The trailer for Pokémon Sun & Moon has been released early (which made me pause Nathan for You) and contains information we saw from the leaks earlier today! Here’s a recap:
- Team Skull is revealed along with its leader Guzma and Admin Plumeria
- New Pokémon Wishiwashi and Pyukumuku are shown in battle, both with interesting animations (Innards Out, which does damage based on Pyukumuku’s health before the final blow that KOs it!)
- The trailer reveals one brand-new Pokémon Morelull
- We finally see Alolan Meowth, Raichu & Marowak in action. It is heavily implied Pikachu & Cubone do not have Alola forms
<3 PJ
You guys think he went crazy because they didn’t make him a trial captain? Or they didn’t make him a captain because he was crazy… can’t wait to find out his back story!
He’s not crazy, he’s just angsty and angry.
He’s probably annoyed they didn’t make him Trial Captain. So executes some type of revenge.
Honestly I see these guys as minor villains as opposed to main villains.
“Honestly I see these guys as minor villains as opposed to main villains.”
I refer back to my bait and switch theory.
The player spends the whole time fighting the nuisance gang, meanwhile a real evil gang has been achieving their goals.
I could see this happening. These guys, no matter how much I like them, are not threatening enough…at least not at the moment.
Might even be that they’re just the villain of the first island and that other islands are occupied by another team (or teams).
Yeah they don’t really strike me as areally villainous organization just a small group of thugs or really low rank grunts of the main organization
What if there’s gangs on each island and a real team that rules over all of them?!
Plausible. I would have only expected 2-3 teams though.
Potential for a Dark type Trial Captain (which would be kind of like the first Dark typed gym) – now the main villain haha
I wonder what the next issue will give us in Pokemon Sun and Moon Next?
Well we know for certain that it’ll contain Rockruff’s secret evolution thing
Like that time Corocoro ‘revealed’ the box art?
Well the way Serebii translated it was a “poster” of Rockruff’s secret evolution. Now I always take things with a pinch of salt especially when it comes to translations however I would say that a poster with Rockruff and even silhouettes of it’s evo(s) would not happen. I do expect actual artwork of it which could be potentially exciting
I Wonder what will Rockruff’s secret evolution will do?
Other than stop being secret once it has been revealed?
Well we will see.
My friggin gorilla
Rockrilla
http://www.ferreestudios.com/images/gallery/contactpagegorilla.jpg
Kongidol Rock/Grass
Needs more leaves.
Like maybe a headdress or crown.
Would “Rockong” be too awful a pun?
Well my original idea was a animated Wooden Monkey Carving Montiki
Then becoming a huge idol Gorrila
Couldn’t find many good wooden gorilla carvings, but I found the gorilla equivalent of T-500:
http://cd8ba0b44a15c10065fd-24461f391e20b7336331d5789078af53.r23.cf1.rackcdn.com/stanwinstonschool.vanillaforums.com/editor/jm/2ec1fhs2158t.jpg
You would like a Rock/Grass? Never figured you as a Grass lover.
Everyone loves grass.
a Rock/Fighting,Grass/Rock or Ground/Fighting gorilla will be fine 🙂
Starter Evolutions and Rockruff Details
let’s hope so.
Team Skulls music is just. . . Magnificent. . . Like, easily my favorite theme I’ve heard. Maybe it’s just that deep “yeah” that’s ringing in my ear, but it’s awesome.
Agreed :3
It sounds too much like rap music, 90% of which makes me want to puke up a fist to punch the person ‘singing’ it.
I’m going to enjoy pumelling them though if they’re one of those awful ‘gansta’ types with the really crappy hand gestures.
canf wait till we get the English trailer and the website updates so we get some descriptions. What does innards out do? It doesn’t look as gross as I wanted it to.
It’s here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06bSt8nPLeg
English trailer is out, and I’m pretty positive that Kukui used to be in Team Skull.
so whens the next trailer coming out
Alola Marowak came to exist because of the high amount of Grass types in the Alola region. Its keen sixth sense triggered the change.
Website states that Guzma ”has a bone to pick with Kukui” so they are definitely connected, as was suggested by someone already yesterday. I think Kukui used to be a Skull member but went rogue because he disagreed with their beliefs.
The Marowak in the Alola region take bones and light both ends on fire by rubbing them against their foreheads. Then they spin the bones around! Marowak’s rarity and its fearsome appearance when it dances with its bone led the people of Alola to dub it a conjurer and regard it with fear.
There are many Grass-type Pokémon—Marowak’s natural enemies—in the Alola region. This makes Alola a harsh environment for Cubone and Marowak. As a result, they live in close union with their partners. It’s said that their great care for their partners allowed them to gain something like a sixth sense and resulted in their changed form.
The Alolan Marowak proves skilled at an attack in which it waves its bone and releases a ball of flame. The fireballs are not that powerful, but they tirelessly pursue the foe!
It did look like it used a new move. Some kind of Ghost-type bone attack.
So gamefreak also didn’t have a good reason to make Raichu psychic…
It still has my heart, but I would have loved some real lore.
Well, it is a children’s game, so I guess candy is a good excuse (not for me, but for their main audience, I suppose)
Due to their appearance and their lifestyle, Pyukumuku are considered unappealing to tourists. Part-time work chucking Pyukumuku back into the sea is available at tourist beaches. But no matter how far they’re thrown, Pyukumuku will always return to the same spot.
Once a Pyukumuku finds a place it likes, it won’t budge from it. If someone moves it away, back it comes to the same spot. If it runs out of food to eat in that spot, it’ll stay there—and starve. The people of Alola found this so pitiful that they developed a tradition of chucking Pyukumuku back into the food-rich sea whenever they come across any thin-bellied Pyukumuku.
Pyukumuku are covered with a slippery, viscous fluid that has a moisturizing effect. Pyukumuku can stay on land for a week without drying out. The people of Alola use this fluid for skincare products.
Pyukumuku hate to have their spikes and mouths touched, and if you step on one, it will hurl out its fist-like inner organs to strike at you.
Pyukumuku has a new Ability, Innards Out, which no other Pokémon has had before. With the Innards Out Ability, when this Pokémon faints, it will be able to deal one last bit of damage to its opponent, equal to the amount of HP it had left before it received the final blow.
JESUS CHRIST DO NOT 1HKO THESE THINGS
I love this pokemon, it is my baby
GUZUMA IS LITERALLY THE MOST BADASS POKEMON CHARACTER PERIOD
The Raichu in Alola have two types—Electric and Psychic—and they are able to wield psychic power. What’s more, they can gather their psychic power in their tails and then ride on them to float in the air!
Even Pokémon researchers don’t know why Raichu’s form changed in the Alola region. The people of Alola seem unconcerned by the question. Their guess: maybe it ate too many sweet and fluffy round pancakes!
Raichu has electric sacs on its cheeks, and rubbing them causes a sweet aroma to be released. The mechanism behind this is not clear, but it’s thought to be connected to the psychic power that Alolan Raichu possess.
The Alolan Raichu has a new Ability, Surge Surfer, which no other Pokémon has previously had. With the Surge Surfer Ability, the Pokémon’s Speed will be doubled on Electric Terrain.
…….Alright I’m personally going to destroy all Raichu, Alolan Variants are a joke now
Mother of Arceus!
Alolan Raichu doubles its speed in electric terrain?
That thing is going to be fast .w.
Cy’all later I got stupid work for the next bloody 7 hours
OMG Team Skull members have to buy their outfits in shops, Imagine if we get to wear those things, epic af.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06bSt8nPLeg
New video
Already in the article haha
Damn, looks like I need to refresh then cause I can’t see it 😛
First rule of pokejungle: Refresh regularly haha
Pyukumuku and Cutiefly are now my favorites of all the new Pokemon, followed by Vikavolt and Morelull. I’m really exited to see their evolutions (if they have any that is)
Pyukumuku is adorable
Fell in love with it after reading its dex entry ^^
I still don’t get why many of you are complaining about Cubone changing types: yeah, it’s the first time it’s happened but what’s the problem? If you really need an ‘explanation’ to why that happens then just tell yourself that Cubone has the new genes but that they only become active upon evolution. + it’s perfectly fine if gamefreak wanted to give raichu a new form without a reason to. It’s Pokemon, don’t try to look too much into everything (we have a fish that turns into an octopus and this is shocking you guys?)
I think it’s less about unhappiness that it’s a normal Cubone and more confusion……Although the description makes sense for Marowaks change, it doesn’t really make any sense for Cubone to stay the same…..a ground type evolving into a Fire/Ghost type is quite perplexing lol
I see Marowak as a sort of shaman so a complete change in typing doesn’t seem that weird. They could’ve given cubone an alolan form but they didn’t, and that’s not gonna ruin the game in any way. And Pikachu’s probably not getting any because, well, it’s pikachu.
If they’d made the lore explicitly state ‘Marowak took up shamanism’ I would have bought that explanation. The current explanation is too loose and unbelieveable.
It doesn’t have to be explicit, just take a look at marowak + if they mentioned shamanism parents + religious people would again say Pokemon is the work of the devil etc
Pokemon already has worse stuff than Shamanism.
They should still make it somewhat explicit.
It’s just one Pokemon. Let’s see its pokedex entry.
Who said it’ll ruin the game? Also I think it makes more sense for Pikachu to not get one. Raichu is still part electric type so it doesn’t really matter if Pikcachu or Pichu get forms lol
I tend to think of it like this: Every single Pokemon is a single species. And by that I mean I look at a Pokemon and every stage in its evolutionary line and consider them each completely different species. Connected through a metamorphosis like evolutionary change. So they both have a real world evolutionary tract.
So with Marowak and Cubone, both species evolved separately from each other. Pokemon are know to be able to get really old without evolving, like that one elder Treeko from the anime. So if they can go through life unevolved then there species could evolve over time separately. So marowaks on the island became fire/ghost while the Cubone species didn’t need to evolve.
That doesn’t explain a normal looking ground type Cubone evolving into a ghost/fire Marowak.
Right because then the Cubone would just evolve into a regular Marowak hahaha
I think only cubone’s caught in Alola will be able to evolve into the new form.
Well yeah……that’s how the mechanic works hahahaha
So there’s nothing wrong with an Alolan Ground type cubone evolving into a ghost/fire Marowak.
No, the Pokemon are seperate species but are connected by a metamorphological change. This changed form would be in the pokemons DNA. Every species on earth has dna that isn’t active. So when Cubone are born on Alola, they will evolve into the Marowak of Alola because that’s what’s in the dna of those Cubone on that island. The two species evolved different but are connected still, even with those changes, by this metamorphological change.
That’s exactly what I meant 🙂
Yea idk why people try to make soo much sense out of pokemon
Sheesh they really didn’t care enough to make a reason for Raichu’s change lol Anyway interesting stuff. Although I can’t help, but feel like this is one of the more underwhelming announcements we’ve gotten. Cool stuff for sure, but it just doesn’t have that kick that the others had for me. An it’s not due to the leaks because event he other announcements that leaked had more more excited lol
Yeah I feel the same. Not sure why. I like all of these.
Yeah its not that I don’t like what we got, but it just feels like it lacks power lol
What?
I actually correctly guessed Morelull’s Illuminate ability?
(Admitedly I forgot there was already an Illuminate ability and created a new function for it, but still)
Eh, it’s a fluke
they didn’t say anything about the sandcastle Pokemon and Bewear’s first form.
Was that really a surprise after the Japanese video?
I guess not. But I’d still like to know about them. Bewear is one of my team Pokemon do id be nice to know its English name and stuff
It’ll probably come next time round, they left Rockruff and Komala out of the videos for a while after their reveals.
Patience is a virtue.
True. But I’m not a very patient person. Working on it though!
I’d suggest taking up fishing, but I don’t like the fish being disturbed.
I’d suggest bird watching but that’s just kind of boring.
Erm… reading? I dunno
Britney Spears has a new album coming out, that’ll keep me occupied. And I guess moving, work, life will keep me busy too.
She’s still around?
I guess it’s true, the 90s never die.
Welp, it’s probably better than the stuff that comes out of X-Factor anyway.
“It’s said that their great care for their partners allowed them to gain
something like a sixth sense and resulted in their changed form.”
I don’t buy it.
Pokemon makes no sense, i’ve learned not to question it
It makes sense when they get the lore right.
For example, Pyukumuku is actually really rich in lore and reasonably believeable.
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon/pyukumuku/
Oh yeah, thats true (And its also stupidly cute, don’t get how people don’t see it)
Look at magcargo for example
I agree it’s cute. The hand puking was no where near as gross as expected.
“Part-time work chucking Pyukumuku back into the sea is available at tourist beaches.”
Poor Pyuku… :C
Well…. if they don’t do it, Pyuku dies……
(Am i the only one naming it Kevin?)
Morelull is nocturnal, omg.
Pyukumu’s ability looks really handy.
“Pyukumuku has a new Ability, Innards Out, which no other Pokémon has had
before. With the Innards Out Ability, when this Pokémon faints, it will
be able to deal one last bit of damage to its opponent, equal to the
amount of HP it had left before it received the final blow.”
I love this mon
This will be such a difficult pokémon to take out.
Just give it max health and switch in to that dangerous sweeper. Instant kill
I forsee an uprise in the use of false swipe.
it shall happen, I don’t want my pokemon taking the damage that is a Pokémon’s health bar
And Hold Back lol
That’s an event only move, it’ll be rare to see that anyway, unless it can be bred onto pokemon as an egg move.
ohhh lol you are actually right and im not sure if you can breed it onto other mons
So the new evil team is commanded by Jared Leto’s Joker… Interesting
Wash your mouth out, Guzuma is better than that.