BRAND NEW information on Pokémon Sun & Moon (Nintendo 3DS, November 2016) has been revealed and we’re compiling a list of the new information and it is also on the official Pokémon site:
- Solgaleo Psychic/Steel
- Lunala Psychic/Ghost
- New Professor is Prof. Kukui
- Professor has “Mysterious Assistant” named Lillie
- Rival/Friend named Hau
- Rotom inhabits new Pokédex
Japanese trailers:
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it would be awesome if CoroCoro reveals something new!
What’s with the female trainer’s chicken hat?
She kinda cute tho. The male one looks like a generic american teenage boy with the stupid emo-looking hair -_-
I was just talking about that on twitter. XD it’s awful.
I don’t like it at all. Looks kinda like a ski cap, which you wouldn’t need in Hawaii—I mean Alola.
Hopefully customization will be back…
It is unless our only choice is skin color, hair color and shirt color HAHA.
Where did you see shirt color?
In the videos where Hau (our friend/rival) runs up to the male protagonist, you can see the male protagonist wearing a black default shirt instead of blue.
People quick to the draw
http://67.media.tumblr.com/af70024282b64ec3edf61a6181f9da8c/tumblr_o85ewoJI4e1rtqwfvo1_400.png
Pokemon fandom is ridiculously fast at fanart haha
Wow! This looks amazing. *_* kudos to the drawer.
Thx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaijutsu
Joking aside, I need to know how to draw like that in 1 hour.
BAE
Yes please holy, how do people draw these awesome works of art so fast?
Best looking poke girl to date imo
Hype level is over 9000! I’m so confused about these typings though. I wonder if there’s more to them than just those. Solgaleo’s just makes zero sense to me. I do love Lunala’s typing though! I’ve been dying to see a new Ghost legendary since Giratina.
The official Artwork for the Male trainer shows him wearing something on his wrist. At first I thought it was his keystone, but it has a yellow gem In it which is exactly the same as the one in moon’s Japanese logo
I guess this proves the Synchro Evolution theory
How does that prove anything
What else could it be?
Remember how Mega Mewtwo Y appeared in the Genesect movie, BEFORE megas were officially announced? Also, Jarvis from the upcoming Magearna/Volcanion movie has a similar diamond in his staff.
Its not a Mega bracelet, so what else could it be? And Ash-Greninja was revealed roughly at the same time as Sun/Moon reveal in February, you honestly think its not connected?
Similar to how the Red and Blue Orbs were in the Logo
I’m not going to let synchro evolution be a thing
Besides its just a Mega Watch until they say otherwise
And how many times do I have to tell you Ash-Greninja is an anime Mechanic
I’m not quite sure what Synchro Evolution is but in the new pokemon movie, the antagonist mega evolves without a mega stone for any pokemon that can. Maybe, thats what the bracelet is for
Me with Kukui
O_O
Why are you buzzing?
Because when they touch it’s like electricity
Yasss!!
How will Synergy Evolution work exactly?
What the heck is that? I haven’t heard anything about this type of evolution. o.O
Ash-Greninja
Oooooh. How do we know that’s gonna be in the game though? Or just a guess?
I wanna combine with my Rowlet and be birdman
CAWWWWWW
Its a guess, but it wouldn’t be the first time they introduce a future game mechanic in the anime. Mega Mewtwo Y was in the Genesect movie, before Megas were oficially announced.
Not officially announced yet, but it’s what makes Ash-Greninja.. well.. Ash-Greninja haha
They’d have to incorporate some kind of mechanic, because it works differently in the anime. Maybe something with Pokemon Amie
I’ve mapped out how I think we’ll travel through the Alola region. I tried to identify where the gyms will be by finding similar buildings in the cities/towns, but I could only find 4 (and even that I’m unsure about). Also, sometimes it seems that there’s more than one way to go, so I just chose what seemed best.
There are some places to note. First, the area boxed in maroon on the 2nd island is the hotel we’ve seen. Second, the area boxed in pink on the last island is where I think the encounter with Lillie, and there’s a bridge behind her.
Is a little non linearity too much to ask for.
We should get to decide which order we want to explore the islands, with the trainer and wild Pokemon being adjusted accordingly.
*Sigh* One can dream
That’s entirely possible. As I said, there’s more than one route to take at certain points. The entire second island is like that, really.
Yep I like the second and third islands for that reason.
I accidentally did some of the HeartGold gyms out of order.
In the original games it was possible to do some of the gyms out of order as well.
In RSE you could skip Brawley and Winona all the way to the end. Not recommended to skip Winona since you won’t be able to Fly, but you can skip Brawley since you never actually need Flash until Victory Road.
How? O.o
I hope the game lets us choose where to go, and isn’t linear. The trainers could have levels based on your badges or something, idk.
I think it’s a possibility, but not complete freedom obviously. You’d run into problems such as really high leveled Pokemon knocking the hell out of your starter. Unless they implement some sort of flexible level system that takes into account how high of a level your Pokemon are or something like your badge idea, or even just limit the type of Pokemon you can see depending on your gym progress.
They could make the levels on island 2 even out and yoy can choose between choosing gym 4 or 5 first and than cross to the other after beating the 1 U choose first. and do the same for island 3.
The way we hit islands should be detemebt but the gym order could vary and that would be neat.
I looked at the southeast island and got flashbacks to my organic chemistry days. 🙁 #scientistthings
Episode 29 guys: http://www.animerush.tv/Pokemon-XY-Z-episode-29/
Ewwww the animeeee
omg I hate english dub, its just so much more cliche and cheesy but the Japanese dub makes it more watchable
Okay so my alarm didn’t go off and I only am seeing the news now but WOW. I am so happy with this. No new pokemon, but I am ay okay with that!
Also, the four islands are extremely diverse and that’s all that I need to be happy about the region.
Sun and Moon will appear on E3, confirmed by Serebii. Hopefully they will reveal new mons there.
Oh really!!! THAT”S AMAZIIIIINNGG
God awful chicken hat. I really hope we can change the hat. Just look at Lillie compared to Female MC.
Mae??? Is that you??
She went to glove world with Spongebob and Patrick
OMG is that a roaming pokemon on the rotom-dex?! I wonder if its a new one or an old one. found this on serebii
what???
I bet it’s the new Pokeradar/Dexnav… and it could be a roamer too.
Could be, who knows but I’m excited!
Maybe that indicates areas like in XY where Pokemon pop out at you from behind bushes? I like how they are integrating something interestingly new on the bottom screen.
Yeah I really love how you can see rotoms face on the bottom screen when you open the dexnavi or pokedex XD so kawai
What is the pikachu at the bottom for?
Hopefully that’s DexNav kind of thing
That’s in the Pokedex when you click ‘Area’, hence the Pikachu at the bottom. It’s on the official site where they talk about the QR Codes.
Guys…the bracelets…dont have mega stones…instead they have what i feared…the symbols that appear on the japanese logo… im okay with it as long as it doesnt mean ash greninja in the game
Ash never appears in the games lol. But be prepared that Synchro might be introduced
HOLY CRAP SHIT!!!!!!! All this info is just amazing!!! I love everything I see. I’m quite surprised that Solgaleo turned out to be Psychic/Steel, but it’s an interesting type and should be good fun! I’m not surprised at all about Lunala though hahaha. I can’t wait for the 15th and 16th now!!!! I want new Pokemon to push this month to the MAX!!! lol
All aboard the Rotom Pokedex hype train!!
I actually love the idea of Rotom being a little traveling companion! It adds personality to the peripheral gadgets lol
The Sun Legendary is weak to Fire
The Moon Legendary is 4x weak to Dark.
Amazing
Normal damage of Fire. It’s 4x weak to Ground-types.
Solgaleo is Psychic/Steel.
So it’s 2x weak to Fire and 2x weak to ground, which is stupid considering it’s the sun legendary and thus should be A fire type
Oops, I thought about Heatran when typing this. I just forgot that typing, because Solgaleo looks like a Fire/Steel-type.
Eenh.
What if the uber abilities also have a hidden “immune to fire” and “immune to dark and ghost” effect… HEH HEH HEH…
That would be cool, but unlikely.
Speculation: Because of the animations and names of the signature moves, do you think that Sunsteel Strike and Moongeist Beam are dual-typed like Flying Press?
Considering that no “it’s not very effective” on Salamence appeared disproves that, but Moongeist Beam can be either Psychic or Ghost, as Gengar is weak to both, but ‘geist’ in the name leans more towards being a Ghost-type.
That was my impression of it, yeah.
I’m p sure I heard the supereffective sound when Lunala rekt Gengar with Moongeist Beam, but since Gengar is Ghost/Poison I’m not sure what happened there as far as type matchups
Hau is cute ❤️
But fr tho I’m gonna need more than 81 new Pokémon this generation and for Rowlett to remain Flying
Ayy it’s Auggy. It’s me nick c:
But with all that water and having to use surf to get anywhere I’m sure that trying to move while wild (water) pokemon pop up each 10 seconds is gonna be a nightmare. Prepare to spend all your money on repellent, guys.
I am not sure what is in the midst of the isles, but the smaller white streaks in the water are little boats I believe. 🙂
OMG! This is a long shot, but what if you can rent a boat?!
It makes lots of sense actually. Since we can move without an army of pokemon holding us non stop, it’s great.
You may/not control where you go, i.e. going from one major island to another, but may have full control if there are smaller islands to traverse to, like in ORAS.
FEH. I bet we will still get jumped on by swimmers and Pokemon. Like they will literally jump on the boat to assault us.
Oh man, you’re so right. I had forgotten about those.
Pirates! 😀 That should be a trainer class, and they appear to jump on your boat and battle you!
there are a ton of boats on the map. I’d be willing to bet that for the most part you can take a ferri or something to each of the islands
They better make that free though, can’t imagine wasting all my pokedollars on boat rides xD
I bet it’s as cheap as fresh water (P200)… but I guess that means players can get STILL stuck forever if they blow their money, so they will give a free ride if you have less than the needed cash.
Is it even possible that we could have synchro? They would need to have a model for every single 719 + Pokemon mixed with not only your trainer character, but potentially others in game. But if it was only for certain Pokemon, like Megas, wouldn’t it be a little overkill/ making Megas obsolete? I mean, Megas were just introduced!
Could be exclusive to starters
At this point, I just don’t want Synchro/synergy whatever to be real. It just feels off to me. I dunno.
It make more sense in the anime, and it feels more like an anime function.
At the end of the day, I’ll end up probably tolerating it, but I still won’t think it’s the best idea.
I agree. If Synchro works In the games the same way as it does In the anime it isn’t really possible. Considering Character Customization, the different protagonist of future gens, and the number of pokemon it wouldn’t work.
Honestly, they should stick to Megas
People fast
This is hilarious lol
Even more hilarious if Rotom-Dex were actually a usable Pokemon… Electric-Steel with Levitate…
Hope that Pokedex body is indestructible…
It’ll probably be weak to fire, fighting and Excadrill.
Really really hoping that it is…And electric/steel sounds good
So another rival who’s pretty much going to be your best friend, stupid typings for the legendaries that don’t make any logical sense and a pokedex which is going to be guiding me on what a pokemon is and how to catch one. Great to have new info I guess but this isn’t blowing me away
Wow…..way to be a pessimist…..
real talk
Maybe yeah but the more games they make the more ‘accessible’ they become, seems like they’re sticking to that formula, it’s not out yet fair enough but this doesn’t make me hopeful at all.
I actually don’t mind Lunala’s typing, I think it fits. I definitely say both of those types (also Flying but whatev)
And for me, better a friend rival than a jerk rival who I pitied and who never changed (*cough* Gary *Cough*)
And Silver, I think.
I excuse Silver because he changed. He learned something. He wasn’t totally all mean in the end. He had his personality still, but he was less cruel to people and Pokemon I feel because of Lance and your player. (Es why he’s my fav)
Oh ok. Need to replay HG.
Best friend rival > Asshole rival
Yes. Just….yes.
What if we have a secret butthole rival that’s not introduced yet along side a friendly one? You can have a rival you like, and one you can hate their guts on.
I dunno, I would pity the jerk rival. That’s all I would feel. Plus, most likely, they wouldn’t change/grow/develop, which I love characters doing. Es part of being human. (Which is why I didn’t mind SIlver, cause he learned and changed as a person somewhat)
In my opinion, the butthole rival starts off like a Gary, but grows and develops into a Calem or Serena.
Calem and Serena? You mean a last-minute cop-out bc X and Y were so rushed they couldn’t just give Shauna the spotlight?I thoroughly enjoyed X and Y
I don’t mind that. I just want change in my rivals. Going on a POkemon journey, heck any journey, is bound to change someone, and characters who don’t just doesn’t make sense for me to relate to, in a way.
I dunno, maybe that’s the author/bookworm in me.
I think the rival should start out nice, but grow to hate you.
I don’t mind that. Maybe, after so many defeats, they grow bitter and join the evil team and help them out?
Yeah. I want a rival that stays bad in the end, and doesn’t become all friendly all the time.
Lmao I would pay double for a salty rival
Kinda like Cheren and Bianca!
Fair but I disagree 100%, I hated blue and silver which made me ‘want’ to beat them, the nice rivals are just like every other friendly npc
Friendly reminder that the Psychic typing likely represents the “spatial” aspect of the legends… After all, the sun and the moon are celestial bodies
That… makes perfect sense. Otherwise Solgaleo would have been Fire/Steel.
Whenever I forget that Psychic types are spacey I think of Elgyem or the Anistar City Gym
You do realize Elgyem is a floating brain right?
Actually it’s a little green man
So I guess this is why the Cosmic Type was unnecessary in the end.
BTW Earthen, I still haven’t gotten your ultra-rare sap-sipping cow, just hold on to that fat pig in a dusk ball. 😉
I think you’re confusing Elgyem with the Solosis family?
And while we are at this water/surf;island vibe, they could give seaking and starmie regular evolutions to make things interesting. I’d like that so much.
I have hopes for the rival. Yes, Hau seems friendly, but I’m really curious who that assistant could be. Could she maybe be part of the evil team? She seems kind of bratty. I dunno let’s see!
I’m calling her being the champion or something
Yaah, I feel like there will be some kind of plot twist. Just because of how she looks and the site literally says she is important to the story.
“I don’t like battling! Please don’t hurt me!”
[60 hours later…]
“You have done well, young trainer. I have watched you grow in your journey, and it is time that I revealed my true identity. I am the Champion of the Alola Region. And today, I shall be your opponent. You will find me to be a true test of your abilities. Prepare yourself!”
Lol, I don’t think she’ll be the champion. I think she will be something important to the story though….
Ok, how about this fanfic instead…
[40 hours later…]
“You have defeated all my grunts and admins. You have foiled all my team’s plans at every corner. But this is where your journey ends. My final plan cannot fail, and I will make sure of it. I am the true leader of Team ______. Prepare yourself!”
At the end of reading that my mind subconsciously started playing the hoenn champion music.
Mine played the kalos champion music… 😉
LOL Finally!! Someone else that has the same idea as me. 😀
Lillie could be the rival(starter strong against you).
The site says she’s not fond of battling with Pokemon. So, while I think she does get the starter that’s strong against you, she won’t be a rival so to say.
doesn’t like battling with Pokémon
Team Plasma 3 confirmed
Maybe not rival, but a one-off battle.
Watch her be the head of the villainous team, or their daughter, whom doesn’t like to battle and just wants to do “good”.
What I still don’t get is why does Hai use the Starter weak to ours?
Will we get another Rival Later on who uses the Starter that is strong against ours? Or is GF changing the Formula completely
That’s what I am pondering right now. Maybe, due to his personality, he feels that a starter weak to yours will be a challenge?
I know some people theorized that he might be late to choosing the starter (hence him rushing in and stuff) so maybe that’s the last starter left?
I’m just wondering who gets the other starter. Lillie or someone else?
The Official Website says she doesn’t like to battle.
So there are only 2 possibilities,
Either No one will get the other starter, Or we are going to get another ‘asshole’ rival later on
That doesn’t mean she won’t get it. She is next to you when they show the starters (you can see the hat), so maybe she gets the starter, but doesn’t battle you often. In Gen 4, Dawn/Lucas got the starter that no one else picked even if no one battled him/her.
Lillie gets the other
“She is not fond of making Pokemon Fight In battles” So I doubt it
She’ll take it and not battle with it 😀
The starters start with STAB moves at lvl 5.
I pray that the trainer battle intro thing isn’t just exclusive to Hau or other main characters… Tbh I felt that using the Sugimori art of trainer classes instead of models was a little lazy
Same here. I also felt that was extremely lazy on GF’s part. No excuses.
But imagine all those models that would have to do. So much space, so much time. Maybe not lazy, but it would have been too time-consuming considering that aren’t ones you battle over and over (Sorta)
I don’t know… After they animated every Sprite in BW2 I’m convinced they can do anything if they can dedicate time to it
But those weren’t super long animations. Plus 3D model animations take up a ton of space.
I dunno, I’m just bringing up something to consider.
No don’t worry I agree that it’s plausible that there’s space conflicts regarding making a Pokémon game, but hopefully this time around GF can make the game more… Aesthetically pleasing
I think they will. It already looks like an improvement to me, but we’ve only got so much to look at so far.
We won’t know until it gets closer to November.
The Sugimori art looks really good. Using the models wouldn’t look as good
*sips tea* it’s okay to be wrong
Some do but hau looks horrible in the art but ingame he looks awesome