Pokémon Sun & Moon News Confirmed for September 6

The next batch of fresh Pokémon Sun & Moon news has been confirmed for September 6th. As usual we’re expecting a new trailer detailing a bunch of new information.

Who knows what will be revealed, could it be the evolutions for the Starter Pokémon? More Legendary Pokémon? The secret behind Rockruff’s evolution?!

The news drop will come on September 6 at 10pm JST, 3pm CEST, 4pm BST 9am EDT and 6am PDT. Stay tuned for our coverage of the drop as and when it happens!

See you then!

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654 thoughts on “Pokémon Sun & Moon News Confirmed for September 6”

  1. So what do we think about Mega Evolution. In or not in at this point? Personally, I don’t know what to think but I hope it is in the game (it would be a shame if something that impacted the game so much got scrapped).

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  2. The Youtube comments on the Team Flare arc crack me up!!!
    – “When did Pokemon have plot?”
    – “OMG WHAT IS THIS EVIL GROUP?!”
    – “Lysandre is Lance confirmed”
    – “Where’s Arceus?”
    – “Ash being a hero? Throwback thursday to Power of One!”
    – “When did the animation become this good?”
    – “I NEED THE WHOLE ARC!”
    – “SUBBBBB!”

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    • Everything will be more expensive in alola, game freak wants to make the experience as close to hawaii irl as possible which means that imported items will be expensive jkjk haha

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    • WAIT A SECOND
      MILTANK gives over five gallons of milk on a daily basis. Its sweet milk is enjoyed by children and grown-ups alike. People who can’t drink milk turn it into yogurt and eat it instead.
      WHAT IF ALOLAN MILKTANK IS AN ICE TYPE AND YOU CAN BUY MOOMOO FROZEN YOGURT?!

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  3. I should form my own Ground Type Mafia
    Don Rhydon
    and Rhyperior Godfather
    a Marowak and Diggersby Goons
    and my three Caporegimes Donphan, Gastrodon and Hippowdon

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  4. okay the last few pokemon news things I have not expected much due to the fact the 1st August Reveal Trailer was pretty BIG, that it made sense to slow things down.

    The past few teasers and trailers I haven’t expected much (though the fan community definately have, lots thought today’s Nintendo Direct was gonna reveal starter evolutions lolol)

    SO now I am expecting 6th September trailer to be pretty big! Some things that I can imagine would be

    – Starter Middle Evolutions (but I’m sure there was a series where the Finals were revealed and Middles weren’t found until the games release)

    OR

    – A ‘fan favourite’ Pokémon Alola form, Rattata is cool and all but like with Raichu and Vulpix that was BIG news! So have a feeling someone like Jigglypuff will be revealed to an Alola form since they are appealing to Kanto and Jiggly was really popular back then. I’d also like a Clefairy alola form could be cool with the Moon theme.

    OR

    – Mega’s are back trailer (please just because there has been no mention of them doesn’t mean anything, they are back for sure they can’t reveal everything at once and need hype)

    and a few new pokés

    so sure the 6th Sept trailer will be as good as the 1st August trailer

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    • Honestly I do fully believe megas are in the game(it makes no sense to think they would remove them) but I imagine if they show them off in a trailer, it’ll be the last trailer we get, and their probably won’t be many. Mostly because they need to be careful that they don’t fall into the trap that mega’s create, and thanks to Alolan forms, their far less appealing to try to make old pokemon better.

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      • sort of said the Mega’s part as an after thought, if there is no new Mega’s I’d guess they wouldn’t get a trailer at all they’d just be in the game when u get the Mega stone rly but mostly feel the 6th September trailer will get the hype train back on form people thirsty for something big lately since last month’s big trailer

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        • Oh most certainly it’ll be something big. And I wouldn’t be against it being megas. Its just in my mind showing off a new Mega would be something they want to show off last. Like showing off that their will be Mega Jhoto starters for the people looking at Nostalgia, or Mega Kalos starters to encourage people to pick up X&Y.

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          • At this point I’m going for
            Starter Evos.

            Alolan Raticate I hope

            2-3 big new Pokemon (like Pikipek Evo)

            More Trials than the 4 already shown

            A Mega or two

            Alolan forms (I want at least one to be completely hidden till game as well as about half the Pokemon in game)

    • When it comes to megas, my thoughts are this. Have they said they’re taking them out of the game? No? Then really we have no reason to actually think it’ll be completely gone

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  5. I see there was anime talk below… Personally I’m very worried the Sun n Moon Arc will be more like Unova… From the art it seems Ash gets Littens final evo but keeps the other two starters unevolved. Unless one goes to that chick and the other some other character we haven’t met yet.
    I simply can’t imagine it being as serious if by the time he’s fully evolved a starter… The other two haven’t changed once if his.
    I hope I’m wrong though

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    • I’m fairly certain they’ll go the more easy-going, peaceful road considering BW was a ratings juggernaut UNTIL the island fillers which brought the anime spiraling down. Honestly, these days, XY is lucky to get into the 3’s when during the BW days it consistently got as high as 8’s, 9’s, and 10’s.

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    • Surprisingly, the Alain VS Ash Finale failed to chart in the Top 12 highest rated television programs of the week and considering the episode before was at a 2, one can estimate the number to be in the mid 1’s… which is vwry alarming.

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      • I’m talking about the picture showing the starters super early.. it shows him beside all starters and only litten evolved and fully

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      • It has nothing to do with if people enjoy them or not…
        It’s about him having an actual good and competitive team like he does this season.
        And no, not by anime logic..
        His team is actual good and serious. Need to keep this a trend. Tired of him back tracking with his progress for the sake of marketing and 0 progress

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        • Well if we think about it his Pokemon do miracles like Squirtle beat Machamp, Totodile beat a high powered Granbull with one Water gun, and Oshawott beat Krokorok in Driftveil

          And Kalos is kinda on par with the Sinnoh anime cause he evolves all but two and one is way too powerful for Ash’s standards

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          • I’ve already thought about it and said specifically no anime logic… Because I knew what your counter argument would be.
            Most people want serious battling ash and complain easily now when things are clearly BS
            Sure there are exceptions.. like u

          • Gasp Are you a mind reader you knew what I would say! Cool

            And I like Ash like this but give him a diverse team (give him a damn Grass type for goodness sake) and not all Pokemon fully evolved are better so yes ones like Litten, Pikipek, Rowlet are better but I see Popplio being better as itself seems better besides every team has a drawback member

          • What Poppio would make a good Snivy like Pokemon a badass with lots of Egg moves already on it his Snivy is possibly one of his best BW Pokemon

  6. I think Manon’s Chespin will die, Alain will defeat Lysandre, and Bonnie will return Puni-chan to normal. But, Lysandre will activate his Plan B which uses the giant mega-stone they took during the Mega Evolution Arc to power the Ultimate Weapon and then Ash’ll be the one to destroy the Ultimate Weapon with the help of Steven, Diantha, the rivals, his friends, and the gym leaders.

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  7. Just a stern reminder
    we are officially in September and that next month the Pokemon Mileage club will be disbanding
    I highly recommend you all collect whatever prizes you may choose such as a giant cache of Rare Candy. PP Up and Ability capsules before the end of the month

    Me i’m going to buy as much rare candy i can buy and focus it on a Breeding ditto for Sun and Moon

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  8. The Team Flare arc is amazing. I can’t wait for next week’s episode. Steven coming back from Hoenn to help out. Why wasn’t Team Flare this awesome in the games ;~;

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  9. Looking forward to seeing what they have in store for us next! I honestly love Alola Rattata and after reading its bio makes me wonder what the Alolan Raticate is gonna end up looking like its bound to be interesting. Also the move for Snorlax looked so epic! 😀 funny as well

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  10. My team for tournament plan is complete no hints all I need is to breed them then Battle train them to 50’s then wait one we all hated from one of our own annoying gyms

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  11. So when Sun & Moon come out, there’s some things about regional variants we need to test:

    * Mons whose pre-evo don’t have Alola forms: bring Cubone/Pikachu/Exeggcute from elsewhere, evolve it, and see if it evolves into the regular form, or into the Alola form.

    * Mons whose entire evo line have Alola forms: bring (regular) Vulpix/Sandshrew from elsewhere, evolve it, and see if it evolves into the regular form, or into the Alola form.

    * Mons in eggs: Import a Vulpix/Sandshrew/Rattata egg, hatch it. (But hold it! This assumes you can trade between copies of XYORAS and SM, since you can’t place eggs in Bank.)

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  12. Ok so here’s an interesting thing. Earlier today I saw someone, I don’t remember who, point out that the Japanese trailer and English trailer show different footage for when Solgaleo and Lunala show up. In the background the statues are different. I wonder if this is just them tweaking the designs or if there is a significant reason behind the difference.

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    • Could be that they are encountered multiple times in the storyline, so they are seen in different places; or they just fixed up the statues in between versions of the game.

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    • Perhaps they can be encountered in both versions?
      Much like Gold and Silver?
      And maybe there are slight design changes between Sun and Moon?
      Looking very closely, I can see Lunala’s area in the JP screenshot has the Moon logo on the statues, while in another shot, Solgaleo can be seen near statues with the Sun logo, and vice versa.
      If, for example, you were to encounter Solgaleo in Sun, you will see the Sun logo statues. But if you encounter him in Moon, you will not see the statues at all, even though the location may be the same.

      Just a thought! ^+^

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  13. Mega evolution is quite a big mechanic to ignore. I honestly don’t think they are scrapped. The way I see it is that they are promoting ‘new’ signature mechanical elements to promote sun and moon, such as Z- moves and Alolan forms.

    The way I see it is, ONLY kanto Pokemon receiving Alolan forms while a few Pokemon from Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos receive mega evolutions.

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