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. Belladonna

    Nyaneko
    Feline Pkm
    Normal (Was considering Dark/Fairy or Dark/Psychic)
    Cute Charm/Oblivious HA: Quick Feet
    A bipedal feline Pokémon with hot pink fur and cyan stripes, long draping fur near its waist to resemble a skirt and oversized paws with long pink claws, a extremely long tiger tail with several fringes, it sports a stupidly adorable :3 face with a single fang hanging out with wavy whiskers, long pointy ears and a tiger like mane that resembles anime hair with numerous quills

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  3. Zeraora is most likely a 7th gen pokemon just don’t forget that M Latios and M Latias were coded in x/y but were only available in ORAS (they could only be tranferred), Thousand Arrows and Thousaund Waves were both coded in x/y and ORAS but only available in S/M and AZ Floette was coded in both 6th and 7th gen and…where the hell is AZ Floette?

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    • It is 7th Gen. Those Megas aren’t separate Pokemon so do not count in the same way, same with the moves, ORAS is also still Gen 6so the Megas still don’t change generation before release. We had an article asking where AZ Floette is and most seem to think they just didn’t bother releasing it I think.

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  6. I really wanna know how SE got Krile out of Kururu and how they expected people to say it, on a related note, Eiko from FF9 is pronounced Ay-Ko.

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      • Flannery eagerly looked at the trainer before her as his Slugma burst onto the battlefield, facing her own.

        “You’re going down!” She roared, thrusting her arm into the air. “Sluggy, use Ancient Power!”

        Flannery’s larger Slugma ominously glared at her foe as she began to conjur fragments from a time long past. As the prehistoric projectile hit her foe, her body was enveloped in a vigorous red aura.

        “You got stat boosts!? I call hax!” Her opponent cried out, quite angry. “Fine! We’ll just have to put you on a timer. Toxic!”

        The foe’s Slugma emitted an eerie purple blob which cannonballed towards Sluggy, but her increased reflexes from the Ancient Power allowed her to dodge it and get behind her foe.

        “Awwwwwright Sluggy, finish it off with an Earth Power!”

        Sluggy cheerfully cried out as her body was coated in a golden aura. This brilliant light then leached into the ground – under her foe – and caused the floor to erupt with earthen energy.

        “We did it Sluggy! One less badge to hand out today!” Flannery cheered, Sluggy reflecting her cheerfulness with a cry of glee.

        “Hax… “ The young man whimpered as he turned and walked away.

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      • The two Bug Catchers stared each other in the eyes as their intense battle intensified.

        “Kakuna, use Harden!”

        “Metapod, get Harder!”

        “Kakuna, get even Harder!”

        “Metapod, go even Harder than that!”

        “Kakuna, as Hard as you can!”

        “Metapod, the Hardest!”

        “BEYOND HARD, HYPER KAKUNA SUPER IRON DEFENSE HARDEN!”

        The Kakuna’s body glistened a beautiful silver, in an almost metallic aura.

        The Bug Catcher gasped accusingly. “That’s cheating!”

        The other Bug Catcher chortled. “No, baka, it is succeeding!”

        “Hmph!” The other other Bug Catcher hmphed. “We’ll just have to get even stiffer than you’ll ever be!

        “Nothing can be harder than me and Kakuna right now!” The other other other Bug Catcher declared.

        The other other other other Bug Catcher could only smile as he placed the Normalium Z on the Z-Ring around his wrist.

        “HARDER THAN INFINITY! STIFFER THAN FOREVER! Z-HARDEN!” He screeched as he danced along with his Metapod.

        Metapod’s body erupted with white, as it received its trainer’s full power.

        “Now you’ve seen the full power of me and my nakama!”

        Kakuna’s trainer only smirked, before delivering an epic one liner. “Omae wa mou shindeiru.”

        Kakuna spat out a purple needle, which sunk into Metapod and gave it a malicious purple aura.

        “NANI!?” Metapod’s trainer screeched as his partner went limp.

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  12. Got a game for you guys:
    – Pick your 3rd favorite Pokémon
    – Pick out the next Pokémon in the Dex that has a type super effective to your 3rd favorite’s type
    – The Pokémon you pick sacrificed its life to protect you from a gunshot

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  18. So with every region comes their Champion

    In the Eyanu region technology and wildlife battle for supremacy with Progression vs Conservation being a key factor,

    Freya is the region’s most productive and influential wildlife conservationist, a caring passionate soul who understands the balance of nature and the Pokémon that make up this world and her partner is one that reflects it

    Flormonious
    Free Spirited Pkm
    Grass/Psychic
    Flower Veil/Natural Cure HA: Adaptability
    A tall slender humanoid Pokémon with a long flowing gown made of leaves, on its torso are thin delicate arms that have blooming flowers on the wrists like a corsage, it has a beautiful maiden like face with long flowing hair made out of multicolored petals with a circlet of vines around the forehead, two circular marks under its eyes similar to lenon glasses and on its back are small budding branches

    HP: 70
    Atk: 50
    Def: 110
    SpAtk: 135
    SpDef: 125
    Speed: 55

    Absorb
    Growth
    Play Nice
    Leech Seed
    Magical Leaf
    Protect
    Mega Drain
    Light Screen
    Aromatherapy
    Strength Sap
    Energy Ball
    Calm Mind
    Heal Pulse
    Psychic
    Synthesis
    Wish
    Petal Dance
    Flower’s Wrath (Grass Special 150 must recharge)

    “Their life force is linked with nature, if it sees a wilted plant it feels sorrow for it and tend to it until healthy”

    “They’re thought to be the protectors of the forest many recordings depicted these Pokémon as embodiments of Mother Nature”

    Their prevos are Beannik and Florchid and they’re based on hippies

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  20. Everyone is always going on about how GF removes mechanics every time we jump to a new gen. To this I say there’s one mechanic we’ll never get totally rid of. That’s Amie/Refresh. they’ll never be able to get rid of it because they made it necessary for obtaining Sylveon. At least we know it’ll likely continue to be around lol Also if that Pixelpar guy is right about the Switch game using the Switchs touch screen abilities I can almost guarantee that Refresh will be back in some way and use that feature. Otherwise what would be the point of the touch screen?

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      • Why would they only 2 gens later tho? They COULD, but wouldn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of Sylveons evolution mechanics then? I mean 2 of the others already use Friendship as a way of doing it so it’s not like they can just change it over to that.

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        • I’m just saying they can if they really want to get rid of the mechanic. Fan games that don’t have the mechanic but do have Sylveon have to do it. Similarly they might eventually get bored of having to put the Rocks in each game for Glaceon/Leafeon, though they should probably have done that with the introduction of the Ice Stone, but I guess they still want to show off the location evolution method with them.

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  21. So why the hell have eevees evolution menthods not been changed? Ice and leaf stones are a thing, nobody likes waiting until victory road for Glaceon

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    • The whole point of Eevee is to shill evolution methods.

      Gen 1: Evolution was introduced this Gen, so either no gimmick or the gimmick is Eevee is the only branch evo in Gen 1(?) and thus Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon.

      Gen 2: Time and happiness are added, both of which factor into Espeon and Umbreon’s evolutions.

      Gen 4: Location based evolutions are added, along with a bunch of other methods (evolution with move, evolution with item + trade, etc). Leafeon and Glaceon are location based evolutions.

      Gen 6: Affection is added, as is the Fairy-type. Sylveon covers both of these new features (primarily Affection, the Fairy-type move level up is to make it so other Eevee can have affection and evolve into its other Eevos).

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    • No, because Ice is actually a very good offensive type (which is why Dragons were non existent early game before Gen 7 as well, same with Steel before they started throwing Magnemite early in Gen 5/7 and Honedege in Gen 6). The issue is they come in far too late (later than Dragon and Steel, both of which are objectively better).

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  24. Cryogonal only appears in two regions, both of which are late game and where it’s encounter rate is never higher than five

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  25. Speaking of Eevee, I hope we get some more evolution methods expanded. Gens 5 & 6 really stuck to trade, stone, and level-up (+ level up with happiness and level up with time) whereas Gen 7 had like no trade or stone evos outside of Alolans.

    The Icy Rock and Mossy Rock defo need expansion. Magnetic areas already evolve three Pokemon. The Icy Rock will probably evolve Crabrawler in regions where there aren’t snowy mountains (but nearly every region has one, with Hoenn and Kalos being outliers if we count Mt. Silver for Kanto and Johto), but the Mossy Rock is kiiiinda useless.

    Like, trade evos with specific items are fine because it means they don’t have to constantly throw that item at you (King’s Rock and Metal Coat can be very annoying for dex completion) but the Mossy Rock is an unlimited resource.

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