As announced last week today we’ve been treated to a megaton of new information for Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon! An all-new trailer has been released showcasing new Pokémon, Ultra Beasts, new mechanics and even more.
In addition to the English trailer, a Japanese trailer has been released containing some slightly different footage, though shares the same information.
New Information
- Ultra Beasts are revealed and don’t appear to be Pokémon as we know them
- Type: Null is a Normal-type Pokémon that has the ability Battle Armour. Type: Null is a synethtic Pokémon that was created to synthesize the strengths of various Pokémon, meaning it can adapt to any situation. The Pokémon’s mask is used to control it’s powers and also slows the Pokémon down
- Jangmo-o is a new Dragon-type Pokémon with the ability Bulletproof/Soundproof
- Alolan Raticate are Dark/Normal-type with Gluttony/Hustle for their ability
- Pokémon Sun & Moon are set 12 hours apart from one another, meaning certain events in the games will play out differently
- The Aether Foundation are a new group in Sun & Moon
- Lusamine is President of the foundation, Faba is a Branch Chief and Wicke is an Assistant Branch Chief
- Gladion is Team Skull’s Enforcer
- The Zygarde Cube is an item given to players that allows you them collect Zygarde Cores and Cells across the Alola region
- Poké Finder allows you to take photos of Pokémon using your Rotom Pokédex
- UB-01 is an Ultra Beast
That’s all that has been officially revealed in the trailers, though we invite our readers to discuss and speculate in our comment section below!
Sun and moon is giving me born this way lady gaga era tease. Pulling out all these gimicks, new features and stunts just to have a frontloaded mess and flop.
Excuse me?
Idk, I think the story is going to be something really special. I don’t think z-moves or alolan forms are going to have any implications on the story
I can see why there would be concern over this game introducing too much, but I have to agree with Ultron here – I think they’ve put a lot of thought into this game’s plot, especially with it being the 20th anniversary. So, of course they’re going big in everything they do here.
Honestly, the Snap feature is what excites me most from this update xD I mean, my favorite part of playing Pokémon GO is taking funny screenshots in AR mode. I hope it’s a reasonably expansive feature that can work with almost any Pokémon in the game.
Simple example on how time works in sun and moon:
Ex. Real Time: 2:00pm
Sun Time: 2:00pm
Moon Time: 2:00am
When Real Time: 3:pm
Sun Time: 3:00pm
Moon Time: 3:00am
and go on like tihs…
It probably won’t affect the clock, just the daylight.
Okay. Now I FINALLY GET IT! You can still play Sun and Moon normally. It’s just that Sun uses normal clock system on 3DS. And if you have Moon, night is done during the day on your 3DS clock. Is that correct?
Yes Moon’s in-game clock is always 12 hours later than Sun’s if I’m correct
The clock would probably read the same time, their daylight hours would just be swapped. As the sun rises in Sun, it sets in Moon and vice versa.
Not you having a meltdown over a day/night time feature. Girl, get it together
Probably, +12 as mentioned by joker90…
That jellyfish thing must be related to the third mascot legendary somehow, in the japanese trailer they make a big deal out of its revelation. And that dog/chimera is beyond bizarre and highly unlikely to evolve.
its helmet has an arceus ring.
why do I have the feeling that type: null will be unavailable to us? I mean, I think gladion will end up giving it to us but I feel its the only one of its kind.
Yeah, I could see that happening. It may be this game’s lucario in a sense, I guess.
I agree something like this is definitely a one and only type of situation
Cutiefly Evolution. https://youtu.be/9VgXtwxIW-Q
2:07 Clothing customization is back! I’d love to see them put in outfits of previous trainer protagonists though.
its known to have been back for a while…
Not clothing and hair as far as I know, just skin pallets
Yep there’s that too.
If that’s cutiefly’s evo, I’m reconsidering my choice to not add one to my team.
Oh god, the kids doing the hand signs, so cringey XD
“Ryusei” Knowing what that meant, the feels were instant ; _ ;
Like the ending song of the Diancie movie..?
Haven’t seen one of the films since (I think) Manaphy or Lucario, whichever is later.
Come to think of it, the Diancie movie is like the Manaphy movie where May/Bonnie says goodbye to Manaphy/Diancie at the end…
Well all you need to know is that the ending song of the Diancie movie is basically “Somewhere Out There” but with meteor showers at dawn instead of stars at night.
Yeah that was good, but if Grubbin is not available in Moon, I might have to rethink my game choice. I want Vikavolt and Bruxish on my team!
Fairy-nuff 😀
Why bruxish though. That thing’s got a face like blue monster blood.
I’m a scuba diver in real life and have a tendency to like most Water-type Pokémon in the games, due to having dived with most of their real world counterparts.
Eh, better than Wishiwashi at least.
I still prefer Luvdisc.
Couldn’t help but notice the female popplio at 4:24 of the JP trailer. A tiny thing, but it gives me hope that maybe they inverted the gender ratio of it to match it’s evo. I mean, heck, they’re changing everything else, why not? Maybe going forward, they’ll continue to have starters with a one neutral, one masculine and one feminine vibe. It’d be cool for diversity.
its funny how that fake clown evo became popular lol
The nightmarish one with the ball?
Yep
http://i.imgur.com/NZnAyjm.png
Every time I see that thing, a part of my soul dies
See he know lol
just like to point out that lusamine, Lillie, and gladion all share the same hair and eye color.
This pic wad already posted on tje comments
Putting this theory in the bin like the Ash related to Giovanni one until officially proven
Nah you can’t throw it out yet. Just look at UB-01 it looks just like Lillie
Lillie could be a baby UB01 that got trapped in our dimension and either adjusted go it or integrated human dna into itself, or shes an eldrazi spy. or she’s a Half Human Half Eldrazi experiment.
It’s getting hard with each new trailer, to keep my expectations very low for Sun/Moon. These games look like they going to be amazing experiences, I just hope they don’t end up don’t end up like X/Y :/
A Rockruff Banpresto plush leaked. Coming January 2017 on Pokeshopper.
if only a real to life size bewear plush would be made my life would be complete.
Hopefully it doesn’t have fine print that reads “with authentic hugging action”…
that’s the best part though!
But it destroys everything in its path with that move!
(I can see the manslaughter or homicide lawsuits coming…)
OMG….the second JP trailer shows SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINER CUSTOMIZATIONS!!!
I CANT EVEN.
*breathing intensifies*
I love how Solgaleo and Lunala have been pushed to the side lmao
Aether foundation has goals and behaviors very similar to team plasma…. Team Plasma was the villainous team of Black and White. AF members all wear all white…Team Skull members all wear all black… Connection mayhaps??
They dont look like Knights and Pirates from New York.
I wasn’t saying they are team plasma. I’m saying there’s a “spiritual connection” to team plasma for lack of a better word. Sort of like a call back to them
Its not always black and white
but your heart always knows whats right.
Colress return I can’t wait
He would probably start something like this actually. maybe hes related to the other Blondes
Just when I thought things couldn’t get weirder.
-New Raticate looks worse than old Raticate.
-Definately glad I was planning to get Sun.
-Null type looks like it’s going to be weird.
-The Aether guys look good.
-Gladion is more badass than Guzma.
-Collecting Zygard cores looks good.
-Loving the pokefinder.
-Ultra beasts… Ok now I’m confused.
-0:47 Damn that is a nice harbour
-This game looks more beautiful than either of the previous 2
The Aether guys are beginning to look like they might be the real villains.
The new dragon pokemon and the armoured pokemon look kind of meh. The Jellyfish looks cool though.
BTW it’s just called “Type: Null” and is normal type…
Also I agree with the weirdness of Moon so this makes me make Sun my main/collection game and Moon my nuzlocke game… so I can get lots of Lunala copies eventually…
It’s a mysterious thing regardless.
I’m sure I’ve heard the term ‘Ultra Beast’ before somewhere.
If it had come out last year I would have got moon since I’d be playing more at night, but hopefully sun will compel me to keep normal person hours. I’ll keep you in mind for when I’m Lunala fishing 😛
I’d say their using the island as a “paradise” to gather subjects for horrible (genetic?) experiments, or they want to gather as many Pokemon as they can on the island and destroy all other land masses/people, so they have the Pokemon to themselves (So they can be on Hoarders) or some combination of the two things
Or make an ultimate Pokémon by combining all DNA. Like a giant Mew cluster fuck from Steven Universe
Plausible given their scientically advanced artificial island.
I think something different though. Keep an eye out and I’ll post in a minute.
It’s somewhere up top amongst the new things if you want to check it 😛
sun and moon gives us a rare look at pokemon day care 😉
http://i.imgur.com/WBWVS8Y.png
Pr0n will not be accepted here.
noting out for harambe so its safe.
and mister what about that Willow/Kukui picture you posted
???
you dont remember lol
I haven’t posted anything Willow related.
it was someone X Kukui then it was like a comic
Guzma?
idk. it was before guzma
Then I have no clue
eevee coming for that booty
What about all those tight oily pics of Byron, Archie and Kukui
He still does that?
He used to
I wish ? I’ve been too busy though
Santa Drayden
I remember that…
Those mind purging sessions were a waste of money
SANTA DRAYDEN
I don’t even want to know, I can tell from the name it would take 50 gallons of brain bleach and 100 gallons of Skooma to forget.
I still have it somewhere. It popped up when I Google for a Byron avatar one time lol.
The Japanese trailers are always more informative than the English ones..
Yea, I like Gladion’s theme though.
GUYS ! BEAST ULTIMATE 1 IS LILLY ! LOOK AT ITS APPEARANCE !
Let’s hope that at least some of these synthetic pokemon can evolve. That little dragon is really adorable and promising. It’d be a waste if it has only that form.
ps: the huge blonde is not fooling anyone. She’s evil (and probably lily’s mother).
Jangmo-o isn’t a synthetic Pokémon. I guess it’s the pseudo legendary
Those were two different sentences about two different pokemon, you seem to have merged them into one.
Did anyone see Cutiefly’s evolution?
Yea most of us did
I missed it. I guess I wasn’t paying attention
It’s in a different video.
The one with the Japanese kid in Hawaii.
That feeling when your friend keeps beating you with a Lv. 100 Primal Groudon… Rf.
That’s how I feel any given day
Nah, I would be more, “whatever” if there’s a guy who uses ubers…
But when I’m beaten by Litten, then I’ll be that salty…
If you’re getting beat by Groudons you need to rethink your team.
I think Null should have Protean for its evolution
It’s body would elongate and go full chimera with all sorts of powerful accessories
Don’t think it will evolve. That’d be cool if it did though. Which makes me think…
I think it’s a Pokemon that’s clearly man made. So I don’t thin it’ll have an evolution. (yes yes I know Porygon has evolutions, but that different an you know it lol)
If it’s the one from the leak that gains the primary type of whatever it’s bred with…
The Aether Foundation designs are straight fire ?
Don’t forget the edgy Team Skull enforcer
They have a, Flare, to them
There’s a lot of man made pokemon stuff in Sun and Moon. (giving S&M a new meaning?)
Magearna… Type: Null… The jellyfish thing(even though it’s “not” a Pokémon). I feel like Pokemon stories could finally be headed in a darker direction.
Type:Null still has the weirdest pokemon name of all time
Experiment names. What can you do. I wonder how that will play out in the anime. Which I plan to watch now.
Should have a disclaimer stating that “Null-type not confirmed, kids!”
Omg……not gonna lie I definitely thought it was a new type when its name showed up…..lol Then I realized what it was and was even more confused hahaha
I’d be up for a darker path. People like to think that “adult” means swearing and getting super aggressive, but there are plenty of things for adult in both series and comical was for adults without having to resort to crudeness. That’s why I hate a lot of fan made videos based on stuff like Pokemon and whatnot. They often mistake “adult” as gore or excessive violence…..*sigh* either way a darker direction could be fun lol
You only have to look at soap operas (British and Australian ones, not American ones, American soaps suck) to see that.