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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YES! I don’t know whether to be excited or upset that it took them over a decade and a half to finally give Pokemon new forms base on the region they are at.seriously they had three times to do this especially when they introduced seasons,I don’t know why they now doing it but give me my tropical butterfee and my crystal onix please thank you.
Ps exeggutor looks stupid lol
That tail tho
Its taller then tropics though
*tropius. And OMG that tail cannot be unseen now.
The idea of Alola variants of certain Pokemon is such a simple yet unique idea that has truly taken fruition within S/M. There were several Pokemon whose designs differed SLIGHTLY from region to region, but never on such a scale as this. Ninetails and Vulpix MUST be mine!
Several examples? I don’t mean to doubt you, but in my excitement I can’t even think of one >.< (unless you count Deoxys?)
Wow this is a lot to take in foreal. This is more baffling then when Mega Evolutions were revealed.
Yeah, I’m surprisingly not as pissed as when Megas were revealed. (I love Megas now btw)
Same here. I confused and excited at the same time lol
Yeah, and I was so dead set against them when they were revealed.
Today’s info isn’t that way though. In fact, I actually commend and like what they are doing.
Same I hated Mega Evolutions, but this however is cool as shit.
Fomantis is a nocturnal Pokemon. Does that mean day/night exclusive Pokemon could be returning?
Totally wanted, I play at night anyways <3
I’m sure the’ve been around for at least the last 2 games, why would they get removed?
Could this mean ash wins Kalos and his next step is to establish a league ?
OMG you may be right O.o
And the Pokemon franchise ending
You’ve got to wonder if they planned it out this way for a long time. Perhaps this is one of Ash’s final stops.
Alola Form Tauros?
and look at Exeggutor’s tail… it’s a head! crazy shht
Nope, that’s the sunlight. Harsh sunlight desaturates colour. That is a normal Tauros with a saddle.
I just had a wild dream about S/M where you were working for Team Flare and your main goal was to free Zygarde from its capture and… then it changed to one of the members and you in a glass tube shooting up through the atmosphere into space and Lysandre blowing up Alola… O_O
I remember when the Rotom pokedex seemed revolutionary… Doesn’t compare to this stuff! Though I must say, with everything else amazing in this gen, Z moves are a little boring
Extremely generic
Well I think the Z Moves will be cool, they will add another dimension of strategy to battling. But hey to each their own
I bet you can only use either Mega or use the Z-Moves, not both.
“Lurantis is the Totem Pokémon of Lush Jungle, the site of an Akala Island trial.”
Grooooossss gross gross gross grooooooossssssss
It gets a freaking new grass move Solar Blade….
“AN Akala Island trial”
Multiple trials per island confirmed?
There has to be. 4 Trial captains, 4 islands makes sense. However, one of them is clearly uninhabited, so I’m sure that there’s multiple ones per island.
Makes sense otherwise the game would be very short
A.k.a. my new favorite Grass-type alongside Leavanny.
I love the Orchid Mantis thing
gonna be on my team thats for sure
Hmm well that puts a spin on things. I thought that Mallow (whose trial is clearly in a jungle) would be the Trial Captain of Melemele Island. Now I’ve got no idea about who’s there, because Kiawe is on the second island and Sophocles on the third
Lurantis about to take lives. It don’t play around at all.
‘You wanna beat this trial get past me and my son/daughter, you can’t, get out of my house’
Imagine Sceptile with Solar Blade… it looks like a Special-based move, doesn’t it…
Nah, Sceptile’s not gonna be great unless it has more coverage.
That Pink Mantis Pokemon is cool as hell, I need it in my life. Snow Sandrew and Vulpix are dope too.
I love it, I just hope it’ll have good stats. Please be a physical attack
“Lurantis”. Burn it into your brain immediately.
Guys, I just realized that we mat get new info in the 15 bc we never got info on the southern island XD
It’s actually the 12 that corocoro is out this month since the 15 is a holiday in Japan so we might get leaks earlier!!!
The other Pokemon in the Chinese leak that are basically confirmed:
-Werewolf evolution for Rockruff
-Mushroom Pokemon
-Snowman Pokemon
-Rugby/football monkey
-Sea Cucumber Pokemon
-Dolphin Pokemon
And of course, the starter evolutions are confirmed too.
And the starters final types!
What were they again?
Grass/Flying, Fire/Dark, and Water/Psychic from what I was told. But some say its actually the first 2 and Water/Fairy :/
The types weren’t part of the leak though..?
Really? I heard it was from those chinese leaks?
So Rockruff becomes Lucario 3.0. Yaaaay
Erm… Lucario is a jackal, not a wolf…
And the 2 stage cat Pokemon who changes it type when it’s hatched or something like that.
Groomed, not hatched.
Find the stupid link know!
Here’s one https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4tokxf/rumor_more_on_that_chinese_rumor_from_some_time/
A-ha! I see contradiction!
“Ninetails (Fire/Fairy)”
DE-CONFIRMED?
Nah, I see 2 possibilites. 1) Fire is Ninetales original type and as such, that was a typo and the guy meant Ice/Fairy. 2) Why is Alolan Ninetales dual-type while Vulpix stays pure Ice-type like its regular counterpart? Maybe they’ll retcon regular Ninetales to be Fire/Fairy.
Or maybe the leaker saw an early document and things changed since then. This, however, opens the possibility of other Alolan forms being different from what the leaker saw.
Werewolf confirmed aaaaand there Rockruff goes, straight to my party
It was already there to begin with xD
Rockruff’s design’s amazing but it just wasn’t my thing, but being a Werewolf just makes it 10x cooler and a possibility of being a Fairy type soooo yeah haha
Erm, fairy? Since when are wolves part fairy?
(Say ‘fairy tales’ and I will throw a Drampa at you).
FINALLY A DOLPHIN MON PLEASE LET THAT ONE BE REALLLLL
They couldn’t waste this opportunity. That would just be ridiculous.
I see that alolan exeggutor
Yes! This exactly! I was gonna search for this. Alolan Exeggutor’s design was definitely inspired by this old and erroneous image of it.
Now give me my Dark/Bug mosquito please. NEEDED
Prepare yourself for these:
“There are new forms of old Pokemon which are not Mega Evolutions but
more along the line of Shellos/Wordam. Another chunk of information
suggests that these are a few Pokemon that’ll get new forms…
Butterfree (Bug/Psychic), Rattata line (Dark), Nidoqueen/Nidoking
(Poison/Fighting), Ninetails (Fire/Fairy), Growlithe line (Water), Abra
line (Fighting), Duduo line (Fighting/Flying).“
Did you make this up?
Nope https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4tokxf/rumor_more_on_that_chinese_rumor_from_some_time/
Nope. Although, Fire/Fairy-type for Ninetails is wrong seeing as the trailer showed it to be an Ice/Fairy-type. Close enough, no?
Link: https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4tokxf/rumor_more_on_that_chinese_rumor_from_some_time/
A Fighting-type Abra line.
…Wha?
Where my onix? I want a crystal onix like the orange league season
Could still be one, it wouldn’t need a type change.
I love the names for the super moves. Gigavolt Havoc, Bloom Doom, Inferno Overdrive!!!! They’re so ridiculous that I love them lol Popplio’s move name isn’t as exciting lol
I cant wait to see the Psychic-type super move!
SAMMMMEEEE AND DRAGON MY FAV TYPES LEGGO
Mine, too!! :O
The real question is, who isn’t going to use an Alolan-adapted Pokemon on their final team? I’m very convinced by Alolan Sandslash, since I’ll likely have the Fairy type occupied by something else for my playthrough. Alolan Ninetales is beautiful though.
I’m thinking only Alola native Pokemon in my Moon playthrough, and only Alola variant Pokemon in my Sun playthrough.
If there are enough of them, I may have to copy that idea.
It’s going to be a really hard decision to make. Every time I play a new game I always try to use the new Pokemon, but then also always feel like I want to use Pokemon that are older that I haven’t given chance yet. This could open the door for me to experience something new with old Poke lol
It’s odd. I mean, I like using native/new mons in my first playthroughs, but these are new forms…
I mean, it depends on what other new Pokemon are out there/how many. I’ll consider it, but I might not use them during the first playthroughs ^^
These basically are new Pokemon, it’s just hard to think of them that way right now. I’d say they qualify for new Pokemon more than Megas do (since I know people claim they are).
I mean, I see them as different forms of old Pokemon. Sure, they have new types and new moves and stuff, but it’s still the old mons really.
If no other new Pokemon interest me enough to fill a team, I’ll consider an Alolan form. Besides I’m crazy for ice-types, and Sandslash and Ninetales are pretty tempting.
I want to but I haven’t decided yet cause I like them but sandslash the one I was going for is 4x weak to fire and ninetales now is 4x weak to ice
New article
There’s one thing the leak got wrong though. “Ninetails (Fire/Fairy)”
Well hold on to your horses, not everything there is 100% confirmed!
Ok ok come on now…..let’s not get pessimistic here because they got one thing slightly wrong. Whether they meant to do it or it was just a mistake it doesn’t matter. I’d wager that the leaks themselves are real and even if some types change they’ll be more or less the same lol
I’m an optimist and you know it. <3
They'll probably only get some typings here and there wrong. I'd give it a 95% accuracy rate.
But the leak also said
“There is a flying type bird whose appearance varies each island”
So I’m a believer x3
It doesn’t mean all of it is correct. 🙂
I’m still thinking they might get some of the Alolan Formes typings wrong, but nothing major.
During x and y leaks, there was a leaker who gave info and told everybody some was wrong, so hebdidnt get in too much trouble, so maybe purposlybadded wrong stuff?
Everyone says those leaks of the starters were confirmed, where? Is it because that lady is in the Litten drawing? Or has it officially been confirmed?
The lady in the leaked Litten 3 picture resembles the one that was revealed today down to the pixel. They’re all absolutely real.
So that is how they are confirmed? Not officially confirmed?
No, but they don’t need to be. You can take my/our word for it.
Dear Arceus, PLEASE do not make me have to dance in front of DS camera to do Z moves….
I don’t think that’ll happen hahahaha And if it does you can show off all your new dance moves to your friends and family!!! lol
I’m incredibly interested in that cat that gets a secondary typing based on it’s fathers typing. I wonder if that means it’ll be able to breed with a wide variety of Pokemon
I’m looking at these Trial Captains again. That kid’s name is Sophocles? Where are we, Ancient Greece?
All I can see is phineas saying “ues, yes we are”
It took me a minute to realize that’s how his name is pronounced lol I like his name and design, but I can’t say I’m thrilled about yet another inventor electric leader. Electricity is used for many things damn it!!! lol
Fam just wants to have an edgy name
I’m going to take a huge leap and say that this is a hint that Gen 8 will be based in Greece or Rome. Sun and Moon were hinted at in X/Y, so you know that I’m going to analyze everything for hints in November.
Gen 8? Woah woah woah.
We’ve not started gen 7 yet.
Talking about gen 8 is like telling gamefreak “Yeah, this stuff is wonderful and all, but now we’re bored with it, when’s the next one coming?”
Yes 🙂
Hey, Ancient Greece needs some representation too 😛
His original name was “Maamane”.
Do you guys think HMs are completely out of the picture? I mean, there’s no point in teaching a pokémon Fly when you can just call a Charizard, which already hapenned in ORAS thanks to Mega Lati@s.