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Continuing our trend of large batches of updates, a number of changes have been made to the Psylab so far this year.

-Updated Psylab page: the Types Explanation page was updated for first time since Gen 4 to include all changes newer games have added, including the Fairy-type, Terrains, Terastallization, and more. Older mechanics like Gen 1 secondary effects and glitches, weather, entry hazards, the ???-type, and more were also expanded.

-Similarly, we've added a new Type Combination Chart that lets you see all of the different dual type combinations that exist at a glance. (Great to study for Pokedoku!) Did you know that there are only 9 dual type combinations that have yet to be used in the franchise?

-Updated Psylab page: the Critical Hits guide was updated for the first time since Gen 5, as Critical Hit mechanics were overhauled pretty massively in the very next set of the games, and provides examples of Critical Hit stages work in Gen 1, Gens 2-5, and Gens 6-present. I revised the old "domain" terminology to use "stages" like all of the other stat changes do.

-Updated Psylab page: the guide to Attack Priority was also revised for the first time since Diamond and Pearl. This table includes all of the current attack priorities and outlines moves that have changed priority brackets over the generations. More modern abilities that affect attack priority are also covered.

-Updated Psylab page: the guide on Status Effects was updated for the first time since Gen 5. This includes outlining all of the new moves and abilities that cause permanent and temporary status effects, and touches on the new status effects in Legends Arceus as well.

-New Psylab page: Generational Gimmicks. This page goes over the mechanics that originate in the newer Generations of Pokemon and generally stick around only for one Generation before being retired. These include regional forms (and paradoxes and convergent species), Mega Evolutions, Z-Moves, Dynamax and Gigantamax, and Terastallization.

-Update Psylab page: the guide on Happiness was updated for the first time since Generation 4. This expansion included listing out all of the Happiness Raters across the various games, listing out all the people who groom your Pokemon and snacks you can feed them, and bringing the table listing base happiness up to date. More clarification was provided for Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow as well.

-New Psylab page: Pokemon Forms. This extensive guide goes over all of the Pokemon that have alternate forms throughout the series, including going over the ways to change through a Pokemon's forms and highlighting the differences between the forms.

-Updated Psylab page: the guide on Breeding was updated for the first time since Generation 4. This includes going over where every Pokemon Day Care is found, changes to moveset, stats and ability inheritance throughout the early generations, the changes to some Egg Groups in Generation 8, and which forms Pokemon will hatch as when they have multiple forms.

-Updated Psylab page: the Stats Guide was updated for the first time since Gen 4. This was a fairly extensive expansion, covering all the moves, abilities and items that cause stat increases and decreases.

-New Psylab page: Changes Across Generations was created to go in-depth on the stuff that changes from game to game, including Pokemon evolution methods, where magnetic fields, Icy Rocks and Moss Rocks are located, what times of the day each game considers to be day/night, and various adjustments over the years to moves, base stats and abilities.

-Updated Psylab page: the lists of items acquired through the ability Pickup were revamped and updated to include all of the games after Generation 4.

-New Psylab pages: three guides covering Legendaries, Sub-Legendaries and Mythicals were added that detail the various types of Legendary Pokemon of the series and how they can be acquired.

Updates are also still being posted to our Bluesky account.

Hi friends. I absolutely hate making news updates but since this'll probably be on our front page until the end of the time, here's a brief recap of all the things we've added or updated in the Psydex and Psylab in the last six months:

-Let's start with the obvious: the Psydex has been updated for Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, Sword and Shield, Legends Arceus, and Scarlet and Violet, including all of the new Pokemon, their regional and alternate forms, names in many different languages, level-up moves, TM moves, base stat changes, and Picdex sprites and models.

-Similarly, the Tech Dex and Ability descriptions have been revised for a lot of older moves and abilities, and any newer ones since Ultra Sun and Moon (including Z-Moves, Max Moves and G-Max Moves) have been added. By the end of March, I finished going through and correcting any errors, standardizing the language, and making the descriptions of each move into complete sentences.

-Gen 8 and 9 Pokemon and move Amnesia Attacks have been added. The all 1025 Pokemon Amnesia Attack was also redesigned to be sprite based, in an effort to fit as many answers on the screen as possible.

-The Deck Dex and TCG section has been updated with all the new sets and cards released since the last time I updated them in 2018. Card scans are a much more monumental task, but they have all been scanned and they'll come... eventually, after I go through the lengthy journey of processing the scans.

-The IV Calculator was updated to let you select the game/Generation you're playing. This is because some Pokemon base stats have changed in newer Generations and this has caused some confusion about users getting "wrong" results for those Pokemon.

-Psydex update: a tab was added above the evolution table showing all of a Pokemon's various forms and how to change through them.

-New sections were added for Sun and Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, and Sword and Shield. Pages will be slowly added to these sections as we go along, but right now we have some TM lists and Gym Leader lists. As of the end of May, full item lists have also been added for each of the new games since XY as well.

-Attack information for the three Styles of moves in Legends Arceus has been added at the bottom of the Tech Dex pages for the 177 moves in that game, and the guide on Status Effects was updated so that all of the unique status effects (Frostbite and Drowsy) and temporary effects (like primed, obscured, fixated and splinters) were grouped together at the end of the guide.

Whenever an update is added, I've generally tried to post it on our new Bluesky account (because Twitter is garbage)!

A few weeks ago, Frost sat down (virtually) with Johto Times to talk about Psypoke's history, his TCG collection, and more. You can read the interview here, as well as check out their other interviews chronicling the history of Pokemon fan sites.

We're all very honored that after all these years fans still remember us fondly, and grateful to Johto Times for inviting us to be a part of their interview series.

We're still mostly retired from Pokemon fandom these days, but as Frost mentioned in the interview, we plan to keep the lights on around here for as long as it's feasible to do so.

So whether you've also been around since 1999, or you found us during our mid-2000s heydays, or only just stumbled upon us during our current quiet, thanks for being a part of this with all of us.

As in our previous update, our hosting company was doing server shenanigans. They should be done now.

Anyway, back to not doing whatever it is we don't do around here anymore.

We had some domain name problems but now we're back to being completely idle

-Type: Null is a Normal-type with Battle Armor.
-Jangmo-o is a Dragon-type with Bulletproof and Soundproof.
-Alolan Rattata and Alolan Raticate are Dark/Normal-types.
-Sun and Moon versions are set 12 hours apart, causing each game's events to differ.
-The Aether Foundation protects Pokemon from Team Skull and includes President Lusamine, Branch Chief Faba, and Assistant Branch Chief Wick
-Team Skull's Enforcer is named Gladion.
-A subquest will be searching through the Alola Region for Zygarde's cells and cores.
-Using the Poke Finder, you can take pictures of Pokemon (WHERE MY POKEMON SNAP SEQUEL???).
-Ultra Beasts are revealed as a "mysterious threat," with UB-01 shown as a jellyfish-type creature.

Pokemon World Champions brought us a new trailer today, immediately after yesterday's reveal of Turtonator. Technically, only one of these Pokemon is new to fans who follow online leaks of Corocoro: Crabrawler (2', 15.4lbs), a Fighting-type crab Pokemon who has boxing gloves for hands and the abilities Hyper Cutter and Iron Fist. The other three new reveals were shown in the most recent Corocoro, but now we know their English details.

Sandygast (1'8", 154.3lbs) and its evolution Palossand (4'3", 551.2lbs) are a pair of Ghost/Ground-type sandcastles who get the new ability "Water Compaction," which raises Defense by 2 stages when hit by a Water-type attack. Finishing out the video is Stufful (1'8", 15lbs), the pre-evolution of Bewear, a Normal/Fighting-type teddy bear who gets Klutz and Fluffy for its abilities and even has a stuffed animal tag on its butt. <3

Fire/Dragon-type Turtonator was revealed in a Youtube trailer today. It gets Shell Armor as its ability and learns the new move Shell Trap, which sets a trap at the start of a turn and deals massive damage if Turtonator is hit with a physical attack on that turn. Sadly, this was all that revealed in today's video.

Morelull (8", 3.3lbs) is a Grass/Fairy-type who can learn Spore and have Illuminate or Effect Spore for abilities. Wishiwashi is a Water-type fish Pokemon who uses its ability Schooling to change between two forms, Solo (8", 0.7lbs) and School (26'11", 173.3lbs) Forms. Finally, Pyukumuku (1', 2.6lbs) is another new Water-type with a new ability, Innards Out, which damages a Pokemon equal to the number of HP Pyukumuku had when it was knocked out.

The three new forms are Marowak, Meowth and Raichu. Alolan Marowak (3'3", 75 lbs) is Ghost/Fire-type and now gets Cursed Body in addition to Lightningrod; Alolan Meowth is Dark-type and retains Pickup and Technician; and Alolan Raichu is Electric/Psychic-type and gets a new ability, Surge Surfer, which doubles speed when Electric Terrain is in effect.

This month's Sun and Moon Youtube promo was uploaded this morning:


First up, they drop the bomb that several existing Pokemon will receive new forms based on the environment in which they're found within the Alola region. These include a Grass/Dragon-type Exeggutor (35'9", 916.2lbs) with an extended neck and the Frisk ability; Ice-type Vulpix and Ice/Fairy-type Ninetales with the Snow Cloak ability; and Ice/Steel-type Sandshrew (2'4", 88.2lbs) and Sandslash (3'11", 121.3lbs), who also have Snow Cloak.

Next, we get a string of new Pokemon reveals! The bulk of the attention is dedicated to the bird Pokemon Oricorio (2', 7.5lbs), who has several different forms with changing types: Baile Style Oricorio is Fire/Flying, Pom-Pom Style is Electric/Flying, Pa'u Style is Psychic/Flying, and Sensu Style is Ghost/Flying. Oricorio's ability Dancer sees Oricorio copy dance-themed moves used in battle, such as Quiver Dance, and it gets a new move named Revelation Dance that matches Oricorio's current type.

Minior (1', 88.2lbs) is a Rock/Flying-type meteorite Pokemon. As revealed with its new ability Shields Down, the default form of Minior is a shield that protects it from status effects, but once Minior falls below 50% HP, it will break and reveal an inner form more suited for attacking. Minior's Core can have up to four different colors.

Gumshoos (2'4", 31.1lbs) is the evolved form of Yungoos and even more suited for the "Donald Trump Pokemon" jokes that its pre-evolution has received thus far; it has Stakeout and Strong Jaw for its abilities. Mudsdale's pre-evolved form Mudbray (3'3", 242.5lbs), said to be the Donkey Pokemon, was also revealed, and it too has Own Tempo and Stamina for its abilities.

The last two reveals are Fomantis (1', 3.3lbs) and its evolution Lurantis (2'11", 40.8lbs), a pair of Grass-type manti who use plants for synergy and elegance. Lurantis is revealed to know the new move Grass Blade, and both have the Leaf Guard ability.

Finally, some game mechanics are shown, including riding Pokemon such as Mudsdale, Tauros and Charizard, and the objective of the game is revealed to be "The Island Challenge" i.e. completing trials for type-themed Trial Captains officials such as Mallow (Grass), Lana (Water), Sophocles (Electric) and Kiawe (Fire). It should be noted that Kiawe's profile on the official site states his main Pokemon is Marowak, perhaps indicating Marowak will receive a Fire-type Alolan form. Trial Pokemon will await the end of each of these challenges.

Another new feature will be powerful new Z-moves that Pokemon can use once per battle. The trailer states that there is one Z-move for each type, with Pikachu using "Gigavolt Havoc," Rowlett using "Bloom Doom," Litten using "Inferno Overdrive" and Popplio having "Hydro Vortex" in the video.

The next news is set to be released August 12!