
    Generation Four – 9/10
    Generation Five – 8/10
    Generation Six – 7/10
    Generation Seven – 6/10

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    • So I’m not gonna rate Gen 1 because it’s the basis and it’s hard to rank something 6 gens later. I’ll start with 2.

      Gen 2: 6/10 -Fun with good improvements, but the new additions to the dex were very poor and so was the distribution. Not to mention the awful level curve. Story is meh.

      Gen 3: 8/10 -Very good upgrade. The graphics, abilities, weather, and colorful region are all great. The main gripe is that the story is a bit silly when you break it down. But at least a fun silly unlike Gen 2

      Gen 4: 9.5/10 -Ahhhh such a good generation. Platinum and HG/SS are near perfect games to me, the only reason I’m not giving these perfect scores is because of D/P, which were flawed. Luckily Platinum fixes pretty much every problem and is still one of the best in the series.

      Gen 5: 10/10 -Perfection. I seriously have next to zero complaints about both B/W and B2W2. Some people say B2W2’s story doesn’t hold up compared to B/W, and I would agree it’s not as good, but it’s still so much fun to play.

      Gen 6: 5/10 -Ooof…other than graphical updates and megas, what did X&Y even get right? I will say I enjoyed ORAS a lot and I really like them, but Gamefreak didn’t go the whole mile with them. Sorry, but no Battle Frontier is such a huge fumble on their part.

      Gen 7: 6/10 -Idk. On one hand I like S/M. The story is decent and the cities are cool. But the cutscenes and story needed some work and USUM didn’t really fix that, like at all. It instead opted to add features we didn’t need. I also find Alola to be pretty bland outside of the cities. But at least the music is generally pretty nice.

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  16. I… did it… I beat Ghetsis (took a quick break and purposefully lost to readd Echo to the bunch for the true battle)

    I have declared victory and now shall attempt within the next few days to start White 2 (I’ll come out a bit later and give my final team)

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  19. So as I continue my journey through the Pokemon anime from start to finish I think I’ve come to the conclusion that Ash, Brock, and Misty are either all dimwitted, have some sort of brain damage, or have severe face blindness. I’m not very far into Johto and there have been multiple episodes throughout the series thus far where TR come to them in “disguises” and they don’t even give them a second look. Most of the “disguises” don’t even change their faces. They basically just wear glasses and the 3 dumb dumbs can’t recognize them.

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  20. So time for my team of Hero’s in the plot to stop team Plasma in Black

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/64cb8887484d02f486d286b3c9646602ace837ebfff8d2f289b75841498a4b17.gif
    Boinky the Emboar
    Level 53
    Female
    Blaze
    Docile Natured
    Somewhat of a Clown
    Item: Charcoal
    Moves:
    Brick Break
    Scald
    Flamethrower
    Heat Crash

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    Ginger the Simisage
    Level 52
    Female
    Gluttony
    Mild Natured
    Quick Tempered
    Item: None
    Moves:
    Acrobatics
    Shadow Claw
    Rock Tomb
    Seed Bomb

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    Bubbles the Seismitoad
    Level 51
    Male
    Swift Swim
    Rash Natured
    Strongly Defiant
    Item: Soft Sand
    Moves:
    Drain Punch
    Dig
    Sludge Bomb
    Surf

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    Frosty the Vanilluxe
    Level 50
    Male
    Ice Body
    Rash Natured
    Proud of its Power
    Item: NeverMelt Ice
    Moves:
    Icy Wind
    Taunt
    Ice Beam
    Mirror Shot

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    Echo the Beheeyem
    Level 49
    Male
    Telepathy
    Rash Natured
    Likes to Fight
    Item: Rocky Helmet
    Moves:
    Headbutt
    Charge Beam
    Shadow Ball
    Psychic

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    Sir Kibble the Bisharp
    Level 53
    Male
    Inner Focus
    Impish Natured
    Alert to Sounds
    Item: Black Glasses
    Moves:
    Slash
    Metal Claw
    X-Scissor
    Night Slash

    Honorable Mention:
    Reshiram https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4ba68bc7d7dfa4ca382d5405dbe271f6969b1e43c4299fe0e1623225c24b7bcc.gif

    Tomorrow begins a new day when a young girl (I wanted to have a female character) begins her Pokémon journey but 2 years after the perilous events of Black version

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  21. I’ve decided on my Crystal League team!
    Meganium
    Electabuzz
    Togetic
    Forretress
    Nidoqueen
    Starmie
    I hope I’m able to beat it tonight!

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  23. Electabuzz is SO broken in Gen 2. If only I had known that sooner. Thunder Punch, Ice Punch and Fire Punch basically cover half of the types or so in terms of coverage. It’s insane. Reminds me a lot of Emboar’s Scald in Gen 5 (which was definitely a mistake). Giving a Fire-type starter a Water-type move is ridiculous in concept. I’m rambling now…but I just beat Clair with an Electabuzz sweep, which proves my point!

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    • Oh yeah I forgot all the Punch moves were special back then.

      Reminds me how broken Elemental Punches + Psychic Alakazam was broken back in the day.

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  24. Nothing like properly making two huge predicts only to get parahax’d three turns straight

    Seriously, this dipshit fucking sent in an EMBOAR as an Araquanid switchin!

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      • Dude… you realize he switched it ON the araquanid
        Like he was planning to take the hit from liquidation FROM Araquanid
        That’s literally a sac

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  25. Ok shiny phantump mission failed
    Those dead kiddies all carry ingrain and leech seed (which I learnt that leech seed is based on base HP and not a percent ergo more than half HP siphoned back)

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