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. Let’s see
    Pokemiles in game: 1,931
    What the GL says: 175,912
    And currently I’m being offered: 9214 Pokemiles from bank
    But what does it all mean!?!??
    Up until now I’ve been taking BP but so many options, honesty only need Rare Candies, Heart Scales, I need a Dusk Stone and two Fire Stones then I guess I’ll finally be done with X

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  2. Just saying it might be less likely the people who leaked are legit because a Ground/Fighting Gorilla nope a Capybara nope and both were supposed to be revealed this month so the final Evos. Might not happen but who knows no one I know guessed any of the new ones.

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    • The starter evolutions didn’t originate from the Firedman leaker tho. It’s obvious now that he was just piggybacking off the Chinese leak which the evos DID come from. The Chinese leak didn’t promise the capybara or gorilla Pokemon. They never said anything would be shown off this month I think. It was just info they had.

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      • Ehh I don’t know any thing is possible they could be real they could be a complete curveball to us who knows?

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        • Well yeah things are still up in the air at this point. I enjoy them enough that if they are in fact real I’d be happy, but if they aren’t then that’s fine too. I honestly can’t believe what a divide there is between people o the leaks hahaha

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          • Yeah me too but let’s ok at star storms Reddit link It shows some points that look interesting!

    • Sorry, but my gut instinct, (which is pretty much NEVER wrong), is telling me VERY STRONGLY for whatever reason, that those final evolution leaks are the real deal. And I will continue to believe that there real until I am proven otherwise. 🙂

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    • What I think of it:

      Time working differently is stupid

      New forms of them isn’t my favorite idea to change like Growlithe a Water is a little Farfetched to me yet I like Rattata idea

      More than Kalos I was hoping that

      No Gyms still sounds sketchy unless a gym like feature is available!

      Yungoos and Rockruff I could live with A Yungoos like that I like Rockruff differs

      Cat and Bird I like and Snowman!

      Ash-Greninja might be to much

      Old Characters come back and S.S. Anne is good!

      The bracelets have some New move idea so mabey no Synchro

      Furfuro sounds good

      So I don’t know what to think I guess let’s wait and see!

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    • Wow i have never seen something so fake and nonesense in my life! Sorry if this offends anyone but using logic you can tell just how fake this is

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    • Honestly the more info they add to this the less believable it is. If it was kept as archer/wrestler/siren starter evos, rockruff evos, and even the lack of gyms I’d believe it, but the time working differently and new forms is just too much.

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  3. My Sun/Moon predictions bingo card. What do you think? There’s a template attached underneath to make your own. You win when the games release and you have a bingo (5 correct in a straight line) or 25 accumulated points.

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  4. ?Bounsweet Bounsweet is real cute Bounsweet is real fun Boun Boun Bounsweet!? is my new song for my fav. Of this reveal!

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  5. I feel fakemonish
    Weewhal – Northwhal Water/Ice a Narwhal with a tooth of ice
    Scorpyre and Scorchpion Bug/Fire Orange Red Fiery Scorpion
    Turbarge Water/Poison a wide flat sea turtle with a shell made out of collected sea debris
    Pangorrila (whatever at this point) Ground/Fighting, massive Gorrila with spiny plates with claws, can claw and curl into a spike ball (Pangolin Gorrila hybrid)

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  6. What do you think about evil team? So far, we’ve only seen peaceful islands in trailers, I remember seeing some glimpes with some people blocking the enterance or making scene etc in previous generation trailers, but I can’t remember the exact timeline of revealing of evil teams.

    Now, If I say the following, I admit that it will be under the influence of the supposed leaks but what if there’s no evil team. Maybe, a team that has a positive yet different intentions. Maybe we’re part of it, a challange to recruit people or “things”. I like the idea of that.

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    • I want something different
      In the past games we’ve seen megalomaniac conquerors who wanted to seize the world and change it in their image, Twas fine for a couple of games,
      1 Steal Pokemon
      2 Force Pokemon to evolve
      3 shift nature to benefit one populace
      4 creating a new universe
      5 False Liberation into freezing the region
      6 revival of an ancient weapon for conquest

      Something I want to see is a Cultist clan worshipping the Sun and Moon legends and capturing them to perfect a new world order

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      • TBH, from all evil teams, I like the Team Plasma most, while Team Rocket coming second. Team Plasma was a very different experience. As a player, they make me question the idea of capturing Pokemon. The whole thing was perfectly integrated into game that nothing seemed cringy,forced or unnatural.

        Team Rocket seems natural as well. If Pokemon world did exist, stealing rare Pokemon, selling them and those kind of things would be a problem as well.

        But apart from them, all other teams seem forced and exaggerated to me, especially Aqua and Magma.

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        • I hope they don’t botch this one up
          Honestly religious kooks would be perfect Villians
          Those so bound by their twisted beliefs that they are willing to enforce it onto anyone who goes against them
          And plot twist, one of the scientists captains is playing upon his leader’s power just to harness the legendary power and use it for his own division

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          • I can see some religious/ritualist stuff going on. The setting seem to be based on islands where people are living their lives as tribal society. There was a scene where the battle is made in the name of Tapu Koko and they offer it to him. And also the name guardian “deity” screams it. In the past there were Pokemon with tremendous mythical powers, and even in the Arceus case things didn’t go as ritualist as this.

    • maybe there is just so much stuff in these games that they are keeping all the story elements under their hats and keeping us sedated with new pokemon reveals

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    • I feel like the legendaries will be used to turn the world into eternal day/night depending on version. And maybe like BW, you have to get the opposing Pokemon to stop one of them.

      I would think the evil team would do this to essentially rule/extort the world or just disrupt the natural order.

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          • Well fire red and leaf green didn’t add anything from Pokemon red and green first of all, and second off all it did contain a lot of at least nods to the story of emerald in the delta episode while still staying true to the, different from emerald, story of ruby and sapphire. I think people set themselves up for disappointment when they expected elements from emerald, a third version game more different from the pair it was improving on than Pokemon crystal, to be manifested in more than winks and nods.

          • I agree with you. They should’ve added elements from Emerald into it. It was pretty much just a copy and paste of the old games with a few added features

      • I’m sorry but I beg to differ. I LOVED every last thing about ORAS. 😀 Including all the cut scenes. (And I have the original Emerald version too.)

        There wasn’t a single disappointing thing about ORAS. 🙂

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      • Only disappointing thing for me is no gym leader rematches and no battle frontier. Everything is else is pretty perfect.

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  7. Go has now frozen every time I’ve tried to catch a pokemon, takes several minutes to load up, and takes a solid 30 seconds to enter battle. Before the update it was performing fine

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  8. Man. They really have to fix the server problems. I just wanna kill myself. I thought we were gonna hatch all our eggs, but Poekoko and I just wasted 2 and a half hours waiting for the frikkin servers to come back up.

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  9. Hmmmm I just got a level 100 5IV Timid Persain with Technician Swift, Water Pulse, Shock Wave and Nasty Plot and a Focus Sash…….but a stupid nickname

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      • Feh this obviously a hacked
        Earthen cares little for these fly by night cranked out Shinies,
        Now find a legit and maybe I’ll give it some respect but these are worthless in my beady mole eyes

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      • Let’s see…over the years
        Shinies, Manetric, Umbreon, Serperior, Staraptor, Ditto (6iv named Max), Spritzee into Aromatisse, Delphox, Meganium, Abra, Froakie, Watchog, Vespiquen, Mew, Klefki, Tyranitar, and Sableye

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          • All of these are most likely hacked, except maybe that Froakie, if they don’t have good IVs then there’s a slight chance they’re real or the guy was lazy and didn’t add them

        • I only have female ver just if the pkmn looks feminine and Weavile not of them for me …..u should appreciate feminine much more.

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          • I appreciate them just fine, but Weavile have sharp cat like eyes with eyelash like markings
            But regardless it’s female and I’m probably not going to evolve it

          • He should appreciate it more? Lol you just said only get female pokemon if they look feminine

  10. ……….OMG I CANT BELIEVE NONE OF US THOUGHT OF THIS
    DITTOS
    IF WE CAN USE HYPER TRAINING ON A LEGIT DITTO WE FOREVER WILL HAVE CLEAN COMPETITIVE POKEMON

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