Weekly Wrap Up 2/5-2/11

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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 February 5th to February 11th!

This Week’s Big Stories

Rayquaza, More Gen III Pokémon Coming to GO!

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • The fourth Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Global Mission has begun! The goal is to harvest 30,000,000 PokéBeans by February 19th. If the mission is a success, then participating players will receive 2,000 FC (4,000 FC if they have their game connected to the Global Link) while a mission failure will result in players only getting 1,000 FC  (2,000 FC if Global Linked)
  • Version 1.2 of Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon is live! Requiring 539 Blocks, this patch is required to continue to use all online functions and fixes various bugs:
    • Fixes a bug where Curse, Forest’s Curse, Power Trick and String Shot could cause the game to freeze during Live Competitions

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • From February 23rd through the 26th players can participate in the Underworld Ruler Group Match! This cup is a Team Battle competition on a Fixed Battle Arena, as usual. Participants will be given a special title based on Aegislash, while those who place higher will be rewarded with more special titles
  • Quick reminder that the Psyfirecracker Group Match is currently on going until tomorrow!

P-Sports

  • For those interested, Episode 2 of P-Sports ~Aim to be a Pokémon Battle Master~ is now available to watch on YouTube

Pokémon GO

  • For the time being Plusle and Minun are both available world wide! There’s no word on if or when they will revert back to their original region exclusivity
  • Shiny Swablu has been confirmed as the shiny for the latest wave of Hoenn Pokémon, making it and Shiny Altaria officially available in game
  • For those in Europe, on February 24th, the next Pokémon GO Community Day, all Unibail-Rodamco Shopping Center locations across Europe will have Lure Modules activated from 9am to 9pm local time! To go along with the event, the following specific shopping malls will also hold special events for Pokémon GO players as part of the Community Day festivities:
    • CentrO (Oberhausen, Germany)
    • Centrum Cerný Most (Prague, Czech Republic)
    • Confluence (Lyon, France)
    • Fisketorvet (Copenhagen, Denmark)
    • Höfe am Brühl (Leipzig, Germany)
    • La Maquinista (Barcelona, Spain)
    • Les 4 Temps (Paris, France)
    • Mall of Scandinavia (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Wroclavia (Wroclaw, Poland)

Pokémon Duel

  • The special Queen Cup Carnival Events has begun in Pokémon Duel! Until February 12th users can play against other another online to earn points and access rewards such as the Dragonite figure

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The new Comfey stage runs until February 13th
  • A Pokémon Safari featuring Magikarp Costume Pikachu, Gyarados Costume Pikachu, Charizard Costume Pikachu, Shiny Rayquaza Costume Pikachu and the new Surprised and Dizzy Pikachu is available until February 13th
  • The following stages have begun repeat runs until February 13th: Shaymin Land Form, Shaymin Sky Form, Dialga, & Palkia

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

 

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Which is your favorite and least favorite Pokémon mobile game/app and why?

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1,105 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 2/5-2/11”

    • Favorite: GO. I love all the people that it brings to the franchise, even if a lot of them are filthy casuals. Ninantic also does add a bunch of cool stuff to the game regularly as well. It’s just a shame there’s still so much improvement to be made.

      Least: Magikarp Jump: I played this pretty regularly for a while, but eventually just stopped. The lack of content pretty much killed this game for me and it’s not very interactive either.

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  5. Gengar is one of the coolest designed pokemon ever! Honestly I think Mega Gengar’s design is much worse than regular gengar’s

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  10. Is all the Gengar merchandise to try and make us forget they ruined it by removing Levitate? I love Gengar and always have, though I could never use one in game until I played through my Sisters Pearl version and could actually evolve it.

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  11. https://youtu.be/_Ezu024ASz0

    I see someone already posted this…
    But I’ll explain better.
    Apparently most leaks are from translators of these games
    And all translators are only hired to translate parts of the games script
    On the website known for major leaks, also correctly leaking the last two games..
    A few alleged Translators felt the new games may be a Kanto remake, due to the heavy Kanto references in the part of the scripts they were translating.
    Along with Blue appearing in the games “confirmed”

    Very interesting… It is a big leap from the 3DS to Switch.. they have been amping up the nostalgia factor for years now.. and the switch seems to be targeted at not old.. but older kids.. seeing as the 3DS still has some life and many parents are apparently still buying it for their children..

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted one of their strongest fan bases on their side, the genwunners, as a sort of “guaranteed” success tactic for the new games.. hmm… Especially if the battle mechanics are greatly changing

    Just hopefully not a remake.
    We don’t need that again.

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  14. So what games have you all been spending most of your time on?
    I haven’t touched anything but I’ve been showdown’ing quite a lot lately!
    Also all this switch talk is exciting me!

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    • I’ve been playing X a lot, just messing around with all of the features such as pokeradar,hoards, and others.

      Also Just wrapped up hollow knight

      I am super exited too!

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    • US, finally finished my pokeball collections, the story and am now going after my second Blacepholon after my shiny one I got last Friday.

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    • Been powering through my wonderlocke of UltraMoon. It’s just taking a while now because when something dies I have to train it all the way to 55+

      Also Stardew Valley

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  15. What do you guys think of the battle system changing.. it’s a bit of a scary thought but.. I honestly feel it’s the shake up Pokemon needs to survive 10 more years. Honestly, it would be like a fresh start without actually starting over.

    Everything has to get More and More complicated… In fear of boredom it would seem. I think GF knows this..
    In my mind.. they are trying to create a more classic system for battle.. one that doesn’t constantly need to outdo itself.
    Kind of how I read an article about how the Switch is Already “obsolete”.. in the sense it was Already released with outdated graphics.. so no one can complain. . It’s quite genius actually..

    The new battle system will flow as easily as the change from FF’s turn by turn system into a button smasher.. yet satisfying.. I hope

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      • Yes but.. while we may not be bored of it.. I could definitely understand if someone else said they were..
        In theory at least .. a good Shake up is Needed.
        It’s really all about how good it turns out to be if people accept it or not

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        • I want them to do the new battle system as the 9th Generation.
          Give us the True HD main series game and reboot with a new system entirely.

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    • The Switch ins’t obsolete

      It isn’t tacking the audience the Ps4 and XBone is tackling. No one gives a sh*t about graphics on switch because it’s portable. That sales pitch is already enough to sell more in a year than the Wii U did its entire life span

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      • “Obsolete” .. not really obsolete. It was just a catchy title for the article. As I explained.. the Switch is already far behind on the software side.. but we all love what it can do. The fact that it’s a handled is it’s biggest seller and the article mentions that too. They are praising it.
        Saying while the PS4 and Xbox have set themselves in the trap for better more expensive graphics.. the Switch can improve itself with what it does best basically.. being inventive and going at it’s own pace.

        I’m still a PS4 boy myself tho… Tho I sold it 0_0

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    • I’m still going on my old stance of “if it aint broke, don’t fix it”.

      But it’s looking very likely that the leaks are real because they come from such credible sources aka people who knew about Team Rainbow Rocket in USUM early. Larry on Twitter (good friends with PokeSirena) says the battle system has been made “more simplistic”, so I’m hoping that’s a sign that they don’t go too overboard. I’m really on the fence. If the battle system changes are that bad, I’m considering quitting the series.

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      • Part of me feels it’s already simple.. unless they mean like breeding and stats what not..
        It does seem they feel pressured to add to it lately each game.
        I still hate how they handled megas.
        Like it should have never been created if they don’t put out a new wave of them eventually

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    • Pokken exists, buy it if you want that. Pokemon is also strategy, this has also made the franchise great. Imagine the anime, with pikachu kicking pokemon while ash press a button…The battle system can change of course and the serie needs it but I don’t think that destroying 20 years of types/abilities/moves/ivs/evs would be a great idea…

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  16. I like Gnoggin, but he just made a theory that Cryogonal (and Dhelmise and Minior) can learn attract because it’s an elemental and in ancient times Nymphs were considered elementals and nymphs attracted people

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  19. People need to Stop tearing Everything I say apart.. and putting me somehow on the Opposite side of things. Then they get upset when I clap back uncalmly at times. It’s because its each comment I post! If they even bothered to Read my original comments well enough in the first place.. using their Proper reading skills.. there would have been nothing extra to say.
    Its like I have to type Everything in layman’s terms or they can’t comprehend a basic metaphor.. It’s only 2 people actually.. mostly
    ( -_-)

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      • Doesn’t mean they won’t cover something in some capacity. Unlikely I know, but they may have at least a teaser. CoroCoro isn’t the place to find exclusives on Pokemon anymore like it used to be. They may tease it in the magazine and then leave the full reveal up to a trailer on YT.

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  23. So quiet! I hope we get some Pokemon news soon, even if it’s just for a spin off. Actually I’d prefer a spin off atm because it’s been forever since we’ve had a good one.

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  24. Tbh I want GF to just get weird and freaky with Gen 8 . Experiment and do some crazy stuff. Turn the series on its head for a little while. Something that we won’t expect. Change can be good. It doesn’t have to be long lasting change, but even bad changes can be useful. If they make a game that has some crazy good changes and some crazy bad changes then that’ll tell them what they need to do for the next set of games.

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  25. If the localization for Pkmn Switch is already under way & they hired that localization team for just 6 months that would mean an early 2019 release (worldwide too?) sounds really plausible.

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