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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“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.”
This is hella fake. How would someone on some localization or QA team for Sun/Moon know this?
It’s obviously too soon to think of that. It’s proof that it’s entirely fake no mistake. Besides, the game they would probably put onto the NX would be the remake of DP
This is 100% fact to me. “Island Districts” were talked about a very long ass time ago. This user has way too much information. Totally 100% real.
and at the same time, maybe 100% fake. Not all infomation from 4chan can be legit. The NX description, the description of the Mega Stones, Marshadow, S.S. Anne, Kalos through event, doesn’t sound like the sort of thing GF would produce. I’m sticking with the Chinese leak to me. It’s fake until proven on the 21st.
But it could be the other way around. Suppose I wanted to make a leak look real, wouldn’t it make sense to use verified information (but nothing that we know a lot about) and expand on it?
For instance, if these “Island Districts” were revealed before, I would talk about them in my leak to make it seem real.
Uh, excuse my ignorance but when were these island districts revealed?
They were revealed in another fake leak a long time ago. Now that I think about, this actually could be fake.
Oh so not 100% real? Maybe 99%? XD
I think its a combination of that one hidden palm tree island. When looking to the sort of painting like art work of the Alola region, you can see a small island with a palm tree hidden behind some clouds in the norther half of Alola. However when you see Kukui introduce the Alola region at the start of the game, you see his super simple map has a cloud covering the area where that hidden island would be. So its assumed that one island is something for the post game. As such, anyone can claim that their are multiple post game islands that serve some purpose, all because we know for a fact that a single island that seems to be for the post game exists.
100% fact? I would be a little more careful personally… I mean it came out on 4chan and has very little info that can’t be assumed from what we already know. To each their own I guess.
When is Gamescom going to come?
17th through 21st. Same time as Worlds.
Will The Pokémon Company be there and leak gameplay?
Yes, Battle Director for Game Freak will be there. He said and I quote “There may be a surprise.”
third bullet point, “I believe” totally kills it
and later on, “Alolan Alakazam family are fighting type. Alolan Alakazam can mega evolve, keeps the fighting type” works against the current mechanics of mega evolution, with the mega being the same regardless of which form the pokemon was in (seen through hacking, a charizard Y could mega evolve into X no differently than a standard charizard would)
I’m not even going to fret with these rumours. All we got to do is to wait till August 21st to see whether it’s real or not. Somethings sound rather false, especially the part with the NX due to more recent rumours. Rainbow Greninja does sound sorta cool… I guess. It’s just a waiting game at this point, similar to the PokeDex rumour.
idk i still really like special mega lucario just as a preference but yea imagine choice band mega beedrill u-turn hitting like a truck
thanks to gamexplains video , i noticed that plumeria’s yellow eyes and white makeup actually represent the plumeria flower ! Neat little detail again.
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?
yes it actually releases at midnight
Thanks dude!
Honestly, I don’t know what to think of these rumors, since Pokémon recently has done so much stuff that now I think anything is possible, just like in Digimon (like, really, for some time I saw one of the main differences between Pokémon and Digimon to be “In Digimon, anyhting can happen”. Now it seems anything can also happen in Pokémon).
But one that confuses me is Ash-Greninja being named “Rainbow Greinja”. Can anyone make sense of that? Because Ash-Greninja looks nothing like a rainbow, and the only thing I can think of is that rainbows are caused by sunlight after a rain. Is there any other special significance to rainbows in Japanese culture, or some association of them with frogs, ninjas, or Jiraiya?
So wait… Are we reporting on stuff that is guaranteed fake now.. ? ?
If this is the guy someone talked to me about the other day from reddit..
I already proved them wrong
They said the On special thing about rockruff is he can use Z moves..
Now we know All Pokemon can do this.. and the secret is based around Evolution… -,-
we’ve known Rockruff’s evolution and Z-moves for quite some time before this leak, and from what we have read has idicated to us that it might be fake. Just read Marshadow’s poetic description and info on the NX to know what we mean.
So y do we humor this?it’s boring..
We’ve always posted stuff we know is fake. It’s not something new. We don’t do it so much to give publicity or coverage to them, but instead to encourage discussion and the sharing of new ideas.
i would love for this to be true but its obviously fake
Starting to think that these leaks are more fake than real. They were all taken from either previous fake leaks or are too good to be true or from the Chinese leak.
Hmmm this is a thought that I had for a while now. It’s about Lillie.
I was thinking, what is she’s actually former Alolan royalty, and that’s why she seems to have a somewhat stuck up look in her character art. She is a mysterious character, that is supposed to play a major roll in your adventure, and she dresses like she’s of some form of nobility, (she seems to have almost the same thought process as N) And when they mentioned on the official web sight that the royal family was abolished, but I don’t think that it was mentioned when it was, and so I started thinking of this possibility, that she could possibly be an Alolan Princess. 😀
Just some food for thought. 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/PqbKUQ6.jpg
Shiny predictions from last trailer reveals
I like Wishiwashi and Raichu a lot. <3 The others are really nice too. I even kinda like Pyukumuku's better than the official
I can’t decide between sun and moon. Both legendaries look great. I love the moonlight artwork (the half that’s purple) in every video but I’m worried that if they pull a ruby and sapphire with legends controlling their element, the moon legend could be controlled to get rid of the moon and make eternal day or something… Idk help!!!
No new mega evolutions? RIP Mega Flygon
this leak is most likely not real
I think its a mix. I think some of its real. Like the Z-bracelet. And some is fake. The No new Mega Evolutions. Others I’m not so sure about, I’ve seen three different rumors mention that Rockruff can Evolve in to different forms and needs to learn Howl to do it, so I’m pretty sure that’s true. As for Ho’oh and Lugia, I don’t know this is the first time I’ve heard about it.
“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.”
this one? i think this one is fake
Come on we’ve been needing something like this since Mega Evolution came out. I want my Mega Mewtwo to be able to hold another item. Besides, this is the second place I’ve seen it…. I have not been on 4chan so that doesn’t count. Though its going to suck with all the Life Orb users with Mega Evolutions. I detest Life Orbs!
this leak is also saying what mostly people want. usually those are too good to be true
Also it’s from 4chan……..The only leak we’ve actually gotten that was legit from them was this past trailer leak. Any of the actual info leaks came from other boards and forums.
I really don’t know what to think. There’s just so many, “but why” red flags in this. Like for example, why would the NX Pokemon title be a game set in both malls and Alola? Or why would ash-greninja be in the game? Why would espeon and umbreon change? I’m just not seeing the logic…even for gamefreaks typically ideology of abandoning most logic…
Ash Greninja us confirmed in game already due to the only true leaker
Not really. The one semi true leak so far has said that “Ash-Greninja” is in the game, but we haven’t gotten any confirmation as to what that means. It could be an alolan form, a Mega evolution, an event pokemon. It could really be anything because leakers have been really limited on saying what it is; only saying that it simply exists.
Well at least this “leak” has a short shelf life. On the 21st.. if “Rainbow Greninja” isn’t revealed.. it’s fake. But this all sounds like a load of BS to me anyways..
wait wait gamescon last day is the 21st and the pokemon company is gonna be there
Hang on, I don’t think a reboot would be such a good idea. Genwunners might be convincing gullible fans to not buy the games, causing a huge Market Crash.
So if this is fake that means: There going to be New Megas in the Game!
or not. We won’t know until the game finally comes out, or Augest 21st
Well i like to see a Mega Poliwrath or a Alolan Poliwrath in this game. 🙂
Don’t worry, I’m sure we will.
^v^
I don’t understand the idea of this leak being fake based on the Marshadow, the dolphin bullet point. The description is lame but having a dolphin is not farfetched. I can see the connection between “emmissary of light” and the Apollo’s(god of light) animal being dolphin. But I guess,the leaker or the author could have made this connection too.
I am always thinking that Marshadow will be based on a sea creature u know Solgaleo on earth ,Lunala on the sky ….and Marshadow should be the depth or the sea maybe it will represent 2 different dimension like pisces .
But it’s hard to believe that dolphin can be a legendary pkmn , but we could have normal one.
I don’t understand this logic, why can a bat be a legendary while a dolphin cannot?
Batz r kool
cuz of that …y did focus in this part by the way? http://www.eveandersson.com/photos/honduras/copan/museum/museum-bat-large.jpg
I mean there’s no single reason that a dolphin cannot be a legendary as there’s no single reason that any kind of animal/plant/thing cannot be a legendary.
Marshadow can be anything but not popular and cute creatures If they make it a dolphin that mean they made him out of typical idea of the dolphin we know.
I smell that Marshadow will be evil or represent the emptiness (no emotion,judgment) …..or tow personality…like 2 creatures on one like pisces.
“Marshadow can be anything but not popular and cute creatures”
I strongly beg to differ but to each his own.
we’ve already had Kyogre, and that’s an Orca, a relative of the the Dolphin
Technically that right they have the same subspecies ……but the character between those is very different the orcas r a massive killer in addition the orca mentioned in many mythology as a primer good.
I wish we could get something reminiscent of the Memory Link. It’s always been my dream that the game could (for example) detect my LeafGreen Charizard and put an NPC with Red’s appearance and my name based on the OT in the game. And of course, the same for other playable characters from past games.
I’ve reread these leaks numerous times and I felt that I’ve found some inconsistencies. The leaker seems to be rather indifferent about how Mega Evolution will work in the games.
“All 47 Mega Stones are accessible on the island districts. There aren’t any new Mega Evolutions.”
“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.”
A Key Stone is necessary to access Mega Evolution with various Pokemon. How could you place a Mega Stone inside of the Z-Ring and do Mega Evolution without the Pokemon holding the item. This is probably the part that confuses me the most.
Next, the part where the leaker mentions that there are no new Mega Evolutions while he clearly mentions that the Alolan Forms are receiving them. I guess this largely depends on his interpretation. Maybe he believes that it’s not new Mega based on the species, but if you think of it towards typing, stats, and looks; wouldn’t it be considered as a new Mega Evolution? This is probably my most debatable point. As I said, this is just a simple waiting game till August 21st. We just got to wait for the Rainbow Greninja announcement and release of the Happy Hour Meowth.
well if you think about it it’s not nessecarily a new mega if the mega stone just remained alakazite like how charizard has the x and y mega stones so personally i wouldnt count it as a new mega just a new form just like how we dont count alolan meowth or raichu as new pokemon if that makes since
speaking of Z-Move, I wonder what cool names will the other Z-moves will have?
I wished I saved the list I made
When it said Marshadow is the emissary of light, that just degrades it’s realism. Shadow is the exact opposite of light
Well shadow means that there’s light. So it’s somehow the emissary of light.
I suppose, I could be wrong and this is real. However I’m taking a grain of salt just in case.
Me too.