The Nintendo E3 event has just finished the Pokémon Sun & Moon segment and with it (along with a newly released trailer!) we’ve got a tonne of new features and Pokémon for the games. Read on to find out more!
New Pokémon
Pikipek/ツツケラ (Tsutsukera) – Woodpecker Pokémon – Normal/Flying – Keen Eye/Skill Link Abilities
Pikipek has two evolutions.
Yungoos/ヤングース (Yangoose) – Loitering Pokémon – Normal – Stakeout/Strong Jaw Abilities
Grubbin/ – Larva Pokémon – Bug – Swarm Ability
New Abilities
Stakeout – The Pokémon’s moves can deal twice the normal damage to any Pokémon that switch in or enter the field mid-battle
Soul Heart – Magearna’s Sp. Atk raises by 1 each time another Pokémon in the area faints. This is a new Ability—one that can be put to good use in battle
Battle Royals
“In a Battle Royal, four Trainers are jumbled in battle together, but the rules are simple.
Each of the four Trainers chooses three Pokémon and sends one Pokémon into battle at a time. The battle is over at the end of any turn when all of the Pokémon of one Trainer have fainted. The players are ranked, and a victor is declared based on the number of Pokémon each defeated and the number of Pokémon each has remaining in play.
While these rules are simple, they also allow players a new way to enjoy Pokémon battles—one where many new strategies may be born, as each player must try to predict who will attack whom, or weigh acting to save a player who’s in a pinch in order to aim for the number-one position!”
Nintendo Treehouse Information Write-up
- Junichi Masuda is the producer of Sun & Moon, whilst Shigeru Ohmori is directing
- Sun and Moon were chosen as the names of the games as the sun is the source of all life on our planet, and they want the two new games to feel as though they are teeming with life
- Solgaleo and Lunala are the emissaries of the sun and the moon respectively. They will play a legendary Pokémon role like we’ve never seen before
- Zygarde and its forms will appear in Sun & Moon in a “special” way
- The starters received special attention in their movements. They wanted them to look super cute in game. They are also meant to be universally relatable and easy to understand – Grass-type is green, etc
- The climate in Alola is extremely warm, as such character designs are reflective of this in that they are lightly dressed, especially compared to older characters
- The bracelets the trainers are wearing will be discussed at a later date
- The playable character is new to the Alola region
- Old Pokémon are present in the game. Ledyba and Caterpie are available early on in the game
- There is a new lighting engine in the game. This new engine allows the time of day to be reflected in changing light conditions
- The camera is much more dynamic in battles this time around
- The battle interface is now more user friendly. Players can find information buttons displaying detailed information on each move, in addition to this tapping an icon can display the stat changes to both your own and your opponent’s Pokémon
- The Pokédex has been redesigned in order to really encourage Trainers to complete it
- When the player begins to approach an area where another trainer is likely to battle, the screen becomes vignetted in order to create a sense of drama
- All trainers have unique actions and emotions thanks to the 3D
- Each island in the Alola region has a Guardian Pokémon
- Players will battle their rival Hau early on as part of a festival that is meant to kick off both of your own Pokémon journeys
- Popplio learns Disarming Voice at Level 8
- The games feature a new Battle Royal mode
- Trainer customisation makes a return, more will be discussed at a later date
What if the four gardians are a shark as the water gardian a turtle for earth camaleon fro fire and stingray for air fits perfectly.
How come some people are saying the guardians are people? I mean it does make sense either way…
It was something I was hoping to connect the elite 4 to the main story. However, I didn’t start this rumor.
Im still watching Treehouse Live and omg Kit and Krista are so cute they are my OTP >.<
My opinions
– Pikipek Very cute 3 stage and i like and its a cool regional bird. I wonder what good moves will it use to take advantage of skill link
– Yungoos I like it! Its mouth its funny but its cool and unique and nice ability
– Grubblin i also like this very cute but though we dont know a lot about it its still cool.
-Soul Heart seems to only be double ability but its still cool.
-Rival music: I hate it sorry though it wasnt very loud but feon what i heard its not serious at all if anything its silly. I cannot stand it.
-Wild battle it was pretty good though i feel like its missing a melody.
-Couldnt hear trainer very well.
– i think the trainer in this game moves like a robot and i dont like that.
– i like how each island is dedicated to a legend
-the new bottom screen is decent UNTIL you press fight i think it looks terrible that they made it 4 little vertical lines for attacks thats soooo stupid why have that huge space when you cant even use it all, but other than that its helpful
– i love you can see trainer in battle thats cool
-Huzzah trainer customization always a plus
– I think Battle Royale could have been amazing but the stupid rule of “battle ends when one person runs out of pokemon” thats so laaame.
Those are my opinions if i missed anything i will edit it in later
I have a feeling you may be able to customize the bottom screen.
Game is still in development so hopefully the trainer wont move like a robot in the final product.
I’ll deal with you in the chat >:(
Battle Royal Rule encourages people to Not gang up on one personal like most do
So many bad memories
But i feel like moves like eq and surf will be op because they can just hit everyone unless they nerf them. I can say one thing it will have a lot more strategy involved in it, and will make people even more angry.
Wide Guard might have a use
Honestly I wanted to use a Doubles Throh with it
But wide guard protects you and allys it never works in singles. Even then you might as well use protect in royale than wide guard
Well it was just a thought
Honestly I should use Throh more often…
I think that’s the point with the rival music. It’s silly to fit Hau, I dunno, I think it fits Hau very well, a person who likes fun and loves Pokemon.
But that’s just my opinion :3
Do any of you guys think Yungoos was Really designed based on Donald Trump? I mean there Are a Lot of similarities between their appearance and dex entree.. Especially those smalll hands.. ?
Nooo stop don’t ruin yungoos
I’m just saying. .. ?
I dunno….
no no no no no no no nooo
https://mobile.twitter.com/NicholasLong125/status/742769069430968322
:I
Introducing a predator to prevent species from becoming invasive isnt that unusual. I like that they gave it a little backstory. That instantly made it more interesting than Zigzagoon, Sentret, Blitzle and Bidoof
With it being said its not native to Alola does that technically confirm gen 8 or maybe it was discovered in a past region but not documented
Maybe they used to live in Kanto but the ones that were left there died 0_0
Oh.. smart. I’m sure it does. But we already knew they don’t plan to stop this crazy train anytime soon.. hrhe
If they ever make an Australia region, I want an introduced cane toad species
I don’t get people who see the resemblance.
Refresh
Don’t tell me what to do.
http://img.etonline.com/media/video/2016/04/24229228/et_AngryBirds_040516_hulu.jpg
Well guys that was the best Nintendo Treehouse ever,anyway I was doing some running around and I spot another Gate and this gate is much bigger than the last gate we just saw,looks like it’s now up to us to get this bigger Gates of E3 much people contribute of all of our best gaming skills combined,looks like we need to refuel the hype-train because tomorrow’s going to be another grateful day for Pokemon!:D
can someone link me info with the guardians and islands? i missed it
With the sickening thought I easily thought how Popplio exucutes Disarming Voice
It’s schnoz would glow pink and it will blow out energized sound waves
And I now feel Popplio will NOT be a Fairy because of this attack can be learnt by non fairies and is not really a whole fairy magic attributed attack
But if it were something like Fairy Wind or Moonblast I’m screwed
Dazzling Gleam and Play Rough get passes because of their nature
So you’re gonna choose Popplio?
I am usually a man of unflinching loyalty but something like Popplio being a fairy is too much to bear
But if those fakes end up being real then totally Litten since a Libre Tiger is awesome
But I’m fairly confident that Popplio will not end up a Fairy
Ew I’ll scream if litten turns out like that rejected sports mascot
Popplio learns Disarming Voice Weird.
Okay but what if it does turn out to be a fairy type
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/glee/images/c/c9/Suicide.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120108133442
What if it’s really bulky though and the other two starters are delicate and feminine
…I completely forgot about Fairy Wind.
wrong. all of the Pokémon that ARENT fairy type that can learn Disarming Voice actually happen to be in the fairy EGG GROUP. (except for Milotic but she’s a mermaid and has the potential to be a fairy mega)
Dewgong is known as the Sea Lion Pokémon and cannot learn Disarming Voice
Popplio will be a water/fairy, stay mad
I wonder if Yungoos evolves depending on how much you feed it? They cut away on the stats screen after it was caught, so I was thinking maybe it has multiple evolution paths.
that what i was wondering! we dont know any of him when it comes to evolution. i mean why hide the evolution path of a pokemon that is usually 2-stages. very shady
Either a fat or a scrawny evo 😮
Yup, defense or offense
Said this earlier, but a beetle. Perhaps an earwig
That sounds about right. I was thinking maybe a June bug.
Yeah that might be cool too
Ok. I’m satisfied with this information for a while. It’s really good.
Omg Pikipek is so damn cute <3
IKR? I’ve run a tradition of doing the Regional Bird for my team in almost every Generation and this Generation will be no different.
I do the exact same! I hope it’s final evolution is competitive viable like Talonflame and Staraptor.
I can’t wait for day 2 of E3!:D
That was today lol. E3 started yesterday with microsoft and sony conferences
The 15th of pokemon info.
speak properly! >:(
on the 15th there will be more pokemon stuff.
Pokemon GO stuff
Cool! 😀
Didn’t it technically start sunday though
Technically E3 themselves lists today as the first official day, and the 16th as the last day of E3, yesterday was a pre-E3 of sorts, even though we got most of the info then, but like all the stuff that people can do at E3 itself is 14th-16th
Right. Technically “E3” is the game expo where all the games are shown off in booths and for people to go play them. The conferences are more or less separate in a way. They get bunched together because they’ve been overlapping for so long, but the main “E3” experience is in the convention centers with the booths lol
After a long time figuring out final types for the starters here they are
Water/fairy Fire/poison Grass/flying or Grass/ground not likely
Say who?
Rumor based on some website scavenging that was done a little while back,
the starter Pokémon’s final types will be:
Rowlett – Grass/Ground-type
Litten – Fire-type
Popplio – Water/Fighting
Honestly, I have a feeling those “leaks” are ending up to be false. I don’t think they’ll turn into those types especially from what we’ve seen from today…
Everyone thought Chespin was going to be a Rock Ground and or Dark Type and look where we are
I don’t think it will be fairy, but I don’t think it’ll be fighting…..
Why? Because of the Popplio learning Disarming Voice?
People jump to conclusions too fast
If it were Fairy Wind or Moonblast then it would be a Fairy
This barely has a Fairy Aspect it’s most likely referencing how Sea Lions Bark and Honk
https://youtu.be/3A0l93Bzgbw
if that’s the case then why doesn’t dewgong learn disarming voice? its known as the Sea Lion Pokemon
No, I don’t even want Popplio to be a fairy. But I feel like popplio might be a special attacker and the fighting type won’t apply to it. I don’t know, the “leaks” might be true! I honestly can’t tell, but the types seem unusual……
I would love a Special Fighting type since we are seriously lacking in special fighting types that aren’t Lucario or Keldeo
All it would need is a new 70-85 base power Special Fighting move and it would be golden
How about something like a Ki Pulse or a Energy fist
Maybe the 1 in the footage had a negative physical attacking nature? Maybe it’ll even out once its fully evolved
True!!!
Dis
Ok so I was thinking while watching the game play footage again. Lillie isn’t a trainer they say and she doesn’t like to battle. What if she has her own Pokemon, but since she’s not a trainer per say she keeps it in her bag. Not only do we hear and see something fidgeting inside, but Masuda and Ohmori say they gotta keep her bag a secret. I’d be willing to bet that her bag is where she keeps at the very least her main Pokemon whatever that may be. It even has a Pokeball on the sides as a sort of symbolism for the actual thing lol
AZ’s Floette. She stole it
She’s a kidnapper?!?!?!?! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!!!! lol
Officer Jenny quick!
Arcanine flare blitz!
Pokemon abuse. I’m calling it. She abuses her Pokemon and is a psycho.
Um… I actually hope this doesn’t happen XD
Maybe there’ll be a twist where she’s actually Jessie, James and Meowth (yeah all 3 of them) in disguise and you don’t notice, but then they throw off their clothes only to reveal their team Rocket uniforms and that the bag has Ash’s Pikachu in it. Then Pikachu will use thunderbolt while in the Hot air balloon and start falling out of the sky and team Rocket will have Afros and start blasting off again and Ash will run in and catch Pikachu and accquiant with your player.
Just a theory.
Nnnn at FLOPpilo being the slowest out of the three starters. Of course KWEEN litten is the fastest
i love tea!
Omg… I Love the new Poke ball animations.. Namely when a Pokemon faints and you return it back ?
Yeah. They look awesome!
I hate 3D Pokémon’s “shrinking to nothingness” animation. I love that Pokémon with trainers have a new and great fainting animation (although I still feel the fainting animation is a bit too short), but it looks like wild Pokémon still shrink into nothingness. >:
The fainting animation should be them just falling to the ground and then nothing. Just the end of the battle.
With a (@w@) facial expression or something of the like that’ll indicate it fainted and isn’t… ya know, dead.
I can’t wait to see the other Pokeball types if they have anything special.
…and it they bothered to put in a non-generic animation for the Johto Apricorn Pokeballs. 🙂
One thing I’m wondering in relation is that Y button action on the UI. Does it only go appear or work if you have regular Pokeballs or will it open up a menu where you can pick from your collection if you have more than one kind?
The more I learn about him, the more I love yungoos
Getting more and more excited for this game! :>
So do you think we might get more sun and moon info or is that just wishful thinking?
I think we should be getting Iwanko and Nekkoala’s English names soon.
Other than that, it’ll probably be a month or two til we hear anything else new.
I think if the special presentation is a thing, then we will get more.
I’m hoping for some more, but I won’t be too disappointed if we don’t.
I’m satisfied with what we have gotten today, but that’s just me, a person who’s easy to please :3
I love what we have got, but they are all presumably first stages with evos. I want to see a fully evolved Pokemon so I can tell if I will use it or not.
Yeah, I would love to see some evos soon as well. :3
I mean, it is starting to be that time in the news cycle before release.
Yeah, exactly, plus I want at least some ideas for my playthrough teams, cause right now, I love every Pokemon I see xD
I did, but to me Yungoos is less than what I would like. It is too Linoone-like.
I sorta feel that way with Grubbin, but I still kind of like it in a way, I just do xD
I like these designs, but they really aren’t anything I would use in a real playthrough.
I can relate, since I feel the sort of like that. I’m more on the ‘not-sure-what-they-evolve-into-so-I-dunno-if-I-want-you-on-my-team-yet’ side
Yeah that’s how I feel. So far, the only new poke revealed that I just have to have are Litten for Moon and then Rowlett for Sun. But who else will be on my teams during the first play through?? Hhhmmmmm
Same for me :3
Some potential candidates for me is Pikipek, Iwanko, and Yungoos (Yungoos slightly though)
Wishful thinking. Honestly, I don’t want anymore, I want this to last and then more awesome news, then that last then more news, etc, etc.
The only thing I want left from E3 is a fully evolved pokemon like Noivern, who got revealed at E3 2013.
Yeah, that would be nice, actually. We need some awesome looking Pokémon.
Yeah I want to start cultivating my new team but there haven’t been enough new Pokemon revealed. I have no idea what will even be available in the game yet
Well we still have the official reveals of the koala and puppy. Plus the 16th could bring us something good. I doubt we’ll get anything too much as far as mechanics, but we may get an additional Pokemon or two.
We might get a little more but nothing too big until a few months. That is unless some special event is announced on Thursday. We’ll probably get Iwanko and Nekkoala english names some time this week, possibly Thursday
I think we get around 3 more pokemon. This is my reasoning.
We still have the Nekkoala and Iwanko official reveal, and I think they’ll take that opportunity to reveal some more. I don’t think they’ll reveal just two. It might be one more, or 2 more. If they do, it’ll probably be a final evo.
They also might have something on the 16th. But I’m not sure if that has been confirmed or not. If it is, it could be sun and moon related but I doubt it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-uLg_5RIA
https://youtu.be/ewBs2uE4WqY
So um… where’s everyone at XD
Taking a pit stop until the next hype train arrives
The office. <3
Sitting in my armchair nekkid
Send pics
Just the chair
I’d ask what those stains are but I honestly dont wanna know
Wet from the shower duhhh
phew
Speaking of sanctuaries you gotta see the new Gazebo
All I need in there is a clock, extension cord with power strip, a T.V with RYW ports and my new Zero Gravity chair and then it would be perfect
I could put my Wii in there and just hang outside all day everyday
Just watching videos :3
It really seemed like the people interviewing/playing the game with Masuda and Ohmori knew a lot about the game. Like for example, the lady said: “you should pay attention to the bag that Lillie holds!”
I wonder if she knows something that they might reveal soon??? I’m just thinking to much…
Or at least genre-savvy. But it’s likely they know a thing or two since they are, after all, Treehouse members a.k.a. beta testers.
I’m really hoping that “pokemon special” is a thing ’cause I’m curious as to what that might be….
Isn’t Pokemon Special a non-canon to the main games manga?
I want to be that lady, like all the questions she asked, I would have asked myself, especially about the bracelets :3
‘I know you know guys :P’
XD
‘Tell me, I’ll keep it a secret’
‘iie (no)’
‘…..Fine then.’
That lady is actually me
Wow, it was you?!?! :O You were actually there?! :O
I am so surprised 😛
Yep, the guy beside me was my husband
Wow, you guys look so cute together <3 OTP for life, way better than Earthen x Chico :3
I know, right? Their angsty love can be a little much sometimes.
I know, I just hate that they deny it all the time and their love-hate relationship can get old.
Nice to see a lovely couple nowadays 😛
I could tell she was nervous though…
Lil bit. Having to talk through a translator would make me nervous.
The bag made a sound like “Mew”. So it’s either a bag pokemon, a Mew or Litten, meaning she picks the 3rd :DDDDD
Yeah, but the thing that scared me a little is that Ohmori said that she isn’t a trainer, but she travels with you… I seriously hope we aren’t stuck with a “rival” that picks the starter weak against you!
Well she took Litten so no one else could. She doesnt have to battle with it. Take the anime for example. No one battles, they all just talk and camp c:
I know she doesn’t have to battle, but Hau took the weak starter…. I fear that the games are becoming even easier than x and y….
What if there is another trainer you meet a little later after the festival that end ups being the main rival and Hau only has the starter weaker than yours to teach type coverage for newbies?
I don’t know… Maybe. On one hand, I’m scared that the only rival shown picks the weaker starter, and on the other hand I don’t think GameFreak would change this formula to “widen their audience.”
Only time can tell. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Yup. Plus they only showed early game so it might be that it gets more difficult as we go. But the one thing I love about Pokemon is a good challenge which makes a lot of characters memorable for me too…
But if she takes it will her pokemon not evolve? If they evolve without battling that goes against the logic of the game.
yeah but in the game play they were showing your friend the friend has a Litten and the protagonist has Popplio so if she was to have a starter it would be rowlette, or the one strong against yours
My bad, I meant Rowlet. It sounds like Rowlet’s cry
So I am challenging myself to come up with a decent Special Fighting Type move that could be a TM
Force Strike
Fighting BP: 80
The user strikes the air with a swift blow causing a shockwave of force, can cause the opponent to flinch
Oh youre challenging yourself? Then keep it to yourself 😐
*Thumps you upside the head*
😛
Bruh you need to be a writer….
Hark
Hmmmm…. I wonder what this game could be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rv7ZUKVNLc
Honestly, I think Nintendo stole the show this year. Sony is close but Nintendo really brought their A-game. Plus there is this mysterious game^
If it’s anything like Project STEAM, they can keep it to themselves c:
lol
Tbh I think Sony had a better show but I’m more excited for Nintendo’s stuff.
They had a better show because they had more stuff, and they had a bunch of people there. Nintendo was simple, not too much, but got many many people excited.
Sorry, but Sony has won the E3. Detroid: Become Human, God of War 4, Death Stranding, The Last Guardian, Horizon Zero Dawn, Gravity Rush 2, Crash Remastered.
Nintendo can’t beat that, as fucking incredible LoZ and S/M are
Very interesting… hopefully something cool.
Yungoos evolves into Zangoose maybe??!??!??
Maybe! XD
I doubt it though. It’s most likely the early normal type….
As much as I would HATE this, it’s kinda in your face with the japanese name, Yangoose.
But it doesn’t look anything like Zangoose, even with the similar names and type and animal inspiration.
But, we’ll see :3