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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I mean yeah, half of the info is believable, but half of it I’m not so sure about. How would marshadow work exactly? You can’t have secondary type attacks on it because you never know if you’ll have stab?
Well I would imagine some kinda Judgement based attack that correlates to the attack
I had this Mega Mew idea who has this ability called “Universal Evolution”, where it changes type at the end of the turn and to go with it the only way to mega evolve is to know an attack called “Eon Pulse” which changes type to the ability
or better yet, have it futurely predict the enemy Pokemon’s type and become it’s weakness type, like a Fairy when confronting a Dragon Type
Way too complicated and overpowered
This is a nifty little gimmick that’s too unpredictable to be overpowered
That makes it the challenge. Espicially if there is a Pokemon Champion with all the pokemon in it’s party Lv 100
They’re usually all level 100
yup
http://i.imgur.com/qgXhXza.jpg
Seriously. |:(
One of the post game Islands is Kalola? These leakers need to be more creative. I don’t think GF would make it that similar to real life and even then, Kauai is spelled differently than Hawaii, but pronounced the same except for the K.
rumors from 4 chan? HAHAHA no
Ok. So will Rainbow Greninja be revealed on August 21st or at the closing ceremony or are those the same day?,
Wait, why August 21st
It says that too.
Also. I don’t think they’d use the name ‘S.S. Anne’. It’s too much like the Saint Anne from the Anime.
………dummy, the cruise ship is called the S.S. Anne from Kanto
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S.S._Anne
in the anime it sank, but in the game it’s still sailing
Oh yeah. I haven’t played HGSS (the only games I own with that) in a while and I watched those episodes yesterday. Easy mistake….
You must suffer for your ignorance
We need more clues if these are fake or Real.
They’ll spill the beans sooner or later. Like what happened with the past leaks apart from the chinese ones.
The 21st
If Marshadow is a dolphin, what does its name derive from? I feel like it’s marsupial + shadow, but then it’d be a koala… so what if Marshadow is Komala’s evo?? 😮
It’s a load of bunk,
YOure a load of bunk!
Why yes I AM a load of bulk
Please come to discord D:
Imy
“Mar” – Sea in Latin
“Luna” – Moon in Latin
“Ala” – Wing in Latin
“Sol” – Sun in Latin
Omg I forgot mar is sea x(
Que embarazoso
Kinda laughable… I wish they aren’t true
Not sure I buy it. There a lit of cherry picking from other rumors, but I guess over all it’s not the worst thing I’ve heard. Believable stuff I suppose. I’m not sure I like the idea of catching older legendaries yet AGAIN in this game. I feel like they need to cool it with that for a while. One thing I can say I totally believe is the NX part. I for sure could see them doing a port of SM on the NX, not doing a double region.
P.S. How many Pokemon can there be that are the “original” Pokemon? lol
If it’s true, Rainbow Greninja is fan service again, catering to the mediocre looking pokemon the community worships
https://youtu.be/xEnJtC48OzU New Gamexplain up boys
Wait is this Gigareki?
Face of Bo :'(
Talking about Team Skull’s Guzma not being the final villain I found something interesting. In Gen 6, just like the champions, the leader of the evil team (Lysandre, Maxie, Archie) had a full animation just like Hau has. Guzma however, doesn’t. I don’t know if it indicates anything or not but I wanted to point this out. What do you guys think?
I want to see a deeper darker guy who’s operating from the shadows
From the… marshadows 😀
*Smack*
yassssss
You deserve props for that
I deserve everyone’s love :'(
That joke was fanastic
Cringeworthy at the least
They’re going to come out riding on glorious dolphins.
/r/dolphinconspiracy/
Guzma does have full animation o.O
Doesnt he?
He certainly moves but not as much as the others did. So if you check Hau in the Corocoro trailer (iirc) and for example Lysandre you can clearly see the difference at the start of the battle.
Can we make it that Hau says “Hau could this happen to me?” when he loses XD?
That makes my gore rise,
Could you say its accelerating?
Perhaps…. ACCELGORing? :3
*Hurls a tomahawk*
I’m unkillable at this point
The essence of memes
The amount of puns this gen is amazing
That is indeed true
Well it cuts out just as it shows Guzma, and don’t the trainers in the E3 demo had full animations too?
I’m just saying, probably not something to put stock into.
A Mega Gardevoir holding a Pixie Plate can satisfy all of your Pixilate Hyper Voice needs
That’d hit like a truck. A fairy truck. With wings.
And sparkles
Burn it with steel
Jet fuel can’t melt steel fairies
But Mawile is iron
Steel has iron in it
Wouldn’t the steel burn too?
Not unless i Iron Head it to death
Ughhhhhhhhh 14 weeks until release
14 weeks arent much if you think, but if you count days..
Well… At least it won’t be long until this is proven true or false :p
Will there be a trailer on August 21th? And second, I have to go to school again on 22th ;-(
yeah me too :{
I’ve always known that Kalos wouldn’t be a part of the post-game, but a part of me still wants to believe that it would be. That region was so short lived, like damn.
Blahhhh I need my Sinnoh remakes. I’m goona finish Soul Silver this week end so I can play Platinum
I’m Nuzlocking platinum right now. I’m at Maylene’s gym with only a death count of 2. I think I’m doing pretty well, considering that I lost on my first try to Fantina.
To everyone questioning Pokemon logic
Escavalier’s entry in Black
“They fly around at high speed, striking with their pointed spears. Even when in trouble, they face opponents bravely.”
And look at its base speed
Planning my Platinum team.
Infernape, Luxray, Roserade, Milotic/Azumaril, Mismagius, Togekiss
Thoughts?
Milotic my boi :3
You can’t get Mismagius. I was looking stuff up about platinum yesterday and I found that it is pearl exclusive.
Lame
Also, I’d go Milotic, but that’s just me because I’ve never used a Milotic in any game so far.
Good luck finding enough Dry Poffins
I havent used like 20% of the pokemon so far
“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” I think this is too broken
Life orb mega kangaskhan
GF has been doing so well with the meta game this gen, I don’t think they’d do this, which makes me doubt the rumor.
Its too much, Most Megas are OP already.
I can name a small handful
Anybody who isn’t Mega Steelix, Camerupt and…..Houndoom? but the rest are just annoying op in one way or twelve
But like Mega’s can’t be “OP” by definition. OP means OVERpowered. As in its power is above anything else…it breaks balance in other words. Seeing as there are something like 48 “OP” Mega’s and each type now has multiple mega Pokemon the mechanic can not be described as OP anymore.
If anything megas just need their own tier or subtier in the metagame.
then why are the Z stones attatched to the bracelet, just like the toy that is going to sync with it.
Z stones are moves tho, once pure battle, Megas being able to hold items is seriously bad for the meta, they are broken enough we dont need to see choice band mega charizards choice scarf mega ampharos
yes they maybe used once, but where are you going to put them all when you’re done with them? On the bracelet, that’s where, along with the rest of the 17 Z stones
we are aruging over something else, The thing im saying is broken is the Mega Stone not being a held item
that’s because it ‘IS’ a held item. What’ll be in the bracelet is the Mega gem, similarly found on the bracelets in X and Y to power the mega stones.
so your saying the rumor is false then
from the poetic description of Marshadow, the Mega Stones being used with Z-Stones at the same time, S.S.Anne taking you from island to island when you can fly and surf, Kalos being in it when we’ve already have it in the last game of X and Y, and only requiring a special event Pokemon to get you there on an island not mentioned and not named well like the other four islands in which was mentioned before this leak.
Yes, I can see it being fake, until proven on the 21st. Being from 4chan, you can’t always trust the things that is said. This to me sounds like it has been done bandwagon on other leaks by a Serena fanboy who just can’t bare to leave Kalos and have the Ash-Serena pairing ruined for the sake of marketing for little kids from one gen to the next. I’ve known this pattern for quite a long time, and these leaks I can tell is something that doesn’t seem to fit well with both the game and the chinese leaks we’ve known so far.
It’s complete trash
Obviously the Z-Ring has multiple slots for Crystals as seen with the toy
You don’t put mega stones on the Z-Ring you put the Keystone because both Megas and Zcrystals need to be held by the Pokemon, they would never allow the use of both a Z-Move and Mega Evolution it’s a unbalanced absurdity
I’m assuming that you got this from 4chan because I read this same leak and it wasn’t anymore believable then as it is now because people post ‘leaks’ to fuck with people there all the time. You can’t believe any of them unless they have some kind of credible source attached to them.
Gamewise, Marshadow ability seems fun and unique
Competitive wise, is probably one of the messiest abilities ever and is going to flop so bad
but hey i think the rumours are most likely false
Unless Marshadow gets a Judgement type of move
still, take for example if you are battling a fire type and your marshadow was a water type before but now that you switched is grass type. Is very random and risky
That’s true, but unless the other player is notified of the type change, it would be pretty hard to guess what type it changed to.
Either way, seems like an obnoxious Pokemon to play with/against. Cool concept tho.
yeah, i agree the concept is really cool and is something i would use it just for fun in the game, but competitive? nah
What would be interesting is if there was no color difference or change in appearance, so the only way for your opponent to tell what type it is would be to attack it and see how effective it is.
its getting deep in here, where are my boots?
Just a couple more months till we explore the Alola region. #TeamMoon
It just seems so far away D:
3 months left next Thursday
and a week on tuesday for me
lol ur getting the game in 2 weeks?
no, we get ours 5 days later
oh. Europe?
yes
that sucks.
I know. Stupid european regulations.
Wasnt Europe the one who leaked X/Y
and yet the rest of the world is now doing so. They’ll probably delay China’s and the US next
Yep so everybody should get the game same day
yup
Can i butt in? When will be the digital copy of the game be released? Is it the same date of the physical copy release?
I just hope that it is released the exact same time, which I doubt because the release of every game in Europe is in Wednesday
That isn’t true. In Germany the day games get released is on Friday. Actually the reason why it is delayed in Europe is because preorders CAN get the games on the 18th November too. The 5 days in Europe range means that a lot of people who preorder the game, could get it on the same date. By delaying it in Europe, they make sure that non of us spoiled European brats gets the game 5 days to 1 week earlier just like it happened with x and y. I live in Germany and I was one of the people who got x and y not on October 13th but already on October 7th. And although I live in Germany, two years ago I got ORAS on the same date it launched in the U.S.A and Japan because of preordering the Game
TL;DR:
Preorder the Game to get it on the same day as the other countries