Reports have come in of Twitter users being blocked by Ken Sugimori, the art director of the Pokémon franchise, for inquiring about or sending pictures of the previously covered starter evolutions. Although there is absolutely no confirmation that these starter evolutions have any legitimacy, it is interesting that he’d go so far as to block people if they were fake or fan creations. I’d also like to take a moment to ask you not to tweet at him because doing so is going to have no positive outcome for you or our community.
What do you think? Is this another clue pointing that they’re legit? Thanks for the tip Zeroken! Remember you can contact us any time if you see news!
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If anyone missed it, there was an update for Pokemon Go! They removed footsteps, fixed some crashes and freezes and allowed you to recustomize your trainer with new clothing options!
I was waiting for them to remove footsteps. They worked at first but then it was all 3 steps.
well guys looks like our train adventure is about to come to a close,tomorrow is going to be the big day we’re going to see some new Pokemon from Sun and Moon,I just can’t wait! XD
How are they gonna reveal stuff? And how late Europe time?
“It has been confirmed that the next batch of Pokémon Sun & Moon information is to be released on the official sites on August 1st at 22:00 JST, which is 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 09:00 EDT & 06:00 PDT. It’s not currently known what information will be revealed at this time but be sure to keep checking back for news” – Serebii.
This has been known for some time now
Yes. I know…
Well excuse me just trying to be helpful
How is saying this has been known for some time now help in any sort of way? Not buying it.
Ok I admit I was wrong I am sorry.
Just use a timer, so the only way you’ll miss it is if you’re off the internet. I use this:
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20160801T22&p0=248&msg=Countdown+To+Info&font=cursive&csz=1
Sweet glorious Internet, my house’s wifi is on the fritz I freaking had to go to my local park just to mooch the hotspot
Anywhooooo……I finally finished breeding the last of my X Competitive Pokemon for a while
Okay , so I made this Comfey evolution , plz tell me if you like it !
Name: Comfetty
Type: Psychic/Fairy
Ability: Triage , Flower Veil
Description: Comfetty uses its psychic powers to maintain the flower petals in the air .These petals can be used to attack enemies or to create a shield against enemie attacks. This tedious work requires tremendous concentration, as such , comfettys eyes are always closed.
Moves: Flower cutter , Flower shield
Hope y’all like it !
That’s really awesome!
I really like that, but I personally don’t see it evolving. I see it as a similar gimmick to Klefki even though I frequently see people comparing it to Flabebe.
I’m in between. Klefki didn’t evolve, but it had a whole bunch of different keys to make the design more complex. Comfey’s design is much simpler, leaving an evolution open imo. Although true, it is another object-gimmicky pokemon.
This would make me like it a lot more. Nice drawing!
glad you guys liked it ! Im thinking about making a third evolution named Comfaiy (comfy + fairy basically XD) but id rather start drawing a new fakemon evolutionary line consisting of : blip , blop , bloup , basically a klink like evolutionary line. will let you know when I’m finished drawing them.
I like this it seems like it could be legit Good Job Thank You!!!
I was on the /vp/ board when I think we began tweeting the images at Sugimori and Masuda, less than a month ago. Does anyone know if they have been blocking other “leaks”? If these are the only ones they’re taking measures to block, that would probably infer legitimacy.
I guess I could send a pic of Ballio to Sugimori and see what happens
Let me know what happens.
I’m commenting g to follow this. Intrigues by results haha
Do it! 😀
Done. Now we wait.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Hopefully ya don’t get block. 🙂
I hope I do.
Well you can’t monitor his tweets anymore if you did. 🙂
So with Florges and comfey, does anyone thing flowers may be a recurring theme in fairy types? It’s usually reserved to grass types, but now we have two Pokemon lines that contradict that.
Maybe somewhat, but I wouldn’t say exclusively, otherwise many old Pokemon would’ve been reclassed for fairies.
I agree. I wish they would either commit to the theme or at least say what constitutes a fairy: is it cute Pokemon? mostly. Are they magical? Yeah. Are they pink? A lot are. Moon? Healing? Flowers? Etc.
Yeah it is a bit inconsistent. Cute? Any Pokemon could be. Magical? Could also be psychic Pink? A lot are fairy, yeah, but not always. Flowers? Could be grass. I see what you mean, there is no real theme throughout the type.
Although I guess you could say that every fairy is either magical, pink, or cute, or all of the above.
I gotta say, I love this group. I tried looking around a Facebook for pokemon, and they’re all just giant jokes of people wanting to feel puffed up and important. Yeah we have rules here but they’re really just common sense rules, and admins are parts of the group rather than just trying to make themselves feel good. This is by far the best community I’ve been a part of. Thank you again to everybody here!
Less than a day until news! I’m personally hoping for at least 5 new Pokemon, with at least one of those being an evolution of a previously-revealed Pokemon (Komala, Bounsweet, and Wimpod seem likely to me). I also feel like we’ll get a new Legendary, possibly another Guardian, and maybe even the reveal of Synchro! Remember, it was the August 2013 CoroCoro that revealed Mega Evolutions. As for me, I’ve been drifting away from Pokemon this summer to catch up on PS3 and X360 games, but I’m thinking about finally starting SoulSilver today. I can’t think of a better time to do that.
I have a feeling we won’t get any Pokemon at all. We have been getting so many Pokemon-only reveals. I think we’ll get the synchro moves, a few gym leaders, and a few towns.
If this region has more new Pokemon than Kalos, I can expect that they’ll keep revealing new ones a couple times a month until November. This is especially likely if it has as many as Unova.
It would be great, but if we’re being honest, it won’t. xD
gahd i cant even sleep because of this excitement~
my predictions for tomorrow :
Salandit evo
new mechanics reveal ( partly)
new evolution method
new move(s)
yangoos evo
pikipek evo
new ice and dark pokemon
new guardian pokemon
I hope new Ice and Dark Pokemon!!! My two favorite types!
The southern island is to be revealed so that Island and Guardian covered
Ice and Dark are hopes I’m looking for
I NEED those EVOLUTIONS!!!!!
New mechanics yes I would like that!
Oh hey i didnt see your comment until i left mine haha xD
I just hope tomorrows new just confirm these as fake XD btw my predictions for tomorrow are (from most likely to least likely):
1. 2-7 new pokemon revealed
2. Reveal and details about super moves
3. Details about how riding pokemon will work
4. An important character like the champion(without revealing its the champion), evil team, team leader(without saying its the leader) or a gym leader
5. Starter middle evos
Im really hoping for 2 very unlikely things:
1: these starter leaks confirmed false
2: pokemon GO being permanently shut down and removed.
Or how about this:
1: The starter evos are confirmed real
2: Pokemon Go is just fixed
How about that? lol
I agree with 1, and I disagree with 2.
1. Yay
2. YAY
1. I could care less either way I’d like them false but who knows
2. I hope not mine just got fixed
Sorry I hope that they are confirmed real, because I like them. 😀
And I agree with you on GO.
Um… What about this..
1. Starter leaks are confirmed to be either fake or real. Honestly I don’t care.
2. Pokemon GO is fixed and fans are acknowledged by Niantic and their team and not ignored.
What will Pokemon Go being shut down do?
Something tells me we aren’t getting a new Pokemon dump tomorrow. Don’t know what we will get, but it may be just region/character info, or maybe intro to evil team/storyline details.
I think most people would be ok with that. We have plenty of Pokemon to look at now. What don’t have is a lot of insight on the actual region. It’d be nice to meet some new characters and see some new points of interest. lol
You know how every region has a theme for naming towns and stuff, like kanto-colors, johto-types of plants, unova-clouds etc well i hope that alola us really simple and towns and cities are just named with plain old hawaiian words like Moana city, lani town or haohao village
I never thought about what they’d be called but that sounds good ?
I think /r/pokemongo is the saltiest pokemon related community I’ve ever seen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4vhm2v/with_the_release_of_031_my_battery_life_has_been/
Dang man, the salt is real. What happened?
They are rioting over the tracker glitches.
Over reacting about the new update
This seems pretty bad
Curse words
One sided opinions
At least we are a Good community I see very few Curse words and reasonable discussions here!
#@%!
I’m alright with you guys doing it though I like you guys!
😀
I mean it was quite odd that they got rid of the steps system without saying if why they couldnt fix it, makes it look like they didnt try, but i dont really care i still play it
apparently removing it altogether improved stability
Oh im ok with that then
But now we are aimlessly wandering hoping to get lucky. No tracking system is game breaking, there is literally no way to find Pokemon. I’d rather have the server issues.
It still tells you who’s closest and has a smaller range of where they can be, so if it moves down the list you’re going the wrong way
But something may have spawned or something. Idk, I just feel like I can’t track anything accurately anymore. The worst part is the lack of communication. They need to tell us whether it is a bug, if it is permanent, or what.
From what I’ve heard, they said it was too much of a strain on their servers to have the tracking system up, so they disabled it until they could get it working without crashing the servers
I didn’t hear than, but that certainly eases my worries a bit.
It’s been like that for awhile though, the steps were broken, all they did was remove the steps.
I doubt they got rid of them for good, I bet you they are going to fix it, it’s just taking longer to do so.
I hope so. They don’t communicate with us though, which is what causes all the paranoia.
Yeah, that’s the main issue here. I don’t mind anything else, I just want them to address what’s going on.
So during the friggin 10 hours of no freaking Internet and electricity I worked on my Fakemon dex and finally cranked out my regional bug, the Emperor Tailed Caterpillar
Grubblet Bug
A medium sized light green grub with 4 long yellow horns on its head similar to a crown, and with blue compound eyes resembling jewels, numerous beady feet and at the very end of the body a rhomboid sapphire jewel
Then into Krystasis Bug
A multicolored glittering cocoon with all sorts of bright shiny scales resembling a Faberge Egg with two sets of jewels resembling eyes
Then finally Emproyal Bug/Psychic
But a elegant silvery gold Butterfly with ginormous sapphire wings with crystal cut scales, 5 long antennas each adorn with light blue dews and glittering crystal eyes and a iconic white ruffle collar
They’re very sought after because they build nests with a translucent saliva that when hardens looks like the most pristine jewels also they can emit an ultrasonic energy from the flapping of its wings to ward off all predators (and maybe even going as far as serving them)
Grubs dont grow into butterflies, they grow into beetles 😉
And my boot into your chute
Ugh, they shut down Pokevision? BOOOOO. Honestly, expecting people to just walk all around with no idea where anything is is just stupid.
Exactly. Niantic isn’t fixing their own tracking system (if it even is a bug), and then they come out and dissaprove of literally the only alternative.
Now watch them set up an app you can buy that does the same thing…
I wouldn’t put it above them. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like Pokemon break free more with the new update, which would mean that they’d get more money on pokeball purchases. Though maybe it’s just my experience.
I kinda get that feeling too. An Eevee yesterday would not go in the ball after at least 10 attempts…most of them were nice great ball throws
Rattata >:(
That sucks. Eevees always friggen flee from me >:I
Ikr if they had kept the footsteps and fixed them i would have been ok with it but now i have no way of knowing where a nearby pokemon that i want is exactly
I’m pretty disappointed. Making us go in blind with virtually no help isn’t fun.
They are going to lose many players over this, and hopefully that is enough to get their attention.
Most likely. Some people are pretty upset.
I mean, I know that many fans are overreacting and it’s pretty heated, but rightfully so, I’d say.
The pokemon are closer than before. And they still move up and down the list by who’s closest
I know, but I liked being able to see what was close by from the website. It was nice.
Yeah but are they north, east, west or south of you? Idk you can still track them but not accurately and the pokemon might even despawn before you find it
I don’t know, may not be for other people, but for me that’s the fun of it. Like in the games we know general area where a pokemon is, but still gotta hunt around 🙂
Yeah i guess, its just that i play go at my local park which is huge and most pokemon are eevees and ryhorns, but occasionally rare pokemon like bulbalsaur or starmie spawn and pokevision help me see if they were near me or on the other side of the park xD
I think the difference is the system for hunting pokemon now is more like hunting Feebas in Gen 3, you have to find the exact specific tile it’s on with no help, so it’s frustrating as heck. Running into pokemon in the game isn’t really all that random, you’ll run into pokemon as long as you’re in the tall grass, it’s just the species that’s random.
It’s not like the point of the game is to be out and exploring haha
But I also have to look at my phone which has a very, very small radius that can detect pokemon. If this were real life, I’d have several hundred feet of distance that I could see pokemon from (using my eyes), not 6 or 7 around me that the game uses. They need to expand the detection radius.
So I was looking through old articles out of boredom and I found this: http://pokejungle.net/2015/02/04/win-trip-honolulu-pokemon-company-international/
I just think it’s funny how it hints at Alola but no one had any idea. xD
Ughhhhhh this suuuuuuucks my router is dead, it’s gonna take a few days for the new one to freaking get here and then all the realigning with all my damn electronics
Life sucks and all but no internet is the icing on the shitcake, if I want to freaking do any of my daily activities I gotta go to a damn hotspot
And now if I want to partake of all the pre info jitters I gotta leave the house and hope the wifi is good
Did anyone notice that the Trainer ID has six digits this time? I didn’t know until recently and haven’t seen discussion about it here. It’s an unusual but welcome choice!
http://media-cerulean.cursecdn.com/attachments/thumbnails/16/649/530/530/hypertraining2.png
Probably they noticed that five digits hadnt enough combinations for all the trainers that exist haha
Also this isnt as interesting but pikachu is showing its national dex number
I hope it’s 25 in the alola dex as well haha, keep it the same no matter which you look at
Maybe hypertraining is opened after the league.
Won’t that make shinies harder to get? Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t shinies found if the Pokemon ID matches trainer ID?
That’s the Secret ID. This also was used to ensure that even with the finite amount of IDs, no two should be exactly the same b/c of the Secret ID. Furthermore, the amount of normal ID’s is given by 10^n, where an integer n is the amount of digits. If the SID is the same length as the ID, then the total amount of combinations is 10^2n. Since there are 7 billion people in the world, or 7*10^9, 2n>9. The first integer where this occurs is 5, hence why each ID is 5 digits long. This makes me wonder why they changed it — I guess so as to not risk anything & because people get multiple copies of each game?
So, what time does the info come out again?
At 9:00 am east coast usa time i believe, dont know what that is for other time zones
That’s 7 for me zo that works perfect with getting ready for work 🙂
Awesome!
Anyone else wish Dodrio had a better move pool? Pretty barren coverage wise
So guys, on Pokemon Go, a Sandshrew is near my area. Ive never even seen one before, the tracker got rid of its footstep system, Niantic shut down all third party apps, Ive been wandering aimlessly for around 10 min, it’s 106 miles to Chicago, I’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and I’m wearing sunglasses. Does anyone have any advice before it disappears?
If you tap on the pokemon in the tracker, then only grass patches containing that pokemon will appear. You just gotta find the grass patch then head over there
I dont think that works anymore. ive tried tapping on all the pokes and it doesn’t circle them for me anymore =-=
Okay , so I made this Bounsweet evolution , plz tell me if you like it !
Name: Bounutiful
Type: Grass/Fairy
Ability: Oblivious , Cute Charm
Description: Bounutiful uses its Beauty to maintain the cuteness .it’s a very popular Pokemon and loves to enter dance contests and beauty contests.
Moves: Petal Dance , Charm
Hope y’all like it !
Don’t we have enough fairies? XD
In all seriousness though, it’s a solid idea.
Thanks. XD
Well you won’t know if there’s more fairies. XD
This Pokemon GO update is partly bad and good. I mean, mostly bad but I like to look on the bright side of things.
First, I think the balancing stuff is great. It shows that Niantic is aware of the battle system being wacko. Hopefully they fix even further..
Second, the transfer update is great, but hopefully they also incorporate an option to transfer multiple Pokemon at once.
Third. NIANTIC YOU BETTER FREAKING DO SOMETHING QUICK ABOUT THIS TRACKING STUFF. I SWEAR IF YOU GUYS DON”T FIX IT YOU’LL LOSE ALL YOUR PLAYERS.
But in all seriousness, Niantic needs to be more responsive through their social media. Because all these people are asking what is happening and they can’t even tweet or post one thing about why they took such a move. It’s very simple to hire a social media team with the money made in just the first month of launch.