Meet the Protagonists of Pokémon Sun & Moon

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It was exciting to get our first look at the starting Pokémon of Sun and Moon, coming November 18th for the 3DS, but did you put much thought into the newest protagonists we were introduced to? From the looks of the trailer customization seems to have returned (THANK YOU) and we may even be able to remove our hats (although honestly it seems like a beginning cutscene when he is preparing)!

The male character starts out with longer hair and a simple baseball cap, while the female character has a rather unique hat almost reminiscent of Ruby’s. When you begin the game, you’ll get to choose a skin tone which all start with varying hair colors.

A new change is the way the characters are portrayed on the overworld; the chibi-style of Pokémon X&Y has disappeared and the protagonists are much more proportionate to their full display in battle.

What do you think?! Even if there is trainer customization, are these a good template with which to customize?

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904 thoughts on “Meet the Protagonists of Pokémon Sun & Moon”

  2. I’m finally done with testing!! (Well except for my Calc BC makeup, but I should be fine for that)
    I’m so happy, I’ve had a test every day since last Monday! 😀

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  4. I’m hoping that if we get another eeveelution we get 2 hopefully ground and poison you know since one is always weaker to the other

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  5. Apart from the slight Disney vibe from them, I think these are a nice representative of what the potential final evolutions for the starters could look like. (Refresh for image)

    All I’m saying is gimme all 3 if that’s the case ?

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  6. What is everybody going to school for? Major, degree type, or if you’re still in grade school, what is your favorite subject? What do you hope to be doing as a career?

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    • Judging by your name, you and I have something in common!
      I’m going to major in Microbiology & Mathematics, favorite subjects are math and science of course 😉

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          • I’m proud of being a nerd. If it means that I love doing the work I do and have a genuine passion for it, then so be it – I’m a nerd and there’s no shame in that.

          • You’re hopeless, dude. I feel sorry for you. I hope one day you can actually be yourself instead of hiding behind that wall all the time.

          • Jerk? How? I genuinely feel sorry for him like I want to know more as to why he’s so defensive. If anything, I would love to help him as I’ve gone through stuff like that growing up.

          • How do I act like I know everything? All my comments have ever been is that I feel sorry for him. That’s literally all I have ever said. Plus, in other people’s comments I’ve replied with my personal experiences, so how is that justified as knowing everything?

          • I speak my mind,
            Everyone knows that sometimes I can be a genuine bastard, but other times I am intelligent, spontaneously violent, illogically violent, vindictively violent, but hey it’s my nature, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be generally nice,

          • Thank you for that and now I’m understanding you more. Afterall, you are THE Earthen Warrior 🙂

          • However, I would like to apologize if I ever said something that hurt you in any way. That was never my intention.

          • #mathisall haha without math there’s no physics, without physics there’s no chemistry, without chemistry there’s no biology, and without biology there’s no life.

          • Does it make you feel better about yourself by trying to put others beneath you? Are you not a nerd yourself?

          • Gaming Nerd is awesome and you should be proud of that. I know my wife does. I, unfortunately, do not play too much games but that’s my choice. I may venture out…maybe

    • Just finished my Hons Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Law ?

      Stay in school kids if I can do that anyone can !! Haha

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    • I’m still in high school but I’ll be pursuing classes to go into marine rescue or something involving marine wildlife.

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    • Finishing up my BA in Communication studies. Had a great time in college. It can be hard at times, but this whole thing has been very rewarding. If you can find one professor that you really connect with and inspires you it makes all the difference. Some of the professors I’ve had were amazing to the point where I wouldn’t want to have changed anything I did. I would never want to have a world where I didn’t have them as teachers. Now onto the real world!!!!

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      • I’ve had the same experience. My advisor was awesome and I couldn’t have asked for a better professor, and now a colleague

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    • I’m a third (soon to be fourth) year Video Production student in high school. I’m considering entering the film business. I’d love to work for Pixar, as their movies have been a big part of my childhood and their headquarters are VERY local for me.

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      • I need to see what my cousin is doing because he just graduated from UC Irvine and is working on the trying to get into Nickolodeon

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      • That’s great! A few of my friends and my younger brother took a game programming class and had lots of fun making their own games. His final is to play his game with his professor.

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    • To all that replied: You all have restored some more hope in me for the future. Good luck with your endeavors and never give up. Even if it feels like the chips are down, don’t give up and keep pushing!

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    • I am OOOOOOLD, but I took Computer Science in college. I am now working at a bank supervising ATMs, and I’m about to move to a new position about messing with numbers in Excel, which everyone thinks I’m a genius at.

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      • Computer Science is awesome. I’m old too (28 lol) we have a couple of computer scientists where I work who make programs for us so we can see how the protein we make affect pathogenic toxins, as far as structure goes.

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  7. So here’s a thing. Supposedly CoroCoro stated that they’d post a video on their channel this month with exclusive Sun and Moon news. This to me is an interesting thing if true. Why would they show exclusive info on a video and not have anything in their actual magazine? Also what could they possible show off that isn’t what we’eve already seen? Wouldn’t they want something like that in their magazine?

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      • Joe Merrick (Serebii) tweeted about it a few hours ago. I’m just not sure what they could show at this point without it being either brand new or redundant.

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        • That’s true, but maybe we’ll get some clarifications on things we got. I’d personally like some official arts of the main characters and Kukui.

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          • True. There are a bunch of characters they could give us art for. Plus we still need the legendary Pokemon names officially revealed.

          • I think it’ll be a while before we get the legend names. Wasn’t there some time between the original trailer for XY and the reveal of Xerneas and Yveltal’s names? I could be mistaken though.

          • Nah we got Xerneas and Yveltal’s names immediately. They were shown in the trailer and then that same month they were in CoroCoro with their names. We had to wait a bit to find out their types though..

          • I think we’ll be waiting until next month for any new Pokemon beyond what we have already. They wouldn’t want to jump the gun after revealing the starters and legendaries. The’d want to let them stew around for a little bit before throwing more at us lol

  8. You guys. . How long do you think it will take for Powersaves to hack this pokemon game? It is on the same system as last gen. .. I am Not about that breeding life. But I guess I could just use a perfect ditto created through hacks

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    • I’ve watched it a lot. I know there’s not too much to glean from it after a couple of days of people staring at it, but I find it interesting to stop it at certain points to try and see something I didn’t notice before.

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    • I haven’t watched it yet today, but the day it came out, I’d say about 30, and I grab my own screenshots to show here or on other forums.

      I also have the trailers on my ipad so I can show it to randoms.

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  10. The 2DS is going to be only $80
    I finally convince my friend to buy one to play with me.. because it’s.. Sooo Cheap
    I used to think these things were stupid.. and I thought that he thought we were to old to play.. but he has a problem with one eye and I think this gave him confidence to play it, on top of the price…
    We both want litten ?

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  11. Speaking of the trailer I have another thought. anyone else notice how blurry and pixelated the map art is? I feel like even if they tampered with the general shot of the pic as to only show us a little it’s too weirdly blurry. Any ideas? Could that be an in game shot of it?

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    • Personally I think that’s just the 3DS’ graphics for ya… I also feel we see the entire map. I think the fact we only see 2 Pokecenters shows we will visit other islands

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      • But what I’m saying is that if it’s just an image of the art it wouldn’t be blurry like the game is (due to the 3ds having questionable graphics) So is the image of the island itself coming from the game or were they just being dumb and used a low res version of the art?

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    • I agree with you. I thought the same thing, and I concluded that it looks shitty cause it’s probably an in-game shot of the island. Might not be the map, it might just be the opening cut scene or something.

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  12. Litten really looks nice, but I REALLY hope it doesn’t become Bipedal, it would be complete turn off. The only way to tell is to look at second stage, normally they are bipedal by second stage. It’s between Litten and Rowlet, Rowlet looks promising the whole way through, but Litten looks much nicer now, but bipedalness is a turn off.

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    • General consensus around the fandom is that this is only one of the islands that make up Alola. If you look at the bottom, the map is cut off. There could also be more to the north as well.

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  14. Yo I remember something
    We’re getting new moves
    I really hope at least every type gets like 3 moves that could be fair
    Also some new abilities to shake things up

    UGH I NEED MORE, MORE MOOOOOAAAAARRR

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    • We are, one has been revealed, and two more have been shown:

      Leafage-Rowlet’s starting move

      Sun legend’s signature move-If you look closely at the japanese trailer, the screen at the front of the video game store shows something using a firey beam attack, this could be the sun legend’s signature move.

      Moon legend’s signature move-both trailers show the moon legend raising it’s wings and firing six beams that combine into a single larger beam.

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        • Did you see the sun legend move? I’m impressed, I thought I was the only one that looked that closely at the trailer.

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          • Nor would I, they’re good names.

            An amusing point to consider, one suggestion for Tepig’s english name (back when Tepig was only known by it’s japanese name Pokabu) from one of the other fans was Pignite.

          • Solar Flare is a good name for that move. I’m assuming Celestial Burst is your name for the moon legend’s beam attack?

    • I’ve seen that theory too. I saw a set of fake final stages where Rowlet becomes the ringmaster, Litten becomes the tiger that jumps through hoops, and Popplio becomes a seal tossing a ball.

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        • No problem. I did here elsewhere that the symbol on Litten’s forehead was the alchemical symbol for sulfur (that combined with the flammable oils in its fur could indicate Fire/Poison), but googling it proves that false. The circus theory appears to be the most valid one atm.

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          • As a scientist, eehhhh…i tend to steer away from alchemy and leave it as is lol. I like my chemistry the way it is.

          • Really? What kind of scientist are you? Not meaning to be rude, I’m genuinely curious. I’m an engineer, but I do like meeting other people involved in STEM.

            As for alchemy, I’ve always been very curious as to the more mystical parts of our world (hence why I like Pokemon and Harry Potter), plus I really want a Fire/Poison starter.

          • I’m currently a Molecular Microbiologist. The company I work for is actually utilizing silver to disrupt the protein structure of bacterial cell walls, toxins, and viral protein coat. So far it’s proven affective at some of the local hospitals.

            Love em both too. A fire/poison starter would be amazing!

            What kind of engineer are you, if you don’t mind me asking?

          • Wow, that sounds really interesting 🙂 So you’re using silver to try to destroy bacteria and viruses?

            I’m one subject away from completing a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, specialising in structures. The branch of Civil Engineering that I’m in is the one about making sure buildings don’t fall down, so answering questions like how thick to make the floor slab, how wide to make a column, and how much steel do we need to put in.

          • My parents wanted me to be a Civil Engineer. I was doing it for a little until I took Statics. After the first exam, I basically said NO not for me. I have a new found respect for Civil Engineers. The physics has to be just right.

          • Yeah, you have to be pretty good in maths and physics to do civil engineering, especially for structural. I had an entire subject last year that could essentially be summarised by Hooke’s law (The force in a spring is equal to the stiffness multiplied by the extension).

            It was on using a powerful method of analysis called the Finite Element Method, where you model every beam and column in the structure as a spring.

          • I also took engineering physics and man it was rough haha. But it has given me a bit of an edge in the job market. I actually might be moving towards southern California (I’m in the bay area right now) because a company wants me to make monoclonal antibodies for them. I love physics and its helped me in the biochemistry/physical chemistry aspect of molecular microbiology.

      • These designs aren’t gave bad but slightly basic, but I definitely don’t mind the circus theme. Imagine if Rowlett gets a top hat made of leaves and a stick for cane? Haha.

        Also the more I look at puplio (whatever its name is), the more I would love for it to be part psychic when it evolves.

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        • They did say they’d go back to basic designs and Pokémon basics of battling in the future. I think that’s why the starters were so well received after so many overly complicated designs in 5 and 6. (5 had the best designs overall, but I mean starter wise they were over complicated and sucked.)

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          • I actually like this set of starters the best, It’s the first time I like all three. Although I like Litten the best and Rowlet the least, I’d give Rowlet an 8, Popplio an 8.5 and Litten a 9.

        • I saw someone suggest somewhere in the fandom (Can’t remember where, I float around various sites, though I post the most often here) that Rowlet’s final would cross it’s wings in front of it to look like a waistcoat/tuxedo. I feel like that and a top hat would be possible, but the cane wood be (sorry, typo, I meant would be) overkill.

          For Litten, I’d be slightly disappointed if it’s real final looked like this, something about the ring just doesn’t look right. Maybe it needs to be further back, like where Arceus’ rings are.

          And for Popplio, I just wish that the final stage is a bit more colourful.

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      • I don’t mind these evolutions, and I’d pick Popplio and Litten if this were true. It would also seem like Rowlet is the tightrope walker rather than the ring leader.

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    • Could be… Rowlet could be the ring leader (monocle, top hat, boetie), Litten the tiger and Popplio the clown… I really hope not though, I hate the circus and clowns are scary.

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  16. I just need my PokèHusbands to come to my bed and console me until more news comes. Preferably Alola, Hoenn, and Sinnoh husbands.

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  17. So, I wanted to see what you guys can come up with for this: In every pokemon game right before the next generation, there have been hidden messages and little hints as to what new mechanic, story, or game is coming to the Pokemon franchise.

    For example, in black and white 2 Colress talked about a pokemon with full potential. A pokemon with maximum power.

    And then we got Mega evolution. So…. Anything in ORAS/XY that might lead to these games?

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    • I think there’s a couple, here. It starts with the Tiki Mask.

      Some people got distracted by the colors of the backpacker though, thinking he could be from Germany instead.

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    • What were the others? FRLG had the wireless adapter which lead to wireless battling, HGSS had the Pokewalker that lead to pokemon amie.

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      • I don’t think the Pokewalker thing is true. The FRLG is definitely true. I don’t remember all but there are certainly subtle hints….

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    • Archie can fill me with power.

      Tbh no. I didn’t see anything in ORAS. In XY I think there was something about retaining mega evolution power but I’m not sure if I dreamed that or not. I need to finish my second run through of it. I just forgot how boring it was.

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  19. Ugh it’s been 2 solid days and I’m already craving more info
    The dust has settled and we got nothing!

    On the other hand I made space on my mantle for Sun and Moon’s Cases
    But that’s the limit

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  21. I cannot wait until November 18, when Pokémon Sun and Moon are scheduled to be released in America. I hope it will be there at GameStop along with the Official Strategy Guide (which is something I will read before playing the game), too. 🙂

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