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?
<3 PJ
FEATURED DISCUSSION: How Do You Play Pokémon?
Okay, so some discussion:
If pokemon were real, what would your partner be?
But Pokemon in the real world could be dangerous so make sure your partner would be a Pokemon that isn’t considered dangerous to you (example: legendaries).
Mine would probably either be Charizard (with Charizardite Y), Garchomp, or Greninja.
Two pokemon that could bite your head off or burn you or stab you. Nice. Totally not dangerous.
I would like a Piplup or Bastiodon. ALL THE BIRBS AND ALL THE WATER TYPES AND ALL THE STEEL TYPES.
Lol I like your thinking. But I’m saying if I was their trainer, then I would choose those. I basically meant anything as big and powerful as a legendary is no good XD
But good choice with those two.
Wailord would be nice. Idk. There’s so many I’d want but there’s also so many that I can’t think of them all
I know I feel the same. I always have a hard time deciding what my favorite pokemon is. I definitely have those 3^^^ on my top 10 list though 🙂
Tbh Pokemon would be pretty useless in the real world since fighting would be banned and they’d have the brains of our animals. I’m all for holographic battling though
Obviously it ain’t happening but I just thought it would be interesting to see your thoughts.
But one day holographic pokemon battling will be a thing and it will be an AMAZING THING!!!! 😀
Water and steel are my two favorite types as well
Definitely my top two. I have a hard time picking which one I like more. Fortunately Empoleon exists.
Exactly! That’s why empoleon is one of my favorite starters of all time but I o back and forth between the two myself
I would choose Metagross as my main
Nice! Metagross would be cool, and so would its Mega!!!
Yeah, I would just like to mega evolve it and ride it like an X-Wing from Star Wars
XD that would be so cool!!!
Togetic!
Really? I never would have guessed. ^___^
Azelf would be pretty useful. I’d make it teleport me to my apartment and it’d help me with chores since I live by myself 5 days a week now. And before you say “legendaries”, he’s probably smaller and safer than the huge ones.
No, that makes sense. Azelf is one of the wisest of pokemon. So definitely a very wise and great decision!
The problem is, it’s too smart and probably can read my mind. Smart enough that I can’t just walk out of the shower willy-nilly anymore. Or browse hentai without feeling ashamed.
Also I have to make sure it doesn’t use Explosion.
Yep, those are downsides…
Yes, downsides but it is your pokemon, so it will listen to you.
“Mr. Azelf, can you please go outside, there’s a… personal activity I need to do.” Heh heh heh.
So how you gunna find one
And wouldn’t some quicker more experienced trainer snatch it right up
Only one
Well, hey, I can dream, right? Details of how I’m actually going to get one aren’t necessary. Heh heh heh.
In all likelihood some major protagonist or villain is gonna have something that powerful, though.
No dreaming
And you can’t just waltz up to the cave of Valor and just be like hey Azelf wanna hang, it would be long gone when any humans approach
Zorua! I just love it so much and to begin the journey with it would be so cool. I’d also like a Togepi if I can get to have two lol
Rhyperior, it is my Soulmate
And next would be Excadrill who you all know is infinitely important to me
Haxorus of course. Maybe it can help me gardening or cutting vegetables for dinner. However, it seems more likely for Haxorus to cut my head off.
I guess I’ll go with Piplup then. Much safer.
Sugimori said it’s based on a plant-eating dinosaur (?)
well haxford is a bit frooty 😉
Purugly. Its do adorable and protective!
Would have to go with Umbreon.
CORORO WTF
I’m Really not surprised… . Lol.
But I’m surprisingly satisfied with what we have gotten thus far
Wait but it said NEXT MONTH AILL HAVE A BIG SCOOP!!!
Haha, so first month they troll us with no info, promising a feature on Sun and Moon in the next issue. Next month they troll us with a “feature” but with basically no information. They then promise us with a big scoop in the next issue. Finally the next month arrives, with no pokemon information whatsoever. There was a big scoop, but it was not from Corocoro. Now they’re like, LOLZ we’re finally done trolling you. Next month we will have a sun and moon feature, information will be provided AND WE WILL BE THE SOURCE.
Either this was an elaborate prank in line with some strange Japanese sense of humor or…
it really can’t be anything else.
See the post I made earlier please. Last month they said that there’ll be a big scoop in May. Usually if they’re going to be the source, they will specify it, which they did not do. Pokemon SM was also not mentioned in the preview for this month’s issue.
In Corocoro’s defence, they’ve revealed numerous important Pokemon including the vast majority of mythical Pokemon (possibly excluding Mew, Celebi, Jirachi and Deoxys, I can personally vouch for the rest), Zorua, Zoroark (the first two gen 5 Pokemon), Munchlax (first gen 4 Pokemon, the gen 5 starters, the gen 6 starter evos and more. It is highly likely that they will reveal quite a few new Pokemon, just not this month.
Oh, and they revealed mega evolution.
we have to prepare for this
Holy moly. Could you imagine the pokemon we would have there!!!! I can see lots of Sky Battles there for sure!
Reminds me of a cliff i know from Diamond/Pearl/Platinum…
Also, there are some snowy regions in Hawaii. Could we see a city all the way on top of a mountain??
BTW ya guys who have NA/English Asia regions games, Shiny Xerneas is available now.
Just sayin, in one of Masuda’s blogs it said: and lots of suprises in these video games. Although I don’t remember which one
Love these starter predictions D:
Want them to become real x.x
The grass bird concept looks more like it is steel type or something.
Flying-Grass-Steel triple-type desired by the artist?
I kinda dig the propose Popplio evo, even if it’s basically just more of the same just more badass than before.
I am not digging the Cirquedeleo it’s too sleek and contemp
Those are some neat predictions.
But I have a feeling Popplio’s back pedal will get more prominent and allow it to move more.
Litten’s evo looks amazing. Wouldn’t really changing anything on it.
Now Rowlet’s evo has some issues but looks good as well.
I’m hoping Litten keeps it redness and sleekness. That bulky things borders on entei/ solgaleo. But I can see it loose it’s black colour when it evolves burning off the oil, though I’d rather it didn’t happen
I dunno, the artist has a clear style obviously and I’m not a fan of it.
Those would be the best starter evos ever. I love poppleos a lot
I fear the more people try and predict the evolutions the more disappointing they will actually be hahaha
I only like Litten’s final. The other two are overdesigned. :s
I like this idea, but it’s not really Sugi-Style http://65.media.tumblr.com/b600500710a9f9629192ebe1505693e2/tumblr_o6zqk5EzWX1rhbzxyo1_1280.jpg
Something like this would be awesome!! I want him to really turn into a complete bad ass
damn… it’s making me love rowlet even more!!!!!!! Other two are great aswell though.
That Popplio is great.
the evolutions are not the same colour and you can see the 9GAG it’s just fan art
To those complaining about Corocoro not having anything, I hate to be that guy, but:
a) Corocoro did have a large scoop on Sun and Moon, it was just exactly what was revealed in the video, so the leaker decided not to leak those pages.
b) Corocoro never said that “the announcement everyone has been waiting for” will happen in May’s issue, they said it would happen in May. So they never promised that the following issue would have news. We got a huge scoop
c) They have however said that next month’s issue (next month’s issue specifically, not just next month) will have a huge scoop.
So if next month’s issue doesn’t have new info, I’ll join you guys and rage about it, but not this month.
Remember this “water hotel building”?
See it anywhere on the Alola map?
No. So multiple islands basically confirmed.
You do realize that the entire top portion of the island is cut off,
http://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/alola.jpg
There is more to the island
The island is not cut off anywhere, except for the black rocks in the ocean. This is the entire island.
I said top portion dummy
And I say so because there is a building right in the middle of the land and where there could be more
Oh I get it.
But the entire scenery around the water building also isn’t seen. It’s pretty clear to me that that building is not on this island.
*facepalm* Because it’s out of shot
You seriously think that building is behind that small mountain?
Do you?
Because it is clearly on the island and it’s highly unlikely that they wouldn’t have a little bit more
Of course I don’t. That building is on a completely different island. It must be.
You are impossible
That sounds weird coming from you.
Let’s just wait til we get more info.
And regardless if it’s on this island or not, there are undoubtedly more islands to this region, so it doesn’t matter. I personally don’t think it’s on this island either
It’s not on another island lol
Then where is it?
Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about the house that we can see at the northernmost edge. The water building is def not on this island, why the hell would they build such a structure on this kind of empty island? I agree with you
*inbetween pounding head into the wall* The Topmost *wham* part of the *drywall cracking* the island in the middle a red building the one *crash* behind the mountain
Are you kidding me? I’m not talking about that at all. I am talking about the water building in the very first trailer of SM. Just go see my post. God.
*Intensely glaring* there is a good chance that there is more to this island and said building could easily be on a outstrip of land behind the area that is being cut off by clouds
In my opinion there isn’t. But I’ll stop here because you’re pretty stubborn. Let’s just wait, we’ll see later.
I don’t think that there’s a more northern part for this island, it doesn’t look cut
Because you’re being convinced by a layer of clouds and thinking its the sea
I don’t see anything that is cut-off. I know your talking about the top portion of the island. There are various islands to this and Hawaii. We’ve seen the entire first island at this point.
So silly, there will be more islands!
well I only count a couple of pokemon centers, I believe we can say that this isn’t the whole world of su & moon, else I would be done in like jhalf a day I guess exploring it..
Looks more like 1 city (ish) then an entire region
LOL I’m not sure if you noticed but that is just concept art, and it may or may not have been scrapped. Or its there and you just cant see it yet on the map that they showed. 🙂
They wouldn’t have shown it in the first trailer if they scrapped it.
maybe, maybe not, all I was saying is that just because you don’t see it there, doesn’t mean that there are going to be several islands to explore. Plus to me the picture kind of looks very league-ish, it could be the pokemon league. 🙂
We need More clues on on Sun and Moon.What do we got from corocoro now?
Here’s a look at the route sign. It was in the same scene with the female character running downwards to the girl at night. Notice it uses the colours of the US Interstate Route Sign and the Green Sign, which indicates a direction.
Nice find 🙂 It’s more or less confirmed that the new region is Hawaii, especially when you watch the Japanese trailer, but them using the US signage is a nice touch.
Oh wow it really does look like a US road sign!!! that’s a great catch! I’m starting to love al the details that are gonna be in this game. Plus presumably this is just some of the relatively earlier looks of the games like with XY. So slightly ore detail and texture could be added!! I’m so excited to explore the Alola region!!
Startling Anime news everyone
First of all Sawyer’s Doublade and Clawitzer has very interesting battling motions, extremely impressed with Clawitzer blasting itself around with its claw (Also they float but can’t fly)
Ash’s Noivern is revealed to have learned Dragon Claw
And for the first time in the series Ash did not sync with Greninja, they were about to but fell into some kinda internal revelation or something and their heart rates fell out of sync and lost to Sawyer for the first time
So you felt the need to post it and spoil it for someone who wanted to watch the episode online ?Dope
I did, is it my fault I’m up earlier and get all the info first
Well yes when someone doesn’t want to see it. Personally I see them all day one first so it doesn’t bother me. But you ruin someone else’s day doing that.
Anything just to berate me huh
Nah man, just a heads up was all. We cool we cool
Good Ash needs to start losing to Sawyer now. If he continued to win then when they got to the league it would be very weird…unless it is fact Sawyer that beats him there. Either way I find the conflict between him and Greninja interesting and something that can breath newer life into the idea of their sync. If there are no obstacles then what’s the point am I right?
Wait is there an English subbed version up yet???
Of course not
Everyone knows it takes roughly 3-4 weeks for those guys to neatly sub it
And the fact the episode aired today so don’t expect anything but RAW until 2-4 weeks
Oh, got it. Okay, so I guess we just wait till we get sub 😀
u know corocoro leaked right ? …….until know all news about the movie. http://www.serebii.net/corocoro6161.jpg
So I guess they didn’t reveal the names of the legendaries (although we know what they will be in Japanese). I can’t stand having this loose end until next month or more.
y they tell us that then?… next month will provide a huge scoop on Pokémon Sun & Moon??? !!
Can anyone really say they are surprised CoroCoro didn’t give us anything? Last month it didn’t specifically say it would have info. It just just said the info would come to us. And guess what, IT DID! lol I hear people are getting angry that nothing was in it…..That’s just silly. It promised us info this month and we got it. It just never promised us that the info would be coming directly fro it. CoroCoro uses it’s words very carefully and if it say info is coming you better believe it’s coming. Next month it says we’ll be getting info specifically from the magazine. We have no reason to doubt at this point that it’ll supply us with the goods lol
I swear if next issue is just Solgaleo and Lunalaa I am going to bust a gasket
I demand next issue at least give the bird and rodent and maybe a little something out of the ordinary
I have a really high hope for a Grass/Fire Wooden Tiki Doll that becomes big kahuna idol with flames spurting out
We’re getting into the actual season for news so I wouldn’t be too afraid of something like that. June is typically a pretty big month for revealing new Pokemon. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get the bird and a few new mons that we haven’t seen yet. Plus maybe a better look at the region as a whole.Also the grass/fire Tiki would be amazing!!!!!
Some people on Reddit think the silhouettes are the Gym Leaders, four of them labelled, with the others likely on top, hidden from view. What do you guys think? Caitlin, Pablo, Hoku (confirmed from trailer) and Ed.
Could very well be. They’ve done hidden stuff before like that I think and it would be a great way to subtly hint at them without actually having to commit to it. lol
They’re not the names of the gym leaders. There’s no type affiliation in their names, examples being Brock having rock in his name and or how Korrina’s name has the sound of the word arena in it (i.e. fighting arena). Those are the names of the students. Near the end of the Japanese trailer when the Japanese kid says, “My name is Shohei,” the native Hawaiian kid replies, “My name is Hoku.”
Also, right when the Japanese kid and his mom arrive in front of the store selling Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, you can spot “Solgaleo” using it’s signature move, which looks similar to have a slightly similar animation as “Lunaala’s” signature move, just in a different angle.
Oh, and the mom isn’t the same skin tone as your character in this game like the mother in Pokémon X & Y was. One more thing, this island region isn’t completely shown. There are clouds obscuring the view of the top half.
Finally someone puts a little time and observes carefully
Anything is possible.
Ffing real of course, like the owl though..
Popplio officiously became a joke.
Are you sure? If Littens evolution is bipedal I don’t know what I’ll do
Well I would react the exact way I did when I saw Fennekin change into Braixen…. CRY 🙁
Same
honestly though I think the one that’;s gonna look the most amazing is Popplio. Although I like it the least at the moment.
These evos would already ruin gen 7.
Those are some ugly evolutions and it obviously looks fan-made. The owl doesn’t look too bad.
No
Ah say are these guys real?
Ugh somebody torch this artwork and chop off the hands
I know I said I like evos that are just the same but more, but this is too ridiculously same to the base form, I don’t dig it. I gotta ask for a little more complexity from these concepts, whoever drew these.
The CoroCoro has leaked and it has nothing for Sun & Moon. They just said that they will become the official source of Pokémon News once again, while promising something for the next issue. I was at least hoping to see a proper recap and some artwork of the recently introduced characters. Yet, it seems like we got nothing once again.
Just want official art of bae
Who is your bae now? May is still my hoe until we see official art of the Sun & Moon female character. Based on your profile, I’m assuming Kukui!
Yes Alola husband
Archie is Hoenn husband
Byron is Sinnoh husband
Drayden is Unova husband
Lysandre was Kalos husband
Johto didn’t have anything except Kanto husband Lt. Surge.
Whore
I get around
Trying to get as many beard rides as u can
Beards are hot
I won’t lie in rare moments even I may fall victim to a very nice beard but Earthen still looking for a big sweet mama to call my own
Neva
;_;
I will say bigger girls do tend to be more attractive but I’ll stick with my men
You do your thang and I’ll do mine
Hahhaha I thought I was the only one having husbands around the pokemon world :’)
Of course not!
Too many to assume
Lol May ???
So I’ve been wondering about our big lion and bat
I know it’s Sun and Moon and our Legends often have ties to the title in some way but I wonder if they’ll do something different
I don’t think these Pokemon have complete dominion of the Sun and Moon but they drew great power from these celestial bodies and used the power to do something to the Alola region
Now we need a evil organization to harness these Titans for their own selfish world dominating reasons
Thoughts?
I have no clue what they’re going to do. I can’t even think of my own theory aside from starter evolutions.
Well I got one theory but it only works if Solgaleo and Lunalaa command night and day
These Pokemon are said to be the bringers of Day and night and their power must be in perfect balance otherwise the celestial cycles are damaged, and I can easily say we need consistency of daylight and darkness since if one side grows too powerful the world falls into disarray
I can see big phat greedy tycoons who could abuse the power of the sun to fuel solar panel sales or force the world into nightfall so people use more energy (before anyone ask yes this is totally a steal on Mr. Burns)
But in their conquest this greatly upsets the natural order and therefore evoke the wrath of Perfect Zygarde and causes all this crap to fall together
Well let’s see. Gen 5 GF attacked PETA with Plasma. Gen 6 they attacked fashion with Flare, and now they could attack the “green” movement that tries to make money off of overpriced, low quality “green” products.
This has nothing to do with Sun and Moon. But I’m kinda afraid Ash will get knocked out of the Kalos league pretty fast. Did any one see episode 25?(SPOILER ALERT) He lost control of Greninja near the end of his battle with Sawyer (which he ultimately loses due to said lost control of Greninja)
Yeah, and (SPOILER) loses to Sawyer because he depended on Ash-Greninja way to much.
But I don’t think Ash will recklessly just use his Greninja in the first couple rounds. He knows from experience that he could potentially lose. So, I don’t really worry. But I think that he will lose in the semi-finals.
Agreed, and I think he needs to add more spice to his team. Way too much relying on Greninja atm. Has to train his entire party, and not just Greninja. I’m kinda hoping he’ll bring back Charizard for the league (maybe with a mega stone, but thats probably too much dreaming XD)
He seriously needs to train his Noivern. It hardly has any battle experience and loses to a Clawitzer. Noivern’s a pseudo-legendary, Ash needs to work with it a lot before entering the league I reckon. Potential powerhouse right there.
I kinda miss Goodra, and really hope Goodra comes back for the league. I really really hope that happens. But yah I hope he trains Noivern.
Yeah I honestly liked his goodra more than his noivern
Yes, but if Goodra doesn’t come back, then Noivern needs to be trained. I mean, it’s just terrible!
His Noivern is shy, kinda introvert and really attached to Ash (which is a good thing though) but I think it also prevents him from battling with his full power. Noivern is serious shit if you train hard with it, you can’t tell me it can’t be on par with his Charizard in terms of power
I can definitely see Noivern having so much potential if trained in future episode, it’s just so weird seeing ash have three flying types in his team
Oh! Well that’s good that goodra comes back. So, is the league gonna be this season? I’m guessing this is the last season before Sun and Moon, right?
They always have that after season where they just travel from place to place like in black and white, they went to the decalora islands with dawn and Cynthia and in hoenn they had the battle frontier but I’m just hoping they move on to the next series though. Also, I wouldn’t mind if there was a new protagonist as well but that’s just my opinion
I kinda want them to start Sun and Moon ASAP. I wouldn’t mind a Battle Frontier type of post-league season but the Best Wishes was meh.
Best Wishes was horrid, and Ash’s team bar his Krookodile was fking pathetic as well.
Who knows, judging by the series’s title, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole Team Flare/Zygarde arc are the remaining episodes, and that they’ll make a seperate season for the league and post-league, like they did with the Black and White arc.
Maybe, but I feel like with how close Sun and Moon is I don’t think they will have another season. But I also didn’t enjoy the Best Wishes stuff so maybe that’s why I’m hoping there is no post league season XD
We got 6 1/2 months….
Yes, but how many episodes are in a season? I guess that would be stretching it…
We still got a lot going on
Ash still doesn’t have 8 badges
We are definitely getting a Zygarde 2-3 parter arc
And the lastly Iris is going to show up (Which I extremely can see Drasna being involved)
That’s true. I forgot about Iris lol. Ash gets his 8th badge very soon though (in Japan) and of course the Zygarde stuff will have several episodes. Then we got all them in betweens. I think we could see another season.
Besides the league what would be in that season?
He wins his 8th badge in episode 28 though
Well, his Goodra returns in episode 29 (I think its 29), so maybe it’ll rejoin his team.
Noivern isn’t a Pseudo-Legend
(I had a summary of notable events)
Ash needs to get his booty kicked hard in the next upcoming episodes
I got a hunch Greninja might ditch Ash because of this dependence
Well, he pretty much beat Diantha, so I was sort of getting hyped for a potential league victory, but this new episode totally destroyed that. Sawyer really isn’t that good of a trainer, kinda reminds of me Ash in his early days. Although it is sort of impressive his Sceptile can Mega Evolve
Both of them are turds
I want to crush them with my Ground Type Pokemon
He almost won against Diantha in the previous episode though.
Besides,the only reason Ash lost is so Greninja can run away in the next episode and so Ash and Greninja can have some development which will lead to Ash-Greninja defeating Wulfric’s Mega Abomasnow
This is so funny
I saw somebody mention this page from the book in the 3rd movie. Think they drew inspiration for the sun legend from this?
Ooooh
This is amazing whoever drew this!
This is the plan..bank, and restart for each starter
I like the way you think [cue evil malevolent laugh]
Let’s be evil together
Let’s do it ?
As for me I just want to use only native Pokemon in sun
Then for moon Earthen goes to Alola to further his mastery of Ground Types
Great art …..but nobody will look at mine now.
I’m pretty sure your art is great as well
wat’s ur opinion on it ? ……I need those words from artist like u …any advice?
I used to practice every day and I totally sucked when I started out but I just started by copying picture off the internet through my drawing and see if they look alike but I never trace
I mean ur opinion in my drawing above.
…..Rowlet is on fire
I can’t deny drawing Litten evolution Fire/Dark type ,u can criticize as much u can except saying he look like fire/fighting.
Pokemon website describes Litten as having fur with flammable oils. And apparently, the symbol on its head is the alchemy symbol for sulfur.
So atm, I’m calling Fire/Poison
Ehhhhhhhhh I don’t see Oil immediately as toxic in nature, but then again Smoke and Sulfur fumes can be poisonous
I know about alchemy symbol ,I hate Fire/Poison compo but if happen it could be like my art ..u know shinobi or ninja assassin use poison needle For assassination.
We just got a freaking ninja something different please
that wat I see when I look at him he looks like wearing helmet with symbol on it , If u read the dex entry …what they mean by Litten always remains coolheaded and doesn’t show its emotions on the surface …this is look like assassin Feature….don’t forget u said it should be have shadow sneak.
Because it has that antisocial child aura to it
agree with that.
A quicket of knowledge, those markings are meant to symbolize the chemical symbol of Sulfur
I can see a mountain lion/tiger who inhabit active volcanoes
So maybe a blazing Panther
it’s to it’s too difficult to make characteristic quadruped,and I know how GF style would be.
I couldn’t agree more, Quadrepeds and decent hands
ppl have the same feeling when they predict Finnken evolution …but feeling give u nothing.
It’s pretty good but because I’m choosing litten as my main starter, I’d prefer if it stand on all fours
all ppl want him stand on four but I am trying to predict what is evolution looks like.
Plot twist: Aqua and Magma come back to try to keep the sun raised or flood land with the moon’s tidal control. Archie lost all clothes and now roams in a speedo.
The Archie in a speedo part repeats itself inside your head, ain’t it? 😛
It was my avatar for a while actually. Everyone complained so I changed it.
I guess you weren’t here for his old avatar
that sounds like something Special would do
New Archie killed people in the Manga. Not sure if it was Special or not but he did. I wouldn’t be surprised.
I wonder if a possible 3rd game could be titled Eclipse or gen V alike over do Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse. But that is thinking way ahead, but just a thought.
I wonder about the Villain team and their design, will be tough to deliver something original. Also Name? And signature pokes! I need a mean poison-flying parot or something.
Cool stuff
What if the bad guys were based on the Hawaiian Witch doctor or the tribe members?