7/19 Pokémon Sun & Moon Update

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. Well guys since GTS is going to close in Generation 6,we need to collect all the Pokemon from Generations 1 through 6 before GTS comes back for Generation 7;)

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  2. As a follow-up to the previous article I pointed out, Pokemon GL has offically posted what features will remain and what won’t.
    * Ranked Battles: Gone
    * Logbooks: Gone
    * Game Syncing: Gone
    * Free Battle: Stay
    * Online Trading: Stay
    * Wonder Trade: Stay (good!)

    http://www.pokemon-gl.com/oras/close_announcement/en/

    Also a boost on Poke Miles acquisition before closing starting from July 28, and Ability Capsules will be in the shop for a whopping 5000 Miles each.

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    • I’m so glad wonder trading is staying. I love that feature and hope it’s permanent for many generations to come

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  3. Phew, that took a good 30 minutes, I didn’t know how to render a gif from sony vegas… But here it is! When you need to spend those PokeMiles

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  4. WOAH, before I leave. What Pokemon Youtubers do you watch? I watch Shadypenguinn, Nappy, and NiPPs. Anyway, sweet dreams and cya tomorrow!

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          • I don’t think Mimikyu is a Pikaclone in the slightest, it has nothing about it that is a Pikaclone, just the fact it looks like a PIkachu.
            Sure, it kept its Japanese name, but other Pokemon sometimes do that too (mostly legendaries, but it does happen)

          • It only uses Pikachu’s image in order to get the love that Pikachu has. Still doesn’t make it a ‘Pikaclone’ because of it

          • the pikachu clone in alola is togedemaru obviously, but hoenn had two so i wouldn’t mind counting mimikyu as a pikachu clone. Marill was supposed to be named Pikablu because it was like a blue pikachu and is water type, other than that there was no “pikachu clone” in johto unless you count pichu but thats its pre-evolution

          • I know, but it has no other characterisitc of a ‘Pikaclone’. No electric typing, no electric pouches, no rodent based origin.
            And techinically, I think Pikablu was a fan name at the time, if I remember from certain videos talking about it. It was never confirmed to be a ‘Pika clone’ as well.

          • lol yeah its definitely debatable but let me tell you Percy, i plan to use both of them on my adventure team and maybe make them competitive lol

          • i mean i can see it getting a raichu cloth but at the same time it wants to be loved like pikachu and pikachu has that love cuz its the mascot of pokemon and raichu isn’t treated like pikachu is but yeah. and Togedemaru is adorable too. I’m annoyed it has a 4x ground weakness but oh well not every pokemon is 100% perfect, throw an air ballon on it and maybe. but it still has fire weakness lol

          • I really don’t want it to get a Raichu cloth, I just want it to get an evo where it understands that it doesn’t need to cloth anymore to get love and it becomes its own thing.
            Or maybe it does keep the cloth for protection from the sun, but the real mon underneath comes out more and you see it when it attacks or something

          • It just doesn’t like the sun/it gets less powerful, doesn’t mean it can’t come out, as far as I heard. Then again, I might need to look at its info again xD
            But. like I said, it can still keep the cloth or ditch the ‘Pikachu’ theme and just get a regular cloth.

          • I interpreted the info as not being able to be out in the sun period like the sun hurts it. But eh. And if it kept the cloth how would they change the design for the evo?

          • I looked back at it, and it said the health fails. So it maybe can attack real quick and get back under it, since the arm in Mimikyu does come out and attack.
            I dunno, maybe the cloth is ripped up more or it exposes more of it. When it evolves, maybe the sun doesn’t bother it much anymore.
            It’s not perfect, I’m not gonna lie and say it is, and I don’t have the faintest idea what they might do, I’m just saying what I would like to happen. I just see it evolving, and my gut feeling is usually right about stuff like this.

          • lol its just an idea. anyone can say absolutely anything, but nothing that is said is real unless they confirm it. dont think too much about it lol

          • this is what I’m talking about Auragar. Have fun with other people’s ideas because we all know that is all they are, ideas. Don’t think so negatively about what other people say, respect them as you would want to be respected. Its all just fun dont take that away from others but bashing on what they think

          • just go with it, imagine some of these ideas just for fun. and also you’re not stating fact, “it is a stupid idea” is 100% opinion, its ok to voice your opinion but dont be so direct and negative. thats all I’m saying lol

          • It isn’t an opinion though a pokemon that gets hurt by being in the sun suddenly losing the cloak it uses to live essentially when it evolves is completely stupid. It would die. And I see no problem being direct and being negative is also fine if it is necessary.

          • lol no. the fact their is that mimikyu is hurt by the sun, the opinion is calling someone else’s fun idea stupid, you have to distinguish between fact and opinion, speculation and confirmation. but not everything pokemon related needs to be backed up with fact. growlithe couldn’t learn growl early on and its name is GROWLithe, lickitung couldn’t learn lick early on and its name has Lick in it.

          • wow my there their and they’re is really off tonight, i think I’ve made a mistake like 10 times lol

          • once again, fact is something that is true, opinion is someone’s belief of something. Charmander dies when its tail flame burns out but you can use rain dance in a battle with it, but does it get hurt? no it doesnt just get killed after that. and the point of Percy’s idea is for the evolution to have gotten used to the sun, its evolution, think of the definition of evolution.

          • That is a very poor example but ok. But yah sure if because of retarded ass Pokemon logic it is somehow immune to the sun once it evolves (if it evolves which I doubt) then fine whatever that works.

          • how is this a poor example? its almost the exact same situation. a pokemon that can die if exposed to nature. you got your mimikyu is killed by sun the same place charmander is said to be killed by flame going out, its in the like bio of the pokemon or pokedex entry rather? and again you are thinking too much about it. these are ideas, that is all they are Auragar. and i would appreciate it if you could hold back from vulgarity in messages lol

          • I am aware of this information but just because it is raining doesn’t mean the fire would go out necessarily. And eh thinking is all I am good for so eh. And I don’t care what you’d appreciate. I’d appreciate a lot of things I don’t get so whatever.

          • aren’t you one of the people who dislikes when Earthen acts in such a manner? because you seem to be behaving in the exact same way. and I’m sorry, i guess if i took a lit candle out of my house in the pouring rain, it would go out?

          • Earthen acts out because of not having his stupid ass precious ground types and such. He is an idiot. There are times I agree with him however so eh. And there is a high likelihood it would yes but that isn’t important.

          • Don’t call him an idiot. He may act out a lot but that doesnt make him an idiot. He loves pokemon like a lot of people here do, he uses fact in a lot of his ideas like you seem to, and he has a type preference. so what? big deal. and so if charmander can go out in a battle in the rain just in battle, then why can’t mimikyu go out in a battle say against a ninetails which has drought? I am entitled to an opinion and as are you, but you are forcing your own ideas on others, and eliminating the fun of a pokemon-related chat/forum/message system.

          • I shouldn’t call him an idiot even though he kind of is sometimes. And Mimikyu can go out in battle against Ninetails so long as it has the cloak on. That isn’t up for debate.

          • does charmander have a cover for his tail? no it doesnt but my drizzle politoed activating rain will not ohko charmander, so an evolution where mimikyu EVOLVES to be able to stand the sun like what evolution by definition is, isn’t a bad idea. your argument is circling.

          • It could hide the tail under itself. And I have said I agree that it could evolve to stand the sun without the cloak necessarily simply because of stupid ass Pokemon logic this continued conversation is because you didn’t like that I said your Charmander example was bad.

          • the charmander example is basically the same thing. but you know what? lets just end the argument here lol its going no where so ill stick to my ideas with others while trying to not be affected by negativity, so thanks for a useless, pointless, unnecessary argument, which led to you attacking a user completely out of this conversation by calling him an idiot, ill admit i brought him into it because of what I’ve seen on disqus that i dislike a lot, but you’re being hypocritical. personal attacks just make your argument look so much better (sarcasm).

          • It isn’t the same thing at all. But whatever. And eh it is the truth. Truth hurts sometimes. And no I am not being hypocritical you may wanna look at the definition of that word. And I don’t care how you think they make my argument look to be honest. The truth is what the truth is.

          • I mean, it could evolve into something that doesn’t get hurt by the sun anymore.
            Like I said, it was just an idea that’s not ‘Raichu cloth’ since i think that idea is just not good. But I don’t dismiss it outright cause it could happen and it’s an idea.
            I just see it evolving, but if it doesn’t, it’s not the end of the world.
            If it does, great, if not, well whatever, still a cute mon.
            Most likely I’d probably say ‘I’m just here’ since I say that with anything.

          • Sure because of Pokemon logic a mon killed by sunlight can indeed magically be unaffected when it evolves without the assistance of a cloak.

          • I mean, Poke logic has happened before.
            Plus, maybe it just becomes so strong, not even its biggest weakness before, the sun, can hurt it now.
            I feel something like that has happened before.
            Like I said, it’s not a big deal. Idagaf what happens.
            I’m just here for Pokemon, really.

          • I was agreeing with you that Pokemon logic is stupid and could allow it to happen magically it would be stupid but whatever. And you need to change your acronym. You have an extra a.

          • what if it evolved using a reaper cloth? and becomes sorta a walking cloth but not pikachu related, then it can walk around all it wants just not keep that pikachu theme

          • i freakin said an idea for pokemon based on fire emblem, i said i know its dumb but it was just a fun idea

          • i mean its literally a ghost that wants to be like pikachu. i would love to see them as co mascots lol

    • Idk I just hope it evolves. I hate Pokemon that have the potential to evolve and don’t! Klefki, Qwilfish, Basculin, Dunsparce and Corsola come to mind

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      • i agree with all but klefki. ill be honest a lot of pokemon that are used really well competitively dont necessarily need to evolve. Dunsparce is really good on its own as well, only having normal type gives it only one weakness and people want it to gain dragon which i can understand from everything i have seen and read. but that gives it ice dragon and fairy weakness and i think still fighting. so yeah, the other three however, they need something. i have loved corsola for a while since like May’s corsola and would love to see something done with it.

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  5. Im going to be honest. i love all these pokemon…but I’m very greedy. i need more pokemon lol. Im really getting into the Alola Region pokemon, i love a lot of the ideas and concepts of the ones we have seen so far

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  6. Here is a dumb question but i was curious what others would think. in fire emblem i think specifically sacred stones i believe, there is a petrification status condition, when a unit is hit with it they become stone and gain defense +10 but obviously can’t fight back and are likely to be hit with criticals and 100% hit rate. so i was wondering could anyone see just the defense boost concept added to paralysis in pokemon? or is this really stupid?

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  7. ok i have another question. could anyone see pokemon gaining stat buffs like a lot did in xy? i for one would love to see a lot of these to get more un used pokemon into the action. i still want masquerain to ditch the flying type…why did it get it? it shouldn’t have been like other bugs water/bug was unique i believe at this time and rock ruins everything for it

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  8. Hell no….it seems that I need to update my drawing all ove again!! xD
    btw I love them all but bewear (what a name lol)

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  9. Hell no….it seems that I need to update my drawing all over again!! xD
    btw I love them all but bewear (what a name lol)

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  10. I hope GameFreak don’t pull a Surskit on us with Wimpod. It better stay as a Water/Bug type when it evolves.

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    • Well technically it’s Bug/Water so secondary typing is usually fair game
      Like say Skorupi and Skrelp primarily Poison types but their seconds Bug and Water respectively become Dark and Dragon primary typing extremely never ever changes
      (Only cases Azuril and Flechling)
      But given its nature I think it would stay Bug/Water but honestly I wouldn’t mind it turning into a Shrimp

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  11. well guys since October is going to be 6th Gen Pokemon Global Link closer,we need is to collect all the Pokemon we can muster that means no stop,no breaks whatsoever!

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    • I’m almost done with completely my dex. I just need to finish another play through on Omega Ruby and I will have them all except for a couple mythical legendaries. I’ll get those when they come out each month

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  12. At this point we can’t definitively say whether the pika-clone is Togedemaru or Mimikyu. The main trend for pika-clones is that they symbolize that generations big feature, and because we don’t know what that is yet, we can’t say which is the clone.

    Pikachu – the original
    Pichu – introduction of breeding and baby Pokemon
    Plusle and Minun – introduction of double battles
    Pachirisu – colors match the Nintendo Wifi and GTS logos
    Emolga – colors match the Entralink tree
    Dedenne – introduction of the Fairy-type

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      • And also vice versa. I personally hope Togedemaru is the clone and Mimikyu evolves, but I know many people want a viable Steel-type, so I’d be okay with that too.

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    • Togedemaru is the clone hands down.
      1. When has the clone not been electric?
      2. Mimikyu literally is the ghost, under the cloth. Take the cloth away, and there is no resemblance to pika.

      I really just want Mimikyu to evolve. It would really just be wasted potential if it didn’t.

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      • Yes it is usually refererred as Electric Rodent of xth Generation. It should be electric type with rodent characteristics.

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    • You missed out on the biggest trend all Pika-clones have.
      Their name is the same in every language.
      Togedemaru is this generations Pika-clone, not Mimikyu.

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    • This again?
      Mimikyu isn’t a pikaclones that’s stupid
      It’s an entirely different Pokemon that has its own unique look and background
      You lot just base so much on looks alone and you all should be ashamed, Togdemaru is in fact the Pikaclones of gen 7

      Mimikyu is a random ass Pokemon that has markings that crudely resemble a Pikachu but that doesn’t make it a traditional Pikaclone

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      • I wasn’t making any sort of claims. I was saying quite the opposite- that we can’t make any claims without sufficient information. But I have since conceded that I was not looking at all the facts at the time, such as the name; I now understand that Togedemaru is the true Pika-clone.

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    • A “pika Clone” has to be electric type, and sometimes another type. Mimikyu is NOT electric type in any way shape or form. So it is NOT one of the “Pika Clones” Togedemaru is the “Pika Clone” It’s probably supposed to represent all the unique new typing’s that have been popping up. 🙂

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    • Pikaclone is not even a conventional term. You wouldn’t be so confused if you didn’t use vague, made up terminology from the internet. If you’re smart enough to find connections in all of the functions of the electric rodents, you should be smart enough to realize that mimikyu ultimately doesn’t fit in with the rest of them at all and that you’re totally reaching.

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      • Do not bring my intelligence into this. I was merely bringing up a point and saying that we could not reach a conclusive decision as of yet. However, if you’re smart enough to read the rest of the arguments presented against my original post before delivering your own rehashing of the same claims, you’d know that I already admitted to overlooking that factor and conceding that Togedemaru is in fact the electric rodent. 🙂

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    • Mimikyu can basically be like the 20th anniversary. since it wears pikachu merch from 20 years ago. and Togedemaru is just kinda matching the background of the 20th anniversary logo

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    • Even before that, the final evolution for the Unova starters were revealed beforehand and everybody dismissed them as fake. It’s human nature to not approve of anything unless proven, but I do believe that the amount of hate and name-calling is unnecessary. When people hide themselves behind electronic screens, they believe they have all the power in the world and abuse that power, but then groan and moan when politicians and world leaders become power hungry, oblivious to the fact that they themselves would be under the same influence if they were put under the same circumstances. Sad, sad world we live in when everything created to promote positivism is sucked dry and only the negative remains.

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        • There has been some colorful posts about the supposed leaks for SM when it’s unnecessary to be so bent out of shape over a few people who may, or may not, be trolling.

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        • I apologize. I’m just very mad at the world right now. So much negativity that’s not needed! So much hatred that’s not needed. It’s like we’re different species on the brink of war! I cannot believe that the color of your skin, the size of your eyes, or the colors of the flag you associate yourself with would cause so much hatred in others that they believe killing you will solve the problem. :C TT

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          • It’s fine. I agree with you.
            There’s been too much ugly covering up the pretty in this world. Especially with recent world tragedies.

  13. So we got
    Build a Bewear
    Comfey Necklace
    Hey Im gonna Mimikyu
    Stop being a Wimpod and fight
    BounceSweet to the sound of the beat
    and get over here and Mudsdale up, cowboy

    my terrible puns of the day, The govnah way

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  14. Hey I heard this earlier but out of these 6 who is your favorites mine I love them all yet my favorite is Bounsweet its so cute and it’s a Fruit I actually want to put it on my team!

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