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
I’m watching back the demonstration, and when Hala introduces Hau before the festival battle, he says ‘grandson to the kahuna’
I just looked it up, and kahuna is a Hawaiian name for a shaman.
So is Hala a shaman? I know they said he’s a strong Trainer/person on the island so it makes sense. Also, he’s the one commencing the battle and doing the festival speech himself. But why doesn’t he say ‘my grandson’ instead?
But I guess, considering he’s talking to Tapu Koko, the guardian Pokemon, I guess it makes sense to be formal and say his title, I dunno.
Just something I noticed and thought I might ponder about.
Yah I noticed that as well.. I wonder if Hala is the champion or maybe a gym leader. Would be interesting…..
I thought/think still he is a champion. But I guess he’s also a shaman too maybe, it makes sense with the scene and how he conducts the ceremony
You do realize it’s like the nickname “The Big Kahuna” which means the big man on campus, or the number one guy around reflecting his status as a great trainer , so Shaman is extremely far off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew some ancient lore
Well, it would have said ‘big kahuna’ 😛
I just looked up the word kahuna itself, and it meant shaman, but it might have updated itself to mean ‘leader’ as well.
Plus, he knows about the guardian Pokemon, and how he conducts the ceremony is very shaman-like to me.
It’s interesting to keep in mind, no?
No not really
Well, to each their own, I guess :3
I think Hala is a late gym leader tbh Like you have to go back to that island to battle him later
You mean Hala?
It’s a possibility, but he’s also starting his Pokemon journey along with you, how would he become a gym leader that fast?
Do you mean Hala? (Edit: Sniped.)
Are we even sure Hau is Hala’s grandson I know we are assuming. haha
No we’re not, I was just basing this off of what we speculate him to be :3
There is that possibility though, considering he doesn’t say outright ‘he’s my grandson’ but I dunno for certain.
Ok I was wondering if it was finally confirmed. Because it seems so likely. And I wanna say Kukui is also related but I dunno.
Yeah, it does, considering the similar looks they have. But, hopefully we’ll find out soon 🙂
I wouldn’t be upset if we didn’t find out until the game. Secrets can be cool to discover.
True, true, can totally respect that. In fact, a good part of me wouldn’t mind that.
I just really like speculating about stuff, so it’ll be on my mind until I know for certain xD
It is GF they tell us basically everything by release. But still.
What if: Hala > Kukui > Hau. Now that I think about it Kukui is a bit young for that though.
Yah I originally thought that but I was like Kukui is only like mid 20s at best so I doubt he has a son especially 10 years old.
It would be likely if Kukui was older though.
Mmn. Perhaps they are cousins?
Possibly. I think you are right that they are related somehow though.
They may not even be related who knows.
So these are my thoughts as I look back at the game.
I know I’ve talked enough about this but I’m worried about difficulty. I wonder if right in the beginning of the game there is an option to change difficulty. If there is, wouldn’t they talk about that, or reveal that by now? Also, if there is a difficulty mode I wonder if the game demonstrator was playing on an easy mode which is why Hau chose the weak starter….
Or is there a small chance that this will happen. If this doesn’t happen I feel like we are in store for an easier game then x and y perhaps……
What do you guys think?
I am worried about the same thing. I still think that difficulty options are a possibility. What if there are 4 level and Hau chooses the starter depending on the level (1-2, strong against, 3-4 weak to).
Honestly I don’t think this game will have that difficulty option, just looking at how they added the super effective and not very effective things to help. I strongly doubt it, difficulty settings were a empty hope
I don’t know about an empty hope, black white 2 did them, and if GF listens to the fans at all they would know that people want this.
If they listened to the fans they would have added challenge mode earlier
True. Honestly this is making me very worried about replay ability. It is boring to replay ORAS and XY because there is no real challenge. I desperately want sun and moon to be different.
Same. That’s what scares me a little.
But, tbh, I don’t mind the effectiveness things, it actually does help. There’s certain Pokemon I forget the typings for, or I forget what is effective against it, plus new Pokemon, so it’s something I don’t mind.
It’s definitely a help, and it seems like this was more of a convenience addition then a holding your hand through the game…
Also what is challenge mode but more grinding anyway?
Honestly, I don’t think the game needs to be super challenging, but it shouldn’t be holding you hand, and getting easier. The gym leaders should have more pokemon later in the game. The elite four should have strong pokemon and actual brains. The game needs to please kids, teens, and adults. It shouldn’t be just towards kids.
^^ THIS. A majority (I think) of the fans aren’t small children who need for the game to be mindlessly simple.
But kids are there main target. And their main buyers too. Kids that play games and move on just like mobile games. Why make it so kids get stuck and leave the game? Though we don’t like to admit it we are pretty much gonna keep buying their games for a while though XY and ORAs were “bad” you are still back for Sun and Moon.
Cause I don’t really care much for the difficulty, I care for the adventure I have every time I play.
But that’s just me, I dunno.
But kids are also there least reliable audience. Like you said, if there is a challenge they might leave the game. I think that, while they need to revenue from the kid audience, they need to acknowledge the more adult like fans who want a challenge.
But kids are their main audience (unlike what you think kids are actually their biggest buyers. You’re just surrounded by teens and adults so you THINK we are the main buyers) so you want to get as many as possible and make them beat it so they can come back for more. Why make it for an audience that isn’t even their main source of revenue, that just losses money
I didn’t know this, thanks for telling me. I still think there are ways to hold the kid audience but satisfy the older audience.
I mean we were pretty satisfied to come back. They satisfied us by including a big immense story. They satisfied us by making competitive easier. They satisfied us by making ORAS happen. I think they satisfy us more than you think
I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m complaining, a rant was not my intention. I appreciate all the things you mentioned (well, story was meh) but this to me is a matter of replay value. I want to be able to replay a Pokemon game and feel challenged and not feel mindless.
Im sorry as I well, Im playing devil’s advocate I fully agree and support what you’re saying but you gotta look at it from their point of view
I agree. It’s hard to make games to appeal to a wide range of audiences. Whatever this game turns out to be, I’m sure that I’ll enjoy it and I’m sure that once again I’ll max out the play time.
Definitely not main buyers, but definitely there main target. But they don’t have to make it so they get stuck. They can make it balanced. And I know kids that get bored easily if they are too good at the game as well….
But yes Im back because I’m a Pokemon fan. And I’ve enjoyed the games. But the past generation was not a great one…
they definitely are, what makes you think they aren’t. In Japan the kids are the main buyers. Balance I guess could be good but “easy” and “hard” game is Totally objective. Like I and many others thought without EXP share Xy was hard without EXP share some thought XY was still easy. It’s better to have an easy game that they can at least beat and see the story than a game too hard so they put it down half way through.
Lol the main buyers was a joke, because technically the kids don’t buy the games themselves. I guess it was a bad joke XD.
But I see where Game Freak is coming from. They want to hold on to those kid fans. But I saw an interesting video about the young children market and I think it tells exactly what I believe game freak needs to think about. I’ll tell you if I find it…
Higher AI. The XY AI was absolutely horrible.
He’s probably just not your main rival tbh
Who else could be the main rival? Lillie isn’t a trainer and nobody else is revealed I doubt they’d pull another character out besides leaders and E4 and evil team.
Maybe your rival is part of the evil team?
Our “main” rival? I mean… that would be pretty cool actually haha but I don’t know if that would work… I mean I guess there was N… so eh. Yah maybe. I’d like it but I am not counting on it. And I am thinking Lillie will be the turncoat.
Yah its my only thought as to why there wouldn’t be a rival that chooses the starter strong against you.
It is probably as simple as Gamefreak/Nintendo/Pokemon Co. just wanting this to be a super easy game. Though he does pick up a Pichu. And he will probably pick something else strong to your starter dependent on which you pick. Just not a starter strong to yours.
there has never not been one, so I don’t know why they would stop now, its like a staple of the games, so I’m like 95% they will still have it
Yah. If they don’t have it I’m very surprised…
we know very few of the characters at this moment in time, there is still months for them to introduce new characters, and if you ask me, I think it strongly hints to Lillie having a pokemon, she obviously has one in her bag so why can’t she be your main rival? but you know what they say about assuming ;P lol, nintendo/game freak will tell us when they are ready, we don’t need to know everything right at once
She doesn’t necessarily have a Pokemon. She might but she hates battling so I doubt she’ll be a trainer.
what else would be in her bag making noises
I don’t remember that but like I said even if she has a mon she hates battling.
They outright said she wasn’t a Trainer so there’s that :3
If she has a pokemon it’ll probably be one that can’t evolve
And be super cute (a lot of SM Pokemon are though haha).
Man I hate when the cute ones don’t evolve >.<
The starters, dog, and bird are all cute and are known to evolve.
That’s good at least. The new pokemon are already off to a good start. The beginning pokemon in X&Y weren’t all that cute to me
And XY introduced the ugliest Pokemon ever. Barbarbacle.
Ugh, I cringe every time I hear about them.
I’m sorry, I can’t bring myself to like it.
It is so gross. xD I almost threw up when it was first revealed. xD
I remember being mad and trying to deny its existence.
I was like ‘No way, this is a fake….right guys? Right….?……OH WHAT THE EFF’
Same with the final starter evolutions. That was like the worst day
I like Trubbish Design wise. But Garbador is definitely one of the worst Pokemon designs I could ever think was. Grimer and Muk are so simple in design that it really works. But Garbador?? First off where to start? Why is it so femine in appearance with pink spots and two pig tails? Why does it have pig tails on its head anyway? Why the fuck does it have the horrible tubes for arms and fingers?? It just makes no sense. There’s not one appealing thing about it.
And yes I agree, the day emboar, serperior, and samurott were revealed, I think I cried a little. It’s like “THIS is what they came up with?” An uninspired basic ass snake, a sumo wrestling pig – which would be fine if it wasn’t the third fire/fighting starter in a row – and lastly, a horrible misdirection that gave a weird mixmatch of a sea lion, a dog, a sea otter, a unicorn, and a samurai. Misdirection and writers block are the only excuse I could think of for those starters in particular.
I actually meant the kalos starters xD But yeah Emboar and Samurott are just bad. I like Serperior a lot though personally. It’s elegant yet simple. The stats are disappointing though, but its got contrary
Ew god yeah. Ugliest pokemon since Drowzee and Hypno
Drowzee is weird but Hypno is alright. And what about Garbador? And then there is the ice cream which is dumb but not ugly.
Hm..idk. Trubbish is kind of “ugly cute” and Garbodor is “ugly interesting.” I do really like Vanillite and its evolutions though :3 They’re just so zany! I don’t like the smiley face on the back of Vanilluxe though.
Ps. Vanilluxe is an awesome name
Aight. xD
I feel like trubbish should’ve been poison/ghost or something though. Like reanimated trash? I’m just trying to figure out how it exists. So is it just a creature that evolved to look like trash because there’s so much? It’s an interesting concept I guess
Idk, didn’t we find out about the challenge mode in B2W2 after the release when someone discovered it locked up? I hope if it does return (which is should) it’s available from the start
I’m so desperate at this point, I wouldn’t mind if it was locked up.
But please no version exclusive modes.
Yeah for reallllll
a female is going to be the main villain, the last gym leader or the champion btw that just the tea
Somewhat off topic
But for the fans of ScrewAttack’s Death Battle we have received confirmation that the next Death Battle is between Videogames most badass genetic super life forms
Mewtwo vs Shadow the Hedgehog
I’m just here, waiting for it to come out :3
I’m debating if Shadow’s Super form and Inhibitor Rings will easily do away with Mega XY
Otherwise Mewtwo’s Psychic abilities allow to restrict movement to Shadow since Shadow has no history of immunity to mental attacks
Yeah, I’m totally debating this in my head too. I don’t know too much about Shadow, but I do know the info from his last battle.
I definitely see this as a pretty close battle.
Shadow is pretty durable so he might outlast Mewtwo
Have you seen the synergy burst of shadow mewtwo? It blows up the planet! And because of the synergy stone, he can do it without outside help. In not sure if they will use shadow mewtwo but i really hope so.
Oh, forgot about that, to be honest xD
good
was I the only one that was caught by surprise when Hau was shown to have a pichu?
Nope, cause I was like ‘…wat, ok, you do you Hau, but….okay, whatever’
i mean now the paranoia me is like: “Pichu is strong against Popplio what if he has a random pokemon strong agaisnt your starter?”
Random rival teams sounds cool.
Yup there you go. All 5 other mons are strong to your starter just not the starter he picks. hahaha
That sounds pretty awesome, not gonna lie. Definitely shakes things up, at least in my view.
Was anyone really surprised to see that line get more representation and favoritism?
oh yeah true
Mega Raichu would be epic btw
Maybe the opposite gender protagonist will be in S/M and they just haven’t let on to it yet, I mean thats usually who choses the starter stronger than you, so that would makes sense as to why Hau is the one who picks the one weaker to you
Ugh, I hate those rivals. There is literally no creativity when it is the other protagonist, it is the lazy way out.
Could work and wouldn’t be a new character technically… seems weird they wouldn’t have shown them yet though.
Maybe like B/W, other protagonist is in the Battle facility as an AI partner.
Just browsed e3’s line up. Im super interested in breath of the wild, pokemon sun and moon, kingdom hearts, skyrim remake, maaaaaaybe resident evil 7 (assming no vr). Everything else: bland shooters. God i cant wait until the shooter genre dies down.
P5 isn’t a generic shooter. >.> Easily the best game imo at E3.
Zelda totally stole the show. Games absolutely beautiful and massive. Ive never played a persona game (im guessing thats what you meant) whats it about?
ill be dreaming about zelda Winds of the Wild for weeks <3
Yes Persona 5. It is so amazing and stylish and awesome and I want it so bad. ><; As to P5 is about a group of phantom thieves from high school. They are trying to take down the corrupt adults ruling society. They do so by stealing the ill intent in their hearts. As to other Persona games they are about high schoolers saving the world from death and such. But while Zelda looked great. I am a Persona/Atlus fanboy. xD
Maybe i’ll pick one up. Never know until i try.
same, I never understood the appeal to most FPS like, shooting games are cool when they are heavily story driven like the last of us, but I guess thats not even really considered one, you just happen to shoot in it. But like, imo all the COD games are pretty much the same game with a different coat of paint
Uh, no way. If the shooter genre has to die, at least let Splatoon remain a remnant. <3
Oh my god i loooooove splatoon. My only gripe with it is that it should have had offline splatfest with bots.
Maybe they are pushing players to go online by excluding an offline skirmish with bots. (Or the Octolings are as close as we’re getting to offline bots.) After all, there’s no voice chat so there’s no getting yelled at and feeling bad anyway.
I just dont have internet. I mean, i would if i could.
Heh you are posting here right now! But I know what you mean, internet to connect your Wii U to.
see but thats a break away from the norm, its interesting and creative, still not big on the game (they got super sexualized on the internets, now i can’t unseen it) but its still a pretty cool game
I don’t know where you’re looking to think that the Inklings are super sexualized… I hope it’s not the red light district where everything is… 😀
So far, at least based on Deviantart it seems very tame.
… miiverse… always miiverse lol, and then theres the ones I’ve seen on google well researching the game to see if id like it, lol my eyes have been forever scarred, lol but it happens a lot, I mean, we all know never to google Gardeivour or Lopunny XP
HAHA yeah.
But I dunno, I would’ve seen those lewd miiverse pics in my Splatoon plaza… maybe I was just lucky.
they usually get taken off miiverse once they are found, I get all my crazy miiverse post fixes from “BadMiiversePosts” on twitter XD check them out its hilarious
I got moderated on Miiverse once!
I drew a pic of Villager with an axe and Kirby at the back with a black pool underneath him.
lol i drew Leif with a “happy little axe” in the New Leaf community once, but I guess it was ok, just mildly unnerving 😛
Any thoughts on what Grubbin will become? I’m thinking it won’t be a butterfly/ moth but maybe a Beetle or Ant. Bug/Electric at its final stage since it says that they love electricity
Maybe it’s Bug/ground since it talks a lot about digging. But Bug/electric seems obvious…
Maybe they will completely surprise us and make it a ground/Electric type. I really doubt it but you never know
I think
GrubdonGrubbin will be a Bug Electric beetleBut then again GF loves saying one thing about a type but making it a complete different type
care to give an example? im curious honestly
Flabebe It draws out and controls the hidden power of flowers.= Fairy Not Grass
oh true the biggest flop in typing history
My excuse is: “It’s only holding a flower, it isn’t actually a flower.” Or in the case of Florges, it’s only dressing up as a flower. 😀
I wonder what kind of insects grow from “grubs”… I better look it up.
EDIT: Ooh, beetles. Looks like Pinsir and Heracross have a new rival.
I like beetles so this would be welcoming
I have confidence it’ll be a beetle. I think bug/electric is likely, but I really want a good bug/ground type. Gen 3 introduced two really cool bug combos and then did away with them when they evolved >:I
it was so stupid that Surskit and Nincada lost their typings. I don’t understand why Surskit evolves into a dang moth but whatever.
Idk :/ Especially because Masquerain is so insignificant and unmemorable. It’s not even good.
How dare you! You take that back! <3
Though in all honesty, while Masquerain is my favorite bug, I believe it can be great or at least have a very usable niche if it were Bug/Water. Thanks to Intimidate it is pretty useful.
I just hate how it went from something unique to something rather generic.
Yeah, Bug/Flying is kind of an overused typing.
same with normal/flying
Lil bit.
Yeah. I’m using a Masquerain on my current Omega Ruby run and it’s doing okay but it could’ve had a bunch of potential
I want a damn Mosquito that sucks electricity instead of blood
That makes me think if that pokemon existed, guards at powerplants get to be their own pest control services and use gligars and gliscors to defeat any mosquitos that come near.
Bug/Electric beetle or earwig
Am I the only one who thinks Scizor should be faster than it actually is? I mean, it weighs around as much as Salamance does so its weight shouldn’t really be a factor. At least it gets bullet punch.
I think it’s funny how scizor is the only pokemon (I think) that doesn’t gain any boost to BST when it evolves
That’s disappointing…
Yeah it should’ve gained a slight BST but in my opinion I think Scizor and Scyther should’ve been separate from each other like Heracross and Pinsir
I think it definitely should be faster. I’m just glad it became relevant once it received the Technician ability and Bullet Punch.
This is for Menacing: I think this video might have been posted on here before….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pL4AzGBAsU
I really hope game freak listens…
I don’t remember if it has, but I do love me some EC <3
It is a great video 😀
Were you able to watch it?
Yeah, but it’s a video I have watched before as well
Awesome!
The way i see it, this is spot on for me, I do feel less time being poured into the game as i age, but i got all the time in the world… Maybe grabbing you from the get go would indeed help out here and i do actually see some of that in the new Nintendo games. The second i saw pokemon x and y, i was grabbed by the 3d visuals, but now i see pokemon sun and moon… i’m no longer sold on 3d alone, at least in the style it was used. so they got creative and built on it, from the moment we saw it, we were excited and delighted by the simple ideas and changes we saw, they grabbed us early on, this appears to be why sun and moon grab me and add a hype and feeling of depth as described in that video.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild shows this too, with open world exploration, there’s so much new to do, everyone can find something cool to try, and in past Zelda games, after i beat the story, i felt like i was done with them, with this, i can actually go back and try everything else, or not follow a strict linear path. Too many choices can yeild problem, but not enough is harder to fix, so i do agree balance is also key here, where do you draw that line?
So apparently more potential news on the 25th at some event. You can go on Serebii to see what it actually is…
I’m also liking the double pack, hopefully they’ll also do it for the US (I mean, I’d buy both anyways, so why not get 100 Poke Balls with it?)
And I seriously want that Black SM New 3DS XL, like please
I usually get one version but would be tempted if it came to the US.
I’ll probably just pre order LoZ instead.
You shall be known as stitch on my team…
I love this
Unrelated to pokemon but I can’t stop watching the Breath of the Wild trailer.
I like the voice acting a lot, but I hope it stays as a narration or just in major cutscenes.
All I’m waiting on is Zelda. I NEED to know what she looks like in BOW.
Yeah.
I think the person who’s talking in the beginning might be Zelda.
Same!
I hope her hair is stunning and flowing
i hope she’s hotI hope she makes me want to be her, I want her to be badass and elegantI know right? and that trailer music, is so.. so… ahhh amazing, it reminds me of a Legend of Korra/ Studio Ghibli Spiritually empowering type of music and it definitely has a lot of eastern influence in its sound as well <3
I like the cutting at around 2:00 minutes into the trailer.
They did a good job of making me super excited for the game.
Could somebody help me out – in the live gameplay of Sun and Moon – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-uLg_5RIA
At approximately 33:11 in the video during the battle with Hau, there are these 4 trumpet notes and I SWEAR i’ve heard them from some other Pokemon song before.
Any ideas?
Replying so I can get back to this post and I’ll look into it when I get back home. I hope I’m good at Name That Tune.
I found it! IT was the join Avenue MEet and Greet Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PA_fIuiuvk
0:18 🙂
That’s way off what I thought it would be. I was looking for the notes in the XY rival music. 😀
Are you sure a trumpet even plays in that part? I can’t hear it. The part you mentioned reminded me of this though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1zCdslTA-Q
I found it! IT was the join Avenue MEet and Greet Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PA_fIuiuvk
0:18
I can’t stand the character’s run animation for Sun/Moon…
YEsssss, the Run and walk animation look so robotic
Seems like the male character crapped his pants
It’s not the running that bothers me, it’s the walking
finally 11 pokemon instead (10 pokemon )
Litten, Rowlet, Popplio, “Iwanko”, “Nekkoala”, Grubbin, Pikipek, Yungoos, Solgaleo, Lunala, did I miss anything?
Magearna
Crap! I missed the first one they ever introduced. 🙂
magearna
I hope Grubbin’s evo(s) are nice and bulky. I also hope it doesn’t become bipedal.
This is unrelated to Pokemon, but Nintendo is unveiling a new RPG IP tomorrow for the Nintendo 3DS. I have a feeling that it’s going to be the 3DS project Monolith Soft was working on. What do you all think the new IP may be?
3DS Project MonolithSoft is working on!?
In the end we got a new town builder/RPG by Grezzo (dev of the 3DS Zelda remasters).
If Monolith Soft are still working on this RPG, it’s not out yet.
Wow that’s the OOOOOOLD pic from them that says something about job openings in Monolith Soft. Has it really been that long since that project started? Only now are we gonna get info on it?
wat this pic belong to?
About Tapu Koko, Tapu denotes something Sacred. Koko apparently can mean rainbow-hued (according to a Hawaiian dictionary I checked). It would fit with the whole rainbow theme in Alola.
If it wasn’t for someone calling Tapu Koko a “little thing” on the festival, I’d have to say it was Ho-oh, the Rainbow Pokémon… XD
On HeartGold/SoulSilver, Morty says: “It’s good of you to have come. Here in Ecruteak, Pokémon have long been revered. It’s said that a rainbow-hued Pokémon will come down to appear before a truly powerful Trainer.”
And Tapu Koko appeared before the protagonist at the beginning of the journey.
Also, Ho-oh’s signature move is Sacred Fire and its item is Sacred Ash.
I really doubt this Tapu Koko is related to Ho-oh, just thought it was funny.
I’m thinking that since kukuis hat has the 4 color rainbow on it, there will be a guardian pokemon of each of those colors
I think so too. 4 islands, 4 guardians, 4 colors on the hat (possible symbol for the Alola region).
Really? Japan is getting two special 3DS on the launch day of Sun & Moon. One with the Legendaries and one with Pikachu. Also, their getting a dual pack similar to OR/AS with both S/M and a 100 Pokeballs.
Hopefully, we get the dual pack, cause I want it :3
And the special 3DSs
Hope these aren’t released in the US. I want both.
And I just bought a new 3DS XL with Animal Crossing skin. Ffs I can’t afford this,with all those games I have preordered..
I love Grubbin, I hope it evolved into bug/ground or bug/rock or bug/steel heavy machinery beetle,instead of butterfly.
okay guys we took care of the first part of the Pokemon party,so let’s check that checklist and see what’s next on the list.
actually they reveled Pikipek dex No in this steam it’s 10 but time came to revel Yungoos No they show us a pic of Rotom dex the reason of that ..maybe they didn’t want us to know if Pikipek have 2 or 3 line stages.
I think Yungoos’ dex entry was referring to another unrevealed Pokemon as a rival/prey, so they had to hide it. Or maybe Yungoos have a split evo.
oh wait I was wrong from the beginning the guy who play the game was catch Yungoos before Pikipek and we show the 2 empty spaces after it so it’s obvious Pikipek have 3 line stages.
I have an answer for my previous question.
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1465981987627.jpg
Well there we have it, we probably have a new rat Pokemon.
I bet it’s mentioned in Yungoos dex entry but they put Rotom-dex on the screen to hide it.
It was mentioned further down, but thanks for the screenshot. It makes it more legitimate.
all right everyone welcome to Day two of the ultimate E3 Pokemon party! 😀
Are they gonna show anything new today about sun and moon?
Let’s hope so.