When most people think “Pokémon villain” they think of Team Rocket, as Team Rocket served as the antagonists for the first two generations of Pokémon, and continue to serve as antagonists in the Pokémon anime. However, for Pokémon fans who primarily enjoy the Pokémon video games, Team Rocket haven’t held the villainous spotlight since Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
Team Flare, the newest ensemble of Pokémon bad guys, while interesting in concept, were pretty uninteresting overall. A team lead by a brilliant and fashionable scientist driven mad by his desire to turn the world into a beautiful place should have been threatening, but due to the abysmally low difficulty level of Pokémon X and Y, and the spotty characterization of Lysandre and his goons had a distinct lack of flare. These issues, coupled with the fact doomsday lasers aren’t all that scary when manned by a bunch of dorks in goofy red suits, make
Team Flare rank pretty low on the scale of Pokémon baddies.
This issue was also present in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. While I was a huge fan of the aesthetic re-designs of Team Aqua and Team Magma, they ultimately only received a bit more characterization than their pixelated counterparts on the Game Boy Advance.
Thankfully, our drought of fearsome foes in the Pokémon universe seems to be over, with the unveiling of Team Skull, in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
Team Skull are just the gang of criminals that Alola needed, with visual similarities to eastern European thugs and Japanese street gangs, Team Skull’s aesthetic is much more grounded in reality, making them more intimidating than the technologically advanced pirates and mad scientists we battled in the past few Pokémon games.
Team Skull also has the advantage of being in a full 3D game. Sun and Moon’s graphical stylings, which are on par with games like Pokémon XD, give the artists at Game Freak many more opportunities to characterize the gang. Even in the small amount of footage we have, we can see how Guzma, the team leader, is both physically intimidating the way he stares down the muscular Kukui, and also confident in the way he squats and nonchalantly motions his Ariados to attack in battle. We can also see how expressive the team skull grunts are, they way they talk with their hands and strike a pose before battling.
It remains to be seen if Team Skull, and Pokémon Sun and Moon in general will offer up any sort of challenging gameplay, but based on the unique and charming characters and Pokémon we have seen so far, in the words of Guy Fieri “We’re riding this bus to flavortown!”
U can ride this to can climb mountain and cliffs ….make sense for me. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1472073547374.jpg
Alolan Parasect. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1472075192194.jpg
Where’d you get this pic? It doesn’t seem to be on the 4Chan page…..at least I didn’t see it anyway. lol
It’s on 4chan …..I was post the link scroll down a little.
Oh I guess I missed it. I found it now lol
You know what? Whether the guy on 4Chan is real or not I have to give him props. He’s a really good artist for one. Plus iif this is real then he has a pretty good memory lol If it’s fake then he’s super imaginative and came up with some actually believable stuff lol
I kinda hope they are real. I imagine Popplio2 having braces and glasses and stuff and it would be hilarious
HA! That’s so funny. Yeah most of the ideas the guy had are pretty good. I wouldn’t be too disappointed to see them come true. Plus the Pokemon Designs are pretty well done too lol
Like the lanky nerdy high school girl
That becomes a smoking hot mom when she grows up lol
If there was a dual type ground fairy type move, like flying press, what would it be super effective against/ neutral / weak?
Same for ground/dark
rf
Is that fan art, or another rumor? I haven’t been here in a while sorry.
Scroll down. It’s a rumor.
Ah, I see now. I’m very skeptical about this one though.
Heya guys, what do you all hope Rockruff’s evo will look like? I would love an evil-looking werewolf with rocks on its body and a rock/dark typing; it would probably go straight to my top 5 *o *
Like this!
http://imgur.com/a/EcNJk
Hmm interesting, so you’d go more to the “sleek” side, then?
For reference, this is sorta like what I imagined: (From an amazing game which doesn’t receive nearly as enough praise as it should)
Neopets <3
Hey, is green around here?
Haven’t heard from him since he left for school today.
Nah he died…
Dem head hunters man
I got killed by Wax Sherlock Holmes
Last I checked the moon was waning
Sorry. Didn’t see this.
Need anything?
Curious about what drawing you were talking about.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/5a0132c303d8eb31dcc50cf8cccffbc5/tumblr_oc2x1xhS2t1r9ee9go1_r2_500.png
Is this it? I didn’t draw it. It was a reblog XD. I wish I was this good
Yeah. It’s that.
Don’t worry your art is really good 🙂
Thanks! You posting that actually got me to practice coloring today so yay!
Rumor conclusion. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1472077697653.jpg
Over all I’d be pretty pleased if this rumor became true in some form. From what the guy was saying, the trials sound like they are more involved than typical gym stuff and could take a little bit to complete them. That sounds pretty g=cool to me lol
I didn’t beileve anything until confirm as official …..previous leak give a lesson …but I just have fun.
I’m not holding my breath on this one I’ve come to distrust these rumors but I will say not a bad read
same.
…Not believable to me.
Thank you!
For me these will be proven 100 % legit, when next month Corocoro reveals Rockruffs secret evolution (or evolution’s depending on if the one leak is true.). If it looks anything like the drawing that this “leaker” did than I’ll believe its all true. 😀
I don’t like Steel/Flying for Pikipek makes more sense for Ground/Flying or Grass/Flying
Uhhhhh you got that backwards
I did? How so the way the steps are in or what?
Ground and Grass make ZERO sense
Steel makes sense to a degree since Pikipek’s beak could armor up with evolution
I mean if Drilbur could have its claws transformed into steel Pikipek’s wouldn’t be too far off
Yet think it flings seeds as an attack and wood I thought Grass could make sense
Well steel would be if they put emphasis on its beak, since that’s the prevalent feature of woodpeckers. Makes sense to me
Yeah but it flings seeds at opponents as a main attack so I thought grass could fit, Ground I just like the idea
Again dummies taking things too literally
It might spit them out or peck them like bbs
With skill link Steel or Grass could fit with Fury Attack, Bullet seed, Bullet Punch
That hardly changes anything
We all knew its learning Fury Attack and Bullet Seed at some point but that hardly constitutes an Grass Typing
Well yeah I could see grass too but would they really give us two grass/flying types so early on? I don’t think so
You have a point I hope something beyond belief is in store next reveal
My favorite of the starters evo’s:
1.Rowelt Final Evo Cuz.. Amazing
2.Litten Second Evo Cuz .. ???
3.Popplio Base Stage Cuz…. Originality
I guess
I hope Ash doesn’t catch Popplio.. like the art implies he will… Cuz I just Know he won’t he evolve it.. can’t blame him. But, I want him to have another strong powerful amazing team! Like this Gen. Can’t have that with unevolved Pokes on your team!
I like all his unevolved water types they are normally my favorite starters of that region
Well the last unevolved water starter he had was totodile, unless you also mean froakie was more likable than its evos
It was Oshawott though but I liked Totodile too!
O yeah…I forget about the unova anime
Hmmmmm Alolan Golem
Rock/Fire
Golem in the Alola Region feel right at home in the rich volcanic areas, after years of wallowing in lava pits their rocky exteriors are sleek and crystalline due to heat and compression gaining the fire typing
They can build up heat and pressure in their bodies allowing it to explode damaging intruders
That golem design seems so fan-listy though.
Well what do you expect the schmuck drew it himself ya dingus
Haha I know, but I’ve seen almost the exact same drawing as mega golem fakemon so it brings it down in credibility for me..
No duh, Golem is always being conned as a Fire/Lava type in the mega scene
And the other half with its shell broken
I’m just wondering if gamefreak would even go for such an obvious route
I would say why don’t they start with Geodude since he buries itself
I dont see Hoenn forms for Pokemon… when Hoenn was like the OG tropics
Nahhh not really
Look at hoenn again, especially the battle resort and tell me its not the tropics
It’s a semi tropic region but Alola has extreme climate diversities
Which is supposed to be the whole damn reason Alolan forms existed, changing and adaptation after being introduced to a vastly differing environment
You can find Machoke and Graveler in route 216 (The snowy one from DPPT (the one by Snowpoint) no changes to them… GF is trying to please the genwunners
Well to be fair we don’t know if they’re getting alolan forms. And even so… it’s not entirely impossible that one creature in one part of world adapted and another of the same species in a similar climate didnt.
true
Vulpix lives on Mt. Pyre
So
It’s a slightly easier capture than some knowing its one of 4 I think Pokemon there so it is easy to catch
They’ll have to be careful there. But it seems they’re choosing pokemon that appear in different climates between the two regions.
Vulpix and Sandshrew were both obtainable in RSE
I know, but what I mean is that vulpix and sandshrew there didn’t appear near shoal cave so they had no reason to adapt like in Alola
Then there should be many Alola forms of sinnoh pokemon.
Hmmm it’s weird that Nintendo or GF haven’t said anything about revealing news for next month I wonder if it has something to do with ppl leaking the videos early
Actually, CoroCoro has said, they will show something about Rockruff’s “secret evolution” in September.
Gen 7 third version?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8b7x30_E0Ko/maxresdefault.jpg
I’m in that shitposting mood today apparently
I am not naming my Gumshoos Trump. I will be naming it Detective Gumshoos… heh, but that won’t fit. So i would just keep it Gumshoe. Best character from the AA series btw
Yeah honestly I rarely see it as Trump anymore but a legitimate gum shoes detective
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