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
- Episode 3 of P-Sports ~Aim To Be A Pokémon Battle Master~ has been uploaded to their official YouTube channel
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?
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
been there done that with many a series, i felt the most disheartened when they aired the very last Aqua Teen Hunger Force…
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.
i wonder what Passimian looks like without its helmet
So do I, maybe it’s just fuzzy white fur.
He’s bald
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…
How does it make sense? lol
Like Xatu said, X and Y were about the 3D and you and me would be about the ability to pass the joycons to anyone and just play
Are you suggesting couch multiplayer pokemon?
Maybe like a mini game or something… not the actual gameplay
It might be kinda cool though if they did open pokemon up to the option of a multiplayer story. I don’t know how it would work, but it would change things a lot which is what a lot of people want
It’s complicated by wild battles and catching. Trainer battles and gyms would simply be double battles and feature co-op puzzles.
Oh, I like that! Story would have to be a lot of cutscenes though to work.
Idk if catching would be complicated. Each player would have their own team and catch their own stuff. Battles would be complicated though
Well it’d have to be split-screen. Also you’d have to likely stay in the same area and not be able to stray too far.
It could work. Might lose a feel of pokemon, but the option to play single player would be there
Meh XY makes more sense than You and Me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOqVFHinvI
NO YOU’RE CRYING
Shiny Inci should be look like that http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1519584511058.png
Well it’s at least better.
no no no no no
I wish i had a paint program on this
but it should be silver and white with a blue flame belt similar to the Maltese Tiger
Like this? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/66d96457e5793473006d274b950e83f82cfee3eb8c5e60adaa7c489918c5f49e.jpg
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It’s a bit rough since I did it in 2 minutes but the idea is there.
i like it it gives it grit
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2073bbd32c4555c75af5cccc6ca5f690703b2ef6b8ea444da0cf1e073a3dfdb.png I say this but with a blue belt instead of the normal color
I’d be so down with that
It was my hope from the start when litten was revealed. Then the real shiny leaked out and I wasn’t happy lol at least the rowlet line got a good shiny I guess
THANK YOU
We are in 100 percent agreement lol was so upset when it’s shiny leaked out. They put the white but forgot the black
lazy lazy lazy
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?
Ah need to work on that
Also sounds pretty fun! If you loose though it will sting the whole time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQczxxH3ts
is it wrong i know the lyrics to every single one?
Nope. I know most. At least the good ones
I only know some, mostly the gen 1-4 ones. But then I didn’t watch much of gen 5 and haven’t got around to 6 & 7.
WHY DID I NEVER KNOW ABOUT THIS RAD SHINY https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8b98bf6fec36e2b8a7bfb1ee561715ff17dbe2b42d84c484f8d0d45c70935a69.png
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
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.
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…
The only problem I had with FFCC is having to carry the cup.
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
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.
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.
Have you not played Fire Emblem Heroes?
Sh!t, you’re right. Well, second best!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7606037afd01a0c867412c89a0c9dc576c50a2d9a74aca17daab5e485bc4a43a.png
Band new.
I thought how many would notice lol
Ok now I’m a little excited
Band
Yes yes yes yes yes
*dies*
Pokémon synth and Pokémon symphony
Is it fake?
it says band
considering their track record with this…
I believe it
Yes, I just checked the official twitter page to make sure.
I mean if you’re making a fake at least check for typos :P.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/a2648a05da9869ddcff539c835407bc6/tumblr_mlsnzeUwpj1rtril1o1_500.gif
Can’t wait for Pokémon Dupree in 2020.
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.
That’s a very minor reason in comparison to more glaring ones like price, lack of worthwhile differences among other things.
Yes, those are def more important. I was simply stating what I thought in this current moment since there was talk about the names of the games lol
I mean it’s a valid point, fan games are a good example since they only have 1 version.
The Mighty Earthen grows weary of such blandness. we needeth some excitement to break the mood
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
1 parent.
Oh that’s a good one hahaha
It only doesn’t work for Hoenn.
Crap……Hoenn really does ruin everything. This is why we can’t have nice things
1 new Pokemon revealed
Zeraora ;(
I mean it likely won’t be that, but We may see Zeraora this week. It’s kind of due for an appearance
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)
Why the hell do you carry around your SS card? That’s mad dangerous.
Because i didn’t understand the danger of the subject up until this very moment
It’s not that it can get destroyed, it’s that someone can steal your identity with that.
i’m sure they’d give it right back
Perhaps in a utopian society where no one is a crook
it was more of a joke of my miserable existence
Well be lucky it was destroyed before someone could steal it.
ughhhhhhh looks like i’ll be getting a new wallet tomorrow…..and a new social……and maybe some gum….i’m kinda low and i like to have some on me…..and maybe bottled water….some chips……maybe some light bulbs…Monday is my shopping day
Well make sure you keep that card somewhere safe and not on you. There really aren’t many cases you’re going to need your social when you’re out anyway. But still memorize it. That’s your life in 9 digits
I meant like it could get stolen, but washing it is also bad. At least you can get another one (I think) but having it stolen is worse than washing it
Yeah, seriously you should not be carrying your SS around. How do you not have that memorized
you do realize i’m slow right?
It’s 9 numbers. You’ve got like 807 pokemon names, abilities, shiny colors, attacks, evolution medals, etc down. You can handle 9 numbers.
Set a time for yourself, so that every day you go over your Social Security number. It only has to be once per day. Use your card until you can kind of repeat parts of it without needing to look. Try to do so, then look to see if you got it. Eventually you’ll have it memorized.
Tattoo it inside your eyelids so you see it every time you close your eyes while standing in front of bright light.
finally somebody’s making sense
NintendoChip wanted me to *mocking tone* “Memorize it”
As if that could work.
https://media.giphy.com/media/CyXJZs07Kj96/giphy.gif
who does she think i am some kinda egghead?
Wow! This sauce is f***ing amazing! You said it was promoting a movie?
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/354710060179652608/417502013593485334/image.jpg?width=682&height=910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDclOPKqt8
my store had alot of them to go around
It was chaos where i went
Why are people so stupid 🙁
because the over influx of social media and the increasing populace causes the common human to over exaggerate to the slightest catalyst thus creating a decline in social liberties due to the fact they think their consequences will go vastly unheeded
I imagine that tastes like concentrated meme paste. Whether or not its good is probably up to the individual eating it, kinda like mystery meat.
Mmmmmystey m-sauce?
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)