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!
I HAVE A NEW MOUNT
Is the first ground type pleasing to you?
Very
Does it make up for yet another dreaded fairy type? 😉
Where are my ice?????????????
Next time buddy I’m rooting for it
We will get ice, there’s a snowy mountain on one of the islands.
They would never introduce a gen and neglect a type completely. I know they’re coming I’m just impatient!
Nope because triad gives priority to recovery moves
Its another glorified Flabebe, and also not part Grass. I will kill it
It just collects plowers
It has to die
Its God on horseshoes actually. Magnificent creature
Ugh, now that we have the Ground horse, I might have to swap it for one of my already preset mons. That thing is fierce af!
It’s funny I started by watching the Japanese trailer and when they started with Rockruff and Komala I almost lost it because I thought they were just gonna show them in a trailer form and be done with it. I found that idea quite funny hahaha
HOLY SHIT
MUDSDALE WEIGHTS OVER TWO THOUSAND POUNDS
It’s forbidden to run on Alolas public roads.
Some roads
sun moon continues to destroy the metagame by even more strengthening hmm
Rowlet
Mudsdale
Vikavolt
Mimikyu
Bruxish
Rockruff
The horse looks like it’s literally melting into mud, but it’s cool regardless. The grass one seems useless and not promising at all. And the fairy necklace… Come on, guys, really?
Still no Dark-types or Ice-types good thing none of the people here seem to be fans of those types!
Excuse me? Dark and Ice are in my top 5 and Sneasel happens to be one of my favourite mons ever.
Ah, I missed one! <3
But top 2 though?
Dark I’m eh to.
Top 2 is Water and Electric
I already got my fill of water so I’m fairly satisfied.
My babies are Water, Fighting, Ground in that order.
1: Water
2: Electric
3: Dark
4: Ice
5: Fairy
All good types. Although grass has a special place in my heart since so many look sooooo cute! I’m so over fire types. I hate that they immediately get so popular as starters.
Grass is on 6th with me. Even though its not my #1 type, Sceptile IS my #1 mon. My precious, my baby, my fucking everything.
ICE IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVE!!!! And one ghost is only satisfying to me for a moment! I love both of those types!
Ok I missed another. <3
It’s alright! Sorry to scream! It’s my favorite type and it’s tragic. Game freak doesn’t appear to be a fan of ice as much as others (dragon, fairy, fighting, water) and competively it’s even more tragic!
Evo bets:
Whimpod: either no evos or one evo. More likely one evo.
Comfey: no evos (like klefki)
Mudsdale: looks complete, maybe a prevo.
Bewear: no evos.
Mimikyu: no evos. Too gimmicky (like smeargle)
Bounsweet: one evos (think cottonee)
Rockruff: one evo.
Komala: one evo. Or none.
Drampa: maybe a prevo. More than likely a standalone based on its dex entry.
Bruxish: no evos (think corsola).
Salandit: one or two evos.
Personally, I love this gen. While I’ve compared these new mons to old ones, none seem to be directly referencing past Pokemon… Like gen 5 did! And I really like that creativity!
Mudsdale looks final evo to me. I think it has a prevo tbh
I agree with everything, expect Rockruff. It looks to me like it could have two evolutions.
Is Wimpod a horseshoe crab or a trilobite? And is it possible that it’s a fossil Pokemon?
Well it’s Bug/Water, so unless we suddenly have non-Rock fossils… it can’t be the fossil.
I thought I saw Rock/Water. My bad!
My thought was the horseshoe crab.
I just love the name
Wimp
I know its damn cute!
Mudslade should hopefully be rideable
I think thats pretty straightforward lol
Mudsdale
My bad
Bounsweet entry says its in desperate flight it may turn into flying!
looks like a skiploom clone :/
I was actually under the impression its a standalone mon, so no evos.
I think it means flight as in fleeing, Like the expression “fight or flight,” it’s not literally flying.
Image of where Hyper Training takes place. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnuyP9AWgAEzkXr.jpg:large
I imagine it’s the type of thing where we can super train anywhere, but to give our Pokemon that extra boost in Hyper training we have to go to this shop. lol
OK so we have 25 brand new Pokemon and it’s only been a few month. There better be a hell of a lot of Pokemon in these games for us to discover because if they keep going at this rate we are gonna know about a LOT of them by the release of the games lol
Oh jeebus
If Disguise works they way I’m thinking of….imagine a baton passed Sub….
Would it have a sub on top of Disquise
This whole raising IVs makes me very unhappy. IVs and supposed to be hidden and set from hatching like genetics. We can’t change genetics so I don’t like how we can change IVs.
You mean EV’s… because Super Training already allowed that.
The article says that IVs are raised. Or is that a mistranslation?
Probably right. They stopped using “base stats” (EVs) and refer to it as “individual strengths”.
No, hyper training increases IVs
Yeah, I agree. I was already slightly disconcerted by super training making EV’s more transparent, but at least that was only making an inconvenient process into a more convenient one. IV’s are supposed to be INDIVIDUAL values, making each pokemon unique, and this only defeats the purpose of it 🙁
Exactly. This just makes Legendaries even more OP. Imagine a 6IV Mega Rayquaza. This new mechanic is supposed to draw more players into the mets game but it might break it so horribly.
Well, considering that if IV modification IS possible, basically ALL pokemon will be 6IV, that will prolly level out the metagame… but I’m not very informed in that area so I dunno… I’m more pissed about what it means in the narrative sense, but yeah. >:(
I agree, it will level out the metagame and everyone will have the same stats right now, meaning it only takes skill and luck to win, not stats.
The only thing that we need to soft reset for in legends is nature now.
Of course breeding probably still saves time compared to collecting Bottle Caps for the breedables.
I hope bottle caps cost BP, but a lot like the ability capsule. Make them costly like the ability capsule and only raise 1 IV by 1 or 2, and I’m fine with it, but I have a feeling that they won’t be that rare.
I don’t know why you guys are complaining about this considering basically every pokémon in the metagame has 31 IVS anyway. The only différence is that we won’t need to waste hours trying to get the right ivs
Gene splicing is a thing.
Still, would you take a pet or something and gene splice it to make it better because what it is isn’t good enough? The concept bothers me, but what it could do to the metagame bothers me even more.
Genetics work in weird ways. Your genes actually naturally splice when your cells replicate. Epigenetics is how your environment affects the protein bound to your DNA. Certain genes may activate if your environment (toxicity in the air, climate, diet, etc) alters the protein on a particular gene.
I understand the manipulation part as being unethical, in a Pokémon sense. For example, look at hyper training as changing a Pokémon’s diet and super training as what they do physically
My thoughts:
WIMPOD: Yes! A horseshoe crab (/isopod)
BOUNSWEET: a mangosteen?
COMFEY: I like it’s design, very Hawaiian, but it’s just Flabebe all over again. WHERE’S THE GRASS TYPE.
MUDSDALE: Hey! A ground type!
BEWEAR: I like the name.
not to correct you but horseshoe crabs are merostamats nots isopods
Oh I know, but I thought that I should put /isopod there because isopods are related to insects, which would explain the bug type.
oh I’m sorry i missed the /
Yeah. I realized 🙂
yeah i just saw below that people said trilobite and i was like why would its name be wimpod and not be a classification or species with “pod” or “poda” and then i couldn’t think of one and someone else pointed out to me isopods. and i was like ah how could i forget them lol
I already just thought of what Mudsdale’s niche is… to kick Klefki’s ass in Anything Goes!
Own Tempo makes Swagger a bad idea, Ground-type makes it immune to Thunder Wave…
RIP Numel, you will be missed in AG…
Earthen Loooooooves it
Finally something to look forward too
And I guess……Bewear is growing on me….not by much
OMG
I was a Wimpod before Anchor Arms
Evolves into a dangerous sea bug
Now I’m a jerk and everyone loves me
I hope Wimpod does evolve.
A fully evolved bug/water would be cool.
I just hope it’s not a Surskit/Masquerain situation,
I was thinking it could evolve into a shrimp
T.T this region is full of fairy and bug type pokemon
Lol. Looks that way
Or they’re just showing the earlier mons which would make sense since bugs tend to be weaker and these fairies look weakish too.
I think the reason I don’t like bewear was highlighted in this trailer when it fought pangoro. Bewear looks like a blown up balloon and has no fur besides on its head that adds texture to it. This contrasted with pangoro who has a lot of texture in its design!
Hey Bewear is a saint!!! Don’t you go knocking muh bear! Or it’ll knock you…….out…..lol
I like seeing small details like mimkyu’s eyes shine before it attacks
so it seems this region will be full with new pokemon, just look we got more than 25 pokemon even we have more than 5 month until the game come out.
it is actually 25 to be exact~
Well we don’t have more than 5 months before the games…….more like 4 at the most….but I agree we do have a lot of Pokemon so far and they either need to slow their roll or have a ton of Pokemon left for us to find in the games lol
Wimpod….I demand fan art making it a total bitch boy
How the hell are you liking a Bug type?
I like bugs……granted a few select
Heracross, Paras and Parasect, Dwebble and Crustle, Armoldo, Forretress, Leavanny
Heracross is such a beast
But I always thought, you know bugs are small and you like to squash them.
They’re also disgusting, and he likes disgusting things.
Disgusting? Dwebble is cute af and so is Sewaddle. Spinarak also adorbz (and I’m not even that fond of spiders) Joltik easily my favourite Bug+Ele type (right after Pikachu)
I mean real life bugs.
None of the bugs on that list (except for Paras) are small.
Wimpod reminds me of clauncher. The coloring, the mouth…
Damn auto correct… Clauncher