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 HAVENT FELT THIS MUCH EXCITEMENT SINCE B/W MY HYPE LEVEL IS OVER 9000 RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! Lel sorry if all caps bothers anybody is just that all of these look beautiful specially mudsdale and the hype is real right now!
Gotta go play B/W now, thanks to this post.
Hmm so im guessing disguise protects mimikyu from the first attack and then it “changes form” because the disguise was busted?
Yeah it’s like a preset substitute.
Oooh nice then!
OK I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS
Same hahaha
Hey idk if anyone said anything about it but we can host our own global link tourneys, PJT’17 anyone?
PJT16 still hasnt happened
So what does hyper training do?
Probably similar to super training
As far as I know, raise the IVs instead EVs when your Pokemon is at Level 100.
Increases IV’s.
Also makes shiny pokemon that would normally be dumped into the PC useful unless their nature is awful.
Oh wow
Awesome!!
when i actually have a legit 4 stat non masuda method bred shiny rotom
increases ivs. so if you competitive breed, when you get outstanding and the guy lists the stats, it means they have 31 ivs. so if one stat falls short and you dont have 6 ivs you can now get it
IV?! Wow that seems a little op but i dont mind it XD
6 perfect iv stats i mean.
Ooh, i LOVE the new Pokemon!
Not keen on the ability to manipulate IVs. They’re genetics, something the Pokemon is born with, you’re not just supposed to be able to fiddle them later on. I worked really hard to breed all my perfect IV babies. If you can change IVs, what makes them any different to EVs? 🙁
I don’t see any reason to dislike it. It only introduces new players to the meta.
Maybe they alter the genes or something who knows.
I just said why I dislike it. You don’t have to agree 😛
I was just giving my two cents?
Breeding perfect IV Pokemon is manipulating genetics.
It’s actually pretty horrible when you think about it.
And leaving them in the PC to rot is animal abuse.
Lol it’s a game, dude. If they didn’t want to give us the option of breeding for IVs, they wouldn’t have given us the destiny knot.
It’s wonderful. I love breeding because it means that 31 IV special attack Espeon I used back in Platinum? Is now Grandpa to my 31 IV special atk Vaporeon and Sylveon in X and Y.
Lol. I know, I was just making a point.
But to be fair now they’re giving us the option of changing a Pokemon’s IVs so it’s something they want us to be able to do.
But I understand your point about differentiating them from EVs. What’s next giving us the ability to change a Pokemon’s nature.
Exactly. I just feel like they have always stressed the idea that each Pokemon is unique…for better or worse. If we can change everything about them after they’re hatched, it takes away from their individuality.
And you could also argue that if they want us to increase EV’s by battling certain pokemon then why introduce Super Training?
IV’s simply take too much work. Nobody new to the games wants to walk back and forth breeding Pokemon with decent/perfect IV’s.
I’m sorry, I just really hate the ‘too much work’ argument. You can apply it to everything. It’s too much work to earn 8 gym badges. It’s too much work to complete the pokedex. It’s too much work to super train. Why play the game at all?
I’ve been breeding for years. Once you’ve done it a few times and have good breeding stock ready to pass down their IVs, it’s not that much ‘work’. It’s fun, and creative. It really makes your adventure feel persona, to start with a team of 6 eggs you personally bred. You don’t have to do it, it’s totally optional. I just feel that for those of us who have done it, and poured hours into it, it’s now being taken away from with this new mechanic.
The difference is it’s far too monotonous to super train. You wander back and forth to hatch eggs for hours on end.
That’s not an adventure. It’s not even something that’s slightly entertaining like super training. It’s just walking back and forth.
If you want to keep doing it that’s fine, but again, this only introduces new players to the meta. It’s only really a good thing honestly.
I screwed up the italics woops
Agree to disagree, then 😛 I don’t mind cycling back and forth. You put your iPod on, stick in your headphones, and just go. If you have a Flame Body Pokemon it doesn’t take too long, although I wish they’d bring back the egg nursery from BW2…
My only dislike about these games so far is that I feel the new players are being pandered too, a little too much. For example, the fact that attacks now tell you their effectiveness irks me. This is supposed to be a game of memory and strategy. Telling a player how to win detracts from that. I don’t want to see Pokemon battles turn into Yokai Watch, where the games decides how and when to attack and you just ineffectively poke at the screen now and then to spam a special move, feeling redundant. I hope they make that feature optional. I think of it like training wheels on a bike…it may benefit newbies, but it shouldn’t be forced on those of us who already know what we’re doing.
If you already know what you’re doing it shouldn’t really bother you anyway but I agree with the type effectiveness thing.
We don’t know the insight of this mechanic. So maybe it will be very hard to obtain 6IV Pokemon throughout hyper training so having already 3-4-5 IVed Pokemon will be advantageous.
Maybe, collecting bottle caps will be very hard.
Maybe you transfer bottle caps through Fallout 4
I hope so.
Fun? More like waste of time. Not all us of got the free time to keep breeding. This mechanic makes worthless pokemon usable.
We are in the 21st century aka the future is now and GMOs are everywhere even in pokemon!
I think it’s a good method. The speciality of IV breeding was already diminished after people were obtaining Pokemon throughout illegal methods. So now everybody can have them easily.
Also, it’s also good that after you beat elite four, the Pokemon you caught will not be “useless” as you can get “perfection” out of them while keeping the bond you shared throughout the journey.
Ok so I love everything about these Pokemon. EVEN BEWEAR. I am honestly in love with the ground type and the wimpod. But I love everything and yay im so excited!
Though we just got a massive Ground type
Dynaceros
Bug/Ground Rhinoceros Beetle
Yes, and a pink Ground/Fairy Glyptodon please *-*
No
I just noticed mimikyu’s cry says pikachu but distorted, nice!
OMG it does! the attention to detail I tell ya
In honor of the news today, im getting my babies ready for alola. Little girl is wearing a let’s hula shirt today 🙂
Anyone else just watching the trailer over and over?
Me haha (must get every detail until i have the trailer memorized! Lel jk)
I adore all of the new Pokemon that were announced. My favorite is Wimpod and Mudsdale. Earthen must be happy for the first Alola Ground Type. Also, I’m quite sure that Mudsdale will be rideable. Lastly, here’s an image of the Hyper Training area and it seems like Trainers disappear during double battles! GameFreak is really making competitive Pokemon!
I think they just don’t Ppear in online battles
Yes. In game doubles have been shown to show human
I wonder if Pickup will be able to help you find Bottle Caps for Hyper Training
Or you can find them in trash cans.
NPC 1: Hey fellow NPC is that the kid who defeated the Pokemon league.
NPC 2: Why is he sifting through my trash can?
Nope you must play fallout 4 nuka world dlc to find them and then transfer them to pokemon sun and moon
How many new pkmn have we seen? I wanna know to get an idea of how many new pokmn are coming this gen because unless we have seen 50% of them already i think the new pokemon count might be around 130-145
We currently have 25 officially revealed
And how many do we know of because of the evolutions shown in the pokedex?
I think it is 34.
That is including the starters, Pikipek and Yungoos.
Nice! Then at least i think more than 100 new pokemon!
25 for S&M, X/Y revealed 42/72, B/W revealed ~55/156, D/P revealed ~30/107 before they released
weren’t they all revealed in XY before the games came out? I remember seeing a big list of them all, or are you not counting leaks
Not counting leaks, officially revealed 😛
Otherwise B/W would have all of them as well
true, I remember looking through all the pokemon for BW on serebii at one point and I think it was right before the game came out
Some people got the games early.
yeah a guy in my country accidentally sold a few copies early
Hmm X/Y didnt have much of a surprise element in it
Mudsdale’s cry sounds way more like a donkey then a horse
I wonder how the danger signs for bewear say. “DANGER! Beware of Bewear territory ahead!”
Pokemon Go is finally out in Japan in a couple of hours… 😀
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/19/pokemon-go-is-finally-launching-in-japan-tomorrow/?ncid=rss
Oh yeah just today it started working here in puerto rico where i live so i have double the excitement today!
Oh, congratulations on release! <3
Haha thx!
BEWEAR lol I love it! and fluffy seems like a pretty dang good ability
Now that the hype has cooled off a bit. May I remind you all, that in 2 days the semi-final Ash v Sawyer begins! 😀 😀 😀
Sawyer has Sceptile, he wins automatically
A pity its already revealed he’ll beat Sawyer and get to the final XD
Kill me
Just see for yourself on Serebii, 3 new episode titles were revealed few days ago and it confirmed Ash will battle Alain in the final.
Btw whats the deal with Pokéstops? I was at one earlier, but nothing happened. What the purpose of them?
You are supposed to spin the circle in the middle for free goods.
I did, multiple times actually and still nothing happened.
Oh, well is it purple? It means you have to wait the 5 mins. cooldown.
If it’s blue and nothing happens, it’s either a bad connection, or you have triggered the soft ban for moving too fast. (To test this, try to catch a Pokemon, if it fails and runs immediately, but is still on the map after a minute or so, then you have triggered this soft ban.)
It’s the server’s fault, I’ve had that happen to me before.
bottle caps…. I really think they are trying to compromise with those of us who had no patience for breeding. hey, this is exciting! being able to raise iv’s is fantastic! I wonder if you will be able to decrease them?
I hope decreasing is there, I would like to build a trick room team. Or have my special attackers with 0 attack IV. <3
Well whatever they are they’re not just going to be anywhere
It’s not going to let you have live infinite gold bottle caps to super size 100s
I have a feeling bottlecaps will be a battle resort currency
Not likely
They’re probably going to cost like 100 BP for bronze, 200 for silver and lasting 300 for gold
I don’t follow. gold silver bronze? Is there something I missed?
On the site they Magearna holds a silver Bottle cap
Ergo I’m speculating that Bottle caps will come in various colors of value that which the Hyper Training guru will increase based on what you give him
oh ok thanks, I will check out the site
It’s only on the Jap Site
The English one too
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/max-out-your-pokemon-with-hyper-training/
EDIT: Whoops, it doesn’t say silver. 😀
Really loving these new Pokemon! I hope mimikyu has good stats as I doubt it will evolve. I also really love comfey and hope it has an amazing evolution ( though again, I doubt it will evolve). Mudsdale is generally beautiful, probably my favourite ground type. Cool to see its only pure ground and they didn’t make it part normal like pyroar, Sawsbuck and Girafarig. I don’t know if it will have a pre-evo. I wouldn’t mind if it was the second stage of an awesome ground type pseudo legendary line but that’s never going to happen.
Where are people getting gen 2 vibes from ? The only gen 2 vibes I’m getting is from the fact a lot of these Pokemon look like they’re stand alone.
So, how many Pokemon do we know about so far? Because jt seems like with the amount they are showing we will probably have around 100 Pokemon…
25 known. Including egos of starters, Pikipek, and Yungoos it is 34.
Whoa… That’s a lot of known Pokemon, right? Seems like we’re getting a good amount this gen
Yeah! Right now i think that there are at least 100 but my estimate is from 130-145 based on nothing but my cheer desire XD
add 3 more guardians and one evo of Rockruff
Thanks for pointing that out.
Let’s say 35 you’re forgetting rockruff we don’t know if it’s gonna a 3 stager but at least we know of an evolution
So 38?
Man fluffy halves direct damge but gives bewear the fire type weakness
That’s completely broken ??
Yeah at least the fire type weakness is there to help us a little ??
well you will have to just…….. bewear
OOOH ISEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
What defines attacks that give direct damage. Is it all attacks excluding those that solely give status conditions?
I belive its physical attacks but im not sure
Close, though that’s Furfrou’s ability.
Any contact moves, attacks which touch the opponent will be halved. (e.g. whatever claw/punch)
Non-contact moves won’t be halved (e.g. Earthquake, Rock Slide, Ice Beam, Flamethrower)
That is cool, thanks everyone.
Also there are special contact moves
IE grass knot and draining kiss
moves that cause physical contact with the pokemon. like mach punch, jump kick, take down, but not vaccum wave, ice beam, psychic
It already HAD fire type weakens. Its Steel/fighting type. LOL
Normal/Fighting
Oh really? Huh the symbol looked like steel to me. But yeah I do remember the corocoro leaks saying Normal/Fighting type, so when I saw the new Japanese commercial I thought it was a bit weird that it had the steel typing, but I guess it was normal. 😀
But then I can see why the ability would make fire types do more damage to it, because overly fluffy things catch fire really easily, and the burn at an alarming rate to, so, yeeeeaaaahhhh.
My favorite of the four new Pokemonn revealed today in order:
1. Mudsdale
2. Wimpod
3. Bounsweet
4. Comfey
you forgot Bewear.
We already knew about Bewear and Mimikyu beforehand, so I’m not counting them as new.
lol I was joking you don’t HAVE to like bewear