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INTEREST: Pokémon Black/White Owners to Get Free Mewtwo Character




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Aura Ichadora



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:58 pm Reply with quote
My brother saw this earlier. I can't wait to try and get one for myself - while Mewtwo isn't my most favorite Pokemon, I won't deny that he is one of my favorites to battle with. ^^
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Dessa



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:45 pm Reply with quote
Man, Mewtwo and Arceus in February? This is gonna be awesome.
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The Goron Marshall



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:50 pm Reply with quote
...."Character".

To be more correct, it should just state "Pokemon", especially considering that the games have existed before the anime and the movies.

That's like saying that every single Pokemon is a character because it appeared in an episode or a movie. No they're a species of Pokemon. And frankly, this Mewtwo isn't directly based on the one from the movie and special, it's just a Mewtwo knowing different moves that it cannot normally learn.
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Haterater



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:25 am Reply with quote
Good to see more events brought over. There may be a chance for the genies.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:04 am Reply with quote
And I bet it has an adamant nature with mediocre IVs. The Mewtwo I have took almost a hundred tries to get because I was waiting of that perfect, Modest, 31 SPE/31 SPATK, Mewtwo, so I think I'll keep that one.
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Nosferatu21



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:19 am Reply with quote
Well at least it's not like the Lucario giveaway going on now where all you have to do is buy another game from Target to get it Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:23 am Reply with quote
The King of Harts wrote:
And I bet it has an adamant nature with mediocre IVs. The Mewtwo I have took almost a hundred tries to get because I was waiting of that perfect, Modest, 31 SPE/31 SPATK, Mewtwo, so I think I'll keep that one.


May I respectfully remind all posters that the rules of ANN clearly state that messages must be written in English? Thank you.

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Tsuruya-San



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:37 pm Reply with quote
The King of Harts wrote:
And I bet it has an adamant nature with mediocre IVs. The Mewtwo I have took almost a hundred tries to get because I was waiting of that perfect, Modest, 31 SPE/31 SPATK, Mewtwo, so I think I'll keep that one.


The Japanese Mewtwo didn't have any set nature, so I'm guessing it will be the same with this one too. Just prepare for a lot of soft reseting Wink

I can't wait to get the event Mewtwo, since I need to get a good one myself for battles ^^
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Tenbyakugon



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:00 pm Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
The King of Harts wrote:
And I bet it has an adamant nature with mediocre IVs. The Mewtwo I have took almost a hundred tries to get because I was waiting of that perfect, Modest, 31 SPE/31 SPATK, Mewtwo, so I think I'll keep that one.


May I respectfully remind all posters that the rules of ANN clearly state that messages must be written in English? Thank you.

Wink


Basically, they reset their system and game an umpteenth (There's a very, very low chance that this happened less than one hundred times.) amount of times in order to get/catch a Mewtwo that will have a perfect (Modest is a possible Pokemon nature that adds to Special Attack.) Special Attack stat and near-perfect Speed stat, which're really the only two stats on a Mewtwo that matter for any reason.

People spend a lot of time on getting the best one of a Pocket Monster they want, either for playing the games competitively person-to-person or playing competitively in-game as Game Freak tends to insert into games anymore (i.e. Trainer Towers, Battle Frontiers, Battle Subway).

On one hand, it's completely worthwhile for the sake of the game in the end, but on the other it sort of takes the game farther than necessary some may opine. Wink
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EricDent



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:21 pm Reply with quote
OK what about the 3 legendaries that have not been released yet?

Keldeo, Meloetta & Genesect?

Anyhow, since I traded off my copy of White that had every Pokemon (except those three) caught & in the storage system, I am not going to get this.
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TitanXL



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:38 pm Reply with quote
The Goron Marshall wrote:
...."Character".

To be more correct, it should just state "Pokemon", especially considering that the games have existed before the anime and the movies.

That's like saying that every single Pokemon is a character because it appeared in an episode or a movie. No they're a species of Pokemon. And frankly, this Mewtwo isn't directly based on the one from the movie and special, it's just a Mewtwo knowing different moves that it cannot normally learn.


Well, it could be. The Japanese giveaways often give out characters from the anime episode we just watched (at the end of certain episodes, Professor Ookido might pop in and tell you to go download the Pokemon you just saw in this episode off the Wi-Fi or whatever)

Off the top of my head, for Best Wishes so far we've got

Satoshi's Pikachu (Best Wishes Starter Version)
Satoshi's Mamepato
Satoshi's Zuruggu
Satoshi's Zekrom
Satoshi's Resharim
Iris' Kibago
Dent's Yanappu
Janta's Golorg
Karita's Sazandra
Milos Island's Tornelos
Milos Island's Voltolos

This particular Mewtwo, I assume, is the one they gave out during Pokemon Smash! last year (Pokemon Smash being another Pocket Monsters TV show, only live-action variety show that does things like... the cast discussing what happen don this week's episode of the anime, cosplay contests, interviews with people and voice-actors who work on the show or games, video game give-aways/contests, preview information on upcoming events/episodes/whatever, battles between people in the game, short sketches, and a variety of other things) I can't remember which episode it was... but if it was spawned from a sketch of a Mewtwo trying to learn a move it can't learn, then technically you can say it's based on a character.
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:21 pm Reply with quote
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- I wish my mom hadn't made me sell my DS Sad Sad Sad
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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:43 pm Reply with quote
TitanXL wrote:
This particular Mewtwo, I assume, is the one they gave out during Pokemon Smash! last year (Pokemon Smash being another Pocket Monsters TV show, only live-action variety show that does things like... the cast discussing what happen don this week's episode of the anime, cosplay contests, interviews with people and voice-actors who work on the show or games, video game give-aways/contests, preview information on upcoming events/episodes/whatever, battles between people in the game, short sketches, and a variety of other things) I can't remember which episode it was... but if it was spawned from a sketch of a Mewtwo trying to learn a move it can't learn, then technically you can say it's based on a character.


Correct.
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EricDent



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:25 am Reply with quote
That was the one thing that kinda irritated me when they brought over Black & White. They changed the name of that Dent character to Cillian (or something like that).

Since my last name IS really Dent...

So the "Dent's" would have conquered another cool medium in the USA.
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Delement



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:45 am Reply with quote
time to rev up the old dsi
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