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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2,487 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 1/29-2/4”

  1. Okey I’m back from Skewl and I have a question for you guys.
    If the CoroCoro revealed shadows what would you want them to be for?

    Starters

    Legends

    Mythical

    Early game mon

    or other

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  5. I want a new switch game, but I don’t want to wait til pokemon releases (WHENEVER that is). I also don’t want to pay for online features (for splatoon or ARMS) so I’m curious. What should I get? Stardew Valley?

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  8. T̶r̶a̶i̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶c̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶t̶t̶a̶t̶a̶

    I’d be down with being a friendly rival

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  9. There’s one interesting thing about UBs intended for Switch: Game Freak has not started developping Pokemon for Switch in march 2017. I’ve always thought that was obvious but if that’s true than I’m quite sure Masuda left sun and moon to Ohmori to start Pokemon for Switch.

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    • IDK man, I swear I read an interview where it described the team being split in half (one half containing mainly new staff and the other returning veterans) and the new staff one worked on SM while the returning veterans dedicated their time to switch.

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      • That was for USUM. The young team did UsUm while the old team did Switch. I remember when Ohmori said that he had to create the trials himself for s/m because he had no programmers available. Imo it’s obvious they didn’t start Switch versions last years, they usually begin developping a new generation when the first titles of a generation are out. For example, they started s/m when some of they were doing x/y (see the strange souvenir). Now people that take 3 to 4 years to make a game on a console they already know will create and release two games for a new console that has titles like BOTW and SM Odissey in less then 2 years (cause the games will be released before April 2019 if they want to sell those 20 milions switch, even experts agree on this)? Not the case for me…

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    • Not true. the filler was a bit lame, but the anime on the whole was good. It’s just that the manga went a little long in the tooth at times so obviously the show would too. The first few seasons of Bleach are great. Then it’s a little hit or miss. Really hope they come back to cover the final arc of the manga. Was a shame they ended the anime where they did…..

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      • I actually think about it like alternate universes that all exist and collapse at the same time, with the only one surviving being the one with the shiny. This is some serious quantum physics material for a Pokemon game.

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  21. Okey I’m back!

    First when I was at art class I saw my old drawings from when I had exxential depression and I was pretty sad until All star started playing. I cheered up and the moral of the story is that no matter how hard life knocks you down, there’s always something to look forward to.

    Secondly Zeraora. WHY?!? There is literally NO reason for it to exist! It is litearally a Sonic Oc pokefied! There is nothing for it except “lel it go fast”. Wait! iTS LITERALLY SONICHU I CANT GET IT OUTTA MY HEAD!!!

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  23. Does anyone have any proof as to why we should believe that guy on Twitter that Govnah posted earlier? He said he had a history of leaking or at least predicting stuff, but what exactly did he leak?

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      • Huh? You mean that art that was floating around like a week ago? That was less than a month ago man…….hahaha but yeah would still like to know how credible this Twitter dude is. Would help to know how serious to take them

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          • Ooooooooh that guy. Oh yeah. No it was my bad for not totally remembering, but apparently that guy predicted RR and some USUM stuff. He’s more or less solid. He might not get everything right, but I think he’s pretty credible

          • He also might be using his high position to just guess and sense we don’t know when the games will be revealed he is feeding off our news hungry minds

          • Doubt it. I’ve talked to him a few times and he seems like he’s on the up and up. Also just as a note those 3 animals were never explicitly stated to be the starters. He just tweeted those pics and said he liked them. Never once said they were actually gonna be Pokemon. That said it’s still suspicious

          • Oh! From what I was told he said it was the starters… Could it be like when a guy tweeted a picture of a sun and moon right before the reveal?

          • Um…..I’m not totally sure….I don’t remember that guy. Either way yeah no I don’t think he ever said they would be the starters. He was tweeting about some stuff that lead people to believe he had info on the new game and then tweeted with those animals and everyone jumped on it saying that they’d be the starters. It makes sense, but at the end of the day he didn’t say anything himself. They could very well be the starters tho. We shall see.

          • That’s actually pretty smart! If they are the starters then his credibility still stands and If they are fake then he can say he was just posting cool animals

          • He does tweet about other stuff too so it’s not like he has to prove anything to anyone. He knows what he knows and won’t lead people on if he doesn’t. From what I’ve seen he’s a very sincere person that isn’t out to troll people.

    • Still not so sure. Unless the VERY unlikely event happens where Zeraora is actually a gen 8 Pokemon I can’t see it happening. I don’t see them revealing a gen 7 mythical and then immediately revealing the Switch game. If Zeraora was revealed in Decemeber I’d be all on board, but not now. I’d say March is a better bet for an announcement. I could be wrong tho

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        • I’m almost certain Zeraora will have a scoop in CoroCoro tho so that’d be the big thing for the month. It’d be completely overshadowed if they teased anything about the Switch game so soon.

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          • That was after the official announcement of the games tho. Plus there weren’t any gen 6 Pokemon left to reveal. One thing at a time please.

          • Imagine they show a glared switch box art and it turns out to be a spin off. I think Zeraora will be revealed November for a surprise ending for the legendary distribution

          • Again that doesn’t make any sense. You can’t have it both ways. First of all if Zeraora doesn’t get revealed until November then that means there’s no way the Switch game will get revealed any time soon. Second Zeraora won’t have anything to do with the Legendary event going on because those are all version exclusive mons. Zeraora is a mythical no matter how you slice it. It’ll get it’s own event independent from the monthly events.

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