260. Adorned With Cherry Blossoms

Lured Up is a weekly podcast dedicated to the game, culture, and community surrounding Pokémon GO.  Hosts Ken and Adam offer insight from multiple perspectives in an uncensored format.  Lured Up covers topics that are relevant to both casual gamers and hardcore Trainers, while providing a heaping dose of entertainment as well. 

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Lured Up Podcast 305 Stream Date - 4/23/2024 Publish Date - 4/26/2024   When the Rediscover GO trailer dropped the Community was hyped and social was filled with speculation and hope of how the game would be updated. The Rediscover Yourself campaign was first up, and we are sad to say that it was one of Niantic’s biggest misses to date. This isn’t poor servers or a latency filled experience, but rather a slew of unpopular decisions that Niantic has made to advance their new Avatar update. We will take a dive down the Community rabbit hole at the end of the episode.   We start things off with a recap of our Bellsprout Community Day experiences, and how triple Stardust is always a popular bonus. Our first gameplay story of the week is about how Sustainability Week has changed over the years, and unfortunately not for the better. We look back to 2021 when the event actually had a real world component to it by partnering with non profits to promote cleaning up the environment. Each year since then the event has lost some of its magic, culminating in this year’s event, which seems to be falling flat. Being overshadowed by the Rediscover Kanto spawns didn’t help things either.   Cleffa Hatch Day will be rounding out the month taking place during the final weekend of April. The big story of the week takes us back to the Community reaction to the Rediscover Yourself update. From missing genders, to clipping assets, to a very strange art style, there isn’t much if anything that is getting high praises this week. While inclusivity may have been the goal of this update, it may have backfired.   We look to a pair of articles from GO Hub that cut to the chase and identify many of the issues that the Community has with the update. The site also touches on the sensitive nature and purpose of the update outside of simply an avatar graphical update. The backlash online has been significant, and Niantic has been getting dragged on this one, with a lot of toxic energy fueling some pretty negative stuff. To be plain, this week has been a disaster.   We want to be clear that we really believed in this update, and see the importance of greater options when it comes to character creation. We also identify however, that the execution of the update completely replacing the existing Avatar aesthetic rather than simply being in addition to it, has us all scratching our heads as to why this Niantic handled it like this. There are other important things to discuss as well regarding the sale of digital goods and how purchased items may not look or fit the avatar in the same way that originally influenced the purchase. There is a lot to unpack here.   Bellsprout Community Day - https://bit.ly/LU304Bellsprout  Sustainability Week 2021 - https://bit.ly/LU305Sustainability2021  Sustainability Week 2022 - https://bit.ly/LU305Sustainability2022 Sustainability Week 2023 - https://bit.ly/LU305Sustainability2023  Sustainability Week 2024 - https://bit.ly/LU305Sustainability2024  Cleffa Hatch Day - https://bit.ly/LU305Cleffa Rediscover GO - https://bit.ly/LU305RediscoverGO  GO Hub’s Hot Take - https://bit.ly/LU305GOHubAvatar  GO Hub’s Follow Up - https://bit.ly/LU305AvatarFeedback  Rediscover Kanto - https://bit.ly/LU305RediscoverKanto  Turkey Play Store - https://bit.ly/LU305Turkey    LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com     Voicemail and SMS: 732-835-8639    Use code FULLHEAL at https://tgacards.com/ for 10% off your order!   Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Connect with us on multiple platforms! https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork    Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt   Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾  http://instagram.com/GameChops  http://twitter.com/GameChops  http://soundcloud.com/GameChops  http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops  http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  https://soundcloud.com/tetracase   https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0   Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill  https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/   http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats  https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2024 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast

305. Unsustainability Week

   Lured Up Podcast 304 Streamed Live - 4/9/24 Audio/VoD - 4/13/24  This was a massive week for both events and announcements! We begin today’s episode with a recap of our last week of gameplay including Sizable Surprises and Bagon Community Day. Wh will have a few days of vanilla spawns before we hit the Bug Out and the debut of Mega Heracross. We will get you prepped and ready to get through the first half of April. Niantic struggled with the timing of the announcement, but Bellsprout will be the April’s Community Day Pokémon. While maybe not every Trainer’s favorite pick, the fact that Victreebel will learn Magical Leaf is pretty fitting for the 4/20 event date.  We open a discussion about the level cap and how it has been nearly 4 years since the GO Beyond update. It surely seems as if Niantic has been throwing a lot of XP our way, which may mean a level cap increase is imminent. We riff on if an increase is due, and the impact it could have on both new and veteran Trainers.  After being teased during the Ultra Beast Incursion in Los Angeles back in 2022, Necrozma has been announced to debut at Pokémon GO Fest 2024. While it may create more questions than it answers, this announcement is pretty exciting and just gave us something to set our Raiding sights on in NYC.  We close things out with a Mega Heracross Raid Guide and Battle Party. With Mega Heracross getting a Raid Day and entering the Mega Raid rotation, you are going to want to get a few hundred Mega Energy to place a few Heracross into your Mega Rotation. Being double weak to flying, it is time to bring out those Mega Rayquaza that you worked so hard for last year!  Sizeable Surprises - https://bit.ly/LU303Sizeable EUIC - https://bit.ly/LU304EUIC Bug Out - https://bit.ly/LU304BugOut  GO Beyond - https://bit.ly/LU304GOBeyond  Bellsprout Community Day - https://bit.ly/LU304Bellsprout  GO Fest Tickets - https://bit.ly/LU304GOFestTickets Necrozma Tease - https://bit.ly/LU304Necrozma Necrozma At GO Fest - https://bit.ly/LU304NecrozmaGF  Worlds - https://bit.ly/LU304Worlds  Mega Heracross Raid Day - https://bit.ly/LU304MegaHeracross  Mega Heracross Battle Party - https://bit.ly/LU304BattleParty  LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com     Voicemail and SMS: 732-835-8639   Use code FULLHEAL at https://tgacards.com/ for 10% off your order!  Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate   Connect with us on multiple platforms! https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork   Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle  Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore  Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt  Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons  ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾  http://instagram.com/GameChops  http://twitter.com/GameChops  http://soundcloud.com/GameChops  http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops  http://www.gamechops.com  Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  https://soundcloud.com/tetracase   https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0  Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill  https://twitter.com/mikel_beats  Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/   http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats  https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2024 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.  #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast   

304. Size Matters

Lured Up Podcast 303 Streamed Live - 4/2/2024 Published - 4/6/2024    Trainers saw Team GO Rocket Take Over their games last week and we will recap how we did during the event! With Sizeable Surprises on the horizon, April is shaping up to be another packed month of events. We also have Part 2 of the Wonder Ticket to work through, which has proven to offer some great value in the grand scheme of things.    April Fools brought us an Excellent Opportunity to get frustrated over TImed Research, with a very divisive task to work through. Is making 25 nice throws in a row too hard? Probably not, however it was frustrating to fail and be forced to start over. Let us know how you felt about this task and if you want to see more like it!   Changes to AR have been pushed through and the Community suddenly cares about AR. We digress, but it is definitely a hot topic as Buddy interactions are a bit less engaging with being forced to use AR+ is a bit cumbersome. We can only hope that a new rollout of AR features will be coming and make sense as to why this change has happened in the first place.   We wrap things up with a Raid Guide and Battle Party for the Ultra Beast dui of Kartana and Celesteela. This pair is easy to Raid together as you can use a single party for both bosses. We put together our lists and will make quick work of these Ultra Beasts in the coming week.   Taken Over - https://bit.ly/LU303TakenOver April Content - https://bit.ly/LU302April  Sizeable Surprises - https://bit.ly/LU303Sizeable  Wonder Ticket Part Two - https://bit.ly/LU303WonderTicket2  Excellent Opportunity - https://bit.ly/LU303Excellent  25 In a Row - https://bit.ly/LU303TimedResearch  AR Changes - https://bit.ly/LU303AR AR Support - https://bit.ly/LU303Support  Celesteela Counters - https://bit.ly/LU303Celesteela  Kartana Counters - https://bit.ly/LU303Kartana    Community Shout Outs Central London - https://bit.ly/LU303CentralLondon  Bishal - https://bit.ly/LU303Bishal   LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com     Voicemail and SMS: 732-835-8639    Use code FULLHEAL at https://tgacards.com/ for 10% off your order!   Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Connect with us on multiple platforms! https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork    Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt   Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾  http://instagram.com/GameChops  http://twitter.com/GameChops  http://soundcloud.com/GameChops  http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops  http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  https://soundcloud.com/tetracase   https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0   Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill  https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/   http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats  https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2024 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast  

303. Boss's Orders

Lured Up Podcast 302 Video Streamed Live - 3/27/2024 Audio Podcast Published - 3/29/2024   We had plenty happening on and off the screen this week! We have plenty to unpack and plenty to compare opinions over! We begin with a recap of Weather Week and our current feelings on Verdant Wonders. Is Zarude the new Galarian Mr. Mime? With a $7.99 Ticket and a boring task progression, Zarude may take the cake as the most overpriced ticket when you combine it with the Wonder Ticket and other one offs that are constantly being hurled our way.   The April Content Update is here and there is plenty to dig into. Next month will bring us a new Mega, first time Shiny Legendaries, and a spattering of events to keep every type of Trainer engaged. How happy they will be is a different story, as Some Trainers are starting to feel the burn of the same old, same old for the last 7 years.   As we peek into our early April Events like Sizeable Surprises and Bagon Community Day Classic, we can both agree that the month will be starting off strong. With Bagon having the ability to help new Trainers hit their Dragon-Type medal and end-game Trainers hunt for the perfect Mega ready Salamence.   After touching on a few International tidbits of news, we dig into the big topic of the week. PGO Twitter’s Super-Villian, MasterWarlord01 has struck again. We look back on the FleeceKing situation and how it created a lot more concerns than just those regarding security. With many Trainer’s feeling like chopped liver about Fleece’s special treatment, we try to look at it objectively, to validate their feelings, but counterpoint for Niantic. With MasterWarlord01 striking again, it is a mystery as to what will happen and if Niantic will make a statement.   Verdant Wonders - https://bit.ly/LU302VerdantWonders Taken Over - https://bit.ly/LU302TakenOver Poor APAC - https://bit.ly/LU302ZoeAPAC  April Content Update - https://bit.ly/LU302April  Bagon CDC - https://bit.ly/LU302BagonCDC Sizeable Surprises - https://bit.ly/LU302Sizeable Ph. D. Pikachu - https://bit.ly/LU302PhD  FleeceKing - https://bit.ly/LU302Fleece  MasterWarlord01 - https://bit.ly/LU302MasterWarlord01  MasterWarlord01 Strikes Again - https://bit.ly/LU302WarlordV2 GoodNewsGembe - https://bit.ly/LU302Gembe    McDonalds India - https://bit.ly/LU302McDonalds Madrid Highlights - https://bit.ly/LU302Madrid London Games Festival - https://bit.ly/LU302London LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com     Voicemail and SMS: 732-835-8639    Use code FULLHEAL at https://tgacards.com/ for 10% off your order!   Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Connect with us on multiple platforms! https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork    Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt   Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾  http://instagram.com/GameChops  http://twitter.com/GameChops  http://soundcloud.com/GameChops  http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops  http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  https://soundcloud.com/tetracase   https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0   Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill  https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/   http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats  https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2024 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast  

302. Rogue Wonder

Lured Up Podcast 301 Record Date - 3/12/2024 Publish Date - 3/24/2024   March has become a non stop barrage of events and has proven that this Season is bringing the heat. With the Horizons event wrapped up we have Weather Week and Verdant Wonders up next.    GO Fest details have been shared for each of the IRL locations. We will be in NYC this year, and hope to see everyone there! Stay tuned for details on our meetups and schedule.   Horizons - https://bit.ly/LU300Horizons March Content Update - https://bit.ly/LU300March Weather Week - https://bit.ly/LU300Weather Verdant Wonders - https://bit.ly/LU301VerdantWonders  GO Fest NYC - https://bit.ly/3Ty8oIY GO Fest Madrid - https://bit.ly/LU301GOFestMadrid GO Fest Sendai - https://bit.ly/LU301GOFestSendai Trail Marker Update - https://bit.ly/LU301Wayfarer   LuredUp@PokemonProfessor.com     Voicemail and SMS: 732-835-8639    Use code FULLHEAL at https://tgacards.com/ for 10% off your order!   Support the show by bookmarking and shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Connect with us on multiple platforms! https://linktr.ee/PokemonProfessorNetwork    Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer  Paul Bhatt   Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾  http://instagram.com/GameChops  http://twitter.com/GameChops  http://soundcloud.com/GameChops  http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops  http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Lake Verity (Drum & Bass Remix)  Tetracase GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  https://soundcloud.com/tetracase   https://soundcloud.com/MegaFlare0   Break Music National Park Mikel & GameChops GameChops - Poké & Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill  https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Vast Poni Canyon CG5 & GlitchxCity (Future Bass Remix) GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/   http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats  https://soundcloud.com/glitchxcity   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2024 Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc. Lured Up and the Pokémon Professor Network are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast  

260. Adorned With Cherry Blossoms

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