New Pokémon LEAKED Before Official Update

Although the official new trailers are expected tomorrow, someone it seems has gotten their hands on an early version of the video and leaked some of its contents.

  • Pyukumuku is the English name for Namakobushi and is a pure Water-type with the ability Innards Out
  • Alolan Raichu is now Electric/Psychic with the ability Surge Surfer which doubles its speed on Electric Terrain
  • Morelull is a new Grass/Fairy-type Pokémon with the abilities Illuminate & Effect Spore
  • Team Skull keeps its name from the Japanese versions and is led by Guzma, with Plumeria being a Team Admin.
  • Alolan Meowth is a Dark-type with the abilities Pick-up & Technician
  • Wishiwashi is the English name for Yowashi and its new ability is Schooling which activates when something reaches a certain level (HP? Stats?)
  • Alolan Marowak is now Fire/Ghost-type and has the abilities Lightning Rod & Cursed Body

<3 PJ

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2,036 thoughts on “New Pokémon LEAKED Before Official Update”

  1. I absolutely love Alolan Raichu is something amazing. I’m in love with it’s design. The other Pokemon look great as well. The only think is that I’m surprised that people think that there might be an Alolan Pikachu. There isn’t or likely is not an Alolan Exeggucte, so why will there be an Alolan Pikachu after we’ve seen Pikachu in the Z-Move trailer and evolving from Pichu. Anyways, I’m liking the new Pokemon. I just want to see the Evil Teams now! rf.

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  2. I hope (if there isn’t an Alolan Pikachu form) that I can evolve my “Yellow Version” Pikachu into the Alolan Raichu form. XD XD <3

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    • My powers are needed: you can’t, Alolan forms means born on Alola, your Pikachu will evolve into a regular Raichu

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      • Uhhh no, it was already stated that to get the “Older forms”, that you need to transfer them over from an older game.

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          • Uhhh hello asshole, I do have “Older games” duhhhh
            And your dumb powers don’t work on me.
            They never stated that it had to be “Alolan born” to turn into the new form’s. Thank you any way. 😛

          • I think the way you are trying to justify your behaviour is quite pathetic. Just because you are simply wrong, does not mean you get the right to criticise other people. The worst part of all is that you do not even realise that you are at fault. PS. Everyone knows earthern is grumpy, so either deal with it or leave.

          • I’m not defending poketard, but that sounds really silly honestly.
            So it’s okay for him to call people fags/etc etc just because he’s “grumpy”? Yeah, you were right about poketard being wrong on the alola thing, but its pathetic how you’re defending earthenwarrior cause he’s usually like that. Where the mods? So mods on this site just allow people to be called names just cause the earthen guy is a regular on here? Heh.

          • You know what, I’ll give you. Okay, cool. But there are numerous times on different articles where you have pretty much insulted people either subtly or flat-out, but for some reason, you still have an account here. It’s like “Hey, that’s Earthenwarrior! He’s a regular grumpy guy on here, so let him say what he wants! :)”.
            We get it, you’re trying to “stay in character” for your small fan base you’ve built on this site, but I’m expressing my opinion that you come off as a douchebag. It’s not funny anymore. Maybe it was previously (I wouldn’t know. I rarely come to this site as I prefer pokebeach and serebii), but the very few times I do visit this site I see YOU in the comment section crying about no Ground-Types and hating on whatever content is shown. But I digress. I won’t continue this convo.

          • I would like to compliment you in the way you changed your manner of speaking. Like this you sound much more sophisticated. And I truly believe that talking like that lies closer to your true personality.

          • I am truly sorry for my confusing manner of writing. I did never state I condone and agree with the way Earthern speaks. It was merely a statement that people should know what they will get into if they engage to much in conversations with him. I do think his manner of speaking is quite horrible. But I do think it is quite ridiculous to lower yourself to the way someone else talks thrash. It is much more rewarding to stand above the offending statements of others, instead of engaging in some kind of petty fute were people start calling each other names. That was all I tried to say 🙂

          • I agree with Togetic here. Regardless of an individual’s behavior (and in my book and from lurking on this site since X and Y Earthen’s banter is pretty harmless in this community ) it is not right to direct hostile statements like that to an individual, it will only be a cause of more pain.

          • EarthernWarrior, I made an account JUST to tell you to PLEASE shut the hell up. You take Pokemon so damn serious it’s sad.
            All you do is insult others who don’t care about Ground-Types & love any other (especially fairy). Dude, why be such an asshole? Pokemon is a fun children’s game, but you talk as if you’re a grumpy old man whose obsessed with rocks. Seriously, dude, go outside much?
            Yeah, there’s A LOT of fairies, which is slightly annoying, but on every article on pokejungle, you come off as a serious douchebag and a loser stuck in the 90s.

  3. I wonder what Surge Surfer does.

    It has ‘Surge’ in it, Like Electric Surge, so maybe it does something under electric terrain.

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  4. I want to know the lore around the Alolan forms, and with each new fairy type we get (it’s getting excessive) before even one ice type, I get angrier and sadder.

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    • I think they already explained it. Pokemon obtain this new form once they stay in an area long enough. It’s basically what happens in nature and it’s easily explainable. The Pokemon are just adapting to their new environment overtime.

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      • No I know. But each one has a specific explanation for they’re typing like vulpix moving to mountains to escape predators and sandshrew fleeing the volcanoes. I want to know the reasoning for psychic on raichu. It looks closer to a fairy to me, too cutesy.

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  5. This is the second time that the contents of a video has been leaked which makes me think, like last time, that they might even just release the video earlier than planned

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  6. Whoever is in charge of handling info before release should be fired hahahahah I love the new stuff we got!! I can’t wait to see the full trailer!! lol

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  7. I think we all could agree with Pokemon Sun/Moon are some of the best looking Pokemon games ever. Just the animations, 3D models, and more are making me love this region. Everything just looks too good!

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  8. Morelull, are they serious? ‘lul’ means c*ck in dutch, so it’s pretty says.. morec*ck..

    IDK if they thought about that… It’s also a mushroom… What sometimes is associated with it… IDK funny xD

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  9. thank god raichu is a gen 1 pokemon, I cant belive they did this to him, I guess they though he wasnt “Kwaii” enough to fit with the new style they are taking…. I cant begin to imagin how f**ed up pikachu and pikachu will look like,..

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  10. I called Pyukumuku as being pure water 😉 I like the little fungus well enough. Alolan Raichu…idk, man. It adapted its tail so that it could surf? These alolan forms really are going to hell

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    • That is not a real adaptation….Sandshrew/slash and Vulpix are real adaptations. Then again, this is the pokemon world and it is a children’s game so…..guess I can’t really complain too much

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  11. Honestly I feel like Morelull should have a split evo, one where it says grass/fairy and another where it becomes poison/fairy a mushroom pokemon just seems like the best candidate for a poison/fairy

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  12. I don’t think Pikachu will get an Alolan form. I thin it and Pichu will be like Exeggcute where they won’t have them due to them sharing the same type as their evolution.

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  13. It now makes more sense as to why hau had a pichu in the e3 gameplay, he’ll be using alolan raichu! Its crazy how they throw subtle little hints and no one notices xD

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  14. I want to share this theory TC and I came up with:

    So Lillie. I think it’s fair to speculate she is from the Kalos region, and there’s a whole lotta mysteries left in Kalos. People speculated she was going to have some sort of connection to the evil team, especially since her artwork gives her a rather mean expression. What if that’s not meant to be interpreted as being mean and evil, but that she’s protective. Now I do know people have speculated she has a Zygarde Core inside her bag, and I completely agree with that idea. So here’s the theory part: What if she’s the one who left the note at the Lumiose Train Station that states she’s gone to find help. Is it possible that a train leaving Lumiose City can also pass through Couriway Town, which maybe somehow connects to Alola…I mean even the Couriway Town train sign is a “Z.” Looking at Zygarde’s complete form on the website, we’re told that its wings and tail each contain a Zygarde Core. So it has 4 wings and 1 tail, that makes 5 Cores. What if she has the Zygarde Core from the Kalos region, and she’s gone to Alola in search of the other 4 Cores (4 islands) in order to return to the Kalos region to protect it. What if also during the story of Sun and Moon, this new Team Skull, who look like Pirates, are also after the Zygarde Cores and end up stealing the one from Lillie?

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  15. It’s safe to assume that all Alolan forms will be gen-one exclusive Pokemon, which Pokemon would you like to see get Alolan forms? I’m still holding out hope for Arcanine, and Lapras.

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  16. This might actually explain Alolan Meowth’s typing if Alolan Pikachu is also a Psychic type. Remember what people originally kept cats for.

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  17. I usually enjoy leaks but we were so close to these being revealed officially, I’m kinda sad someone couldn’t wait just 1 more day xD

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    • I mean yeah sure. All the pcis we’ve seen are just little bits fro the trailer. We still need battle scene (other than Wishiwashi) too

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    • This is it:
      New:
      Wishiwashi (Solo Form)
      Wishiwashi (School Form)
      Pyukumuku
      Morelull

      Team Skull Grunts:
      Plumeria
      Guzma

      New Alola Forms:
      Meowth
      Marowak
      Raichu

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  18. Ok ok… Crazy theory.. Remember the manga special that got announced, what if that boy is a young Guzma and he competed in the trials. The both have goggles and similar hood in the back. And maybe his rival at that age was Kukui

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  19. I’m surprised people are surprised about the amount of fairies, it’s like one of the rarest types rn and only came out last Gen, so it needs to play catch up.

    Also, Hawaii is really a spiritual place to draw concepts from, so ghost and fairy are really appropriate types to pick from.

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    • People are more concerned with the fact they they just tend to tack Fairy onto anything. If there is a legit reason for something to be Fairy, I don’t thinks anyone would mind.

      There’s playing catch-up and then they’re forcing it down our throats.

      Personally I think GF can do whatever they please.

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      • That’s still pretty rare, especially since Fairy looks like its going to be a Electric, Grass, etc level rarity seeing as it’s being given to a wide variety of Pokémon strength and availability wise.

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        • grass isn’t rare, Id go more fire level, we actually have very few fire pokemon compared to some of the other big types

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          • Yeah I do think it could end up Fire level rare, its just that so far they’re really easy to find, in XY and ORAS you find your first Fairy before the first Gym and it’s seemingly already a starter type 1 Gen after introduction.

        • It won’t be 3rd rarest after factoring in all the new Alolan additions though.

          Besides, something has to be rarest unless they’re all perfectly balanced.

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          • Tbh its supposed ‘rarity’ never bothered me. Fairies and Dragons (and to a lesser extent Ghosts) are mythical, they’re supposed to be rare.
            Besides which, there’s still a decent number of fairies available, the only thing Fairy is lacking is a few type combinations like Fairy/Fire. Fairy/Grass, Fairy/Water and Fairy/Electric are all already available.

  20. Well it seems like the Chinese leak has certainly proven themselves to be true on their word.

    All we need now is the Snowman, the Dolphin, and the Rugby Monkey to finally reveal themselves.

    Not to mention the proper reveal of the final and mid evolve forms of the starters.

    Only time will tell.

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  21. They completely abandoned grass type in this generation. They all so far look competitive useless and generic, like they’re there just to fill in the dex. And with a grass starter grass/flying (aka death sentence) grass lovers are screwed.
    ps: really like the sassy girl though.

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  22. I really like wishiwashi school animations, it actually looks like many fishes working together and not just a giant blob of nonsense

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  23. At this point it seems more like a marketing tactic rather than a mistake. Remember how much exposure the last “leaked” trailer received? It trended on Twitter and Facebook for days, with it actually reaching the top spot on Facebook and the Japanese trailer received more than 2 million views during its first 24 hours of release.

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  24. I was so excited for this game but every leak/trailer they keep desapointing me with these terrible designs…I know that most fans now days only care about the typing and they will accept anything as long as it has a good types, but these looks very bad, I feel like its a reboot for the franchise, a bad one too, the new pokemon are way too cute to fit in with the others…now raichu is even cuter than pichu…god this is awfull.

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    • I like them personally, and I don’t care about competitiveness. From an artist’s viewpoint each design is unique and every detail well thought out. Of course, you’re entitled to your opinion, but these are far from terrible.

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      • from an artist point of view they are going too cute to the point that made the new pokemon looks like something from another franchise more than a contenuety.

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        • Designs and artists abilities change over time. No matter how you look at it, the style in Gen 1 are overall very different to the styles in Gen 2, which are in turn different to Gen 3 and so on.
          It’s been over 20 years, the way things are done are bound to change. I was thinking about this myself the other day.
          The Pokemon from each generation have a specific style to them, and they differ from generation to generation.

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          • thats none sense, sugimori didnt change his style much, if you check his personal artwork he still draw in the same old detailed style, he only change the style of pokemon

          • Dude 20 years is a long time. No one remains the same in 20 years, it’s nearly impossible. Loads of factors come into play, which will affect the art style. From Gen 1-2 you may not notice, but the bigger the gap between gens, the more noticeable it becomes.

          • why dont you check his twitter ?? there is a huge diference between improving your style, and making it “cute”

          • sorry but thats nonsense, this is not how art work, sugimori did improved a lot, especially in figure drawings wich is why I find it odd that he dont do the same with pokemon

          • Ok, I’m not gonna say anything more on the matter. Ive said what I think, and I’m gonna leave it at that.

          • I’m going to say this with all due respect, but please stop saying they’re cute. That’s subjective, and while you are entitled to your opinion, you are ignoring every argument against you. One can’t argue properly just by rehashing previously made points, and not acknowledging the slight possibility that your opinion might be swayed.

          • personally I don’t understand how cute= bad to this person 😛 I feel like we’ve slipped into some bizarre world

          • Cute is again subjective. I find some of these appealing…some of them I don’t.

            Drampa, Bruxish, Salandit, Mudbray, Mudsdale are far from cute in my opinion.
            Also majority of what have been revealed are base stages, which tend to be cute anyway.

          • he is making it cute for pokemon, not just the pokemon designs but they are going with a very cute style overall but its hitting the pokemon so hard

        • Of course they’re cute. We’re mostly looking at beginning Pokemon. Back in the XY days most of the first Pokemon revealed were ‘cute’ because they were meant to appeal to beginning trainers. Besides, there are several that aren’t cute (although it’s subjective): Mudsdale, Gumshoos, Bruxish, Wishiwashi (school form), Tapu Koko, etc.

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    • most people I see love most of the designs this gen, and it looks like its going to be an amazing game, looks like you’re the odd one out, sorry about that…

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      • like I said they dont love the design they love the types, most people that I see say that they love the designs to piss off the so called genwunners

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        • lol, I don’t think so, a lot of people love the designs, not because of the types, myself included. I don’t know where you’re making these assumptions from…?

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    • I repectifully disagree. These new Pokemon may look different from Pokemon in other regions, but is that not also true for real life animals as well? Personall, I think all the designs this gen are great except for Sandcastle Mon.

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      • no its not true cause thats they changed the style not just the designs look at raichus mouth and the old one, and how the older one had visable toes and this one just have a rounded legs with lines on them.

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    • There is NOTHING wrong with the new designs. Just because YOU might not like them doesn’t mean that there bad. 😛
      I personally love all of them from gen 1 to this new gen. I love Pokemon in general. 😀 Even the Pokemon that I don’t really like all that much.

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  25. so… if these leaks are true, then the previous 103 pokemon list is fake (?)
    Or are these leaks fake(?)
    There isnt a grass/fairy pokemon named morelull in the list, nor any other pokemon with that type.

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  26. I think Pikachu will remain the same look. Pichu is the same and those two are pretty iconic now – granted pichu not so much but i think the focus is on Raichu so it will only have the new design

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  27. With all this team skull hype. It’s time for the Great Papplio to shine
    creds to EastGovnah for making this pic for me

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  28. I’m excited to know the backstory with Alolan Raichu (maybe it’ll even reference a certain famous Pikachu that could Surf and it & it’s trainer holidayed in Alola where it evolved?)
    In any case, its definitely the alternative to the mega, just wondering how the Psychic plays into it (maybe in it’s backstory, it might say how it had no board to surf/zapped local wildlife/adapted when evolve to use it’s tail with Psychic powers? Idk)

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  29. Cynthia would probably be the Charles Darwin (Plus Chuck Norris) of the Pokemon series in this game, fascinated of the alola forms and the different evolution of each island.

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  30. Wow. This is the first time I’ve left for 5 minutes and then seen the “70 new comments” thing.

    Really reminds me of Pokejungle’s active times 3-4 years ago…

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  31. I love how plumeria flowers are rampant in Hawaii and are often associated with life and light yet Plumeria is apart of Team Skull… xD

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  32. Clearly those aren’t real leaks. GF has messed up before but nothing that massive and no company in this world could possibly be that incompetent. It’s probably a marketing strategy to keep the buzz and the comments high even before the official trailers and pictures are released.

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  33. God damn….I just want to watch the trailer now…..We have a whole day before they officially show it…..lol

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  34. By her looks i’d say the pink haired girl could definitely have the floating stone, the salamander and probably the ugly pink fish. What do you people think?

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  35. That sardine is definitely going on my team and thus rules out Popplio and so I’m choosing Rowlet as my starter and that means I have to find an excuse for Lurantis since I hate having two Pokemon of the same type! 😀 POKEMON WHY YOU DO THIS?! But this is a good thing!

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  36. When you now have an excuse for the beginning of the month:
    Friends – Hey, do you wanna hang out?
    Me – No
    Friends – Why?
    Me – I must prepare my mind, body, and soul for Pokemon

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  37. Though I don’t want to leave this Party. I have to. Cya later tonight 🙂

    Hopefully it’s still 4 years ago when I come back

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  38. Wow, I’m trying to read old comments, but it’s so laggy from the new ones it won’t let me go down that far. xD I love it when it gets like this.

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  39. Let’s all prepare ourselves for the first generation to introduce 200+ new Pokemon including Alolan forms since they’re basically sub-species or new species! 😀 😛

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  40. Man.. I Really like the water cucumber. Looks like a Digimon Baby form… But No Way will I allow Growlithe take the short end if the stick if it’s really a water type now. It already lost to Charizard as a fire type before..

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  41. Raichu looks fairy to me. But I think they thought there were too many in this gen already, so they went for the random typing instead.

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  42. Does this confirm Alola Cubone, Alola Persian, and Alola Pichu and Pikachu? It would be weird to have an Alola form for just one or two stages of a Pokemon species and not the whole line considering these have all been triggered due to the influx of climactic and atmospheric changes through adaptation. And then there’s Exeggcute but I don’t think you could really change eggs.

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  43. I posted this under a different profile awhile ago.. but got lost in all the comments coming in haha. Do you guys this that Guzma has any relation to the manga special trainer?… they look so similar. goggles. and similar shirt with the hood. maybe him when he was younger and competing in the trials.. would make sense with his relationship with Kukui too

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  44. What I don’t understand… Does every cubones mother die tragically in front of it.. and then it rips her flesh apart and cleans the skull up enough to place on its head? … I smell conspiracy ?
    Oh.. and this is the Perfect pokemon for Team Skull!

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  45. Speculation time about the Alola Forms.
    I think that there won’t be a form for Pikachu and I also think that the same applies to Marowak.
    For example, Meowth is the first stage, like Vulpix and Sandshrew and of course that the evolution will be different.
    But I think that in Raichu’s case, Pichu and Pikachu will be the same and only Raichu will change. Remember that we saw footage of Pichu with the rival.
    They will be like Alolan Exeggutor. Exeggcute had the normal typing and it only changed in the evolution.
    By the way, what if Cubone is Ground-Type and has to evolve and faint in the same battle, in order to evolve?

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  46. Is it strange that by looking at the anime and movies of Pokemon, the company seems to love the Blue’s line of the versions more than the red’s.

    Such as Blue, Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, White, White 2, Y and Moon

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  47. ~ My Verdicts on New Pokemon ~
    – Wishiwashi: Great concept, exceptional execution, and definitely a contender for one of the best designs thus far with the simple yet cute aesthetics of base form Wishiwashi and the menacing monstrosity that is School Form Wishiwashi, 4/5
    – Pyukumuku: Simple design with a great coloring scheme that truly works for the Pokemon, 3.5/5
    – Alolan Marowak: Possibly one of the best Alolan forms along with Ninetails and Vulpix with an EXCEPTIONAL color scheme and that fiery boomerang looks awesome, 4.5/5
    – Morelull: Good design, but mostly looking towards its potential evolution or split evolution, 3/5
    – Alolan Meowth: Awesome design that fares much, much better in-game than on paper and the colors work very well, 3.5/5
    – Alolan Raichu: Looks like a distant cousin of Mega Audino, but also manages to look cute as hell without the creepy eye factor involved, 3.5/5

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  48. I feel like I’m the only one who’s not overly impressed with the alola forms they’ve revealed. Vulpix/Ninetails and Sandshrew/Slash are pretty good but idk, never was crazy about those pokemon to begin with, new typings or not.

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  49. I know this is really off-topic but I’ve been playing a lot of Overwatch lately and I’ve got D.Va’s “Nerf This” catchphrase stuck in my head, so whenever I play competitive Pokemon and like I’m battling something like a Landorus or Mega Kang, I yell “Nerf This” at my 3DS.

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  50. Have to say this evening has been brilliant. I actually forgot how much fun it is to get information bit by bit, instead of all at once in a video…I remember the days back when the X Y games were leaked a week early in Europe, that entire week was just like today. Good times.

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    • *sigh* This night has made me realize that the surprise wouldn’t nearly be as much fun as watching it be leaked with you guys. I think I’ll hold out until the games release, this is fun.

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      • Idk, as much fun as this is will all of you, if a copy of the games gets leaked early, I’m out. Plus, college starts back up for me soon, so I probably wont be on here much then….

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        • I don’t know, I remember XY leak season to be really fun, so I’ll probably stay. Why fight my instincts? (#TeamMystic tho)

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  51. I’m away to sleep so I’d there’s not a new article I’m expecting like infinite comment power, but I’d just like to say thanks for how nice people have been to me on my first day!

    Its like a big, dysfunctional family <3

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  52. 4chan guy has been right so far on sea cucumber and mushroom, amongst other things. Snowman and rugby monkey will follow

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    • 4Chan guy? I think you mean the Chinese leaks. They were the original leaks that depicted the info that’s becoming real lol

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  53. I know it’s such a tiny detail, but plumaria and guzma seem to have tattoos on their stomach and wrist respectively, which as I said is a small detail, but it’s kinda cool to see pokemon characters who are tattooed

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  54. With so many peculiar things about alola, it gets more and more possible that the starters final evos do get alternative forms depending on smth we still don’t know. So maybe we could finally get a quadrupedal fire starter instead of that trainwreck.

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  55. I actually like the idea of Bruxish having a split evolution: one where it needs to be evolved near or in clean water and the other near polluted water or areas.

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      • With Team Skull and the possibility of pollution and environmental issues being tackled, I guess it wouldn’t be such a huge hurdle to clear through. But yes, I agree. It’s an outlying/impossible possibility.

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  56. Ya’ll ready for tomorrow?! Alan VS Ash! After 19 years, this is the closest Ash has ever gotten to achieving his goal and the first time he’s beaten his Sinnoh run with a Top 4 qualification, but got bested by Tobias 4 : 0! Now, Ash is in the Top 2 and facing against Alan and the plot wheels have begun turning with a possibility of 6 episodes for the Team Flare climax! HYPE!

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  57. Im gonna head on out for today, Adios everyone!

    I enjoyed taking part in the discussion today and seeing a lot of people again 🙂

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  58. It will be interesting to see why the name Team Skull was chosen for the villains. If anything, I was expecting something more along the lines of Team Eclipse to tie into the legendaries. Maybe the team’s motives are not exclusive to the legendaries? Maybe there’s a different team per island? Maybe there’s something even greater than Solgaleo and Lunala for S/M’s plot that’s staying hidden until later. Thoughts?

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    • Well according to the devs, solgaleo and lunala rule over nature and the opposite of nature is urbanization which is associated with pollution which is associated with skulls and death, just my opinion though could be wrong

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    • After all this breaking of tradition that these games have shown, I’m surprised we even have an evil team. It kinda doesn’t feel right. Let’s hope they bring something new to the table, since that seems to be what this gen is aiming for.

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      • I think it’s appropriate. Without an evil team the only opposition would be the trial captains and kahunas and there wouldn’t be any major disaster that causes the legendaries to pipe up.

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        • I guess I’m just surprised there’s a “team.” I was half expecting them to focus on a small amount of antagonists without the grunts that add little to the game other than exp.

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          • Only having minor antagonists wouldn’t pay off unless they kept cropping up.
            Besides which, without grunts there would be nothing standing in the way of fighting the head honcho, you’d just run right in to major fights without having to build your way up, meaning said events would be over quicker and more easily forgettable.

          • Yeah, but it wouldn’t be the first time they mixed up the formula (obviously). I think they could make no team work. They would just have to be smart about it.

          • The problem with not having a team means that unless they started making pokemon turn on people (which goes against the ‘pokemon aren’t evil, trainers are’ philosophy) there would be a distinct lack of major story related battles.

    • I was hoping for Team Eclipse… The designs for Team Skull are lackluster at best and they don’t really give off that villainous, Plasma-level evil vibe! The designs for Ghetsis and Team Plasma were really good and they seemed like a truly threatening, organized evil team. Team Skull lacks in comparison. HOWEVER, I remember everyone hyping Team Flare up due to their designs and look how they turned out… So there’s always that possibility.

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        • Seeing as how Kukui is somehow already acquainted with Guzma, it seems the leader will have the primary focus this time without the lesser generals hogging up the spotlight. I for one am hoping for a sympathetic and layered backstory and motive. Stop being evil just because, have some thought and background!

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          • Hopefully. These games have so much potential for lore, what with the alchemy hints and the traditional feel of Alola. Let’s hope GF doesn’t let that go to waste.

          • It looks like the evil team causes trouble because they were told they weren’t good enough to be captains, which seems like a good human reason to rebel.

      • This is why I think it’s possible it’s a bait and switch.
        That the boss either isn’t the real boss or that there’s another villain who is the real villain.

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          • as XY showed with Megas, Amie, STraining, Wonder Trading, and so on, and left with a terribly stunted story, ORAS disproves your theory though. it’s pretty perfect if being a remake isn’t a detriment.

          • I often think they split their main team in two part way to start them on ORAS before XY was even out.

            Or they lost loads of time recreating the game engine.
            And were able to skip that be reusing the XY one for ORAS.

          • If there’s another team, it could be team Eclipse.
            The hero spends so much time chasing after team Skull that the real Villains can work uninterrupted and be a much more frightening force by the end, requiring the hero to actually team up with Team Skull to end it.

            Sort of like Ruby/Sappire, except if they did a bait&switch at the end where it turned out Magma was good, Aqua was bad/Aqua was good, Magna was bad.

      • That’s what I like about them though! We’ve had a lot of teams that wanted to change the world/rule it. I think it would be nice for a Team Rocket sorta vibe that I feel from them.I just don’t get the ‘We want to destroy the world’ vibe that other Teams, Like Galatic and Plasma, did

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        • Every team wanted to rule the world in their own way not just galactic and plasma but yeah i would like for a change on evil team intentions

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          • True, except Rocket really. They just wanted profit really and to have power,
            Some wanted to change the world for the better in their eyes, and that’s not really ruling in my eyes

          • Oh ok i see your point but to me rocket wanted to profit which would ultimately end with them ruling over the economy which rules everything else (or at least just rule over the kanto-johto region economy haha)

          • “Some wanted to change the world for the better in their eyes, and that’s not really ruling in my eyes”
            They wanted to force their beliefs on other people through force. It’s the same thing as trying to rule the world.

          • Yeah, but at the same time, they’re not trying to control the world in a sense of being leaders and being a dominant force. Forcing your beliefs on someone doesn’t mean you want to rule the world, just what people think.

          • They want to force their ideals on people, that’s still attempting to strip people of their free will, it’s the same thing.
            It’s like trying to force religion on people by force, like the nights Templar did during the crusades. It’s not a coincidence Plasma has a castle/knight theme.

        • For me, I’m a little biased towards those destructive teams because BW are my favorite games. It wouldn’t surprise me if Team Skull’s motives are different, but I fear mirroring Team Rocket will make saving Alola from them a boring task, if that even ends up happening.

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          • I don’t think they’ll be exactly Team Rocket, but have a similar thing. They can cause trouble, but it would be for profit.

          • Adding to that urbanization idea, it could definitely be a viable option. It would have to depend on how their plans are executed and how their backstory is explained to tell if I really enjoy them as villains.

          • I doubt profit is their motive.
            In the footage Guzma calls his team “Fellow rejects that could never become captains” so their motivation is going to be related to that. Be it overthrowing the existing captains by force or just trying to make themselves more powerful.

            Personally I think they’re supposed to be a group of rebelling teenagers, upset at being told they aren’t good enough, which in a way makes them a much more human team on the inside.

          • It’s still a possibility for me, I dunno. And plus, that could just be a sore spot for Guzma, and that’s what made him do the things he did.
            We’ll hopefully find out more soon 🙂

          • It would be a sore spot for more than just him.
            “Fellow rejects” implies everyone in the team failed to qualify for captain.

            I can see them maybe stealing stuff, but more because they don’t want to pay for it than because they want to be rich. They seem more like just a bunch of neighbourhood misfits than the multimillion pokedollar operation team rocket was running. Team Rocket were the Yakuza/Mafia, these guys are more like a biker gang or a street gang – still a nuissance, but onorganised and only a local issue.

          • Nooooo then this probably means no dark type trial captian which is equivalent to no dark type gym leader ??? why gamefreak whyyyy? You know i bet that if dark type had existed in gen 1 then giovanni would have probably specialized on it

          • Why would that be a bad thing if the villain is probably running a dark type team?

            Can’t argue about the gen 1 comment.

          • I took that “Fellow rejects” referred to himself and Kukui.
            Like the preceeding line would be “Well look at us, we meet again.”

          • It’s plausible, but I doubt Kuiki would have become a professor just because he couldn’t become a trial captain. I would have thought he would have been interested in studying pokemon from the get go, otherwise he wouldn’t be a very good professor.

            Also I suddenly realised how odd it is every region only has one professor.

            It would be amusing if the villain turned out to have professor-level IQ.

        • – Team Plasma: Fleshed out, had character development, their leader had a thorough background, had an arc (albeit too late), and created an organized criminal structure while blinding everyone to his true motives. Then there’s N, possibly the most layered and complex character in Pokemon and had a true intention of trying to help the world, but was used against him by Ghetsis through the fabricated, “liberation of Pokemon, truth ideals, etc…” We had two evils there: one that was trying to do good through bad and one that was trying to do bad through good. Yin and yang!

          I believe there’s a stark difference between being a, “I want to rule the world,” team and a team that has actual background while trying to bring change because no matter what, everyone brings change in someway.

          I too want a low-key evil Team Rocket group because there’s more to work with and there’s more room for development, but I can’t help but feel like a grander, more epic/fantasy-esque team would have worked really well for Sun/Moon with the growing lore, alchemic themes, and whatnot.

          Sorry for the REALLY long post. 😛

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          • Ultimately though, every team was trying to achieve things through force.

            Rocket stole and did what they wanted by force.
            Magma and Aqua stole and tried to use the legendaries to force their changes.
            Galaxy tried to take the power of legendaries to do what they wanted.
            Plasma was trying to force their ideals on everyone.
            Flare was trying to force what they wanted on everyone.

            And Skull looks like it’s going to be doing things by force as well.

            Dunno what you mean by Alchemic themes. Aside from the legendaries, what has anything had to do with alchemy?

    • I was hoping they’d be pirates, but after seeing their full attire, Im thinking otherwise.. I could be pleasantly wrong!

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  59. Many litten fanart when it was first showed are quite interesting. Portraying it as a panther or leopard ish thing. I genuinely believed they would go that way, especially with all that “let’s simplify things” talk.

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  60. I kind of feel like this gen is the equivalent of the islands in anime or battle frontier. Which would explain the lack of gyms.. This would be the perfect place for the new champion Ash to go. If he wins

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  61. The starters final evos of the two first gen (plus serperior) were the ones that had really subtle and sharp alterations and the result is gorgeous

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  62. It’s time to update our teams! Mine are:

    Sun:

    Rowlet
    Salandit
    Mimikyu
    Oricorio
    Raichu

    Moon:

    Popplio
    Marowak
    Wishiwashi
    Sandcastle

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  63. Heading out to play Pokemon Uranium, it was good seeing all of you again, as well as seeing new members. I’ll try to stop by more so we can hype over Sun and Moon and analyze tonight’s trailer!

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  64. Guys, if Ash DOES lose the Kalos League, ya’ll better help me create a Change.org page and petition against the writers. 😀

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      • You have to remember that Satoshi Tajiri has Aspergers, so he had probably made Satoshi/Ash as a reflection of himself.

        And from this coming from someone who is diagnosed with HFA, I can totally relate with him. With my character, Karius from my comic series, Elzeron Chronicles

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  65. There are too many pokemon that I want to use on my team it’s INSANE! I guess I’m just gonna have to constantly swap out team members to use them all!

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  66. I regret leaving for a bit. I got to say that I love the evil team so far. They just look awesome. I wonder if Kukui has some history with them or if Lillie is actual a part of them.

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  67. Wishiwashi is actually a fitting name
    It’s weak, pathetic and a total wuss…until it gathers its subordinates to create that powerful illusion

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  68. Wait.. U guys I just realized.. we’ve Already seen Arcanine in Alola.. it’s regular. I dont think they’ve shown any Pokemon in their regular forms in Alola if their type changes.. so it must be wrong ?

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  69. WTF my friend and me were just talking about PUKA the Pikachu that is found surfing in the anime and all the sudden not even 30 minutes after we’re talking about it he sends me this

    https://youtu.be/eP5dMIYg4MI

    This kind of makes me think crystal onix will be real too

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    • I like how they look like thugs. Especially since the Japanese names for the teams are always “____ Gang”. Team skull actually looks like a straight up gang.

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  70. So you guys.. this seems to be officially the last if the leaks. Tomorrow will add video … I’m satisfied… I suppose

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  71. Poor Ash’s pikachu.. first Ash Greninja outshines u.. now your evo can fly… Even if u finally evolve … U can’t.. wow

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      • What if it’s like how there isnt an alola Exeggcute but when it evolves it becomes Alolan Exeggutor? Could that still not happen for pikachu? Or would pikachu have to be from Alola?

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          • They already said… If u want a Pokemon from prev gen without alola form.. must bring in from dif game. It’s obvious it applies here to

          • -_- That’s referring to pokémon with alola forms, not their prevolutions. Nowhere does it say an imported exeggcute/pikachu can’t evolve into an Alolan form when imported. You’re just extrapolating. This would make mores sense to my eyes.

          • …. think. How else would u get eggsecute from kanto to evolve regular in this game? Or an alolan eggsecute to evolve to its alola form in future games? Each pokemon has something in its information section after u catch it saying where it’s from. That’s how the game keeps track. This is just the way it is. Not really anything to discuss honestly.

          • Maybe a special item, or you have to import your exeggutor to get the original . Again you’re just assuming. It’s a fair assumption, but you don’t have the proof to settle the issue. Right now it’s still up in the air.

          • like how x/y has the polygon, Sun and moon Pokemon will have a symbol. I would guess Exeggcute with the symbol can evolve into Exeggutor

          • That’s a completely fair guess 🙂 . It makes a lot of sense. But it’s not 100% confirmed atm.

          • its not. but i think it would be bit confusing even if ur transfer ur stuck with alolan raichu, with a kanto pikachu. people would want the best of both worlds

          • Completely fair point, and you may very well turn out to be right, but it’s nothing an item or something couldn’t solve. I thought a cool solution for Alola forms in future games would be levelling up in biodomes.

          • Yeah that would be a very neat idea! Though I’m confused as to how sandshrew or vulpix would get off their icy peak to migrate haha

          • You know the blue pentagon that marked pokémon as not allowed to participate in XY competitions back in the day? It’s a generational provenance indicator. That was basically shaped like Kalos, but iirc the symbol is a flower this time?

          • I edited, but before you answered, so it’s probably Pokejungle’s awful update system forgetting to update messages.

          • If I were a programmer working at Nintendo, I’d find the region locking idea easier to implement than making a special item to force Alolan pokemon to take their Kanto forms when they evolve. Also it means that you couldn’t have pokemon that evolve when traded and holding an item have Alolan forms.

          • Yeah, that’s accurate, and I hadn’t thought of that last possibility. It makes current-location based evolution even more unlikely, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

          • I think of these things because I’m a programmer. It means I have an idea of the amount of work it takes to get certain features working 😛

          • I figured that meant only fully evolved. For example the only way you could get the original exeggutor was transfer it but. But if you were to transfer an exeggute it would evolve into the alolan variant. We might have to wait til gameplay cause i could see it going either way

          • … No. Do whatever u want.
            ?
            You’ve been asking but not rly asking.. you just want to hear what u want to hear

          • No, you just have to consider our point of view based on the facts at hand. Look at the damn facts and tell me they said exactly what you’re asserting. You’re not necessarily right here.

          • -_- This is just pathetic. You could perfectly well be right. We could perfectly well be right. Do you want me to look up the exact citations we have been given and show you that’s just your interpretation of said facts? You know it doesn’t hurt to be wrong sometimes… Sheesh

        • Was about to say this, if it’s environment-based phenotypic plasticity there’s no reason why a pikachu/exeggcute from any region shouldn’t evolve into it’s Alolan form while in Alola. This especially makes sense for exeggutor…

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          • Phenotypic plasticity? This IS how biology can work. Sure, it’s less obvious, but no less scientific. It’s especially salient for the Exggutor form, when it says the local conditions causes Exeggcutors to grow much bigger on evolution. Wait till we get Alolan Raichu’s description to be so sure 🙂 .

          • That would only explain some evolutions, not all of them.
            And that’s more about survival strategy than different physical changes. And it applies more to plants than other species.

          • Of course, I was just assuming this applies only to lines that aren’t completely changed in Alola, the rest being the result of local adaptation. But I may very well be wrong and it could all be local adaptation expressed at one life stage. Thing is in some cases it’s about survival, in other cases it’s different. Phenotypic plasticity is very much a catch-all term and I’ve had researchers tell me first hand they’re not quite sure what it means haha. And yeah it seems to be more of a plant thing (though the amount of animal examples is quite astounding in itself) but this is the pokémon world we’re talking about, where metamophosis allows drastic instant biological change, so I wouldn’t say it’s too implausible!

          • Stuff like all of a pokemon’s skin/fur becoming black would be unlikely to happen like that. It’s not the same as getting a sun tan.
            Take a polar bear away from the arctic and it becomes less white, but it doesn’t turn black or grow new apendages.
            Take a plant into the tropics and it’ll probably grow better, take a plant out of the tropics and it won’t do so well.

            If such a process were capable of doing miraculous things, the animals living in zoos would look a lot different to the wild ones, but for the most part the differences are minor.

            The Alolan forms aren’t minor adaptations, they’re effectively sub species. Like how urban foxes and arctic foxes are both still foxes, but they’re both very different and you couldn’t just switch their environments and expect them to be fine.

            It might be plausible for Exeggcute or maybe at a stretch Pikachu, but it would be unlikely to work for Cubone, Vulpix or Sandshrew.

          • That’s exactly my point, it don’t think it applies to vulpix or sandshrew. Wouldn’t make sense as they’re clearly stated to have migrated long ago and adapted as a separate population, you couldn’t have a more classic example of allopatric speciation! And raichu is deffo a stretch, but who knows with gamefreak! This whiole thing just stems from my interpretation of Exeggutor’s description honestly.

    • makes you wonder of why Team Rocket is still wanting him, the boss would brobably tell them that he isn’t worth it.

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      • I dont think that team rockets main plan is to get pikachu anymore, btw i think that there will be an anime episode where they find an alolan meowth and team rockets meowth falls in love with her or something like that

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          • Yeah and if that is still their main plan then team rocket are the most peserverant persons i have ever seen xD

          • Unless Pikachu is actually hiding the real thing Giovanni wants (like a gem or piece of technology hidden in its fur), or it used to belong to Giovanni and he wants it back. Would explain why originally it was so feral.
            Or Ash is actually Giovanni’s sun and the Rocket Trio are how Giovanni keeps up with what his son is doing.

          • seems plausible. In fact a Pokemon play actually reveals Geovanni being Ash’s father. Although they don’t seem to recognize each other in ‘Mewtwo Returns’

          • Ash wouldn’t necissarily know it’s his father.
            And Giovanni probably wouldn’t want Ash to know, if he did he wouldn’t need the Rocket Trio to keep an eye on him.
            Also the fact he sent such a useless team out shows he doesn’t want ash to come to harm. If he’d meant harm he would have sent his best team.

  72. For anyone keeping track, the leaker who sent the cryptic image of a bunch of organs and a rock paper scissors image was referring to the sea cucumber.

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  73. Look at what our friend TyranitarTube has done with a thumbnail. Just a random arrow on every bit of news. No wonder he gets so many views. rf. I wonder how Mallow and Arcanine are related to each other.

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  74. I actually prefer every single Alolan form we’ve seen so far to the originals… It’s so cool to think for people in Alola these are the ‘regular forms’. Ash is going to be in for a lot of surprises.

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      • IF we get a League in the veins of normal Pokemon games. Wouldn’t surprise me if they throw something out of left field… hopefully something more fun and challenging since recent E4’s have been lackluster.

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  75. Judging from the Pictures team skull is formed from rejects who couldn’t complete the island challenge and become captains. So are they just trying to stop other island goers cause they’re salty? Or will they be trying to take over the world through some way? Either way I’m glad they actually look like a gang and the didnt try to pull a Lysandre with the leader.

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    • It seems like each admin (in this case, so far, Plumeria and Guzma) has one, with a different color. Guzma’s is purple, Plumeria’s is pink. This lines up with the theory that each island has a color representing it: Yellow, Pink, Red, Purple.
      Both are tattoos of the Team Skull symbol.

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  76. So I’m actually kind of surprised they decided to mess with Raichu. Sure they are still able to leave pikachu alone, but touching that family is an interesting move. I will say it may help Raichu get some much deserved love as Pikachu basically stole any it could get. lol

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    • On one hand, they gave it attention. On the other hand, they were risking ruining it, which shows that they don’t care for it as much as some Pokemon.

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  77. Speaking of Joe Merrick. I saw something interesting he said before, but forgot. Apparently Bewear’s pre evo and the sandcastles are stated as CoroCoro exclusives in the magazine while the others were not. Maybe that’s why no trailer yet for them. I assume it may be like with Rockruff and Komala where it might be a little before we get an official announcement video for them…….which is a shame…..

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      • We have freaking 35 (?) Pokemon revealed for Sun and Moon already….and I don’t think that even counts the Alolan forms lol

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          • If there are 103 new pokemon like the leak said then we’re almost half way through the dex and we still have 2 months. I hope they start expanding things they already introduced though.

          • OH GOD!!!! lol I really hope we aren’t getting too many of them…..the leaks state that there are ore, but not by much in terms of Pokemon comparing to XY….so I’m thinking 90…..so we a little more than a 3rd of the way through……

  78. One thing I love about Team Skull so far is that they don’t seem to have too many admins. Team Flare had Lysandre, the four girls, xerosic, and the bald guys they called admins. Two is a good amount IMO.

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    • I’m fine with admins if they’re well designed.
      That’s why I liked Cipher in Colusseum/XD.
      Mirror B is still one of my favourite characters and Lovrina, Ein and Venus were all really well designed.

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    • Well the bald guys were nothing more than more powerful grunts, they had no individuality, they just gave them the admin title for some reason, I guess cause the others were scientists. But yeah five major underlings was quite a lot, and they don’t seem to have stuck with people (though Xerosic got some nice post-game development). I’d have pretty much forgotten the scientists had strong personalities if it weren’t for the the manga.
      Oh and there was Malva of course! Yeah, that’s getting to be quite a lot!

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    • i think we getting 2 more, since the tattoos match the color of the islands meaning someone has a red one and someone else has a yellow one

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  79. I’m just saying I don’t think he means sea faring captains….I think he means trial captains. I don’t think they are pirates just bitch little kids

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  80. Hahaha there are just too many leaks this is hilarious. The comment activity has been mad too. Kinda wish this had waited till Friday to spread the hype a bit honestly. At least we’ll get dex descriptions for all these, and probably precisions on how their abilities work!

    Wishiwashi is an awesome name and a clever pun, I love it.
    Pyukumuku ain’t bad, but I wish they’d gone with cumbersome, I thought that was an excellent cheeky name and very gen I in style.
    Morellul has a nice design, a neat idea behind it, me likey! At this point it seems doubting the chinese rumour is basically impossible haha.

    That Guzma dialog is tantalising, their team seem to hold a grudge against the island trial system, can’t wait to see how that plays out. Also their logo is the best team logo evarrrr!

    Unrelated, but I’m just loving the nicknaming possibilities for Robinhoot or whatever it’s gonna be called, the evolution who’s awesomeness somehow counteracts my dislike/dissapointment with the other ones.
    OwliverQueen, Legowlas, WilliamTowll, Arrowltotheknee, ByeBorowlmir, RIPRickon… So many awful puns teeheeheheh

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    • I actually read the lore on the official website, so there’s still hyp left for me 😛

      Wishiwashi is weird naming.

      “At this point it seems doubting the chinese rumour is basically impossible”
      I can still pretend Tony the Tiger isn’t real all the way until it is.

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  81. Guys I only just realized… We finally got an evil team with its name starting with S!
    So that means…
    Team F lare
    Team G alactic
    Team R ocket
    Team A qua
    Team M agma
    Team P lasma
    Team S kull

    The secret message is an obscene verbal message to Oak from Gary :'(

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  82. I can’t wait for us to get to Sun & Moon in the Pokemon Adventures manga and for the current anime. We might be getting word for both soon

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    • Lol poor Yamamoto and Kusaka better finish XY and ORAS quick, they’ve already put BW2 on pause. I hope they can still pull off quality arcs with the pressure. What’s coming together now seems very exciting to me though quite messy, that said I’m an easy audience to please haha.

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      • I’m hoping they’ve just been holding out on volumes to catch up so they could start releasing volumes consistently again

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  83. so I’ve been thinking. This gen we are getting a lot of very interesting abilities. I’ve always thought that abilities don’t always have to be useful, but they should always be interesting. I find stuff like Wishiwashi’s ability super cool. We still don’t know all the details, but It’s very different from other abilities and that’s a plus for me.lol

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  84. Look at this between X/Y,ORAS, and S/M these are the pre order numbers in USA with 18-17 weeks before launch for each
    X/Y-90,604
    ORAS-33,942
    S/M-170,915

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    • People are way more excited for Sun and Moon then they have been for a very long time. I think it being the 20th anniversary is helping, but also the fact that these games seem to be kicking things up a notch in a big way too lol

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  85. Oh guys I totally forgot to mention something I might be an oracle
    Last night (I kid you know 100% telling the truth) I had a Sun and Moon Dream

    I was in some old gigantic sepia tone building maybe a mall, I was wandering around and found a GameStop, they had copies of Sun out but for whatever force compelled me I couldn’t buy or even steal it, and it was sealed and had the game card in it, I tried to take it but it wouldn’t budge, then I found a prima guide for it, I flipped back and tried to see any info but the pages were blank or smudged, I found myself at a list of Pokemon only a few images were intact, namely an unknown green cannon elephant, a bat thing (not Lunala) and Litten and Popplio’s Evos the wrestler and mermaid, the names were blanked out but the types weren’t…..what I read shocked me Fire/Dark and Water/Fairy

    And that’s all I remember

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  86. All I’m hoping for is for them not to reveal all new mons before the games are out. What they’ve done with the Megas in ORAS was horrible imo, wouldn’t want that to happen again.

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    • I doubt they’d stop revealing new mons but they may simply just decrease the numbers in which they reveal them in. But i agree it was annoying that all the new megas were introduced before the games came out

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    • I honestly don’t mind, I like planning my team before I play my game and I rarely like to switch out mons, so the more I know about the better 🙂

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    • All the yes to this. I’m still boggled that they thought it was a good promotion strategy. Tbh I think what hit hardest was to discover X and Y only had 72 new pokémon and thus there were only 20-30 left to discover, and that was before the week-early leaks.
      And for ORAS, they didn’t just spoil all the megas, they spoiled the delta episode and the fact you could catch deoxys. Nice going, it’s not like it would have been an amazing surprise to fans to get such an involving postgame out of nowhere…

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  87. Something interesting I saw @PJ mention on Twitter is that Hau will likely get an Alolan Raichu by the end of the game. Since he has a Pichu when you battle him at the ceremony thing. Makes sense to me and I’d be down with that hahaha

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  88. Honestly i could see gamefreak pulling at, “Pikachu can be found either regular or Alolan depending on the island” hohoho

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  89. UGH!!!!!! I can’t wait for next month!!! Now we know for sure that the Chinese leaks are real, but we still have one or two leaks that could go either way……Once we know Rockfuff’s secret we’ll be able to without a shadow of a doubt what’s real and what isn’t lol

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  90. I wonder what reason they’d give for the existence of Alolan Raichu. “Raichu adapted to being a Psychic type for hanging out with Pau Oricorio a little too much”

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  91. Now I am extremely hyped for this game. Don’t get me wrong, I was hyped ever since the beginning. But not as much as XY because that was the first game I actually checked news on (for a Pokemon game) and not as hype as ORAS because Ruby was my lyfe back then. This game is getting really close to being as hyped as XY, not as much as ORAS tho, nothing can beat that xD

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  92. I want see Pyukumuku and Shirodesuna in the battle badly.

    I think Innards out ability will change Pyukumuku apperance though.

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  93. Hey guys, the grunts aren’t trying to look like monkeys. They’re forming a skull shape with their bodies, with the spaces under their arms as the eye sockets. They’re literally using gang signs.

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    • Enjoy what, exactly?
      You just gave a link to PokeBeach with the same info we have here at our beloved jungle home known as PokeJungle.

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  94. Calm down a bit PJN you’re turning into youtubers with the news(This comment is not meant in a mean way it’s just meant in a humors away lol)

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  95. Ok I change my mind I think Marowak is going on the team lol. But seriously School Wishiwashi and Alola Raichu look extremely cool

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  96. I’m so happy 🙂 so much new information! I’m excited to say that this will be my first time raising a marowack so I’m looking forward to all its cool new moves. It’s design is so bad ass. I think I’m also going to end raising a psychic raitchu. I don’t think the typing makes much sense but it looks really cool. Alolan pikachu confirmed 🙂 i will use a sandslash this gen depending on what other steel are available.

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  97. I actually wish people would just let GF run their announcements instead of helping them a hand by leaking everything they have to announce. Still, it’s my own fault that I check the info…

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  98. So I just thought of something! In the screencap with Guzma and Kukui, Guzma says to Kukui “Fellow rejects who never could become captains”

    What if Guzma and Kukui have a history together? Guzma using the term captains and rejected leads me to believe that the two of them tried to become trial captains at some point in their past and both failed. However Kukui took his failure in stride and eventually became a Pokemon professor while Guzma took his failure badly and founded team Skull. It could be a lesson in how we should learn to learn from our mistakes and failures blah blah blah

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    • It’s definitely what I think for sure.
      However, I know some people brought up that he might be referring to Team Skull itself, that all of them are rejects of the trial challenge.
      I’m still more partial to him talking about the both of them, though, it just looks that way to me.

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      • Hmm could definitely see all of team skull being trial captain rejects but seeing as I’d love a story where the professor and evil team leader used to be buds in leaning towards that lol. It could have such cool moments everytime they meet up!

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        • Yeah, I feel there is definitely more story potential if they have that history together :3 And I love the idea of them being foils, like they both had the same thing happen to them, but both went different paths. <3 I really love foils in any story really, shows how different people can be similar yet different at the same time 🙂

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  99. I changed my user name so it shows my love for Fairy and Fire types because it looked like i wanted to burn Fairies before lol

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  100. I am really TURNT UP off of these unique abilities! I know it’s a lot of programming or whatever but I think Pokés should have more unique abilities, and I’m happy that almost every Poké revealed so far has a niche.

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  101. Team Skull looks really laid back for an evil team but that makes sense since I wouldn’t work my butt off if I was in Hawaii

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  102. I’m wondering…do you think that all 1st gen pokemon in the islands will get an alola form? I mean, we saw a meowth in our home in its normal form and we now know that it has an alola form so the fact that we saw a normal gyarados and dragonite does not mean they will not have a new form. It would be really cool if we get 151 new old pokemon styles and types.

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    • Maybe not all the family line (like exggecute) but all final evolutions. Also I would leave out pokemon that already change type with mega evo (like gyarados) but those megas who doesn’t change type will get an alola form and a new mega type (like Alakazam).

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    • I was wondering that too. But will probably be too much. I do hate the fact that it feels like they do these things randomly/popularity contest (a bit like mega evo).

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  103. well guys this is it,tomorrow is going to be the big reveal,all of our waiting is going to pay off,our Fates are sealed in the Grateful way as possible,we’re going to see some more info on Pokemon Sun and Moon,so let’s get the hype train started! XD

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  104. Pyukumuku? Okay what does it say when the fake leak from earlier comes up with better names than that?

    Alolan Raichu looks ridiculous to me. Don’t care for Wishiwashi. Fire/Ghost Marowak is badass though.

    No official English names for the sandcastle which ticks me off.

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  105. Ok, Alolan forms with Sandshrew, Sandslash, Vulpix and Ninetails I understand. These Pokemon moved to Alola and over the years became acclimatised to it and their forms changed accordingly. So how the f**k do you get non-Alolan Pikachus and Cubones evolving into Alolan Raichus and Alolan Marowaks? That pretty much craps on the logic of the whole thing! :/ Methinks GF wanted to give Raichu a boost but didn’t dare touch Pikachu, the series mascot. I love the idea of Alolan forms but this new development seriously doesn’t even attempt to make sense. All or nothing, please, not halfway.

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  106. The next update for Pokemon Sun and Moon will reveal Alolan forms of Exeggcute, Cubone, Persian, Pichu, and Pikachu. Also Sunabaa, Shirodesuna, and Nuikoguma will get English names. And the Alola Guardian of Akala Island, starter evolutions, Marshadow, Wereruff, Porprise, more new Pokemon, more Alolan forms, and a few new Mega Evolutions will be revealed.

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