Pokkén Tournament Reveals New Fighter: Darkrai!

The latest Pokémon to be added as a playable character in the arcade-style fighter Pokkén Tournament is none other than the Pitch-Black Legendary itself, Darkrai. This is confirmed for the Japanese arcade version of the game and we await more news about whether or not it will come as an update for the Wii U version, which I’m sure many of you will want to see.

We’ll update the post with a trailer as soon as we can find a high quality version!

<3 PJ

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542 thoughts on “Pokkén Tournament Reveals New Fighter: Darkrai!”

  1. Ok I’ve already got a complaint about Pokemon Sun and Moon! In the trailers you got all these kids enjoying the nice weather and being outside while playing the game. In reality the game comes out during a time of the year that is basically winter for many people……I wish it was coming out in the summer so I could enjoy it as a “vacation in the warm sun” kind of game rather than an “it’s cold outside and I gotta go out and shovel” kind of game lol

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  2. well guys looks like tomorrow is going to be the English trailer for Pokemon Sun and Moon,hopefully to reveal some good information and some English names of the two new Pokemon We just Saw.

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    • Well….there’s no guarantee we’ll get anything tomorrow. It could be a Rockruff and Komala situation.
      But considering we had a Japanese trailer show them off a day after CoroCoro leaked, I’m certain we’ll get something, but I could be wrong 🙂

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      • I’m surprised we haven’t gotten anything yet fro the international side of things at this point. Usually they release on the 14th as by that point it’s basically the 15th for Japan. I’d be surprised even further if we really don’t get anything on the new Pokemon. If there wasn’t a Japanese trailer then I’d say it could be like Rockruff and Komala, but why would they do one trailer and not the others?

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        • Yeah, CoroCoro has become not as guaranteed as it was back in the XY/ORAS days. We always knew that it would be localized when CoroCoro officially came out, but now it’s going off pattern. Something weird is going on…

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          • Yeah and the way they’ve been revealing stuff in general has been weird. With or without CoroCoro the news has been very oddly paced for the past few months. We got 15 new Pokemon reveal in the span of a month 15!!!!! that’s so many Pokemon to reveal in such a short amount of time. And if just IF the leaker from 4chan really is correct about those other two, which at this point I’m slowly losing faith, being revealed we could have a total of 17 new Pokemon in a month. That seems crazy to me. Not even during XY when we had the whole ting at E3 did we get this many in such a small amount of time.

          • I sure hope so because if we aren’t then they are showing us a crap ton of them already lol

          • Yeah, it’s crazy. I really doubt we’ll have less than 100 Pokemon by the rate they are revealing mons.

          • You’d think, but it’s not impossible that they didn’t learn their lesson from the last few releases hahaha

          • True, it’s always a possibility. I doubt it’s possible, but I can’t deny it can happen 🙂

          • This is true, but during ORAS’ release they unloaded almost all the megas before the games came out lol It doesn’t have to be an exact copy of what happened. I’m just saying that they could very well be very dumb as far as marketing goes hahaha

  3. Soooo…. How is Pokemon GO Pokemon GOing for you guys?
    I have 19 unique Pokemon and I am a level 5 member of team valor.

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    • What? It doesnt work for me still how is that possible? Do you live in the metropolitan area or something?
      Ive been to caguas, ponce, yauco, cayey, mayaguez etc and nothing not even pokestops 🙁

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    • I’m currently am level 14. I have currently caught 58 unique pokemon and my highest CP pokemon is a Tentacruel with 708 as its CP

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    • I’m on Team Mystic, level 9, 38 unique Pokemon caught and 40 seen in Pokedex. Highest CP for the time being is Jolteon CP472.

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    • I’m on Team Valor, level 20, 71 unique Pokemon caught and seen in Pokedex. Highest CP is Vaporeon at 1150. Please mind my profanity but leveling up at level 20 is a *beep*.

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      • You guys are all so much stronger than me but I guess I don’t exactly live in the best place to catch Pokemon and I don’t play very much compared to everyone else.

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    • Team Mystic, level 12, 42 Pokemon in my party with 50 caught and seen in my Pokedex. Highest CP is my Vaporeon with 753, the rest are below 500 CP (I don’t do battling all that much so yeah 🙂 I just happened to hatch a really high CP eevee in one of my eggs)

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    • Team Mystic. Level 14. Best CP is 800 something. 78 unique Pokemon. Going to Florida on vacation soon and hope to catch more.

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  4. *Belch*
    I swear Gamefreak better not just phone it in with new attacks
    I mean right off the bat Leafage is insignificant since we’ll scrap it for Razor Leaf (could you imagine if instead they let Rowlet use Vine Whip with its little bow tie)
    I really fear that they’ll pool all their creativity into these super attacks then actually introduce genuinely new attacks

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      • I am thinking that guardian deities may get different abilities based on their myth.

        Tapu Koko got Electric Terrain and it is the land spirit Pokemon. Ku(what Koko is based on) is named as “the seizer of the land” and basically Tapu Koko seizes the land in its favour with Electric Terrain .

        Lono is the god of agriculture and it brings fertility to land by bringing rain clouds. So I guess an ability that brings Grassy Terrain could work or it can have ability that brings Rain.

        Kanaloa is associated with healing, so it can have ability that has something to do with healing.

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        • Lono should have Drizzle and Kanaloa a new ability that heals allies at different rates based on their HP. For example, if you have 75% of your hope, the amount Kanaloa heals is smaller compared to if you have 25% of your HP. I don’t all of them to have ______ Terrain.

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  5. I love Pokemon Go and how it has brought gaming/casual gaming communities together, inspired people to go out more instead of penting themselves up in their homes, and overall is a great experience for ANYONE: true fan or not. I don’t however agree with attacking people who only got on the train due to hype; this world has become too attached to instant gratification and most of us are non-proactive. I believe what Pokemon Go has done is not onoy significant for the world of Nintendo, but for the mobile industry as well. Of course there will be repercussions involved with a children’s game basically asking children and teens to go out and explore! So what? The news can babble all they want, parents and the Westborough Church can vent and rail all they want but in the end, Nintendo just keeps printing money from this game. I don’t care if you pronounce Pokemon incorrectly or just got into playing Pokemon Go because it’s the next hit thing. What matters is the true fans will stay when all the hype has died down and most of them leech onto another product. Don’t waste your energy and time attacking or complaining about people that are minute to win-its! Additionally, as a last note, some of these players coukd maybe join the fan club as sales for the earlier games now available on the Nintendi E-Shop are skyrocketing and Pokemon merchendise are coming back in full force! Don’t worry about stupid trainers who kill themselves while trying to catch a Magikarp, just be happy you’re not a leecher in the Pokemon world.

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    • Couldn’t have said it better myself 🙂
      While I understand the frustration of some people with all these new people coming in, it’s beneficial for all. Your next Pokemon friend could come around thanks to GO, so I’m open-minded to its possibilities.
      As for me, I’ll be in my corner with my BFF riding around hitting Pokestops (there’s like none near walking distance) and going slow enough in our neighborhood to hatch eggs because Florida heat be crazy.

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  6. Pokemon GO is cool right now but I can’t wait until they add trading and non gen 1 Pokemon because as cool as it is to see Pokemon in the real world, I’d rather be seeing Pokemon I actually like. I’m as nostalgic for Pokemon Red as anyone but I just would love to see things like Pumpkaboo, Cofagrigus, goomy, Sewaddle, Aron, Absol and rotom in my neighborhood. What Pokemon are you guys hoping to see?

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    • Patience my friend. They should first work on making this game available worldwide and fixing server, data, and in-game mechanic issues. But yes, they did say that trading will be avaliable soon and will eventually add all of the known Pokemon in-game.

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      • This game could eventually give Nintendo enough money to do more with their consoles so they can actually be considered competition for Sony and Microsoft

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  7. This might be an unpopular opinion here but I’m going to say it anyway. I’m glad that Pokemon GO only has gen one for two reasons. Firstly, it brings in fans who quit after gen 1 (I know some people don’t like that but it REALLY helps for the games success in the long run. Secondly, I’m getting enough duplicates that I can level up and evolve my Pokemon with little trouble. Imagine 721 Pokemon day one. Evolution would be a nightmare.

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  8. @belmad is it okay if I screenshot your previous response to my statement a few pages back and save it on my computer? PLSS?!

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    • I immediately thought of Tyrantitartube’s condescending tone when he said that “obviously fluffy has to do with flinching”

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    • Special Fur Coat
      And though a bit of a stretch False Colors would temporarily put up a fake typing that would reset after getting hit

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          • The panda has potential…there’s no way they take one of the cutest animals and make it not that cute. *prays to arceus*

          • The Red Panda/Bear is growing on me, in fact it is at the top of favorite Sun and Moon Pokemon for me.

          • It seems too bland to be fully evolved for me, although the size of it is troubling on that front.

          • I’m just so surprised all the time by people that don’t like the new Pokemon and new gens in total. If these Pokemon were in gen 1, and you just now discovered Pokemon, you would maybe find faults, but you would accept them as part of the franchise. We accept Jynx and muk despite weird designs. These new ones are designed by a lot of the same people and go through an extensive screening process. You don’t have to use them but definitely don’t put them down. They are all Pokemon after all. (Ultron, this was not a reply directly to you or even really to you at all) 🙂

          • This thing is sort of a special case for me though. Red Pandas are my favorite animal so I want the design to just be really awesome and adorable. I really like the concept behind it with the hugging/huge crushing power, but given how vibrantly scarlet Red Pandas are and stuff, there’s just a small part of me that hopes it evolves and is better. Don’t get me wrong, I do like it, but I just have high expectations for it. There aren’t a lot of pokemon designs that I truly dislike anyway 🙂 Only a select few

          • I agree! I’m not the biggest fan of this one either and there are a lot of gen 5 Pokemon I don’t like unfortunately. It’s totally cool imo for us to talk about our opinions of new designs. But like for people who don’t like any of the new ones, it’s like, just be happy new ones are being made!

          • Exactly! I’ll take new pokes over no pokes any day. Each gen has good ones, bad ones, and ones you learn to like.

          • Grrrrrrrrrrrr
            I am just so freaking fed up with waiting
            That Pokketchi better shed some light on that walking death trap

          • Speaking of which
            I was thinking that it would definitely learn Bind or Submission
            But I wanted it to learn a new attack based on a move of my own ability
            I in real life am an extremely powerful hugger, having one of the strongest and tightest bear hugs in high school, and I had the thought of being able to magically drain life force from the hugged target
            So Huggagrab would learn a new Fighting or most likely normal attack which hugs and sucks out hp

          • I like other things but there honestly hasn’t been any eye catching physical powerhouses
            Which is the cornerstone of my entire being

    • I think Fluffy will reduce damage of either crits, physical attacks, or super-effective moves. False Colors probably has something to do with setting up a type illusion or something.

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  9. To bring back the discussion to darkrai….

    What was your first mythical Pokemon?
    (Glitches don’t count)

    Mine was the aforementioned darkrai or manaphy. I don’t remember which.

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      • They’re really drawing Vigo out. I was expecting him to be wrapped up this season. I think that hooded “special guest” from the penultimate episode will come back into play.

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        • The Defenders of the wing are definitely a good pivoting point
          You should’ve seen my face when Gobber got Grump I was speculating he would’ve gotten it this season or the next but I was so happy to see it

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          • I like the little things they put in there from the movies. Nice to see how things happened. I’m interested to see where they take Heather though..

      • The show is actually pretty good. I really enjoy it. Most of the original voice cast is back too, which really helps it feel like it’s a part of the movies. Stoic’s voice actor is pretty bad though haha

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        • Nice, I’ll give it a go for sure, Quite surprised at how many episodes it has, I figured it would just be 6-parter or something, but this particular movie spin-off is huge! Happy to have so much to watch. 🙂

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    • If you consider nothing to be too far in this game. I recommend finding and beating possible players to submission before they have the chance to take your gym. I feel like my response was very Earthenlike.

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  10. ugh you all have no idea how much I hate summer!!!!
    anyways, who wants to make me a Grabbabear disqus id pic?!? anyone???? no? ok… 🙁

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  11. Late, SLOW, night in the new lab. How’s everybody doing.

    Wished Scizor got the spot. Wishful thinking that I want Slowbro up there haha.

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