The hour has come; we’re about to learn more about the next generation of Pokémon games coming to the Nintendo 3DS: Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Below we’ll be providing a text version of what is shown in the video (likely a livestream). Please remember that you must refresh the site to see any updates. UPDATE: A new official mini-site for Pokémon Sun & Moon has been launched here.
We will be embedding the video above so you can watch it right here while “live commenting” your thoughts below or watch it on the Japanese Pokémon YouTube account! Here’s what we’ve learned:
- Grass starter is Rowlet; “Grass Quill Pokémon” w/ ability Overgrow. Also knows new low-level Grass-type attack “Leafage” that is available from when you receive it
- Fire starter is Litten; “Fire Cat Pokémon” w/ ability Blaze
- Water starter is Popplio; “Sea Lion Pokémon” w/ ability Torrent
- Alola Region
- Release date is November 18 in NA/JP and November 23 in EU
Japanese CM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0_F-_ClcQ
<3 PJ
Go join the CHAT if you feel so inclined to up the hype!
Blessed is this post.
*mentally prepared for announcement how next month will have HUGE news*
If it’s a live stream I’m surprised they haven’t set it up already.
I think it’s just going to be a video.
It would make sense for them in that case to just drop it then
My class starts just when the video drops. I am not going to be paying attention
YEAH SCREW THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Pokemon is more importNt than calculus
Why prepare for the future when Pokemon stuffs are happening!
AYAHHAHHHAAHYYAHHAYYYAHAYUYAHHHHHHH
Less then ten minutes!!!!!
Hopefully something great is on the way!
INITIATE TRIBAL DANCE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ5gEykr73s
FIVE MINUTES
I just had an idea yay or nay
A massive Rhinoceros with scarab/beetle shell
Typing?
Bug/Ground
I like the idea. I also like the bug/ground idea since the nincada and Wormadam don’t count
And it would have a beautiful red green and black Metalic coloring
All I need are the starters and the box legendaries
Same!
We are going to be let down tbh
I RAN HOME PLS DELIVER
My five minute warning alarm just went off!!!!
THE HYPE IS REAL….IM NOT SURE HOW MUCH MORE MY HEART CAN TAKE!!!
I am ready for those box legendaries *I hope, at least*
Prepare to be disappoint. “The real announcement is that we are announcing something later!”
MY LOINS CANT HANDLE ANY MORE WAITING
I can’t wait anymore. Just upload the video already!
I’d say you should start mashing refresh now.
Sooooo ready!!!
Oh boy and the comments keep rolling along hahaha
Omg 3 minutes!
Threeeeeee
So excited
Come on Grass owl that totally is not going to happen 🙁
BIDOOF BETTER BE THE LEGENDARY, it’s your time to shine!
1 minute Cmon dont let uns down
Can’t say I’m not breathing pretty heavy right now lol
This is a terrible time to feel sick :/
Same lol, I’m sick as a dog but nothing will pull me from this lol
No I’m not sick anymore, I just feel like I’m going to barf XD
PLAY THROUGH THE PAIN
This is incredible, a lot of people gather to enjoy a simple game 😀 I love pokemon and I love their fans
Actual Pokemon news? It’s been so long, I don’t know how to feel
ONE MINUTE
people are more excited than the last time, come on pokemon, dont give uf flase expectative
nothing?
It might not go up for another few minutes.
Yeah they did say it would happen AROUND this time. Never said it would happen EXACTLY at the this time hahaha
It’s nearly impossible to time uploads that perfectly.
Yeah. What if when they went to upload it they got a render time of an hour? hahaha that wold make me laugh lol
that’s why you can put videos on private
People would find it…..you know they would lol
H U R R Y
I am violatiing the refresh button
I don’t see anything :/
WHERE IS IT
Everybody stand by. It should be up within a few minutes.
My hype is fading
My heart can’t take this
OMG Rendering….HYPE
I don’t know where to watch it
https://www.youtube.com/user/PokemonCoJp/videos
People crashed the Pokemon of JP site hahaha
It’s onnnnnn!!!!!!!
I imagine that there is a room of Japanese men yelling obscenities at each other right now over this video.
Youtube
ITS on!!!!!!!
Owl!!!!!!! Cat!!!!!! seal!!!!!
OH MY GODDDn’oeainrg[]oaeirngeiorsng[o0iaenr5 [anerg[i
Whereeee
IT LOOKS AMAZING
LEGENDS AND STARTERS AND RELEASE DATE
THE STARTERS LOOK TERRIBLE
I CAN’T COMPREHEND
Litten is going to be adoreable, and ya going to like it.
Whereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
OMG OMG OMG OMG!
I AM IN FUCKING LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
the moon legendary looks terrible :S
omg omg i’m crying and flailing send help
Oh wow
I NEED MY KITTY AND OWL NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn25hijDL7c
That was alot of Infos damn
That owl is so cute, want <3
Well that was, interesting
THE GAME LOOKS BEAUTIFUL
Yep the art design is incredible step up from X and Y.
Now we can sleep easier at nights lol
I want the kitty and the lion!
It’s called the Aloha region. I wonder what the game is based off of?
Twoson
WATER starer 8,5/10 GRASS 4/10 Fire 7/10 PCs 9,5/10 Prof 10/10 Graphic 10/10 Region looks good
but the grass one is the cutest one
Definitely getting Litten!!!! ALSO FULL MODEL FOR THE OVER WORLD!!!!!! THEY AREN’T CHIBI ANYMORE!!!!!!!
The characters look far more stretched/taller than x/y and or/as
I love the fire cat!!!!
me too, it is different and I like the red/black color I just hope that the don’t f up the evolutions
Same here. They really messed up the Fennekin and chespin lines in the last game. Hopefully they don’t make Litten turn into a bipedal cat for its final evolution
And everyone, this is officially the second time since Bulbasaur that we have a dual-typed starter!
I love the fact that the engine is the same as the cutscenes from XY/ORAS which make it look like a proper 3D Pokemon game now!
They have a different trailer on Pokemon Japanese YouTube
Soooooo
The region looks beautiful.
But the starters and legendaries look like booty lmfao
It will grow on people, just you wait.
You’re probably right lol. I like the cat the most out of all of them. I’ll give them time.
I agree just like when 5th gen starters were 1st revealed they got a lot of backslash.
sugimori art might help make them look more appealing!
I swear one of them better get beefy
Damn I dunno what starter to choose.
The starters are shitty
damn, it looks a hell of an ugly game
I like the cat and owl the water one not as much, I am going with the cat in one game for sure. Love the white lion leg too.
https://youtu.be/2r0_F-_ClcQ
at least the games are coming 1 day after my 26 bithday
I noticed something spike out on Litten’s back during its animation
THEY ACTUALLY USED THE FULL CHARACTER MODELS IN THE OVERWORLD NO WAY
I think the legendary Pokemon are just very different form what we’ve seen before. Until we get high res art of them and a better idea of what they’re about I’ll hold my opinoins lol
So we got character customization again…kinda COOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn25hijDL7c
Let’s talk about those legendaries for a second.
AWESOME
THe mooon one is horrible
Love both! Moon is my choice!
I liked everything I saw. The pokemon looked.. fan-made tho. I still loved it nonetheless.
Looks like we get a Hawaiian region!
Alola it’s the name
Oh yeah, I thought it said Aloha
hawaii confirmed! Isn’t it gorgeous-looking! ^^
It is! I love it. Looks a bit small, tho
I’VE GONE HOARSE FROM SCREAMING TOO MUCH
For the love of all things holy, don’t make Litten bipedal.
Well I can see it going into a Blazing Panther or a Smokey Ashen Ghost
I think we’re definitely in for a Fire/Dark.
One of them spicy goth kitties
Fire/Fighting Cheetah
this, please for the love of all things I want a fire cat that is on all four feet– I sure wish it becomes a panther that would be cool
The Legendary does look good though! I expected a Lion, the Bat is a surprise and quite welcoming, fairy flying I would guess.
is it me or the island is very small?
Not just you, but there’s a possibility of multiple islands.
Ok, so it’s the first multitype starter base form since Bulbasaur.
Boy looks meh, girl looks meh, rival looks interesting. We can see the trainer during battle camera pans… is this a sign we’re getting customization?
We are also not super-deformed in the overworld.
They look like the characters from XY haha
Well I guess Game Freak have decided, they can make one model instead of two, saving money, so they stopped making super-deformed overworld characters. And this could mean 3D models for ALL trainers, not just important ones (XY’s evil team members, AZ, professor)?
Boy = Team Aqua recruit, Girl = Blaze chicken fan, Rival = Marlon’s son. Bwahaha. <3
I see they’re making a huge focus on “connecting” people from different parts of the world. Could they be foreshadowing other regions being available to visit in-game?
Wait we might get a Tiki Pokemon
Still processing…
But i think we wont be able to take the hat off :/
in the Japanese trailer the trainer has no hat on
Thank god!
I just realized, that male protagonist, he’s totally dressed like a Team Aqua member (in training)? Maybe Team Aqua have some junior rangers/boy scouts or something. Or he’s a huge fan.
All of those people on 4chan who believed the fake starters were just blown out of the water in one fell swoop. That is what I live for.
Siiiigh well I made my decision
I will choose Poppilo
This is the first time in a long time where the decision is actually difficult for me! I’m leaning towards Litten.
Earthen genuinely likes a water starter….hell froze over
Poppilo for Moon and Litten for Sun!
I’m getting Sun
Hopefully we’ll get some neat Three Staged Ground Type which’ll pose as my Starter
Soooo the cat is growing on me. Love how his fur erects when attacking. I really hope they deliver on its evolution. Seems sphinx inspired . 8The water starter is just
beyond! Love him.
Yeah I love the cat! Not a big fan of the water starter but most Pokemon grow on me after awhile
Am I the only one who thinks that thw legendary pokemon from moon is horrible?
The moon one looks beautiful to me, i love the galaxy-esq wings 🙂
The rival looks amazing, gives me a Barry vibe! Barry was a neat rival. The girl will look pretty in the anime.
The starters are a bit of a letdown… But yeah, maybe they need to grow on me (us) as usual of course.
But my first pick is the owl for sure!
Loving that owl, Rowlet~
I am gonna be the oddball and choose them~
I don’t think you the oddball.. The other two look horrible xd
since I am getting both games I am going to pick the owl since he looks cute–and is the best out of the three. then I am going for the cat that one looks cool compared to the seel.
same here!! But what if they make the owl a fat big owl to make it the defense one in his final stage… :S
I won’t lie, I love that little leaf tail
lol what the heck has the female player character got on her head?
A replica of Combusken’s head feathers?
They revealed the name of Xerneas and Yveltal a few days after the reveal trailer for X and Y. I’m expecting that CoroCoro will have full artwork and names for them.
i have a felling that that strange design of the strarter are only a sign that the evoultions will be very nice
Agreed!
Have to say the Pokemon designs aren’t as good as I hoped, but I can tell we’ll get some quirky mons this gen. Rowlet’s design is slightly boring, and the seal thing kinda looks fan made. The fire ones cool for me though, pretty obvious it’s going to be a tiger. Region does look beautiful, but I hope there’s still going to be some variety in landscape. Protagonists clothing, is no where near as good as it’s been before indicating to me there will be customisation elements. Which is great!
Legendary designs for me are a bit dissapointing, they definitely look different to box legendaries we’ve had in the past. Solgaleos particularly stout. I’d called bat when I saw the logo.
have to agree with all of this
Guys we got a region name Alola Region
Not gonna lie, it sounds like Ariola
Wow I really love these starters. I think this is the first time I haven’t been able to instantly decide which one was my favourite. I think I might be leaning towards Rowlet though, I mean look at that head turning animation!
The legendaries look interesting, I prefer the moon one I think. Looks weird but in a good way.
both legendaries are nice! love that lion tho
Alola Region
Got a feeling Poppilo will go Water/Psychic
Well stop
There’s no way they’ll slap psychic on it. I predict either ice or just plain old water.
Am I the only one who thinks Litten will be Fire/Dark by its final form?
Quite possible, but could be misleading. If they go for Sphynx they could change the color sheme and make it part fairy
Would be cool. This would be the 4th time where I might just want all 3 starters on my main team haha. Only regions to do this so far were RBY, RSE/ORAS, and DPP. This might be epic and fun!
Man, that really is a weird-looking trio of starters. This will be a tough one to chew.
Guys
From this point on
COROCORO WILL LEAK NEW POKEMON
Poppilo looks like it might turn into some like circus seal type design
I imagine Poplio will evolve into something similar to Walerin
I’m going frame by frame now to see what I notice.
Poppilo is the one for me for sure! What you guys?
Same it’s no Flipup but it’s better then Litten
I like Litten a lot but I can see its already going to be the must popular 7th gen starter.
It’s cool + a cat. Cats always win
Rowlet is my #1 favourite, but Popplio is adorbz af too.
Rowlet is awesome. I’m very interested to see what Gamefreak does with its evolutions.
Well, I’m sort of in love witb Rowlet, like I actually wanna marry it.
I’m picking the owl just because it’s a dual type base form starter.
I can’t decide. I may go Ash and use all 3 haha!
Litten, it reminds me of my cat (she has black fur and a fiery personality 😉 ). The owl is meh and the seal is horrible. I don’t like any seal-like pokemon though
I agree not a fan of the seal compared to the other two– the owl is coo but so is the cat, glad I don’t have to choose 🙂 I will get both of them!
The hype for Sun and Moon officially begins now.
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/litten-large.png
Told u I saw something
Fan art?
no, official site
I guess it becomes a Fire / Dark
it’s a bit yokai watch like right? Or am I the only one thinking this
Since I preordered both versions, Rowlet and Litten will be my starters for the first playthrough. Litten’s final evolution gonna be fire/dark, calling it now. Rowlet is just a ball of cuteness, I can’t stop looking at it lol. Popplio is amazingly adorbz, but my 3rd favourite.
The version mascots look fking insane btw, quality stuff again
Today was LIT(ten)
Rowlet’s gonna be my bro for my Moon playthrough, you guys?
New move Leafage, hello?
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/rowlet-large.png
I love this thing already.
The head twirls are quite adorable though
This looks better already! Where did U get these?
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/
I think I’m going to choose Rowlet <3 It's so cute!!! asdfghjk
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I’VE DECIDED, BEST GRASS STARTER EVER. MOVE AWAY CHESPIN
I AGREE. SNIVY WHO? TREECKO WHO? ROWLET IS THE TRUE MVP!!!
CUTEST EVAHHH
Refresh
definitely going to be a circus design
I reeeally hope not
They really have to deliver on those evos, this has so much potential.
Do the starters look smaller to you?
Could feel smaller because we get trainer cam in battles, plus people are no longer chibi in the map…
Region looks like Hoenn in 3D should have looked, so I like that. The Legendaries have some Digimon-esque shading done to them though, not liking it at all.
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/popplio-large.png
It can blow bubbles with its snout strong enough to hold itself up
It also displays a degree of showmanship
Poppilo is too cool.
Rowlet: “Ummm someone, please send help?!?!?”
Also I get a Yuya Sakaki (Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V main character) from Poppilo on the last pic, which makes it 10x more awesome!
So after seeing all the starters attack pictures on the new site, I’m starting to really love all of them
Litten>Fennekin
Rowlet>Chespin
Popplio=Froakie
Overall, I think these are one of our better sets of starters design-wise.
I agree. They have great designs and I think it’s because they are a little bit different from what we’re use to.
Completely agree. Both the Kalos and Alola starter designs are sooo much better than the Unova’s, who make me cringe every single time I see them.
Yeah seriously. Even til this day
Lunaala uses oblivion wing.2. Also look, they’re in some temple or something and when lunaala comes everything is blocked out.
Someone pointed out that character customization may return bc in a screen shot the male MC is wearing a white black shirt, and the next he is wearing a white blue shirt. GameXplain get on this NOW BOYS!
https://youtu.be/2r0_F-_ClcQ
It is confirmed in the Japanese trailer
LOVE IT and I like how the models look similar to the XY ones, making my only work needing to be done are the eye color (my main OC has brown eyes with the basic look like me haha)
Watch the Japanese trailer. It’s for sure in. Andre and Derrek won’t have to work too hard to figure that one out 😛
Popplio knows water gun right away? That is new one!
Well the XY starters all know a STAB move to start with already…
ohhh yeah it was just bubble for Froakie. Forgot that. Thx.
No prob. They’re about the same power tho? Forgot what bubble’s BP is compared to water gun.
Yep.
I don’t post on here much but I gotta share my 2 cents right now..
I love the starters. All three of them – especially Rowlet 🙂 That 4x Ice weakness is unfortunate, but I suppose lots of Pokémon have that. As for the comments about a them looking “fan made”…maybe that’s just because fans have become really good at emulating what a real Pokémon looks like? So yeah, of course they look “fan made”
Not liking the legendaries a whole lot. The lion looks like a combination of Pyroar and Entei. The moon bat thing is weird…but it might grow on me. I’m not instantly in love with them as I was for Xerneas & Yveltal.
Also, does anybody else notice how small the Alola region looks?? How are they gonna fit 8 gyms/E4 in it? It does look pretty, though. Overall, I can’t wait!
Another slow water starter, cute thank god, but slow…
New move “Leafage” hmmm
I am such a Litten fa it’s not even funny!!! lol
Just like that, we have the information we’ve been waiting for. I’m still not fully processing this since it’s 5:30AM, but this should revitalize things around here. 😀
So does this mean litten follows the Chinese zodiac??????
it could potentially turn into a tiger maybe lol
Obviously
Oh really
Litten reminds me of a Yo-kai haha
Grass/Flying (obv)
Fire/Dark
Water/Fairy or pure Water
I could see the grass one becoming grass/ice though…
As much as I’d love that, I don’t see it happening
It’s already a flying type though, that seems unlikely.
types can change u know while evolving, as seen in history
Very unlikely
Never a starter though.
so , some innovation can happen aswell from gen to gen right
Ughhhhh please no fairy
What secondary typing do you predict?
Anything but Fairy
Totally going to go with water fighting , grass flying or grass psychic, and then fire dark. Double weaknesses against eachother.
I don’t think they’ll repeat those three typings after XY.
I’m extremely optimistic about the final designs of these starters, MUCH more so than the Kalos starters. Especially Litten.
Kalos starters were the worst starters imo
Highly agree.
Froakie is the only redeeming factor.
I feel like Froakie had such high potential. When they showed us Greninja, I was let down and I still haven’t recovered from that.
Greninja is horribly designed. Delphox has a great concept but it’s design is lacking.
But as the far as Chestnaughts overall design, they totally nailed it!
Delphox is the biggest letdown ever.
Unova starters say hi
No I think Serperior and Samurott are awesome looking
Love Serperior, hate Samurott. Not only as a design, but the full evolotionary line. I absolutely despise Oshawott lol
Dude are you serious? Serperior is an extremely uninspired snake – nothing else to it. No arms. No second type. Just a large snake.
Samurott is a unicorn seashell wearing sea lion dog mutation that completely diverges from its previous two forms. Horrendous.
My opinion. I don’t like Typhlosion or Greninja so I guess my opinion regarding the starters differs a lot from other people.
I just hope Litten stays on all fours.
I’m thinking Alola might be linked to Hoenn. Both regions have a tropical vibe and have their own volcano.
Also, did anyone noticed how the rival in the trailer looked a lot like Sawyer from the anime?
They wouldn’t let us go back to Hoenn though so I’m assuming Alola is located south of Kalos. It looks like the region is small (there will be probably more islands but it does feel small) so they’ll most likely let us explore South Kalos
I’m not saying we’re going back to Hoenn, but from what I could tell of the footage, the region looks similar to Hoenn. Maybe they were one region back in the days, but the Alola legendary’s seperated the land and created a new region.
Hopefully we’ll get some diverse landscape. Imagine how caves are gonna look like now?
I love the fact that the legendries have the symbols incorporated too! I think they did a good job and I am starting to like all the starters they are not that bad.
People just need to give it time the designs will grow on them. In the past 30 minutes the designs have grown on me immensely
“Rowlet can attack without making a sound! It flies silently through the skies, drawing near to its opponent without being noticed, and then lashing out with powerful kicks. It can also attack from a distance using the razor-sharp leaves that form part of its feathers.”
“Its visual abilities are impressive. The darkness of night is no obstacle to Rowlet! It can twist its neck nearly 180° from front to back so it can see directly behind itself. It has a habit of turning its head in battle to face its Trainer and receive instructions.”
I LOVE ROWLET SO FREAKING MUCH. I”M GONNA DIE.
Link
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon 🙂
Its on pokemon Sun and Moon official site
That avatar though. It didn’t take long. It’s a toss up between fire and water for me…..again. I never choose the grass starter.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can’t think of Rowlet’s name origin. I know that it is an owlet, but what is with the “r”?
have to wait 5 days longer here in Europe 🙁 hopefully some shops will break the street day
I’m from Europe too. Its a proper (slightly belated) birthday gift for me though!
Popplio’s swimming speed is known to exceed 25 mph. It’s better at moving in the water than on land. Still, when it’s on land, it takes advantage of the elasticity of its balloons to perform acrobatic stunts and jumps.
Popplio can snort out balloons made of water! Watch it spin water balloons into a playful battle strategy!
Both frivolous and hard-working, Popplio can easily get carried away—unleashing enough power in battle to make quite a spectacle! But Popplio’s determined spirit means it can usually be found practicing hard on its balloon skills.
The Water Gun move attacks an opponent by firing a jet of water. Popplio knows this move from the moment it becomes your partner!
Water/Fighting type maybe? Would give Rowlet a fighting chance against it’s opponent.
I’m totally set. I knew the trainer cam during battles was not just for show.
http://i.imgur.com/Q502A6x.jpg
What do you mean “trainer cam”?
You know how the camera pans during battle when you take a long time to select a move? You can see the trainer during this. This is beyond cool.
New region 8/10 too much water.
Serebii says that Rowlet has a new move called “Leafage” that strikes an opponent with leaves. Any thoughts?
It’s on the Pokemon website
Logical but also passionate, Litten always remains coolheaded and doesn’t show its emotions on the surface.
Litten can attack with flaming hairballs! Its fur is rich in oils and immensely flammable. Litten grooms itself by licking its fur, and then uses the collected fur as fuel for fireball attacks!
When the time comes for Litten to shed its old fur, it all burns up in a glorious blaze.
The move Ember attacks an opponent by firing a small flame at it. Litten knows this move from the moment it becomes your partner!
FLAMING HAIRBALLS?
Calling, we get a move based on Flaming Hair Balls of Death XD
So you’re going with Litten?
I may be stretching it, but I see Rowlet becoming a Tucan in its final form (or it maybe because I’m currently eating Fruit Loops right now}.
I’m expecting owl since it can rotate its head 180 degrees but hey Remoraid goes from fish to octopus so who knows
Ugh, why couldn’t they just reveal the names of the legends now!?!?! I’m really curious about those things!
If the trademark leaks were real, wouldn’t it still be Solgaleo and Lunaala across all regions?
No, that only applies to Japan. Here in the West we have different names with our language in mind. Ashimari, Nyabby and the other one didn’t carry over for the starters.
All cover art legends have shared the same name from Japanese to English. Seeing as Solgaleo and Lunaala are easily pronounceable in English, I highly doubt these names will change.
I’m thinking Luna’ala would work, with the Hawaiian setting and all. I suppose Solgaleo works too.
This Hawaii feel really adds a lot of positive energy and joy to it. That region screeshot shows maybe 2 towns max, the starter town and the second after that.
I just had a thought. When they show the region map it’s very cut off and on top of that the part it shows is the part the trailer shows of the the trainer going to the lab(presumably) That means this region is gonna be huge!!!!!!! I can’t wait to see the entire map!!!
The starters have already grown on me. I love all three of their designs.
What starter are you choosing?
Probably Litten for Sun and Popplio for Moon. I really want to use Rowlet too, so I’m just not sure!
Yeah, I’m going with Popplio for Sun and I’m leaning towards Litten for Moon
Litten for Sun and Rowlet for moon
Same, people just need time. The same happened when gen 6 final evos were leaked and everyone hated Greninja at first now he is looked at as 1 of the best pokemon design wise
Greninjas overly ANGILAR design and illogical tounge scarf is one of the worst starters I’ve ever seen design wise
People still hate Greninja’s design (although the ppl I know) but have tolerated it because of Ash-Greninja lol
I know some people still hate Greninja’s design but i was trying to say that there will be a shift in popularity as time goes on.
When I saw Rowlet, I was like ‘wtf is that thing’ but now that I’ve watched the trailer 1000 times, I like it.
Poppilo still has to grow on me. Don’t like the pink nose, I guess. Litten seems fine.
I hope Poppilo will have an amazing evo. Since gen 1 I’ve chosen the water starter, but gen 6 made me change that (to no starter at all). Hope I can go back to my water starter again.
Same here at the moment i think i will pick the fire starter becuase i had chespin in X but am not really sure anymore
Oooooohhhhh I just realized now we know the other bird Pokemon is not a starter.
Yup meaning that there’s still a whole other mystery on our hands hahaha
They’re really giving character to these new Pokemon, huh. I thought the transition to 3D was about as alive as they can make the games feel but nope. It’s a good day being a Pokemon fan haha
That manly guy with an open shirt was named Kukui, maybe he’s the professor? If so, he’s a manly beast!
If he’s the prof then who is the old man that gives you the starers?
Maybe we will have 2 (Father & Son, since its based on Hawaii, I assume Flowers and Family will be a BIG theme) like Prof. Juniper and her dad, Prof. Cedric Juniper. Anyways, Ohana means family.
He seems to be the Assistant, the prof is probably the Wulfric alike guy who releases the starters
Maybe he’s our dad?
I wish they gave Poppilo some legs
He might have legs by Final Evo. Only time can tell
Sea lions don’t have legs.
It can stand on its tail at least.
Rowlet is adorable!! Either gonna have to choose it or Litten, since I love cats. Popplio is alright. The moon legendary is moth-like, and I like it equally as the lion. Interesting that this is the second region based off parts of the U.S.
Another thing I think I love is the quick scene where the trainer picks up the starter! It only shows him picking up Litten, but it’s still very cool how animated they are making the over world models!!
P.S. that part is in the Japanese trailer I think
Those dynamic camera angles are sexy.
Sooooo why is the PC arriving to the ALOLA region??? Could he be from far away?
Kalos maybe ?????? hahaha I kid I kid lol
Could be! It is weird we never had that before. Why would the PC go to Alola to begin with?
Why do people go to Hawaii? To get away from it all hahaha
Definitely going to have Popplio as one of my starters. He is so cute and silly looking! I haven’t decided yet what other starter will go to my other character. I’m leaning towards Litten but it’s still open. I’ll have to wait and see…. BUT it does look like I’ll FINALLY get my Fire/Dark starter… What do we think the secondary types will be for these starters? AND I LOVE THE SUN LEGEND SO MUCH!
Same here Popplio has this goofy cute look going for it.
What do you think the second type will be?
I’m thinking maybe water/ice or just a pure water type what are your predictions?
Is it just me or is there a port at the bottom of the region?? Does this mean we could be getting a boat back to Kalos??
I’m not saying that I don’t like the region it just looks waaaaaaaaaaay too small to have 8 gyms and a Pokemon league as well as little towns inbetween???
It is just a screenshot of the region it is probably a much bigger island or we ll have multiple as the HAwaii Archipelago
It probably has connected islands with small towns on it. I highly doubt Alola is just one tiny island with a port lol
Hopefully Unova and we get Mega Unvova starters!
This trailer made me realize that Pokemon is nowhere near running out of ideas. They have an infinite number of possibilities for regions that can draw inspiration. And that makes me really happy for the future.
I am seeing people unhappy with the starters in this game, but I think they are the best starters in a while.
Hala is the guy who gives us the Pokemon guys according to Bulbapedia!
the region looks so so small
PROTAGONIST LIFTS POKEMON IN AIR.
MIND. BLOWN.
Even if this is only one scene… I love it!
When? I didn’t see that in the english trailer.
The Japanese trailer has more cool stuff!
https://youtu.be/2r0_F-_ClcQ
Because its from the Japanese trailer
I love it
The only thing that I’m sad about is that Pokemon won’t probably be able to follow you :/
You never know mate.
It would look incredibly silly since the games seem to be rendered to scale now tho
it’d be cool if certain pokemon could, like the smaller ones
Really like the starters especially Rowlet! They better not screw their evolutions up like they did in X & Y.
But I have to say I really don’t like the legendaries at all, other than that I’m super exited for the games 🙂
You mean like did in B&W
Samurott and Serperior are some of the best designed starters in the Pokemon universe.
Agreed, love me some Serperior
Samurott is gobshite
yes don’;t make the owl fat, don’t put the kitten on two legs en make the water one cool.
Yes! If they put Littens evos on two legs I’m so done
Please no…… I want Litten so bad and if it turns into a bipedal I’ll be sad……. lol
That’s what I meant haha
What are you even saying?!?!?! Chesnaught and Greninja are saints!!!!
Wow I am shocked which I guess is somewhat good because it means game freak can still throw me curve balls.
Ok
So Litten has an AMAZING design. It shall fit right in with all the other fire starters of the past and its evolution which judging from the heavy black coloration will be a dark fire type tiger which is great. I will surely pick this guy my first time around. Not too crazy about the name “Litten” however. I could think of 50 better fire cat names
Popplio, I am surprised at how on the nose a lot of the fan made art for this guy was so tight on the money. I can’t see myself using it because his clownishness Doesnt apeal to me overall, his design is still good and I’m excited to see how on earth they evolve this one. Here’s to praying they don’t fuck it up.
Now Rowlett. Oh boy. I think my biggest problem with this little guy is the lack of green in his coloration. We were just discussing in the last article how it would be extremely unlikely for them to release a grass starter that isn’t green. And I must say seeing the three of them together is quite jarring without standard green, red, blue pallets. This is however something I could get over. I love that it’s part flying right of the bat and I assume it will keep this as it evolves, making me wonder if it’s final stage will be a basic owl/quil. I’m only dissapointed because the fan made predictions for its design were SO MUCH BETTER. It’s a grass owl, they should’ve knocked this one out of the park. However I’m still happy and mostly excited for the final forms for these guys.
Oh and they totally nailed the legends does.
AND NOT TO MENTION THE GAMEPLAY LOOKS FUCKING PHENOMENAL! LITERALLY EVERYTHING LOOKS BEAUTIFUL! ITS HAWAII! IT LOOKS LIKE A VACATION RESORT! THE GRAPHICS! EVERYTHING SO LOVELY!
I don’t mind the lack of green. It might’ve looked like a parrot if it was all green 🙂
Suddenly Coro Coro leaks with more new info, and we all loose our god damn’d minds XD
http://youtu.be/e4w6V-PbPKM
I NEED MOAR INFO
You just need to play the game. You won’t be happy until then hahaha
The name of the old man that gives you the starters is name Hala.
I’ve said this before, but it’s a really weird coincidence. I just happened to go to Paris in 2013 during X/Y hype, and now I’m going to Hawaii in 2016 for Sun/Moon hype. Very peculiar timing all around, but hey, I’m not complaining.
Where the hell are you going after Hawaii? lol
I like tropical regions so this is nice!
Did you like Paris?
We were only there for a day and a half and were extremely rushed, and it was like 100 degrees, so the circumstances weren’t great. But overall, it was an interesting experience, and the tower is great!
The graphics are a significant improvement to X/Y. Kalos was kinda dull looking I’m really digging the look of the Aloha region.
Yeah I think this will be a great experience. I can’t say I’m surprised it’ll still have jaggies around the models, but that’s the 3ds’ fault not GF lol
I agree I just hope GameFreak go the X/Y route and make the games too easy.
Tweet from Derek from GameXplain, the analysis machine is back on in FULL POWER!
Rowlet looks like a coconut to me lol
I had a feeling the grass starter may go a fruit theme lol
Final evolution named Cocowlnut confurrmed
I want to screencap this because I believe it 100%.
I mean, Coconuts are pretty tropical haha but I think they’ll choose a better name than Cocowlnut xD
In game Rowlet looks so basic but those pics are just stunning. Wonder where they go for his evo.
So, anyone here think the new 3DS will give us the option for full 360 camera movement in and out of battle?
That would be amazing, but I doubt they would do that much more work for a N3DS exclusive feature.
True, but we never know, the devs behind Hyrule Warrior’s Legends decided to implement that into it too. Let’s see how it goes 😀
I really hope you can cut your characters hair. I’m not feeling the long hair wrapping around his ears very much……I like him as a whole tho!
I can’t believe we got starters, legendaries and the release date all on the same day. And that RELEASE DATE though! Not bad at all. One week earlier than I predicted.
Makes sense honestly. It gives people time to buy it for the holidays if they don’t pick it up on release
Release date’s a week after my birthday (November 12th) so I’m not complaining at all!
Since no one is talking about the new main theme remix, I want to point out that 1:07 in the US video has the same melody as RSE and ORAS title screen. Probably just preference of the composer, but I thought it was nice.
Also, on the note of main theme, get ready to listen to the new main theme for the next 6th months because they will use it in every reveal video from now on, lol
It should be noted that the AU/NZ release date is also November 18 (i.e. not at the same time as the rest of EU as usual) according to Nintendo’s Twitter! 😀 😀 😀
That owl looks VERY similar in color scheme to the one leak. I’d say either the leak was beta art, or it’s the middle form. Pretty sure the other two in that leak were a cat and a dolphin/seal thing as well, with the designs once again being different. ♥
Hey, someone confirm this for me, but I heard GameFreak is going to E3 this year? Which is odd since Nintendo is only doing Zelda, so how would they show details there?
I think Masuda is going to E3. He’s probably just going to be a normal visitor, though.
I have a feeling the moon legendary will be Fairy/Ghost and the lion Fire/Psychic
So, whose everyone liking as their starters and why? And what do we think their second types will be? I’m definitely picking Popplio for one version (probably Sun and my female character, Aurora) and then I’m leaning towards Litten for Cosimo (Moon). I think Litten will become a Fire/Dark type and Popplio will become a Water/Fairy (I don’t know why I think Fairy, I just am getting that…). Then I’m not sure Rowlet will change from Grass/Flying
Definitely getting Litten. I’m very drawn to it and that screen shot of the the player character picking it up makes me smile lol
What do you think it’s second type will be?
If I went based on it’s color I’d say dark, but who knows. I’d even be ok with it staying a fire type all the way through lol
Yeah, that is what is giving me the Dark typing vibe too… plus, he looks kinda sneaky…
I really hope it evolves into something cool. I’ll be devastated if these awesome starters are given butt evolutions hahaha
Was I the only one that thought Litleo would be FIre/Poison because of it’s scorpion like tail?
I think a lot of people were banking on it becoming a Manitcore lol
I dont see that with Litten (BTW, I hate the name Litten… it’s not, fitting… but ce la vie)
Yeah seriously, that’s I felt with tepig as well.
Fire/Poison would be very interesting too, I dont think that dual type’s seen before
The secondary typings are the typings I predicted as well 🙂
I’m picking Litten, I guess, I have never picked the Fire Starter for the first time. I’ve always gone for the Water one right of the bet (with gen 6 being an exception, since I liked no starter at all). We’ll see what they’ll evolve into.
Litten has potential to be a BEAST, I just hope it doesn’t flop like Delphox… I had such high hopes for the final evolution of Fennekin… I hope Litten turns Fire/Dark, even if it isn’t my FIre bear starter I wanted. And I don’t know why but I’m seeing Water/Fairy for Popplio…
Litten just has to stay on all fours, then I’m happy.
I think it’s Popplio’s nose that’s pink. I also can’t see any other typing actually.
Like what? Maybe Psychic?
I’d hate it if it became Psychic. I think that typing is overrated and I actually never use Psychic types (apart from some exceptions), because I just don’t like the typing.
I hope it’s not Psychic and we get something new for the secondary typings of our starters. I don’t want Fighting and I don’t want Psychic
Rowlet because I LOVE owls and will probably name it Hedwig. Grass/Flying. Litten because I just like cats, although the eyes are strange. Fire/Ghost to deviate from the Fire/Dark predictions 🙂 Interested to see where they take these two.
Like as in Hedwig and the Angry Inch? What do you thin their second typings will be?
No, Hedwig like Harry Potter’s owl…. 😮 I updated my first post after I forgot to add them in but I’ll guess Grass/Flying, Fire/Ghost (just cause everyone is guessing dark), Water/Ice.
Oh… Water/Ice would be SWEET! If they turn Fire/Dark and Water/Ice I’d be in heaven. Dark and Ice are my FAVORITE TYPES!
Ice and Bug types aren’t appreciated by Gamefreak :/ Fire/Dark would be cool, it’d make it the feline counterpart to Houndoom in a way
Hmmm, good point. Either way, I hope they don’t blow it with these guys. Lets see new secondary typings. It’s already like Sun and Moon are different than any other game. I just get that feeling. Different vibe, different layout…
I like it, it feels very different from anything we’ve seen.
Yeah, it is different. Even the characters seem more realistic…
Definitely love All of them now but I love Litten the most. I’ll agree that I see Litten becoming a Fire/Dark type but I can also see it becoming Fire/Poison
Really? Poison? I didn’t get that. What do you think the marking on it’s head represent/stand for? Or are they just markings?
Either a skull or the fact smoke from the flames is very damaging
I don’t know… We will have to wait and see… I just hope it’s a Fire/Dark because I’ve wanted a Fire/Dark FOREVER!
Well it shoots flaming hairballs, maybe they’re also poisonous?
I don’t know. They could stand for something or they could just be basic stripes and they gradually spread throughout its entire body becoming a fire tiger in its final form. I really hope they don’t mess this one up! This is the first fire starter I’ve liked at first glance since Torchic
As Pokemon actively try to surprise with starters typings, there’s no way of knowing. I hope we don’t get dark as we had greninja last gen, pure fire would be good. But no one would say Piplup would end up part steel, for all we know it will be part ground or poison.
I want rowletts type to change just for interest. I don’t see the fairy type being given to popplio. This time I have no clue how it’s going to go.
What about the legends types? Moons has madly grown on me but I wish it had legs and didn’t use a move exactly like oblivion wing.
Moon could be Fairy/Dark…. and Sun could be Fire something….
I would guess Dark/Fairy and Fire/Psychic. Or Fire/Light?? (Doubt it)
No… I don’t think there will be a new typing. Plus, Fairy is kind of the “Light” type… Maybe they are both Fairy types… Dark/Fairy and Fire/Fairy? Nah…. I don’t see that massive lion thing being a Fairy….
You never know, they could totally throw another curveball at us
I agree I like the moon legendary a lot but the fact it has no legs really bothers me.
2 things………How many times can I watch this trailer before I can play?!?!?!?!?! Second things is I swear to god if I can’t sit down in this game I will RIOT!!!!!!!!!
2 new feline pokemon in one day mwuahahaha >:)
3 if you count Sea Lions
True, they do have whiskers
Tell me the Moon legendary doesn’t look like it should be running Anistar city’s gym
That was my first thought when I looked at Lunaala. The color scheme and head are pretty similar.
I reminds me of Mothman
Omg I thought the same. They used very similar color palettes and even the over all shape looks like…..um…..whatever her name is lol
I’m FUMING. Why make Europe wait until the 23rd? Connards
Feeling the same way. I just don’t get it at all.
I’m guessing they still haven’t gotten over the time when XY was leaked pre-release haha
Where did it leak though?
(My memory’s a bit rusty) but I believe it was… Italy? I’m not a 100% on it tho haha
I think Canada? Not sure though.
Italy and Canada both.
In ORAS, Canada only got slapped with no confirmation until days before the release date, which is the same as USA. A minimal penalty heh heh.
Oh, I’m gonna play the game in Italian so oops (learning it, and even though I don’t get everything it’s a good way to practice. I won’t be able to come here for 5 days until the game is released here uh
I’m sure they have a good reason. It’s just something that happens I guess. Maybe it has to to with the way games are process in Europe or something?
Well XY were released on the same day everywhere :/ Gamefreak, you don’t make a game based off an European country then do this to us *cries*
Pokemon X & Y were based off of France, it’s someone else’s turn 😛
You can see your own trainer and the enemy trainer in fights.
Now customization makes even more sense than ever. Though I think they won’t show trainers in doubles, triples and rotation, making people want to do singles instead haha.
HEY, maybe this game will have emotes, and trainers get salty too when you KO their mon?
haha maybe, I just hope you have the option to don’t wear a hat/cap
This is one of the things I’ve been wanting. However it is possible this is a battle cut scenes too.
Possible, tho we can dream all the NPC trainers get 3D models in fights,right?
At least it’s practically confirmed by the English trailer, we can see our own trainer at least.
Not to be a party pooper, but this seems like a special battle at the beginning of the game; an exception.
PARTY POOPER I HATE YOU! BEGONE! <3
Ok just kidding.
What if… all the trainer fights show the opponent as a 3D model tho! I can dream. It's the time of speculation.
I hope CoroCoro gives us clean shots of the PCs tomorrow.
Would be neat if we’d get a gym leader tomorrow.
Slow down there buddy. PC art sure, but we are NOT going straight into the gym leaders at this point hahaha Maybe next month lol
I know but I need a new fix. 😉 A gym leader next month maybe.
But CC should come tomorrow so we should see
What’s pc art
Player character art sorry lol
Man that was amazing! The region and overwolrd looks fantastic! Starter’s are adorable and I can’t wait to choose! probably going Rowlett.
What’s your choice?
Poppilo! Its got this goofy cute look.
I do like him! It’s a tough choice this time, but I think I’ll go Rowlet.
GUYZ. SUN OR MOON LEGRNDARY? PLZ ANSWER I WANT TO KNOW
Moon I think
I like both…but I *might* like the Sun one better, because it’s a Lion.
Sun
Moon. For it’s color scheme and it looks majestic but still remains to look like a bad mofo
Definitely Sun, it looks awesome!
I’m still feeling Moon.
love ur name xd
Looks like the guy with the yellow shorts is your rival. Doesn’t look like a Gary-like rival, so if it were true, I’m bummed.
Omg I can’t believe how much we got. Starters, mascots, a look at the characters, the region the professor and the rival!? How cool! I love the legends and Litten is my new favorite fire starter of all time. Popplio looks silly. I hope its evolutions look cooler. Rowlet bugs me, not because of its design but because it doesn’t follow the same pattern as all the previous games. In the previous games, all fire starters are based on the Chinese zodiac. We finally have tiger. All water types have been amphibious. And all grass types have been based on prehistoric animals. Unless Rowlet evolves into some kind of moa bird or something I don’t see it sticking to the pattern. :/
Chespin’s a hedgehog…
Chespin and its evos were based on Glyptodont. A prehistoric armored mammal.
Just the evo’s are based of Glyptodonts. Chespin was just a hedgehog. So everything can happen with Rowlet.
I thought it was a chipmunk
I actually don’t care about Chespin at all.
Right. I had mentioned I hope it evolves into some kind of moa or terror bird or something.
Ok so the reveal made me want to restart my Y file (i was already thinking about it). Would anyone have a piplup, aipom (low level or egg) and a random pokemon of your choice? (surprise egg, no bidoof pls x) )?
What type do you think the legends are?
Grass/flying, Fire/Dark, Water/Fighting.
The legends.
I just woke up and my eyes are blurry you chicken.
Fire/Psychic
Dark/Flying
Another dark flying?
I hate to say it but Dark/Flying and Probably just Fire.
Dark flying after Yveltal? Like Yveltal.2? ( even its move looked Yveltal like)
Yeah. Even though something new would be nice…
Cosmic type. Come at me.
T’would be cool. I thought they might be something similar too.
Fire/Cosmic and Dark/Cosmic. Makes sense to me!
They do both have celestial patterns on their faces.
I would literally be so happy
HA!!!
Hello! I’ve been petitioning for this for years! I would love another brand new type and I feel like a cosmic/space type would be phenomenal. And possibly one day I would love to see a cyber type! I feel like these could work realistically in the Pokemon world as opposed to other fan-suggested new types. Pokemon from space and Pokemon from the internet lol
You think they’ll introduce another type so soon after Fairy? Remember there were like 10 years between Steel/Dark and Fairy.
I think the Sun legendary is a pure fire type or fire steel and the Moon legendary is a Water/Flying type.
I can totally see water or ice flying!
I can see it being an ice type definitely. I’m willing to bet that the Moon legendary is a water type since the moon controls tidal waves.
There’s literally nothing aquatic about it.. Why would it be part water?
I’m betting on fire/steel for the lion and the bat will probably be dark/flying or maybe ghost/flying or maybe even ghost/fairy or something
Fire/Psychic and Ghost/Fairy
fire/steel & ghost/dark idk xD
I hope Fire/Electric and Ghost/Fairy.
My fave suggestion so far! THIS WOULD BE EPIC
*get a cute professor*
Oh look a possible wedding band.
There isn’t a specific starter that appeals to me right now. I like all of them but they have a Gen 5 feel to em. They also all remind me of Kingdom Hearts dreameaters…
I don’t think he’s the professor, I think it’s the old man in yellow. Though this guy looks a lot cooler
This guy has a professor feel. Never know. Could be an aide. I’ll watch again.
Could be Prof’s assistant, the replacement of Sina and Dexio.
That screen makes me want Dexnav to come back……….I think it’s from the icons on the side lol
Yeah, and Kingdom Hearts is the best thing that happened to mankind since condoms, so
Omg yes. I was thinking of those things too though I’ve never played the game. They look like throw aways. Not really important
I gotta go walk my dog, be back in 30
everyone see the region map? It looks incomplete to me… Based off the scale of the buildings in the large “city,” it seems to be super zoomed in, and we’re not seeing many towns to travel too. Also, there are A LOT of roads–not routes–ROADS. I wonder what they are planning on doing with this whole car thing. If the region is based off Hawai’i, I’m assuming we’re only looking at the starting island (which doesn’t seem to be based off the big island, maybe Oahu). There’s a high probability we’re going to have a few others. 🙂
Yeah based on what we were shown I have a feeling that the map will be huge!!! The way the over world looks and everything I can’t imagine it being small. I hope that there are other a=islands that we can go to.
Its pretty obvious that wasn’t the entire region lol
It was pretty pixelated so I’m sure it’s not the whole region. There’s so much they could do with Hawaii’s other islands.
The old guy who gives you your pokemon looks like if Rowan and Birch had a child together. Kinda wish the professor was another female, unless that guy isn’t him.
Maybe that guy and Wattson form Mauville look like they could be brothers lol
They really do.
It fits with Wattson having a Hawaiian shirt in ORAS lol
Conspiracy!
Maybe Wattson IS that guy!!!! lol #conspiricy
I would have a child with Birch #cutie
Birch was adorable
Hawai’i confirmed, owl is actually real, Japanese names match the trademarks that were found..I was skeptical about some info thisbtime around, which is always a good feeling, not knowing. as for starters, rowlet is cool, but for now I’m having to say litten.(since I always choose fire, no surprise here Haha) and I have to say, I like the bat style for lunaala
Does anyone see the “Water-Hotel” thing ? No?…so there will definitely be more islands!!!
Yeah I don’t see it either, but there is a part of the island that we can’t fully see yet. Either way I agree with y=that there must be other islands we can travel to!
For sure! Also there is a port…
I’m making the prediction for final starter evolutions now: Grass/Flying, Fire/Poison and Water/Fairy.
Mine are Grass/Flying, Fire/Dark and Water/Fairy
I chose Poison because Litten gives me a toxic vibe: its fur literally contains oils.
I think the Forehead gives off Ninja vibes and Greninja is already Dark
I guess if Litten will become Poison then it would make more sense for Popplio to become Psychic.
I was thinking Water/Psychic, forgot about fairy
Where are you seeing the fairy?
I don’t know, Popplio just seems like a majestic seal.
For me it’s the clown motif and the pink nose
Nice prediction I’m going with Grass/Flying (obviously) Fire/Dark and Water/Ice.
What will the ECLIPSE legendary look like??
What will ever happen to Zygarde and the other loose ends from X and Y ??
I’m wondering if we get Z as a 7th gen Game for some Reason
I think we all know the evil team is going to be doing something funky in that big warehouse by the ocean..
I just want a third version of these so i can play a full game with all 3 starters
I’ve watched this five time and tbh I still don’t see an old guy in yellow…
Watch the one on the American Pokemon Channel on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/pokemon
Oh shit this better
This one has a lot more info so I don’t get why the Japanese channel has the lame video.
Merrick says the professor is called Hala
Even though he’s probably right I don’t like Joe.
Could Surge be from Alola?
That or Unova.
they mentioned that it in b2w2 at the pwt but didn’t confirm
Why do you think that
LT Surge is an American.
no, he’s THE LIGHTNING AMERICAN!
Lol yeah
So? What does that have to do with linking him to the Alola region?
Alola
Hawaii
USA
?!
Well since Aloha is based off Hawaii which is an American state. It’s possible Lt Surge could be from there.
http://65.media.tumblr.com/6afab76ac19e3fb11cae400a01dddc56/tumblr_o6yoq2vxsb1r2b88uo1_1280.png
And so it begins.
These creators are so damn quick haha
This made me laugh lol
Second evolution confirmed
Still so hyped. I am intrigued to see how they will play the region, will there really be multiple islands cause that could open some great missions to be done to get boat tickets.
After getting a better look at the Moon legendary I think I may like it more. For one it’s a freaking bat! Also it’s got such a creepy vibe going on. It looks skeletal and weird and it really draws me in………OH GOD IT’S GONNA DRINK MY BLOOD!!!!! LOL
Cemented me in Moon Immediately
hahaha I’m just not sure I like the Sun guy as much. It looks like it’s wearing mountain climbing sneakers lol
I can’t decide. I’m attracted to the darker colored games but this… I like both legends but the bat reminds me of a Noivern kinda.
I take that back about the aide guy after watching the other trailer. He’s hot.
Kinda looks like a douche to me
Nah mate reminds me of a better looking Marlon
Maybe they are married to each other
Marry me
The guy in the yellow shirt is hotter, but then again I have a thing for larger men xD
I LOVE Rowlet and I really like Litten too, since I am getting both Sun and Moon I might just use the GTS trick to get both of them for my first journey 🙂
The region looks kinda small to me, much smaller than kalos and hoenn
One Island of Hawaii look at this: https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/730022738757361664
Maybe the League will be where Hawaii is.
Being highly unlikely that cat will stand on two feet, I’m gonna already celebrate: First non-bipedal final form for a fire starter ever!!!!!! Can I get an amen brothers and sisters?
ps:And as usual it’s the starter that makes, by far, the best first impression.
Ehhhhh
We didnt think fennekin would
I didnt think tepig would
There is honestly no way to tell
Delphox and Emboar the most disappointing final evolutions ever.
Delphox is the reason I swapped my pick to Froakie at the last minute, Emboar isn’t that bad to me design-wise
Emboar is ok but there were so many different directions they could have gone with its design.
You’ve got a point… still it’s’ a nice sneaky dark type to be cat. I refuse to believe they gonna mess that up. And we have to consider that they had a scheme to the xy starter (the wizard, the ninja and the knight), so it was more accurate if they were all bipedal. I don’t think that’s the case here (I hope not).
So not the place to ask for it but would anyone have a piplup?
It’s mildly cute and has a sweet final evolution (the sinnoh ones all do)
Sorry I meant does not would
Oh, I thought you said WHY would anyone have a Piplup, lol
I do but I’ll have to make my 3DS work first with this trashy phone internet… hang on…
Thank youu
How do you smoke a blunt?
Rowlet and Litten.
(Don’t smoke, kids.)
Stfu
LOL
How cool would it be if post game we could go to the Sevii islands/Orange islands?
I JUST REALIZED! It’s called Sevii because “VII” is seven. How didn’t I catch that before? Anyway, I love that idea.
But, the Sevii Islands are part of Kanto
What if the Alola region is part of the Sevii Islands?
My theory right now, is that Alola and Hoenn used to be one region, but the Alola legendary’s seperated the land and created Alola. Alola and Hoenn have a lot of similarities (from what I could see in the trailer) like both being tropical regions and having a volcano.
Could take a boat/plane
I just thought it was a deviation of the word seven but that’s pretty cool.
IT’S TWO KINDS OF SEVEN!~!
Plot twist: there are fourteen islands
there are actually 9 sevii islands, including the ones from events.
Oh, yeah! I never got to go there ;-;
It’s amazing when things like this just dawn on you haha
Maybe this gen (VII) will go back there then!
Oh SNAP.
I just want to know how the magic islands from New York to Central Honshu Work
Good ass question. Maybe Groudon had something to do with it..
Groudon makes land, Regigigas pulled the continents into place.
Mewoth!! Mewoth!!! I See a Mewoth!!!! lol
EDIT: refresh!
Where??
Sorry refresh lol
Oh lol, now I can see it too.
So the island from the trailer looks certainly like the first one from right on this pic (refresh to see the pic). So I guess there will be aroun 4 gyms on this one.
Ah~ This is exciting!
We get to pick different skin types for our trainers which might mean there’s some awesome customization that might happen!
The starters looks cute. I might start with Litten first then rowlet.
Let’s hope there’s finally a dark gym after all these years!
It might have stigma since Dark type is Evil Type in Japan, which is weird since Giovanni is a gym leader
WHERE’S HIS HAT?!
Hmmmmmm very interesting. I didn’t think about that……
I see a wailmer pail
This is the Starter selection
Is that the professor’s name? Hala? Professor Hala? Is hala a tree??
I need to take a break so I can fully absorb everything we got…….I’m sad that now that all this is done I need to go back to a stressful day of school work…….
This is one of the things that excites me the most: the trainer behind his Pokemon. Looks like our rival.
He the trailer you linked me the trainers aren’t on the field so it’s either a Rival only thing or just a cut scene.
I know, that’s what’s bothering me. I hope they will use it in every battle, but I doubt that. I guess it will be in every battle in gen VIII.
I hope all trainers have models now instead of that awkward artwork. They over did themselves with Archie. >:)
I love Archie just because he’s hot. I hate Maxie 🙁
I’d love to see this generation’s third game being named “Pokémon Earth”. Also, it’d be awesome if its main legendary was typed as a ground/grass. Cheers to the new line! <3 😀
You mean like Pokémon Z? Since that happened too
Exactly! They’ve done it since its first generation! With crystal, emerald, platinum, white and black 2, z… So they’ll probably do it again hahaha 🙂
Emerald, B/W2 and Platinum are gold
Yup! Played them all hahahaha
Or Pokemon Beyond/Pokemon Infinity
Buzz lightyear has influenced me
Kkkkkkkkkkkk too funny to be real :p ;D
Protagonist actually touches the starter pokemon he chooses. Finally some excitement for becoming a trainer.
Damn I keep watching the trailer over and over and try to think of the gyms, the new villains, elite 4,champion and 3rd legendary and I’m like we got a minuscule bit of news and we’re going crazy lol
Well, CoroCoro might leak some new information, we just have to be patient.
Knowing GameFreak, probably the same info or at least the legendary’s names and types
Yeah I feel this month that’s all we’re gonna get but for me that’s a good amount
Just noticed in the japanese trailer gets the starter weak to Urs. o:O that is a new thing. Maybe the other PC gets the stronger one
I hope there’s another rival (not the other PC) that is mean like Gary or Silver.
Some obussive wishes are appropriate to SM, I guess.
He’s Bianca?
Lol quite possible with her being late and all.
Watch one of the gyms/E4 not be a water type trainer.
NEVER gonna happen 🙂
Honestly with Trollfreak, you can never say anything is for certain lol. Give us a damn Dark gym though >:I
Evil Gym! Evil Gym! (Dark=Evil in Japan)
Yeah, but not every Dark trainer in the game (E4 members) have been portrayed as evil 😛
Sidney was actually made more Evil-looking in Gen 6, but Malva was part of team flare, which is probably due to the whole flare part honestly.
Grimsley looks smug in his artwork.
and Karen was Evil in the Manga, but so was Will.
Grimsley?
The Gen V Dark type Elite 4 member.
Yeah I know, I was pointing him out because he didn’t mention him lol
GUYS I JUST WOKE UP AND AHHHHHH EVERYTHING IS AMAZING HYPE WITH ME AND OMG IN THE JAP TRAILER THERE IS SORT OF CUSTOMIZATION DID YOU SEE. OMG AND THE GRAPHICS LOOK SO FREAKING GOOD!!!!
but those starters….. I don’t know about them yet.
BUT THE LEGENDARIES. I ACTUALLY LOVE LOVE THEM
https://youtu.be/Kn25hijDL7c
Hmmmm….. Video not working. But yah.
Huh. That’s weird.
What’s the video called?
It’s the US and UK trailer. https://youtu.be/o2T25XRYjdw
Oh I already saw it XD I was just saying in the Jap trailer we see customization similar to X and Y.
Oooooooooooooo
Ikr.. love everything except those weird.. weird.. starters.
They seem likeanother fake scan.
OMG!! Lol ???
I was like.. ummm.. are these fake!?… please. . .? ?
You guys . . I know no one will believe me. But, two nights ago.. I had a dream and saw the starters and legegaries. I felt exactly how I feel right now.. . Very confused. I mean. There not my favorite in appearance. I swear they looked exactly like this. Hmm. What a waste of a future dream.. -,-
Those starters don’t even look reminiscent of Pokemon to me
SAME. I feel exactly like you do.
What gyms/E4 would everyone like to see?
Gyms: Water, Ground, Poison, Flying, Fire, Steel, Bug, Dark.
E4: Electric, Fairy, Normal, Rock
Champion: Multi
Gyms: Grass, Steel, Rock, Dark, Steel, Water, Dragon and Fire
Elite Four: Flying, Fairy, Ghost and Poison
Champion: Multi
A Flying E4 would be cool too.
Gyms: Fighting , Water, Dark, Flying, Fairy , Dragon, ground Poison : /
E4: Grass, Rock, Bug Psychic
Nice, I hope those underused gym types like dark/ground/poison/flying/bug get some lovin.
Also steel needs some love.
They do for sure!
Who’s the one who needed a piplup again? Want it placed on the GTS? Just put up some cheap-S poochyena or scatterbug.
Scatterbug is adorbz af
Hi! How can you find me?
Just say what your trainer name is, what you put up on the GTS for a piplup and have a special message.
My trainer name is Leo, I left a Litleo ( x) ) and the message is “it’s Leo” . Thanks a lot 🙂
Done!
Thank you! If you ever need something just tell me 🙂
Thanks for the offer, though I probably have everything I could need except female HA Swinub/Piloswine/Mamoswine in a Dusk Ball.
If I find any I’ll try to capture them
Does anyone else feel like the region is small?
It’ll be bigger
it’s one island of hawaii, someone made a comparison image
Yes and no.I feel like the right now we can’t see the full region. But I think that once they reveal the map and stuff it’ll be huge. Especially with that full render of the WHOLE region.
I’m guessing the names of the legendaries will be revealed on the 14th as part of the CoroCoro update. I’m sure the magazine wants some exclusive information as well, and this would be it.
I love the cat (fire/dark to be), ignore the seal, hate the owl. Regarding the legendaries: Love the lion, didn’t even understand what the other thing is (a bat-ish animal?).
I hope we get new Eeveelutions
Bug and Flying ones! :O
Ew no. Poison or Steel.
I bet those would be cool too.
If we get Cosmic type, I want to see Galaxeon.
Gingia? (based on japanese names of Sylveon Glaceon and Leafeon)
As well as a lot of previous pokémon pre-evos and evos! I’m not that fond of mega-evos, so it wouldn’t be major to me… =)
Me too! Dragon, flying or fighting!
Poison or ground
We don’t need any more
8 is enough people
You can never have too much eevee.
There should be a limit
the limit is currently 18
We don’t need 18 bloody eeveelutions
I know why I feel weird about the starters. Because i’ve seen so many pictures of the idea of what the starters might look like, and plus they don’t seem sugimori to me yet. But let’s see.
I’m not gonna lie the first time I saw them I kind of didn’t feel them either, mostly litten because we just got litleo but they’re really growing on me the more I see them. And I guess they’re growing on me more cause think about it they have 2 more evos so we get more and hopefully better designs.
I’m betting this region will have around 105 new pokemon.
I think you bet right XD I agree
The ideal would be 130 but I think they’re bringing the count down since B/W.
gen 3 had 135, and gen 4 had 107, so 130 and 105 are good estimates
I’d say anything over 100 is accurate. A lot of people, including myself, didn’t like the small number of new pokemon in X&Y so hopefully they have more this time.
Definitely more than Kalos. I don’t think X and Y were anything more than a tech demo.
Yeah..Kalos was pretty but there wasn’t much to it, imo :/
Too short, Johto was kinda short but it had stuff to do between each badge, and Kanto.
Agreed. I feel like Kalos had all of these cool locations that it just didn’t capitalize on.
It better. I’d loved for nothing but new mons like BW. But the meowth might prove that won’t happen…
Yeah I liked how B/W forced you to use the new ones. I wish they’d keep that around
Kalos decided to go to the opposite end and ended up suffering, but the fact that shaking grass encounters were a thing in Unova bugged me, since they were generally things like emolga or the monkeys, and audino was generally 90% of the encounters
There were too many old pokemon in Kalos, making the new pokemon not feel special. But I liked how ORAS did the shaky grass. I just hope they bring back the dexnav. So helpful
they’ll at least bring back amie or give sylveon another evo item like they did for milotic
Probably more than that since this a odd numbered generation.
I hope so!!
Remember when Sugimori said they want a different more simple art style for these games. What the heck happened to that man?
Idk. These legends are way less detailed and all over the place than black and white’s and black and white 2’s. Every design choice for these starters and legends seems super deliberate and cohesive.
Well I’m glad my heart was already set on Sun. He’s my favorite design. Though I never catch legends. . .but still
I think they were trying to keep up with yokai watch with these wacky designs
Litten is my starter.. . Along with my Togetic
Why not?
So I wonder what’ll happen with Kalos. I wonder if we will be able to go to kalos. I just don’t know. I really want Kalos to stand out but I don’t feel like it does.
I think we might somehow get Z in gen 7
OOoooh. Interesting thought.
Maybe we will..they already have it designed so it wouldn’t be too hard to update it and slip it into the post game
Is it me, or does the Strange Souvenir item from X/Y have a Hawaiian vibe?
yes… and somebody overlaid the map to one of the hawaiian islands
I must find this…
I posted it down Below, set it to newest first.
I don’t know why but the guy that looks like the rival, his facial expressions remind me of someone who’s laidback. Or arrogant.
He looks like bloody Sawyer from the anime. And Sawyer’s hometown is unknown, might be hes from Alola.
IKR!
He’s from the Hoenn Region
Oh that makes sense XD. But this region really reminds me of Hoenn….
Hoenn and Alola were once one region, calling it now.
Hawaii and Kyushu?
It’s fantasy, so anything is possible. Both regions are based on tropical locations and have a volcano
His hometown is unknown, so who’s to say for sure he’s from Hoenn?
I think we go back to Kalos after beating elite 4. So there they add some plot to link with zygarde final form.
I’d also love a new Sound type! It could be super effective against electric types
How
I think that is a type in a pretty popular hack actually
Do you think the pokémon company could face trouble with its patent?
Idk why but in gen 6 and 7 the 1st evo grass starters really caught my attention I just can’t wait for Rowlet other evos because l loved Quilladin and Chesnuaght I don’t care what ppl say.
Wonder if Phoebe from Hoenn coukd get a cameo. She had that nice Hawai-ish theme to her.
OT would love for the Anime travel girl to have a darker skin tone. That would be a really welcome change, but I guess it won’t happen.
What do you think the legendaries types are, guys? fire to the lion and psychic to the… thing?
Fire of some sort, and Poison or Water or Dark or Psychic
Sun legendary Fire/Electric
Moon legendary Ghost/Fairy
Ghost/Fairy would be really cool, but I think that’s not the case there, though it’s so weird that it could be anything.
Remoraid evolved from a tiny fish into an octopus. There’s plenty of things in the Pokemon universe which doesn’t make sense, XD.
I think the Sun Legendary will be a pure Fire type or Fire/Steel and Moon legendary will be Water/Flying or Water/Psychic.
I’d guess Fire for Sun and Fairy/Flying or Fairy/Bug for Moon
Ugh . . There growing on me.. I think I want Litten And Rowlett with my Togetic. First time I dislike the water starter. He’s just too basic…
The Aloha region does look rather small tho maybe this not all of it?
It’s not. There’s going to be other islands.
I hope so.
I imagine it will have other islands… like Hawaii.
Definitely isn’t, and most of it was also zoomed in in the trailer, it was probably just a small portion of it. Most likely has several smaller islands connected to it, like the Hawaiian archipelago in real life.
Are you people blind
This is just the bottom of the region,
It is Alola and it will probablyhave more Island within it.
someone made this: https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/730022738757361664
It’s interesting that the male protagonist’s hair is typically latin-american at the same time that the region’s based on Hawaii
My hair looks like that and i’m not latin american
What’s a latin-american hair?
Yeah, it’s really just straight, dark hair, people of all ethnicities can have that
I mean the way it’s cut, with a little on its back… And it’s pretty obvious anyone in the universe can let its hair grow like that, as well as dye, straight or curl it (or, of course, being born with it). But, here, I’m talking about its cut! What we could call “mullet hair”…
Billy Ray Cyrus as a kid confirmed.
Why does this region look like the most linear region ever? I’m waiting for a map or another trailer to show me tall grass or something :/
I hope routes don’t take 30 seconds to finish.
Ent! That’s why I didnt like XY so much :/
XY was all around great to me. I just don’t want it any shorter
Lol. It does look like they simplified everything just for appearance. They need to consider something more powerful than the 3DS
I think the general consensus is that this is the first of multiple islands. Presumably the other islands would be more in depth. and this one is just the staring area with little extra features.
Maybe we’ll get surf early this time around.
you get it and almost never use it with the third badge in XY
I completely forgot about X/Y. Did you ever use it there?
once, to get past a small patch of water between shalour and most of route 12
I guess ORAS made up for it
I just realized npcs and the pc isn’t an awkward chibi character like XY and ORAS. I’m so excited. I hope the N3DS has some exclusive features, such as 360 degree camera with the c-stick
Litten looks soo digimon.. like I swear it can talk. These are a mix of yokai and digimon
*dreameaters
That too
Dream Eaters are bloody awesome though. KH <3
I had mixed feelings about them. I loved most of them but others were just really weird. Didn’t feel like they belonged in a KH game.
I thought they were a refreshing addition to the KH universe actually. And a clever way to show what the Darkness looks like in the Sleeping Worlds. Nobodies/Heartless/Unversed would make no sense lol
I guess. The secret ending was worth the game though. It was altogether amazing on 3Ds.
The Moon Legendary is a giant zubat.
I think I like Sun more but I’m not so sure.
The mufasa one is fire/light (light type confirmed) and the batman one is dark/fairy
Lol, stop trolling bruh
No freaking light, sound, cosmic or maguffin type
Thank you.
So far I like the Sun legendary better but I’ll wait to make a final decision once I see their official artwork
So I just saw some official artwork of the starters and immediately like them a lot better now.
They look far better in the art than in the trailer, indeed.
I can’t decide between the three, but it probably won’t be the water starter.
On serebii? Me too. The water one finally has a personality. Though. Litten.. my favorite.. didn’t look so great there
I’m wondering if Litten will receive a signature attack based on being able to use fiery hair balls to attack with?
I think it should just be call fireball, that way other Pokemon can use it without it being weird.
Rowlet omg! Omg! I’m going to die from its cuteness
I love all the starters. Considering I saw all this during the summer like when I saw the RS starters and legends during summer break way back, this feels so nostalgic and I want to get back into pokemon even more now!
Oh and the professor looks like another male. Except he has no shirt on. Okay then
Are you team rowlet, litten, or popplio
Rowlet has a bow tie so I think I’m going with him
Popplio first place, Rowlet and Litten tie 2nd.
I want Rowlet and Litten in 1st, AND Popplio is second,
I’m rowlet
Litten and rowlet are both good
Poppilo
Then Rowlet, Litten is Neko bait
I guess I’m team Popplio, but I don’t know if I’ll choose it. I didn’t get Mudkip for ORAS, because I wanted to surf through all that water on a Sharpedo. I think the same will happen here.
1st Rowlet
2nd Popplio
3rd Litten
Team Popplio for life.
Rowlet!
Team Litten
Rowlet – so damn cute!
I just realized that because of Rowlet, each type of starter has a bird now. Fire has Torchic, Water has Piplup and now Grass has Rowlet
http://67.media.tumblr.com/d67af36fd43647d1f5a2d8ed10c932b7/tumblr_o6ypl7Mr241r4gsiio2_r1_1280.gif
Litten is a Tiger Because of the Chinese Zodiac!
Well yeah, fire has always been that: dragon, rat, rooster, monkey, pig, dog, tiger
Oh cool!!
And Grass used to be reptiles until Chespin.
There are said that birds evolved from reptiles.
So did mammals. Birds are just more closely related because they remain functionally very similar. Crocodiles are especially more similar to birds.
Well technically cyndaquil and it’s evo line are based on badgers… and fennikens line is a fox not a dog… not rat and dog
I was indeed hoping for a grass birb in Gen 7.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3627/648/original.jpg?w=600&h
the person who gives you your starter’s name is Hala (refresh)
Good eye! I ignored the name and just looked at the pop up text box .-.
It’s nice to finally have another owl Pokemon again.
I will have one and name him Mukuro, or Chrome if it’s a Girl
Nice nicknames. Can’t wait to see what the second and final forms of all three will be!
It’s nice to have a flying starter. I’ve wanted one for a while. Hopefully it won’t suck like Tropius
Ice Shard 1HKO
Like ground types
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That thing was awesome with its ability tho
I wonder which Ash will get? I really can’t see him in that outfit… no jacket
I guess Fire and Water.
Grass to go to Luna (female trainer) to participate in Sky Battles (new goal- way to wishful thinking)
Lol. Maybe. I’m worried car may go to girl. Though he didn’t get litleo for a reason maybe
I’m hoping Ash will win this league and leave the show. It’s about time.
Since he kicked Diantha’s ass last episode, that’s actually possible.
Lol. I’d be sad to see him go actually
We should have retired him in hoenn or unova, since they were where he could have left the easiest
Would be time, but I always thought he would win Kanto and than leave the showm
Lol, you honestly think they will write Ash out the anime? Thats never going to happen, nor should it. He’s the sole reason there even is an anime and why its still going strong for 20 years.
Let’s see sample moves for each
Rowlet
Leafage
Growl
Peck
Gust
Leaf Tornado
Foresight
Litten
Ember
Scratch
Leer
Flame Burst
Bite
Shadow Sneak
Poppilo
Water Gun
Tail Whip
Double Slap
Aqua Jet
Encore
Acrobatics
Add Fury Swipes for Litten and you’ve got a legit cat.
I’m so much more into the starters now, after the artwork reveal they’ve got much more life into them.
Especially Rowlet, gave it innitial a 4/10 now would give 7,5-8/10.
I can agree 100%
I love ro now.
Would anyone like to give their ideas on the stats of the starters? I see Litten being a fast special attacker, Rowlet being bulky on the physical side and Poppilo being a mixed attacker with above average speed
I see Lit as basically Fast Physical or Mixed, Row as Bulky or Fast Either, and Pop as Fast or Bulky Special
First time since Bulbasaur the first stage of a starter pokémon has two types
Im picturing its final being a big-ass owl like from Winnie the Pooh, but with grass stuff on it 😀
coincidentally also the grass type
Professor Hala, everyone.
Lauhala, lau meaning “leaf” in the Hawaiian language, refers to the leaves of the hala tree (Pandanus tectorius).
Research link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauhala
I wonder what the stick thing in his belt is. New pokedex?
Professor Hala is hot af, I’d take him to dinner, and then some.
Sorry, lost my mind there for a sec
Interestingly, Juan’s Japanese name, Adan, comes from Pandanus tectorius,
the hala tree.
Since it’s based off Hawaii pleeeease make 629 new pokemon based off off the Lilo and Stitch experiments xD
There better be a stitch based pokemon
629 is Vullaby
Popplio’s name seems to be a combination of pop and lio from Ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua the Hawaiian name for the Hawaiian Monk Seal, meaning “dog that runs in rough water”.
Isnt pop just a deviated “pup” as in a baby sea lion?
Pop, as in popping balloons
Aw ew ‘~’
Well it put the owl in a water ball…
That really sold it for me
You guys.. I Really hope for new burst forms or whatever ash greninja is for all starters also. This way if I want more than one starter… one can mega.. one can burst.. so I won’t feel like I have to replace the weaker mega with a better Pokemon. I just can’t stand having a Pokemon on my team.. that would be so much better as a mega.. but the slot is already taken for that
No thanks for me
I hope that never exists in games
It definitely will… for certain Pokemon at least. That’s what that diamond is for in the logos.
I wonder if they’ll make a hawaii 5-0 reference
Not willing to be shady (and being already), but am I the only one who thinks the moon legendary looks kinda star trek spaceship went wrong? spaceship type confirmed?
LOL
It looks like Olympia’s cape became sentient
Its possible Olympia’s from Alola
“Lunaala, the Olympia pokemon”
Wait so we’re still going with Solgaleo and Lunaala? Because those names actually still work!
I guess so, but these names might just be the JP names of the ledendaries
Cool, thx Glaceon. see what i did there? :3
Now I really wanna see Starter Evos
Lupplio – I could imagine getting legs via those pedals, going into bipedal sharm variation.
Litten – Liepars alike, with that stuff around his getting more prominnet and a buffed tail
Rowlet – Emu alike with some amazing wings.
I guess it’s finally time to say “RIP grid based directional movement”
Maybe the new girl will get the water type.. or serena if she comes along. That’s the natural performer of the trio. Ash needs a brake from the water types after special greninja
Would love for Serena to tag along and the new girl to come aswell. ^_^
Yeah, she might be the new Brock… seeing as she likes Ash and all
Also people are seriously shipping them, which is sooooo weird but if that keeps Serena around I’m in.
Well I wish I would have stayed up now. But oh well. I was too tired. I love everything and the trailer. Hawaii confirmed. I like the fire and water starter the grass one though eh, maybe the evos will fix that. The rival looks cool. Both player characters look nice. The professor looks awesome. The graphics and such look really nice (finally goodbye grid). The region looks pretty cool. Reminded me a bit of Sinnoh with that volcano which makes sense because Hawaii. And both box art legends look awesome. I am definitely very excited and can’t wait to see more. Looks like no following Pokemon still but eh I didn’t really excited it so whatever. Also I’m glad we’ve finally got a real release instead of “holiday”. Definitely excited and can’t wait.
If Hala is the professor, who’s Kukui? Is he the rival and your cousin? Or did he just say cousin because hawaiians call each other that. Also he has on a lab coat and is shirtless underneath c:
Kukui seems to be the Assistant and cousin who greats us upon reaching the region.
My guess is not actually related. It’s just like Stitch calling his fellow experiments cousins.
Do you know what would be cool? Not just seasons… but holidays in game. But hawaii isn’t know for its many weather changes
Holidays? You think this is animal crossing or what? xD Pokemon Crossing…
Lol. I would love that. If they want to keep up with Yo Kai watch.. the games need as much personality as they can get. Though.. I think yo kai monsters and games suck personally
I’ve been wanting a pokemon crossing for so long. Catching bug and fish pokemon instead of regular bug and fish and planting pokemon berries and flying to other people’s villages and omg
I love Yokai Watch, mainly because they did everything Pokemon hasn’t done.
I would love for location based weather. Like if it’s raining in your area, it’d be raining in the game. Probably will never happen though
I want an area of perpetual rain
Is it official those legendaries names that leaked? Because lunala (whatever is spelled) is way too delicate and feminine for that thing, right?
Luna = moon and Ala = spanish for Wing. Makes sense to me.
it looks pretty delicate to me, i can see it as lunaala
Reminds me of that stellaluna book
Hey do any of the leaked pokedex’s match these starters? The flying grass seems familiar
THERE WAS A LEAKED POKEDEX?! LINK IT SOMEBODY
Lol. No. Very old. Not today
I can see Poppilo’s second stage being slightly taller and longer, the frills around the neck grow a pointed lobes with a pearl at the base of the neck
The pectoral flippers much longer and sturdy, and it will gain 2 tendrils that resemble a jester’s cap, and it would get slightly longer whiskers
And the tail longer
Ian please, I beg of you! Start writing! Your descriptive skills are so on point ._.
http://prntscr.com/b2f11z camera and camcorder options?
Xtransceiver?
I noticed that too. What if there is a side story kinda like Pokemon Snap
The final form for the cat could be a fire/dark sabertooth of some sort. Is there one already?
would be awesome!!
I just want it to learn Shadow Sneak
sabertooth sounds more like a fossil pokemon
There better be an NPC that looks like Lilo, maybe with a banette or spinda to look like scruff
omg yessss and a stitch pokemon too obviously
yeah, they could base it on a French bulldog again an dye it blue.
Shiny Granbull works already. Kinda.
I have no comment to make on which starter Im choosing because I dont want a repeat of what happened in gen 6. I’ll wait to see the final evos lol
For all I know pooplio could end up looking fierce like Walrein 0_0
Guys a thought glazed over my mind
Since Litten is a feline, will it be able to learn Assist
If it does it might be an Egg Move
What does assist do again?
Randomly uses a party member’s move
I wonder if they’ll fix Nidorina and Nidoqueen
What’s to fix?
the breeding thing that pokedex contradicts
Have you noticed that the official description for (russian)rowlet gives off a ninja vibe. Would they shove down our throats a greninja situation part 2?
Litten looks more ninja-y to me
I know, but descriptions and hips don’t lie.
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon/rowlet/
You do realize owls are predators right?
http://youtu.be/XeFxdkaFzRA
I knew the muppets was really baby owls in disguise
I showed you this! 😮
Please no it’s too cute. Make it fast but bulky with Thick Fat as it’s HA
Thick Fat would help with the 4x ice Weakness
Owls fat, that’s redonkulas
Lol that’s because that’s how owls are. They literally make no sound as they fly. Besides it already has its 2 types, unless triple-typing confirmed
Does any one think that the “region” looks a tad small. I think there will be multiple islands because the one they showed looks liked it amounts to a large town.
They only showed the bottom of part of the region.
no, they only showed one island of hawaii
I wonder what the other islands will look like? Maybe one per gym or something like that
there are the same amount as hawaii
I guess that would make sense lol.
So I’m really curious now how diverse the region will be. Because it looks like EVERYTHING is tropical. Except for the city which looks like a regular urban city. But what I like about Kalos is that the region is diverse. So I hope that this region isn’t just water water palm tree mountain water lol
I can’t wait
How was Kalos diverse? It was how Europe is
Well, I mean it had desert, coastal area, snowy mountains, swampy areas, floral, farm lands, and cities. It was VERY diverse.
Hawaii got all that too, except maybe snowy mountains… and maybe deserts
True, true.
This first part/island of the region indeed look pretty basic still I think they will create diverse paths and stuff.
The weird thing is I don not see a forest part here, which is weird for a Poke game.
I guess it would be more of a jungle path now
Ohh a jungle. That could be entertaining. But I don’t see that either.
It’d be really cool if each island was based off of a different biome. It’s a fictional world, it doesn’t need to exactly make sense.
So someone explain what that Moon thing is supposed to be.
Should have been a wolf. Perfect contrast to the feline looking Sun legend
it’s the game’s symbol
It’s a Lunaala. A Yveltal part 2, if you will
Yveltal I actually liked more than Xerneas. But that thing is ugly.
It’s a Bat/Wyvern
It’s Batman.
nana nana nana nana BATMAN!
Woman
if they added Cosmic type, would Deoxys Be Cosmic?
http://youtu.be/eSCcIv_dLlg
Okay, serious talk here: I’ve missed this feeling so much. Of a pokemon game coming out, people are all excited, new speculation. It’s just one of my favorite parts of being a Pokemon fan.
Same! I love it and this is just the beginning 🙂
Nothing during 2015 can compare to this moment!! 😛
Do you think Alomomola will be in Alola?
I need a Water surfer chick gym leader. After Misty we only got male water type gym leaders.
We need a goth chick dark type gym leader
Dark Gym Leader funny
And wouldn’t Ghost make more sense?
No
are Fantina and Morty Goth?
Wasn’t that BW2 poison gym leader a bit Goth?
I would prefer a Count Dracula dark type gym leader.
It’s punk rocker
Misty <3
The annoying part of being a Pokemon fan: just wanting MORE info. I can’t wait til next month (since CC of this month will just give us the info we got today).
Fanart will get me through until next month.
No it won’t
Yes it will
Yeah good point. Fanart often makes me grow fond of a Pokemon.
I imagine Leafage is just another Razor Leaf….that would be a bit disappointing.
So it’s probably just a weaker magical leaf 😛
First awesome fan art I’ve found:
Credits: Sylvaur at Deviantart.
There’s lots of great fanart on twitter.
I’m never on twitter so I guess I gotta check it out again
Yes do
If they screw Rowlets evolutions up I swear to Arceus
It’s gonna evolve into an Ostrich
If they can make it work then I’m all for it but just about anything would be an improvement from X & Ys starter evos
My bet is that he is going to look like a penguin with a bowtie
Okay so rowlet’s leaf,
bikini or bowtie?
Bowtie
my first impression was bikini because of the clam bras in the little mermaid.
Bow tie.
Rowlett is growing on me… I like how he’s a dapper little bird thing with his leaf bow tie…
…or bikkini,
maybe he’s going look really posh and have a monocle in his final evo
OMG THEN I’M SO PICKING HIM FOR ONE OF MY CHARACTERS! I’m really torn… I’ll have to see the evolutions of these starters, what types they are, how they turn out, etc… Right now I’m leaning towards Popplio and Litten
I don’t know if anyone posted these images, yet here they are:
Screenshot 1: Introduction to the game, with your cousin assisting the trainer with his moving.
Screenshot 2: Trainer customisation returns once again. Now, it a dark skin trainer.
Screenshot 3: Talking to your cousin.
Screenshot 4: Running.
Screenshot 5: Starter selection.
Screenshot 6: Holding the starter.
Screenshot 7: Glasses lady again, I’m assuming she’s your mum.
Screenshot 8: Rival Battle.
This new game looks amazing! I love the full-3D models. This has improved the overall look with having a all-3D game!
We’ve talked about all this. Cousin however, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re related, but it’s very possible your cousin will work for the professor.
Is that a Meowth by the glasses lady? If it is, could mean that this Region is full of non new Pokes, I’ll still only be using new ones regardless
Honestly, after seeing so much brilliant fanart for possible starters and legends, I’ve stopped expecting designs from a small team at Gamefreak to match with what the entire fandom can come up with, and Im gonna look at them objectively, without considering how great they COULD’VE BEEN.
Rowlet ( My favorite! :’) ) 8/10
He’s the perfect balance between adorable and sentient. Among all starters, we always look in the base form for KAWAAIII with a hint of future potential. In rowlet i can see potential for a giant bulky owl, with massive wings, (considering it has to be able to fly as it’s a grass/flying type confirmed already), or perhaps it’ll slim down and become a sleek and elegant silent night owl thingie. I’m okay with either… stat wise i wish it could be special, but leafage already sounds like a physical move, and they would’nt give it a new move if it were to change it’s predisposition later on. At best i can hope mixed, but looks like it’ll be physical.
Litten 7.5/10
I love her character, the way her eyes look ominously. Since they describe it as more logical than passionate, I’m assuming the final form will be more passionate, unleashing its inner aggression. It’ll almost definitely be fire/dark and either special or mixed in predisposition. I’m hoping for an angry or frighteningly ferocious tiger or panther design, kind of like Bagheera, yet benigh underneath.
Popplio 6/10
It’s design is just…. a tad underwhelming. I call water/Psychic, sentient sea lion, or maybe water/fighting
Solgaleo (if that is in fact it’s name) 9/10
Brilliant design. It’s exactly what a sun legendary should represent, right down to the mane and the face. I know it’ll be fire type, I’m hoping it’ll get a secondary type but i really can’t tell what it is, maybe light? xP I love the expression on it’s face. I was previously set on moon, but I think I’m on the fence now and I’ll wait for official art and more info. I call a mixed bulky, or physically inclined bulky
Lunaala 7/10
I feel it’s a bit underwhelming and at the same time overdesigned. It’s chest looks positively skeletal, and since it has wings, I can almost bet it’ll be ghost/flying but maybe it’ll ghost/fairy. I’ll bet on the ghost part though. If it is in fact ghost, solgaleo could be a fire/normal legendary though I doubt gamefreak would create a normal legend and the exact type combination as pyroar with a similar inspiration. I call special sweeper or mixed/special sweeper. I don’t see this thing being bulky, and in fact I have a hunch it’ll end up being incredibly fast yet fragile.
I CAN’T GET OVER HOW ADORABLE ROWLET IS AND HOW AWESOME ITS FINAL EVO CAN BE :’) I’m sure there’s some fanart swimming around there already.
I find Pokemon designs from the fandom to be pretty crap and impractical.
The official ones always give me some confidence that GF has a sense of design. Plus official Pokemon designs will always look better to me, because the artwork has a certain style which is not reflected in fan art.
Just my opinion.
I agree! The real starters are always better their artwork really feels alive and like they actually are pokes.
Still there are some awesome fakemons out there. This one is my favorite and best I’ve ever seen. I really love Popplio but would’ve preffered this water starter. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/613440ab6cd5418cd448e33f17af64d626ffbb4741c3bcd032e6e2d94da8090d.png
Rowlet looks like it will fucking destroy you saying “hoohoo motherfucker”
i hooted
I’m going to call my rowlett Hooty Mcowlface
Calling mine Moist Owlet
Anyone disappointed they didn’t actually reveal the legendaries’ names? I’m still 99% sure they’re gonna be Solgaleo and Lunaala though, especially now that it’s confirmed that they are a lion and lunar wing thing. ♥
Give it a day
Would you rather a champion specialized in a particular type (lance, steven, wallace, iris) or a non-specialized one (diantha, cynthia, alder, red…)?
Non-specialized because of the unpredictableness yes that is a word
Non specialized, I think those are the best champions.
Non specialized, they are the most challenging.
It’s almost been 5 hours since the trailer and I’m still hyped!!!!!!!
I love everything ,but why is the region so small?
agree, but maybe they didn’t show the hall region …it’s clearly based on Hawaii and u know Hawaii Consists by many islands look at this the island shown is very Similar to Hononlulu. http://hawaiimap.facts.co/hawaiistatemapof/hawaiiDetailedMap.png
it’s specifically oahu that was shown in the trailer
yeah I know but Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii … u can say Oahu is more like a region.
Now it makes more sense , i totally forgot that hawaii is laid out that way 🙂 this is so exiting
Sooo one thing I would love to see happen with this potential multiple islands two have various game play scenarios.
Expl:
After the first 3 gyms on island 1 you can choose or be directed depending on some mission or something to travel to Island 2a or 2b where you have gyms 4-5 and 6-7 respectively. After finishing both islands U travel to island 3 where the 8th gym and league are set.
Also wouldn’t mind if the different game play would be version dependent.
I saw the trailer more than 20 time it’s awesome but I feel sorry for 6 gen pokemons they did get their chance to show off ……I like all these pkmn but still feel strange everything is predictable from the fans long time ago ….I feel pkmn changing though.
I don’t want to sound negative but the legendaries look like overdesigned fakemons
Hey guys meet Danny my pet Litten he is so cute:D
So nothing against anyone here but it would be nice if someone from the Admins would write into the text that what we’ve seen probably is just part of the region or just one of the island I know its not really confirmed but people are writing it every 20 coms how small the region is.
That is neither confirmed or thrown off
It would be nice if we could. PJ is probably asleep though and Moving is busy at his University.
Now that they give us this treat, they will make us agonize till the last minute to show the starters’ final forms.
I’m fine with that. In fact I’d rather not have them at all. I’d like to discover what they evolve into when I play the game.
This ugly-ass Popplio is a reverse Oshawott.
So now that they’ve released all this info, what are we thinking corocoro will show us?
the same thing lol
legendary name …..that we all know.
I always try to reserve judgement until I see the final evos, but they feel weird to me… Almost incomplete. Extremely disappointed that rowlet is grass/flying right out of the gate. I like the owl design but it doesn’t mean it has to fly… So many other directions they could have gone
I also felt that they looked a bit weird but after I saw the trailer and the pics I really liked them and I fell in love with Rowlet 🙂
Maybe it’s just that I’m not used to the designs yet, but I’m not seeing anything I like here. (Also, Litten and the lion legend are REALLY overkill after Pyroar.)
I LOVE EVERYTHING except Littens color scheme but hey it works.
What color would you prefer?
Idk but it just looks weird. Maybe more orange. It reminds me of Halloween.
Litten, Solgaleo, Entei, Flareon, Litleo…
Need more fire cats.
ROWLETT HAS A BOWTIE MADE OF LEAF HOW CANT YOU LOVE HIM. I WANT ONE
(also it better be a fast special attacker cause with that typing it will not succeed as a bulky pokemon)
Don’t say anything. Just refresh.
HOLY SHIT
I honestly was reminded of Garfield when I first saw Litten!
Why Must You Torture Us With These Visualisations
http://67.media.tumblr.com/d002fd19144568179e04b7a8214ad543/tumblr_o6yx0lJkhc1rpgpivo1_250.gif
(credit Iggyvonzekrom)
I deem it Solar Flare
What’s this?
nice catch ….it’s look like Solgaleo signature move.
There’s something going on in the screen next to it with Lunaala… This move looks like Lunaalas animation in the trailer too
Now, first impressions:
Rowlet: this thing is actually cute. An ice beam will destroy him, but it’s design is ok.
Litten: we have too many cats and too many fire felines. This one is a bit creepy, his face in particular.
Popplio: finally a happy water starter artwork (was it so difficult GF?). It’s cute and simple, I like it. But hey, just because Greninja is the fastest water pokemon doesn’t mean we had to come back to slow water starters…
Solgaleo: yeah it looks big and strong but it’s another feline pokemon, another lion, (another fire lion probably. Two fire feline in the same generation is too much).
Lunaala: weird, but a good weird. I mean it’s majestic, really particular, I think inspired to Dracula. The crescent moons and stars on its wings are cool and the night sky on his head is so beautiful. Really good job GF.
Does anyone see a fairy aspect in Popplio? I don’t know why but I feel like his final evolution might be fairy.
No. It will be fighting
Now you wrote it, I think Imight be actually…
Actually I was just thinking about this. I agree, if azumarill can be fairy, heck this thing with it’s frills and red nose definitely qualifies. I could see it becoming a majestically elegant sea lion water/fairy.
also its character seems to be based on spectacle and showmanship as well as some playfulness, which is characteristic of fairy types, considering dazzling gleam and play rough are the two main moves
Also a water/fairy starter would be great. Only three weaknesses. It will not be fast so I think it will be a wall (great Hp/Def/Sp. Def, good Sp. Att, poor Attack and speed)
I think it’ll be offensively mixed, considering its based on a sealion. play rough will fit right in with its design and potential final evo design.
My feel is water/psycho, but water/fairy is also a possibility.
what would lunaala typing be?? (hopefuly poison but that is not happening)
Ghost definitely, based on it’s skeletal patterns. flying or fairy maybe? or ghost/poison
Ghost/Fairy would be DOPE
Moon actually has something to do with shadows…Ghost/Fairy? Could be a great combo. Only weak to Ghost and Steel with three immunities. It would be a terrific wall. It seemes to be based on Dracula, so maybe Dark or Poison? Or Water, cause moon causes floods
I was so busy studying for an exam I didn’t even remember!
The legendaries look nice, I wonder if the same face is a design choice or will play an important role in the story.
Also,the starters are pretty average. The designs remind me of Gen 5 for some reason. I’ll judge them by their final evos,but for now rowlett is the clear winner. Water and Fire starters look pretty bad..
Popplio: Can snort bubbles to use them in battle
Also Popplio: Has Water Gun instead of Bubbles as his first move
It’d be cool if he got a signature bubble move. Froakie should have gotten frubble. Who cares if Greninja already had two signature moves?
OMG THE PROFESSOR’S HAT HAS A RAINBOW ON IT!!!!
I know everyone sees the moon legendary as this menacing bat, but does anyone else think it’s quite feminine and elegant as well? I feel like it looks a lot better on the box art than in game, because it’s got a really cool face with red eyes and stars which is barely visible. If you look closely you can see in the animation it forms like a third evil eye on its forehead which is cool.
Solgaleo is like smaller than Entei, which is weird for a box art legendary, they’re usually quite big right?
But with Hoopa Unbound, Yveltal, Magearna and Diancie, it’s evident that legendary Pokemon are beginning to look very different to how dialga/ reshiram/ groudon/ Ho oh looked
They seem less ancient.
Camazotz (Mayan bat god). rf*http://www.eveandersson.com/photos/honduras/copan/museum/museum-bat-large.jpg
Yoooooo I just realized your trainer and the trainer you’re battling are on the battlefield in the background. THAT’S SO COOL. There are a lot of little details that I think Game Freak improved on and I think they did a great job so far.
General Thoughts:
Region: LOVE IT!!! I have always wanted a Hawaii based region and obviously this is now confirmed. Looks like it will be island hop style since the first island seems to only include 3 or 4 towns/cities.
Starters: Alright….. I don’t hate them but i don’t love them either. It is early of course but Rowlet looks rather strange and Litten is em…unusual? Popplio is pretty funny looking and i can definitely see a Water/Fairy typing going on which would be brilliant! I predict Grass/Flying, Fire/Dark and Water/Fairy although later evolutions will tell better.
Legendaries: Both look EPIC! Definitely going to share a typing going by the identical starry foreheads. Either Fairy or Psychic shared typing and then I would hazard a guess at Fire and Ghost. Would prefer Fire/Fairy and Ghost/Fairy as both would be new type combinations.
Characters: Too early to say much but I love how relaxed they all look. Definitely captured the Hawaiian style there. Love that customization looks to be coming back.
My Wish List:
– A Water type gym that features underwater battles (a new battle style that boosts the speed and power of water type Pokemon)…OR this could be the Champion!
– A Dark Type Gym…. seriously GF at this point it is full on discrimination! If we can have several Dark Type members of the Elite 4 then we can have a Gym! Also… Steel and Fairy both had Gyms.. IN THE GENERATION THEY DÉBUT IN!
– A Dolphin Water Type…. this is Hawaii… there must be Dolphins!
– Challenge Mode…anyone… not likely but I can dream right?
Now that we have seen some of the game…what does everyone wan’t to see?
How cool would a water/grass manatee pokemon be too?
Explain
Well Manatee’s are often described as “sea cows”, and they’re herbivores and gentle creatures. They like to graze a lot too in shallow waters. Grass seems a fitting type to me. Often when I think of manatees I think of them chomping on some seaweed
Hmmm interesting. I assume you are basing this off of the herbivore trait of a Manitee. It’s a stretch but why not… if they can make an ice cream Pokemon then a Water/Grass Manitee seems outstandingly logical 🙂
I’ve just played a Sun and Moon inspired Showdown battle: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/vgc2016-370654084
My Pyroar had a random gender 🙁
I love everything now that I’ve watched the trailers a dozen times. The graphics look like they’ve gone off of Gale of Darkness style. XY and ORAS was definitely a placeholder for SM.
:’) refresh
And so it begins
That didn’t take long
Oh god…. This is just. How… But. But. What is going…. I just don’t know what to say to this :/
Why
;’)
I knew this was coming at some point… Since it crossed my mind the first time I watched the trailer 😉
After watching the English trailer I was like Oh crap there’s the hot of Gen 7
hahahahahah People are so weird and shallow sometimes. Lol! But if it keeps the buzz up let it be.
Oh my God… fuck me, jesus.
Yessss
Da gays™ are horny
Daddy material.
I’m kinkshaming you. XD
Noice!
Come to papa
Already? You can’t help yourself, can you? But you realise that the fat guy in the yellow thing is probably the new professor, right?
We’ve determined that.
husband material
Archie took way longer to get discovered…
Noooooot for me. I was freaking out talking to one of the other mods when he sent me the picture of him. When Archie leaked I was in a museum with no Internet.
Watched the trailer a good few times and I’m very excited.
Far too tired to go into detail but what we’ve seen of the region looks amazing (and the fact that Hawaii is split into different islands is promising, hopefully not too much water)
The sprites look pretty good, I’m glad that everyone has some height to them
Starters look cute and start-ery. Grass/Flying, Fire/Dark(?) and Water/Flying or Ice? (That’s if they are dual typed). Defy gonna start with Litten as I always start with the Fire type, but my final team during the first time I play through a new region always has all the starters, so my team is half full already!
Legendaries look pretty cool (but lil bit swaying towards Sun, it looks so cool)
Hopefully Corocoro will reveal a tad bit more about the legends, characters & region
Popplio reminds me of one of those performing sea lions.
I can imagine this things final evolution being based off a clown. Especially with that red nose, and the fact that it’s descriptions talks about him performing with bubbles.
I wonder what type of gym the Pearl Harbor town will have? Flying? Steel? So eager to see all the other new pokes and leaders! ^^
I think rowlet is the the least starter-y looking pokemon. Purely because every one so far has been brightly coloured. even chespin had a green nutshell on his head, rowlet only has his bowtie.
And a green tail
So I think its probably safe to assume that the strange souvenir will have a use in this game perhaps? heres hoping anyways, would solve the mystery
I just want to stop by and say that this morning’s trailer was AMAZING! I’ve been seeing a lot of negative comments about the Starters on my Facebook fanpage that I run as well as the game overall on the cancerous Pokemon Youtube Channel and Twitter accounts. To be honest, I want to punch some of these people in the face. Lol. Sun and Moon both look really awesome! I see a major improvement in presentation since X and Y. They’re using full 3D models like they did for the ones in the cutscenes in X and Y (I hope that means all trainers, even regular ones, don’t have 2D art anymore). I just wanted to know anyone else felt the same way about today’s presentation.
I actually find it interesting how the starter town is all the way up on a mountain and you have to walk down to get to the next cities/towns.
Hey everyone, I’m taking a survey based upon first impressions, and then I want to see how it compares to when the game releases. Please fill this out on which starter you will choose. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7SXMLG3
I took your survey. 🙂 I’m chosing Popplio. I love that thing! I don’t care what anybody else says. Lol.
Took your survey as well! 😀 I’m going to choose Rowlet <3 (though I may or may not have all of them on my team because I love these starters THAT much)
A horde of Rowlet appeared
http://67.media.tumblr.com/98c9cb35bb89d5ecb8a31c602f39dea4/tumblr_o6yvjbaLxn1utxvl1o1_400.gif
I’m dying
I’m particularly fond of the one swallowing the rat
I love owls but this gif is terrifyingly hilarious
I find it offensive -2016
I relate to that rat a lot.
All I mentally hear is “Wahk Wahk Wahk”
STARTERS
I think it is refreshing how the colors of the starters are mixing it up a bit as well. We have a mostly tan grass starter and mostly black fire starter. Though, part of me wishes there were most of the original colors present, it is also maybe a refreshing change. It’s hard not to notice that these starters are so different from previous starters and is definitely a break in the mold.
POPPLIO
I LOVE Popplio!!!! I think I found my new overall favorite starter! It’s literally the cutest Pokemon I have ever seen. It has never been such an easy choice picking my starting pokemon. Just look at its little ball nose, cone nose, fin-paws, frilled color, and little smile! I seriously want one right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Evolution: Please do not get a “tough” evolution, I will be happy with a cute circus clown or an elegant circus performer. Though, I do see some form of physical performer, and therefore I predict (maybe water/fighting).
LITTEN
This is an interesting direction for a fire starter. It’s pretty hilarious how Litten (which is an amazing name) has a little fire spike when it attacks similar to when cats hiss or are nervous. This is a bad little kitty for sure. (fire/dark typing confirmed).
Evolution: Is a Cereberus evolution too much to ask?!?! The coloring makes it pretty obvious it will evolve into a fire/dark type, but I think of Cereberus particularly with fire and darkness.
ROWLET
It is a funny little gizmo. I like his little bowtie and blank expression. As the grass quill pokemon I think he is a studious pokemon that will take little notes on his bark. I love the idea of a grass owl because of “paper” books. I am thinking (grass/psychic) type to go with that knowledge?
Evolution: I think he will see books, knowledge, and writing as theme. Therefore, I see him as being a studious owl with a little grass mask that appear like glasses or a monocle. [Grass/Psychic]
Matchup Predictions: There will be two opposing type triads.
Grass ——> Fire —> Water
Psychic <—- Dark <— Fighting
Also, the Moon Legendary is a beautiful use of the lunar eclipse in the design. This is also in the contending for new favorite legendary, but I think that Cresselia will always be my favorite. Now I have two moon legendaries that are so vastly different that I am 100% satisfied with this darker elegant design.
But we had the dark fight psych triad last year. Don’t you want to see new combinations?
Grass/Flying isn’t changing
I agree^.
It would have been nice to see another starter apart from grass getting a dual type… Like Litten could have been fire dark from the get go
I don’t think we should be flinging dual first stage Pokemon willy nilly
Bulbasaur gets a pass because gen one but Rowlet can do so because of its avinoid species
I also think it’s great that all three starters seem to have a following similar in strength and numbers. Based on what I’m seeing in different social media, popplio has the smallest vocal fanbase. But all three are appealing to me. Heck, this is the first time I’ve ever decided to pick the grass starter. And that’s with a 4x ice weakness.
This is awesome!!!! Now we know it’s based on Hawai’i!
Isn’t solgaleo a little physically small and short? Box legends are usually quite tall, right?
It’s like 10 feet tall
What makes you think that? Look at the grass near it in the trailer
It might be tall grass
Omg I love your new avatar
Which trailer American or Japanese
American
Dang they’z quick with this stuff
I just love all these fan art!!
When are we getting Coro Coro? They may give peices of new info. Is it too much to hope they’ll reveal the legendary names and types before next month?
Yo can you imagine the Alola anime? It’ll be pretty dope
I can only see Ash with Poppilo
But we still need a Female Protagonist and the youngest Gym Leader
Nah ash is going back to fire just watch it happen.
I won’t
Well I know more so I win 🙂
Im stronger than you
Hahaha please I lift 220, I’ve been athletic my life. Your not. But don’t feel bad about it, I’m used to being better 🙂 😉 maybe next time.
Ash’ll have to catch a pokemon that they can surf on like when he had Lapras 😀
I was working the entire day and stopped to watch the reveal haha.
Finally now I can comment. I actually like the starters.
Admittedly when I first saw them I was shocked they looked so different to what I expected. But then as I saw more I started getting a better understanding of them.
Personally I will be using the water starter Popplio on my main Sun. But I shall also use the others on my second game Moon.
The Legends are beautiful. A fierce lion wolf for Sun as I predicted and a really magestic lunar Pokémon for Moon. Well done on them I say.
All in all the Tropical Region Alola looks gorgeous and seems full of history. One thing I will say is I’m convinced they are keeping more of the region from us and this is just about 23rds of it. That it its very rich in content 😀
I’m pleasantly surprised by this and I’m really pumped for these now 😀
The bit of the region we have seen is probably about 1/4th of it as it only has 4/5 towns/cities. I expect this will be an island hopping region and that like Hawaii, there could be loads of islands but anything up to 8 main islands. The one we have seen sort of resembles the main island of Hawaii. It looks like it could hold 2….3 at a push Gyms which leave 5 or 6 for other islands.
In this battle vs the “rival” he is using the starter that is weak to yours….could this mean that this is the nice one and there will be a Blue/Silver type of rival with the other starter that we meet later?
What if there IS no other rival, and for the first time ever, the only rival just has a Pokemon that you’re good against?
I wouldn’t put it past ’em
That would be fucking stupid
He reminds me of Marlon from Black 2 and White 2…. The “Rival” I mean
This isn’t exactly reassuring to someone who wants difficulty back in games. Maybe he will have different starters based upon difficulty options (if they do bring that back).
I know this has been debated before but now that people know solrock and lunatone aren’t the box mascots (I never understood the theory that they would be become the legendaries– hopefully it was a joke I wasn’t getting) but anyways, what part, if any, do you think they will play in the new games? I’m thinking version exclusives but opposite (so lunatone would be in sun, etc.) and that maybe the bad guys would use it. I’m thinking the plot might have something to do with an eclipse so the sun bad guys having a moon Pokemon would make sense.
Why would anyone think this would have anything to do with this
You mean with this discussion? We got the legendaries so I just thought talking about the previous speculations worked. My bad…
Okay, Rowlett is really growing on me the more I watch that trailer…
Is that a grass type pun?
No… I didn’t even think of it that way, but hahaha!
Whose everyone picking? And for those of us getting each version, what 2 starters? I’m kinda torn… I started off really liking Popplio and Litten but Rowlett could be a monster…
litten is my favourite so far, but fennikin was my favourite last time but I didn’t like its final evo so in the end I chose chespin.
I dunno… I can see Litten becoming a beast, but I just don’t know. For sure it’ll be one of starters, I just can’t decide between Rowlett or Popplio for my Moon game.
Me too.. I’m sure it will be ash’s greninja by the end ?
Either Litten or Rowlet
Honestly, I want all of them on my team.
I think I’ll need another Sun version (2 Sun and 1 Moon) so I can have all starters…
Rowlet definitely. I love grass type starters, but Chespin dissapointed me, so I’m glad we have a better starter IMO.
Litten and add a rowlett later
Rowlet for sure
I’m wondering what we’ll be seeing for final evo designs. The last three generations have all had very thoughtful and well executed overarching design motifs (regardless of how I felt about individual designs). I’m curious what this gen will bring. Popplio feels like it might have a clown or performer motif so I’m wondering if the through line will have something to do with that. Maybe a circus motif? Ring leader rowlet with its leaf bow tie, popplio clown/acrobat, and litten who knows… Maybe a play on animal tamer or fortune teller with those eyes… Thoughts?
I just pray that Poppilo isn’t a Fairy anytime of its evolution
Circus! Yes.. I think I heard the cat is a lion… dunno what owls do in a circus though.. but the leader maybe
I would really dislike that. I think the designs would be better if they weren’t trying to stick to a theme.
Fun lil take on the starters that I found while scrolling through tumblr. Credit to the artist:
http://gothdad6745.tumblr.com/post/144160003015/ommanyte-aaay-its-the-gen-7-starters-rowlet
It’s amazing to me how fast they have this up.
Anybody else think of this guy when they look at Litten? Excited to see what it evolves into *crosses fingers for Fire/Dark*
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-01/28/14/enhanced/webdr07/anigif_original-grid-image-22285-1422474175-5.gif
http://youtu.be/Nk75O8-Or48
You’ll need this
Finding legendary in temples r far better than finding them in building,lab or HQ but I prefer finding them in nature habitat ….I didn’t know which on should I choose ,usually I pick the red side but this time I am kinda Skeptical.
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So the symbols for both Sun and Moon are in there… The Moon legend is at night and the Sun legend is during the day… What do we think this means? Can both be obtained in the versions or are they version exclusives? Why have both symbols present?
Probably the same reason Dialga and Palkia were both brought up, or Kyogre and Groudon. Probably one or the other based on the versiom. I don’t care. These games are gorgeous.
I’m having the same issue… I always go with the more majestic, regal elegant Pokemon- usually the ‘light side’, so that’s Ho Oh, Reshiram, and of course Xerneas… But I also love the concept of the moon, and the mystique of night. But, based of the gameplay, I prefer solgaleo’s design! Just because it looks better formed and more original. The way it’s signature move looks also amazing. But Lunaala looks gorgeous in the box art, but it’s face is so small so people don’t notice the little eye lash and stars on its head, which are my favourite features. Also, it’s move is just a copy of oblvion wing… Maybe I’ll begin to like it more if I see the battle animation is as awesome as the box art and if it’s part fairy type. But yeah, this is problematic for me.
Advice?…
Lunaala eyes look gorgeous ….zoom in that could help u.
But would that show up in its game model? Would they zoom in on its face in the battle or something?
camera zoom automatically …….body shape is awesome though.
I don’t like it’s leg area or the massive round bone things round it’s wings. Why is it yellow bone it should be silver. And why doesn’t it’s whole body glow blue when it’s using that move, it’s head looks awkward
it didn’t have legs by the way hahaha……yellow r suitable for it …yellow color and violate color like red and green and black and white it contrast by each other but they complete each other .
That’s the issue with it for me the lack of legs. But yellow, red, orange are colours I associate with Solgaleo and the sun. Lunaala is silver, purple, white blue etc,..
The sun symbol and the moon symbol are flopped in each temple. I wonder what significance it has if any.
This kind of art makes me love new Pokemon. Look at that fucking lion. I love it.
By raiphen on DeviantArt.
The moon legendary’s face looks like superior’s face.
You mean Serperior? Yeah I can see that. Still different enough 🙂
“A wondering spirit tearing its way through the cold atmosphere”
These 2 legendaries kind if remind me of Olympia and Lysandre hmm
Team Flaming Feline! I am hoping there’s a dolphin Pokemon too though!
I was thinking, what if Litten evolves into a Saber tooth tiger, but it’s Fire/Rock instead of Dark, which is more fitting. However, it would fit in the triad. Grass/Flying, Water/Fighting, and Fire/Rock.
The game looks exceptionally well done thus far! The graphics have vastly improved including the in-game figures and the little nuances incorporated such as NPCs reacting to your movements and actions, the movements of the Pokemon in-battle, and the overall environmental design. The region itself looks to be immensely vibrant and brimming with a rich, in-depth lore much like that of DPP! I cannot wait until we receive more information! Features such as character customization seem to be returning so that’s always a plus! I feel like this will be the most adventurous Pokemon game yet with the island traveling mechanic, exploring the seas, and traversing through a plethora of different terrains! #HYPE
~ HOPES:
– Litten, a Fire/Dark or Fire/Rock saber-toothed tiger or a fiery tiger with flaming spikes protruding out from its body acting as a shield of sort
– Rowlet, a Grass/Flying giant, majestic warrior/studious/wise owl with a leaf helmet and very much like Staraptor
– Popplio, a Water/Psychic or Water sea clown lion
– A town built around the side of a mountain and a Flying-type gym located at the peak
– A city/town located under water and is protected by a dome of sort and a Water-type gym leader that is female
– A bridge/landmass that connects one of the “islands” to Kalos
The descriptions put in Pokemon site are really good. They give these Pokemon a character.
I loved Rowlet’s simple design and u wot m8 pose. “It has a habit of turning its head in battle to face its Trainer and receive instructions.” how lovely <3
Litten spitting fiery fur balls and changing its fur with blaze sounds cool. "Logical but also passionate, Litten always remains coolheaded and doesn't show its emotions on the surface." describing me <3
I didn't like the concept of Pooplio. It reminds me those tortured animals in sea worlds 🙁
Sun legend looks like Mega Pyroar, it has the same kanji design in its mane. But it's not a problem for me, there are thousands of animals in real world which happen to look like one another. Are we going to get three fire cats in a row?
I still cant believe this are the starters we got! I mean they grew on me rather quickly but certainly havent expected those 3.
Chespin had a dark color scheme last season and now we get a full bright one. Half flying type. Stunner!
Fennekin last gen really light happy colors, this gen Litten dark colors, mysterious very slim .
Popplio complete contrast again, Froakie seemed fast , agile light. Popplio seesm NOT!
Really well done. avoiding to be repetitive. Really excited to see them in the anime.
Well, I’m in love with Kukui…
In other words, I’m definitely picking Litten because I’m a sucker for a cute cat, and I’m hoping for a jungle cat evolution (please no big cats; I want something leaner) And the region looks absolutely stunning. I’m really looking forward to exploring it for Kukui. 🙂
YAAAAAS
Ohhhh my God I love this!!!
I was exhausted after getting home from Civil War (It was pretty good). I got to school and my friend came running asking if I saw the thing. I was confused then he showed me the trailer and now I’m HYPED!!!!!!!
I love all of these starters. This may be the first time I instantly loved all of the starters! I have to go with Litten. It seems so different compared to the other fire starters. The other seem obviously fire. Like, they have fire on their tails and are all orange but Litten is black with some red. Looks like we’re getting an awesome fire dark type! Really cool! (Also please let it evolve into an awesome fire pumba or panther or something)
I love Rowlet! It is so cute and smol! I liked it rotating its head to get commands from the trainer. Seems like they broke the reptile grass type trend once more. I’m guessing since he is dual typed he’ll keep that typing, But who knows, maybe he’ll become a Grass/Dragon owl. A dragon owl?
I think that if I didn’t choose Litten though, I would go with Popplio. He is so cute! I love seals. I dont even know what to say about him other than he is just adorable! I think he will stay pure water but if he does it a secondary type I’m hoping for Ice or maybe even fairy. But Popplio can go so many different ways and I love that in a starter.
The game looks BEAUTIFUL. I had to pause it multiple times just to take it in. It’s like the cutscenes in XY/ORAS, but instead of being cutscenes, they are the whole game! I love the region. They are really going strong with the Hawaii inspiration. So if we can get a blue dog alien pokemon to go along with it that would be great.
The legendaries are really cool! Can’t say I expected a bat. I do still wish it was more humanoid but hell, bats are awesome so I don’t mind too much. The Sun legendary is really cool. Finally a Lion that hopefully wont be as disappointing as Pyroar (Give him a mega!) Super cool designs!
I think I’m as hyped as I was for X/Y, if not more. But the most exciting part…
is that Gen 4 remakes will use this engine.
Gen 4 remakes were one of the first things that came to my mind. It’s my favorite gen and it makes me happy thinking about how fucking beautiful Sinnoh and all of its Pokemon will look in this style.
Think of that snow… that pure pure snow…
Omg I was thinking about lake Valor earlier (without any specific reason). I can’t wait to visit Sinnoh again, haven’t in years.
I have a feeling the protagonist has moved there from Kanto. His mother(?) seems to have a Meowth and the Japanese trailer might be hinting this a little.
This kind of environment probably won’t allow for much diversity of terrain, but we’ll have to see. I’d imagine the Pokémon that appear in this region need to be tropical or at least neutral mammals for them to not look out of place. I wouldn’t be surprised if many old Pokémon were transfer only.
I can’t picture a wild ice type Pokémon in this region…I wonder if they’ll have to shoehorn a couple in.
They’ll probably just have another Hoenn situation where there’s a very specific ice location. Ice types were shunted aside in X&Y, I hope that’s not the case again.
They better have sun/moon merch out in japan by august, cause i’m SO buying a rowlet plushie
I want plushies for all of them!
Look at my precious little baby (RF)
-spits flaming hairball into face-
That is the strangest part of this pokemon but he is so great I don’t even mind
I like it a lot. The color scheme is very strange though for a stater but I can flow with it
I think that is part of the reason I like it. It’s so different
Same with Rowlet, for me. And then there’s Popplio :I It’s just okay.
I’m surprised people feel that way. I thought people would like him the most. I think it’s the cutest out of all of them and has alot more personality but that’s just me.
Eh, nothing about it stands out to me. It seems generic when compared to the other two, who are deviations from traditional fire and grass starters
Yeah, I can see that. I’ll probably be picking him if a third version rolls around though
I’d like them to prove me wrong though. I hope these all have good evolutions after last gens disaster. I hate them all
I really just hope that we are kept completely in the dark about their evolutions. One of my favorite parts of Soul Silver when I played it the very first time was that I had no idea what to expect. No idea what it would become. I hope they keep them a secret until release
They always leak though :/ I’m on the fence about it because I like to plan my teams out but it may be nice just to go through the region and catch and use what I want
If the color scheme was a bit lighter: light blue mixed with a polluted/tainted white, and the red nose was gone but replaced by black whiskers it would be much more appealing to the eye. The Pokemon itself exudes lots of charisma and character but the color pallet and overall design dilute those exemplary attributes.
AWESOME MUSIC !!!!!
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Gale Wings HA for Rowlet? 😀
So we have different skin tones! Yay! Let’s hope now that we have even more customization on the way
I hope rowlet final evo is his wings, folded in front of him and the pattern and designs makes it look like a tux and also has a monocle
It’s interesting how they took a chance regarding the color pallet for the fire and grass starter. If put side by side, they diverge a lot from all the others.
I love it. I just wish Litten was black and orange.
there is always the shiny form! (But I’m secretly hoping for black/green)
Like Garfield?
Yis
Hopefully Rowlet is a physical attacker so Fly will be useful.
Otherwise I’ll pick Litten.
Last time we end up with a (lame)wizard, a (lame)ninja and a (quite decent)knight. Any bets for those final forms? Think there will be such a strong concept like that again.
Forgot the last question mark.
Puma, Dragon Owl, and Maybe a clown? Popplio is so open ended so I’m excited to see what we get.
II definitely can see a clown on the way. Not sure yet if that’s good or bad.
As long as it’s not a fairy it could be a psychic type for all I care
It has the little ball on its nose. That could be some kind of psychic orb similar to Spoink. Anything’s possible
That’s its nose
…
SO IT IS
Ferserious
I didnt get much sleep last night
A Grass/Flying gentlemen owl
A Fire/Eletric tiger
A Water/Fairy Clown Acrobat Sea lion
Huh, fire electric is interesting
The only reason why i think this is because oil is burned under pressure to produce hot exhaust gases which spin a turbine to generate electricity. What does Litten have, it has oil on its fur and it actually burns all of it once its time to shed.
A turbine…….are you high
well if the turbine is pushing me up then yes
Classy owl, intellectual cat (the eyes remind me of glasses), and clown seal.
I’d take the gentleman owl
https://40.media.tumblr.com/f20128286d3ce7337bb8a6dc12367a68/tumblr_midlluleeV1s3ui6go1_500.jpg
According to the official website, “Littens fur is rich in oils and immensely flammable”. What do you think about a final Fire/Poison type ?
I think it’s highly possible, though it would be expected that it had a hint of purple on its colors, right?
Not that kind of oil
Yeah, that’s my guess.
I guess Fire/Electric
I don’t think so as Earthen say shadow sneak would be possible move so …according to that he could be dark or ghost.
Litten is my favorite I prefer fire starter but he have the strongest character of them all ……when I listen to my feeling I see him as a shinobi ….he look like yokai though but still unique concept and different from the other.
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1462882642296.png
I hope they let Poppilo learn Acrobatics, Bounce, Aqua Jet, Slam, Teeter Dance, Double-Slap,
Anything else
Tail Slap?
I mean I can totally see it slapping it with the flippers
But would it steal it from a dirty chinchilla
Don’t you smack talk Minccino
Vulpix and Buizel can also learn it from Eggmoves though
Moonblast?
Never
I’m hoping for Water/Fairy
The ultimate Earthen-Counter
I hate you
that’s could be so maybe GF want to make badass fairy type.
Dazzling Gleam
Bounce seems a given. Trick room? Mimic?
cool
Sweet kiss.
Hydro Cannon!
Duhhh
Encore
that’s fit him ,I just want to know …this nose remind me of something wat kind of tool is that ?
If u could repeat the other starter move I wanna see them ur good in that.
Rowlet
Leafage
Peck
Gust
Leaf Tornado
Featherdance
Slash
Bullet Seed (since owls hyuck up pellets)
Litten
Ember
Leer
Scratch
Shadow Sneak
Bite
Assist
Night Slash/Shadow Claw
Nasty Plot
I think the moon legendary is kinda ugly.
I think I’ll go with Sun, but I’d like to see the exclusives before I make my final decision.
The moment when you just realize that the moon legendary might as well be a boomerang. lol
I’ll probably start playing Y version after I finish Red. Since we’re not getting Z version, I wanna use the pokemon I never got to use like Clauncher and Slurpuff. But I’ll have to trade from X version :/
Use the pokebank or the gts, it works great 🙂
OMG
first time?
All of the starters have grown on me but I’m still getting Litten because that’s literally the Pokemon version of my cat (who I love, she’s the best <3 ). Now for things to be great PLS give us the option to make the game harder. Deliver, gamefreak
If I get Litten I’ll SR so I get a female so I can name it after my cat!
Same!
I prefer treat him as a male.
Dear Gamefreak
Do not make Poppilo’s evolutions part Fairy
Also give me either a Grass/Fire Flamming Tiki and or a Ground/Fighting Warthog with the ability Guts
why do u want everything to be so big and bulky for?
Are you serious
so what if we got a big and bulky ground/fairy would you be happy?
It would have to make sense
Otherwise I don’t see it outside a Pink Fairy Armadillo or Land Sprite
Dear Gamefreak
Make Popplio’s evolution part fairy and give us a fairy Tiki and Mega Milotic
I can read ur mind u think he will become bulky in the final stage but unfortunately for u most likely it would be fairy ….try to accept bulky fairy or choose the sneaky one Littlen and join to my team.
I’m not thinking that
ok
I can accept it being whimsical and agile
But when that transitions to a Fairy then I bust a vein and rage courses through my body
I know you don’t like faries but I think it being part fairy can open up some neat design ideas
That may be so, but I didn’t spend over 2 years developing intense mental barriers to despise Fairy Type Pokemon for nothing
” A mind is like a parachute, they only function if they are open”
And if you dont open them you freaking die
And I can take bind fury and fuel it with ignorance and incinerate all in the way
Well, at least you’re self aware
And packing
*Pulls out an assortment of clubs, bludgeons and axes*
it will be bulky in the end take a look at real male sea lion. http://www8.clikpic.com/timmason/images/Southern%20Sea%20Lion%20male.jpg
I just imagine it evolving then just going HUURRHHK
Post a picture of your cat!
First time I’m uploading a pic here so I don’t know how big it’ll be. Maybe I’m just crazy but for me Litten= my cat on fire.
YOUR CAT IS SO CUTE OMG GIVE IT TO ME
I KNOW. I haven’t seen her in almost two years though (living abroad). Gonna see her in July though. She’s very quiet and when I was home she’d come to my room every day and just stay there next to me *cries*
ooooo so cuuute! I’m a dog person but I still love cats. And yeah that is alot like Litten
I also have two dogs 🙂
Aw! My two dogs are actual siblings. Got them from the same breeder a couple years apart. Banjo is the older one and Zelda is the younger one
My family got two siblings around 11 years ago (I was 10) and one of them passed away this year :/ The third (now second) dog is the daughter of the one that’s still alive. I swear she (daughter) is the most awkward dog ever. (I’m sorry but I treat them like family haha)
Aw shoot, sorry about that! Alot of dogs have so much personality. Banjo is super grumpy while Zelda is constantly excited and happy. Sometimes I talk for my dogs because I’m a crazy dog owner. I’ll just say “Hey dogs” then in a different voice say “Hai there! What’s going on!”. I’m weird but dogs are just so great
My sister and I started talking to the awkward dog in this retarded/silly voice one day and we pretty much still use it a lot even when the dogs are not concerned (we do talk a lot about our pets though hah). So yeah, I def get what you mean
Your cat is adorable!
I’m not Leo but I thought I’d post a picture of my cats too https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12573084_10154561900108378_7812767614356605557_n.jpg?oh=8d34363c9cec95090b0f62ddcba623b3&oe=57E69764
Omg is that Toothless? And the other one looks like my mom’s cat! So cute :3
Thanks!
I assume that’s a How to train your dragon reference? 😛
Yeah ahah
Cats are so great! I love these!
Meet Leia!
I WANNA CUDDLE WITH HER
I do kind of wish the Sun legend had a little more texture to the white parts though.. it’s my preferred legend but.. the white kind of just looks like they drew an outline around white paper and left it alone… that’s it.
And when you think about it…
They kind of do look the most like regular animals out of the other starters and Pokemon you can think of…
Which is cool.. simplistic like first gen
Bulbasaur wasn’t simplistic.
Simplistic as in simple animals. Bulbasaur was a dinosaur.
Well actually I meant both…
Bulbasaur looks simplistic to me.. just a flower on its back.. that’s all
Inb4 the bands and marks on Littlen hint at its final evo being part fighting! ?
I saw a picture that just had little macs face on it
?
Nice profile pic by the way
thank you good sir
I swear if it’s another fire fighting…..
…….. I’ll riot if it’s part fighting.
I would just laugh and laugh and laugh
I don’t even care. I’m picking the hell out of that thing.
Me too.. and Rowlett.
I prefer Litten in 2D..
I feel the curve of its face and how flat the whisker like things are, are more defined in the art work.. 3D.. it’s all kind of a blur. No texture
I think I’m doing Litten in Sun and Rowlet in Moon. My friend wants to pick Popplio so it works out. I’ll still train a Popplio, of course, but just not as my starter!
Big fan of basically everything revealed, especially the starters. I think GF did a fantastic job with them and the final evolutions should be very nice.
Any guesses about what tree the new professor is gonna be named after? Professor Palm, finally?
Fala
Koa or Banyan could work
I thought of Banyan too. Sounds good.
Apparently the guy who gives you your starter is a guy called Hala, I’m assuming that he’s the professor.
I think that’s your friend.. serebii says
No Kukui is the hot guys name. Hala is the professors name.
The fat one with the yellow thing? And is hala a tree?
Yeah, hala is a tree that’s native to Malesia, eastern Australia and the Pacific Islands.
If you scroll way way down someone pointed out that Halas is a type of tree in Hawai’i
Ughh I crave more information
We have a 10% Chance for this Corocoro to give us something otherwise another solid month
I’m sure we will get SOMETHING from CoroCoro. I feel like this trailer was going to be part of E3 but after Nintendo revealed their plans they decided to just release that. I’m probably wrong on that considering that Japanese trailer exists but who knows
Pokemon directs!
Maybe they’ll give us the regional bird?
I hope that robin isn’t a fire type.
1. Fletchling was fire type
2. I want it but I dont want two fire types on my team
Same. I don’t think it will be because if it’s already a flying type then people with Rowlet likely won’t choose and if it’s also fire, people with litten won’t choose it. So that leaves just Popplio users and they seem to be the minority at the moment.
It’s nice to speculate and have fun talking about pokemon on here again. This site is the best part of waiting on a new pokemon game to release
It’s so amazing to see fan art as beautiful as this uploaded so fast on the web
God, I love this thing. It’s everything I love about Noivern, but in a stunning galaxy like coat of paint
It looks like Noiverns mystical evil mom ?
Galaxy mom? Sounds good.
Inb4 someone draws a Rosalina + Lunaala mashup.
This is truly an awesome Pokemon design
where I can found those?
http://eritia-coli.deviantart.com/
But I just typed in Lunaala in deviantart to see all the cool moon legendary pokemon
I’ve seen comparisonz going around of kukui looking like JWittz, and you’re rival looking like tyranitartube, what do you guys think?
They didn’t base him off a youtuber.. lol where you find that?
#RowletForPresident2016
I am pretty sure I saw this tool before Popplio nose remind of something wat is it?
*when I say nose I mean the white part too. http://66.media.tumblr.com/a9ceec0718c95f2f9136840b5fd2343f/tumblr_o6yoj41LFS1qkz08qo2_500.gif
I’m gonna name it Dunce.
good name but that’s not my point.
The nose reminds me of a dunce cap/clown hat 😛
Rudolph?
I mean the nose alone
But the red nose is the only thing that makes Rudolph even a character. 😉
Drilbur!
looks like a badminton birdie lol
not bad.
And you know what those are also called >:D
I looked it up and started laughing instantly.
Shuttle… nevermind.
Like a horn?
I see what you mean
Is the character you’re speaking about Doraemon ?
Starter bird trios is finally complete!
Legit! Character customisation is completely returning. I hope GameFreak expands upon it. The trainer is wearing black and white striped shirt (instead of the bue stripes) and black and white pants, instead of the red and black.
Good eye. I was trying to spot this.
You already saw the choice between 8 different faces on the Japanese trailer right?
YES!! I got my wish! I wanted for either the Grass/Flying or Water/Flying to come to fruition. And it’s an adorable owl. :’D
Who wants to bet that Alomomola will be featured in the Alola region?
At the very least, Coro Coro should confirm the names of the legendaries.
Fake Grass starter by Suikuro_2011 :3
BURN IT NOW
Epic! http://orig10.deviantart.net/611e/f/2016/131/7/c/litten_sonic_stuff_by_selkra-da251om.jpg
I like the second one
1st one for me …..I really don’t believe he sharing all these thing with these characters.
Yo Shiny Xerneas event is now live in NA
dear Hyo I think Rowlet evolution would have grass coat like that.
* don’t remove anything just cuz some one didn’t like it.
🙂
ur welcome.
I don’t see an email for the HA bird trio :'(
My buzz is gone
I can’t deny my love for Litten I believe it will become like shinopi …and sneak to kill it could be fat ghost too but this one have another opinion. http://img08.deviantart.net/7b70/i/2016/131/b/c/litten_evos_by_blackmailchan-da24jq2.png
I can see Litten being either Fire/Rock or Fire/Poison if it’s dual typed.
I don’t believe in that …it’s just dark or ghost.
I’m hoping for the latter
ehhhh I need something leaner…. like a puma
the real one could be like that.
I’m hoping it stays sleek and feline. Solely because another bulky fire type big cat would be overkill when given Solgaleo. I want it to look like Liepard but with red stripes and a really long tail and whiskers which are burning at the end. Someone made s really interesting suggestion it could be a poison type given the reference to ‘oil’ in its description, which probably says a lot given Fennekins description mentioned it eating twigs and it ended up with a fire wand.
can use dex entry as a hint to know wat net evolution would be like but oil isn’t poison when they say:” doesn’t show its emotions on the surface” that’s would mean a lot.
Worst case scenario with Rowlet:
It’s final form is unable to learn Fly. D:
Worst case scenario with Litten:
It’s final form is Fire/Fighting.
Worst case scenario with Popplio:
It’s final form is Water/Fairy.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s adorable, but it doesn’t need to be
Water/Fairy.
Finally someone thinking logically
I wouldn’t mind Water/Fairy typing for Pipplio. I want something else, but it does look rather fairy-ish
Really? I see it as staying singular. But if it gets a second typing, it may relate to its clown-like appearance.
Oh no… Mr. Mime looks like a clown, and we know what they did to it… D:
I think it would be really cool to see a part fairy starter To be honest!
Yep, I can’t have this new upstart take over Azumarill’s competitive niche. <3
Legendary typings?
Sun : Probably pure fire
Moon: Fairy/Dragon
[Lunaala] looks like a:
Ghost-type
Dark-type
Water-type?
Ice-type
Steel-type
It can be a combo of any of the above, or plot twist: it’s none of the above.
Ground/Rock confirmed
You forgot flying and fairy.
Lunaala looks like
Flying/Ghost
Flying/Fairy
Fairy/Ghost, Fairy/Dark with Levitate
…or the first Triple-Type? Flying/Ghost/Fairy?
I totally want Lunaala to be a Ghost-type, but 6th gen made us relate the moon with the fairies. So maybe Ghost/Fairy… And Solgaleo could be pure Fire-type. I’m ok with that.
Ghost/fairy would be sweet
We should guess which starter will be the next Greninja/Charizard!
I have a feeling Litten will be sweet. But Rowlit has a lot of potential too.
I’m actually goona say Popplio. I think it is going to have an awesome evolution
I’m gonna say Litten but it’s really up in the air
It really seems like Litten will be the most interesting choice design-wise. I’m really conflicted with this answer because all three starters have such great potential.
I swear, Rowlet better have a butler motif in its evolutions.
No, I want him to grow a leaf top hat and monocle!
That’s still a butler, right?
the real mvp
I think there’s a good chance that CoroCoro will leak tonight. I’m expecting no more than the names of the legendaries in terms of new info.
Yeah I can’t imagine very much else being revealed after all this. Plus I think the preview description for this month’s CoroCoro didn’t say anything in particular about Pokemon so it’s possible we won’t get really anything.
I don’t think there will be more info revealed, do you?
Just another awesome fanart I stumbled across on tumblr
Okay… So now that the starters have been revealed, lets hear your Sun and Moon characters! What’s his or her name(s), what is their personality, what starter do they pick, does the starter have a nickname, why did he/she pick that starter…
I have two versions. Pokemon Sun is Philip and he has Litten. He is fun and friendly and a true hero. Pokemon Moon is Philip’s sister, Aurora and her Popplio. She’s a little bratty but not in a negative way, she just is a true princess.
***Because Rowlett is really growing on me, this could change, and Popplio could be swapped for Rowlett… Just have to wait and see what they all evolve into…
I showed this to my cousin (who’s also into Pokemon) and he hated everything about these new Pokemon. I gave 3 hours and he still hates them, even the legendaries. I also didn’t immediately feel like the starters were Pokemon, but now I actually like them and they grew on me. I wonder why my cousin doesn’t think they’re worthy of being Pokemon, even though he’s tried to like them XD
Yeah, my friend isn’t really into them. He likes Litten and he likes Rowlett, but he’s not excited about them. He does like the Moon legend though. I prefer the Sun legend…
Well my cousin doesn’t like any of them XD I find them quite likeable now, but I give it a week.
He’s not a real fan then hahaha. Just kidding. I honestly think this gen will potentially be my favorite. It looks to have everything I’ve wanted form Pokemon since we got onto the 3ds. Being able to see character models that AREN’T chibi is a huge relief. I didn’t mind that much, but being able to play a character that has the correct proportions (more or less) feels better to me. Ont he front of the Pokemon the only one I don’t particularly like is the Sun legendary. I just can’t get around the way its body looks. Either way I love the starters and the Moon legendary Pokemon!!!
Don’t get me wrong, he thought the game looked amazing, but he hated the pokemon designs. He was raving on how good this game will be but he said that if the pokemon are all like this then that’ll definitely be a big flaw. But I kind of like it like this XD whatevs it is his opinion
Can we just take minute really wuick to appreciate how close Devianart poster Zerudez and his team were to the actual box art legendaries? (at least in general structure anyway lol)
Guys spam dank Rowlet memes here: I NEED MORE ROWLET MEMESSSS!!!!
There’s the one about smoking a blunt…
I WANT ALL OF EM lol
How do you smoke a blunt?
Rowlet and Litten.
(Don’t smoke, kids.)
(got it from ShinyXatu)
LOL I NEED MOOOOREEE
jk I’m not a meme psychopath.
I bet someone out there drew Russian Rowlet…
YASSSS
I’m honestly very proud of that one.
It had me rolling!
Last one I promise.
https://twitter.com/ATURN_sendai/status/730010331997609984/photo/1
THANK YOU FOR THIS
An awesome type trio would be:
Grass/Flying
Fire/Electric
Water/Ground
Don’t see it happening tho
I predict grass flying, fire poison or fire pure and water pure or water fairy
You know you want one…
https://66.media.tumblr.com/711d16cf91eef068af3536c48d7d2721/tumblr_o6zdgiIq8m1qhdr16o1_500.jpg
Dayum they quick
XD
GameXplain’s analysis video. It’s 23 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdzyhRc31oQ
I honestly love the whole video and DANG they get into detail.
Okay, I hope there is two rivals (that one guy and then the female or male counterpart depending on who you pick). Then all starters will be featured in the game. I feel bad when one is left out…
I credit GameXplain for this. One of the most interesting design explanations for the starters: the weird cross on Litten’s head has a purpose. Those lines, including the eyes, show the alchemy symbol for sulfur. Compounds of sulfur are often poisonous. Fire/Poison confirmed? Please?
http://symboldictionary.net/library/graphics/symbols/sulfur.jpg
Earthquake tho RIP
Litten better be fast lol
u don’t need even Earthquake Mud-Slap more than enough.
Y many ppl Fire/Poison ….it’s really bad compo ,by the way if read about alchemy u will know is also soul symbol that’s make it wat ghost type.
For one thing, it’s a brand new type combination. I support that completely. Also, imagine having both Toxic and Flamethrower in your moveset. Forget about the quad-weakness 😛
Charizard can have toxic though ….I like poison type alone.
With the day nearly at a close, I’d like to share a few thoughts on the news today since I haven’t gotten a chance. I may embrace some unpopular opinions, which I understand, so let’s keep our responses tolerant.
– At first, I wasn’t too fond of these starters. Staring at them for a good five minutes allowed me to embrace their simplistic, yet effective designs.
– Rufflet is by far my favorite of the starters. It’s super cute, and I love the chibi owl-like design. Will definitely be the first starter I pick up, at least until the remaining evolutions are revealed.
– Litten is different, and I think that color scheme still has a bit to grow on me. It definitely sticks out as a Fire-type starter. Probably my least favorite, though. I’ve always picked the Fire starter, but this Generation, things may have to change.
– Popplio, strange name. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting-looking Pokemon, but something about it seems off. It’s interesting to see how it will evolve from there.
– The Alola region, or whatever we’ve seen of it, is definitely small. Not fond of the name whatsoever, but I like it so far based on what we’ve seen. Very Hawaii-like, and that’s different from what we’ve seen before. Am I hoping there is more to the region? Absolutely, there’s no way we’ve seen the full map (unless we go into space or something, I don’t know). Honestly, I’m not really hoping we go back to Kalos unles it’s a postgame thing, and I’m excited to see exactly how much we’re working with.
– CUSTOMIZATION! It’s safe to say that there are some options at this point. I highly doubt it’s a Kalos-only thing, and the only reason it was excluded from ORAS was for nostalgic purposes. Let’s hope it takes on the extent that XY did.
– The rival and potential professor–I like them both. Clothes are very Hawaii-like, and they just seem fitting with the landscape we’ve seen.
– Protagonists? Can’t really comment much on them. They don’t look much different from Calem and Serena, at least in terms of their facial appearance. Hopefully their full outfits match the region’s theme a little better.
– Ah, the legendaries. Honestly, I wasn’t too fond of Solgaleo’s predominant white coloring, but it does set it apart from Pokemon like Pyroar. Lunaala looks REALLY cool, and I absolutely love its appearance. I think this is the first pair of games where I really love both legendaries. They’re unique and distinct, unlike anything we’ve seen before. Will I have to purchase both versions…most likely.
– In terms of the graphics, they look nice, but the region isn’t nearly as vibrant as Hoenn. It seems very washed away and bland, in my opinion, but that’s a judgement from just a few seconds of footage. I’m not too fond of what we’ve seen so far, since everything looks the same. I couldn’t make out anything unique except for the clearly industrialized areas in the midst of the tropical region. I am optimistic, however, that the region will come to life the more we see it.
– My biggest fear is that what we saw of the region is all we get. While I don’t think that’s likely, if every island is that size, we’ll be doing a hell of a lot of traveling this Generation. I think it’s safe to say that the island we saw has no additional boundaries outside of it, and is separate from the others. We’re definitely starting on this island, maybe for a gym or two, because there’s no way an entire league is set in that small space. I don’t know how GF approached the multiple-island situation. Are there five or ten different islands, or is this just the sister island to something much more massive? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
At this point, there’s a little over 6 months until the release of the game! I’m liking the little bit of information we have so far, and I hope that continues for as long as possible. I would really like to be more surprised with these two games, so I’ll try to stay away from major spoilers in the weeks before launch. Let me know how you feel about the topics I’ve covered, even if your thoughts are contrary to mine. It feels good to get excited about a game again. The wait begins.
Rufflet
I’ve had a long day.
I just have a personal meme, which is a unique way of pronouncing that Pokemon’s name… Raff-liiit!
Your opinion sucks, I have revoked your opinion privileges.
<3
We need to skype sometime soon hoe, I’ve got a lot of stuff to update you on lmao
True lmao
Taking exams next week and then we’ll be gucci
Well if it’s based on Hawaii, which is an island chain, of course there will be at least 4 more islands.
Hello Dicie, I thought about you today. I’m glad you’re here 🙂 When I first saw the starters at 5AM this morning I felt this odd mix of disappointment and relief. I did not like the designs for any of them…at all. But now, that has completely changed. I love all three of them, with Litten being my favorite of the bunch. I’m excited for the Alola region mainly because we are returning to a tropical region. In my life we’ve finally come full circle, since Hoenn was my very first experience of the Pokemon world. I’m also excited about the possibility of a chill Hawaiian soundtrack!
Yo do you remember when I said this morning when I said that the Pokemon looked like booty? Haha, yeah I take that back now, I like all of them, but still tryna get used to Lunala, that one may take a while.
Yeah, these starters were very unique in terms of their initial reaction. They went from universally hated to universally loved within three minutes, I swear. This may be my favorite starter trio yet, and I know how large of a statement that is. The only thing that hasn’t tickled my fancy is Solgaleo’s design. It looks like a clay sculpture that hasn’t been painted yet. I’m sure new art will completely change my opinion.
Yeah I can’t go that far until I see the full evolutionary lines haha. But if we’re comparing them in their base forms like they are now, I’d say Gen 2 > Gen 1 > Gen 7 > Gen 5 > Gen 4 > Gen 3 > Gen 6
Thank you for putting Gen 6 at the very end. That’s all it deserves.
I gotchu fam 😉 They were kinda ass haha
LOVE ME
http://img01.deviantart.net/edb1/i/2013/274/0/e/chespin_discovers_the_internet_by_kol98-d6ow5ro.png
Knock-off grass version of Oshawott is what that thing is haha
Burn it before it evolves and becomes uglier
They’re definitely my favorite starters since Sinnoh
Yep, I take it back. They’re tied with Sinnoh for me. Nothing can ever beat them, only match them.
We’ll have to see if these final evos can top those ones!
Honestly, this is my list (from worst to best): Gen 6, Gen 2, Gen 5, Gen 7, Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 1
I’d have the say the same, except switch gen 2 and 5 maybe..maybe.
I’d say my list is
Gen 4 > Gen 1 > Gen 5 > Gen 7 > Gen 3 > Gen 2 > Gen 6
Sinnoh starters are why Sinnoh’s is my favourite region. Ghe final evos had such depth
Regarding the legends they have done white ones before but they run the gauntlet from Fire (Reshiram) and Water (Palkia).
Well after two generations of nothing but box dragons, at least we’re back to variety starting with Gen 6.
For the islands, I can see it being like the southern Hoenn water routes the way we do island hopping. I think it’s gonna be fun as long as Repel is involved… yikes!
My money is on 4+ islands. Smaller islands like mirage islands might be back, but I think it’ll be a tide-based mechanic (time of day/week) when they’ll appear.
I’m also guessing there’s a cable car or ferry between two closer islands so it’s not just all surfing and we can sit back and enjoy the ride. (Or at least get a special cutscene the first time the ride is taken.)
I gotta say, I woke up this morning, watched the trailer in bed while I was half asleep and thought, these games are going to be TERRIBLE. I hated the starters, the legends were alright, and I found the region to be all tropical and no diversity. Plus we just visited a tropical region.
However, as soon as I watched it a few more times I began to like the Pokemon more and more and now I actually love all the starters, the legends are AMAZING (especially Solgaleo), but I still worry the region might not be diverse…. BUT THESE GAMES ARE HYPE
Late night thoughts:
1) I’m assuming dive will return. There will likely be a crap ton of water routes (*cough* 7.8 *cough*) so this seems a given
2) I hope the islands are each unique. I said earlier it would be cool if they each were a different Biome, but I doubt it.
3) I have confidence the regional bird will be pure flying type and that there will be a dark gym.
4) I don’t think Soaring, Dexnav, or challenge mode will return. Gamefreak almost always keeps the best features as exclusives for some incredibly asinine reason.
Definitely vouching for your number two reason. If we get five islands that all look the same, I will dread playing this game. At least we know that the industrial side of things will have some diversity–GF is good at making really pretty, diverse cities. But I am hoping for some landscape changes at the very least.
And my wish list since XY: Gym Leader rematches, E4 rematches, an actual postgane, Challenge Mode, etc.
My wishlist:
DIFFICULTY
DIVERSITY
DARK GYM
lol 3 D’s
On a 3DS.
LOL, I didn’t realize that XD
No Gym Leader rematches really kills ORAS for me. Almost everything else is perfect about that game except that and something else I was about to say but just forgot.
The diversity of the region has me worried too. I used to live in a semi-tropical environment (just Florida) and honestly it got really boring. Everything looks the same all year. It sucked
I live in Florida XD but yah we have no seasons here. It’s hot, boiling hot, hot, slightly cool
I grew up in Ohio (back here now too) and so I missed having Autumn and Winter. Florida is nice, but I can only take so much of it at this point. I also hate the beach so..
OMG SAME. But I love the pool so that’s good 🙂
Sand gets everywhere. Yuck
Freak. Iove Cincinnati though. So laid back.
That’s where I liveeeee
Mmmmmmm me gusta
It’s not bad here. I’m content
I can make you even more content
Noooo
I love Florida :’)
Same
So do I. Besides the weather in the summer, I love living here. Plus I get to swim in the winter 😛
I want to live there someday, school programs permitting.
I can agree with you there. Even the winter times have hot days.
Kinda wanna shave my beard and go back to having a goatee now that it’s back in. But I won’t.
I just want to grow a beard. I’ve been stuck with this ultra-thin cheek layer, random black chin hairs and ‘stache for like 2 years. :/ I guess my time isn’t here yet.
Mine started out blonde my senior year of high school and it didn’t thicken up until sophomore / junior year of college. It’s not how I want it but I’m stuck with it…
My mother calls me a Jihadi because of my beard lol.
LOL
Would you like to share your photo? I want to feel you.
Wha
I mean I want to see you. Damn autocorrect.
Not everyone can grow a beard either. I am 20 and cannot. Less maintenance, so I am happy
True, I know lots of people who can’t grow anywhere near close to what I can. I guess the fact that I can grow a “thin” layer at 17 implies bigger things to come? I mean, the hairs are there.
Yeah, you’re probs set.
Trust me, you don’t want a beard because once you grow one, Basti’s just going to start hitting on you non-stop.
Hey, I take that as a compliment 😛
People hitting on me scares me
I wish more girls would hit on me.
Same
I haven’t had a girl hit on me in a while. Two creepy guys at my work within the past few months. No thanks…I secretly feel my gay friend also likes me but I’m pretty naive and he also does have a boyfran
Hey smoothie
I’m fluffy kinda :3
Yeah I can tell. You always talk about beards lol
Beards are sexy as fuck
Litten fair-poison type!!!……if this nightmare come true that’s mean we have another type trio ,so Rowlet fling type is tricky and it will have psychic type in next stage ,popplio will become water-fairy.
How is flying-poison-fairy a trio? I’m fairly certain Flying is neutral to both fairy and poison.
I said it’s tricky and it’s type will change to psychic …..it just nightmare bro.
Would Flying-Poison-Fighting work?
Nope. Flying isn’t SE on poison, which isn’t SE on fighting.
Flying-Fighting-Rock works, and iirc Flying-Fighting-Ice as well
I don’t see fire/poison happening unless it’s a manticore. Still sticking with Flying, Fighting, and Dark or Rock
rock also bad though …..character shouldn’t be ruin by that.
Well if it evolves into a Sabertooth I think it’d fit. I’m very interested in how these starters come out.
I prefer more agile and keep his sneaky look ….. Sabertooth is not logical idea as a starter though.
It’s a cat
I mean Sabertooth should be like an ancient fossil pkmn it’s not fit to be a starter, just think about one more time it’s very hard to poison and even harder to be rock
We’ll see. I’m not too worried about it.
Also, Raikou is already a sabertooth, right?
Cheetah? Less Attack, more Speed and Sp.Attack
Rowlet’s bio says it sneaks up to it’s opponents and kicks them with strong feet… could be Grass/Fighting again…
I remember I was see clown sea lion fakemon here……right? or it’s my Imagination.
no need I remember it. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1462940239240.jpg
Wow that’s really darn close
They must hv seen the blueprints or something
Wow…. even right down to the white long nose with pink ball tip …… That’s almost uncannily similar ……?
How old is this?
To be fair, ever since ‘Nybabbi, Ashimari and Mokuroh’ leaked as trademark names people have been doing fanart. Therefore there’s actually been a large amount of fire kitten/water sea lion/grass owl fakes floating about lately. Eventually one of them was gonna look similar to what we got.
So this made me happy today. I played this back when I was young and innocent. One of my favorite games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrD2HdP-LQ
So I’m really getting a super friendly vibe from the “rival” in the trailer. But somehow I feel like this is a good thing, because if we are moving to Alola then it’d be cool to have your “rival” show you around. And then HOPEFULLY the other rival (the opposite gender) is super competitive and is actually really good too.
The rival also looks like the love child of Grant and Marlon
Hey that sounds like wait… what?
Lol it basically looks like both of them ?
Silver was the perfect Rival. I’d like another like him. Or even better. One that starts out friendly and then gets stronger and starts discovering power and becomes obsessed with it
Ooooh. I like that. But I also want another Rival to be a complete opposite of that. Starting off over- confident and then being discouraged by the rival you’re talking about.
That’s the XY rival already, right? Except replace “other rival” with “your character”.
agree I want to beat someone like this asshole.
Silver was good. I like Barry too. He was annoyingly hyper but you know deep down he was a good friend. I wish the girl rivals (sorry, I know they could be boys depending on the gender you choose) like Lyra and Dawn had been battle-able.
Silver was an a**hole. We need more a**hole rivals.
Wow. The sun and moon trailer has more views than the X and Y announcement trailer. That’s craziness right there.
3 Million!!! OMG
18 hours have passed since the trailer was released and I am still in love! So amazing, the graphic is just brilliant not to mention the starters I love them. The first reaction was really meh for me but it turned around! Love all 3 of them.
Does anybody have an idea, what this Gigareki trademark might mean? I hope its connected to the Ash-Greninja transformation.
Now that I have seen the legendaries, I’m going for Sun.
Exeledus is here!
Im going to guess the starter types! Feel free to add your 2 cents!
Rowlet: Grass/flying (and will stay grass/flying)
Litten: Fire/Dark seems most likely. Id also guess either electric (using static from friction to ignite its fur), poison (the flammable resin on its fur could be toxic), or ghost (schrodinger’s cat expirament?)
Popplio: pure water seems most likely unfortunately. But if it did, i’d guess psychic or fairy, to add a mystical element to its circus tricks, maybe rock, as it likes round objects and rocks could be used in combat. Maybe even turn its acrobatics into hand to hand, becoming part fighting.
The starter types are on the english website. Rowlet is grass/flying, the other two are pure types. However your ideas could very well come true when they evolve. I can see Litten turning fire/dark easily 🙂
Has Corocoro leaked already and the information was the same and so there’s no new article about it? Or… :/
No Corocoro hasn’t leaked yet it’s probably gunna be the same information as yesterday’s reveal.
Corocoro could officially reveal legendary names. But we already know what they are, or can guess…
Is anyone else #team-I-don’t-know-which-version-to-get-because-both-legendaries-look-freakin-awesome? Have to wait for version exclusive info…
Easy solution to that
I’m in the same boat I’m leaning slowly towards Sun. Before the legendaries were revealed I was gunna get Moon.
Waiting for the version exclusives
Just get both versions.
I am already decided with Moon.
But I can understand the problem, particularly for those on a tight budget, or kids who have to get their allowance/free games from their parents.
For sun and moon I just want
-Good Story
-Good post game
-Actual Difficulty.
Amen to that! X/Y lacked all of that it was too easy, story line was pathetic and no post game.
I love everything I see, with one exception: the size of the region. Yes, the graphics do seem better and to achieve that look, they probably had to downsize the size of the region to effectively pull it off BUT if your gonna spend some time to put a new region together, why make it so small? It aldo lends itself the fewer new pokémon due to the size of the region. I just hope that it is like the Orange Islands where this island isnt the only one. Another thought might be that they made it so small because we would SOMEHOW get to travel back to Kalos. If that is the case, then im fine with that. Otherwise, im SUPER STOKED!!!!!!!!! Probably gonna get both!!!! 🙂
It’s just one island. If you look you can see two pokecenters. There will be a lot more islands. Just like Hawaii
I’m pretty sure Alola is based on Hawaii. Alola kind of sounds like Aloha you know…
Size of region has nothing do with performance. The size only matters for the data on the cartridge, but they can increase model complexity with the same horsepower with only slightly increasing the data needed.
Do people realise that there’s a dock on the island? Definitely makes it possible to go to other islands by boat. 🙂
Wouldn’t it be cool if we were to be given a mission such as delivering a letter to someone in another island and as we’re sailing to the said island we got caught up in a huge storm which caused our ship to sink and we ended up lost at sea surfing with our pokemon. In the morning we eventually wash ashore in this mysterious island with all sorts or cool places and exotic pokemon. GAMEFREAK MAKE IT HAPPEN
Island hopping region would be very unique and fun
If it is really based on Hawaii then yes
Is Kukui our real cousion or he uses a slang? I have no problem with incest though.
Kukui is not for sexual
Kukui is for very sexual
Don’t they use the term “cousin” in Hawaii a lot? Im not sure if it’s really our cousin, but we will find out eventually.
I’m pretty sure cousin doesn’t mean actual cousin. Like when Stitch uses the term.
There’s already porn pics of him
I think the sun legendary’s color scheme looks off. I don’t think it works as well as other colors would.
I really hope they finally ditch fighting type starters!
How many new pokemon do you think this region will have?
I think 60-100, but i really want 100+
Well we already know Meowth is in the game. I think there will be 30-ish new Pokemon.
Idk kalos had to make 3d models for every single pokemon so maybe thats why it was such a small new pokemon dex, now that they have 3d models already they can just make 100 more.
Plus old pokemon doesnt mean its small, hoenn had older pokemon too and it still brought 136(?) pokemon
Well they had been working on the models for a while. We had access to them on Pokedex 3D. I just want another generation like 5 with a bunch of new pokes.
The Pokedex 3D models aren’t the same as the XY models, I’m pretty sure, unless they merely retextured them.
I’m thinking maybe 120 or more. Since this a odd numbered gen we are definitely getting more then 100 new Pokemon.
*waiting for Battle Frontier Island*
My male character, Philip is getting Litten and will be on the Sun version. My female character, Aurora, will get Rowlet or Popplio depending on their evolutions, and will be on the Moon version.
Well guys I dreamt of Popplio… That honestly binds me to pick him
This is truly a first since I never chose a Water Starter outside Mudkip and that was only because Hoenn made me
And in that dream it evolved into a fat blue lump… Not what I was going for but nonetheless still impressive
Welcome to the water team! <3
Didn't you pick Mudkip because it was part ground-type later?
Kinda Relevant: Fat Blue Lump
http://41.media.tumblr.com/eafb4f83208bfde9aa367afb6bf9deba/tumblr_nn6gkhy97p1rider7o1_r1_500.jpg
I need to scan you for Ultron DNA
I was just watching the 2013 xy trailer and now the sunmoon one, and I liked both trailers but I felt more intrigued and excited by the xy one because of the announcers voice.
http://65.media.tumblr.com/92141d0e5d816fdf7fad71cc91ded840/tumblr_o6zh2e7eRf1tq15hoo1_500.png
Man by the end of the week we’re gonna be loaded with fan art and evolution ideas
What if it’s snot bulges it into the next evolution?
……Ok never mind
BTW, new article, if anyone’s still here. <3
Okay I really think the starters are all going to have a circus theme this time (sorry if anyone else said this first but I was just kinda thinking about it today)
obviously Seal-musical horn act is a thing BUT
I have been thinking about the name “Rowlet” all day and it sounds to me like either “roulette” or “ring leader” which both have “round” or “spinning” sounds to them (he can spin his head and has a bowtie! Why would he have a bowtie or “bowtie-like” accessory unless that was going to mean something later)
Also, his new move is “leafage” a brand new move shown by THROWING HIS QUILLS LIKE KNIVES. A KNIFE THROWING ACT.
and then Litten could be the fire ring act (his fur is covered in flammable oil and can be burned off, as stated in his profile). He is also a TIGER, which is a very common animal in the circus.
Themes were a definite thing in the last generation (arguably all the others as well), with the RPG classes being represented. I think this is very possible, personally.
Does any one else wish the moon legendary looked a bit less feminine? Am I the only one who sees it’s feminine side? Kinda takes away from the badassery.
I think it makes it more badass.
Has anyone thought about the legendaries being typed Light? They look pretty litten to me…
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