Update 3: Our translator Kriffix woke up so find new information in bold below. More detailed info on the ability Soul Heart and legendary “phases”.
Two new Pokémon have been revealed, Iwanko and Nekkoala (dog and koala respectively), in the newest edition of Japanese CoroCoro magazine:
Iwanko
- Puppy Pokémon
- Rock-type
- Ability is Keen Eye or Vital Spirit
- Name is a combination of “iwa” (rock) and “wanko” doggy
- It greets you by rubbing against you you with its rocky neck. It’s painful but cute.
- “There is a secret hidden in that little body. In fact, there are also surprising secrets about the starter Pokémon too…!?”
- Iwanko will play a big role in CoroCoro going forward.
Nekkoala
- Half-Awake Pokémon
- Normal-type
- Ability is Absolute Sleep, makes it immune to all statuses but Sleep (possibly locked into sleep status)
- Name probably combines “neru” (to sleep), “nekko” (stump) and koala
Magearna
- Magearna can be obtained in Japan by scanning the QR code on the Pokémon Gaoore disk (Japanese Arcade Pokémon game) received at the movie theatre into Sun & Moon.
- It looks like Magearna’s special ability – Soul Heart – raises its special attack each time a surrounding Pokémon faints (I’m 95% certain but I need clearer scans to be 100%). It is described as a beam of light.
- Magearna has the new attack Fleur Cannon. ‘Fleur’ is French for ‘flower’.
Other
- This was already mentioned on the Japanese site, but QR codes can be obtained predominantly from Pokémon Gaoore Disks in Japanese game arcades – and from other select products that are to be announced.
- In addition, the magazine mentions that the Alola Region is full of many new Pokémon species!
- There are now scans of Solgaleo and Lunaala’s “most powerful forms”. CoroCoro refers to them as “phases” (like the phases of the sun/moon?). Rising Phase for Solgaleo and Full-Moon Phase for Lunaala. These “phases” seem to be the forms taken when using signature attacks.
Translating
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I know how adorable Nekkoala is but something on him turn me really emotionally ….talking about emotion I just realize all SM pkmn r really animals have suffered from humans ….human destroy koala habitat, made many tiger species ,The Hawaiian Poi and the Stilt-owl extinct,treat Sealions badly and making them enjoy ppl in the circus……I didn’t used to analyze emotionally but wat should I do I am still human being.
These two Pokemon are adorable & I love this simplicity they said they’re doing, makes it more enjoyable in my opinion
Iwanko…is a funny name in English, especially the middle part of that name being a euphuism for something, aha.’love the design & a Rock type is definitely interesting, can’t wait to see where it goes from here
Nekkoala is also another cute Pokemon (finally a koala) with an interesting ability. Has potential to be a very good competitive Pokemon as well, a real tank!
I wonder what the Soul Heart Ability does (and mainly if it’s just a rehash of an existing ability ie Full Metal Body/Shadow Shield)
Also, can’t wait to find out this “secret” that I read on serebii that they’re alluding to
Take a look at my update above. The scan quality and tiny text about the Soul Heart is an issue, but I think we have the most detailed info about it now. At least for the next 10 minutes anyway haha.
pyroar+girafarig+ekans+pachirisu+Nekkoala = Awesome!!!!
http://img.lum.dolimg.com/v1/images/open-uri20150422-12561-1p2mafs_bb76f08f.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1000%2C1500
we need to see what Secrets does the Gen 7 starters and The Rock puppy Pokemon has store for us?
So, what do you think the English names will be? If you get it right we can commend you in a future article!
Nekkoala might very well keep its Japanese name. Iwanko=Brickuppy? Idk, I’m not very good at coming up with names lol.
I asked this down below. My attempt:
Nekkoala – Napoalog (nap + koala + log)
Iwanko – Pubble (puppy + pebble/rubble)
Seeing as Nekkoala comes from “neru” (to sleep), “nekko,” (stump) and koala, I tried to have the same amount of syllables and it sounds kinda similar.
Iwanko comes from “iwa” (rock) and “wanko” doggy (koinu is puppy). It’s
pretty much rock puppy, so why not pebble plus puppy, as pebbles are small stones.
Nekkoala has got to incorporate Narcolepsy somewhere into it name so… Narkoala?
Bouldog. Rougpup.
Snoreala/Koalnap/Koalnore
#RIP christina grimmie ?
Anyone else think possibly that Nekkoala could do a Slakoth on us, and have the second stage awake using the log as a drum of some kind, maybe make it a tiki koala?
The “g” sound would be most appropriate in my opinion. This would also line up with the Japanese pronunciation.
Gear is correct. Ignore GameXplain lol.
And yeah, I had the same thought. It might wake up in the next evo and start pounding on its stump like a drum (as others have suggested).
Thats where I heard it from and I was like…wait whut?
I think that’s where I also heard Arceus being pronounced “Ar-kay-us”, I’ve been pronouncing it “Ar-see-us”
Is it GIF or JIF?
Well it’s not jraphics
Shouldn’t you mention the “secret” Serebii has mentioned? I don’t know Japanese so I can’t check, but if it’s there I think it’s important.
I did mention it. It’s in the Iwanko section as I organised it the same way CoroCoro did…
“There is a secret hidden in that little body. In fact, there are also surprising secrets about the starter Pokémon too…!?”
Oh that’s the update! My bad then 😉
No worries. I put it in bold now so hopefully it’ll be harder to miss 🙂
With stuff like this, I hate it I live in Europe. I’m never online on time to discuss this with you lot.
The puppy looks incredibly adorable, but I find the rock typing odd though. Koala’s=one of my favourite animals of all time, so I will definitely catch Nekkoala.
I like the Rock Puppy, and while I did ask for a Koala Pokemon, Nekkoala doesn’t really do it for me just yet, it’s a bit bland, needs a cool evolution with maybe an additional typing (Normal/Grass?).
I hope Iwanko is a three evolution stage line. I really want a good pure Rock type Stage 2 Pokemon.
Iwanko looks like it could turn into something fierce
You and me both haha 🙂 At least us Europeans have each other lol
I’m in India. Nintendo doesn’t even recognize my country ;-;
I just applied to be a writer for the site!
Hello, PJN!
The new update: “There are now scans of Solgaleo and Lunaala’s “most powerful forms”. CoroCoro refers to them as “phases” (like the phases of the sun/moon?). Rising Phase for Solgaleo and Full-Moon Phase for Lunaala. These “phases” seem to be the forms taken when using signature attacks.”
Where is the source? Serebii.net doesn’t have it and I can’t find the scans. Solgaleo and Lunala have other forms?
There’s an image, doesn’t appear to have been added to the article. Will do so now.
Thank you!
Have a good day!
I’m sure this has already been mentioned, but Magearna learns a move called Fleur Cannon. Fleur is the french word for flower, further deepening its connection to Kalos and AZ. Also, is anyone expecting that little Koala to become like a bongo player or something?? xP
Whoops. I thought I added that in update 2!
Until its officially proven otherwise, I will remain convinced Alola is south of Kalos. Plus, the GamexPlain vid suggests Solgaleo and Lunala are connected to Xerneas and Yveltal. Magearna is an artificial Pokémon, so it has no direct connection to those 4, but perhaps the people who made it were from Kalos.
Yes, very possible. It would seem gamefreak is not done with kalos just yet. I really do think we might be able to go to kalos in the post game. A lot of unsolved mysteries there.
XY were rushed games and the absence of some kind of post-league content obviously bugged most people, and I think GF doesn’t want to make the same mistake.
By the way, the Strange Souvenir item from XY is a tribal totem commonly seen in Hawaii, even furthering a connection between S/M and XY.
Agreed, X and Y were rushed. But I don’t think it would be a problem if we went back for some post game content. Perhaps it would fix a lot of the problems the region had.
I wonder if the strange souvenir will actually amount to anything though, or if it was just an Easter egg
They wouldn’t put it in the game with no reason I reckon. My guess is, they have been working on a Hawaii setting for some time now, but didn’t deemed it good enough to release it earlier.
That’s a good guess. I wonder what the legendaries will be like in this region 😮
These people should be banned from making vids, bloody hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnjuzEOUiaU
I cringed for 8 minutes.
He’s literally saying Ash-Greninja is a powered up version of Torrent. And he makes that connection, because of Infernape’s powered up Blaze in Sinnoh? Really, if I could pull him through my screen, I would have lol.
Poketubers like this one give the good ones a bad name. It annoys me.
If you want to have a good cringe then watch CaptainSparklez v JeromeASF Lucky Blocks pixelmon battle. I was on the verge of banging my head on the laptop screen when watching that video
Torrent was used by Barry’s Empoleon where it literally was just covered in a blue aura, much like Overgrow’s green aura and Blaze’s red.
They did not change the appearance of the Pokemon such as AG does and they would not market one ability, that’s just dumb.
People need to chill, they’ll reveal all soon (I mean even if it is in S&M or not)
I’m chilled, I just cringe at the frauds who come up with pathetic theories like this. The concept of Mega or this alleged Synchro didn’t even existed during the Sinnoh arc.
Well I’m sure they had mega evolutions planned for ages, but I know what you mean about not existing during that arc, the anime does foreshadow more than a generation ahead (i.e. Blaziken in Johto/Lucario in Gen III etc)
There’s arguments for and against this being syncro etc, but we’ll have to wait and see
Wow that was a pleasant surprise ! I really wrote CoroCoro off now for not having too much new information !!
Oh how I was wrong 😀
Everytime, they f=do the opposite of what we think they are going to do
well guys start the Majora’s Mask countdown,because we’re just three days away until we get a lot more information on Pokemon sun and moon! 😀
E3 starts tomorrow, so for me the countdown is almost at an end.
Are they really “alternate forms?” or is it just what they look like when using their signature moves?
I think its the latter.
Like a temporary stance change. Emphasis on temporary
Guys, is it possible Nekkoala will evolve into a cat/koala hybrid? I just showed the images to my bf, and he says Nekkoala might turn into something like that, because Nek=cat in Japanese.
Edit: He overlooked the second K, he now thinks it’ll evolve into a grass type because Nekko=plant roots.
Grass/Normal Drop Bear
neko is cat and nekko is plant root. Pokemon Company is playing a cruel game
not nek, it’s neko but close enough
That Iwanko!
“Gimme a hug!” and “You can’t get away from me, you tennis ball!”
Just too precious! 😀
HOLY shIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! // Zygarde 10% & Complete forme gameplay!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc6Bd4WTvL4
Although I dislike the design of the 100%-form: That attack! Wow!
Land’s Wrath is unfairly overpowered lol
its safe to say that
1) circles are gone
2) you stand behind every battle
Love it!
Well, Zygarde will definitely be in S/M then. This is major stuff
i-i live for this
i’m so shocked
and yassss the circles are gone <33
here’s Zygarde 10% attacking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ptyc_vxzgk
Is it okay for me to say, this feeling I’m having is much more satisfying than ehm…well you know what I mean XD
Magearna special attack is Fleur Cannon… Hmmm sounds like another certain monster
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/p__/images/6/6b/Lillymon_flower_cannon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150917191544&path-prefix=protagonist
New article guys 🙂
THE ROCK PUPPY IS SO CUTE.
What I’m curious about is the ‘Secret’ that Iwanko and the Starters hold.
I also don’t understand what’s up with the phases.
too lazy tocredit the person that came up with the name but Pubble could be a great English name for iwanko!!
All hail PUBBLE ??
‘Twas me.
Pubble 2016!
Napoalog 2016!
hey there you go lol
Pubble 2016!
http://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2F2016%2F06%2F11%2Fzygarde-will-change-formes-in-pokemon-sun-and-moon%2F&h=-AQFigW-h&enc=AZNUiGsPQq0ZMlOK9ocJmzJMkj_so0Ep5fBjabTmgRQdE-KGUrSgbwZFIaF0ot6urhi2WwK0LpFc_L7WGBziu37xK6lXUjnuH5y8922AneqidJ9qnm3yTuVpRGiq7FteN6NIVgzmetleativBWEm7fdCBb5mxxLAYqrhABObZLO42g&s=1
Video of zgarde changing formes in game
That has to be the absolute cutest puppy Pokemon ever. Sorry Lillipup