Weekly Wrap Up 1/29-2/4

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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 29th to February 4th!

This Week’s Big Stories

What Ever Happened to AZ’s Floette?

♪ Pyukumuku is the Name ♪

FAKE: Generation VIII Starter Pokémon Revealed?!

GO Introduces Unlockable Clothing

If You Love Rumors, That’s OK

Event Reminder

  • The Year of Legendary Pokémon has begun! From now until February 28th you can head to local stores to pick up a serial code and download Dialga and Palkia to your Pokémon Sun & Moon, and Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon games! These event ‘mon come at Level 60 in SM, and Level 100 in USUM while holding a Bottle Cap. Check out the full list of distribution locations:
    • US & Ireland – Gamestop until February 28th
    • Australia & Canada – EBGames until February 28th
    • UK – GAME until February 28th
    • Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden – Gamestop until February 23rd
    • France – Micromania until February 23rd
    • Spain – GAME until February 23rd
    • Netherlands – GameMania until February 23rd

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • The Ultra Sinnoh Classic competition has been officially announced! This Single Battle competition raises competing Pokémon levels to 50, and allows you to only use Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex. Alola Forms, Mega Stones, Z-Crystals, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin and Arceus are all banned. Registration runs from February 15th to February 22nd while the battles take place from February 23rd through the 25th. All participants will receive 50 Battle Points as a gift

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • The latest update for Pokkén Tournament DX is now live! This patch adds the first wave of Downloadable Content Including the playable fighter Aegislash, Support Pokémon Mimikyu & Mega Rayquaza, new clothing items for your Avatar, and a new outfit for Nia. The patch also includes several fixes and additions to the game including Video Capture. have come to the game including Video Capture

3DS Themes

  • Following their release in Japan last week, the two Team Plasma 3DS themes featuring important characters from Black & White, and Black 2 & White 2 are now available for purchase in the US

Trading Card Game

  • This week marked the release of the latest Pokémon Sun & Moon TCG set! Made up of the GX Battle Boost and Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon sets from Japan, this release contains 173 cards of various Pokemon from the Sinnoh Region, as well as Necrozma.

Pokémon Duel

  • Pokémon Duel version 5.0.8 is now available for download! Requiring 247MB of space contains several balance updates, new figures and Plates to the game:
    • Keldeo – Removed Dodge and added new attack, Water Jump, which moves the Pokémon two steps away and gains Wait
    • Hariyama – Changed Slap Push to Heavy Slam, increased wheel size of Push Away, decreased wheel size of Miss
    • Drowzee – Increased wheel size of Hypnosis and Confusion, decreased wheel size of Miss
    • New UX Figures – Buzzole, Pheromosa, & Mega Gallade
    • New EX Figures – Gallade & Bewear
    • New R Figures – Poliwrath & Hypno
    • New UC Figures – Makuhita, & Stufful

Pokémon Shuffle

  • All players will receive the following Pokémon upon log in: Mewtwo, Suicune and Pikachu (Fired Up)
  • The Mega Lucario competitive stage runs until February 6th 2018
  • The brand new Mewtwo Escalation Battle stage will be available until February 23rd
    The following stages have begun repeat runs until February 13th: Tapu Bulu, Tapu Fini

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

 

 

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  1. I’ve opened a bunch of the Ultra Prism expansion and the art is baller. It doesn’t even matter if you get anything “good” the art is all you need. haha Also really want to get my hands on that Poipole figure. I wish the Pokemon Center had the Tomy figures since they have all the plushes, but oh well I’ll have to keep an eye out on Amazon.

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  14. all main series games ranked from best to worse

    1. HGSS
    2. BW
    3. Platinum
    4. Emerald
    5. Black 2 White 2
    6. Fire Red/Leaf Green
    7. Sun and Moon
    8. G/S/C
    9. USUM
    10. RBGY
    11. X and Y
    12. Diamond and Pearl

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          • Tbh what could they have done in a remake though? I guess remove wild surfing encounters would’ve helped. Made all encounters exclusive to the underwater diving grass/fishing.

          • umm… alot? It’s a remake. They are re-making a game. That mean making something again and doing something new.

            But I guess remake just means “new graphics” to gamefreak

          • Yes, but I’m asking you personally what they could’ve done to improve the water routes. Removing wild encounters is all I’ve got.

          • Honey if wind waker can make a whole game around exploring the ocean so can pokemon.

            Add more variety in each route, maybe more islands, maybe boats floating on the water with trainers or NPC’s, design them like any other route.

          • Tbh Wind Waker really struggled with making sailing interesting too, though I love the game. I think more islands/boats does sound like it would’ve been good.

          • Because it is still a better experience than both. The additions to Emerald alone set it higher than RS and ORAS.

            Emerald doesn’t waste your time with story that you don’t care about. ORAS added so much unnecessary cutscenes and dialogue for a simple story that never made sense in the first place.

            The difficulty curve is ruined in ORAS with the EXP share

            Emerald actually has a post game

            thats just off the top of my head at least

          • I was comparing it more to RS

            The thing that truely sinks it for me, Rayquaza is pointless. In RS you catch the beast that is raging to qwell its power, in Emerald you just walk up a tower and it immediately flys away shows a cut scene and boom world is saved

            No fighting, no reason to really go up there except to make it come to its senses and help

            I would be satisfied even if you battled it without the ability to catch it just to test if you were worthy of its help, only thing the game did was boost the difficulty and the post game

          • Don’t get me wrong I still would pick Emerald over RS just you’d think a Godly deity would be able to notice its angry younger Brothers are in a fight again

          • Well clearly it fuckin didn’t or there would be no climax

            Plus I think waking up Rayquaza for it to stop them is a much better story point than wasting time battling Rayquaza first.

            It’s at least sort of original

    • List is good except I would at least put D/P above X&Y. They had way more redeeming qualities if we’re factoring in day and age of the games.

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          • well
            -your time is wasted by the ultra recon squad, pointless characters with no personality that have zero impact on the plot. They aren’t even equipped to fight Ultra Beasts at all. They don’t understand battling and have nothing but a Poipole and a Furfrou.
            – Character motivations are entirely screwed up. Lusamine’s motivation is changed from insanity trying to get to Nihiligo spurred by her past to trying to get involved with Necrozma which has nothing to do with her or her organization. She still acts insane and evil despite her apparently being a good character. She is also still associating with Team Skull which now makes LESS sense.
            – The climax is incredibly rushed
            – Necrozma as a threat is never felt. There is one small moment where it gets dark for a moment and nothing else. Theres never a time an entire town loses light or whatever. It just appears at the altar of the moon
            – Lillie is ruined. She has no character arc and no development. She’s boring.
            – Over all, they slapped on a new third act without properly changing the first and second to support it.

      • They made the story more of a mess, so no. Almost all of the additions are half assed (Malie Gym, Recon Squad, Ultra Megalopolis, pikachu valley, interacting with pokemon..) Didn’t fix glaring issues of SM like trainers facial expressions, the excessive use of cut scenes. It did some things right, granted, but not as a remake.

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  16. I’ve been doing some thinking about how cool it would be to get a 3D Donkey Kong game with the design elements of Odyssey. You could play as DK in an overgrown Mushroom Kingdom (or multiple kingdoms again) after some kind of spores make everyone fall asleep and then when DK wakes up, an infected Mario becomes the main boss. This would harken back to the original DK days where Mario was the enemy. You could use the Joy-con like the Wiimote and Nunchuk in Jungle Beat and Country Returns, swing across vines, find collectibles, stuff like that. It would be AWESOME. Maybe the Mario team could make a game like this as a followup to Odyssey rather than a direct sequel? The more I think about this idea the more I love it, so imagine what the professionals could do.

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  20. The more I think about it….

    The plot of Black and White isn’t actually good. It has good characters, but its underlying message is confused and nonsensical.

    Pokémon should never be story driven. They can write a decent one, but they can’t figure out how to make it work with the gameplay which makes it worse.

    BW at least didn’t push it in your face most of the time

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    • Black And white’s plot isn’t mind blowingly good like People make it out to be, it’s good because for pokemon it works
      A team that actually questions humans using pokemon as tools, and the end message that not everything is as simple as good or bad, plus how like you said the story flowed naturally rather than a million cutscenes with 50 halfassed subplots

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      • Well sure but… usually in these types of stories where there are opposing points of view, the viewer is meant to leave the experience with their own conclusion? But Team Plasma does so many obviously evil things and Ghetsis is such a one-dimensional bad guy that there is no debate. Hell, N basically spells out what your conclusion should be

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      • It made me feel bad for playing it.

        Especially when I had a Tranquill I hated named “SLAVE BIRD” solely for HM Fly, and was in this conversation from N:

        “Hey, SLAVE BIRD. Would you tell me what kind of Trainer Panties is?”
        “OK, OK, got it. So Panties was born in Nuvema Town, lives with Mom, and was given the Pokédex to start off a journey to see the world. Still, this SLAVE BIRD trusts you for some reason. That’s good! If every person and Pokémon cared about one another like you two do, I could watch over the future of people and Pokémon without having to liberate Pokémon from people who just use them.”

        I felt really bad. I think I later freed SLAVE BIRD.

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    • someone once said that Pokemon always was a JRPG inside, now it’s just becoming more and more like the usual JRPGs. You can’t expect a JRPG to really not be story driven.

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  21. Here’s a dumb thing I thought when I was little. I thought chandelures eyes were its cheeks and the little black bars were it’s eyes

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    • Maybe Rock/Flying/Fighting (perfect triangle because they resist the one they’re strong against, are resisted by the one they’re weak against, but unlike GFW they don’t resist themselves)?

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