Pokémon Sun & Moon Legendaries’ Names Revealed?

A Japanese trademark filing has revealed potential names for the mascot Legendaries of the upcoming 3DS titles Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon; “Solgaleo” (ソルガレオ) and “Lunaala” (ルナアーラ) were both submitted for registration.

Solgaleo definitely seems to combine sol/solar with something, possibly “leo” for lion.

Lunaala we are still researching, but the base of luna/lunar is evident.

UPDATE: A working theory is that this could be hinting towards Sun and Moon being based in Spain. In Spanish “luna” means moon and “ala” means wing, thus Lunaala could be some sort of winged Legendary. “Sol” also means sun in Spanish and “león” means lion. Back in 2014 game director Junichi Masuda visited Spain in person and reported the trip on his blog. Coincidence?

A third trademark filing was for “Gigareki”, but it is unknown whether or not it is related to the two, the name of a Pokémon or an entirely separate product.

<3 PJ

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836 thoughts on “Pokémon Sun & Moon Legendaries’ Names Revealed?”

  1. I’d Love some more polar opposite pokemon again.

    Like a big giant solid rock hard pokemon and a soft wet squishy pokemon.

    One with ultra defense and the other with near none.
    One with mega sp att and speed the other slow and zero sp att.

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    • I wanted a colossal Rock/Fighting Pokemon loosely inspired by a Rockbiter

      Some gigantic secluded Pokemon living in a dense mountain range that eats rocks and makes these impenetrable mountains

      Also a floating Psychic/Electric Brain
      Bug/Dark Mosquito that has an ability that increases the power of HP Draining attacks but piss poor defense

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  2. I just had a very interesting idea
    Don’t ask me how but I just had a brain flash of a decent Mega Mr. Mime idea
    It’s body would double in length and around his collar would sprout one of those zig zag mime/clown paper things (u know the ones) and his shoulder blades would point out and his head will spawn three long jester hat horns with blue rhomboid like appendages, his arms get longer and he’ll develop star shaped wristbands, and lastly his feet would split into too points and finally a cape like frill on the back

    This Mega form gains a whopping amount of defense but I’m debating to let it keep filter or give it prankster

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  3. Another daring idea
    I had the idea of a Pseudo-Legend, This entire line’s theme is luck
    This Pokemon is a gigantic mishmash of all the world’s lucky symbols and objects
    Now it should be long and serpentine like one of those Chi Dragons with a bright jade coloration, a Barnstar and Horseshoe like crest on the forehead, rabbit rodent like feet, long Albatross like wings of rainbow coloration, fish gills, protruding feathers similar to a sarimanok (some Mindanao rooster) gold fragments throughout the body and a that should be it, I can’t cram everything into this thing buuuut I can make the pre-evos possess pig ears and clover like wings and ladybug colors

    Now the typing is extremely fickle, Dragon is a must but I can’t decide if Dragon/Fairy or just pure dragon, a lot of cultures consider them good luck but some fear them for being tricky

    And obviously the ability is Super Luck

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  4. Somehow I feel this name Solgaleo Is really tricky if GF wAnt to Make another fire lion represent sun that’s mean they run out of idea …..Somehow someway I start to searCh about the woRd Galeo or galeon it’s the name of famous Spanish ship “Galeón” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleon. Y

    Now u ask me wat the connection Between the sun and the ship ….and that’s bring me back to egyptian mythoLogy again , Ra was thOught to travel On two solar boats calleD the Mandjet (the Boat of Millions of Years), or morning boat and the Mesektet, or evening boat. in ancient Egypt boat is Solar symbol.

    I hope I was wrong but I SHOULD WIN AND PREDICT SOMETHING RIGHT.

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  5. So apparently Masuda is gonna be at the Pokemon Booth or something at PAX. I wouldn’t get my hopes up for anything substantial, but who knows? lol

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  6. Time to Remember :

    The rumours in Gen 4 that the starters would be
    Fighting – Dark – Psychic ?

    Simkenno Remembers.

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    • I think it’s just one of those things that if enough people try and guess what’s coming next it’ll eventually become true. There are so many ideas out there that at least one is bound to come true at some point lol

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        • My only hope for Mega Flygon is that they supercharge his Sp Attack, and that should be enough also give it Sand Stream for a Hidden Ability (and I guess to be fair Hydreigon deserves one as well)

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  7. The Gen 4 Rumored Pokémon as I said below.

    Definitely wouldn’t have minded these either. Sigh back in 2006 when fakes where still good.

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    • I remember seeing these back in those days where I was young it and speculation was even more emotionally absorbing (being a kid and all), and boy did I want those to be real. It would have been cool to shake up starter archetypes too. Not disappointed with what we got instead, but these are probably the best realised and most marking hype-period fakes I’ve ever seen.

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  8. Anyone remember or have these ? “The original” fakes ? Diamond’s legend was the business… But wasn’t even in the game hahah

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    • I remember seeing jade in a bootleg market in some Mediterranean country on holiday and being completely freaked out by how weird it was. I’ve always found it weird how this ugly goat thing is like a prototype for xerneas with it’s ornate horns and all.

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        • Oooooooh! I’ve see princess Mononoke, but I’d never have guessed! Thanks! To be fair the forest god in the movie is Fugly in it’s own anthropomorphic nightmare of a way, but here it just looks like an ugly drawing to my eyes.

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  9. What’s your favourite and least favourite mascot legendary? ( just to help time fly) My favourite is probably Xerneas/ Reshiram, with Black and White Kyurem as my least.

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  10. So I know these have been confirmed fake….. But what if we’ve been played and these are real? The box legends totally work with the so called legends… A fire lion and a winged Pokemon… Plus, I really want these to be the starter…

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    • Like you said they are fake, there’s no way around it so I wouldn’t ovethink if they are real. They aren’t haha.

      I too love the boxes and would be very happy if they are similar. Those starters also get a solid + from me 🙂

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      • But what if it isn’t fake? They just told us it was to make us think that? I mean… If these are the legends, this box art which was leaked or whatever came out way before we knew about these two lions and winged legends… And the starters are very cool.

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        • Because the picture is meant to be a ‘leak’ from CoroCoro. It doesn’t match the official CoroCoro magazine. Its just a nicely put picture is all 🙂 Its convincing yes, but not real at all.

          I need that water starter haha its like a totodile2.0 😀

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  11. I have 2 things to say about this.

    First, I was originally skeptic about this until I noticed the logos. If you look at the Pokemon x and y logos, they are obviously based off of the features of xerneas of yveltal. Well look at the Pokemon sun and moon logos. It’s kind of a stretch, but the sun looks like a lion’s mane and the moon looks like a wing. But the moon is what interests me. That is not a stereotypical moon. I will say that this feature will be a part of the moon legendary.

    Second. Just because the words are Spanish doesn’t mean the region is Spain. Kalos isn’t Norse or English because of xerneas and yveltal. It is French.

    Thanks for anyone who listened to me ramble.

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  12. PJ on the rise again? It’s been a while since I’ve seen almost 500 comments. Anyways, I’m guessing this is why GameFreak could not share any information in Feburary, March, and April. It’s because they were still filling the patients for the Pokemon Sun & Moon. This pretty much guarantees that were going to get some new information about Sun & Moon in May. Going off of what ShinyXatu said, I’m hoping to see the Grass Cow, Fire Cat, and Water Manatee. Even tho I want a dolphin over a manatee… It seems like a neat starter roaster.

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  13. I know this is totally off-topic, but now that we know what the device’s we saw on Ash and Greninja in the preview does (it revealed Ash and Greninja share the same heartbeat during the transformation), are there any new theories? Or are people still sticking with synergetic evolution?

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    • Apparently the process is called Synchro, but my source for that is a post on NeoGAF, so take it with a grain of salt.

      But to answer your question, I’m sticking with Synergetic Evolutions.

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    • I’m still hoping it’s a weird form of mega evolution, IMO I’d just get pissed off if they introduced yet another type of evolution. I’d probably get used to it like I did megas, but why in high damn hell would you add yet another superfluous type of evolution to confuse things further when you’ve clearly already got enough to play with with megas and, dare I say it, good old standard evos? (Plus judging by what we’ve seen in the anime this isn’t very different to mega-evolution, so why complicate things further?)See I’m just getting riled up thinking about it heheh… I’m also not very partial to this form being anime-only, though it appearing in spinoffs makes me doubtful of that being the case. Ideally this strange process is anime only but mega-greninja stays. That sounds about right to me.

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  14. I know i say this a lot but i would really want gen 7 to be gen of unique types
    Not necessarily meaning new type combos but having the starters have the 8 (bug dragon electric fairy ghost ice normal rock) secondary types never seen in starters. I want box legends to be one of the 8 (bug fighting ghost grass ice normal poison rock) types never used on box art. Fossils to have new secondary types. Very unique and cool gym type order (bug is always near the beginning and electric in the middle) and have the elite 4 have the 7 (electric fairy flying grass normal rock steel) e4 types never used. No water specialist!! We’ve one in every single pokemon game. And i know some of you will say this is unlikely or not possible or will immediately reject it. But its just a WANT list so rejecting it is pretty useless because i will still want it. Also I’d be okay with a dark gym i know i know “dark is evil and gym leaders are supposed to be role models,” but maybe we can have someone with a dark gym that defends dark types and saying just because theyre evil type doesnt mean they do evil things and not all do evil things blah blah blah. Or he can try for pokemon equality. “Arceus created us all the same. Just because this pokemon is dark and your pokemon are different doesnt mean they should be discriminated. Dark pokemon have rights! Dark pokemon and white other pokemon are all the same on the inside!! And since the other pokemon types have gyms. So should dark.#EndSteretypes #DarkTypesGetRights.” And a poison legend would be cool.

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      • Of course they do. Nobody says they don’t, but that doesn’t mean they have to be assholes about it hahaha

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    • Seeing how randomly dark pokémon can get in many cases (genocidal villains, pokédex entries), I think the whole “dark type is evil type in japanese” argument is a fallacy, and gamfreak are just their usual random selves when it comes to not making a dark type gym. My ideas for dark types gyms were a depressed/emo teenager in a boring suburbian city, and a reformed team rocket admin. Every time I make up elite 4s I also make them novel types, because it’s really not hard to come up with ideas for those (ex: DJ/Rock star, Lorekeeper, Air Admiral type pilot, a Trimates-inspired researcher, a butler, a palaeontologist using fossil pokés…). (Also just wanna say Wiklstrom is a steel E4 member). In one of my gym lineups the first gym is Dragon, the second psychic, the third ice, and the seventh bug, and it makes for very fun creations and storyline possibilities. And yeah all those ideas about the ultimate toxic-waste derived legendary floating around are awesome!!

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    • My ideal Mega Jynx would she would like nearly double or double.5 (at least 10ft) in height and be some kinda Nordic Amazon with a tiara of gold and hair nearly reaching the floor, a Viking-esque styled breastplate and around her neck would be solid gems of psychic power
      But I don’t know if j wanna so some leg kinda leave that up to GF, so major speed and sp attack and I’m kinda stumped for an ability
      I think either Snow Warning or Snow Cloak would fit this one Refrigerate is an thought too but then it’s just gonna be Fake Out, Hyper a Voice, Psychic/Psyshock, Shadow Ball/Grass Knot/Signal Beam/Draining Kiss

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  15. What would be your ideal generation? I’m putting mine in terms of similar generations.

    Pokemon designs: Gen IV
    Story: Gen V
    Villainous team: Gen V
    Post Game: Gen II
    Challenge: Gen I
    Music: Gen II-Gen III upgrade
    Reigon: Gen VI style
    Lore: Gen IV
    Competitive experience: Gen IV

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    • Designs: Gen 2
      Story: Gen 5
      Villainous Team: Gen 4
      Post Game: Gen 2 (duh)
      Challenge: Gen 3
      Music: Gen 4
      Region: Gen 3
      Lore: Gen 4
      Competitive: Gen 6

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    • Design: a mix of Gen 2 and Gen 4
      Story: Gen 5 (obviously)
      Villainous team: Gen 5
      Post game: Gen 2, no questions
      Challenge: Gen 3
      Music: Gen 1 and Gen 6 (I love great melodies)
      Region: gen 3
      Lore: Gen 4
      Competitive: Gen 6

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    • Pokemon designs: Gen 6
      Story: Gen 5
      Villainous team: Gen 5
      Post Game: Gen 3
      Challenge: Gen 5
      Music: Gen 3
      Region: Gen 6
      Lore: Gen 5
      Competitive experience: Gen 6

      3, 5, 6 😀

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    • Pokemon designs: Gen VI
      Story: Gen V
      Villainous team: Gen V
      Post Game: Gen III
      Challenge: Gen V
      Music: Gen V
      Region: Gen VI
      Lore: Gen V
      Competitive experience: Gen V

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    • Designs 4
      Story 4 (because it was less linear than gen 5, and you were jumping back and forth to places. Could’ve added more complicated and emotional and thoughtful stuff though. My fav rival was in this game)
      Villianous 5
      Postgame: gen 3 battle frontier, gen 2 other region
      Challenge 1,2,3
      Music haven’t done enough research on this one
      Lore gen 2
      Comp gen 6 but improved pss

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    • Pokemon designs: Gen V
      Story: Gen IV
      Villainous team: Gen V
      Post Game: Gen II
      Challenge: Gen III
      Music: Gen III (TRUMPETS)
      Region: Gen IV or V
      Lore: Gen IV
      Competitive experience: Gen VI

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    • Pokemon designs: Gen IV
      Story: Gen IV
      Villainous team: Gen IV
      Post Game: Gen II
      Challenge: Gen III
      Music: Gen IV
      Region: Gen V
      Lore: Gen V
      Competitive experience: Don’t care

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    • Designs: Gen 3 (favourite all time is Metagross, favourite legends are Lati twins)
      Story: Gen 5
      Villainous Team: Gen 3 (Team Magma all day, every day)
      Post Game: Gen 3 (specifically emeralds frontier)
      Challenge: Gen 3 (only time I ever actually lost to certain gyms)
      Music: Impartial
      Region: Gen 3 (hoenn is a beautiful region, plus battle frontier)
      Lore: Gen 3
      Competitive: Gen 6

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  16. I never knew how stupid Gen 1’s item management system is. Literally all of my space is taken up by Pokeballs, Key Items and HMs, and now I can’t pick up any more items. Hardware limitations I guess, but damn, I’m getting a little bit salty.

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  17. How would anyone feel if GF ever decided to mix up the starter pokemon like the 2006 rumour ?

    Personally I wouldn’t mind too much but I woukd miss the usual types. Its difficult to get that balance again of water fire grass.

    Most believe due to the old rumor that it would be Fighting Dark Psychic. But Thrn the arguement of psychic cant hit dark at all comes into play.

    If they did a possibility could be fighting rock flying as it achieves balance.

    Apart from all that what would your take be on an all new typing set of starters 🙂 ?

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    • I’m a firm believer in set formulas
      Maybe for a spin off but my body just cannot process the thought of a non-Grass Fire and Water starter system
      Also the need for: Regional Rodent and Bird, Electrical Rodent, Draconic Pseudo Legend and 2 Legends
      Sorry but I just wouldn’t have it any other way in my book

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      • I’m tired of Electric Rodents…they’re all bland with shit stats and serve no purpose. Pokemon needs to mix it up a bit. Also, I’d like a pseudo legend that isn’t a dragon. Still pissed Volcarona wasn’t given the privilege. At least there’s Tyranitar

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          • Well it’s a Chi Dragon with
            Rabbit Feet
            A star shaped crest on the forehead
            Horseshoe shaped horns (pointing up)
            Albatross Wings (rainbow colored)
            Pig Ears
            Shamrock tail splay
            (can’t remember the culture) rooster feathers
            Fish gills and scales
            And lastly bright jade coloration

            Dragon/Fairy, well rounded stats allowing it many options and its ability is Super Luck

    • I think pokemon is in desperate need of mixing things up here and there. Soaring was nice, but make it a new permanent option for flying. Idk if I like changing the starter types though. Maybe custom fit them to every region? I don’t think they necessarily have to complete a “triangle”

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    • I’m tired of fighting types with starters. It’s like an unofficial 4th type and I just want to see fresh combinations!

      In terms of completely new types, three dragons would be cool. Three ghosts would work too, but theyre more of a niche type and it would be weird for a young kid starting of on his journey with a ghost type, the whole region would need to be haunted. But looking at type triangles I don’t think any others would work. One of grass, water, fire, psychic, dark, fighting are almost in all, and I can’t see them using fire without using grass and water, etc. Same with using psychic without dark and ghost.

      I’d be great for psychic dark fighting if they hadn’t used it up last year. But after fire fighting three times and just seeing how repetitive they are with the starters types , I’m begging for a change.

      At other times there is too much change. Game freak almost seem to try and shock with the starters final evos, like Samurott, Greninja, Chesknaught. Serperior was great but it lost legs? I don’t understand the appeal, it’s not like a growing tree or flower, or gaining canons or a fire crown, but loosing legs? Meh. I miss it when the starters would have balanced, but creative progressions from each stage and fans didn’t need to point closely at similarities between completely different forms. It means that the designs of the first form really was developed and progressed, but it was still the first form. Sinnoh, Kanto, Johto and Hoenn ( I suppose not blaziken but at least it developed the theme of punching and kicking with fire, not like greninja which went from bubbles to tongue or Samurott which became another similair species, I understand lizard–>dragon, tortoise—> dinosaur, but otter to sea lion?..) got this really well.

      These are all really personal reasons and not entirely logical. But starters and legendaries make the game for me, I know others love greninja and such. But, a personal hope is that I love another starter this year, l went with delphox and Emboar and though they’re sensjble progressions delphox’s design for me was overshadowed by Braixen and Emboar was another fire fighting with a fire beard. I was hoping for something like this with the gen Vs.

      Yeah I went on a tangent, just thought I’d share my opinions ( which by no means are based on logic, or are things I consider necessary, just what I’m hoping to see in the games!)

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      • A lot of the Fire/Fighting types are insides by Chinese novels Journey to the West like Infernape Son Wukong which is a ape with great abilities, Emboar the Soilder from Romance of the three kingdoms or the Pig Demon from Journey to the West, so it seemed appropriate to be a fighting type (also it’s just super powerful coverage for young trainers
        And it was stated in an interview that they experienced artist block for Samurott and settled on a sea lion after a trip to the aquarium
        Also Serperior loosing its legs is understandable since it’s a damn snake

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        • Why did snivy need legs though? I don’t think artist block is a reasonable excuse for such a huge company with so many designers. Especially starters.
          The journey to the west thing is interesting but I don’t think I could bare another fire fighting! Purely because it’s repetitive.

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          • I think just to give it a more likable design, also anime purposes
            Well that’s just how it happened
            And I for one love my long line of Fire/Fighting types, and I hope we get at least one more hurrah

  18. Okay… New topic. If you were a trainer, tell us your story. What region would you be from, what city in that region, where would your journey currently have taken you, what are you doing, what is your goal, what’s your team, etc…

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    • I’d be from Olivine City in Johto. I would probably have just finished my apprenticeship with Professor Rowan on pokemon evolution (something that’s intrigued me ever since I took Genetics). I’d be contacting research on pokemon genetics and it’s influence on evolution. My goal is to eventually map out the exact process of pokemon evolution on the molecular level.

      Moltres (because why not?)
      Porygon Z
      Rotom (normal)
      Meowstic (F)
      M-Beedrill
      Swampert

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    • I am from Unova, somewhere either around Nuvema or Driftveil, my journey began in Kanto because my Aunt had a special present for me, a Rhyhorn calf that was hatched fairly recently, instead of returning home I decided to challenge the Kanto devision first. Now years have past and now I’m a wandering (abet hotheaded) Battler who fights tooth and nail with his plethora of Ground Types out to challenge strong opponents
      (But in spare time digging underground for precious gems and metals to made ends meat
      My team consists of
      Rhyperior: Gruff, Headstrong and proud of its strength, truly my other half first thick headed and disorderly but now after years or hard work he’s one of my strongest Pokemon
      Excadrill: my second and most loyal Pokemon, once a timid and weak drilbur but now a seasoned battler who’s determination to be strong never falters (Wears a life orb pendant)
      Garchomp: Garchomp the wild stallion of the group with a fierce competitive streak, ever since discovering a chunk of Garchompite I let it undergo Mega Evolution where it becomes violent and savage
      Hippowdon: The strong silent type, but his bulk and stubbornness teaches opponents he will not give an inch
      Mamoswine: my “mount” Pokemon, Mamoswine is actually quite gentle and shows great patience but in the heat of battle he’ll freeze you solid and shatter you
      Nidoking: Nidoking and I met in Kanto and has proven to be just as aggressive as his trainer, after years of training Nidoking has developed fast sharp shooting elemental attacks
      Lastly my Seismitoad: Seismitoad is thick witted and constantly snickering to himself in a lazy grungy manor, but that resistant personality proves useful when being berated with attacks and barely yawn through it

      My Aunt’s ranch holds nearly all species of Ground Types I caught over the years and it continues to grow

      My Goals are catching and mastering each and every Ground Type on the planet, and one day either opening a gym or becoming a region’s Elite Four

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          • Yeah my Seismitoad has a major advantage (I’m in a Seismitoad mood, he’s kinda your lazy stoner roommate)
            He’ll snooze off any of your watery special attacks or Ice attacks

            Granted Abomasnow is his only threat but he can still pound out Drain Punch to everything and eat it back up

    • I would be from Castelia City (only because that’s the city that closest a resembles my home city and where it’s based off of). After training under Grimsley and mastering Dark type moves, I would then be in the Kalos region working on becoming the best Ice type trainer there is under Wulfric in Snowbelle City. Mastering mega evolution with my Abomasnow. My goal would be to become the greatest Dark/Ice type trainer out there. My partners would be Samurott, Beartic, Abomasnow, Unbreon, Pangoro and Weavile.

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  19. By the way were any clear shots of the whitened box art released on the internet after Coro Coro came out officially?

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        • Even if you had clear hq pics of the whited out box art you wouldn’t be able to do anything with them. People always assume they can, but that’s not how pictures work. You’re not looking at a file that you can just wipe away the extra layers. It’s one single layer by the point it makes it onto a real piece of paper and even then the pictures we get are just pictures of pictures so it would make it even more separated from the original images. All we can do is wait for the real box art to find out what’s on it.

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      • I hate this guy,
        Also why Ho-Oh and Lugia they have nothing to do with the Sun and Moon, they are Guardians of the Sky and Sea, Moon commands the tides not the tides command the moon Lugia just spends its time deep underwater and its wings can create forty day long windstorms literally nothing moon related, and Ho-Oh just has rainbow colored feathers when the light hits it the right way, where’s the connection to the sun now huh

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          • I’m hoping they release a video before Coro coro or something. Serebii said that it’s possible because they may not want the first ever footage/ information to be a leak. Also the leak said May not next edition. But May 12 is when we’ll defo have info.

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