Alolan Rattata/Raticate and Snorlium Z Announced!

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!”

  1. 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

  2. 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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  3. 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

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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