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Pokémon Pros Permabanned From Ever Playing After Protesting Tourney
In early June, Korean Pokémon players made headlines after coordinating a protest against the very league they were playing in. Rather than submitting competitively viable teams, as they normally would, they gave each monster on their roster a strange skill called “Metronome,” which makes a Pokémon launch a totally random move. While the original notice…
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The 11 Most Exciting Cards In Pokémon’s Big Paldea Set
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s second English-language set, Paldea Evolved, arrives on June 9, featuring some of the most elaborately designed cards we’ve seen so far. For those extra-keen, May 27 will see the pre-release Build & Battle boxes on sale in your favourite specialist stores, meaning the set is only days away. We’ve plundered through…
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The Toughest Gym Leaders In Each Pokémon Game
Gym leaders in the Pokémon games are often touted as these great challenges trainers will have to face on their journey, but in a lot of cases, it’s a simple game of Rock Paper Scissors to weaken each gym’s signature Pokémon type. Because most of them are simple affairs, when a gym leader sticks out…
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Rare ’90s Pikachu Pokémon Card Sells For A Wild $AU450K
There’s a lot you can do with $US300,000 ($AU452,490): buy a couple of Teslas, invest in some stocks, get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X (or a few of them). It’s an amount of money some people will never see in their lifetimes. Yet, someone with the cash to burn took their $US300,000 and bought…