POKÉCOURT IN SESSION: Nintendo Direct to Reveal Starters’ Evolutions?

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Case Background

There are a lot of expectations on the line for tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct and with good reason. Pokémon fans haven’t heard much about the highly anticipated Pokémon Sun & Moon for awhile now and they’re hungry for more. Will their appetites be satisfied with tomorrow’s Direct? Might it even reveal the evolutions of Rowlet, Litten and Popplio? To the good gentlemen and gentlewomen of the PokéJury, I would ask you to consider the following:

Exhibit A: No Information Scheduled

Pokémon Sun & Moon information has been held at regular intervals with advanced notice; until now. Why? Perhaps Pokémon International decided to share the love and give Nintendo something to hype fans with. Something that would fit nicely within a 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct, perhaps? Seems very convenient.

Exhibit B: Suspicious Timing

Think back to September 2013; fans were eagerly anticipating news from another set of Pokémon games… X & Y. With their release drawing closer, it was the month the second evolutions for the games’ starting Pokémon were revealed. Now return with me to 2016: would it not, in fact, make sense that a similar timeline be followed for Pokémon Sun & Moon? Not out the range of possibilities, certainly.

Exhibit C: Foreshadowing from Nintendo

Nintendo’s social media accounts have also been active, gently teasing Pokémon fans online. Take, for instance, this tweet from Nintendo France:

Roughly translated it reads “In your opinion, what will the evolutions of Rowlet, Litten and Popplio look like in Pokémon Sun & Moon?” A meaningless tweet? BALONEY!! More a calculated marketing tactic to place seeds of hype in the minds of impressionable followers.

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413 thoughts on “POKÉCOURT IN SESSION: Nintendo Direct to Reveal Starters’ Evolutions?”

  2. I hope we get starter evolutions, even just the second evolutions. But I don’t think any new Pokemon news will come out tomorrow.

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  4. um… Guys, I don’t know if you knew that already but I found through a Code something that looks pretty much like the Z-Ring o.o”

    Is that a thing or ist it just coincidence?

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  6. I don’t breed. I gen my Pokemon. It provides me more time to test out my teams than waste hours breeding. No other advantages than that. I don’t care if you hate me for it, because I hate breeding. I used to love it, then I discovered what a waste of time it was. I know none of you gen Pokemon, so I don’t want to pretend like I do.
    I am lifting up my flame shield now…

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    • I HATE YOU!!!!! Jk, personally, I feel like there is a certain charm and reward in breeding your pokemon and training them, but that’s just me. Also don’t hate me if I say that I hope they ban genning. Agree to disagree?

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      • Not really saying my stance on genning, but how can they ‘ban’ genning. its a third party program that runs through your computer that creates a save file that the pokemon game pulls up. Its like an ad-block program. No matter how hard you try to hide that pc save file, hackers will be able to track it down and edit it to gen in pokemon.

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          • Really it can’t be done. The best solution is to simply make genning less appealing, which is what their doing with gen 7 by giving us hyper training. I’ll happily level up pokemon to 100 given it takes only a few hours over a few days with blissey secret bases, but genning can take hours, if not days of time until you get a universal parent.

            That said I’m not likely going to gen in a team. I’ve tasted my own mons and they seem to be working well enough. Most of their ivs are good enough, say for one, but its ivs aren’t that important given its purpose.

  12. I really wish the Direct was at 6 AM rather than 7 AM, since I have to be out the door by 7:30. Either way, I’ll be up early and speculating with you all. I’m just hoping for a sizable, all-around presentation (with a Pokemon cherry on top). Hopefully this will make up for 6 months of silence…minus Breath of the Wild.

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          • I don’t blame you xD
            Luckily, or unluckily depending on what you interpret it as, my college is shut down due to the tropical storm that’s going to hit this area so I’m literally not leaving my room tomorrow xD

          • depends on the state. I know some states cant handle snow at all so even with only like 1-2 inches they shut down schools. but who knows hopefully the tropical storm is not that big

          • Yeah, I’ve seen posts about people making a huge deal about it before the school decided to shut down, citing that just because the whole county is on a state of emergency, the college should not have classes. I mean, yeah, there’s some danger to a tropical storm, but there’s no need to panic and assume the worst. The whole state of emergency is more so a safe precaution, as with any big storm, they do that.
            But then again, I’m a native here, and one who never panics about thunderstorms, so I’m kind of used to these things that I hardly worry about them anymore

    • Personally I’m glad its coming up when it is. I’ve got a a big job interview at 9 am est tomorrow, so if I’m very lucky I might be able to catch it on the drive afterwords, but not likely.

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    • The direct will be at 10:00am on my timezone and im at school so yeah i can just wait until lunch time to see if anything got revealed

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    • right when i’m supposed to punch in to work
      but f*k that, i’ll just watch it on the can during my mid morning dump

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  15. I could see that happening. The Direct is tomorrow and I cannot wait to see the 3DS stuff their going to announce. A new trailer of S/M might have been saved for that day. It fits into the way we’ve been getting information for all this time (being the first of September).

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  17. Hey, does anyone have an extra Ditto with at least an IV in Attack and Sp Def that they wanna give me? Really wanna breed something, but the only Ditto I have has only Defense and Speed and as of right now, no Ditto Mirage Islands are appearing for me.
    Or, maybe you can loan it to me and I’ll give it back once I’m done.

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  18. well guys Tomorrow’s going to be the big day Nintendo Direct,I was wondering what will be the listings of Nintendo games we will see?

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    • I know that it wont happen tomorrow, but I ikinda hope they eventually do a Nintendo selects version of A Link Between Worlds and Majora’s Mask 3D eventually.

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  19. ok so in deciding the order in which I will play all Zelda Games in anticipation of breath of the wild, ive come up with 2 rules: No CDI Games, and No Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks (I’d rather shoot myself, sorry if you like these games, but 1 playthrough is enough for me.) so, first I finish twilight princess, then you all voted mostly for The Wind Waker. (goodness I wish I could so a vote system to make this easier) what is the game I will be playing 3rd?

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    • After you finished Wind Waker:
      Ocarina of time 3DS
      Majora’s Mask 3DS
      Skyward Sword
      Link to the Past
      Link Between Worlds

      The rest of the 2D are also still great, but you won’t miss out on anything for BoW if you didn’t play them. It’s important you play the main games first, and just avoid Adventure of Link, it’s garbage.

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      • ive played almost every Zelda game to date, and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is easily one of my favorites. I’m not really doing this to better understand breath of the wild (as Ive payed pretty muchthe majority of the games and already know how they play out) but more as a celebration.

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          • I don’t understand the mentality that everyone seems to share that because its different makes it bad automatically. the game controls fine, its a blast to play, and its grueling difficulty makes it rewarding to beat. also, its pretty short as well, making running through it not to long of a task.

          • Maybe it’s just not their cup of tea but that doesn’t make it bad… 🙂

            This happens all the time with games series that undergo a genre shift anyway like Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts…

          • ok nuts and bolts was bad because “rare” not only falsely advertised the game, but mocked us when it wasn’t what we expected. “nobody wants a game like this, lets make it about cars” um… yes we do, that’s why we’ve been begging for a banjo 3 for 10 years! also, the levels are far too open, collecting parts to get specific things feels like a chore, and the whole game feels relatively samey after like 10 minutes.

      • Convince me to play MM3D. I have it, and everyone says it’s great but I can NOT understand the game’s structure for the life of me.

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        • The games theme is easy to follow: Loss, Grief, and Death, and how the citizens of termina struggle to deal with it. Majora’s mask, an artifact created from some tribe, found its way from the happy mask salesman into the hands of the playfully mischievous skull kid. using its power, he attempts to pull the moon down on the people of termina, and you’ve got 3 days to stop it. however, 3 days wont be enough, and with your handy ocarina, you have the power to reset that time, but at a cost: everything will be reset as well! (don’t let this part seem daunting, if you beat a temple or collect an important item, you wont have to recollect it or beat again, in most circumstances. for example, beating temple 2 will thaw out the snowy area. if you reset time, you’ll need to beat that boss again to thaw it once more, but its made easier by including a warp straight to the boss). What makes this game so compelling and so wonderful is that the NPC’s are FAR more compelling and meaningful than any Zelda game to date. you see their struggles and can help them by learning their schedules. The 3d version in particular makes certain conveniences available, such as a revamped save feature and a nice adjustment to the song of double time that lets you pick and choose whichever hour you’d like which really cuts down on wait time for sidequests and such. Don’t let that time limit feel overwhelming, with the inverted song of time, you have 3 hours real time before you have to reset, which is waaaaay more than enough to get anything important done. Majora is very sidequest heavy, as there are only 4 temples in the game. It is by far my favorite and the most enjoyable Zelda experience ever in my opinion. Give it a try, everyone ive suggested it to hasn’t regretted it. its truly wonderful. I hope you enjoy this book I typed you lol

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  22. Todays the day friends & frenemies, in 8 hours we will be a lot smarter and maybe even know the evo’s of our beloved generation 7 starter pokemon!

    May the odds be ever in ur favor!

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  24. this video is still painfull, not only it revealed the terrible chespin and fenniken evolutions but it also revealed mega mewtwo X something that was so bad and so unwanted, I still cant belive they gave mewtwo such a awful desgin

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