Hey there everyone! Welcome back to ZAK Entertainment for
Wednesday the 11th! New Years is up and rolling and with the new
years I got tons of plans for awesome blogs. Apparently Mardi Gras season has
started already. I swear it wasn’t this early last year but the parades are
already happening and I’m already seeing King Cakes everywhere I go. In other
news IT WARMED UP. So we’ve been having freezing cold temperatures, like
literally below freezing and now all of a sudden BOOM we’re in the 60s and 70s
again. Boy the weather can be a bit hectic and crazy here sometimes but it
feels great and I appreciate the warmth, it’s not even that humid which is an
even bigger plus. Hopefully it’ll stay this way for a bit, y’know let’s have an
early spring this year. Let’s hope the groundhog doesn’t see his shadow this
year.
This blog may or may not contain spoilers so be warned!
Anyway I’ve been playing Pokemon Sun
as you might know if
you’re not new the blog (Welcome to the blog I’m a Pokemon Nerd, hahaha) and I
absolutely love it. I recently beat the Pokemon League so my focus is more so
on creating a competitive team so I can do some Battle Tree, Battle Royale and
Online battles. With Pokemon Sun and
Moon there have been a few EV (These are effort values, you can put a total 512
EV spread into any stat of your Pokemon to increase their stats, each stat can
hold 252 total so you can have a Pokemon with a 252/252/4 spread in say
HP/Attack/Defense or whatever spread you want, EV training will help you win
the Battle Tree, Battle Royale and Online Battles immensely.) training tactics
that were present in Pokemon XY and ORAS taken out of the games, such as Super
Training and Horde Battles. This caused some frustration to players online BUT
Sun and Moon has brought in new ways of EV Training in the form of SOS Battles
and Poke Pelago. I’ll take more about SOS battles in a future blog but for now
I’m going to take you on a tour of the Poke Pelago so buckle up because Zach the Alola Master is on the job!
Before that though, check out my sweet Aviator Sunglasses! Jealous? Don’t be
they were EXPENSIVE!
What’s the Poke Pelago? Well it’s a brand new feature/mini
game that unlocks once you complete the Third Island Trial in the Alola Region
and unlock the Charizard Ride option. (Poke Ride is pretty awesome, it complete
eliminates the need for HMs) The Pelago is a group of islands that your Pokemon
placed in your box will visit.
Once you activate the Poke Pelago for the first time you’ll
meet this jolly fellow named Mohn. He’s the caretaker of the Pelago and will
take you through the basics of the Pelago. You’ll start off with just one
island aka Isle Abeens where all your boxed Pokemon will go and visit. You’ll
notice there’s this little bean stalk in the middle of the island.
If you tap on this Poke Beans will drop, these you can feed
to your Pokemon in Pokemon Refresh to increase their affection and well, feed
them. You even get patterned beans and Rainbow Beans which will increase your Pokemon's affection almost immediately. I recommend you save up these Poke Beans because you will need them to
unlock the other four islands in the Poke Pelago and also use them to upgrade
your current islands, as well as needing beans you will also need to catch a
certain amount of Pokemon. On this island, and all the other islands, you’ll
notice a little wagon/box that you can place Poke Beans in, each island has its
own different features regarding the beans, these Poke Beans will last for a
certain amount of time, which depends on how many you place in the box or what
kind of beans you place in it.
Anyway on Isle Abeens placing beans in the box
will cause Wild Pokemon to come to the island. Make sure you click on them as
they will most likely decide to stay and become your Pokemon. I’ve already
gotten quite a few awesome Pokemon this way such as a Timid Mismagius.
Apparently you can get shiny Pokemon turn up here on the very rare occasion.
The next island you can get is called Isle Aplenny which
allows you to plant 6 berries (You can eventually upgrade this to 18). This is
how you grow more of those berries you’ve been finding under those different
trees in Alola. If you place Poke Beans on this Island’s Box you can cut the
berry growth time in HALF for as long as the beans last. Another note all the
stat reducing berries (You can use these to reduce unwanted EVs in your
Pokemon) apparently turn up on Route 10 on Ula Ula island only under this
single tree. So make sure you re-grow all your berries because you have to wait
a whole day for berries to turn up here again.
Next up is Isle Aphun which allows you to send some of your
Pokemon on adventures to find awesome items. At first you can only really find
shards but when you upgrade you’ll be able to send them to look for awesome
items such as Evolution Stones! Oh and Bottle Caps… but as I’m still learning
about those bottle caps myself I can’t really feature them on the blog, yet.
Now we’re onto probably the most important Island… Isle
Eveup. This is where you can have 6 of your Pokemon gain a certain stat or EXP
over the amount of time you set. Eventually you can have three sets of Pokemon
training. Each group will train using certain drinks to increase HP, Attack,
Defense, its level, ECT. At Rank 1 your
Pokemon will gain 1 evs per half hour, at Rank 2 it’ll be 2 EVs and at Rank 3
(Which is really tough to unlock as you need way over 250 Poke Beans) it’ll be 4
EVs per half hour so to get 252 evs in a single stat you’ll have to have a Pokemon
train for 30 hours unless you use Poke Beans in which it’ll only take 15 hours,
and this is on the highest rank which I’ve yet to unlock. It may seem like a
long time to wait but here’s the awesome part. You can set this up to run even
when your machine isn’t on! So you can set this up in the evening and by the
same time the next day you could possibly have 252 EVs in a stat of a single
Pokemon. Hopefully me telling you how much EVs go up per half hour will help
you calculate your EVs, for those who wanna get crazy with their EV spreads.
Just remember when using Poke Beans an half hour will become 15 minutes!
Of course this isn’t the only way to EV train in Pokemon Sun
and Moon, there are SOS battles. I think I’ll feature that in a future blog
though instead of dragging this blog out so stay tuned for the future! By
future I mean possibly Friday or sometime next week depending on my plans.
We’re not quite done with the Poke Pelago yet though, there
is one last island to feature, Isle Avue.
This is basically a hot spring you
can send your Pokemon to relax in and gain happiness. I’ve not used this island
much because I really didn’t know for sure how it worked until now. There’s a
big part of this island I overlooked… YOU CAN HATCH EGGS ON THIS ISLAND! Yes
you can have 6 eggs per group (Once again you need to catch more Pokemon and
get more Poke Beans to upgrade and get more groups for a total of 18 EGGS AT A
TIME) on this island. It’s like wow I had no idea you could do this until I was
messing around and accidentally tried to place an egg on the island only to
find it actually works, go figure. Do not leave your Pokemon here for more then
24 hours though, their happiness will go down! I mean who would want to stay in
a hot spring for long periods of time anyway.
Poke Beans will make your eggs hatch faster and your Pokemon relax and
gain happiness quicker.
So yeah that’s pretty much Poke Pelago, there’s a few other
small bits and bobs such as the Bean Bottle but Mohn pretty much explains that
for you. Yeah it’s a really great feature and is a really big help for EV
training and egg hatching. Horde Battles and Super Training might be gone but
this is an awesome alternative that I would love to see return in future
Pokemon games. This is just one of the new awesome features of Pokemon Sun and
Moon and I will be talking more about these games in future blogs now that I’ve
had time to explore most of it. Speaking
of competitive battles I’m really looking forward to when they introduce the QR
Rental feature which will allow you to scan QR codes to rent Pokemon for use in
the Battle Tree, Battle Royale and even Online. It’ll make the game feel a lot
like Pokemon Stadium which has always been a long time favorite game of mine
because of rental system. I just like using rental Pokemon, especially when I’m
not done building my own competitive team yet. It sounds like you’ll be able to
create and upload your own teams as well which is CRAZY. Don’t make us wait too
much longer Game Freak!
Also don’t forget to pick up your Magearna if you’ve beaten
the Pokemon League!
You can get Magearna by scanning a QR code you can get by visiting
the official Pokemon Website via this link, which I’m giving out the link
instead of the QR code itself because I don’t think I’m allowed to post the QR
codes on here. Basically after scanning the QR Code go to the shopping mall, located
East of the Pokemon Center in Hau’oli City on MeleMele Island (The first island
of the game.) In the back on the far right you’ll see this guy in a yellow and
blue striped shirt, which looks awfully like Ness’s shirt from Earthbound, y’know
except this is a grown man. Maybe it’s Ness grown up who knows. (Hey it’s
better then the Ness is Sans from Undertale theory, haha.) He’ll give you
Magearna! I happened to of gotten a Modest Magearna… Yeah I’m being really
lucky on this game lately.
Anyway Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon
are currently $39.99 on
GameStop! They’re awesome games with
tons of content and I can’t wait to talk about them some more on the blog.
Why should you buy it at GameStop? Because well with the
absolutely free GameStop rewards card you can gain points off any purchase to
go towards coupons that’ll take a MASSIVE chunk out of the amount of money you
spend on purchases. It’s pretty easy to sign up, you’ll have to go to a local store
first though but afterwards you can set everything else up online. That statement was not sponsored in anyway
shape or form I’m stating this because I recently found out you could sign up
for a rewards program, I’m late to the party apparently, oops.
That’s pretty much it for the blog today! I’m hoping it was
informative and made you realize how Poke Pelago makes your Pokemon Training so
much easier. Can’t wait to talk more about these games and other Video Games in
future blogs so stay tuned! My next Pokemon Sun blog will probably be about the
SOS Battles.
Oh wait! There is one more thing I want to talk about. Our Re-Growing a Lettuce Challenge! I know this is completely off topic from the main topic… but hey this is a blog I can do that kind of thing, right? Anyway Mum came up with this crazy idea about two weeks ago now. We took a lettuce stem that we finished using and stuck it in a shot glass of water. To our surprise it’s actually growing!
I don’t think this lettuce plans on stopping any time soon
so we may have a full lettuce within a couple more weeks, maybe two-three
months! So yeah check back every blog day (Yeah we’re calling posting days,
blog days now because that’s how I roll, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.)
So yeah I’ll leave you guys now, today’s topic was pretty
big so I can’t really squeeze anything else in here without making this a
little overstuffed. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day! Nintendo is holding a special Nintendo Switch presentation on January the 12th! I'll be talking about it on Monday as it'll be happening on Friday. I write these blogs the night before the day so I won't be able to talk about it on Friday.
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Don't forget to keep your life entertaining and I’ll…
See you on Friday!
(I could do with some fries but today is not the day.)
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