Elite Full Restore

Hey folks! The dawn of the final hours are before us and Matt sat down with friends of the show Stephanie, Max and WeedLordVegeta to talk about all things positive and negative about Sword and Shield before the game launches proper in North America. This episode contains spoilers for unrevelealed portions of the Galar Dex and information about the game, such as Gym Leaders, which may be considered spoilers to some so tread at your own risk. This episode was also fully recorded by a web-hosted recording bot for simplicity, and thus will have occasional blips in the audio. Our new art was made by Golurk and our opening theme music is, as always, the unimpeachable Pokémon Gold/Silver Surf music by Junichi Masuda and Go Ichinose. Closing theme this episode is the Sword and Shield battle theme penned by Toby Fox. A link that relates to a topic of discussion is this excellent article by Patricia Hernandez at Polygon about the #GameFreakLies hashtag.

This week on Elite Full Restore we are joined by Twitch, creative director of The Banned Pokémon Game Nintendo Doesn't Want You To See (Pokémon Uranium) and my co-runner on the Fakemon blog. We talk about our hopes and expectations for Sword and Shield, what we like to see in a Pokemon (and Fakemon) design, fake types and a whole lot more! Our new art was made by Golurk and our opening theme music is, as always, the unimpeachable Pokémon Gold/Silver Surf music by Junichi Masuda and Go Ichinose. Closing theme this episode is "The Under" by Tsukasa Tawada. Links: The fake TCG leaks Pokémon Factory Discord Pokémon Orange Pokémon Uranium Discord Pokengine Pokémon XG Notes: The intro song being like, 2 minutes long was accidental. I might fix it later but the song slaps and I didn't overlap any talking so it's fine At around 56 minutes my internet cut out and Twitch kept talking, so it sounds like I wasn't listening and then repeated myself but I was in fact just trying to get back on track

Whoa, folks! Noise Space’s original raison d’être is back for the run up to the new games coming out soon for the Switch. To help him out, Matt reached out to friend of the show John Michonski for his feelings about the last few years of Pokémon dealings, including Let’s Go, the Sun/Moon anime, and … Continue reading Episode 013 – Let Archie Be Hot!

Elite Full Restore is back with an experimental new episode! Recorded live as a stream on Twitch, and with minimal post-recording editing, it’s part of we’re looking into to make putting out episodes a little easier on us. With good friend and enemy of the show Brooks Oglesby on to give us all his hot … Continue reading Episode 012 – Rock is Just Small Ground

Elite Full Restore yet again took too long to make an episode, even with a fill-in host! We welcome back Zane as Aury enjoys their post-marital bliss, and nerd out more than usual. If this episode isn’t showing up in your podcast feed, it’s probably because iTunes and Google Play are being weird with the … Continue reading Episode 011 – The Victreebel Flail

Hey! It’s Elite Full Restore! Yes we still exist, and with our 10th episode we’re officially a real podcast. This is mostly a clearing-house of old questions and a rundown of the last month, to prepare for the little content gulf we can expect in the near future. What, will we actually have to make … Continue reading Episode 010 – Underflows and Moonsaults

Elite Full Restore is back for the new year and yet again we’ve brought a guest, we’re joined this week by Zane (@epengu) to talk Fakemon, Smash Bros and generally to give us a hard time. The Wild West of Early Internet Pokemon Fandom Zane blankets the entire podcast with callouts of EZBoard, Miyamoto, Postgame … Continue reading Episode 009 – Blabla Dodo

Elite Full Restore is BACK after a wait pretty much as long as the last one. Sun and Moon are here, but we’re just in it for the goofs. First up, join us on Discord! General discussion area, a place to put questions where we won’t lose them and we have a Fat Pikachu emoji … Continue reading Episode 008 – Zed Moves, Cheats, and the Suck

Well folks! We definitely didn’t get the next episode sooner! Herein, we discuss three rounds of news, a demo, the leak of the entire game’s files and also Lickitung’s ball handling. Pokémon Sun and Moon are imminent! Answering a bunch of age-old questions like “will they reveal the starter evolutions” and “What is the NX?!” … Continue reading Episode 007 – Young Farfetch’d Rides Again

Welcome back! Elite Full Restore returns after an awkwardly long absence fuelled by poor planning.  We are joined this time by Patrick Scarborough (@RiotScarizard) for part of our episode to talk nonsense as usual. New news is TOMORROW so hopefully we’ll get the next episode out sooner! We love garbage and being garbage and broadcasting garbage A … Continue reading Episode 006 – The Devil Went Down To Gamestop

Your favourite fools are here, and Elite Full Restore is back with an episode that is definitely too long! This was recorded before CoroCoro, we’ll get to that next time. There has been way too many Sun/Moon “leaks” and they’re all fake and bad Matt talks about the anime and Aury doesn’t care GARY WAS … Continue reading Episode 005 – Don’t Google Winkshipping

Welcome back to the long-absent Elite Full Restore! We swear this isn’t supposed to be a monthly podcast. So much for professional! Aury calls out the grandma of a competing Pokémon podcast host Alola Exeggutor and all haters need to meet us in the thunderdome We Love Smash Bros Jigglypuff Aury hits us up with … Continue reading Episode 004 – Alola Sandshrew, Canadian Icon

Welcome back to everyone’s favourite Pokémon podcast, actually posting an episode two weeks after the previous one! We’re professional, guys!! We started with an in-depth interview with National’s commentator Aaron Zheng (@CybertronVGC) who makes us look smart then makes us look dumb for the rest of the episode with our shenanigans Drampa definitely vapes The thing about Kiteruguma is … Continue reading Episode 003 – Yugi Moto Mimikyu

The second episode is up a solid 5 days after we recorded it. It’s a bit out of date! Bear with us, we’ll talk about yesterday’s revealed Pokémon soon. We discuss another set of new Pokémon Matt really likes the move Drill run, guys Aury continues to bitch about the competitive scene We discuss some of our … Continue reading Episode 002 – Groudon Groudon Everywhere

The first episode of your new favourite Pokémon podcast is here! Hosted by Aury and Matt New Sun and Moon news! Our collective son, Rotom Pokédex, and what’s next for him and his kind The current VGC Metagame & how to make the game more accessible A Japanese poll ranked all the Pokémon and it’s … Continue reading Episode 001 – Rotom Pokédex Is My Son