Alolan Rattata/Raticate and Snorlium Z Announced!

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Alolan Rattata has just been announced in today’s 3DS Direct. The Dark/Normal-type Rattata has a new appearance and changed after Gumshoos was introduced to control the Rattat popuation. Alolan Raticate are said to lead groups of Rattata. Alolan Rattata has the Ability Gluttony/Hustle. Alola

Some Pokémon have their own Z-Moves. For example Alolan Raichu can use Stoked Sparksurfer. In addition to this a special Munchlax download was announced. The Munchlax will be available to Sun & Moon players and will arrive with the Snorlium Z item that allows Snorlax to use the Z-Move Pulverizing Pancake. The Munchlax will also know the moves Hold Back and Happy Hour.

Players in Japan can receive 12 Quick Balls if they download a digital version of the game to their 3DS, or a Snorlax TCG game if they purchase the retail version of the game.

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211 thoughts on “Alolan Rattata/Raticate and Snorlium Z Announced!”

  8. Disappointed that was all we got, but that only further proves the Chinese leak. Oh well, the snorlax waking animation is priceless so at least there’s that.

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          • In all fairness though that could be the victim of auto correct. The words for fire and ice in Chinese are similar enough that auto correct could have changed the spelling to Fire by mistake.

          • also it may have atleast 1 or 2 things that seem a little off but it still has that high credibility, enough evidence that it can possibly be true. in the beginning i actually hated this leak purely because i didn’t like the evolutions designs, but since then ive actually warmed up to them even Littens, and thats saying something since its bipedal haha! so if that leak turns out true, i actually wouldn’t mind that at all. and to be hionest since im in europe we get the games 5 days after everyone else so wonder trading for the starters would definitely be going on, that way ill have all three, but litten is still my adorable boy <3

  14. Am the only one who got mad are Super Mario Maker 3d and Poocy+ yoshi wooly world. we got 3 great wii u titles ported over to 3ds now.

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  15. Well I’m not gonna say this pretty much confirms a theory I had but it is definitely strong evidence for it. Legendary pokemon will probably have their signature moves reclassified as Z moves and will have the corresponding crystals for them. Or they’ll all get new signature moves that are Z moves.
    Also that leads me to believe that Sunsteel Strike and Moongeist Beam are Z moves

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      • If I remember correctly the video showing the attacks began after even the normal point of the game saying “blank used blank!” So it could have been after the animation showing the name. The video put the names of the move outset and in a different font for the purpose of the video I think

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        • Well what makes me think it’s not a Z-Move (besides the edited out words)… I didn’t see the trainer dance, and Sunsteel Strike didn’t have a special background when it hit the enemy.

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          • This is the image I’m referring to. While that’s true and it didn’t have a special background when hitting the enemy, the actual animation of the move is much more in line with what we’ve seen of Z moves rather than a standard move. And we don’t know for certain that all z moves will have a special background for striking the opponent.

            But then again Yveltal’s oblivion wing is very flashy as well so I may be wrong

  16. Chinese leaks back at it again with the legitimacy. Honestly, at this point what I’m only worried about is the accuracy of the leaks and not whether they’re real or not.

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  17. So Alola Rattata is the reason Yungoos were shipped over to Alola. I hope we’ll have a special anime episode further explaining their feud. Like that Zangoose/Seviper episode in gen 3.

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  23. I’m liking how dynamic the Z move animations are. Up until now the animations just went off and did their things after the dance was done, but now we get to see the trainer actually give the command to attack after it’s been activated. I love it! lol

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  32. Ugh those SuMo 2DS look absolutely gorgeous. If they’re not too expensive I might get one, even though I recently bought a new 3DS XL with Animal Crossing skin.

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  35. I’m just waiting for them to reveal Alolan Alakazam to see how they’ll handle Pokemon that have both Mega and Alolan forms.

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  36. So if we’ll have new info on the 6th I think this time will have the starters evos.
    6th: starters evos
    corocoro: rockruff evo + secret
    mid-septeber news: starters evos secret.

    New trailer showed peculiar z-moves (like for raichu or snorkax), so this cannot be the secret. Imo the 4 will have syncro evos or split evos.

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    • Yeah I think the whole Z moves thing is out. If every Pokemon can use them AND there are other Pokemon with stones specific to them then I’d say it’s not special enough for the starers and Rockruff to be hyped about. I still think it’s form differences like many of the rumors have stated. I guess we’ll find out next Tuesday. lol

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  39. Deepest lore: Alolan Raichu eats the “pancaked” psychic type ‘mons flattened by Snorlax. Hence its Psychic typing. *drops mic*

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  40. Ok I translated the things on the main menu screen shown by serebii…

    “Begin from here”

    Sun (trainer name)
    1 (something I can’t translate… Bandouru? Are these the “badges”?)
    Zukan (Pokedex) – 1 specie
    Play time – 0:20

    Mystery Gift
    Live Competition

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      • I’m getting the sense that that particular leaker had some inside information, but maybe only had pictures to go on, and was just guessing on the types.

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  45. I know not many people watch the anime, but I have to share this imo.
    Now that it is confirmed that Alain bracelet absorbs Mega Evolution energy, it is like 99% plausible he cheated throughout the Kalos league, which in turn brings me back to the point that I believe the theory about Ash being the one who gets to (officially) challenge Diantha and not Alain is highly possible.

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      • I will never believe it’s fair after seeing the strength Greninja pulled off in today’s episode, and the fact he was doing so well against Charizard before the form was even mastered, Greninja should’ve won that fight. In a story perspective, Ash lost fairly. From a writing perspective, Ash was cheated out of a win.

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  48. Bruhhhh I’m crying lmaoo!!! That Pulverizing Pancake animation reminds me so much of that Gyrarados and Pidgey comic from a few years back!!! Like after it’s over gumshoos, (who should realistically be dead) is just chillin like, oh… I’m supposed to be done now lol. It’s like bad acting

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  50. Can anyone who knows Japanese translate this: ほんきをだす　こうげき
    It’s the Japanese name of Snorlax’s Z-Move.
    Google translated it as: It issues a serious attack. Well… it does.
    Riachu’s Z-move Stoked Sparksurfer is called Lightning Surf Ride in Japanese.

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    • That rumor got rattas typing wrong though. Unless we see another alla pokemon that matches up perfectly, um going to remain skeptical

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      • So what? When the types for the Kalos starters were leaked, they mixed up Greninja and Chesnaught’s types. In the end, they turned out to be true, but in a different way. So the rest of the leak still might turn out to be true. Just gotta wait and see.

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    • Yeah, the overpowered-af Z moves, and the silly dance that the trainer does along with it, does make me cringe. It’s all so gimmicky.

      I’m just hoping they’re not used too much by NPCs…I don’t wifi battle much (at all actually lol) so otherwise I can pretty much ignore them :/

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      • If they were just fancy 1-use moves I’d be completely fine with them and possibly prefer them to mega evolution, but the daft hand signs are weird (this is Pokemon, not a mahou shoujo anime) and from what I’ve found the translators are butchering the translations of the original attack names to make them sound lame.

        NPCs probably won’t use them, it’ll probably just be Kahunas.
        I don’t wifi battle much either, too many people using teams of all legendaries or cutting their internet connection when it looks like they’re going to loose so it doesn’t record as a loss.

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  53. Have a feeling Raticate will be Dark / Fighting. The rattata look up to Raticate or are controlled by it or something. Just makes sense for it to be a fighting type to protect it from the yungoos

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  55. Raichu’s Z Move is called “Lightning Surf Ride” in the Japanese version.
    That’s 100 times cooler than “Stoked Sparksurfer”.

    I can’t find a decent translation of Snorlax’s attack (ほんきをだす こうげき) but the closest I could find was “It issues a serious attack”, and the website mentions Snorlax getting serious. So basically the translators looked at the whole “Snorlax is getting serious” vibe, added the word “Pancake” and made it the opposite of serious. Because aparently the children of the western world don’t like their Pokemon to be serious, they’d rather Pokemon were a laughing stock.

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    • Scroll down a bit, Claus and I talked about it. 🙂

      tl;dr: the first part is an idiom: “Go All Out”

      I translated it more literally (word for word) as “Earnest Effort Attack”. And proceed to suggest “Tryhard Attack” as a funny alternative.

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      • I wouldn’t have liked “Tryhard”, but I still think they could have done better.

        Something like “Floor it” from the idiom ‘Floor it’ – to depress the accelerator to the maximum extent, reflecting how Snorlax charges forward and having a connotation of seriousness or desperation.

        Or maybe something like “Serious Slam” or “Motivated Mash”, or maybe “Courageous Cannonball”.

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  56. September 6th update on Pokemon Sun and Moon will add Alolan forms of Raticate, Pichu, Pikachu, Persian, Growlithe, Arcanine, Exeggcute, and Cubone.

    Also the September 6th update will add the Alola Guardian of Akala Island, plus starter Pokemon evolutions, plus Rockruff evolution, plus more new Pokemon, plus more Alolan forms, plus a few new Mega Evolutions, plus Marshadow, plus Gigareki, plus an update on Ash-Greninja (Mega Greninja).

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  60. Hope the Chinese leaks are true now. Alolan Lunatone and Solrock evolve from Minior = confirmed that cross-gen evolutions ARE returning!!

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  61. Gosh, it looks almost like there won’t be /any/ mega evolutions…

    It’s almost like…gamefreak came to their senses and realized they were a terrible idea.

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  63. Alolan Rattata is very nice aesthetically and I look forward to seeing Raticate.

    But Dark/Normal? Ouch. Couldn’t they just make it pure dark? Fighting types already pulverised this poor rodent, now they’re going to KILL it :/

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