The Unofficial Pokemon Trainer Club

Only one month left before online services for Pokemon 3DS titles gets shut down.

Still haven’t got a date for when Pokemon Bank will go down, but I think the Pokemon company confirmed it would remain online for some time after everything else goes down. Take that with a grain of salt because I’m gonna call it right now it’ll happen sometime within the year.

Relic Castle got DMCA'd by TPCI. Fan Games are gonna be a lot harder to get started now

That sucks a lot. I'm not super into the Pokemon fangame/romhacking scene (I do know about most of the big ones, and my knowledge mostly comes from watching let's plays of people playing them), but that is awful and I feel bad for all the developers. I hope Pokemon Essentials didn't get taken down, because that was a really good tool from what I've seen. I know TPC tried to at one point, but I'm not sure if anything happened to it all? Same for that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon romhack tool that I forgot the name of. Other then that, I don't have much more to say other than what most people have already said.


 
So talking about somthing more positive, are there any moments in a piece of Pokemon media that stood out to you that you don't see talked about much? Mine was probably the ultimate weapon being activated in Geosenge Town in X and Y because it stays the same afterwards. You'd exact it to go back to normal after you defeat Team Flare, but no! It stays like that for the rest of the game, So there's just this massive crater there with houses toppled over!

Another one from the anime was Sorrel's Luxray dying in the I Choose You movie because it's really "out of character" for Pokemon. Pokemon dying is dark enough, but usually when they die, it's offscreen or it's a magical sacrifice and their shown fading away. (And the ones that did die onscreen like Celebi and Zoruark were revived, unlike Luxray.) Like in Stoutland's case, it was never stated even though it's very obvious it died. (until we saw its spirit in another episode, but that's besides the point) On the other hand, we see Luxray's frozen body, and child!Sorrel crying while getting taken away from it is sad too. Also, the idea of a Pokemon freezing to death really irks me because their elemental monsters that get frozen and hit with ice moves with all the time.

Yeah, that makes sense. I barely remember anything from Red and Blue Rescue Team, but I did remember that Absol was with you in a ice stage. It's still weird to see a Pokemon not die by magical sacrifice or other fantastical means, even though them dying has been a thing since Gen 1. You don't usually see explicit death in a family friendly franchise like Pokemon so it's sort of shocking. (Same with Zoruark and Snubbul's deaths.)

In other news, 3DS Online shuts down in 5 days from now. I've heard people say that Pretendo (or some other server) would help keep the online functions of the 3DS, but I'm worried Nintendo is going to axe it because they really have been on a streak lately. They forced a system update that made people not be able to access the Eshop after it shut down (even though people thankfully got around that.), took down Citra when the 3DS was having it's online services pulled, and took down Relic Castle.

;^;

iron leaves is so cool i wish it wasnt 4x weak to u-turn

unrelated, but if you guys havent, you should try out pokerogue online. its really fun its a roguelite pokemon game someone made. i suck at it but its still kinda fun

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Ooo neat!

So since it's been announced for awhile now, what are people's thoughts on Pokemon Legends Z?

If I don’t get mega Flygon and instead they give us mega charizard Z I’m going to riot.

I would be so flippin mad if that happened lol

Also next Tera raid is gonna be emboar

I'm surprised I didn't hear about this earlier since it happened about a month ago, but there was a Pokemon fan convention in the Philippines called Pokeverse that ended up being very much like Dashcon or the Willy Wonka Experience.



I don't want to say it was 100% bad because there were people that genuinely did have fun there from what I've heard, but there still was a lot of terrible stuff that shouldn't have happened.

Hey! I love love, LOVE! Pokémon! I didn't know there was a whole trainer club! I'd love to join!

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