Masuda Announces New Pokémon at Japan Expo: Salandit!

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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920 thoughts on “Masuda Announces New Pokémon at Japan Expo: Salandit!”

  1. Okay… So I can play Pokemon GO with my e-mail but it won’t work with my Pokemon Trainer Club… Anyone else experiencing this?

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  2. I had an idea regarding the “secret” that the three starters, and Rockruff have.
    I thought what if when it comes time for them to evolve into their final evolution, what if there secret is that they permanently evolve like how Mega Charizard and Mega Mewtwo evolve, with two separate evolutions. Like they evolve into one of two different final evo’s depending on ether their stats, or what move’s they have, or how much of a bond that they have with their trainer. To me this would be a really awesome new thing. 😀 XD
    But it’s just wishful thinking on my part, what do you all think of my far out there idea? 😀

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  3. The pattern on Salandits back looks like one of those sticky hands that you swing around and slap things with! (like small children and coma patients)

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  4. So as of this Pokemon reveal I am signing off until November. I have seen quite a few Pokemon to keep me satisfied until then but I don’t want any more spoiled for me. I thought I’d stick around for final evos of starters but I’ll just go with rowlet and cross my fingers. Thank you all for welcoming me into this awesome comment section over the past few months. Here’s hoping my willpower lasts!

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  5. i was thinking…What if Popplio has a split evolution? A water/fairy mermaid if female and and a water/fighting triton if male. This would make sense, because of the look too feminine for the final evolution leaks. Or maybe it’s simply a split evolution in design but with same stats and type. Anyway imo those leaks are true, they’re too accurate and even the feminine look of Popplio evo is a strange move for a fake cause everyone could call them fake just because of that. GF is always unpredictable so I think they are real…

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    • Pretty sure there can’t be a split evolution because Pikipeck is #10 in the pokedex. There’s no space for a split evo

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    • They aren’t leaks those were Fan art I’m 95% sure of it because I know Nintendo and they would never make designs that terrible all of them were Awful.

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    • like Chaos said there is no room for them in the Pokedex, that being said the mermaid was so pretty, I honestly really want a pretty starter or even just a pretty pokemon this gen, something super majestic, although knowing me, much like my gardeivour, I’ll probably have it be male if it can be, just because people say they don’t like it 😛

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      • I’ve always wondered that. Why do people flip out if a Gardevoir is male? I have one and named it Garbrovoir lol. Other pokemon I nickname regardless of what gender pops out of the egg.

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        • Lol yeah well when I got my shiny Kirlia I had the choice of evolving it into gallade or gardeviour and I made it a gardeviour and I’m pretty sure I named it Count Fae or somefin lol, I always name the Pokemon I use too 😛

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  6. so happy we finally have a poison/fire pokemon. been wanting that typing for a while now. will for sure use a salandits in my team eventually. if they keep this up and introduce some other cool water and grass pokemon its going to making choosing a starter really hard on me lol

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      • They probably want it better for you guys because it has a ton of bugs and Glitches in it so they are waiting for you guys

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          • Really you would like servers to be down every hour and lose GPS connection every three minutes and reboot the app for it load then tell you it can’t load?!

          • as long as I got to experience it why not, I mean, to you that seems bad because you already got to experience it, am I correct? 😛 but to me, I’ll take what I can get idc, its not like I haven’t played terrible early versions of games before *cough* ESO *cough*

          • Well then I hope it’s everything you’ve been looking for buddy I mean it’s great just bugs disrupt some of the fun Oh and an update I found a Drowzee

          • oh I no it won’t be, tbh I know I will probably play it for like one day and then not open it again for months XD lol, and cool beans on finding a drowzee… never evolve it! O_O lol jk, kinda

          • I probably won’t find another so it can’t the only ones I’ve evolved so far is Pidgey into Pidgeotto, Ratatta to Raticate, and Weedle to Kakuna

          • plus, while I have heard some people have had problems, I have also seen a lot of people have no problems, so it seems to be hit or miss 😛

          • You’d think I’d do that, but I actually like reading spoilers and whatnot. Just gives me extra time to build my team and learn everything I can before playing

          • If it makes you feel better, I probably won’t receive mine until Christmas. Sorry, just trying to lighten (Litten?) things up. It’s a real bummer you all get 5 days later; wonder why that is?

          • Ah that sucks! And I think it was cause retailers in the UK gave copies early, but idk whether it was for XY or ORAS

  7. So anyone think we might get an early corocoro like last month I know it happened on the 9th or are we gonna have to wait until the 11th or 12th when it usually happens????

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  8. When will you people learn that Synchro is never going to be a thing
    You are all being distracted by flashy words and potential appearances to friggin realize it’s basically Mega Evolution with a different title
    And if anybody says Ash-Greninja or that bad guy from the movie you’re all dumb, because Ash’s Greninja is either the descendant of the Ninja Hero’s Greninja or is the reincarnation
    And as for the bad guy it is painfully non-canonical same goes for this Azoth kingdom which has NOTHING to do with Project AZOTH

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    • I don’t think too many people actually think its going to be a thing, they just wanna mess with the people that are so adamant about it not being a thing.

      That being said, my god I cant wait for Synchro to be a thing, because its obviously going to happen. 😉

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        • I only think it has a potential to be a thing due to Pokken. Of course, idk how Pokken and SM have any relation. I’ve stated before that OF AND ONLY IF synchro/synergy/burst (whatever you want to call it) is a thing, then it would resemble the burst appearance of Pokken when they do their burst attacks (ie Weavile gets a bit frosty and Machamp is burning red). That’s how I would want it. Will it happen? Probably not, but I think it would be a nice little added tid bit spice up the competitive game.

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          • Pokkén is a spin-off game though, which furthers Earthen’s above comment about making a new IP with adventure-RPG elements in it, which would be a good platform for Synchro.

          • I know it is, but the burst cosmetics in Pokken are simple, yet just enough to say “Yo, I have more power now bruh” haha

    • I dont want it to be a thing. But GameFreak doesnt care for your or mine opinion. If they want Synchro, they will put it in the game, simple as.

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      • They can, but main series is off limits
        If they made a new IP which is a crazy adventure RPG taking elements from Pokemon Re-Burst then by all means they can do it

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    • You talk as if it’s us, or all of us that want Synchro.

      And so far the rest only want Synchro so we can see you flip out, not because we are interested in it as a game mechanic.

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      • Well not every one it’s pretty funny to watch him flip his lid but I am truth filled with my opinions

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    • Urgghh here we go again.

      Someone going out of their way to explicitly explain why something will never happen

      Then when that thing happens they start crying when everyone calls them out on it.

      Sigh* where have I seen this before.

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  9. This generation is so far beautiful, this lizard is really adorable. The only ones that are kind of ugly are the starters, but hopefully their evolutions will make up for it.

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  10. Off topic but how about talking about Smash bros. and a next game roster here is my roster what do y’all think?

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