8/21 UPDATE: Although we are all excited that Happy Hour Meowth has indeed been confirmed as a distribution, this does not necessarily give any credence to this rumor. Upcoming downloads can be datamined a month or more in advanced. -PJ
RUMOUR ALERT: The information contained in this post is based on speculation, not fact. Please treat it as such and do not interpret it as confirmed news.
As with every release cycle in a new Pokémon game the rumour mill is going strong with Sun & Moon. Once again an anonymous user on a popular image board has posted a list of alleged new details about the games, from new islands in the Alola region, to a new and spectacular Rainbow Greninja. The full list of information is below and some of it seems a little to good to be true (which it almost certainly is), but it’s good to talk about, right?!
- Alola is made up of 4 islands, Melemele, Poni, Ula’Ula, and Akala.
- Post game has 4 “Island Districts” that aren’t viewable on the map. Ekahi Island, Elua Island, Ekolu Island, and Kalola Island.
- Kalos is not available post-game, but Hoomaka Cave on Kalola Island holds a huge easter egg I believe. Deep inside there is a dark entrance guarded by a backpacker that states the railroad is closed for now and only a Pokémon that emits a special light can ignite the way to the other side. No Pokémon in your party will allow you to enter for now.
- Rockruff has 3 evolutions similar to Eevee in RBY. All of them require learning “Howl”.
- Salandit has a split evolution line at level 36, one for Male and one for Female.
- There are 16 Z-Stones, 18 total, with a Trial Captain for 16 of the types. Guzma and Plumeria are holders of the missing Dark and Poison Z-Stones.
- Some Pokémon can change shape/stats after they perform a Z-Move. These include Greninja (Rainbow), Solgaleo (Radiant), Lunala (Full Moon), Marshadow (Eclipse), Espeon (Dawn), and Umbreon (Dusk).
- All 47 Mega Stones are accessible on the island districts. There aren’t any new Mega Evolutions.
- There are a total of 128 new Pokémon and 23 Alolan forms. These Alolan forms are all Gen 1 exclusive Pokémon.
- Alolan form Pokémon that are capable of Mega Evolving can do so, Alakazam and Kangaskahn are among these.
- Marshadow, an extremely gorgeous dolphin, has a jewel on its head that emit sparkles so bright, that its seen as the emissary of light. It’s stats are pretty underwhelming, but it has a cool ability that allows it to have any Psychic type combination. The second type is random every time it enters the battle field. Even switching out causes it to change.
- The Strange Souvenir item in XY depicts a Ghost/Rock Pokémon from Alola named Gigareki. It’s a giant tiki (different from the Tapu lines) that has an amazing laughing animation when you battle with it. It is said to be the oldest living Pokémon, and seen as a “Teacher” in many ways.
- The NX will be a dual handheld/console set for release next year. Sept 2017 there will be a parent game that features both regions of XYSM exclusive to this console.
- Rainbow Greninja will be revealed by TPC on Aug 21.
- Alolan Alakazam family are fighting type. Alolan Alakazam can mega evolve, keeps the fighting type, and gains No Guard.
- Yes. The Z-Bracelet is a key item in your backpack. Selecting it allows you to place 1 mega stone and 1 z stone inside of it. This allows for more crazy strategies because your Mega Pokémon can now hold items like Rayquaza due to this.
- The first district you’re taken too has a slightly upgraded Battle Maison. One of the districts has a Lugia/Ho-Oh depending on your version.
- All Champions from previous games are able to battled on the S.S. Anne while they’re bored. The S.S. Anne brings you to the districts.
- Rainbow Greninja is technically Ash Greninja but with a name change. It will be revealed in the closing ceremony at World’s 2016.
- Meowth that knows “Happy Hour” and OT Alola will be distributed at World’s. Cherish Ball.
- If you add 128 to our existing 721 roster, that means Generation 8 will only need to introduce 151 Pokemon (like a reboot) to bring our total count to 1000.
So that’s it folks. Looks like if you weren’t already sure these were false you won’t have to wait long for confirmation, as Rainbow Greninja is said to be revealed on August 21st. Anything you like the sounds of in this latest cacophony of “information”?
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Please be true. Please be true!!!
Let’s Hope so.
Well so far: 1 of the 20 Leaked New Info is True: There are indeed 4 islands that made up Alola!
Artificial island cries in the corner
The one in the center?
Well that’s hardly a leak, more of a given
That’s not a leak. It’s confirmed information .
oh o_o….
Are you serious right now?
uh i dunno.
Well there are eight islands including Hawaii so this could just be an educated guess given the information we already know.
I don’t believe this. Megas can hold items? I thought they were trying to balance the game.
It also means that you can only have one Mega Pokémon though.
Still…you could only use one per battle anyway so all that would do is make it more of a hassle to change out the stones.
If true, then perhaps this ‘WILL’ be like Gold and Silver. But, in a way of trolling you, only through an unannounced legendary pokemon that you can only get through events.
this leak is fake u put a z crystal on your Pokemon, not in the bracelet.
plus getting all 16 z crystals from captains? i think that its best to start out with 3 or 4 then get rest from else where.
I thought you’re suppose to get them from Totem Pokemon, so yeah, this does sound fake to me until proven otherwise.
Well we’ll have our confirmation on the 21st, Tis but a week away
But I’m still highly skeptical (and a little bit gassy too)
I think this is yet another dirty liar trying to sound real
I don’t actually believe we have to wait until the 21st, after all, he stated a meowth is to be distributed at Worlds. Now, correct me if I’m wrong but no announcement of this as been made so far, which means that at the very latest we’ll see these ‘leaks’ be debunked or confirmed next friday.
That is, if they don’t make any statement regarding a distribution earlier.
I just wanna know if this starter split evo thing is true or not – and how it works if it is true (ie is it version/island/day & night dependant etc)
Will be interesting to know if these “leaks” are true or not, although I don’t know how you can mega & have a Z-move since they’re both dependant on the Pokemon holding a stone
At least my understanding of things so far is that you only need one of those crystals in the bracelet, you do not need the Pokemon to be holding it. So, it stands to reason that you could have the Pokemon holding it’s mega-stone and still use a z-move…
Of course, if you believe the rumor above, then the Pokemon can go even further as they say the mega-stone is slotted in the bracelet like the z-crystal rather than having a pair of keystone and mega-stone.
(One of the points that leads me to wholeheartedly doubt this particular ‘leak’)
It’ll just be interesting to see whether this is true or not. I mean off a Mega Pokemon, a Z-Move would probably OHKO any Pokemon for the most part.
It would be interesting to think how powerful a z-move from a mega would be, but, if they can use them, I think they’ll balance the z-moves in such a way that they perhaps only take a pokemon’s level into account rather than stats. The concept of these moves seems to me that perhaps tying it’s power to stats would be contradictory. But that’s my interpretation. Having a level 5 popplio OHKO a fire-type who’s level 100 would be non-nonsensical too.
A mega can’t do a z move since both require a held stone. A Pokemon can’t hold both at one time.
Well if you look at my earlier comment, slightly above the one you replied to, I addressed that. Nevertheless, as I said before, from all that official sources have stated the crystals seem to be held on the bracelet and, contrary to megas, these do not seem to form a pair with any held item for the pokemon itself.
Yet, you may be entirely right and the pokemon might need to holding another crystal to connect to the one to the bracelet, I just haven’t read as much before, though I would prefer it that way.
It’s the description of Marshadow that gives this fake away for me. Just describe it properly, not poetically.
I think the Ho oh/ Lugia thing is likely true (maybe not on new islands but still catchable). Like gamexplain said in a really early video if you look at the clouds on the top left their is a thing that looks just like Ho oh in the clouds, they also said Lugia is somewhere i just cannot remember where
indicating Gold and Silver’s near 10th anniversary. Makes sense seeing that a remake of it was made for Gen 4. Which leads me to the NX, if it is Pokemon’s DP’s 10th anniversary, wouldn’t they make a remake on that, rather than an early remake of merging Gen 6 – 7 together, of which somehow bothers me.
Now that I really think about….I wonder if if these leaks are real?? I mean it all sounds believable except for the Marshadow description. Just seems a bit over the top. Really how viable can a legendary dolphin be?
Sounds too fanboyish to be true. A Kalos fanboy that loves the region so much that he doesn’t want to part from it. Fanboys also have been asking for a trans-region game for years, and if that event is the closest we get, then the company is just trolling us.
I agree Richard . If we do get a dolphin this gen it will be as a basic pokemon not a legendary. Plus, don’t most legendary pokemon have access to a range of motions so they can be drawn or animated in a plethora of different poses? Sure even if it is part psychic how much movement are you getting out of a dolphins form? At best you’ve got a floating dolphin and that just doesn’t sit well with me.
You’re right. That just puts more fake into the fire doesn’t it. Even the description alone tells you that it’s fake. At least describe it to us properly, not poetically.
You forgot to mention that the Kalos Starters are available Post-Game.
Also the Master ball Trick where you hold B as you throw a Pokeball is coming back
why Kalos starters, when you can transfer them through bank from Pokemon X and Y?
Because I used to work for Gamefreak and I just got fired …. Duh
Also not everyone has Bank.
Can’t have my Protean frog getting rainbow colours. This is fake
I think he’d be the same just new name to not hint the Show
It’s Ash Greninja, not actually rainbow colored 😉
r.i.p mega evolutions
I doubt these are true though.
Eh… To be honest this set of rumors isn’t very believable. It kinda feels like it’s just piggybacking off other rumored leaks, which isn’t uncommon, but I just feel like it falls apart really quickly. Of course it could be totally real and on August 21 I’ll be kicking myself!
Wait a minute when did they buff Simple?
I just found out Simple now doubles all stat gains/losses now
Could you imagine if we got a new Poke with Simple that can actually pull it off?
Simple Bibarel and Swoobat is where it’s at
? Time: What will Gigareki look like?
Ugh
does anyone wanna trade me a few eggs?
This biggest part of this “leak” that makes it seem fake is the whole Megas can use Z-Moves thing ?
The only thing in this leak that’s definitely real is the island names. Those are the national colours of the 4 hawaiian islands, in hawaiian.
But we’ve known that for a while, before this leak was ever published.
Yes
• There are 16 Z-Stones, 18 total, with a Trial Captain for 16 of the types. Guzma and Plumeria are holders of the missing Dark and Poison Z-Stones.
So, once Guzma and Plumeria were revealed this leaker noticed their tattoos and made up this rumor according to the color of their tattoos. Got it.
Yah everything in this rumor really can be traced down as really solid fan theory. A lot of these things are things I have speculated in posts I wrote after seeing the news. Getting particular with dates and levels really is this rumors short comings because that will screw it over.
My guess to how this game will turn out…
1: No Kalos Region
2: Mega Stones can be found, along with a Mega Gem that can be placed into the bracelet. Mega Pokemon cannot work with Z-Moves.
3: Champions and S.S.Anne will most likely appear in post-game.
These are just the guess I’ve came up with, backed with a few info from the Chinese leak.
If its true it would be cool. I guess we have to wait and see.
Do I believe these rumors? Nope.
On an aside, I don’t believe Team Skull is going to be the actual threat. I can actually see us putting our differences aside and teaming up to take on the real enemy that will arise. But we’ll see, there’s so many possibilities and I can’t wait to learn more…November can’t get here soon enough
What the hell are you doing here
What the hell are you doing here?
What the hell are all of us doing here?
I live here
I forgot to add who I think the actual threat will be oops. I think Team Flare is returning. Could end up being way off tho! Just a feeling
could be, there hadn’t been a special third game like Pokemon Z for Gen 6 anyway. But we won’t know until the game finally comes out.
Yeah there’s a ton of possibilities. I mean, we are shown to be fighting a Team Skull horde on what appears to be the island with Solgaleo/Lunala, so I could end up being way off base here and Team Skull really will be the main antagonist. But it would be cool to see an old team enter its way into the mix xD Especially in regards to Zygarde…
Actually that’s Lunala’s Island. Not Solgaleo’s. Solgalio is located on the far western island.
I doubt it will be Team Flare.
If the real threat isn’t new then Team Rocket seems more likely.
I’ve been saying the exact same thing for days now.
It’s officially “operation bait and switch”.
I swear people forfeit for the lamest of reasons
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-416120431
*facepalm* I remember in the original anime series they say it’s against the rules to have three pokemon out at once, only to have it legal in future games but this! This has really stretched it’s ridiculousness!
Ok don’t know how that applies to this but what we do know that Specs Mismagius is a killer