June 17th is the release date to the Isle of Armor! We learn about Max Soup, the Cramorant bot, new abilities, moves, and more! We also learn about what we get to see this Fall with the Crown Tundra. Hidden Ability Galar Starters got released through Pokémon HOME. Pokémon Battle Academy is coming exclusively to Target first this summer. Finally, both TPCi and Niantic donated a lot of money towards current events happening in the world, we talk about it.
June 17th is the release date to the Isle of Armor! We learn about Max Soup, the Cramorant bot, new abilities, moves, and more! We also learn about what we get to see this Fall with the Crown Tundra. Hidden Ability Galar Starters got released through Pokémon HOME. Pokémon Battle Academy is coming exclusively to Target first this summer. Finally, both TPCi and Niantic donated a lot of money towards current events happening in the world, we talk about it.
00:20:00 - Introduction
00:06:40 - Isle of Armor Information
00:45:00 - Break Music
00:45:50 - Crown Tundra Information
00:56:00 - Hidden Ability Starters
01:00:00 - Pokémon Battle Academy
01:08:10 - Pokémon Charity Donations
01:18:10 - Question of the Week
01:24:10 - Pokémon of the Week
01:34:00 - Post Credits
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Steve: What's up, everyone? Welcome to be 412th episode of the Pokemon podcast.It's super effective. I'm your host. SBJ with me, Greg
Greg: Hello, I have returned. Welcome!
Steve: your back, William. Back also back.
Will: Happy pride. I have a few things to say. Uh, I'm area. Yeah, exactly. Is this gonnabe short?
Greg: But, Rob, it's not.
Will: It's, like 22 statements in a question. Okay. My number one statement. I havenow officially purchased BioShock for the fifth time.
Greg: What? Why?
Will: Because I started playing it on my Xbox one. And then I don't have my Xboxone in my house anymore. So I went on my PS four and it had BioShock for $12. Soit's like a little bucks every time I buy it costs less,
Greg: but by the 18 time, they're just giving you money.
Will: My second statement. I just want to say thank you to everybody who hasexpressed support and concern for me and Greg over the past. Couple of thanksvery much for checked, very greatly appreciated. And my third since this is aPokemon podcast, I have a question for Steve. Steve, do you know what it means topull someone's leg from context clues from last week. You don't.
Steve: Okay, I will be completely transparent with you guys. I can't even rememberthe last, like, 72 hours more Let more or less the last episode of this podcast
Will: because I think Al said something. And then you said, Well, now you've pulledmy leg and, like, revealed some additional information. I was like, No, Al didn't pullyour leg.
Greg: It all do you mean you mean twisted your arm of probably No, no, no.
Will: I think it was like, What is it like when you, like, reveal someone secretly? Youknow, if it was me, I'd say you spilled my tea. But that's the second. Whenever,when you pill somebody's leg, it means you pull a prank on them. Spilling
Greg: according to last. Except spilling tea is the better version of straight peoplespreading gossip alike over twist my arm like, Oh, make me tell you this. Yeah, wedon't have We don't have that guilt. Plus feel the teeth. I'm at the drop of a hat.That's what That's what we live for in our genes
Steve: for Yeah, I'm pretty good at getting my arm to instead?
Greg: Yeah. It doesn't take a lot. Yeah, I'm speaking of which, have I got somethingto tell you? Oh,
Will: boy, Oh, boy.
Steve: Oh, boy. Well, we gotta we gotta loaded show There is the release date forarmor of Ill June 17th
Will: or the Isle of Armor.
Steve: I'll of armor. Wait, What did I say? Armor Vile are
Greg: armored. I'll armored Island That does a giant turtles. What? That is
Steve: we got some ah, donation stuff to talk about. We have, ah, new word
Greg: game coming up for Brookman. We dio we dio I didn't see this.
Steve: Oh, I got in the new
Greg: varying the lead.
Steve: We got some gigantic max stuff to talk about some hidden ability starters.But first, before we get all of that huge shout out to everyone who came throughon Friday this past Friday Personally, our show, our podcast, are what I do. Contentcreation wise Also on twitch raised over $9000 in eight hours or color of change. Itweeted about it. I let discord No, I let slack No, I let the Patriot backers No,unfortunately, that happened before the podcast. So now I'm letting you guysknow on the podcast. Ah, that donation. Things still open. So if you want tocontribute towards it will be open till Friday. It'll be in the show notes, but justshout out to everyone who came through for a good cause. I can't believe that ourcommunity raised $9000 in a short amount of time. So that's all I got. Probably outreally good people. I really got really emotional onstream about it.
Greg: It was I was watching most of the stream. I did leave for a little bit cause youknow, I have things that I have to do. But it it was incredibly emotional, not evenjust being 10 gente Klay aligned with what was going on just to see, like, you knewdeaf a lowball the first goal because the first goal was done in 30 minutes, right?Yeah, like just immediately like and it was incredible toe watch this that level ofsupport and just people have been really awesome. Oh, just the last two weeks, justlike well said, checking in on us and making sure we're fine and, you know,amplifying things and just helping out. And that was just watching that happen onFriday was so incredible and just was great. Shout out
Steve: to Maddie and Greg and Irene helped with all that. And then I I tookThursday off to set it all up for Friday. And there we go. It happened. So just a littlebehind the scenes. But thank you to everyone who ah contributed. And like I saidearlier, there was the charity. The charity goal is still open until Friday, June 12th. Soif anyone listening to the podcast, too doesn't use slacker discord or twitch, wantedto throw their name into that hat. Another expression, Yes, that will. That link willbe
Greg: welcome to expression cast way, origins of expressions that you may know,but Seve probably said wrong.
Steve: Correct. Okay, Now, with all of that out of the way. The launch date unveiledfor Part one of the Pokemon Sword Expansion Pass and Pokemon Shield expansionpast This was on June 2nd. Today, the Pokemon Company International andNintendo announced new details for the Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shieldexpansion past downloadable with the Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield Videogames. The first set of content, the Isle of Armor, will launch on June 17th and thesecond crowned Tundra launches this fall. 2020. The expansion paths is purchaseHerbal in the Nintendo the shop newly discovered Pokemon New Gigante Maxforms exclusive moves and more revealed 34 minute trailer
Will: Have. That's just about
Steve: about it. Showed both the island farmer and Cron tundra. Okay, we'll talkabout that. The Isle of Armor is the first new adventure unlocked by the expansionpast. It will take place on the Isle of Armor, an island of Ah, off the gala region. ManyPokemon make this island their home Living freely admitted the lush nature. Theisland is also home to a dough Joe for Pokemon battles players and their Pokemonwill train hard to become stronger under mustard. The master of this dough, Joe,we have one new Pokemon in this trailer. We got gallery in slow, bro.
Greg: Yeah, with his pinkie mega man arm
Will: They That's what it is. It is Mega man. Yeah,
Steve: they're a poison psychic. Pokemon,
Greg: which has never been done before, right?
Steve: Yes, I believe this is our first.
Will: I don't know. We gotta be careful when we say these things becausesomebody always finds that one bomb be out there and I'm like, Well, boy, I can'tbelieve I forgot
Steve: that, actually with okay, so a shelter. But ah, a shelter bite set off a chemicalreaction with the species inside glare. Ian Slowpokes body causing gallery and slowbro. The gain on the poison type The shelter latched on to slow roast sometime.Unconsciously bites are harder and harder bites down harder on Slow Bro's arm,causing an itch that drives a slow bro to start wildly swinging its arms andsmashing its surroundings with a speed that puts it that puts even the quickestreflects the shame. Slow bro readies its shelter and makes a poisonous liquid shootfrom shelters. Tip This shell side arm, a poison type special move may poison thetarget. The move will either inflict physical or special damaged, depending onwhich does more damage to the target.
Greg: Who? Yeah, that's wild. Very interesting.
Steve: I'm going to say I'm a bit disappointed of the trailer. I thought we were goingto get at least one new Pokemon or another gallery in Pokemon we haven't seenbefore. I guess we haven't seen Slow bro, but we knew that coming
Will: also hadn't seen any animation of her Shifu and the Kushnick ins, or whateverthe way we've seen. Cub Fu, the evolutions whether whenever Shifu turns into
Steve: urgent feel like fighting, stance, form and food water
Will: Wait, What's the baby? Always the baby cub. Okay, so that's what I meant. Wesaw Cub Fu and it's evolutions. That's new.
Greg: I just I don't know that we're getting Margot learned forms in this one.
Steve: Well, okay, So if the leaker didn't spoil everything technically before swordand Shield came out, we had no clue about course. Ella. We had no clue about DaraMuka. Dharam aka Sorry, whatever. We knew Farfetch we knew Pony ta. Whatother gallery in Pokemon of my missing right now Me off. We didn't know aboutme out the out. That was that was spoiled. And then in terms, obviously worker
Greg: we knew we use a
Steve: new easing if they're doing the same approach where one of these will now.Actually, now that I'm saying that that would be really smart because they knowthat no one can spoil it. Yeah, so why show it right. So I take that back, I would be Iwould actually be disappointed with the deal. See if we didn't get, like, at least onemore besides the slowpoke.
Greg: Yeah. I mean, they had already hinted to this to the slowpoke and smoking,like they've hinted to that. So it makes sense that they showed it, But I think there'sprobably Ah, I think I hope definitely hope that there's more hidden.
Will: Yeah, to I think there will be Yeah, I especially because of steel. See? Yeah.
Steve: Yeah, I think. And And people, people lose their minds of a Pokemon. Peoplewere pretty pumped about course. LA and Dara Muka and stuff. Yeah, Um, so Ithink that's like, Really? That's like a really easy Ah, What's the expression? Really,really easy fish to shoot. Like shooting fish in a barrel thing has got to be the mostpainful recording
Greg: ever. It's like slam dunking fish into a barrel. You okay? Now,
Steve: um, this this The sword game has Ah, the boy. No, the girl. The pain care girlAnd the shield game has the psychic boy, right? Oh, trainers, Women. I thought No,no, the second do the second dude to dude.
Greg: Yeah, Avery is thievery, Avery. Although arisen e listed as non binary is listedas he upon the website now. Yes, Uh, Clara is listed as
Steve: far, uh, Clara. So she is poison and he is psychic. And in the trailer, they showAvery's poke about slow bro Dina Max. But is the conclusion I'm jumping to is theyboth have the slow bro, right? Cause
Greg: yeah, I think they both I think that was, like, the big hint that, like, if we hadbeen reading between the lines, that would have made sense that the slow bro ispsychic poison because of the two characters
Steve: they both show up with slow growth.
Greg: Brush up with slow book
Steve: was right in front of us the entire times
Greg: it was there. We didn't connect the dots.
Will: I feel like I've left the let the listeners down.
Steve: They were the real Pokemon of the week.
Will: Oh, no, no, that was chat hot.
Steve: Oh, right Dunk in the chat tot into a barrel of fish
Greg: Barrel of fish. Oh, Gigante Amax
Steve: Venus or and Gigante Mac Blast toys. The power of Gigante maxing hasmade Venus source flower bloom so large that it covers the Pokemons body duringbattle. The Pokemon uses these pedals as a shield and swings. It's too thick vinesaround to thrash the target grass type of taxi used by Gigante, Max Venus or willchange to G. Max Vine Lash G. Max Vine Lash doesn't also just doesn't deal damageto the opponent. It will continue to deal damage for four turns. Any Pokemon thatisn't a grass type. That's exactly the same as Chartered's C. Max move except grassand stuff. Fire BLASTS Raises Shell has grown to match its body, and it boasts newextra large cannons as well. Gigante MAX Blast toys can adapt a different situationsby using different combinations of it. 31 Various sized cannons Gigante MEXBOLAsteroids can also move the 12 large cannons surrounding its central candid,independently letting it orient its attack in any direction, whether in the ground orsky. Water type Attacks used by G. Max Gigante. Max Blast Toys will change to G.Max Cannonade. Oh, it's like lemonade, but with the word cannon, Um, and it's thesame as the same as the other ones. You figured it out. It does water type damage.It's very hard for me to look at Gigante Max Blast toys and Jake Answer, Max Venousor and think these air significantly better than their mega evolutions. Yeah, they'rereally good.
Greg: I just wish like they had a better idea for blast ways instead of Let's we madeBig cannons before. Let's make thousands of Canada. I know it's just like allcannons. Now it's like, Could you maybe do something like you gave multi multi?You gave Venus or a terrible haircut? If it's a bad haircut, it's like a Beatles haircut.But worse, do something more interesting for blast toys than all the cannons thatever existed in the world. I know. I just don't think it's, I mean, it will probably lookreally cool in battle, but I was sort of hoping it looked more different than its makea form.
Will: Yeah, one thing I just like since the moves air kind of like all the same, it'smore. It's just like a graphical change. But I mean, at least that we finally got them.So all the Venus or Stands and Blast toys stands. Can Dina Max Max get what theyneed? So
Greg: now that all those bubble star that I caught in those dens with hiddenabilities I can raise and make them Gigante maxes.
Steve: I mean, Venus is already seeing a lot of competitive play. Yeah. Ah, it's Ah zahfast Pokemon. I didn't realize how fast dinosaur was when the sun is. Ah, what'sability? Yeah, Ability makes its ability. It's hidden ability, like doubles its speed in thesun.
Greg: Yeah, it's it's chlorophyll is a clerk
Steve: Chlorophyll I thinking. And then it makes it. I'll always remember that. Youknow, you think you think a giant grass frog would be pretty slow? Anything
Greg: it normally it is. But
Steve: when you get the sun when it doubles its speed in the sun, you go Oh, myArkan on It has to be faster than the Stein
Greg: frog E No, no,
Will: no. It's a toad. It's not a frog.
Steve: My bad. Like putting frogs and ah, basket
Greg: a basket. Ah, yeah. So it doubles its speed and its speed. Honestly, Venus orspeed is not terrible. Like I mean, it starts at an 80 speed. So his normal photo isNorma form is much slower than a lot of things, but yeah, if you can get sun set up160 speed that told Sly Um,
Will: yeah, well, and also the speed is kind of like and how it's whipping around allthem pedals and stuff. It's not necessarily running around and doing stuff
Greg: it doesn't have Teoh. It's got its Beatle's haircut, and that's going nowhere.
Steve: I'm sure Venus or will, ah think Venus or has already topped 10 used ormaybe top 20 years. But I'm sure it will shoot up even more when it's as a dedicatedGigante max form.
Greg: Yeah, I mean, it is It is going to dominate in a lot of ways, I think.
Steve: Yeah, we'll talk about the hidden abilities for the Gen eight starters, butcenter race went from Cinderella,
Will: Cinderella J thank you.
Steve: Maybe Top 100 to number one in less than a
Greg: week. But, I mean, that ability is so good
Will: it is. It's like, When are we going to get a grass type that has that ability?Because now we've got a water type that does in a fire type that does.
Greg: Gen Yeah, until June 9, I have a candidate. Uh, it
Will: has to be a starter. So unless I candidate when we get to Canada, we get aRose Arrayed Starter. A little buddy Who Starter So cute.
Steve: Legendary Pokemon Hershey Foods Exclusive moves The legendaryPokemon er Shi fu has two forms single strike style and rapid strike style. Each formcan learn different moves and G Max moves a single strike Cyle cyle Hershey Futhat has followed the path of darkness so can unleash a single severe blow Asignature move called wicked
Greg: blow the lick it blow
Steve: This move has this move will always result in a critical hit allowing her shefood to attack while ignoring this targets stat changes a rapid strike style erxi foodthat has followed the path of water in a leash. A flowing three hit combo asignature move known as surging strikes. The move will always result in a criticalhit allowing Wait a minute. Yeah, Allowing her she food to attack while ignoring thestat changes
Greg: is the same move is just one burst or three? Yeah, The three is handy for focusAsh,
Will: our mimic you
Greg: our mimic you or, uh Nice kun.
Will: Although actually a fighting type move wouldn't hit mimic you. So there yougo. Well, it's not so good,
Greg: is it? But I mean, is it fighting or is that water truly? 131 is a lot like Wickedbelow is gonna be a dark type movie, and surging strikes will be a watertight. So
Will: if it is water type, then it is OK against mimic you.
Steve: Unseen fist is the new ability introduced in these expansions and one thatOnley single strike Hershey few and rapid strike Hershey food pose s for now thisability Let's Pokemon deal damage when it attacks with moves that make directcontact even if the target defends itself by using a move like protect
Greg: Yeah. Oh, get rash thing this is is a huge thing.
Will: I long for the days when protect used to mean something they
Steve: can't. Peace cannot be put into actual VDC, right? He seem really good.
Will: Ah, well, I mean, if their legendary these, then probably Yeah, not. Yeah.
Greg: I don't know how they're gonna I don't know how they're gonna categorizethem.
Steve: The only one legendary. That's a little two. Legendary Is that are allowedright now or type nal ins of ally. I think
Will: that all the rest of them are decks filler. Yeah,
Steve: well, the only other legendary Zehr Sachin Nzama Senza in their band.
Greg: That ability means, you know, the practice of protecting discuss. What theyhave is not possible if Hershey Foods on the field, do you? I mean, we're havingwatched you since I don't know competitive. You can usually guess who's going toprotect the scout, so I don't know. Maybe they will, because maybe they wanna putthe threat of scouting. Make that more dangerous. I don't know.
Steve: Dark type attacks used by single strike style J Single Strike style GiganteMaxie or Shi Fu We'll change to G max one. Blow moving on water type attacksused by rapid stop strike style. Gigante Max er Shi fu will change to G max Rapidflow G max one blow and G max. Rapid flow can deal damage even if the targetdefends itself by using Max guard or protect.
Greg: Isn't the Max guard one The important one?
Steve: Yeah, because Max guard will block and
Greg: block everything but protect if used a g Mex move or ah, dynamics move on aprotected still did damage right
Steve: at the adult do trip damage unless crazy boost or there, like four times aweek, you can maybe breakthrough, protect, but otherwise protect. Well, um, it willprevent most of the g. Mex or Dina Max move usually.
Greg: So, yeah, this I mean, boy, I don't know what they're going to do. I mean, theycould have been watching over the last seven months or so and said, you know, wereally need something to threaten the protection and the Max guard, and they mayput them in. I mean, it's
Will: Yeah, it's just, like, protected. Such a key element of the strategy in incompetitive E g. C like to completely obliterate it. Well, then again, like they reallyeven after a trick roommate for the other stuff.
Greg: And we don't know their stats, right? We don't know that they will have thestats to make that worth it.
Steve: Yeah, we also don't know their move pool. I mean,
Greg: we don't know the move. All
Steve: these specific moves ignore protect, but
Will: And there are other moves that ignore protect. So it's not like this iscompletely on her.
Steve: Sorry. Their abilities. Well, yeah, their ability makes all their moves ignore.Protect. I guess the mind.
Greg: Well, it provided it makes direct contact, but that's an important part, so theycould only have a few direct contact moves like the moon pool. Really tell us exactlyhow viable they are.
Steve: Okay, they start some other stuff in the island of armor trailer. Or I guess itwas the trailer for both, but they showed Ah, tutor moves completely New tutormoves will be available on the island armor Trainers can have their Pokemon learnthem in the exchange of armor, right? Or a substance that can be found on the Isleof Armor through max raids and other mean
Will: another currency.
Greg: See yet another currency
Steve: eso max raids and other means, Which probably just means do Max raids.Yeah, and maybe once every three months will give you, ah, couple throughmystery gift.
Will: Maybe through camping.
Steve: Maybe burning jealousy is a new fire type move that could be taught withthe's expansions. When it hits, it will deal damage to all opposing Pokemon andburn all opposing Pokemon that have their stats boosted in that turn. Hey, Grassyglide is a new grass type move that could be taught during these expansion. Thismove has a high priority when used on grassy terrain.
Greg: That one doesn't sound is good.
Will: No, that's not exciting.
Steve: No water move. They talk about here, but I'm sure there probably will be one.Maybe not. I don't know, Max Soup. Max Soup is a special dish made from rareingredients that you can gather on the island of armor. A great hidden potentialdrinks Max soup. I don't know what that actually means. Anything. If a Pokemonwith great hidden potential drinks Max suit, it will become a special Pokemoncapable of gigantic maxing.
Greg: I think what they're saying is the hidden potential since not every Pokemoncongee I Gant amax or hazard again to Max form retention
Will: U S. Oh, so you can convert a regular, put him onto a gigante max one byfeeding it the soup,
Steve: but only, but they're saying, like Peek a choo has great hidden potential. But,uh, chicory tha does not have, does not potentially, never actually well, but
Will: it's like for me, it's like every time I've done a gigantic max car boater raid, I likedon't catch the garb odor so I could just take my regular garb odor and just give itsome soup and finally have that sweet Gigante Max carb odor.
Steve: Yeah, Yeah. I mean, if you, you know, didn't want to go on eBay and pay adollar 99 for a square. Shiny, legit ultra chars are holding four master balls. 500 sold,and you already have a shiny. You already had a started cars ard. You could give itthe soup, and you just save yourself 1 99
Greg: Yeah, easy peasy. I mean, I Okay, true talk. If I sat down and there were darkclouds swirling around my soup bowl, I would not eat that soup.
Will: Well, you're just lacking in imagination.
Greg: Nothing good. Dark red clouds that are swirling around your soup.
Will: You just have to, like, learn to accept the dark mysteries of the universe andallow them into your soul.
Steve: It also says some Pokemon that trainers are already traveling with may gainthe ability. He gigante, Max, I don't No. If there's like some other hidden layer, theonly reason I say that and maybe I'm taking Maybe I'm digging. Maybe I'm goingwith my tinfoil hat. I believe that's a theory. Tinfoil hat, expression this eso eso with,um So if you look at like, an item that is exist in the past like golden bottle caps orjust bottle caps. In general, you do have to get your Pokemon a Level 100. Andbecause again, this is just a tin foil hat theory. I don't really care if this is true or not.I'm not hanging my I'm not hanging my hat on this,
Greg: you know, your tinfoil hat on on your conspiracy theory. But
Steve: I wouldn't be surprised if they would require you to have, like, Max friendshipwith a Pokemon, which you would do through curry in order for it to have the maxsoup. Because if they're saying like, Oh, we want you to give the soup to your starterIf you were just to play the whole game with your starter just by having started inyour party doing all those battles by the end of that game, you could do no cookingand your starters going to have Max friendship value because of the you know, 20to 40 hours you put in with your starter from start to finish, and we do know thatthey limit bottle cap uses bi level 100 so if they want to give the trainer reason tocare about friendship instead of just shiny hunting that Garbo order and thentaking it directly and pouring soup down its mouth. Hey, maybe you should Ah, youknow waggle a little. Ah, feather in front of its face for a couple minutes. Probablynot. Ah, maybe Maybe
Greg: I read I read that sentence in a completely different way. I read that somePokeman you've already been traveling may be able to get in the ability GiganteMax hinting that they're releasing more gigantic Mac forms.
Will: That's exactly what I how I heard it. It was like,
Steve: Oh, I was talking more about the first sentence, but oh, which was if aPokemon with great hidden potential drinks the suit, but ah, yeah, I mean, but thatmakes sense to some Pokemon traveling may also gain the ability. Gigante Max, Iwould assume like this Sinise t would be one or pull to you guys. I'm sorry.
Greg: Give the t the move. Skulled. How did you miss that? How is that? Not a thing.I just got a water type. A lot of non water types get skulled. It's tea.
Steve: Yeah, I guess we'll see how hard it is to do this. How maney ingredients orwhatever you need. I got two million watts. So if they need somebody, if it botheredby some random role from two dudes standing there, I got a turbo controller andtwo million watts are ready to buy.
Will: I wish I wasn't So Lohan. Watts. I guess I got to go to school after those littleglowy dudes.
Greg: Yeah, I met like 700,000. I think I met a lot. Pretty.
Steve: Oh, sorry. We didn't get to the best part. I saved the best part for last for theisland. Marmor Cram O Matic. Uh, but yet what is this thing? The dough Joe I mayorthe dojo on the island of armor houses a unique take on recycling in the form of adevice called the Cram O Matic. If a player feeds at four items, it will combine themand give them out in exchange for a new item. Hopefully it except the witchdreams, because I don't need that money slur post This'll
Will: just like monster hunter all over again with the amulets or the talismans.Remember which one it waas and it's like you're just gonna be throwing them inthere and getting out whatever random. And you know what you're gonna do withthat random one. Combine it with three other things and throw it back in becauseyou got to keep trying to You get the one you want.
Steve: Trainers can receive a variety of items, including pok balls, PP, ups and more.Some combinations might even produce rarer items. That's it. We don't know whatthe crime a Matic does. I think this is where people suggested that it mightproduce, like friend balls or love balls. Those balls? Yes. And if it's anything like theChampion Cup, good luck. I don't know. Maybe maybe it will produce them veryeasily. Maybe it's what I don't know. I don't even know. What what combinationwould it be like? One whip dream. Three luxury balls like What am I throwing in toget the what is going?
Will: We'll never know. I mean, it's not until it's out. So, yes, we will know in a week.But
Steve: what was what's like? An incredibly rare like what happens if you throw in agolden bottle cap? Can you throw in a golden bottle cap? That's probably the rarestitem, right? What's rarer than a golden bottle cap? Master ball.
Will: There you go. The massive all morning More masters.
Steve: Get with my for
Greg: when you buy your eBay charge hard. Yeah, throw four master balls in thereand you'll get the ultra shiny master ball. The ultra shiny master ball will turn anyPokemon you catch with that master ball into an ultra shine.
Steve: Not there's probably 16 year old listeningto thinking that that
Greg: the Rio you heard it here first when it's true, but it's true. Put my name up inlights
Steve: so excited that Kraemer and got a lot of love. They could have released it likechat hot and then forgot about
Greg: it. Here's the bigger Here's the bigger question. Are you gonna make a cram AMatic of your own? Because it's just a gas can and a rice cooker a vacuum hose likeyou could do this at home. Do this onstream make your own crime erratic. All ofthese things will be picked up at your local hardware store
Steve: hardware store selling rice cookers now.
Will: Yeah, ace hardware would
Greg: Yeah, for sure
Steve: it's not a bad thought process.
Greg: E look I'm giving you content for for re. We're getting new backgrounds. Didyou talk about the new backgrounds? You know, it wasn't for what was in the pressrelease. It's on the website.
Steve: Yeah, I know. They already. Yeah, well, they had doubts that it was only like,new new. Well, yeah, New, ah, new trainer card backgrounds. I mean, I know they'renot going to do it, but I wish the trainer card had more information shown like Iwish the trainer card on the back. Said how Maney like, maybe how Maney liketrainer battles you've done. How many times you beaten the Champion Cup? Howmaney eggs. You've hatched
Greg: all the eggs.
Steve: How many raids you've done? That would be a really cool statistic. But I'mmaybe the game doesn't.
Greg: The game keeps track.
Steve: I'm sure. I'm sure the game keep true. I'm sure the Pokemon companyknows exactly how many raids air done.
Greg: Yes, the game. The game keeps track. Let's be honest.
Steve: Before we talk about the Crown Tundra, though, and will probably take abreak before we do that. This doesn't seem like a particularly big TLC.
Greg: You have no idea yet from
Will: a three minute trailer. You can tell there could be up to seven hours worth
Greg: 33 minute trailer from
Steve: a three minute trailer. 90 seconds dedicated. Teoh. What we're going to seein a week I have heard other people voice this that you know, they're worried thatthis is going to be pretty. What we saw is literally it. You know, you see the twotowers on the beach, which is down the street from a dough Joe, which is next tothe wild area. And that could be it. And I don't know what people want out of adeal. See, that in this case makes their $15 worth it. Now, I can I hate saying like, Oh,it doesn't matter what they give me in the deal. See, I will get my $15 out of itbecause it sounds like I'm just this. I'll take anything the Pokemon company throwsat me and I'll like it kind
Greg: of person. Huge, Right, you're a student is,
Steve: But the footwear company is throwing things at me that I haven't liked inthe past. Like, you know, when no major Ruby Alpha sapphire came out, we barelycovered that game because I just wasn't having fun with it at the time brood. Butthe position I'm at now with sword and Shield is I have 670 hours in sword andshield. I love the heck out of these games. So for an extra $15 even if it'sdisappointing, even if everything we read in the last 40 minutes is all that we'regetting, I think to me that's worth the $15 because I'm still, at the end of the daygoing to be able to get new Pokemon specifically cup food and er, Shi fu and andslow bro. Well, I guess technically, I don't to pay the $15 for that. I could theoreticallynot pay and trade somebody for those. And I get the I get the enjoyment of There'sa new poke, Adex. There's the island of Armor Pope Index and I can catch 100 newPokemon in these games, and to me, that is that is enjoyment. I like feeling a pokeAdex, even though I have all of this Pokemon in Pokemon home, and I haveprobably many duplicates of in in that I could probably just move these Pokemonover and fill the decks instantly and give whatever the reward is that there is areward for completing the decks. I like walking around the Isle wild area, catchingthe Pokemon, marking off my checklists. I like filling out checklists like collecting.
Greg: I think
Will: this is well documented in this program.
Greg: Yes, it is,
Steve: but I am even though I'm going, even though, like it's 15 bucks for this one.And even though it seems lackluster in the press release and in the trailer, I I hopethere's more to it. But if there's not, I think I can get the $15 out of it, because I haveprobably had worst. Me I have had where I've definitely had $15 down the drain byordering something at five guys and being extremely disappointed. And thatexperience last
Will: every trip to five. That experience
Steve: last like eight minutes of like a burger fries. The drink is like 16 bucks, and ifthat meal selects that meal sucks. But I know for sure catching on 100 Pokemon inthis game will probably be for me 5 to 6 hours, and I'm still going to be I still haveold stuff to do and like I still there still Pokemon. I want to hunt. There's still marks. Iwant to get Hunt. There's still things I want to collect, and I'm assuming this story inthis game is probably gonna be two hours or three hours. Maybe. Yeah, so that'sthat's where I'm coming from with my 15 bucks. But I don't know if you guys saw itany different.
Greg: If they don't fix the texture of the trees, it'll be wasted on and so far in thetrailer. I don't think that's happened. It depends on how large these areas actuallyfeel. If I that will determine how I feel if I got my $15 worth, like the pictures thatthey're showing, it looks very expansive and like, exciting to explore. But if it's if inreality it's it is just a very tiny and everything's really compacted, then I'm gonnafeel like Okay, this wasn't that great. I hope that the story line with the dough Joe isinteresting and it's not just, hey, open this up, come fight that there's just no storyat all around mustard or the dough or why they made this ugly vacuum like ifthere's just it's just a bunch of things they wanted to put in the game that aren'twell connected, then I will be disappointed in it. But if it has a good story, if it feelsgreat to explore it, I'm not that overly thrilled about catching Pokemon that Iliterally do have in home and I could just transfer in. Um, it'll still give mesomething to do, but that doesn't hold my attention for very long. Ah, so I'm justhoping that the story line is good. It feels expansive enough that I feel like I'mactually exploring a new part of the world and not just a tiny island that feelstacked. Dog.
Will: I just feel like Island of armor is going to be very oriented around. Opening upcompetitive and battling and giving people more resource is to be able to develop.You know, they're Pokemon into competitive ready V G. C to some level teams andeverything, and probably won't be so expansive because the amount of work inlabor you're gonna be putting in is to create competitive poking, mom, right, so lessspacious and mawr like function um I don't know how much story they would needto have around that. Like to unlock all of these different areas that are going tomake it so that you can develop more competitive poking, mom. And you know,like you want to think of things like in pieces of, you know, if they are giving younow the ability to turn any Pokemon into edge against Max Pokemon versus onethat you had to catch in a raid that, you know, that's like a very clear indication of,like, do your competitive breeding for the one that you want to be your GiganteMax Pokemon on your team and then convert it to a gigante Max Pokemon. Youknow, after you've done all your breeding and e v i v training, etcetera, etcetera, andthen the frozen whatever that, uh, that tundra is that's gonna be the moreexpansive open area. Roam around, raid, find, encounter. And yeah, so that's that'smy expectation. If I see that it will be enough for me. I mean, $15. I just spent $12 onthe game that I bought for the fifth time out. New content of some left the way
Greg: you're BioShock is my final fancy tactics. I have. But that game, I pretty sure 15times so weird. What?
Will: No, it's like, Why do we keep by these? Because if we party because they play a
Greg: game and I always think I can now play it on my phone Heck, yeah, yeah,that's a new experience for me. I'll play that game again.
Steve: Three bullet points here that aren't new. Gigante Max Pokemon, our newPokemon or new legendary czar. The tutor moves, which is competitive. Max SoupCompetitive and Crime O Matic, which
Will: that's going to spit giving stuff
Steve: if it's giving it says it's giving polka balls, pp ups and more. I mean pp ups iscompetitive. You want tohave, Max pp up. So I don't Maybe that's why people, whenwhen people express that Oh, this deal see looks shallow or this deal see looks verydisappointing to what is coming. Are those people I would be I'd be curious if thosethose people still expressing, expressing like, oh, I might be disappointed with thisare do they not care about competitive because
Will: No, I think that's exactly it, right? So those people what It's also sad is thatthose people may be lost to the subsequent TLC, which would be Maurin theirinterest.
Steve: I mean, it was kind of like the Zelda deal. See, the 1st 1 people were like, Oh,it's kind of not great. But then everyone like, loved the 2nd 1
Greg: I hope that doesn't happen here. I would like both of to be great.
Steve: Exactly. I mean, it could be great if you love competitive, but if you don't livein that, then
Will: right, it feels like,
Steve: Yeah, but that's Ah,
Greg: well, that's what I'm hoping that they are making competitive easier, but alsobouncing out with some other things for people who don't do competitive. Like I'mhoping that at least part of their mind was we need to also make this fun andaccessible for people who don't want to do competitive.
Steve: Right? Well, that's why you have the story of this way of catching Pokemon.Yeah, just is that going to be
Greg: enough that that I just hope that the balance is good? All
Steve: right, well, let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll go through the Crowntundra. Oh, there's not as detailed as, Ah what we just talked about, but we will beright back. But I thought I'd bring a bit of my own
Will: culture way. Well, I know I'm gonna be gonna be way Be gonna be a questionof I feel like I
Steve: really all right. We don't to spend too much time on this. Since we haveprobably five months before it comes up, we have plenty of time to circle back to it.Ah, but the trailer also did show the second area unlocked by the expansion past isthe snow swept realm of the crown tundra in this frigid yet beautiful landscape. Ah,with jagged winter mountains and shining silvery landscape, people live in a smallcommunity where they sport and rely on one another. A man name? Yeah,
Will: that's what pne like. The flower
Steve: O p. A. Will appoint the player as the leader of his exploration team in the capCrown Tundra and will task them to investigate reaches of this frozen land. Playerswill be able to explore the depths of ray dens seen during Max raid battles. What'smore, it seems that several previously unseen legendary Pokemon make CrownTundra their home. All right, confirmation that Arctic UNOS Aptos and Mull traceare in glory. Inform. I think it was very obvious. But technically the Pokemoncompany didn't say that they were Article normal tracing zapped us until now. Ah,but the legendary Pokemon, bearing a strong resemblance to article knows Aptosand Mole trace have been spotted in the crown tundra. These Pokemon seem tobear ice type, electric type and fire type carrot heuristics respectively and thoughtto be the same Arctic unos Aptos Moultrie seen in other regions. Recent gathereddata reported sightings and other sources about these Pokemon of bolstered. Theyare, in fact, distant, distinct variants. Ah, so we have gallery in Arctic, you know,which is known as the cruel Pokemon. It is psychic flying with the abilitycompetitive Wait,
Will: no more ice, no
Greg: more ice. I I love the V for vendetta look of are already loved Arctic Uno Andthis one just hits me where I live. It's so good.
Will: I mean, we all agree that out of the birds, Arctic Uno is the best bird.
Steve: Absolutely yes, But out in this trio
Greg: what Tebow does the country took about We'll we'll we'll check back in afterwe get through. How great article? No, is he?
Steve: I also think that these air literally designed for competitive based off theirabilities and their type ings and whatever these air definitely gonna be VDC. Onceevery several decades, this Pokemon appears in the Crown Tundra Gallery in ArcticUno's signature move. Move. Freezing glare is a psychic type move in which aPokemon attacks by firing psychic powers from both eyes. This may result inleaving the target frozen.
Greg: So while they love it,
Steve: Gil Arians Aptos, which is the strong leg Pokemon. It is fighting, flying as theability, defiant once every several decades, this Pokemon appears in the CrownTundra. Hilarion Zap Doses Signature move. Thunderous kick is a fighting typephysical move that overwhelms the target with lightning like movement beforedelivering it. The kick. This will lower the targets. Defense stat and finally glare. IanMull traced the Malval Malvo Vela and put the valve Olin's It's dark flying with theability berserk. Ah, once every several decades is Pokemon will appear in the crowntundra. Hilarion Mull traces. Signature move. Fiery Wrath is a dark type specialmove which transform which the Pokemon transforms its wrath into a fire like aurato attack. This may cause the opposing Pokemon to flinch those air the goal Arianversions of your birds. They also revealed to new legendary Pokemon Reggie DragOh, and Reggie E L Li Ke. It's
Will: I think it's Reggie Aleki.
Greg: Yeah, I think it's Reggie. Lucky
Steve: Reggie. Allow a lucky, lucky
Greg: Yeah, electricity. Aleki Like l a kid, but back you dropped, but you dropped butworse. Okay, you know what?
Will: Thank you for saying that. Because that just brought to mind. I just quick notethey really missed out on the opportunity to have a glare and form L A kid that hada different plug. Okay, go on.
Greg: Absolutely Well, maybe it maybe that's hidden in the Isle of Armor.
Steve: Reggie, Ellie Key absorbs electrons to live. They could have done like ReggieVolt legend Bolt Reggie Shock. We
Will: all the Reggie's like their name is like that. They're type. Yeah, Ready. Ice, right
Steve: Ice, Reg eyes Reggie Rock. Reggie Steel.
Will: Yeah. So there are tight Reggie Giggles is made out of life
Greg: is a little after. Enjoy. Yeah, You're not wrong
Steve: that they've used the words bolt and shock and voltages in the dot dot
Will: patterns have to stay with the patterns,
Greg: but this is a better drink. Me. But it's not electric. It is electric. It doesn't have ak in it letting
Will: and not the way you spell
Greg: it. Yeah, but this is the glare in, you know, the English spell everythingdifferent. The ad where they don't belong. Yeah, through in case when you're notexpecting it, it's a
Will: loo. Mini. Um, Reggie Aluminium. It is
Greg: wild over there.
Steve: I understand that when they name these Pokemon a specifically legendaryPokemon, they name him with the the thought process of They're gonna be similarin every language. And for the most part, that's true. Minus like the top who's andminus article Normal trees. Aptos. It just seems like a very hard name to say. Like itdoesn't roll off the tongue.
Will: Bielecki. It's is easy to say as Millie Colicky Monica, I don't know what I think is
Greg: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
Steve: other language is very easy to say. Its signature electric type move Thundercage fires furious bolts of electricity from its lower half trapping opponents directlybelow its cage of lightning thunder cage doesn't only deal damage. The electrifiedcage will also cause damage. Every turn for 4 to 5 turns to prevent the opponentfrom fleeing or swapping out. It's literally fire spin. That's all of this
Greg: or were pool? It's electric world Parle fires been
Will: I'm getting tired of these multi tight turn way. Got one trick here in sword andshield, and that's it.
Steve: Ah, it's the electron Pokemon. It's electric type. It's three feet tall, 11 inchesthat weighs £300. Ah, it has the ability transistor. And then the other one is ReggieDrag. Oh, the dragon Or but Pokemon. It's a dragon type 6 11 £440 with the abilityDragons maw Reggie Dragon's body composed of crystallized dragon energy.When Reggie Dragos signature move Drago Dragon Energy. The Pokemonassumes the similar shape of a dragon head. Then the fires. The fire then firesintense dragons. Energy from its mouth, then fire.
Will: They ever printed a dragon's energy.
Steve: You know Theo Moore, HP. The user has remaining. The higher the movespower. It would be similar to like overheat or water spout.
Greg: Yeah, it's Dragon water spot. I do We know what dragons mod does. No. Okay,It's not stuff I don't recognize it. Is that one that already exists, right?
Steve: According to both media, the effect is unknown.
Greg: Okay. New Reggie's air. Cool. Sure. I like the designs.
Steve: Yeah, they're they're fine,
Greg: then. I mean, they're not that I'm not as excited for them as I am for the birds.I'm all about the burger.
Steve: So your ah, hardcore Jen winter.
Greg: I am not a no. My favorite. Jenna's gen three.
Steve: Which is when the Reggie's were introduced.
Will: E I thought the refugees were Jen for
Steve: now, Reggie gig asses Jen for
Greg: ah, because he had to get a relic. Anthon away, Lord, to get in the secretchamber to find out where the Reggie's were
Steve: Upon arriving to the crown Tundra players will encounter. What was hisname? Penny. Be any pne who brought his
Will: This is it. Expect a gadget here
Steve: who brought his daughter along on the adventure to find the truth behindlegendary Pokemon in the area. Listening isn't his strong suit, and his boldbehavior draws attention. He has a kind of kind aside and plenty of affection for hisdaughter. I don't think we met, his daughter was in the trailer.
Greg: I think they've shown her maybe like I think like there's been a bunch peoplein that uniform, so it's probably one of them.
Steve: There's a lot more bullet points here for the crown tender than their worst.For the thing that comes out in the week, Dynamics adventure trainers can teamup with three other Pokemon to go on what is called a Dina Max adventure, wherethey were able to venture into a Pokemon Dennen encountering Dina MaxPokemon. If these trainers do encounter a Dina Max Pokemon during theirexploration, they will need to work together for a max rate battle, which makes itsound like you could go through a dent and not find anything. Trainers will get acat a chance to catch it down a Max Pokemon for their team, their triumphant inbattle. But they will be kicked out if they if the of the den, if they lose Gil Arian Startournament once a trainer, progresses far enough in their adventure for the CrownTundra, it will per be able to participate in the gallery in Star Tournament held inthe City of Wind in in this tournament, trainers will battle of various characters Theymet through Sword and Shield, but not just as opponents. They can also pick ateammate and tackle the tournament together. Transfer bonus in home startingTuesday, June 2nd. If a trainer transfers one or more Pokemon from PokemonSorted Shield than attend a switch version of home, they will receive a group keyscore Bunny and Saba with the hidden abilities as mystery gifts on the mobiledevice of Pokemon home grass groupie will no grassy surge score. Bunny willknow, Lee Barrow said. Libido. Yeah. Ah, savable. No sniper. They do have setnature's, I think. Like group, he is adamant and score Bunny is timid or somethinglike that. And finally going on right now is the gigantic Back Gigante Amax Festival.From June 1st through June 29th many different Gigante Max Pokemon will beencountered in max raid battles for sword and shield snow. Relax will be featured inboth games. Sword will have an increase of gang Are King Glor lap Chris garb, odorcarbonite, Appleton amped form toxicity center scorch grim snarl al creamy anddoor. Al Adan and Gigante Max, Pokemon appearing in shield will be chars ardbutter Freeman champ or Beetle Dreadnought. Colossal flap. Will Santa condo, Lokiform toxicity, hat serene and Copperas Asia and ah, that's it. That's that was thewhole trailer. Also, the ah penalty guy has a new Pokemon Imus head
Will: pne P and and ah, you missed out on the most important thing. That therethere's a big tree. Yes,
Steve: there is a big tree
Greg: is a possibly very big tree. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake,
Steve: shake up that tree
Greg: That's how you get Who's the new legendary in that region?
Steve: Halle Rex Cow
Will: cow Calvin Mine lotion
Greg: and shake that tree until it falls out. Try to find
Steve: a good picture of Ah, this dude. But he has like Ah, he has a creature on hishat which they could mean nothing. But also Eric Udoh was shown in cremeMarantz mouth and not announces a Pokemon at all on Did just appeared in thegame. I mean, it was leaked, but they didn't like, have you? We knew we knew deepdown Cramer and knew what was up. This is an audio podcast. If you want to gothrough the trailer and look at the dudes hat you can see like a little orange wormthing on his on his head. It could be nothing, but I feel like they probably wouldn'thave made a character. They would probably just put, like word or a letter or asymbol and not a creature in a game about collecting creatures. Maybe not. Youknow,
Greg: I'm trying to stop it. To see
Steve: people's seem real, more excited about rial more excited. That's a sentence.They seem real more excited about the Crown Tundra, and I don't again. This is thecomparison of the two. If we're assuming that the island farmers very competitivefocus. And maybe most of the people being vocal about this on on social media justdon't care about battling as much as they like to. Besides having just a ton oflegendary Pokemon to catch and Max raid battles, and besides Coop that leads toMax Ray battles. And besides going through the Champion Cup again throughCoop, that's all that the second deal see seems to be offering, which is co up andwhich is Max Raid battles. Well,
Will: and just like you get a new wild area to explore.
Greg: Yeah, Yeah. First get to get all the legends that you've missed again. Again.Well, you missed them before, you see?
Steve: Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't seem like the 2nd 1 is bigger. It just seems likethe 2nd 1 has a different focus. And it just seems like people like that Focus morepeople like catching legendary is, I think, more than they like going through abattle tower.
Will: I I agree with this completely. I believe I used to watch a twitch streamer whowould go through wormholes rather than doing any kind of battled thing.
Steve: How? Like wormholes, we got plenty of time to talk about the Crown tundra.More in depth. Yes, this is also off Pokemon dot com Battle Academy. You has, like,board games, right?
Will: I like tabletop games. Yes,
Greg: yes.
Steve: What if the Pokemon company debuts a new board game with thePokemon trading card game Battle Academy?
Will: I probably won't buy it. No.
Steve: What if I told you the iconic Pokemon trading card game from the PokemonCompany International reimagined as a first ever easy toe learn and fund to playfamily game releasing worldwide on July 31st to 2020.
Will: Okay. Uh oh. Maybe I did let cards
Steve: not look like a new Pokemon, Greg.
Greg: I mean, it
Will: looks like a row, Tom.
Steve: It looks like valerian a Morris will amora that you e not to say its name.
Greg: It depends on how you it could be. A stylized letter p
Steve: it could be a p, but they live in an
Will: eyes. It's Kaleri in Tropea ous
Steve: if you could, It's just that they put a lot of effort into his hat and
Greg: they did.
Steve: That Looks like a poker mom,
Greg: if they did. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of effort in that design for it not to beprobably a glare and form of something like I could see an ice type tro pius. Or, youknow, Bigas
Will: were like bananas.
Steve: Or it could be order peace within
Greg: our could Just bark and B p o Xbox,
Will: Martin eggs. Opie any. So you know,
Steve: I mean, they put anything on the set, but they
Greg: didn't have to put anything out of that. But they did. So there is something tobe said. I'm just saying I stopped it and cut it and showed it to you. Okay, So back tothis board again, that we're not gonna buy
Steve: today. Today, the Pokemon company has announced the world the Pokemontrading card game. Battle Academy. The first ever board game adaptation of thePokemon TCG, one of the most beloved and best selling trading card games in theworld. Providing everything a quote Trainer End quote needs to master the basicsof the Pokemon TCG battle Academy offers fun family entertainment combiningstrategic Pokemon TCG gameplay within a classic. Not sure how could be classiceasy to learn family game experience. Let me Go On. Known for its beautifullyillustrated cards that are fun to collect, trade and play with the Pokemon, TCGfeatures a vast assortment of products offerings with something for every trainerfrom casual collector toe avid competitors. Now, with the introduction of BattleAcademy, there's more an accessible option for aspiring players. Let me go on the,uh, Why not sold? Yeah,
Will: you're gonna have to eat. No.
Greg: Have to keep going on because the
Steve: quote quote. The Battle Academy is designed to be easy toe learn and fun toplay for all types of trainers, including Children and parents, that may be new to thePokemon TCG
Greg: and quote, said J. C. Smith, who is the senior director of consumer marketingat the Pokemon company, International consumer of marketing. How could they lieto us? J. C. Smith
Steve: also says Quote, Pokemon has unique ability to bring people together, and
Greg: that is true. That's true.
Steve: We felt We look forward to seeing families enjoy Battle Academy at theirnext game night, as parents bond with their kids over one of their favoriteentertainment brands and collectible Pokemon TCG cards. End quote,
Will: I will say the good thing about this. My hope for this is that all of my friendswho have Children and then those Children get to be about six years old, and thenthey buy them packs of Pokemon cards. And then they called me up in there like,How am I actually supposed to play this game? We just flip them over and whoeverhas the highest number wins. They'll stop calling me, and I'll be like, just go get thisboard game. It will explain everything. Leave me alone,
Steve: You know, we have also solve that problem. They would put check
Will: turning off my phone, not answering phone calls it all
Steve: on making mobile simple version on the phone to teach people
Greg: you and your mobile
Will: screen. Time for Children is bad. No,
Steve: Mr we've we've gotten to learn so much about Battle Academy, but there'smore to learn. Each battle Academy box will come with a two player game board, 360 card decks, a tutorial guide and game play accessories. It will also come with acode card that will allow trainers to enjoy the Pokemon TCG digitally through thefree to play Pokemon trading card game online App on IOS and Android. That is alie. It is on iPad OS, which is a different Os than Iowa's
Will: Could Lord back in your
Steve: hole? Well, as Pokemon dot com launching around the world July 31st 2020Battle Academy will be available. Why AH, widely available at participating massand hobby retailers as well as online retailers, including Pokemon center dot com,the premier destination for official high quality Pokemon merchandise in the US Inaddition, trainers in the U. S. Will be able to grab Battle Academy as early as June21st 2020 exclusively at Target stores.
Greg: Yeah, and
Steve: online at target dot com. Yeah,
Will: I won't go to my local board. Game retailer.
Steve: It looks like three decks are a Ciara's ARD deck, a mewtwo deck and a peekatyou deck.
Will: That sounds about right.
Steve: Yes. This does sound like you feeling Pokemon that every mother knows.
Greg: Why does Charles are GX have 250 hp?
Steve: Hey, we're pushing 330 hp in the actual TCG,
Greg: but the right shoe GX has to 10 and then you two GX has 180 those to also doa lot less damage. Why would you play a Why would you not always play Charlesart cause the cars RG excess 300?
Will: There might be other cards in there
Steve: because, well, Mewtwo is a basic Pokemon charges Are, you know, is a littletoo late. Stage two. You gotta You gotta get to star Zord. Probably not. I'm surethey're all probably basic cooking.
Greg: Well, it has, right you GX is stage one, Charles RG excess staged. Okay, Jax is
Steve: usually why stage two usually has dramatically more hp and more attackbecause it takes effort to get there.
Will: Yeah, um, like because we're Candies out right?
Steve: Uh, yeah.
Will: There you go. You have to go through the full stages of evolution to get there,which the other ones don't have to dio
Greg: Gotcha. But liked is the damage. Like does the fact that me to g x is the basicLaguens GX do 120 damage and its regular does 110. Is that, like, still part of thebloat or one
Steve: 180 for a basic work? One
Greg: 180 hp. Its main attacked as 110 and its GX attacks is 120.
Steve: That makes sense. I mean, that's kind of where all G exes are at this pointthat seemed empire
Greg: for two psychic energy and a colorless. We
Steve: talked about the new gigantic Max. We talked about the hidden abilityPokemon. We talked about the board game. Ah, that leads us with this last bit ofnews here. Two parts. So the first part is off shack news. There was actually not a lotof people that covered this. Although if you follow Pokemon on Twitter, youprobably saw the Pokemon company donates $200,000 to combat social injusticesinjustices. I think I said that wrong the first time. The Pokemon company, thecorporation behind one of the world's most popular and most recognized oldfranchises and pop culture, has stepped forward to give their stance on thesesystemic racism presented in America along the murder of George Floyd in May of2020 protests have been taking place around the world. The social backlash has hascaused numerous companies and corporations to speak out and even donatemoney. The Pokemon company has voiced their support of the Black Lives mattermovement and pledged to donate to the cause. The Pokemon company took theirofficial Twitter to share the statement quote. We stand in solidarity with our blackemployees, fans and families who continue to be impacted by racism and senselessviolence, the company said in its post. This reflects the sentiment shared by manyothers around the industry. Nintendo, a co publisher of the Pokemon franchise,made a similar statement. Not only did the Pokemon company confirmed theirstance on the ongoing crisis announced to donate towards the support, Pokemonhas donated $100,000 to an end double a CP and another $100,000 to black livesmatter. It's always reassuring to see major companies not only plant their flag on asomewhat controversial issue. I don't think there's any controversy about not likinggetting rid of racism, but okay. Ah, but used their money and platform to back thestances. E a also announced a $1,000,000 donation is long and matching employeedonations by 200%. I get those buzzwords in, they're gonna get that. Yea, yeah, notbuzzwords. Click, click. Tres uh, that's I think one. It made my day to see one of myfavorite companies support a good cause. Yet also, I think the impressive thing hereis that we all know or if you've been listening to this podcast and we've knownvarious people to work with the Pokemon company to work at the Pokemoncompany to work around the Pokemon company, they are very, very slow onthings. And
Greg: they are.
Steve: And in order to get anything approved, say whether it's the UK officer, theWashington office, everything still has to go through Japan. And so the protestsand all that stuff kind of really hit the news mainstream. The 29th?
Greg: Yeah, 30th right around there is when everybody was talking about,
Steve: they made this announcement on the third. I believe yep, somehow to theteam at the Pokemon company. They were able Teoh, get that message to Japan,get it approved, and come back and posted in what is probably record time. There'snot
Greg: a time for them absolute of them. Absolutely,
Steve: there's not. There's maybe a small chance that they didn t Japan's approval,but I don't I think they needed
Will: Ah yeah, for $200,000. Yeah,
Greg: yeah, they needed Japan's approval on. They needed Japan's lawyers to signoff on it, as well as all the American lawyers. Like there's so many layerscorporations have to go through to get a message out.
Steve: So that's awesome. Ah, but not a lot of Ah, not a lot of news sites. Pick thatup. I don't know if they need to. I mean, like, I think most most companies are. Yeah.Oh,
Will: yeah. I think this is a needle in a haystack. At this point in time,
Greg: I just don't think like new news outlets are looking at Pokemon as as thescoop to get. I think they're looking at all the really bigger companies that hitmany, many, many people like it. Well, great. I
Steve: think I think this got passed up because of, um, Pokemon Go was donation.
Greg: Yeah, the antic
Steve: and that's that's That's what the new site sees. They use lower Pokemon Gowill donate because that is that's the click through. You want, right? Yeah.
Will: Yeah. Just like completely ignoring the Harry Potter Wizards united.
Steve: I pulled this from high peace dot com. Pokemon Go will donate $5 millionminimum from go fest ticket sales, and the company will match Ah, employeedonations to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. Yeah. So this is actually knee on kneeantic. Donating the money?
Greg: Yeah. I mean, I'm on their press release. I think it's something quiteremarkable that Niantic didn't do the Trevor Project. I mean, there were donating101 100,000 to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, which never gets love. Like
Will: I I
Greg: people don't talk about it, but like black trans people like, if you want to talkabout every card stacked against you and nobody paying attention to your needslike the fact that they have called that out in the giant press release like makes meappreciate the people that work at the antics so much to pick such a vital charity inaddition to what they're already doing.
Steve: Their press releases very long,
Greg: which they also didn't need to dio. And it's it's a very good press release.
Steve: We won't go through the whole thing. Ah, the statement that height beastpulled, which I will read here is the work toe follow through require years of effortto yield the impact we seek. The hearts of Niantic is our community of players. It isimperative that we stand up to support black trainers, agents and wizards. We aimto be a force of change committed to the long road ahead of rebuilding a more justand fair system where all are welcomed, valued and have a fair chance of success.And then that says well, we will be donating the antics. Proceeds from Pokemon gofest ticket sales committing a minimum of $5 million USD, the antic head, theantics head John Hanke wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. Half of theproceeds donated will be used to fund new projects, projects form from blackgaming and a our creators that can live on the antics platform with the ultimategoal of increasing content. That represents a more diverse view on the world, thestatement continues. The other half will go to a U. S nonprofit organizations thatare helping communities rebuild, I think, he stated. The company will also commitseveral to several employees efforts, including Ah Prentice shifts leading topermanent positions Ally Training, Scholarship Support and Employees VolunteerDays. And then, ah, Greg brought up the Marsha P. Johnson Pokemon Go fest. 2020will be conducted as a virtual event in July due to Cove in 19 which is still a thing asopposed to the usual in person meet ups that attract 1000 of players. Pie P's doesmention this is not the first time donation from Niantic. They are known formatching donations of fans contributing to support the STEM project. I'm not surewhen that when that was, but yeah, that's, ah lot of money. Yeah, I don't know iffive million people are going to by go fest tickets, but I also don't expect go fasttickets to be $1.
Will: I think five million people since it's a stay at home. Go fast, Will buy. Yeah, it'sworldwide and yeah, I mean, you're right is gonna be a minimum 10
Greg: dollars. Yeah. I mean, it's $10 probably right, because the time research one is7 99 and I'm already mad at that, even though I got it for free. How am I supposedto do 15 rates ban hash, 15 eggs. Hey, it's do run right today. We're gonna go, like, toa park again. Okay? Okay. Good on. Um
Will: yeah. The only other thing I would say is I appreciate that. They saidapprenticeships since internships is, you know, actually becomes a racial issue. Soyeah, that's like apprenticeships that turn into jobs. That's a great thing.
Steve: Ah, I believe Ah, Square Enix donated $250,000. I think Lego donated, likefour million
Greg: Lego like Otis. So many amazing things I did not expect Lego to dio I Youknow,
Steve: I don't I'm sure there are other big gaming companies that I'm not followingthat have donated money.
Greg: Yes. Ah, and even there are a ton of us independent game makers who areare donating our time and money though there's a lot out there If you do want totake a look.
Steve: Ah, And again, if you're looking to donate and you don't know where to go,even if it's like five books are our charity color of change that we have donated toends on Friday. And that's in the show Notes. So thank you to everyone who hasdonated so far. I think that's Ah, I think that's it. Four news. I think we got through itall. Yep. Which brings us to Pokemon of the week,
Will: But I have a question of the week.
Steve: Oh, sorry question, Louis. We do have a question, Louise.
Greg: Hello, William. Hello, Steve. I want the question of the we. I
Will: feel you like you're making fun of me.
Greg: I'm not
Will: await. You weren't in that conversation, okay? Very confused. Don't worryabout it. Don't need to bring a personal confusions of me, you know, confusingformer female rockers and who they were.
Steve: Uh oh. I miss I miss him news earlier. Uh, this is, uh, the Drew. And that
Will: is the news that Joan Jett is not the same person is Pat
Greg: Benatar because they're Ugo No, stop. Oh,
Steve: Drew in our slack community did post that the gift hidden ability Starterscan be shiny. You cannot reset for them. Once you redeem them, you've redeemedthem. And then Chris, from our slack community, was the one that sent in thebattle Academy News. Shut up, Chris. Shut out to Drew And Andrew in our slycommunity has posted a very large life over life sized saw side up that is PurchaseHerbal. Which leads us to our question of the week from Katherine. Very largePokemon stuffed animals have been coming out, such as life sized side duck.
Greg: Love that side.
Steve: What other Pokemon would you see? Like to get a life size or just a really,really big
Greg: plush. I want a life sized geo dude. Okay, hug, give it hugs it be like, you know,the wraparound pillows. Love it. I would love that so much,
Will: I think. But, you know, I'm not familiar with everybody's height and weightratios. That's that's kind of scary, you know, like if you if you picked the wrong one,and all of a sudden you've got, like, right outside the window of your fifth floorapartment, you know, a Morris or something standing there? I don't know. It's like,uh I mean, we all know Well, Anderson doesn't like stuffed animals, so that's anissue. But I do use stuffed animals to decorate my bed after I've made my bed.What would kind of fit right into that nish
Greg: life's
Will: life size, but still like you could put it on your bed as a decoration. I alreadyhave a flow baby that does that. Greg, give me some advice. I mean,
Greg: what about a
Will: life size? Were bomb be would be real time And it
Greg: very well that maybe not the rib bomb be it would still be time.
Will: Let me see what the stats are for real bomb B to C
Greg: Um no real smile.
Will: Well, how small Israel Small.
Greg: Ah, eight inches, I think. Oh, no, That Yeah, eight inches.
Will: Height is eight inches, but it's £1.
Greg: Yeah, tiny. I mean 19 inches is not Is is decoration for my guests. What aboutAh, Sylvia? And how biggest Sylvia.
Will: Yeah, but I mean having a stuff Sylviane, It's got the the
Greg: ribbon. Yeah. What about the stuff Glazier?
Will: That's too cold. Latifiya. That's too ugly way stuffed TVs. We gotta we gotta getout of the realm of things that people have already experienced.
Greg: How about four? Drew Hallelujah
Will: for Andrew? Ah, yes,
Greg: feet tall.
Will: But I think that's that would be quite I agree that I would select that for them.Mm. Me for William. How? Where can we a rock rough? I mean, it's chunky Howthings will keep Bahamas
Greg: Vaux Corona true.
Will: I think it's actually quite large.
Greg: It's five feet call. I know
Will: I will take a five foot tall Val Corona. Yes, Steve Grammar. And yeah, that waslife size.
Steve: Know that life size?
Greg: Oh, I don't know how trimaran
Steve: primary in is is nearly two feet tall
Greg: or rant
Will: Eyes is two feet tall,
Greg: £39 with Now. Would you want it? Would you want your life size toe? Have amouth that you can open to shove other pluses into Oh, that would be so cool.Yeah, and you store all
Will: your plush is in its belly and then you screws and they come up.
Greg: They got all the ideas. Welcome on company.
Steve: The DLC could give us a chance of Kraemer and having its own Gigante maxform. You won't Good probably not. What's the problem in a week?
Will: All right. Well, the previous Pokemon of the week was summed up in onesentence, and I will read that sentence back to you again. My poke it a hoof. We'reoff to a bad start. My poke it X indicates that on July 20 seconds, 2017 I was walkingdown South Michigan Avenue to meet up with SPJ at Burger Bar, Chicago, wherethe air conditioning was not working for a local fan event. When I was told that thispsychic flying type quasi bird had been spotted above Buckingham Fountain,which seemed appropriate, as it is known as the Lord of the Seas,
Greg: it moved via it is isn't it looking at, is it?
Will: It is looking at
Greg: what's happening. Steve
Will: did say at the end of last week that he knew it already, and he was also there.
Greg: I know he's not a bunch of them and never said it's true.
Steve: I usually do. You know the answer.
Greg: Don't reveal supposedly nothing. The world doesn't work, enable her
Will: New Times, New Days.
Greg: Okay, I'll do it. It's Joan Jett. No,
Will: no! Stop! So mean, look. Eighties rocker ladies. You know I was young.
Greg: Yeah, I get it. I get it. What are their sports trivia?
Steve: Lucia was actually ah, created for the movie, not for the games.
Will: And yet it was in the games.
Steve: Yes. So Louis, It was created by Takahashi Pseudo for the second movie. Hewas surprised to learn that Lucia was then used in the games and put in the anime.
Will: Why would you not? And there was a baby Louis and the anime to Why wouldyou? Why would you have Pokemon that you couldn't have in the games? That'sjust seems so counterproductive.
Steve: What? Because I well, I don't know. It goes to the hole. There's like a bunchof Pokemon fans and their mental gym gymnastics of how, like the games air likethe most important part of the Siri's when in reality, Pokemon would long survive,never releasing another game again. E yeah, just like the ah, the anime unveiledthe Toby first
Will: and for the people who need help picking apart the clue. July 22nd 2017 wasthe first Pokemon go fast and they released Lucia after the go fast was after thebastard. Yes,
Steve: I think. Well, I think Lucia was always supposed to be really Saturday.
Will: Yes. And it is Lord of the Seas, because ho is lord of the Skies,
Steve: which makes no sense because Louis is not water type.
Will: But in the beginning of
Steve: no, I know that I know that he's swimming underwater. It doesn't still
Will: and sinister he still doesn't have school. So chaos and disorder everywhere youlook
Greg: before is but fix it.
Steve: Before the introduction of gold and silver, Lluvia was known as Pokemon X.
Greg: Burn it, you knew.
Steve: And the in the animate Doctor Nam Ba Yes, Everyone remembers Dr Namafrom the animal. You don't Ah also refers the Louis as Pokemon X. Perhapscoincidentally, it is known as code name X d 001 in x d gale of darkness.
Greg: An amazing game
Steve: interesting in gold and silver. Lucia, like ho, has the same encounter music asa normal wild Pokemon rip off. That was true with of the legendary Pokemon RajkoEntity and Sweet Kun. Before they received unique music in Crystal. However, Louisand Ho got their own unique music in hard, cold soul silver despite not being awater type Lucia is usually depicted as a water type in the Pokemon trading cardgame. Oh, that's true, Louis. As a shiny form shown in Pokemon Stadium to is greenrather than pink.
Greg: I like Lucia. Yeah, I
Steve: liked Louis a more as a kid than ho. And now I realize that I was wrong as akid. And ho is significantly better. I
Will: was my way. What yoga is that? It looks really weird.
Greg: The several icons. Really great. Why? Okay. Why? Okay, Back up. Why wereyou wrong? Why is ho better
Steve: cause for hope? Maker Rambo's What can look you do nothing.
Greg: Control the sea.
Steve: I find it a rainbow. I needed something crawl to see. I'll call my boy Kai Ogre.
Greg: He makes things rain.
Steve: Yeah, I'm all right with that. Look, I'm already in the sea. I'm already wet.
Greg: But you,
Will: uh you mean you're not wrong
Greg: talking to say you're right either You like Lucia more than Ho? It's Gentoo. Idon't like. I
Will: think it's pretty much for both of them.
Greg: I like. OK, I will say this. I like Oh, shiny form. Better.
Steve: It does have a good shiny.
Greg: It's got a good shiny. It's got a terrible shuffle icon, though, but it's got a reallygood shiny.
Steve: How about Lupita showed a picture of, ah, what it looked like in, um,stadium. I kind of want to see this green one.
Will: I'm sure you can find it on the Internet somewhere where, you know, just playPokemon Stadium.
Greg: I think it is going.
Steve: What's ah, what's our program? Next week
Will: during the week for this week. Uh, okay, it is. Um uh, I feel like I need to explainmyself, but I don't feel like I can't explain myself. So either get it or you don't. Imight say that's produced by Rick Rubin. That may mean something to you. It maynot, but here we go. I tried. If you have clam pearl problems, I feel bad for you, son. Igot 99 Pokemon, but ah, dish ain't one. I've got sheer force. It's hidden, of course.Got hyper cutter or shell armor without remorse. Some critics claim of my claw hasHP to 10-K I eat shelter in cloister. So what can they say? If you grew up so crabby,your mood is too low at level 16 you learn protect to bounce on a foe I'll give CrabHammer, Razor Shell and guillotine ago. That's definitely a way to strong arm you,though. I'm in ashes party on an afternoon show. But I've seen Giovanni's Jim to,you know, electric types try. I'll give them a pass and grass types maybe. CouldFehmi with sass but groundies I don't know what you take me as or fires. You'll findthat you'll come in last. I only have one type if you find that fun. I got 99 Pokemonbut odd ish ain't 1 99 Pokemon but not ashamed. One if you have clam peralproblems. I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 Pokemon, but our dish ain't one. There you
Greg: go, Teoh. Oh, that's so much work. Uh oh, boy.
Steve: All right, well, we will be back next week. The last week before I'll of armor.
Greg: Okay, so I
Steve: don't know if we'll get any more information. Maybe, you know, maybe the
Will: No. No, it's coming out in the week.
Steve: We also don't know how it's releasing.
Will: Ah, you magically appears on your switch putting.
Steve: Yeah, but is it going toe? Is it going to go by region? Or is it just gonnaunlock for everyone or I don't I don't
Will: know ya. Midnight in your region or midnight PS,
Steve: I think. When I was asking my twitch Chet, they were saying for smash it justunlocked for everyone at the same time. And it was like, e m at night or somethingfor us, so I Yeah, I don't 100%. No.
Will: Yes. The one us time zone.
Steve: Yes. Yeah, a PM for all of the U. S. I don't know how it's really see, What I doknow is ah, I am planning on dreaming it when it comes out on the 17th and Inormally start my new game streams at noon. I know a lot of people will stream orstart playing at midnight, which is cool, but I like that. If people want to watch meon twitch, I like that they're already ahead of me. So then they feel comfortablewatching. They don't worry about spoilers. You're playing at midnight. That'sawesome. Cause then when you come into stream, you'll probably be ahead of meand ah, you can yell at me that I missed a 1,000,000 things, but that's all I got. That'sit. That's our podcasts. If you want to find Greg on Twitter at White Wing will atwashing the sink I am at dragging a lake. You follow the twitter on podcast, youfollow the podcast on Twitter at p k m N c A S t patri on in the show Notes Charityin the show. Notes. Ah, whatever else is in the show notes. Ah, I think that's it. That'sour episode. Thank you guys listening and making it to the end. We'll see you nextweek. This has been another episode of the Pokemon podcast and we are
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