PKMN of the Week: Plusle and Minun

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You saw it coming, didn't you? Due to our new shirts, we are going to talk about the PKMN who inspired those two shirts. By the way, if you pre-order, you get a FREE gift with it!

Plusle is a cheerful and supportive Pokémon, always encouraging comrades in battle by using the spark pouches in its cheeks. It is very compassionate towards its friends, and is known to cry upon witnessing a friend lose a battle. They are commonly referred to as cheerleaders for these actions. A Plusle may climb telephone poles to absorb electricity.

Minun creates electrical pom-poms and sparks to cheer on its partners. Minun's stats are geared towards defense whereas Plusle's stats are sweeper-oriented. Minun's movepool is nearly identical to Plusle, except that Minun learns Charm and Trump Card and lacks Last Resort.

Apparently, simultaneous exposure to electricity from a Plusle and Minun will promote circulation and boost vitality.

Fun Facts:

  • Minun shares the same species name with its partner Plusle. They are both known as Cheering Pokémon.
  • Minun/Plusle is considered by many fans to be a novelty Pokémon due to its general weakness unless paired in battle with Pokémon with it's partner. It appears mainly to showcase the double battle system introduced in its generation.
  • Plusle and Minun have the same base stat total and the same base stats, Although they are located in different stats.

 

SOURCE: BULBAPEDIA

Saturday Sketch

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This is the second nod to Zelda in Pokemon this week (Wil made a joke in his Leviate article). Ganon, as a Pokemon trainer? I think i'd run away screaming! "Ganon the Swinub Trainer" by Vestergaard is a hilarious look into what would happen if he gave up trying to take over Hyrule and decided to try his hand at the art of Pokemon Training.

"Ganondorf would have only one pokemon because he's too impatient to catch any other ones. When his swinub faints in battle (which is often), he just goes out into the arena himself and punches the enemy pokemon in the face. He beat the Elite Four with this strategy. :T"

Scary. and hilarious.

AOTW: Levitate

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What’s up, trainers? Giving you an easy one to sink your teeth into this week, an Ability I’m sure you’ve come across plenty of times. Literally the most common Ability in the game, this sucker weighs in with a whopping thirty-three pokémon capable of using it. Somebody page Link, we might need to borrow his Iron Boots. This is Ability of the Week: Levitate!
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029 Pokemon Green Verison

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In this epsisde the PKMNcast interviews Khoury from the Anime. Khoury (Japanese: カズナリ Kazunari) is a Trainer from Johto as well as a friend of Lyra's. They both debuted in An Egg Scramble!.

We also talk about some Pokémon News such as the give aways with Black and White. We go over a featured team, PKMN of the Week, Critical Hit, and we talk about the expos we will be at such as C2E2 and Midwest Gaming Classic. #love

 

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 Host: Steve || Guests: Catie and Wil and Kirb

Show notes: Khoury Info

Plusle and Minun Shirts

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We've talked about news shirts for the last couple weeks. Then we took it to the next level. Not only did we bring you one new shirt, but we brought you TWO new shirts! On top of that, if you buy both shirts you save money!!! Normally shirts are $18.99, but if you buy both you save $8 and get both for a low price of $30 + shipping. Not bad?

There are a total of 100 shirts, 50 of each color. So these are pretty rare. Pre-Order today and they will ship early next week!

How do you feel about this shirts? Let us know in the comments!

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028 Pokemon Orange Version

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The audio version of episode 003 of Critical Hit. This episode, SBJ and Aaron, sit down Diggnation Style to read article off of Reddit. Also, the winners are announced for the contest for the Pikachu charger. We also do PKMN of the Week as well as some other stuff.

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 Host: Steve || Guests: Aaron

Show notes:

PKMN of the Week: Shinx

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It is based on a lion cub or kitten. Its fur is mostly blue, yet there is a Pichu-like arrangement of black fur under its neck, and black fur under its torso. It has a long black tail with a gold four-pointed star on the end. Its forelegs each have a gold ring around them; these are electricity glands, similar to Pikachu's cheeks. It has large, oval ears with gold, star-like "fleur de lis" symbols on them. It has gold-pupiled eyes, and a pink-red nose. It has tufts of hair which will eventually grow into a mane; these can be seen on top and on the rear sides of its head. Whenever its mouth is shown open, small fangs can be seen developing.

Fun Facts:

  • Shinx's English name was originally thought to be "Spinx" because of a low quality photo with its name on it.
  • Shinx is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 263.

Source: BULBAPEDIA