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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So it took a while but I found the chinese leak info: http://www.pokebeach.com/forums/threads/a-bunch-of-information-from-china.134118/
Feel free to take a read if you need conformation.
So if classic Vulpix evolves with a Fire Stone, how would Alolan Vulpix evolve then?
That’s a good question, I hadn’t even thought about that. I think either it’ll stay Firestone or maybe water stone?
I think it’d be cool if it still evolved due to a fire stone. Kinda do that whole hot and cold thing lol
Evolution with NeverMeltIce? Maybe that could be true for Sandslash as well.
That’s a good one, evolving using an old held item with a new purpose.
I feel like Sandshrew will evolve by level-up as usual.
Level up at that snowy peak? New stone?
Learning fairytype move at level 30
Ice Stone?
Going to an Ice Rock just like Glaceon?
…I like the idea of Alolan Pokémon, but I simply can’t wrap my head around the idea of a coconut tree being part dragon type. Anyone have any ideas? Surely there is some conceptual reasoning behind this..
Growing wild like a Dragon?
Got this from Facebook:
Shaytokun Metanari Okataki: From what I’m getting at… Exeggutor is a reference to the Madagascar Dragon Tree. They are mostly found in tropical areas (from what I read) but can be found in domestic areas as decorative trees. This would explain the Dragon typing (pretty amusing if I do say so myself) whether you find this stupid is up to you. I find it to be cool and a good way to mix things up.
I think the answer lies with Hawaiian lore or something, I’ll give it until the end of the day for fans to figure that one out for us.
Dragon palm trees
It… Has a tail?
I’m convinced we have the answer right here 😛
Hey guys, doesn’t Alola remind you of something? -HINT, its the Orange Islands- I think that because they also had variants of Pokemon and are based on Islands. And since we got RBY VC and not FR and LG, there is the Sevi Islands missing. What if Alola is like a re-imagining of them! Cool huh?
The gym replacement actually sounds pretty cool. Doing challenges, and then having big boss battles? That sounds pretty sweet!
I wonder where the guy who was flipping out about it a month ago is…
Because fetch quests and quizzes always go down well in rpg games…
Also, the ‘trials’ are effectively just gym traps.
The thing is even with erasing the GL they kept them.
We have 4 mini guardians and 4 big ones. Mallow and Hala seem to be thr bosses of Mele. Hala could be having a Fairytype based team, so we would have grass fairy water fire and electric.
It really seems they games will be more task by task and not just running from gym to gym.
The trial captains are not gym leaders
THE KAHUNAS ARE
So, from what I understood/guessed, the very first challenge is to defeat Tapu Koko in Melemele Island. After doing so, we show we’re capable of taking the Island challenge. So in each island, first, we take the ritual passage where we defeat Totem Pokémon (not sure if they actually beling to the characters or if they’re wild) and then we battle the Kahuna. My guess is that after the four islands, we can create our own league, as the leaks say, and finally we take on the Elite 4. The final boss must be a battle against Tapu Koko (now in full power) and the other guardians. We can catch Lunala and Solgaleo before this.
What’s the new obsession with ice forms about? (really unnecessary with vulpix/ninetales)
But it would be nice to see other 1st gen pokemon in new forms. Hope starmie gets another chance to shine.
I love it! I love Ice types
A few things:
Gumshoos might have a resemblence to DT, but I really don’t think that was intended. Nothing in his bio stands out as having relation to him.
I LOVE THE BIRDS. I want them all.
Minior- LOVE. I wonder if it changes color or if I have to catch each one. -_-
Lurantis- surprised its not grass/ bug. Not like we needed another, plus it would also have a strong resemblence to leavanny.
Mudbray: exactly as expected.
New forms: I dig them so far. I dont want just gen 1 pokemon to get it however.
Call me skeptical, but we still dont know if every single leaked pokemon is real. The starters sure are, but thats about all we know for sure. Leakers have only gotten portions right before.
Of course they can’t risk getting sued from making the connection too obvious but as soon as I payed eyes on gumshoos, I knew exactly what it was suppose to be. From the hair, to the eyes, to the grin, to the hands behind held behind its back. That’s Donald trump
Are you American? Maybe what you think is true, but I’d bet that it’s probably just another American thinking the world revolves around the US. And the Pokemon was probably designed a long time ago
Make Alola great again.lol?
Does Donald usually have his hands there?
Also, I think its safe to say that HM’s are gone since you can call on the riding pokemon whenever you want to fly, break rocks, etc.
Can anyone give me the link of the old leaks, please?
As a fan I must say I really don’t like any of this. I’m disappointed but mostly just outright confused. Why is exegcuter – of all Pokemon – now a nine foot tall dragon? Why not just give it a new evo if they wanted to do that? Why are vulpix and sandshrew ice types? Is that even biologically possible? Why would a fire type all of a sudden turn into an ice type from being in a tropical island area?? And how will this macanic work for transferring over old pokemon? Will I be able to have a fire vulpix and an Alolan ice Vulpix at the same time? Not too mention that the starter evos are actually real so this really throws a tench in my plans because I wouldn’t be caught dead using any of those beasts. I’ll possibly use the litten Tony the Tiger Evo but judging by its wrestler design and wrestling moves from the leaked image, it’ll be YET another fire/fighting starter and I just refuse to use that ever. However if it’s fire/dark I will use it. Also, no new gyms? Seriously? Really don’t know how I feel about that at all.
BUT THE BEST THING I SAW WAS THAT YANGOOSE AND ITS WVOLUTION ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON DONALD TRUMP! This is hilarious and extremely meta on game freaks part. I don’t think there’s any other poke that’s design so blatantly on a famous person. They nailed it.
Yeah but all the other news today makes me wanna cry 🙁
The rock/flying touch is interesting as well
There’s probably and explanation for the dragon type, we just have to wait for it. And anything in biologically possible in the pokemon world because they don’t actually exist and neither do types. And species do adapt to their environments so the same one can have two different niches depending on where they’re found. And of course you can have both at the same time, they didn’t erase the old forms, they just create new ones native to Alola, you probably just won’t find a fire vulpix there (at least not in the mountains). I agree that the starters suck. And did you actually like doing the same thing over and over in each game? Gyms are not needed and I’m glad they’re gone. And while yangoose does look like DT I don’t really think they would base a Pokemon on an American politician, it’s a Japanese kid’s game.
So in the Japan trailer where we saw the riding Pokemon first they are trading a bewear that is white shiny confirmed.?
Adventure one
It’s not white.
Bewear has a white headband if that’s what you mean.
Some images of Tauros have it a white “mane”. Does that mean that Tauros will have anotehr version in Alola?
I’m a bit disappointed that gym system is gone in this gen
OMG I am so surprised. Game freak must have read my damn mind. I had the same idea, with the alternate forms. I had an ice form for Vulpix as well. Kyaaaaa XD XD
There was the big thing about a year ago about different pokemin varieations, and maybe pokemon noticed how popular it was and how much sense it made
Not sure what to make of the Alola forms, seems lackluster on GF’s part. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad old pokemon are getting some love but this feels very underwhelming. On the other hand everything else is awesome.
Ok, it’s a lot of information at once but here’s what I think:
I really like the new Alola forms. I mean, if you put the same species in two different environments they’re bound to adapt, so having Vulpix turn into an ice type is pretty cool and it’ll definitely be on my team (Ninetales is soon beautiful)! I don’t care about the other two although I don’t hate them.
I love Oricorios and all of its styles, my favorite one being the ghost style. Should we expect an evolution for each one? PLEASE.
Minior didn’t do anything to me. Another flying rock? (and the eyes are horrible)
Give a small loan of a million dollars to Gumshoos so he can make Alola great again.
Fomantis/Lurantis: I love them! Pls be a fast sweeper and your weaknesses won’t matter.
Mudbray: not fan of ground pokemon (sorry earthen)
I love that we can ride Pokemon, hopefully our own too.
I cannot tell you guys how happy I am that we’ve gotten rid of the gym system! It was always the same thing and every time I challenged a gym leader I just wanted to get it over with as fast as possible.
Kiawe is hot and he can have his way with my character.
Totem Pokemon are cool.
Z attacks can be an interesting addition to the games considering every type has its own attack
About the starters: Litten is my favorite one but I refuse to use it because of its final evolution. Emboar was bad, Delphox was bad and now Litten3 is bad. I’ll get a female Popplio and that’s it.
Vulpix also makes a lot of sense because some foxes are known to change coats in different seasons.
That too, the only difference is that it can’t change to its fire form 🙂 I love Ninetales so an ice form is more than alright with me
Oh my goodness Gen 7 is starting to be my favorite gen no lies
The next update on Pokemon Sun and Moon will reveal at least 3 or more new Pokemon plus a few new Mega Evolutions plus more Alolan Forms plus Starter Pokemon evolutions plus Fossil Pokemon plus at least one Dark-type Pokemon plus Marshadow.
Where you get this info from? Jw
are the Z-Crystals a transformation of the type Gems?
a closer look to the “white” tauros
it seems that it’s just wearing some kind of coat
i think its just the lighting.
Any chance I can talk the person with the picture of mellow in the leaked starter art into posting that pic again?
What I am looking forward to:
-Alola forms
-Riding your own Pokemon
-Z-moves
What I hope will not happen:
-Challenges replacing gym battles.