Weekly Wrap Up 2/18-2/25

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 18th to February 25th!

 

This Week’s Big Stories

RUMOR: Riddles Hinting at Gen VIII Starter Pokémon?

FAKE: Could the Gen VIII Starters Have Leaked?!

New Detective Pikachu Trailer & Demo Announcement

Rayquaza, Groudon & Kyogre Raids Coming (Back) to Pokémon GO

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

  • With 47,419,246 Poké Beans harvested, the fourth Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Global Mission to collect Poké Beans has concluded in success! Boot up your games to receive your gift of 2,000 FC (4,000 FC if the game is connected to the Global Link) if you participated
  • For those who participated in the 2018 International Challenge January Battle Competition, the entry gift of 50 Battle Points is now available to all qualifying players through this link after logging into the Global Link
  • Quick reminder that battles for the Ultra Sinnoh Classic competition has officially begun!

Pokemon the Movie 2018

  • The world premiere of new footage from Pokemon the Movie 2018 will air on Japanese Variety Oha Suta on February 27th! Be sure to come back tomorrow for our coverage on the footage that will be shown!

Pokémon Anime

  • The new season of the Pokémon anime, Pokémon Sun & Moon Ultra Adventures will begin airing in the US on March 24th, 2018

Year of Legendary Pokémon

  • The upcoming Year of Legendary Pokemon serial codes for Heatran and Regigigas will be sent through the Pokémon Trainer Club newsletter in North America (if you sign up for it before March 1st) and Nintendo Network in Europe from March 1st to March 24th. Just like February’s Dialga & Palkia, they will come at level 100 with a Gold Bottle Cap in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon and Level 60 in Sun & Moon’s. Sun & Ultra Sun games will receive Regigigas while Moon & Ultra Moon games will get Heatran
  • Quick reminder that the Year of Legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia event will be ending this week. Here’s where you can get your hands on these event ‘mon’s serial codes before time (and space) runs out on February 28th:
    • US & Ireland: Gamestop
    • Canada & Australia: EBGames
    • UK: GAME
    • Belgium: Smartoys
    • France: Micromania
    • Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Italy: Gamestop
    • Netherlands: GameMania
    • Portugal: FNAC stores
    • Spain: GAME

P-Sports

Detective Pikachu

  • Pre-orders for Detective Pikachu at Pokémon Centers across Japan will come with a special storybook called Detective Pikachu ~Episode 0: Eevee’s Request~. No word on whether or not this book will be released and get a localization in the west

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • Today is the final day to participate in the Underworld Ruler Group Match! This cup is a Team Battle competition, once again on a Fixed Battle Arena. Participating in this brings a special title reward based on Braixen, and if you place highly you’ll get other titles based on your placement.

Pokémon Duel

  • The Special Dark Gym Cup has begun in Pokémon Duel! Running until February 26th, this Cup increases the movement of Dark-type figures as well as the White and Gold Attacks of Fairy-type Pokémon by 20. Through this, you can obtain a special Honchkrow figure

Pokémon Shuffle

  • The Volcanion Escalation Battle is available until March 6th
  • This week marks Pokémon Shuffle’s 2nd week of its event cycle:
    • The Ultra Challenge stage is a Regigigas stage
    • The Great Challenge stages consist of Meganium, Ho-Oh, Emboar, Amoonguss, and Rowlet
    • The Daily Pokémon stages consist of Druddigon, Pachirisu, Yamask, Tropius, and Farfetch’d
    • The One Chance Per Day stage features Tornadus’ Incarnate Form
    • The Special Challenge stage allows you to capture Xerneas

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

QUESTION OF THE DAY:  A lot of fans find the Year of Legendary Pokémon events rather pointless. If you could make your own year of Pokemon events and distributions what would they be?

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  1. Well from Josh Omega in the comments the other day made me think of a Question

    For each Pokémon game you’ve played what was your starter in your first playthrough? (Third Games and remakes count if you want them to count)

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    • For me it’s been
      Yellow- Pikachu (obviously)
      Silver- Totodile
      Sapphire- Mudkip
      Emerald- Treecko
      Leaf Green- Squirtle
      Diamond- Piplup
      Platinum- Turtwig
      Soul Silver- Totodile
      White- Oshawott
      White 2- Oshawott
      X- Chespin
      Alpha Sapphire- Mudkip
      Moon- Popplio
      Ultra Sun- Litten

      Yep I’ve played at least 1 game from every single Generation to date

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    • Here’s mine

      Red – Charmander
      Yellow – Pikachu
      Silver – Cyndaquil
      Ruby – Treecko
      Fire Red – Charmander (second generation Charmander since the original couldn’t move up)
      Diamond – Piplup
      Heart Gold – Cyndaquil (same as Charmander
      Black – Oshawott
      Black 2 – Tepig
      Y – Chespin
      Omega Ruby – Mudkip
      Sun – Litten
      Ultra Moon – Rowlet

      I don’t think I missed anything

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    • Red- Charmander
      Gold- Cyndaquil
      Sapphire- Mudkip
      Emerald- Treecko
      Diamond- Chimchar
      HeartGold- Chikorita
      Black- Tepig
      Black 2- Oshawott
      X- Froakie
      Y- Fennekin
      Omega Ruby- Mudkip
      Sun- Rowlet
      Ultra Sun- Litten

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    • Red: Charmander
      Blue: Squirtle
      Yellow: Sandshrew
      Silver/Gold/Crystal: Totodile (Technically i’ve use Cyndaquil in my very first run)
      Sapphire: Torchic
      Ruby: Mudkip
      FireRed: Charmander
      SoulSilver: Cyndaquil
      HeartGold: Totodile
      Black/2: Tepig
      X: Chespin
      Sun/US: Litten

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    • In the order I played:

      Emerald: Treecko
      Diamond: Turtwig
      FireRed: Charmander
      HG: Chikorita
      White: Snivy
      White 2: Snivy
      Sun: Popplio

      it’s a little strange that I chose Popplio the first time round in Sun, beacause Owls are one of my favorite animale and Grass is one of my favorite types. Guess I just love the derinses of the pinniped. <3

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    • Ruby treecko
      Emerald treecko
      Firered-squirtle
      Diamond piplup(although I eventually got all three)
      Platinum- chinchar or turtwig can’t remember exactly
      Soulsilver- Totodile
      White- oshawott
      Black 2- snivy
      X- fennekin
      Or- treecko
      Sun- rowlet
      Ultra sun- litten

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  2. Alright If I could do of of them events I would pick one thing and one thing only

    Legit. 6Iv. Ditto

    Just so players don’t have to cheat to get one and breed cleaner

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  3. OK let me get this straight……Future Trunks has his timeline devastated by the androids and he’s able to come back in time be relatively chill. Angry obviously, but chill none the less. Now however he has Goku Black causing sh!t and suddenly he’s going all ptsd? What exactly about Goku Black is so much more traumatizing that he’d suddenly have flashbacks and problems when the same kind of destruction was happening with the androids? I get a little character building is in order, but it feels a little Farfetch’d

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    • I think it’s the fact that it’s “Goku” devastating his world, as well as his own mother and girlfriend (at least, that’s what he thought) dying right in front of his eyes, and maybe just another tragedy(?) like the Androids is happening again, but much worse.

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      • I guess….Otherwise it seems like they just suddenly wanted to give him more depth, but since they didn’t do anything similar before it feels a little out there. Still not a huge fan of Mai being in the future and being around his age. Given that the events of Super didn’t happen for him It seems unlikely they she’d even be around. On top of that she’d likely be an old woman…….Doesn’t sit well with me lol

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  4. Anyone else feel like the countdown to Pokemon day is off by a day and they just didn’t plan this out right? lol Nothing will likely happen on the 27th (other than us getting the new movie footage) but it seems weird that they’d be a day behind even if they were just counting down to the actual day. At this point they’re basically counting down to the 28th lol Gotta love public mistakes

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      • I’m not saying it’s not meant to be a countdown. I’m saying that they’re a day off. Usually in countdowns you don’t make the day you’re counting down to the number 1 spot. You’d make it 0. Thus making the countdown technically for the 28th rather than Pokemon day itself. Clearly the Twitter account is off by a day since they had the day 3 part up on the site since yesterday. Either way they’re just counting down to Pokemon day. It’d be weird if they were making a big deal of it. Why make it a special day if you aren’t going to celebrate it? I’ll gladly eat my words if I’m wrong, but until then I’ll stick to my guns with this one.

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        • You know what’s funny? You and all the people who think we are gonna get an announcement for sure are basically the same. People that cannot just accept that nothing is confirmed to or not to happen.
          Basically people going mad because of an announcement that probably won’t happen and other people going mad because the games won’t come out until 2019, cause they decided it, and that feel the need to scream it out loud.
          Pokemon Fans are really weird.

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          • You know what I see?
            1) People who want the games and hope for their release (probably disappointed at some point in the future).
            2) People who want the game but don’t want to hope for a release so they won’t be disappointed if nothing happen
            (disappointed since the beginnig because of hopeless release).

            Basically people who want the game and are/will be disappointed somehow.

          • Thing is I won’t be disappointed either way. If we get an announcement then that’s awesome!! I’ll get hyped and be super excited. On the other hand like you said I’m not willing to let myself get excited over nothing. If nothing happens then so be it. Just don’t think it’ll happen is all

          • I’m not gonna complain either way tho? Like I said I’ll eat my words if something does happen, but I’m pretty sure nothing will. My source doesn’t think anything will be out this year either. They even told me that they “firmly believe in a 2019 release”. While that’s not 100%, I take their word over people that have no info at all. Maybe they’re wrong, but given what they’ve told me it seems like they’ve heard something specific about how the games won’t be out this year. Again they could be wrong, but at this point I’m willing to agree with them. I still think early 2019 is doable tho.

          • Maybe the same source that gave us Rainbow Rocket and also Alola Oddish?
            Or the one the mentioned the rugby monkey, the sea cucumber and also the synchro-evolution?
            I don’t trust anyone 100%. What I know is that for now Nintendo listed the games as “2018 or later”, which means that 2018 and 2019 are both possible, 50/50.

          • The leaks of the Pokemon came from a different source I’m pretty sure. ( Tho maybe I’m wrong I don’t remember) My source was one of the people that did know about RR tho

  5. It’s funny how people retweeting old Pokemon direct announcements have evolved to people making new Twitter accounts that look like the official Pokemon ones to trick people. Apparently they even tricked a TCG artist into retweeting one haha

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  6. Comment question: since we’re nearing Pokémon day, what’s your favorite moment from all the time you’ve played Pokémon and why?

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    • Reclaming my shiny oddish
      The first ever shiny that I found and I lost it (the cartridge popped out) spent hours trying to find it again

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  7. ughhhhhhhh boredom slow days, i still have a fantasy kick going on

    Lets say you could have your own magical domain for you to rule as your own, what kinda environment and geography would it include (Ideas like a grand island, a magical forest or a dangerous mountaintop)

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  8. Can we all just take a second to realize the fake Tweet about the direct says it’d happen on the 26th? If people don’t look at it and realized that’s day too early then idk what to live for lol

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  9. I’m having serious Kim Possible withdrawal….I didn’t think I would, but I’ve finished the series and now I feel empty haha

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    • been there done that with many a series, i felt the most disheartened when they aired the very last Aqua Teen Hunger Force…

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      • I gotta find something to fill the void. Maybe I’ll jump back into the Johto series of Pokemon for a while. Been slowly making my way through that anyway.

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  10. Well pokemon you and me sounds like the kinda thing GF would do… also sense the games are on the switch it makes even more sense…

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  11. Posted this on discord, but I thought of an idea for a PokeJungle tourney we could do after Valoroo’s 1 stage mon one:

    So the tier would be any choice (preferably one that has a lot of options for mons). But it would be like a normal tourney except when a person loses, the winner gets to pick one Pokémon from the loser’s team (like Battle Factory), and the two swap their chosen Pokémon. There can also be a loser’s tourney too.

    Thoughts?

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    • it pisses me off beyond all recognition that you cannot SOS them
      I MEAN ITS ENTIRE BASIS IS THAT IT HAS SUCH UNITY WITH ITS TROOP AND WHO ANSWERS A CALL TO ARMS?

      A FUKING BUGLE BEAKED BIRB

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      • I’d blame Oranguru but there’s no reason for that not to call it’s own kind either. I want it with Defiant but unless they release it in some sort of event it can’t have it yet.

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  12. So, a few hours ago, I got Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Bomberman Generation, both for GameCube. Both are pretty fun. Also, I found out that the retro video game store near me (Where I bought said games) has one of the Tellius series games (Fire Emblem:Path Of Radiance). Only problem is, it’s $100…

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      • The chalice is a pain in the ass. If you go outside of it’s range, you slowly die, and the Moogle thing keeps telling you to let him carry it, but I’ve only gotten him to do it once, and I don’t know how

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        • When my brother and I played it we would argue over who had to carry it. It was a burden especially if you are getting killed by monsters while trying to stay within range. The rest is fun though.

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  13. Animal Crossing Pocket Camper is the best mobile game Nintendo has put out, no other way around it
    -Constant updates
    -Weekly events
    -**very minimal bugs or issues**
    -Adorable
    -No broken promises

    Shame that it hasn’t really made them money. I would’ve gladly paid for this game if that’s what it took.

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  14. Potentially unpopular opinion: The should stop making two versions solely so that they can come up with more creative names than color/stone/letter duos for the title of the games.

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  15. So clearly day number 2 in the countdown will likely be “2 versions”, but the question is what number 1 will be. My bet is “1 save file ” hahaha

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  16. well my night went from boring to bad
    MY EFFING WALLET GOT MIXED IN WITH THE WASH ::::::_::::::::

    its absolutely destroyed and limp and soaked, all of the cards and stuff in them that wasn’t laminated was destroyed (including my SS Card)

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  17. Answer to the question

    The year of the starters
    Each month give away a pair of shiny hidden ability starters (one a week or so)

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