RUMOR: New Pokémon Sun & Moon Information “Leaked”

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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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  4. Here’s is some recent NX news.
    As, I’ve been taking about the NX; I’ve discredited EuroGamer numerous times. Yet, now it actual seems like they were talking about the NX handheld and not the NX as a whole. Recently, patients for the detachable controller from the handheld have been released. EuroGamer might also be right about a dock that allows the handheld to connect to the TV for big screen gaming, which could be done through the opening with the detachable controllers. Yet, EuroGamer is completely wrong on the chips in the NX. Even they were skeptical with the Tegra X1. Nvidia recently announced that they have no plans of creating or providing mobile chips, they have no SoC design wins for the year, and they have no plans with other companies at the moment.

    The NX handheld seems like it’s going to have either an ARM or AMD CPU in the system. Recently, DMP, the providers of the 3DS’s PICA200 GPU have recently announced the M3000 series GPU. To summarize their announcement, they hinted that a device (an SoC) releasing in 2017 will be using one of their M3000 GPUs. This will place the NX handheld around the power of the Wii U, which honestly isn’t hard to achieve. The M3400 GPU will support Unreal Engine 4 and various engines, which would attract interest in the NX handheld from third-party devs. This means a potential HD Pokemon game for all of us!

    Lastly, the NX console will likely have cloud-computing and a new online infrastructure. This will allow online and group gaming to be possible. Everyone knows the online issues with Smash, so Nintendo is teaming up with The Cloud to provide online services for the NX. Also, from HappyNintendoFan on Twitter, he states that the NX handheld will also be able to stream games from the console as well, thanks to the cloud-computing. Basically, it’s a simplified and glorified version of what the GamePad tried to achieve. Also, AMD previously announced that they have three SoC design wins for products. They already announced one, which is the Project Scorpio. The last two are highly the PS4 Neo and Nintendo NX Console as they hinted towards.

    Honestly, I hope this was an easy read for everyone. We’re highly going to be seeing the NX in September. For right now, it seriously seems like the NX is going to be a separate handheld using either ARM or AMD CPU and DMP GPU and a console using AMD technology, which is likely Polaris based. rf.

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  6. Did anybody notice that that Alolan Marowak can learn ground move before it evolve ….we saw he his bone attack with those spooky thing …I think it’s possible to turn all his bone attack to ghost type.

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    • I’m quite sure Alolan Marowak will be able to use every move that Cubone could learn. The move Marowak used was obvious a new Ghost-Type Bone Attack. I doubt all of it’s Bone Moves will turn to Ghost.

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  7. Kinda bored
    Pokemon ideas

    Vaniseed
    Grass/Psychic
    This Pokemon is sought after by avid tea drinkers for the rich tasting leaves on top of its head. However, this Pokemon is very hard to catch due to its tendency to vanish when spotted by humans.

    Vanitea
    Grass/Psychic
    Due to Vaniseed being so highly sought after, after evolving, this Pokemon has developed a narcissistic behaviour. This pokemon can emit psychic energy that has the ability to soothe Pokemon and humans. However, long exposure to this energy can cause insomnia.

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  9. Well you be able to get the Johto starters in sun and moon? Like how you got Charmander Bulbasaur and Squirtle in X and Y because I want my boy Feraligatr on my team 🙂

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  14. wishiwashi school form looks really like a sea Demon water/ghost would be better for it. In that form it really looks more ghost then even Jellicent.
    Maybe the creators could change that before the games come out?

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  16. Leak #9:There are a total of 128 new Pokémon and 23 Alolan forms. These Alolan forms are all Gen 1 exclusive Pokémon.

    hmm How many New Pokémon and Alolan forms we got so far?

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  18. Bored, I truly hate waking up at 4am and NEVER BACK FALLING ASLEEP
    So I want to unravel a discussion

    Hyper Training, and how viable it really will be

    To start out a function that allows us to increase a Pokemon’s Individual Values IVs is nothing story of a godsend and a death sentence, Players now who fully grind their Pokemon to the utmost highest level of 100 are qualified to undergo Hyper Training to increase their IVs to perfect levels; this is both extremely good and extremely terrifying this could potentially patch up good Pokemon who didn’t meet… perfection especially those Shinies that you might’ve hatched who just wasn’t right there or….. They could let Legends have them which is just horrifying

    But there is a potential loophole, this is not a free service and you’re required to hit level 100 which is doable but time consuming (without cheating) and this service requires a specific currency aka Bottlecaps.

    It is currently unknown how you obtain said Bottlecaps; the only know insight we have is that a distribution of Magearna is said to hold a Bottlecap (The Japanese site claims it to be a Silver Bottlecap so there is a chance Bottlecaps come in differing varieties/values). Most people are blindly assuming that they would purchasable with BP and that Pokemiles would rollover from bank, well we’ll find out soon enough.

    Now the absolute most important opportunity this gives us is the most golden of golden tickets in the form of a legitimate 6 IV Ditto. And unless you live under a rock or never competitively battled this is the most powerful breeding tool allowing to pass on these IVs to eggs via Destiny Knot, and everyone knows that obtaining a legitimate 6IV Ditto is next to impossible without cheating

    I think the golden goal for every Pokemon Trainer interested in competitive battling this Fall should make it their goal to find a Ditto now (or in SM) with the highest IVs they can possibly have and power level it to 100 and use whatever Bottlecaps you find to fully maximize its IVs for legit clean breeding

    This system seems to try to breathe life into anything allowing it to have a taste of perfection but I fear this will never stop hacking, people still will be lazy and immoral and rather pump out perfect Pokemon and legends and pass it off as Hyper Trained which just sickens me

    Stay Frosty Pokejungle
    EarthenWarrior “The Down to Earth Trainer”

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    • I had theorised that bottlecaps were found on the ground like regular items. In a pic, near a tree there was a shiny object on the floor.

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