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
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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.