{"id":120378,"date":"2020-11-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/random_ball_guy_is_getting_his_very_own_pokemon_trading_card"},"modified":"2020-11-07T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:30:00","slug":"random-ball-guy-is-getting-his-very-own-pokemon-trading-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/07\/random-ball-guy-is-getting-his-very-own-pokemon-trading-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Ball Guy Is Getting His Very Own Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3d26f497a4eda\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3d26f497a4eda\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Ball Guy as seen in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield (2019)\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/faf6f4ad50bb6\/ball-guy-as-seen-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-2019.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/faf6f4ad50bb6\/ball-guy-as-seen-in-pokemon-sword-and-shield-2019.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ball Guy as seen in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield (2019)\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Ball Guy as seen in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield (2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the most memorable characters in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> is Ball Guy &#8211; a mascot for the Galar region Pok\u00e9mon League. Each time you meet up with him throughout your journey, he gives you a different type of Pok\u00e9 Ball.<\/p>\n<p>It seems he&#8217;ll be going beyond the video game very soon, as he&#8217;s making an appearance in the upcoming <em>Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game<\/em> set, &#8220;Shiny Star V&#8221; &#8211; launching in Japan later this month on 20th November. Here&#8217;s a look, courtesy of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/\">Serebii.net<\/a> webmaster and Nintendo Life contributor, Joe Merrick:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is a Ball Guy card in the new set in Japan<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wf6xoO2s3U\">https:\/\/t.co\/wf6xoO2s3U<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IE37Bz0mKE\">pic.twitter.com\/IE37Bz0mKE<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMerrick\/status\/1324610199341203456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Many fans of Ball Guy are already requesting a &#8220;full art&#8221; version of him, and who knows what could happen now that he&#8217;s got his own trainer card. What do you think of this new card yourself? Do you collect Pok\u00e9mon cards yourself? <em>Comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Guy as seen in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield (2019) One of the most memorable characters in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield is Ball Guy &#8211; a mascot for the Galar region Pok\u00e9mon League. Each time you meet up with him throughout your journey, he gives you a different type of Pok\u00e9 Ball. It seems he&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}