The annual Japan Expo, a convention dedicated to anime, games and anything Japanese, is currently being held in France and Pokémon game director Junichi Masuda recently finished a presentation at the event.
Salandit has been revealed! It is a Poison/Fire type and its new ability Corrosion allows it to poison Pokémon that would normally be immune, such as Poison- and Steel-types.
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Making a team this Generation is going to quite difficult ? Too many cool Pokemon.
Rowlet
Salandit
Rockruff
Vikavolt/Cutiefly
Bruxish
Drampa
My Sun/Moon team for 1st playthough is decided
Already? There’s a shit load of dope 7 gen Pokemon we haven’t seen yet
But I’m in love with them
Lol I can relate.
This is typical me though. So excited for Sun/Moon lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if I replace at least 3 of those mons xd.
I will probably the same lol. Especially when their evolutions are revealed that’s a major factor.
I know I only had a problem with charjabug but it’s grown on me and I love them all
Rowlet
Vikavolt
Salandit
Yungoos
I’m still missing two but I always pick water, grass, fire, electric, flying and the scapegoat for HM im missing water and one more but since Rowlet takes up two types I don’t know what new type to pick
Popplio and Rockruff only
The rest suck smegma
How dare you use Rockruff, I’m using it, use something else.
Bite me
My Rockruff will bite you
Don’t break its teeth on my rocky carapace
Salandit: Hisss
*Throws a clump of dirt*
Rowlet destroys ground smh
Offtopic: Its confirmed that Goodra will rejoin Ash’s team for the remainder of the Kalos League.
hooray for the first-ever poison/fire Pokemon! 😀
Pokemon Go update on me (not that anyone of you care really)
In order:
Charmander
Fearow
Bellsprout
Ratatta
Weedle
Eevee
Oddish
Pidgey
I like how the animation goes back and forth between level and poison on top of the HP bar
So I’m reading Corrosion
And it seems to only affect steel and poison types with the status
It says nothing about using Poison attacks on steel, just poison
Also one more thing I don’t think anyone noticed
THERES FUCKING LAVA IN THE BACKGROUND
It’s because it’s a fire type that lives near a Volcano
Just confirms we can venture near active volcanoes
I know they showed komala in the trailer, which got me thinking, do you think corrosion will override komala’s ability and poison it too? It said it can poison Pokemon who usually can’t.
Doubt it
Only poisons Poison and Steel Types
I don’t really understand Komala’s ability is it immune to all status besides sleep?
Yes
Yes, you can’t poison it, burn it, paralyze it or freeze it
But moves such as Sing, Sleep Powder, Spore, Grass Whistle and Dark Void work on it
Ooooooh makes sense now. That’s a deadly ability for competative since sleep status aren’t that common.
I beg to differ
Vivillion and Breloom abuse Spore and Sleep Powder and desolate entire teams with it
The only Pokemon that get to abuse sleep status is Vivillion, Breloom & Amoongus. Toxic, Burn, & Paralysis are way more common + Sleep Powder is unreliable as hell.
Well Compound eyes raises it to I believe…..98%
Looks like a gecko/salamander 😀
Its fire/poison, so im getting it
And I’ll go out of my way to kill it
Why? Its so cool tho.
1 everyone wants it therefore I must end it
2 it’s Poison/Fire 4x Ground Weakness ergo my natural prey
Lol true.
And everyone will be forced to rely on focus sashes, air balloons and rarely Shuca Berries which will become extremely predictable in time
inb4 extreme bulk
Doubtful it says it’s not a strong Pokemon and relies on devious tactics to win
True. Corrosion is nice little niche tho.
Man I wish it gets Grass Knot so I can one shot both Rhypherior and Excadrill (Fire Move).
Without even using an Air Balloon.
That would be hilarious.
Grass Knot on Excadrill would be ineffective since they don’t weigh that much
Also Excadrill is extremely fast even without sandstorms and could easily rock slide air ballooners and into a fresh earthquake
Love it ^^
How is it possible Sun and Moon have so many amazing Pokemon?!?!?!?! Salandit is SOOOOOO COOL!!! That new ability is also pretty great too! I can’t wait to see more new Pokemon!
I LOVE IT. It’s def going to be in my team. Now I need a cool dark type *cries*
Three years ago at a Japan Expo, Honedge (Steel/Ghost) was the 19th new Pokemon revealed for X & Y.
Now in 2016 at another Japan Expo, Salandit (Poison/Fire) was the 19th new Pokemon revealed for Sun and Moon.
And before both their reveals, we never had those type combos before! Notice a pattern, here?
No. Sample size is too small to show any kind of correlation/pattern
A coincidence at best for now.
Gen 8, we’ll see. 😀
/goOSEBUMPS THATS AWESOME/
This will definitely make it’s way onto my team unless the evolution is underwhelming.
Even with the 4x weakness to ground I like the design and typing a lot.
Skarmory possibly confirmed for Sun & Moon
People are just too quick
Dawwgggg these are sexy
These look dope af
These make me wish I could draw
The wild pokemon battle music is so playful
Does this de-confirm the Fire/Poison of the starter?
Not really.
Gen 1 had a Grass/Poison starter and Fire/Flying starter and other Pokemon of the same Type in the same region
Gen 3 had Water/Ground starter and also introduced Whiscash.
Its not completely unheard of for the starter Pokemon to share their typing with another regional Pokemon.
Excellent point, my dreams are still alive!
I feel like it lessens the chances of it happen, but it’s not a guarantee that it won’t happen.
I’m still hoping Litten becomes Fire/Poison <3
Who called this ability, name wise? I know one of you did lol
Most people (including myself) called for a move with that sort of name that hits Steel Types for super effective damage.
I remember this. Did you all called corrosion, though?
Mine was Caustic Acid
Or was it Acid Melt
O remember the caustic acid more
It was in my personal new moves list
Force Volley: Psychic, sends a series of psionic pellets to attack the opponent, hits 2-5 times
Caustic Acid: Poison, the user burns the opponent with burning acid, super effective on steel types
Blindside: Dark, the users waits for the perfect opportunity to strike, hits within 2-5 turns
Cauterize: Fire, The user burns wounds shut, heals 50% max health
Quicksand: Ground, the user converts the field to quicksand, those who enter lower speed and cannot escape
Well the main name people were saying was Corrosive Acid.
I remember Malco did yesterday I think.
I love it’s design and its type, but I hate the idle position. It looks too much like a frog to me.
But on second thought, it’ll probably get an amazing evolution, so I might use it, but I don’t want to make me team before the game releases.
I’m glad we all seem to like it! ?
I won’t use it likely though.. and it Will screw with my teams… -,-
Good thing I have my Togetic prepared now ?
It reminds me of a shirshu from Avatar the Last Airbender that June used in terms of movement and a touda from Kemono no Soja or Erin in terms of design! Really neat though!
I really like it 🙂 <3 Look super cool and, like Natsu said, really reminds me of some ATLA/LOK creatures (it's giving off that vibe)
I feel though that, because of the typing, it lowers the chances that Litten will be Fire/Poison as well, which is fine since there are other types I wouldn't mind it becoming. (Note I said lowers the chances, could still happen, this just makes it less likely to happen, in my eyes)
A salamander bandit.. Ok. I like it.