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 million dogs shitpost in the desert
Aury buys a Metallica album in a Monster Rancher Quest
Patrick asks for a gorilla, we give him an Oranguru (biologists hate them!)
We discuss community-organized bans/tiering in competitive Pokémon and determine that it's all stupid
We answer an incredible question about lending games, prison and the devil himself and spend several minutes poorly answering it
Rapid news: Volcanion coming October 10th to Gamestop/EB, Pokémon Bank update delayed, Pokemon Showdown was hacked (change your passwords!) & the Pokémon Go Plus is mostly not worth it
HATLESS CONFIRMED
What if Counter was... good??
Fun trivia facts about burrowing owls
THROW PIKACHU INTO THE SKY
Fangames are cool, until they're not
"Squizpillion has three questions for us this week!" "Oh god..."
WHICH ONE VAPES: We did it first edition

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Special thanks to Jay for the help with the editing! You can read some of Jay's writing at The Pokémon Sprite Guy, with some insightful looks into classic Pokémon.
The mentioned Buff Popplio Evolution.
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