{"id":2514,"date":"2022-06-04T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T04:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:52:16","slug":"pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Needs To Play With Its Balls More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more_629ae4fed96d6-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more_629ae4fed96d6-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pokemon-needs-to-play-with-its-balls-more_629ae4fed96d6-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/pokemon-go-poke-balls-quick-heavy\/\">I wrote recently about my love of balls<\/a>. Big round things that dangle as you run, and if you stroke them just right, the good stuff comes out. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the Poke Balls that trainers keep around their waist, and the wholesome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/pokemon\/\">Pokemon<\/a> that pop out when you give the shiny red balls a stroke. I argued at the time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/pokemon-go\/\">Pokemon Go<\/a> needed more of them &#8211; we only have the increasingly effective but otherwise dull Poke Ball, Great Ball, and Ultra Ball, as well as the Poke Ball reskin of a Premium Ball. We don&#8217;t even have the Quick Ball, despite the game having a Quick Ball bug. It still seems like Go could stand to have more balls in its life, but as we look ahead to Scarlet &#038; Violet, it&#8217;s becoming clear that Pokemon needs to give its balls more respect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/pokemon-poke-balls-great-ultra-quick\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about my love of balls. Big round things that dangle as you run, and if you stroke them just right, the good stuff comes out. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the Poke Balls that trainers keep around their waist, and the wholesome Pokemon that pop out when you give the shiny red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}