 Welcome, everyone, to week 6 of episode number 6 of the Pokeballs podcast. My name is Lee and I'm joined by my co-host, Scott. How are you doing this week, mate? I'm tired. I'm tired. On the weekend. Yeah. Me too, mate. Yeah. I'm always tired. That's what happens when you're at the old hood. You're just constantly tired. It's been a bank holiday here in the UK for us also. Have you been up too much over the weekend? I went hiking up some mountains over the weekend. That's why I'm super tired. Got severely sunburnt because it was meant to rain. Well, my arms look like drumsticks. Can you see that timeline? It was a lot worse. But our listeners, the back of my calves also got burnt, which I've never had before. Oh, that's nasty. And all around my neck as well. Because it was literally like the forecast for up on the mountains. It was meant to be like rain all day. And so in the morning when we went up, I was in thermals. I had two jumpers on and I had a bignon. It was freezing when we first started. Once we got to the summit, it was like boiling and it was like it all day. And I left my bloody sun cream and hat in the car. And so I was, yeah. And then we got like, we got lost. So when we went down the mountain, my mate was like, my mate does, he's like a dearly leader and like he wants to be a mountaineer. Like a guide and stuff. He does, he's been there loads. He's got high loads in these same mountains, but we went somewhere different because Mount Snowden was busy because it was bank holiday. And so once we'd done all the peaks, he was like, oh, the quickest way down is directly down. And I'm not joking. Like it was like this steep all the way down. And I was like, are you sure this is safe? And I was like, yeah, there's no cliff edges. It'll be fine. And like there was one bit like the rope out legit. We didn't have ropes. The rock was like this. Right. And so I had to just slide down on my ass. Excuse me. On the rocks, just because it was the only way I could get down and like really slowly like grabbing onto like bushes and stuff. And then once we get like down halfway, we're like, oh, that's a hard bit done. There's like a wooded area. I'm always trying to get my way to like, there's like a road to run through it. We got stuck in the woods. And like we, we just, we took out the wrong turning. And we was just like, I was really hot and fed up. We didn't know where we were. Like we kept going down. I was like, yeah, we went to road eventually. Just didn't get one. And like the shrub, we got a thicker and thicker. And then was like wading through trees, like literally like twigs every layer. It was like a trap, like snapping all these twigs through the trees and like all the floors, like super boggy. I should have filmed it. It was like something, you know, like, um, this sounds like something out of Bear Grylls, mate. Like Bear Grylls episode, like people that get lost. This could have been you. You could have been one of those people. What would, what would you've done in this situation? How many people were you with? It was just two of us, mate. We just keep going. Boys. We just keep going. We went up into the mountains one day. Got lost. It would never seen again. Bear Grylls. But no, it was. That sounds, that sounds exciting and kind of scary. It was a good day. It all went well. We had amazing weather in the end. It was just, just a bit ill-prepared because we weren't expecting it. Because it's Wales, right? So, as you don't know, Snowden is in, it is in Wales. It's mountainous area in Wales. Yeah, it's north Wales. Yeah. And so. It's the warmest of places. It's, it's like, wow, it's just not really miserable all the time. So you would not believe the weather, genuinely. It was, it was awesome for Wales. But obviously being prepared was like that. But for those of you that haven't got the visuals obviously in the pod, Scott has got what classically we call it is a T-shirt tan. So when you take a T-shirt off his, his, I've only seen the, up the arm. I haven't seen anything else, but you would imagine it looks like he's got a T-shirt imprint on his body now from sunburn. But it's always good in future, mate. I guess for you to just, doesn't matter the weather pack that sun. Sunburn is pale. Yeah. You are quite a fair, a fair lad. Just sun hits me. I'm like, yeah. Chris. Yeah. My brother is exactly like that. Yeah. Scott, my brother also called Scott exactly like that. That's what I'm, maybe it's the name. Maybe it is. Yeah. He's fair skinned. He does not appreciate the sun. He, he burns very easily. I'm on the other hand very lucky. I, I, I tan very easily. So I never really burn, which is. So I can't tan. I just, I just stay away from sun. I've got factor 50 on. Which is like, you know, it keeps me nice and protected. Yeah. I was just freaking out worried about getting sun stroked and fucking, but severely burnt. And I got severely burnt anyways. So it's like, oh, That's a nice little story for us to get into today's pod, don't meet? What about you? You had a way more excited weekend than I did. I was not up any mountains. I was not making my way through any brush, dress like bear grills. I, I went to a nine year old's birthday party. My nephew. So I wasn't like, I got a nine year old's birthday parties or anything. If anyone, anyone's wondering, kind of weird. I just said it like that. But now my nephew's birthday party yesterday. So we were there and there was obviously a lot of kids and it was a lot of fun. A lot of family there. So it was, it was good mate. Crazy, big old football game at the end of the, at the end of the day. So without my old Jordy Pele skills. Wanted to recreate the new cost game, did we? Another cracking guy this weekend. He's a Spurs fan. So we could have done on the week before. I didn't, I didn't mention it too much, to be honest. I kind of felt bad for them, but no, it was good. And then other than that, mate, just, just hanging around the house doing stuff that's been needing to be done for a while. So I'm just hanging with the fam. So it's been nice. Just a bit chill, mate. I'm tired though. I am tired. Like you said, like you're tired. I don't know what I just, just tired, mate, but it's been super nice sun today. So I have been out in the sun, which has been good. Not too much Pokemon stuff over the weekend. Again, we had the terror eight event for and tell you on that kicked off on that kicked off on Friday, which was interesting because of the moveset on it specifically. What did you have? And Tiri, Tiri luck was one of the moves that had missed as well, which I don't think anyone saw coming. So missed stops, any stat drops for five turns. So you can't reduce it stats through like mouth sounds, screech that you would normally see kind of implemented through Terrorids and stuff like that. So it was interesting. And then the Tiri luck reduces the special attack and attack on your side of the field by two stages. So just meant like anything with Defiant would be pretty amazing. And then to, yeah, Nilep. So Nilep was the king once again into this raid. Unfortunately, Samorra didn't cut the mustard in it. I did try a clear amulet one, but it just doesn't really have the firepower to kind of get through it. But not a hard raid at all. I don't think really there's a bunch of viable options that you can take into and tell you on. So a nice addition though to be added to scholar and Violet now that other generated starter that we've got, which hints at maybe things to come. And then obviously we had the not that not yet. We had the walking wig and the iron leaves. Start again today as of recording this podcast, because we're recording this on Monday, the first of May. Happy May Day, May. And yeah, that's going to be running for two weeks for those that you are wondering for those that didn't get it the first time around when it went live in February. And those of you that did get the chance to get it and had the glitch with the bad egg, we didn't update your game to 1.2 went into the raid and there was a bad egg and you caught it. And then subsequently you couldn't actually get these Pokemon because the bad egg counted as one of those Pokemon. The 1.3 update has adjusted that. And now you can go in with this new terrarium and catch both these brand new paradox Pokemon me. So I have been doing quite a bit of the raids. Obviously I have rinsed my all of my like candies, terashards, ability patches, rinsed them all with the builds for last week. So I've got to try and replenish stocks. And that's what I've been doing just on the side here in there, mate. So yeah. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah. So other things that are going on though, we've got the global challenge three, which is the next online tournament, which I give a sneak peek away. That will be happening this coming Friday. Registrations open until just before the tournament starts on Thursday evening at midnight UTC time. And if you participate in this, you will, if you've linked your account, your play account, you can get championship points towards the official circuit, which is pretty good. There's 160 championship points up for grabs for first place in this one. And you can also get yourself an ultra poker ball swag bag for your character in game. Is that an ultra ball? Is that an ultra ball backpack? Yeah, I guess so. Does it really? It has another black stripe down it, as it, but yeah, I guess, because the top of it's yellow, I guess. I guess the straps can be counted as the black. But you can get that if you complete three games in this. And it's the only way to get this exclusive item after the event, after you've done your three games in it, the event finishes, you'll get a code in Pokemon home, and then you'll be able to you'll be able to claim it that way through Viya Mystery Gift. So that is what is coming up this week. Of course, the IntelliOnRaid will be coming back for a second time this week as well for those people that did miss it. But not too much else. News make really lots of speculation about home going on, of course, like usual and Scholar and Violet. But nothing, nothing too much. But I did make this. I'm going to just try and see if I can share this. Let's see if I can just adjust off. I think I have to stop sharing and then share again. See if I can get this up. But I did make something in regards to the terror aids. Let's see. Ah, here we go. Let's just pull this up. So I made this little graphic mate. I don't know. It's very, very basic. I didn't have much time to make it before the pod, but I thought I'd do it. So these are the seven star terror aids that we've had in Scholar and Violet so far. We've had, obviously, the Charizard, the Pikachu. We've had Decidueye, Samurot, Turflosion. Had Greninja. And then we've had Cinderace and then the most recent one we've had IntelliOn as well. So if we look at all of these, we touched on it a little bit last week. If we put them into groups, I'm going to say the outliers for all of the seven star terror aid events that we've had are the Charizard and the Pikachu from Gen 1. We know that data isn't in the games for Blastoise and Venus Soul. So we can discount those. And I think the Charizard being a huge fan favourite alongside Pikachu makes sense for them to do them to kind of get the hype up around these seven star terror aid events. So I feel like they are definite outliers. But if we look at the other Pokemon that have been in seven star terror aids so far, you can see the Decidueye, Samurot and Turflosion direct call to Pokemon Legends. Pokemon Legends RCS, they were the starter three in Pokemon Legends RCS. So they're one group, right? Then we've got Gen 6 starters. We've had Greninja from that group of starters. And then Gen 8 is the other starter group that we've had from the seven star terror aids so far in Cinderace and recently just in IntelliOn. So that leaves us three Pokemon remaining, which would be the Chestnode and the Delphox from Gen 6 and then the Rillaboom from Gen 8. So this is the theory that these are the three Pokemon remaining before we get potentially Pokemon home. And then after these three have been released, Pokemon home will come out and then they'll do whatever next phase with the seven star terror aids. But it's going to be interesting to see next Sunday after the IntelliOn raid ends what the announcement is for the next seven star terror aid. If it is one of these three, the Rillaboom, Delphox or the Chestnode, I would say this theory is a lot more solid than what it is right now. Yeah. As we discussed, we both think it's going to be a grass-style right at this point because we haven't had one in a while. So that would make sense. We're discussing how difficult potential terror fire Rillaboom would be because we haven't had particularly anything super hard from the terror aids. And I think it would be cool if we had something more challenging. I think we need something way more challenging. I think some of them are challenging but not to the point that we can't figure something out and maybe an hour, an hour and a half after the raid drops. As we said, what would you use against the terror fire Rillaboom? Because there are many things that you could use. Because it's not going to be weak to fire. You need like a solid ice type. You can't use water against it. You can't use ice types. Ice is not effective against the fire mate. Oh yeah. You can't use water. You can't use water because it just dies toward hammer. You can't use rock. You can't use rock. What pokemon that you could maybe use for a crazy throw out here is Bomb Deer. Because it does get that ability where it boosts rock type attacks. And it isn't a rock type pokemon. So you could potentially go with that and then terror rock on it to get the double star boost on rock type attacks. It's just whether or not it can take it will resist the grass type attacks from Rillaboom of course. But Rillaboom gets a decent move pool. So I might get some options that are a bit awkward on there. Ground types you can't use. Like you say, rock types you can't use. Water types you can't use. Pretty stuck really. And it gets grass terrain right? Yeah. Graphic lives. It would be brutal. I think it would be one of those things you could fit. I don't think people will get annoyed about a fear rising anyway. But I don't think you could even fear rise before this because you could obviously but it would be way harder because for something tough like that you would just need to know you just have to play it in order. You can't just call it how good something would be until you tried it. So you'd have to just wait until the actual raid come out. There's stuff like Glamora but the problem is it's like Glamora that you could take in there and type in the grass was only neutral. Really boom gets like pretty shook it's high horse power I don't know if it gets stumping tantrum but it gets ground coverage right? So you're pretty knackered in that situation and you can't really go with an air balloon because you just get hit once and then you'll just get bobbed. It's a really really difficult raid to go into especially if it's got something like Terrablast if it was fire then I would have to have Terrablast because I don't think it gets fire coverage that would be so out there though because I think a lot of the Terra 7-star Terra raid typings that they've come to so far they've always had like a coverage move to kind of back up that Terra typing like Intellion was ice, it had Blizzard Cinderaceous fight and it had a fighting type attack so none of them have really been relying on Terrablast which would be interesting to see like one in the future where they do make it very difficult and they say right well let's just go with fire and let's give it Terrablast because Terrablast is a thing and it could be an option that these Pokemon could use let's make it really hard I think people would enjoy a way harder one way more challenging like I think that would be better and figuring it out as well I think the Typhlosion raid was a bit I thought that might be a little bit better You just want a raid where people don't just go I can just use like I know he's memed it a lot but Ironhands has been useful and Annihilator has also been really useful for a lot of raids I'm just going to use Annihilator Slowbro was also really good for a lot of raids so we just kept using it I guess that's fair I'm just going to use that again I don't know what the typing is because Ragefist is just so good because it doesn't reset the ragefist boost don't reset when you get knocked out What does it max out at? 300 300 especially if you Terra on top of that and you've bulked up as well just die stuff has just gone away the leap button but I do find it interesting this could be what we see I believe this is what we see and I think that would mean that we'll get Pokemon Home it would either be the 12th the week of the 12th of June or the week of the 19th of June that's potentially what we could see I mean probably one could just throw a curb like a Gen 5 star and then we'll be like well that's the other thing if we get a different start then I don't know what they're doing but we'll see the back we've only got a week to wait this time next week when we do the pod we'll know would it be announced this week or next week so this Sunday coming up this Sunday it'll be this Sunday Monday morning for us so it's normally around quarter past 12 so just like I'll just have to midnight so it's like Monday morning very early when it drops when the news gets announced for the next terror raid and I doubt they're going to do a spotlight raid in between until this walking way leaves once finished the kind of spots in the game until that but other than that mate not much happening in Sword and Shield that's pretty much everything up to this week I know I keep doing that don't I? I keep doing it I don't know why as well because I haven't played Sword and Shield I haven't played Sword and Shield for the longest time mate I kept doing that as well having a conversation before when I was like Sword and Shield yeah it's crazy I mean it's been like I said with the channel it's just like a weird place at the moment because they're kind of between if we had the DLC coming up in June they haven't teased anything have they really they've been so like hush hush the lack of home the lack of home is like super weird like we said they said fall right so technically September before really but I mean they're waiting a long time especially if they are dropping you know some a new game next year you know then they're looking at I don't know it just seems like I don't know whether it is I would love to know what's going on internally whether it is just because of the problems they've had with the game or whether it is whether this has always been the plan but it feels like with the frustration of the fans like it doesn't feel like this is planned but also you know Pogon never really care they're not one to bow down to pressure Nintendo are the same so it's just like I can't see it yeah it's just like they don't really care Pogon cards are selling out everything is doing well they're making loads of money really so yeah that's it you know there could be a third DLC as well you know that's the big thing you know I keep thinking I'm like okay if they're releasing it and fall the first one which seems more plausible now like you know at the time when they got announced you think could they follow the same kind of dates as Isle of All my Crown Tundra like that June November release date but it like you say we're like we're like in May now there's no way we're getting the DLC next month like it just it's not happening there's been no promotion for it outside of what we saw that sneak peak of the Terpegos the Prevolution the little baby tale thing which was really no information and I feel like they only dropped that because it was revealed in the anime right it was like the was it the first or the second episode was dropped in the the new animation thing like have they planned if that was shown in like the first one or two episodes whatever episode it was at the beginning of the new anime I think plan to show other new stuff you know goes back to the theory of is it delayed would it all meant to line up yeah or have they now delayed the show's release yeah like to line up with the delays that they've had with everything else I feel like it's all all been lined up I think like the only thing that would say you would say has been a bit of a bump in the road is definitely the walking way guy and leaves raid unless the you know they always planned because their exclusive Paradox Pokemon to do the raid event again like they're running right now for another two weeks of just all the games and missed out on them and it gives players another chance to get these Pokemon because they're not going to be available to catch any the DLC this is the only way you can get them I don't know I just felt like they're losing people a little bit I understand there's always low periods when the game comes out right because it was going to have that gap between the next thing that they do and but kind of back to what we said before I guess this is why the DLC is important but Pokemon doesn't have so good luck does it doesn't have a massive repay value and also like once you've played it like it's not really different the second time round and you know you can't like once you've completed it there's no like where your options are to complete the living really and catch on a Pokemon you know yeah terror event when it drops it's been the biggest game they've ever done really in terms of all the stuff that which is wicked but I could like I just said it's not like a regular like RPG game where you could play like a thousand hours into it or it takes like a hundred hours to complete the main story you know you can still again it's still long within previous generations but it just there isn't that much post game stuff though it's not really they seem to struggle they struggle a lot with that really yeah in recent games and you know like like all they need to do is like you know like I always look back to emerald and think the battle factor was so good from that game like and they've never really redone it like they did in emerald and I just think in gen 4 didn't that as well or something in the islands in the in platinum they had the um oh they did yeah they the same it wasn't exactly the same but they didn't have the frontier brains and stuff like that did they yeah no you could rent but they had something similar no I know what you mean yeah and then they had the really good way in black and white wasn't it yeah yeah like yeah imagine if like you had something like that but for like competitive pokemon you go in there and just build the team you want and test it that would be insane like it'd be like the next step it would make a lot of sense I'd be the next natural evolution like rental teams because rental teams are great we never had anything like that before because you can use rental teams on the battle spot ladder right but just to be able to like create like a proxy team that they let you use would be awesome yeah and I can say just like another alternative to pokemon showdown um again this isn't applied to everyone but I think it would add to the replay value a lot like I say if you could especially if it gave you like items or you know just little things exclusive stuff you know you win a hundred games you win a hundred games you get a pokemon that you can't get in the game type thing you know you unlock that little bit of post story type thing yeah because it was stuff like that in emerald you know you could get exclusive stuff you could get like tms and things like that that you couldn't get elsewhere I just think yeah and you'd like even go back to was it sun and moon or ultra sun and moon had the battle tree wasn't it like it's just like that just extra thing that they could just bung in and it would just keep players just give them another something else to do right so was that the saving stuff for the dlc though well yeah but we thought that sword and shield and was still not really anything after that you know after you complete the crown tundra and you complete the isle of armor there was very little to do still and sword and shield I mean they made that second like tournament you could go and re-battle all the trainers again in leon but like I'm completely honest like by that point when that got released I think it was with the crown tundra I still haven't done that I still have that flag on my map in sword and shield because I'm just like I've got no need to do it it doesn't like give me like it doesn't make me feel like I want to go and do it because there's no valuing completing it you know other than that like self satisfaction of oh I've done that it's hard because I guess you know the base game you know face value is a kids game right pokemon but it's also it's a kids game that's enjoyed by you know a lot of teens and also adults so I guess it's hard to find the balance but their core audience is kids right so but most kids don't really care they would play most things continuously because they just have that endless amounts of joy and you know that's why I think like legends also this was definitely different like it just had a different feel to it because it was like it didn't feel like it was like directly aimed towards that younger audience as well all kind of you know with them at the front of your mind I mean the fact that pokemon and pokemon legends also this could attack you and you could actually as a trainer faint you know from a variety of different things I think that like in itself made it feel a little bit more better to play or a more enjoyable experience I don't know yeah no you're right it's just it's just like say it's a weird one they just it's so hard to tell like say they just hold so much back you know if we had the home if we just knew what they were doing or they just had like because they don't even release any kind of road maps they just say they're gonna do stuff and then don't even do it on time and it's just like it's so frustrating it's just like what's happening I've got that to talk about today actually pokemon sleep so yeah yeah we'll talk about that in a bit but you're right no there's no there's no roadmap of anything it's just yeah and like you know we're kind of guessing like are we getting black and white remakes next year that's kind of the norm right but that might not even happen there's no guarantee let's play Johto you know that's never coming I don't think is it I mean I would I would love it right but I don't play games really good yeah they were again it just I don't know they just seem to do weird decisions you do wonder whether it's like it's hard because you're not gonna appease everyone are you that's the biggest problem with everything but they just don't seem to be doing stuff that is beneficial beneficial or like it's good for like the majority of the play base it doesn't seem that way at least what like the easy cash grab stuff yeah that's what I mean it's just like yeah it's like it's like the it's a no brainer cash grab and no one's even worried about being a cash grab because it's just fan service and people want it so it's like take my money I want to enjoy this you know it's like easy for them to do they don't need to think they just cling on to the nostalgia I mean this yeah this pokemon if you've seen I was teased a while ago actually but I just saw it again this like pokemon trading card game classic oh yeah like board game and decks are in there like the cards look sick and you know it's gonna sell like hotcakes it's gonna sell out and it'll just become a collector's pick because this gen one did a lottery for it didn't they in japan and it's yeah I think it's like I don't yeah I think they did you know they normally do they open it up and they do a lottery for it so if you get selected you can get it I think it's that they might do another one so it's not a pre it's not a made to order product so they're not just taking a bunch of pre-orders and then making sure everyone gets one it is going to be limited like the borders are like super special like this isn't yeah this isn't what the cards actually look like it's super nice like if I just make this a little bit bigger you can I think we can skip forward it's a proper bougie ever I mean the decks look sick but you know it's just like cards are going to be like that though as well so they'll have a different like back to them yes I'm saying that they're different yeah the counters are cool though yeah very cool but yeah I think the cards have a different border on them they're not like shiny yeah and they're a bit more like 25th anniversary like bordered cards that we got from the Japanese set the 25th anniversary set but yeah there's lots of old cards but they're not all just Gen 1 ones they're like there's like Luger and Sweet Cune as well I saw that and a Ho-Oh I mean I really want it yeah I mean this is the thing right they just release stuff and you know who we're going to avoid yeah so they do do it they just don't do it enough you know it's probably a good thing because they'd be very poor otherwise you know but I really hope we we do get black and white remakes and I don't even care if Ilca I know Ilca gets such bad press for BSP but I don't even care if they make I just want to play a remake of black and white on the switch I think that would be so cool yeah I'm not saying it for the switch pro but I'll switch to whatever maybe yeah I'm so interested to see how well the kingdom it's like next week isn't it 10th isn't it so it's on the 12th so yeah week Friday yeah I ordered I ordered as well mate when it first the pre-orders came out I ordered the the collectors edition because I was like I really want the collectors edition and it was actually quite reasonable because I've seen pre-orders recently for the collectors edition nearly double the price for what I paid and I'm like what you got him before everyone else so I got it like day one when it when it dropped and I was like gonna just lock it in because I was thinking about I was like I really want the OLED switch but I'm like I can't justify getting this because you already got the OLED skull and vital one haven't you? yeah and I'm like I can't because the switch 2 is around the corner and I'm better off just keeping the money go to that and then go to switch to as much as I would like the Zelda OLED to be honest I would probably just keep it sealed that's what I would do with it but and at the time I was like should I just cancel the collectors edition and just get the regular game because it's like half the price pretty much but I was like no no I'll just stick with what I've got so yeah but yeah the 12th mate a bit of a tangent there we went on 12th a week on Friday tears of the kingdom will come out very excited for it as well yeah it'll be good I just hope you're interested to see how it goes yeah yeah if it doesn't then you know they better hurry up without switch release switch next generation the backlash should be way worse than what it was for anything that scholar and violet got because I feel like the hardcore Zelda fans are gonna that would create well they've also watched it so you would expect it to run well with the problem games they at least have the excuse of they don't have enough development time which is the thing is yeah with Zelda as well it has a way higher bar on how the games operate at the games feel how the games look everything that you know I think there's a lot of expectation with web pokemon players want the game to be but in reality you kind of don't expect too much right yeah you just I feel like we make excuses every time the games come out well that is one thing probably true when sword and shield come out everyone's like yeah it doesn't look amazing but they're trying some more interesting things so we like it and then these games come out and you're like well it looks like a piece to game but you know they're trying some cool things you know maybe the next game will be good and the next one will look like it you know it'll be the blocky look of like Tomb Raider be so bad yeah you're so right though yeah you know I don't think they'll ever be a day where we'll get a roadmap of what's to come though that's the thing I think we're just stuck in this I'm just going to pull me up on the screen until Scots sort himself out so I've sorted himself out I don't know yeah this purgatory I'm saying we're probably just going to be in this purgatory of not knowing what's going on in the Pokemon world for I feel like it would just be like I mentioned before the pod it would just be like we're going to have nothing for like a couple of months and then all of a sudden we'll have loads it's normally the way isn't it it's just a pain in the palm like a steady trickle of like interesting stuff they're just like yeah you can wait but then they'll also do loads of stuff at once and it'll be like yeah trailer trailer trailer here's all the DLCs and you can buy the DLC right now you can play it right now it's actually coming out now it's available now we're dropping home and both DLCs on the same day everyone just freaks out yeah that was one of the things there was that rumour on 4chan that the home compatibility release date with skull and violet of the 12th and then yeah it's not going to happen could you imagine if it happened on the same day as tears of the kingdom raging war it wouldn't happen home would be a massive deal but it wouldn't make sense because it just spreads out hype yeah so we'll see next Friday just be like yolo home is here maybe yeah but mate you mentioned a good thing about it being more directed for kids there was an interesting article you found I'll let you lead the line on this one you could fill us all in about this to our listeners at home essentially there was a car chop in Japan because as we mentioned last week on the pod stock of the Japanese sets just in Japan they've been selling out all the products all the trading card game products and a bit like almost like the shortages we had during COVID where you couldn't buy stuff it's kind of like that in Japan now basically and I found this interesting article talking about a shop in the Aki bar district in Japan basically we're only selling we're banning adults and guardians from buying cards so the kids can enjoy them more and I thought it was really interesting it's not like all the stuff I think they're allocating like half of their stock like to make sure the base of the kids can have them and that guardians can't buy them either but it's still like a good idea I just think your parent though going in your kids birthday is like on the weekend and you're going in rocking up and being like I'm going to get them I know they want this new set I'm going to get them a booster box of it and I'm going to not sell it to you yeah but you know it's one of those things you just send the kid in and I buy it sorry no daughter it's outside your birthday present surprise is no longer a surprise can you go in this shop and just buy your present for me they won't allow me to buy it I do get it and things like that right they ID you as well they ID you to make sure that you're underrated what there's going to be people there's going to be fake IDs can you imagine if it's the opposite way they want like a younger IDs oh that would be so funny the Japanese world make loving oh that would be so funny yeah they're going to be there's going to be like adults paying off kids just to go in and buy them Pokemon cards that's such a weird turnaround you want me to cigarette please okay asking a child to buy Pokemon cards can you please go in the shop I really need these new Pokemon cards man it's like a thousand round I'll pay you loads of money just go buy me as much as you can you know what's happened I need my fix baby yeah talking about TCG though the new set has been announced obviously how they evolved coming on the 9th of June I believe so it's up too far away just a month around the corner and there's been a bunch of cards released as well it's really frustrating because I always want to buy the cards but it just gets so expensive right yeah it's going to give us close that that's not doing the gallery though which is a little bit annoying there we go so we can have a look at some of the cards I mean they're alright the Woshan EX is coming out Paladin Taurus as well that's a really nice artwork go to the full arts and stuff yeah the full arts are the more one I think there's a bunch of EXs the full arts in this set are in C look at that you know that one's going to be a big one and then you've got the Furgato and then Fyokoko I mean that is that's pretty cute yeah it's very nice then the Raichu one I think we've seen some of these in the Japanese sets that we went over either last week or the week before what I like about these is that they're really cool cards they're also not unobtainable they're easy to pull if it makes sense they're not super rare if you like the artwork you can get them quite easily but that one is so nice so cool yeah it's cool so that's set to come out like I say on the 9th and then it got ready you there mate so that's something to look forward to new TCG players out there and yeah it looks like a good set it's going to be a strong set again I think from the full arts like you say and like you say with the better pull rates now they're not massively difficult to get but if you want to buy the singles of course wait a little while before you pick them up after the set drops don't rush in and buy them straight away you'll be paying top dollar top dollar for them because you were going to sell it weren't you and I tried to sell it but the person who bought it on eBay did not pay me so I decided to keep it I'm going to buy those called card frames that that guy on Etsy sells and put in one of those it's maybe a sign mate you know yeah I mean it has a small print line on the back which is really annoying because I would have got a graded otherwise there's like a really like annoying like dotted line across the middle of the back of the card never seen it on a Pokemon card before the guy that bid on it didn't realise it the guy is this what hey baby is that people bid on stuff without reading the comments and I put it in the comments and you can see it on the pictures as well I was like look at it on the picture this is what it is and it's just like I wonder if that would affect it from getting a grade like a 10 probably would it's not like super noticeable because I didn't notice it at first and then when I was taking a picture I was like oh that's kind of annoying imagine that would grade it down but you never know never know mate yeah yeah outside of that there's not been a great deal of stuff happening this week in the Pokemon world we could look at GoFest got announced didn't it GoFest did get announced there was a bunch of dates for GoFest so that's something for all of you Pokemon Go fans look forward to we've got London happening in August I think it's August the 4th to the 6th yeah in Osaka as well in Japan as well from 4th to the 6th so that's the week before Worlds I believe this year in Japan so if you've gone over to Worlds in Japan hit Osaka the week before and you'll be able to take part and GoFest over there on the August the 4th to the 6th which is very cool and at the minute if you are taking part or interested in going you can get early bird tickets cheaper than they would normally be and there are for all of the dates that the event is running on of course you can rock up I think you can get a morning or an afternoon slot on the days and then they normally put like the antique normally put a lot of I've never actually been to one myself I've only seen videos and heard people that went to them but they normally put up a lot of like big promotional stuff and kind of stuff in the park where they're holding it I think it's in where is it in London Ramblin Park is it or something Brockwell Park in London where it will be held so yeah they'll put lots of stuff up in there in the park there for the players to kind of get involved with and then you get like set amount of like raid pass stuff and other other things like that and you can have these like the raid lover you can get this ticket here up to 18 free raid passes per day by spinning photo discs at the gyms you get a lot of other stuff so it's a pretty big thing and you get a lot of gold players gone I'd imagine it's something that I do want to do at some point we could go I would love to go mate that would be that would be amazing should we go be fun let's go I would love to go we go like be the newbies of Pokemon Go walking around with our brand new brand new Pokemon Go I mean I haven't played it in so long how many players have you guys I've just seen the sort of light I put a lot of time in last year and levelling up is really difficult on it like when you're a higher level mind's not allowing me to log in right now so I can't see but I think I'm around 30 ish something like that so yeah it's a lot of fun I would love to do something like that but that is happening later this year friends so if you're going to go first let me know let us know down in the comments which one you're going to more than likely a lot of you probably go into the London one if you're listening in UK and Europe and then I think the US one is in New York and it happens a little bit later and that will be from the 18th to the 20th of August so that will be happening a little bit later on in August in New York so that will be for everyone in the US that will be insane as well that would be if there's one to go to that would be the one I mean I'd love to go to the one in Osaka as well you know it would be great to do all three to be honest maybe next year go to the London one on the Saturday fly out to Osaka so you can get the one I've been there you'd have to go on the Friday fly and do the one in Osaka on the Sunday do worlds there next week and then fly direct from Japan to New York to do the one in New York to finish a couple weeks it would be very very expensive yeah be very fun though yes it would yeah and the only other thing I had really there was going to talk about today you know we talk about timelines we talked about things being delayed and expectedly and stuff like that and I did mention it but Pokemon sleep do you want to say that the Twitter account has been a little bit more active recently we do know that sleep is supposedly coming this August whether or not that will happen or not I don't I don't know mate but like I said kids I don't really know I don't really know I think that if we watch the advertisement of it right I'm just going to refresh this I'll show a little video of Pokemon sleep here for us and I think it's I think it's aimed at everyone because the demographics when you're looking at the advert here is a there's a range of different it's mainly adults age people yeah so I don't know you know I guess it would probably be more adults because I think you know you're not going to get like a five-year-old that cares about how much sleep they have they're just wanting to go to sleep right but like how's it going to work like you just put your phone it would be cool if it had like you know like Apple watch like an Apple watch Apple something or I think they've talked about there's going to be like it's going to be almost like a poker walker kind of device that you're going to get and you know the poker walker it's not a poker walker it's like the poker ball plus device that you get in Pokemon Go it's going to be a similar device to that that works with Pokemon sleep I think so it just goes on your bed doesn't it it doesn't go on your wrist or anything yeah let's have a look let's see yeah Pokemon Go Pokemon Go plus gets a power up so that's what you must have to use with it so I don't know whether you'll only be able to use it with this or whether you can get an app and just use the app and use like an Apple watch like you say with it but no in Pokemon it'll probably be like yeah you can download the app but you can't use it without this you've got to pay like what does this take us to how do you feel about just talking about this about them doing something like the poker walker again the poker walker yeah they'll come out with let's go the one that came out with a hot gold silver I would love it I think it's a really cool idea I haven't known anything cool like that in so long no they haven't I guess you have the poker ball plus now which is kind of the same thing but like you could see the Pokemon it was so small thing just to be able to like I'm taking it to school it was just so sick I've got one up there I've got two got my brothers one as well yeah they're so cool mate I wonder what Pokemon I have imprisoned on there for years literally I was just thinking that I wonder what's in there but you used to get exclusive egg moves for Pokemon if you had them in there and things like that so it was like a real kind of like novelty but there was like a reason behind doing it as well which is really cool I would love them to do something like that again but like you said they've never done anything like that for such a long time like anything unique they've just been a bit stop trying they have a little bit even like the consoles like I don't even think I don't even think the Scarlet Violet version of the console is that good like I just feel like I understand that the the Switch is a more expensive console compared to like the DS even like the 3DS and stuff but the designs that they they do look like an exclusive version for like pretty much every game I know we do get but we only really get it for the main games but even like the they didn't do one for Sword and Shield did they they just did a they just did a Switch Lite didn't they yeah they did the same with Diamond and Pearl and that was great it was so bad just do something really cool like make it clear they're like bold colors they just seem to be like do something different yeah they just don't innovate or try anything new they just I don't know if they just care anymore the polka walker was peak I wonder if that's one of the things what makes it like one of their most loved games as well just adds to it like a little bit extra Tahawk Gold Soul Silver it's just like an added thing you know version of that it was like a like a a pokeball people would still pay for it even if it was like 50 quid more expensive but like it was a pokeball that opened up playing like the Let's Go controllers that they got the pokeball joycons that they made just like that sort of size you know that'd be cool I just don't care anymore it's a really frustrating time to be a Pokemon fan it's frustrating because the worst part about it is they've got you anyway so it doesn't matter what they do we're still going to be excited for it but it's also a very it doesn't take away from the frustratedness of it you know they could just do a little bit more they could just make a skull and violet app for like android and iphone right and just have some like compatible just some like extra gameplay feature you could have a polka walker app for your phone where you could you know get exclusive egg moves and stuff like that that anything would be like anything that you can't get or like even if it was grindy it was just something you could do you know just away from your console right yeah yeah just something anything different I guess they they expect players to kind of like because it is a portable console but I guess the the DS was right the DS was something that you would very very yeah so you wouldn't yeah I mean I'd rather take a little companion toy whatever you want to call it a pedometer or something around with me as opposed to like my whole switch though yeah it's way more expensive I think that was a beauty of it you wouldn't have to take your DS around with you that's way more expensive you could just take the little polka walker to come with it and it came with the game as well it's just different times man I like could you buy the game without it though I don't think oh could you I don't know but just it was just so good I just wanted to do something with it again we don't get any of the cool stuff we don't get the colored cartridges we don't get the polka walker when I let's go put my shelf as well on my polka walker games it's always the one that sticks out to me the most because it's that it's a way thicker box compared to everything else it always stands out and I'm just like yeah it just looks big better because it has got a polka walker maybe we're just old maybe it's what happens when you get old and you complain wasn't it always yeah it was better it was better back then you know maybe we're on to something now I feel like we're more on to something than not to be honest I don't feel like we're complaining either you know just to find out they shouldn't have done such a good job in the first place and if they did do such a good job they should have kept up doing that good job right yeah it makes me think like you know is all of this stuff limited to the capability of the switch right because I genuinely feel like you know the next gen version of it because there's rumors that they've just released there's this AMD are developing this Zen 1 processor which is going in the ROG allies like a Steam Deck so you know that handheld Steam console that was and the ROG allies meant to be a competitor to that Steam Deck but it's got this Z1 processor in it that is supposedly also going in the switch rumored and it'd be like such a game changer for like for the switch as well and you know I feel like they are very limited with the crappy hardware and maybe if they had that flexibility it would make them be like oh we could do this we could do that but whereas at the moment they're just so concerned with trying to make sure that trying to improve the games but also trying to make sure that it runs really well I guess it's a really hard thing to do isn't it like when you're dealing with like just the base software and the switch but the thing is though I think it's been proved by like a number of people I've mentioned on the pod before you know custom firmware switches that have been overclocked run Skylar and Violet fine so that is possible to do on the current software you know that was on an OLED was it on an OLED I don't know but regardless it can be done and it runs immaculately so it's hard because you have to get that it's just really intrigued to see how powerful it will be because it is one thing that's laying it down I understand it's a different target audience than an Xbox and the PlayStation but that's not an excuse anymore for it the hardware being just crap yeah just backwards compatibility as well with switch games I think that's a big thing yeah just do that yeah yeah I watched the hilarious video the other day this is a little bit of a sidestep mate but there was a short I watched the other day of a guy saying can a Nintendo 3DS game work on a Nintendo DS and he does the little thing he's trying to put it in the DS but he's like the ridges in the way so the cartridge is in the 3DS yeah he literally he's like throws it down he's like gets all these tools out and then just like cuts it off puts it in nothing works it doesn't work but it still runs on the the 3DS when he puts it back in though it's quite a funny video yeah so but again imagine if like the next console it had like they just whipped in loads of ports right so you could play every single old game on it so you could you could play DS games on it you could play 3DS games on it you could play GVA games on it but the I don't think they'll ever do it because they're trying to push this stupid bloody online system that's crap that no one wants to buy but feels like they have to buy because it's the only way you can go online to do anything on their stupid ecosystem and it's just like I don't care it'll be so much cooler if they just put a slot in you know just like like you could do a multi-purpose slot that was just a larger slot that did all all the way back to the bloody DS games you could do it it would be easy one size it would fit them all just different grooves or whatever you could have the shorn and shield one maybe forget about the older games maybe maybe just do it for the from like the DS onwards and then you can have the switch online for all of the GBA games and all of the original Game Boy games and like one stadium and stuff like that that's fine just there's something cool the switch I just want them to like release the old games like like the classic games on the online service I just like you've got this online service people are paying for it like just release the old games like it's obviously what everyone want like old Pokemon fans want these old games I was thinking the other day I was like I really want Pokemon Emerald because it's the one game I don't own but like to buy it it's like crazy expensive and I'm like do I buy it now just to play it or do I wait because there might be a chance that it comes on to the online service but I don't think they've ever re-released like Emerald I don't think that's been a game that you could like I don't know if that was available on the eShops before they closed I'm pretty sure it wasn't just do some just like I said just do some wild limited edition Game Boy just like people go fucking nuts for this shit so re-release the original games with the fucking cartridges people just go wild I would buy one I wouldn't even play it I'd just fucking buy one just because like it would be so good like it's just feels like a no brainer would you get all these people that haven't played Pokemon in years that'd be like oh my god I remember playing that on a GBA or like an original Game Boy Collar I really want to get that what you can get the original games again that'd be mad just like have you seen the Game Boy players you can get for PC it's like a USB no have you seen you can buy like ROM hacked version of GBA games now with like custom GBA cartridges and stickers on they look wicked you can get them on like Etsy and stuff this is it here mate I'll put it up oh wow you can get it like for like I think you can get them that they'll play like early advanced like games and stuff like that it's really cool actually like I'm really thinking about getting one because you can put like your Pokemon games into it and you can back up the save on them so if like the battery goes then you've still got the save on your PC so then you can replace the battery in the card and then you can import the save back onto it so you never essentially lose it because the battery goes on it then you essentially lose whatever save was on there which is really sad so that's a way for like the older games where you can kind of make really good use of it but then you can play it on your PC as well which is pretty good but it's like an emulator it's like emulates the software it doesn't like it's not a direct there you know and it detects counterfeit cartridges as well which is pretty interesting I think it's a pretty neat little little gadget really yeah Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance how hard it would be for them to just bring something like this out or just have an adapter for the switch or something they do some really cool stuff like if you look back at all like the all like the cardboard stuff that they did my common boy was called oh yeah the em I can't remember it's name but I know what you mean all of that cool stuff yeah that was wicked the ring fit is venture is actually a really cool concept like they do come up with some really wicked ideas but I just feel like he's lost a lot of weight he's lost a lot of weight he got himself in really good shape he looks amazing now that's just from Ring Fit it's like so like inspirational like watching it like seeing him seeing him from the start when he was talking about that's what he's going to do to after he's kind of done it in the transformation in that process crazy good I remember seeing him and I was like what have you been doing it's like did not believe him when he said ring fit but it's quite quite it's really good for quality yeah so yeah it's yeah just do something cool if you're watching listening I know you are someone's gonna be watching please be watching please do something cool please no one's watching please send it to them you must know someone burn a cd burn a bvd and send it to them in the post important important information just accidentally play this part of the port on your next stream when you're casting like oopsie give us something cool make the classic game boy do it give me new ideas for free hire us for your development team imagine though they made it right they made it remade it right like this probably improve the screen put an OLED screen in there right had a USB port in the bottom so you could connect PC so you had video out you could then have the slot here which fits in all the old cartridges and then you have a slot up here which fits like DS cartridges or something I don't know I don't know how much I'm dreaming here but it would be amazing right smaller than my phone this is why I was so surprised when I got it back console like it is literally like I don't care about phones phones aren't retro there's so like boring technology now like give me that I want to put it in my pocket backpack kind of vibe this has been very cool since I got it back and playing it it's been very cool like just the size of it alone it's just it's just so small like I forgot how small it was but it literally fit in your pocket super fine that's what I missed with with the DS it's very cool like the little folder screen up like I said the original DS like and even like the SP versions they were just the smaller than phones you put in your pocket it was just so good just listen to us Pokemon we're giving you million dollars ideas here this would literally make you so much money how would everyone feel I want I want to hear some comments about this like would everyone would everyone buy one if they came out with a re launched like the GBA say I think the GBA would make sense because you can play gameboy games on that right so I would everyone feel about a GBA like a classic GBA celebration of it being launched again with a line of titles along with it the hard physical cartridges re made relaunched I'm telling you everywhere they would they would sell out they would sell out instantly it's so hard to get so good and they could yeah free money free money free money Nintendo it's free one listen to us literally I know you print money but use that printed money to make even more free money yeah for it yeah because then you could like do all of the custom cases and things like that just got a town on it all the improvements the little improvements they could make to it that would be like so much cooler like probably not good for the environment right and they're probably arguing like it's easier if we just release them on the e shop because it's less plastic right I don't think Nintendo gives a crap about the environment to be honest with you probably not as much as I would like to think that they would I don't think they do no they can make it out recycled stuff if they really wanted to they're really that would be very cool yeah and it'd be good marketing as well so yeah if you use that Nintendo just send us some free stuff please that's all we want just send us one please with each couple of the games but yeah no good anything else mate this week what about Scott's a lucky bag what we got in the lucky bag this week no there's not there's not really anything there was some guy the only thing I did find there was a guy on reddit that found all of this thing here's called the lucky bag the lucky bag it is the goodie bag you were trying to come up with like a name wasn't you this guy on the I think it was a program somewhere let me try and find it had he found a box full of all the old Pokemon game boxes they didn't have the games in them however because it was like I'm gutted that they don't have the games in them but also had a good shoulder but he kept all the boxes and someone also this is really cool let me share this with you someone I'll send it on discord someone crocheted a massive Snorlax let me put it on if I want to subreddit it's wicked um why look for this other one you can show this crocheted a huge Snorlax pull this up then let's have a look at this what that is insane it's mad isn't it how cool is that I made a huge life size Snorlax I've never done anything like this before but it was a fun adventure I used Bernat extra thick blanket yarn close to 30 scans I have no idea what the the ins and outs of crocheting are but these sound complex and around 70 pounds of stuffing wow that is that is a lot of stuffing he weighs around 110 pounds that's crazy that is amazing though isn't it that is so heavy that is incredible I love it that must have taken so long to do so might I must I don't know how long that took yeah I like that is amazing fair play to whoever's done that I love that first comment he's blocking the path he's blocking you can no longer leave your room now that's amazing I love that I can't find it is that all going to get for Scott's goodie bag this week you just got to keep it on your toes I might have loads of things for you next week he definitely will because I'm going to be prepared next week for this one I did just throw it at you out of the blue it wasn't like him struggling to get stuff exciting at least I think it's a good place to close out the pod let's not ramble on we tend to ramble at the end of the podcast if you're listening on Spotify and Apple podcasts because they seem to be the main ones please leave us a review it would help us a lot I appreciate anyone listening at the moment because last week's episode did really well we loved doing this we loved spending time with each other we loved doing the pod the comments are always lovely thank you for everyone listening big thank you hopefully we'll have some more to talk to you about next week if we don't we will have a specific topic we've got a few specific topics ready to go for weeks where we haven't got much else to talk about in the Pokemon world if there's not much to talk about because we've got some really interesting things that we want to focus down on a bit more in our episode so it might be next week it might not be, it might be a few weeks time but like Scott says, let's not ramble on thank you so much to all of you who have listened or watched this week we appreciate you all do leave the comments do leave the ratings they mean a massive amount and really do help out the podcast and we'll leave it there I'll say goodbye from me and throw it over to Scott to finish it off this week bye bye, I'll see you guys next week