7/19 Pokémon Sun & Moon Update

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Just under three weeks since the last Pokémon Company reveal, we’re getting another Pokémon Sun & Moon update today! We’re not entirely sure what to expect, though we could see the two new Pokémon revealed in Corocoro make an appearance and maybe more!

A new trailer has been released in both English and Japanese!

New Details and Information

Pokémon

  • Bounsweet the Grass type Pokémon
  • Bewear Normal/Fighting type, can have the new Fluffy Ability that halves the damage taken from attacks that make direct contact, but in return it also doubles the damage taken from Fire-type moves
  • Comfey a Fairy type Pokémon that can have the Triage ability which means this Pokémon’s restorative moves gain the highest priority in battle
  • Mudsdale a Ground type horse Pokémon. Mudsdale can have the new Stamina Ability which means the Pokémon’s Defense goes up by 1 when it’s hit by an attack
  • Wimpod is a Water/Bug type Pokémon that has the Wimp Out ability; upon reaching 50% HP it will run away or switch with another Pokémon during battle!
  • Mimikyu is a Ghost/Fairy type Pokémon with the new ability Disguise; upon entering battle its disguise will take the first attack for it (no confirmation whether this is affected by contact hits or not)

Game Mechanics

  • Pokémon can now access ‘Hyper Training’ which allows for IVs to be raised for the first time ever. This is accessible at level 100 and uses ‘bottle caps’. No word if you can transfer them over from Fallout.
  • You can now host tournaments on the Global Link!

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2,023 thoughts on “7/19 Pokémon Sun & Moon Update”

  1. Wimp Out seems like a terrible ability, Fluffy makes Bewear seem like it’ll be a pretty decent assault vest user (please get Drain Punch :D), Disguise and Stamina are bother really sweet abilities, and Comfey will be an awesome team cleric.

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  2. I love Mudsdale and I’m curious to see if wimpod evolves. I’m not a fan of comfey and bewear is growing on me alittle bit

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    • Bewear is by far my favorite. just its lore to me is silly and it only wants to love and be loved, but everyone is so afraid because it doesn’t know its own strength.

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      • I’m starting to like it more now that I realize it has more pink on it then just the head. I’m going to assume it will have a pre evolution(speculating) and it will be cute as hell

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          • I feel like it’s the teeth that ruin it for me, having such weirdly human lips and those teeth just make it look off-putting.

        • I don’t dislike any of them, but yeah im right with you, those 2 are my least favorite as well. (unless litten’s leaked EVO is real… ugh) everyone is freaking out over how awesome mimikyu is, but there were other really cool pokemon revealed too haha

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          • I’m a bug lover (obviously) and my favorite so far is Vikavolt but mannnnnn I fell in love with Mudsdale. I’ve been wanting another horse Pokemon forever that wasn’t a legendary or Rapidash.

  3. I hope Bounsweet evolves into something with good stats. The other cute grass types are kind of not good. I’m looking at you Bellossom and Cherrim.

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  8. I just realized that Hyper Training is for IVs and not for EVs. I had my jaw dropped for a solid 10 minutes. ALL THESE IMPERFECT COMPETITIVE SHINY MONS WILL FINALLY BE USEFUL. ?

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  10. The first egg i hatched in GO was a Vulpix, which was pretty awesome, but then i hatched 4 2km eggs in a row…. Pidgey, Caterpie, Pidgey, Ratata. At least I’m gonna hatch 2 5kms tomorrow.

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  11. So far the only pokemon I plan to have on my team are Rowlet, Vikavolt and Bewear.
    I would use Mimikyu but I kinda doubt it’ll have good stats.

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  12. I’m sorry of this was already posted, but discus is kinda glitching for me right now.
    Anyway, the other guardians are supposedly fire, water, and grass. So, during speculation before their reveal, I’m going to refer to them as:
    Electric – Tapu Koko
    Fire – Tapu Smoko
    Grass – Tapu Coco (coconut)
    Water – Tapu Soako

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  13. What I really want if we have gyms in SM is a virtual type reversal. Make the early game gym types like bug, rock, and flying last, and make the late game types like ice and dragon early on. It’s getting a bit old having the same types later or earlier.

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    • You cannot have a Dragon team so early, unless they’re walking handicaps (Oxymoron) they resist freaking anything a young trainer could dish out

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        • You must take into account how much of a issue trainers might have with the gym
          Every Pokemon is pre determined to see how well the average trainer could do to beat it
          So the easy types first then progressively harder

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      • i mean, there are a lot of fairies this gen so provided you can get one early enough a dragon gym would be pretty easy to take down

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  18. Hold up, Earthen said Magearna (however you spell it) comes with the silver botlecap right? What if the ability soul heart is like pickup in which you can find x items and a VERY VERY VERY Slim chance of a silver bottle cap

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    • O.k…..why the hell would Soul Heart an ability that has been shown to raise a stat with every faint would POSSIBLY let you find Bottle caps
      Seriously what desperate mind would possibly think this could be viable
      SERIOUSLY

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        • That kind of response just makes me want to wring your neck
          They would NEVER have that

          Just fucking accept the whole bottle cap system isn’t going to be a cheap and easy service to supercharge the IVs of your legends, they’re most likely going to be a expensive process that not everyone is just going to magically accumulate infinite bottle caps for this feature

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          • I said slim chance. It would probably take hours on end to get one if I would have the pickup thing… or would pickup have the ability to find bottle caps… YES! PICKUP GETS BOTLECAPS! SCREW SOUL HEART

          • Unless you get the low tier pickup scrounge
            5% is still a low chance
            And Pickup isn’t a guaranteed ability 10% chance after battling
            You’d probably have to grind a whole team of lvl 100 Pickups

            But I’ll just laugh and laugh when Bottle caps are rare and I’ll be just fine breeding Ivs

          • Well you cannot get the Zapdos or Metagross I need from breeding. I would be fine breeding my Tyranitar, but for Pokemon you can’t breed I will use Hyper Training

          • Once at level 100 with no EV’s, we can easily know the IV’s, so choosing our hidden power is simply targeting for the correct 30/31 stats in hyper training. <3

        • The idiot doesn’t even provide a source for this supposed discussion. I still don’t know what to think of the Chinese rumour. It could be real but it could also be fake. I want it to be fake so badly but unlike this rumour and the “UK disgruntled employee” bullshit one there is no way to prove it is fake yet.

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    • This is amazing if this were true (which it won’t be HAHA)

      “There is a 2 stage cat Pokemon that is Normal when captures but will inherit the fathers primary type as its 2nd type when hatched and the color/pattern varies by type.”

      Normal/Ghost let’s go!

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    • Well you have to admit it is quite odd that they were able to guess the Bewear and Mimikyu. Sure Mimikyu was something you could easily say was gonna happen, but Bewear was not in anyway guessable. At least not easily. I’m not 100% sure all of what is written is true, but considering how things are going I’d say I’m more inclined to believe the Chinese rumors and these by extension than anything else. I’m not a fan of how some people are reacting to these rumors however. It’s one thing to have a opposite view on the subject, but I feel like some people (all over the internet) are just shitting on them just because they don’t like what they say. They could be real and they could be fake, but I wouldn’t mind if people would stop posting their opinions as fact. That’s kind of the down side of the Prerelease season. Without full on proof people forget their manners and it just becomes a shit show…..*sigh* oh well I’m sure at some point we’ll get proof one way or another lol

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        • at this point the no gyms thing has been brought up so many times that its not really something that can be dismissed anymore, you have to at least acknowledge that it could happen

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          • its not stupid everywhere that I have seen the no gyms thing they have make a very good and valid point, its not their fault people don’t have enough thought process or imagination to figure out that there are a million different ways that they could have no gyms and still have amazing games without them being shorter or lacking in content, heck having no gyms could make the game longer if it meant you had to go around challenging various island leaders to create your own gyms and then having them be playable in the post game in any order…. you people need to stop being so afraid of change and use you’re imagination

          • You aren’t even trying to talk about the point that I made that no matter how much stupid asses post their fake ass shit ass rumours and use the same shit ass “info” it doesn’t make them real.

          • are you crazy?… I never once mentioned the other content of the rumours I’m talking purely about the no gym concept being a possibility… I was never involved in whatever narrative you think I was with you, but you can continue on if you insist… -_-

          • “at this point the no gyms thing has been brought up so many times that its not really something that can be dismissed anymore, you have to at least acknowledge that it could happen”

            ^This is acting like just because a bunch of stupid fucks keep posting it it has any sort of validity. It doesn’t. It is as fake and unlikely as ever. No matter how much it is mentioned it doesn’t magically become any more likely.

          • how about you go back an re-read my first comment and let a little bit of that absorb into your skull… I’m not saying that because a lot of people have brought it up makes it true, I’m saying that the people who have brought it up have made very good cases as to why it could be true and make sense, I assume that if you’re actually reading my whole comments, that you’re not actually getting anything out of what I’m saying, so thats fine, you be you and think what you want, I’m not going to fight with you

          • It doesn’t make any sense and there is one good reason, the only reason needed that is isn’t true but what I am saying is no matter what it isn’t any more or less likely no matter what people say. The only thing that does that is an official statement either 100% confirming or 100% denying.

        • They don’t want gyms because they want the game to be as relatable as possible, Pokemon players don’t go to the gym.

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        • Listen dude maybe you should cool it word the language. Not everyone is going to agree on the same stuff, but that doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole. I’m not going to fight over people having different opinion, but you need to chill yourself out. I’m not saying you can’t state your opinions, but your stating them in such a negative and mean way that it makes you look bad. Unless you have undeniable proof the rumors are fake you should just shut your mouth and wait like the rest of us to get proof one way or the other. There’s absolutely no reason for your to crap on other for liking the rumors……sheesh….

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          • >Ash-Greninja in the game.
            Never happening. Boom proof.
            >Alternate forms for Pokemon and it requires them to be the mons transferred from R/B/Y and those mons will also not have Gen 6 stats for no reason.
            Never happening. Boom proof.

            These are undeniable fake as shit and suck asshole.

          • Clearly you’re stuck in your own world where everything goes the way you want and everyone else is wrong……I’m done with this before it becomes anything more. Have a good night…..

          • I am beyond sick and tired of bullshit rumours. Stupid fucks need to shut their fucking mouths and keep their fingers off their keyboards posting fake shit and just wait for the real news.

          • The Internet is free game and these supposed leakers, technically, aren’t doing anything wrong. They’re most likely lying up the wah zoo, but I can’t 100% prove that. I can’t simply pull Masuda and bust a quick vid about the leaks. JUST RELAX. At the end of the day, it’s still a game geared towards children. The competitive aspect is to keep old fans excited.

          • I can’t relax. And it is obvious they are doing nothing wrong I made my own “leaks” too. More to show how retarded it all is but still.

          • So dumb people that make up leaks deserve to die and on part with murderers, rapists, etc? Logic, I see

          • I fail to see how an innocent dumb Internet prank equals the death of a person. Explain the logic please

          • For the record, let’s keep one conversation here (I hate jumping around and I’m on my computer at the lab….waiting)

          • You are so level-headed and calm. I try to be, but it sometimes steers off course a tad bit haha. Teach me your ways

          • Prove it? Don’t type it. Show me actual hard evidence. I don’t want them to be real, but I can’t say their 100% fake. It’s all up in the air at this point.

          • Keys unlock doors is logical but not always true, if the door is locked with only a numerical password

          • It is programmed. No outside tools needed. Your house/apartment (whatever you live in) needs that tool.

          • Yes, because it’s a program. I should really get my brother in this as he’s a computer engineer. But idk how everybody else would feel about “Toodles” making a return. He has matured a lot and I’m proud of him for that, but he left PJ with a sour note soooooo…

          • Oooooo ouch the immaturity (of course I’m guilty as well) is setting in. Weren’t those leakers immature too? I guess we both need to be purged because logic

          • Immaturity is fine so long as the person isn’t stupid. And I don’t see how I am being immature at all. Rather I am being pissed that you can’t get a simple fact through your thick skull.

          • You’re pissed off over something you can’t control. Like really angry about it. I’ve been instigating you this whole time because I thought you would see how dumb it was to be so mad about something so little. I thought you would have noticed. Instead you kept on rambling and grew angrier at a dumb, childish situation. Looks like I failed. I am truly sorry you have such emotions of this magnitude over Pokémon games that it’s affecting you this way.

            Of course a password is a key.

          • I don’t need your pity nor sorrow. And I am more inclined to believe you are a moron and actually thought a password wasn’t a key because most people are retarded.

          • Still at it huh? Well, obviously there’s more to your hormone concentrations than what’s going on here. I’m no MD, so there’s nothing I can do there. Give PJ a rest until release date. You see most people as inferior and that’s a toxic way of thinking. Have a good night

          • I need to consume the news so I won’t just leave until the release date. The stupid fucks set the release 4 months away still despite it being done. And I don’t care if YOU think it is “toxic” way of thinking because it actually isn’t. It is the truth.

          • I don’t see a need to disclose my age to a random internet denizen. I am over the age of 18 if you want to make a point about that.

          • Then you’ve never been around the 5yo I’ve been around lol. All right, gtg back to work. Try to have a good night, really. Idc that you don’t want my pity nor sorrow – that’s fine. I just want you to relax a bit and let off the tension.

            G’night!

          • I obviously haven’t because you likely lives several hundred to thousands of miles away from me. And you can want whatever I really don’t care.

  22. Alright I’m going to bed
    I’m probably going to dream of Mudsdale or have a night terror about that horrid list
    Peace or or bug off the lot of ya

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  23. I really hope we get some non-fairies that strike my fancy because so far my team is Litten, Cutiefly, Mimikyu, and Comfey, and I hate having type reapeats. :/

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  24. Also.. With Hyper Training, I DON’T HAVE TO RESET FOR THESE DAMN EVENT MONS ANYMORE.

    I still have all the event mons starting from Zygarde stacked up unavailed in the Pokemon Center up until now. That’s like idk 10 pokemon? I can finally just have to worry about Natures now. T.T

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