New Pokémon have been revealed for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS games Pokémon Sun & Moon!
- Oricorio is a bird Pokémon which has multiple styles which are different types Fire/Electric/Psychic/Ghost paired with Flying. The different styles can be found on different islands. It knows a special attack Revelation Dance and the type the attack is matches the style. It has the new ability Dancer which copies dance-based moves such as Quiver Dance.
- Minior is a Rock/Flying type Pokémon with the ability Shields Down. Its core varies in color
- Gumshoos is the evolution of Yungoos
- Fomantis and its evolution Lurantis are new Grass Pokémon. They can learn the new attack Solar Blade.
- Mudbray is the pre-evolution of Mudsdale
Alola Forms have been revealed! These are special versions of older generation Pokémon!
- Alolan Exeggutor is now Grass/Dragon
- Alolan Vulpix is Ice and its evolution Alolan Ninetails is Ice/Fairy with ability Snow Cloak
- Alolan Sandshrew and its evolution Alolan Sandslash are Ice/Steel
Other new features of the games have been revealed!
- Poké Ride is a new transportation method and allows you to use Pokémon to travel. These Pokémon do not join your team and can be called on anywhere. Charizard, Mudsdale, Sharpedo, Tauros and more are shown as examples
- The gym system seems to have been replaced with the island challenge. Trial captains will challenge you and specialize in certain types. They seem to have tasks which may or may not also be accompanied by battles. Each island has a Kahuna, or final leader, which must be beaten and also a totem Pokémon
- Z-Moves have been revealed as extra special attacks. Pikachu can learn Gigavolt Havoc. These powerful attacks can only be used once per battle. Each type has a different Z-Move.
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I hope we will have both challenges and gym battles. It has been almost 5 generations since Dark types were introduced and we still don’t have any gym leaders who speciallize in them.
I don’t want to lose gyms. They’re irreplaceable IMO. Island challenges, not too fussed about that…
With the release of an Ice/Fairy Ninetales, I’m officially more hyped than I have ever been for any Pokemon game ever. Bring it right the way on! #hypetrain Woooo!
mess what is happening to pokemon. No more gyms and now we’re getting retyped pokemon
things are CHANGING? OOOHHHH NOOOO
Seriously. People will complain that pokemon never changes than turn around and say they hate the new pokemon when it does change
The idea of old Pokemon with new types/forms has slowly grown on me since this morning but I’m still a little on the fence
People have been doing Pokemon variants for years, and now it’s a reality. I’m kind of nervous, but at the same time really excited for it, like that feeling before getting on a roller coaster.
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/66/JPJungleBoosterbox.jpg/600px-JPJungleBoosterbox.jpg
Do you remember the Jungle edition of the TCG ? When Alolan exeggutor appeared on the screen, i knew we already saw it somewhere else ! What a fun easter egg 😀
And also : judging by the french page of Kiawe, “Kiawe est un Capitaine spécialisé en Pokémon de type Feu. Avec son Ossatueur, il étudie les danses traditionnelles d’Alola” (meaning : Kiawe is a fire-type specialist, with is Marowak, he studies traditional dances) we may have found an other case of Alolan-form ! 🙂
Gumshoos for me doesnt feel like a DT inspiration even more now since I realized the name inspiration and the hands behind his back are it “waiting” and watching.
The birds are some of my new favorite pokemon ever. Love them.
And I REALLY hope that more than just kanto get new forms.
Anyone who doesn’t think that Gumshoo is based off of Donald trump is seriously in denial. I mean seriously. LOOK at it. LOOK AT IT. it looks exactly like him. The hair, the eyes, the smile, the hands behind the back! Of course the Pokemon company would want to downplay the comparison to avoid getting sued for defamation
Also, after a day to adjust to this news, I really have come around to the idea of old Pokemon having brand new forms and types. I mean sandslash and nine tails do look really fucking cool as ice types. I actually might put sandlash on my team this time around. I’ve never used it before and now that it’s a steel ice type… Damn the possibilities have become endless
Dragon egg Palm tree, I will never be able to support unfortunately
I’ve got to say, IMO Alola forms are by far the best thing that has happened to pokemon in a while (or maybe ever?), and I’ve really loved practically everything that’s come out of the series in it’s history, so that’s saying something.
Whereas megas I initially hated and slowly accepted and grew to love, this idea I immediately adored, probably because I’d always wanted it in the games. Like many when I first saw the video, I thought we were in for mega exeggutor, but lo and behold, I saw the title and lost my mind. And then I saw the video. And hell the rest of the reveals were amazing too.
I know I’m certainly not the only one who had the idea, but I can hardly believe my old idea of having pokemon species variants like shaggy zubats or magikarps that retained their famed historical strengths is now coming true in pretty much that form, minus the specific pokemon. What with gamefreak actually making archelon and archaeopteryx based pokemon that I hopelessly wished for back in gen V, and other stuff coming true I forget, sometimes I wonder if GF and nintendo aren’t reading our minds to get ideas…
As a biology nerd the idea of pokemon having subspecies and phenotypic plasticity is mind-bogglingly amazing. Intraspecies variation is an idea that makes the pokemon world more biodiverse, and thus realistic and more vibrant. Compared to mega evolution, this is a new addition that really feels organic to the pokemon world rather than tacked on, and that’s because it’s an idea that’s been present from the series’ inception. And the thing is, with how uninterested in fully coherent wordbuilding GF are (try having a conversation about how coherent the pokemon world actually is with the canon information we have, seriously), and how happily and well they retcon stuff that can be retconned (mostly additively) while still keeping the series at a decent level of coherence, this is the sort of idea that feels like it has indeed always been a lingering possibility in the pokemon world but hasn’t been explored until now due to technical and developmental constraints. We had the idea of alternate arbok designs. We had weird anime variants. We had delta species. It’s always been there on the sidelines, and now it’s entering the mainstream. Tbf the idea is basically a middleroad between these concepts, like a biologically thought out concept for delta species.
And the thing is, it puts those sidelines in a new light. It means the snowlaxes, crystal onixes, orange island variants, and weird electric type dratinis and steel/fire blastoises of Holon of our youths suddenly can be way more coherently included in the broad canon. And who knows, maybe someday we’ll get snowlaxes and crystal onixes in the games? That’d certainly be cool! (I’m especially hoping for a pink buterfree, or, even better, an orange islands butterfree! Also purple keckleon can now more easily be made mainstream canon!)
It also reminds me of something mentioned in the pokemon adventures manga GSC arc (which is currently coming out in France, so I’m finally getting to discover it), in which Professor Oak enlists Crystal’s help to fill the pokedex with pokemon from the Johto region , including Kanto pokemon, as they have subtle differences from one region to the other. The given example is the length of ratata teeth iirc, but the main point is that again this is circumstantial evidence of how easily this feature fits in the pokemon world since it’s often been alluded to. Granted this would be a more precise and local population phenotype based approach, but who knows, maybe one day…
I’m hoping that, years in the future, when the pokémon series now only exists as a series of expansions to the Pokémon World game (with online multi servers existing of course), individual pokemon variation is taken to it’s final logical step, and each pokémon’s model legitimately becomes unique. Each pokémon model would have a possible set of sizes, and not just overall, but for specific body parts. Body part shapes could also change and pokemon markings would vary. A pokemon would also have a chance of having one (or more, if exceedingly lucky) unique visual feature such as a special shaped marking, a different coloured element, a chip in a protuberance, etc. I know this sounds like an impossible amount of work ot create, but that’s why it’s a fantasy for the distant future. And regional variation could easily play a part in this, with trait size geographical gradients or areas having pokemon that are uniquely coloured in certain areas or uniquely marked.
Wow, that’s a lot of talking, but I guess it shows how excited I am about the whole concept! Hopefully it’ll make others think more broadly about the idea too!
HYPE, HYPE, HYPE, HYPE, HYPE!!
I’ve been sick these past several days with a head cold, so I just learned about this.
GRRNNGHH!!! THE ICE VULPIX!!
THE BIRD VARIANTS!! THE MANTIS THING!!
THE–!! Donald Trump? NNOOOOO!! I CAN’T UNSEE!!
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this… I think (most of) the new Pokemon look cool, some of the Alolan forms look neat too, but I want to know if I want a regular Vulpix, where’s it going to come from? Probably have to send some from Pokemon Bank or a Gen 6 game. I was honestly tired of Mega Evolution in general, so I’m not too sad about that if they drop it. The super powerful moves triggered by dancing sounds kind of cool, like it’s linked with hula dancing. A little silly, but kids’ll have a ton of fun learning them IRL.
On the bright side, the official site shows that the fire-type trial leader has a Marowak as his main sidekick. I’ll bet you $5 that means there’s an Alolan fire Marowak (that’s my favorite Pokemon). I mean, now I could have 2 different types of Marowak on my team, so I say “Aloha, cousin!”