AOTW: Sand Force

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How’s it going, training fanatics? Welcome back to Ability of the Week! Well, if you’ve listened to the M.G.C. or O.L.D.S.C.H.O.O.L. episodes of It’s Super Effective or dropped by the PokéTalk forums, you know that our esteemed Editor-In-Chief SBJ has been cooking up a PKMNcast “Gray League”, with as-close-to-real-life-as-possible Gym Leaders for you to challenge. And like many of you, I’ve been planning and training a type-exclusive team; in my case, Ground-types. And this week I’m waxing intellectual about a handy Ability that’s putting in an appearance on one of my roster. This is Ability of the Week: Sand Force!

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IOTW: Life Orb

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Sup, Pokégals and Pokébros. Item of the Week up in hizzle. I forgot about writing this until 12:31 AM the morning that I have to write this. Here's to hoping I find my muse in this twilight hour.

For those unfamiliar, the Life Orb boosts the strength of all attacks by 30%, at the cost of 10% of your HP for every attack you make. This is essentially God's (or should it be Arceus'?) gift to mixed sweepers. Where physical and special sweepers have choice band and specs, respectively, the closest thing a mixed sweeper can have is the Life Orb. The choice items boost attack by 50%, but restrict you to one move. The Life Orb doesn't get you stuck on one move, so you can switch from a physical to a

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Featured Team Back!

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With finding out you guys and gals LOVE Featured Team... no better did I spend time in my empty room to get one up as soon as I found out via that survey. Thanks to everyone who took it! Thanks for everyone who sent in teams. 

This week's team is a bit interesting. Going from old school to some new ones, it's quite a mix up. Let Alex know in the comments how you feel!

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PKMN of the Week: Trubbish

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Trubbish resemble a full, green garbage bag, knotted on top. They have oval-shaped eyes and a toothy mouth, and arms that look like trash spilling out of small tears in the bag with pink and blue colored objects protruding out of them. Their feet are green and stubby.

Trubbish emit burp-like gases which, when inhaled, will render the victim bedridden for a week.

This Pokémon was created when a garbage dump accidentally had a chemical change of some sort.

Fun Facts

  • Trubbish, along with its evolution Garbodor, are the only pure Poison-type Pokémon in Generation V.
  • Trubbish is one of two Pokémon that learns both Stockpile and Swallow, but not Spit Up. The other is Munchlax.
    • Conversely, it is one of three Pokémon that learn Stockpile, but only either one of Swallow or Spit Up, not both. The other two are the aforementioned Munchlax and Qwilfish.

Concept Corner Monochrome: The Plasma Manifesto

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Look at him prancing. Truly, the righteous king of Unova.Across our years of Pokemon, we've seen several evil orginizations causing trouble. There was Team Rocket, a sort of criminal underground of Kanto. There were teams Aqua and Magma, two warring factions with ideals that were both different and similar. Then there was Team Galactic, a more tyrannical orginization, more closely dedicated to their leader, Cyrus, and his ideals. In this way, Team Galactic is very similar to this weeks topic: Team Plasma. Before we begin, let me warn all of my lovely readers: SPOILERS, SPOILERS, OH MY GOD SPOILERS. We have a lot to cover today, and I plan to go fully and completely in-depth. So if you're at pretty much ANY point before the end of the game, stop reading this right now. *looks around* are you gone yet? Good.
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