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!
Barry used Z-moves back when they weren’t cool yet.
Tierno actually
Tierno came after Barry tho
I never saw Barry in the anime. I just know Tierno danced for everything.
@Moving UB:1 is LILLY , you’re welcome
Are there people who still think mega evolutions are retconned?
Idk why people would think that they’d get rid of ME so quickly after introducing it. It’ll clearly take a back seat to the new stuff we have, but I doubt it’ll disappear entirely. I might change over the coming gens to better fit what we get in the future, but I don’t think it’ll go away for a long time.
We don’t want to get rid of you 🙁
What……? OH hahahaha It took me a minute….a jokester are ya? lol
I want Dexio’s shirt too btw
Could someone translate what Lusamine is saying to Hau that upset him in the Japanese trailer?
Yeah I want to know what has him so hot and bothered. Kinky talk?
Nope. A certain action she uses should give away her personality and hint at the kind of things she says.
I thik the Aether Foundation is intending to capture a sample of every known pokemon, eradicate all other pokemon and then ascend their island into the sky like a Noah’s Ark to raise them away from the interference of other humans because they deem other humans and pokemon battling to be cruel to pokemon.
Cool theory, but.. eradicating ALL OTHER Pokémon isn’t cruel? xD
Dexio and sina from x and y give u the zygarde cube
UB-01 Looks like Lillie
I’ve been saying that for 1h now but no one is noticing my comment.
That’s because everyone’s been saying that for even longer. We know. The real question is, WHY, though.
Ash looks like Giovanni. I’m not really a fan of theories like this
It looks like Lillie’s wig and hat…
I found this picture and I’m hoping best boy is coming back. (refresh)
Colress was meh, but the link is interesting regardless.
Colress was cool. I just really liked his theme.
Maybe he’s a researcher in AF? I kind of hope he’s not a really bad guy and is more so just doing stuff for himself. Like when things start to go south for AF he essentially turns on them and flees. He could even leave you something as he wouldn’t care anymore or maybe had some kind of sympathy towards you or whatever…idk lol
So I guess we’ll eventually team up with Team Skull to defeat the real deal, the Aether Foundation. Also, we can see 3 things that look awfully like Lillie: Lusamine (her mom?), Gladion (her brother?), UB-01 (an Ultra Beast created after her?).
Yeah, I’ve been saying that. I don’t trust the aether guys
I don’t trust anyone
Ergo I must crush all who stand in my way
I’ve found that to be the easiest way to get through life, really…
So there is more of these Ultra Beasts
But by seeing how it opened up a dimensionial portal we could be seeing a pocket realm within the Alola Mythos
But I definitely see the whole UB-01 Lillie connection
There are just too many theories to what these ultra beasts could be and what their motives could be
Spoilers, she’s actually bald and has been wearing that thing on her head the whole time.
Type:Null is a Synthetic Pokemon, so it was created by humans.
okay so i love everything in this trailer but those two names of the ultra beast gotta go. I’m nominating the name Helmera(Helmet +Chimera) for null but im still working on Ub-01
There is only one ultra beast. Type: Null is a synthetic pokemon like Mewtwo.
ohhhhhhh okay got it, name still gotta go
1 revealed ultra beast I should say.
But Mewtwo’s is beast and also pretty ultra. So now we’ve got 3.
THEY KEEP MULTIPLYING
More than 3.
Porygon
Mewtwo
Golett
Magearna
Type: Null
And that’s just counting the ones explicitly made by humans, not including the accidentally created ones.
IT GETS DEEPER
You know not how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I LOVE THIS. Jangmo-o is my favorite 7th Gen Pokémon as of now and I love Lusamine! Gladion looks really cool and the game looks amazing in the Japanese trailer o my god.
But what kind of name is Type: Null? Like wtf I hate that. And Ultra Beasts? Don’t have an opinion on that, I’m hoping it’s nothing like Dark Matter in PSMD, like it’s something you should defeat that isn’t a Pokémon, ’cause that’d suck. It does look like Lillie so that’s weird, but if it were a Pokémon it looks cool.
I’m really really glad they seem to be changing up the formula for the franchise in these games. It’s refreshing
Wait, so is it always day in Sun and always night in Moon?
No, time’s just inverted for moon
No I guess it’s night in Moon when it’s day in Sun and vice versa
No when its day in Sun its night in Moon and vice versa
No, in moon it’s night during real world day time and day during real world nighttime.
No, in Moon when its day in sun its night in Moon they are set in opposite daylight cycles.
Wow… hold the phone…. That’s a LOT of stuff in here….
I want that lil dragon on my team now!
Aether Foundation? INSERT MANDATORY IKE JOKE HERE
I can see people seeing a sandcastle Pokemon and say: OMG THEY RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS! I personally don’t think so….
New Pokemon: Type-Null
Ultra Beast: UB-01
I don’t know about design ideas, but name ideas are dead as hell….
You guys saying that Lillie is UB-01, I just think she is bald and that thing is her wig and hat… lol
And poor Raticate… ate too many pancakes….
Sandcastle is old news.
I know that, I used of an example of the whole “They’re running out of ideas” thing, I just didn’t make it clear in there. I don’t think that of the design of new Pokemon, I want that dragon now, but the names are becoming more stupid as time goes by…. I still can’t digest Turtonator, now we have a “new type”….
It’s not a new type. “Type: Null” is the name of the Pokemon.
I think they named it that to break all the Pokemon databases that can’t handle a colon as a proper name character 😛
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrONF8fXYAEs88a.jpg
I know that’s not a type, hence the “quotes”.
lol at that meme
I really liked Null’s design, it’s just the name that really bugs me (and at least 50% of this comment section, it seems…)
I don’t particularly like either the name or design tbh.
The concept is of a Chimera, fusing some other animals in one. Name ruins it completely.
Well, that’s why nicknames exist, I guess….
I know.
Chimaera (I believe it was originally supposed to be a ‘chi’ sound, not a ‘kai’ sound, but I’d have to check).
I’ve seen many chimaera, Type: Null is one of the least pretty.
http://65.media.tumblr.com/f0e10d87775567cbf3ee1ccde2fc0faf/tumblr_npislihvzX1r0r8noo1_500.png
I almost never use nicknames, but unless its name changes naturally I’ll resort to them just this once 😛
I always pronounce as “chi” (kinda how we read here in Brazil), but never heard it from other people outside here.
Seeing this pic reminds me of how we thought Pyroar would be like, so much wasted potential… (male looks cool…)
It’s been latinised and bastardised in most of the western English-speaking world 😛
Yeah, female Pyroar is a bit lacking.
The picture I used there gives me a gen 4/gen 5 vibe.
“Employees of the Aether Foundation
The employees of
the Aether Foundation shelter and care for Pokémon. Their uniforms
appear to depend on which division they belong to.”
Multiple divisions of the Aether Foundation…
Presumably each is controlled by a different leader or something?
The way Sun and Moon are presenting itself makes me think it may be the best games in the franchise to date. I literally don’t dislike any design and all the new content looks so amazing as well!
Yesssss!!!! I’ve already tentatively put them ahead of GSC/HGSS as my favorite games :D!!!! I can’t wait to play them!
I want to know what theses Ultra Beasts are….. They don’t bode well for Pokemon….. At least in game story wise.
ub-01 is obvs Lillie
It has a connection….. No actually that theory is most likely right, its just to obvious and that is bugging me. Its too easy to see, heck even the entree for it says it can change its shape.
“the Totem Pokémon of the trial that takes place in Verdant Cavern on Melemele Island”
New location name revealed!
Aha. Theory debunking time
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/sept-6-sunmoon-differences/
Read the damn website people:
A thorough analysis of the secrets of the two different worlds of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon!
Some of the Pokémon that appear in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are different. What’s more, there’s a difference in the way time is set in the two games.
Except for a few scenes, time in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon is tied to the actual time. Pokémon Sun operates on the same time as your Nintendo 3DS system, but time in the world of Pokémon Moon is shifted by 12 hours.
Some of the Pokémon that appear in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon
are different—including Solgaleo and Lunala, which hold the key to the
story. It seems that some of the Pokémon that appear as Totem Pokémon in
the trials are also different.
Give it time to settle. People need to have this info regurgitated back at them on youtube by loud, obnoxious personalities before they can understand or believe anything
Other people are weird.
Most of them come with wacky theories for views….
Well, Iwanted Pokemon Sun from the start, ’cause Solgaleo.
Now, makes me wonder where my beloved Scyther will be (if it’s catchable in game).
I’m usually okay with either legendary.
Solgaleo was my main reason for picking Sun as well.
I’d be okay without a scyther for a while, gives me time to get used to Lurantis.
It’ll be a nice replacement, but I’m getting Rowlet, so maybe for a second playthrough…
I just expect to not break my cycle of (almost) always having Scyther on my first playthrough…
I’m close to abandonning my starter in a box for a change if the leaked final forms are true.
I’m doing that if they aren’t, unless they come with something WAY better…
Hmm if pokemon show up with different forms depending on the game your playing could that mean you can be playing moon and rattata will be in its alolan for and in sun it would be the Kanto form ?
Unlikely.
More likely Raticate is a version exclusive.
Maybe but if they do it that way then maybe there is still a chance for water growlithe
I don’t want a water Growlithe ; n ;
Something to think about: in Italy Type: Null is called Tipo Zero. Now, in pokemon history italian names have never changed from English ones. This makes me believe that Type: Null is not is actual name just a reference to it being like an experiment. Type: Null is a multigene pokemon (italian dex), is synthetic, has latent powers and is described “powerful enough to rival those Pokémon often spoken of in mythology”. Remember when the leaker said that Marshadow has a unique type combination? I don’t think normal type fits its entry and design (and, well, name of course). I think it could be some early form of Marshadow, it also has some shadow theme in its design.
Perhaps it gets a stronger form once it’s exposed to something that removes its helmet
Probably a translation thingy.. it’s still Null in Japanese.
I noticed on the official site that the snap mini game gets more abilities as you use it more, like zooming function and whatnot…so how long before we get the pester balls?
LMAOOO did no one read the Raticate description?!?
“There are rumors that a certain top-notch restaurant takes advantage of Alolan Raticate’s taste buds by bringing it along when choosing ingredients to buy, and having it taste test new dishes.”
“A certain restaurant”
Ratatouille confirmed!!
So… Siebold confirmed?
A Ratatouille reference!!! Ha ha ha ha ha
I now officially think Gamefreak can do no wrong lol
Maybe, maybe not.
The Irony is I’m watching Ratatouille.
Oh come on I said this like 2 hours ago! lol
My B, didn’t mean to steal your thunder lol. I just came back after taking a break.
Nah it’s fine…..I don’t think anyone even noticed as it was during all the commotion….we good we good lol
Marshadow = return of ? Type
Dis anyone see this?
Yes!!! for like the twentieth time….everyone has seen it hahahaha
Hahahahaha I didn’t know you guys saw it my bad XD