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!
“It’s said that, for some reason, its movements resemble those of a young girl.”
UB-01 is confirmed to be Lillie, no need for discussion guys.
It’s the other way around.
Lillie is UB-01.
And UB-01 lives in her bag probably.
I feel like Lillie is human, and she gets sucked or thrown into that portal and turns into UB-01, hence why the Protag & Hau seem more appalled whereas Lusamine and Wicke are smiling (the former more so than the latter)
I think you’re imagining things when it comes to the expressions.
I think the lifeform is either the true form of Lillie or both are part of the same being, hence UB-01’s existing form is incomplete.
The jellyfish pokemon reminds of the mysterious assistant
O RLY?
Look at the shape/silhouette
I guess the Aether Foundation is also a bad gang and they are making the UB’s instead of “doing research on them”.
Yeah I bet they’ll act like they have no idea what they are the whole game until you find the final one in a chamber in their labs and then they be all”oh…..that guy….um…..he’s our….uh…see ya later!!!!”
It’d be cool because we’d finally have a female antagonist. I’d love that, especially since she looks fucking amazing and I’m her biggest fan.
Yeah I like the whole aesthetic of AF a lot. AF is cool…..well AF lol
Yup
I’m guessing this little guy will turn into a griffin or a knight-like dragon.
http://pre09.deviantart.net/4817/th/pre/f/2016/250/1/f/jangmo_o_by_oceanpawz-dagt7y4.png
I want a scary scaled drake with razor sharp blade like scales with a long spear at the end
Griffin makes zero sense
I meant griffin-like. I’m guessing it’ll be a quadruple dragon with wings. My bad.
I’ve been flipping coins into a well for the last 2 hours hoping for a plated steel/dragon type
Let’s just make Mega Haxford Dragon/Steel <3
^I’M OKAY WITH THIS
I really don’t get why he wasn’t Dragon/Steel in the first place. It’d fit really well and it’s an amazing type combination (my favorite legendary is Dialga :))
Because they didn’t need to make it steel
Not everything has to be the way it looks
They didn’t need to.
But they could have.
you make zero sense
I make the most sense
everybody makes zero sense.
I want this little guy to have some badass wings
Not even GF makes sense these days.
I agree on the badass griffin wings tho.
That’s fair, I can see long bladed wing that it can slice stuff with
I’d hope for something along the lines of Alduin
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/deathbattlefanon/images/9/9f/Alduin.png
I’d sign for that
I would too, but doesn’t this could make him part Dark? Don’t want this lil guy to be Sylveon food.
Alduin isn’t dark, he’s just a villainous dragon.
love alduin
Villanous, evil, dark… Well, it gives the dark type vibe…
I guess Dragon/Flying or Dragon/Steel since its main asset are its scales
Dragon /Steel makes the most sense.
Dovahzul
Dragon voice?
The language of the dragons.
I was expecting Dovah-kiin.
it’s awesome!!
Woah! I love that idea, a griffin is pokemon is a dream.
So what is an ultra beast? A pokemon? I’m confused
we dont know.
I have some theories
1: is that they are a rare case of extremely hyper evolved Pokemon that exist in a separate dimension
2: failed experiments that them themselves aren’t even Pokemon anymore but are composed of Pokemon and human DNA
3: Aliens or Elder Gods
You the real MvP
I go with Number 3, but if it is beyond Pokemon, is it above Arceus?
They could still BE pokemon, just not from our relative plane of existence
Yeah, they didn’t make it clear if it IS, a Pokemon, but I can see this as a possibility.
Actually yes
Think about it
Aether gives a lot of hints
The word αἰθήρ (aithēr) in Homeric Greek means “pure, fresh air” or “clear sky”. In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the air breathed by mortals. It is also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus
It’s pretty obvious that underneath this coverup to help Pokemon they’re actually playing god
Gee, and we thought they went too far with Mega Rayquaza…..
Swallowing meteorites to Mega Evolve wasnt too bad was it?
I’m hoping aliens. Beeheeyem and Deoxys barely scratched an itch. UB-01’s got a real creepy ‘Abyss’ feels to it that I love to see explored in fiction
we also have coro coro too look forward too. with rockruff’s evo.
I’m calling it now, there are 4 ultra beasts. 4 ultra beasts and 4 island guardians
Too easy, there’s bound to be more too it.
when do you think corocoro will come out?
Weeks away.
weeks away? doesn’t corocoro come out around the 11th?
Weeeeeeks away.
Seriously though, you’re getting ahead of things. Soak in the current leaks a bit before discussing the next set.
Corocoro is in a week, so literallly not weeks away,end of
ty, we were promised a rockruff evo corocoro reveal for this month.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks away.
Months away.
In fact Corocoro has been cancelled.
*nukes the staff members of corocoro*
seriously tho, within 5 days, rockruff evo.
I can’t hear you over the sound of the Aether Foundation.
they creep me out. but i like them. team skull is cool too.
beginning of next week
Anyone else think that Lillie is related to Lusamine and Gladion?
… It’s like an army of Chatot
Hahaha
I’m hoping Lusamine is related to Cynthia as a hint to gen 4 remakes
So I watched the Japan Trailer found 4 pokemon that arent getting Alolan Forms (only going by gen 1 restrictions for now)
Magemite( We kinda knew due to Magenzone)
Poliwhirl (Alolan Poliwrath still Possible)
Hypno
Machamp
http://i.imgur.com/1SH37AM.jpg
Alolan Politoed still possible.
We need to start keeping a big list.
Also this doesn’t actually confirm anything since the main character’s mother has a Kantoan Meowth.
yea but it was confirmed that we recently moved to Alola.
But it means that it’s not impossible that these came from Kanto too, meaning there still could be Alolan versions that we haven’t seen
That is also true, but still this could be proof that they wont be getting Alolan forms. but your right it could be they came from another region too
And what’s to say one of these other people aren’t tourists?
Alola seems to attract a lot of tourists (Dexio and Sina for example).
Not saying I want them disproved, I’m just saying it doesn’t actually confirm anything.
Yea but not every tourists is gonna own a kanto pokemon lol
but you still hold a point so its still 50/50
This is gamefreak we’re talking about here, they’re going to shove in gen 1 references until we can’t even bear to mega evolve Kanto pokemon.
Besides, Alola and Kanto seem to have a ‘special relationship’ given that Meowth was sent over as a gift to the royal family.
well we will find out in 2 months. nice discussion tho
The only ones who are deconfirmed are the ones that appear in alola list
We may as well gather all evidence of pokemon appearances in the game though. I might set up a Disqus channel for it or something.
yea arcanine is one of them 😉
I’ve started setting up the channel.
The first goal will be documenting pokemon that appear in game footage 😛
but yea u still make a point. but i said im keeping it Gen 1 Restricted till proven other wise that includes cross gen evos of gen 1
I’m going to keep dreaming.
Not that I want an Alolan Politoed, I like Politoed the way it is.
My thoughts exactly.
its a poliwhirl right`? so there still can be an alolan poliwrath
yea i stated that above
This doesn’t mean much, since we have Alolan Meowth and our in game mom have a regular one.
yea but our character just moved to Alola.
We also see Alakazan in Battle, and in the Art for the Pictures we see Butterfree, both their original designs
Wow can they show some love to pokes that ARENT from gen 1 🙁
I’ll say this: This is the most hyped I’ve been for a game EVER, it better not dissapoint me.
Dissapointment awaits *evil grin*
This trailer just threw so many curveballs but I’m so happy that it did. I absolutely love the Aether Foundation!
“Type: Null is at very least a combination of the three starters’ later forms, possibly also Rockruff depending on what’s under the mask.”
Would be amazing (and very much prove that the evo’s are fake… )
why would the be fake?
^ text above.
Yea but could u explain a bit better. r u saying Type:Null is a combo of the 3 starters evos?
I have it from 4chan, so:
“>this is actually the secret Rockruff and the starters share, their evolutions are parts of Type: Null
>Tail matches colour scheme of Popplio
>jet black body with feline-like legs and paws
>green and powerful looking front legs from a Pokemon that has “powerful kicks”
I hope they arent fake but have different forms based on gender differences or game version.
ur clearly a beltigre stan 🙂
Prove what evos are fake? The split form rumor or the pics? Because the pics aren’t fake….they’re very much real with Mallow being in the Litten3 pic lol
fake till proven otherwise: the leaker couldve seen mallow and added here in his drawing..
Likely they r real, but we r never sure till GF reveals the final starters officialy.
Well fair enough about it still needing to be officially proven, but I’d say that someone seeing Mallow and then drawing them into an elaborate fake is reaching a bit lol Either way I’m still confused. How would Type Null prove those evos fake? the secret doesn’t have to be about how the starters turn out per say and them being used to create a chimera doesn’t really have any connection to final evos……
yeah his/her theory is that its design contains the designs of the final evo’s of the starters, so if thats the case they would be fake, get it?
as long as rowlet stays looking like an owl throughout its evo line i am fine with whatever type or theme it gets. i just want an owl, that isnt noctowl.
totally agree, i love owls
it seems like this one area has alot to offer for us! Clothe Store, Barber, TM shop and Potions?
http://i.imgur.com/nAQ8m8p.jpg
love the locations in the game. people walking around makes it feel lively.
I see a cutie to the far-right.
Hypno?
Murkrow?
Indeed. I like the Delibird, Hypno, and Murkrow running around. I think we could probably put together a list of Pokemon that are or aren’t getting Alola forms at this point, based on what we’ve seen in trailers.
FINALLY! Someone NOTICED!! i honestly thought i was the only one! like ive watched tons of pokemon videos on these new trailers, the japanese obviously put more into it, because well its japan lol and literally none of the videos i have watched have mentioned any of these scenes or whats in them. frustrates me a little. but yeah it also confirmes that costomization is deifnitely back, although it was technically confirmed before when we watched some fottae of the battle royal and you could obviously see that the four players had different skin tones, cloothes, hats/no hats, but this literally confirms that its back and not ready to be forgotten like pokemon walking behind you in HG/SS, i reckon the scissors either imply haircuts OR the furfrou salon, the tms symbol is obvious, i cant tell if thats a poke puff or a money bag but im gunna go ahead and say thats potions and such like the poke marts, kind of like slateport when they had stores around town to get some extra stuff incase the poke mart doesn’t have it. again though im glad im not the only person who saw this! 🙂
Aether foundation reminds of Live Corp from cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 (I have small children so don’t judge)
i like that movie
Shite…lunch is over
Everyone listen to me Earthen
The Aether Foundation is totally trying to play God
The word αἰθήρ (aithēr) in Homeric Greek means “pure, fresh air” or “clear sky”. In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the air breathed by mortals. It is also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus
They are trying to create a new race of Pokemon resistant to pain and suffering, that way they would finally create a world where Pokemon could never suffer,
i agree
And the new race they’re creating are the UB’s.
So everyone is saying that “omg Lillie is UB-01” but I think a little differently. (Sorry if this has been said I haven’t been keeping up with the discussion here much)
What if lusamine is the mother of both Gladion and Lillie (still part of the original theory) and lusamine and the aether foundation makes the ultra beasts BUT Lillie isn’t an ultra beast. Lusamine maybe was inspired to make one based on her children and there might be one for Gladion!!!
“While evidence of something like a survival instinct can be observed in UB-01, no one knows whether it has a will of its own or any emotions. It’s said that, for some reason, its movements resemble those of a young girl.”
That doesnt mean UB-01 IS Lillie. It might be a synthetic Ultra Beast created in Lillie’s image by Aether
I know… But I don’t think Lillie and UB-01 are the same “creature”, but more UB-01 resembles Lillie because its modeled after Lillie.
Ok here’s a theory. So I imagine there’s only one type Null in the game as it’s pretty clear it’s not a natural Pokemon. What you get type Null from Gladion and then it can breed with idk….let”s just say ditto for now and you get a more natual looking version? The mask is obviously not part of it’s body and I don’t think it’ll have a form change of any kind to get rid of it. In any event this way you can have a couple of them without needing to use the horrifyingly sad parent that is forced to be enslaved…..well enslaved by the bad guy anyway lol
maybe its the cat poekmon that was leaked! I really think it’s it, even though it doesn’t look like a cat. it has cat ears on the helmet.
I want to point out that in the Japanese trailer we see a Bug/Flying Butterfree, and a Psychic Alakazam, more evidence against the Alolan form leak.
Rattata wasn’t even the same type as mentioned fully, you’d have though Normal would have been mentioned.
This added with Fire Arcanine is enough to disprove that one leak, and all that mention the same things.
wheres the Alakazam?
It died and won’t happen hopefully
It’s in battle in the japanese trailer
I’d say the leak as a whole isn’t proven fake. Some part may be red herrings, but they still got some very hard to argue things right. Like Oricorio, Alolan forms in general, and now this weird day and night system. It’s got a lot more going for it than it does against I’d say.
different leak, go to this website page about the chinese leaks, I’m on about the top part
No I know exactly what you’re talking about. Those typing’s for the supposed Alolan forms were from a subsequent leak that was related the original Chinese leaks. The same leak talked about a bird with different forms depending on which island you find it (Oricorio), the Alolan forms in general(obv), and the day night system being different depending on the version you play. We’re talking about the same thing. The leak got some things right and some things wrong. The Pokemon being not quite the same as the leaks doesn’t disprove it. It just means they put in some fake stuff/slightly off stuff in it for whatever reasons they had.
Then show me the full leak, because I can’t find it apart from the page that connects the accurate one to the very inaccurate one saying they’re the same, when they really don’t seem to be
Here it is.
https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4tokxf/rumor_more_on_that_chinese_rumor_from_some_time/
Ok, then this one seems to have added not real stuff, however leaks from different people that seem to be expanding on this one are most likely fake based on current info, would that make more sense?
That could very well be true
That leak was right on Oricorio, on Time working differently, on Rattata being a dark type (cause it is a dark type, you can also say that greninja is a dark type cause it is beside being water), why shoud we believe it, right? We saw a normal meowth before alola meowth, this proves nothing.
Not only that, but I recall about collecting Zygarde’s cores around Alola, and what we got in this trailer?
Different leak, I am referring to the Alolan form leak on the same page as the chinese leaks,
I don’t think this is enough evidence, since they got a lot of things right to be “lucky guesses”.
the alolan list was only added shortly after alolan forms were annouced. before that there was no list
They did mention different forms of old pokemon, if I recall correctly. I could be wrong though.
Still, lots of things that chinese list said came into fruition, one way or another.
they did mention a new forms for old pokemon, but the list you see with butterfree and alakazam came after the announcement of alolan forms. so like they could of made up a bunch of pokemon. Rattata wasn’t a good enough reason to believe it, dark type is the only other type you could fit on it that would make sense for a rattata .
Oh, I thought you said about the chinese leak… No, I still think the Alolan Pokemon list is a trolly one. In that, they guessed Rattata right.
I love Type:Null. It has a great design. But I was expecting a never seen before ability from it. Maybe a signature move will make it unique. Yes the naming is different, but it’s meant to be too literal. It’s more like a placeholder name they gave to it and basically all of its foreign names are literal translations.
i also love type: Null, i love chimera creatures
I love it for sure I will use it ….I am not sure if he have signature move cuz we see it use Tri attack.
i think it’s the cat pokemon that was leaked to breed into different types.
So you think when it changes types based on breeding the null part will be changed to “fire” or “grass?”
Actually I didn’t think about that but it’s a very brilliant idea.
I’m sure someone has already mentioned this, but remember from the leaks that “time works differently in Sun and Moon”?
Me thinks the leaker is all but confirmed at this point.
Yeah plus they called oricorio and the alolan forms in general. It may have some things wrong, but it’s definitely got a lot right so far.
The only thing they got wrong was Alola Ninetales’s typing. Everyting else was 100% accurate
Well to be fair they omitted Ratattas normal typing in addition to the dark typing, but again that’s close enough. Also with the new pics of Butterfree and Alakazam being shown in most probably in game scenes it’s possible not all the Pokemon they mentioned will get forms. Either way they’re allowed to make mistakes as long as the broad strokes are in line lol
most leakers usually put fake info in fyi
Well yeah that’s why I said what I said lol
also arcanine too you forgot
I’m still in the camp that it could happen. I don’t believe the footage we say of ti was good enough evidence to say it won’t get a forms and until we see a character use one I’ll stick to that lol
but its on the Japanese website in the section “pokemon found in Alola” along with Dragonite Munchlax Line Etc
Yeah….but we still don’t have a solid idea what that section is really for. Sure it’s definitely odd, but I’m not so sure it’s hard proof yet. It’s definitely something to keep an eye on tho lol
the section is for old pokemon found in alola. all the pokemon on that page has been seen in gameplay trailers.
Hmmm well I’m still not gonna give up hope…….although honestly idk why I even care….the leak as a whole is decently credible without Arcanine anyway…….I honestly don’t care if Arcanine gets a form or not hahahaha
yea like i said each leak does come with some fakes with it. it makes people get hyped just to be let down
I expect Earthen to provide us with a link to GamexPlain’s analysis video when its uploaded.
Well who doesn’t want the analysis?
Some of us are info gluttons who want every detail wrung out of every picture, every word and every second of anything
And GameXplain does a very good job at it
So what do you got against stating info at the earliest possibility
I didn’t mean it negative. I’m huge fan of GamexPlain myself 🙂
But the way you said it made you sound you don’t like me posting stuff
Yes I can be like that
Derreck of GameXplain is on vacation. He will post a discussion, but no analysis.
WAIT!!! Type:null has cat ears on his helmet!!!! Could it be the fablet normal type cat pokemon that breeds into different types?????? /OoO
I’ve been thinking tbat too. Considering it is a Chimera, it seems fairly possible.
I think it could be related, but ultimately I think they’re different pokemon
It is genderless.
it could breed just like a ditto, couldn’t it?
But then how would you get different types out if it
idk, how did the egg get there?
Pff idk. I mean I guess it could act like ditto but ditto only works like that because it’s a blob.
When a male and female pokemon love each other very much…
Seriously though, it’s a man-made pokemon, there was no egg.
Just a test tube and a room with a view.
the pokemon born wouldnt be the other pokemon, but the type null , and could have different names, like type water
for water type
It’s possible. I wonder if it would change appearance though
i said like ditto but actualy i meant just that it could breed with any pokemon, the result would be the opossite of breeding with ditto. the baby would be a type null with the primary type of the other pokemon
So Noibat is only way to get Flying Type: Null
maybe. or maybe it can’t get normal type from the pokemon it breed with unless its pure normal. i don’t know, i could be completely wrong, but it would be really cool if it was the cat pokemon from the leaks.
True only part I don’t like is the name to scientific
yeah, it has a weird name for a pokemon. If i choose to train one i’ll definitely give it a nickname.
Oh sh*t!! I completely forgot about that!
No.
Now I have a very tough decision to make. Usually the only differences between the games are the Pokemon and those are easy enough to make my mind up on. This time I need to decide whether I’m ok with playing mostly at night(in game) and only a little during the day(in game) or whether I want to keep things the same and have the time match with my real life time……hmmm this is a toughy lol
im going for night for once. idk it looks way better then gen 6 night
I was originally drawn to Moon as I REALLY like Lunala. Way more than Solgaleo anyway. Playing the game mostly at night could be a fun way to change things up. Either way I’ll probably end up playing both. Especially if the games are as good as they seem lol
Is Pokemon Moon’s time not 12hrs + the time on your 3ds? (I know Sun’s is just the time on your 3ds)
If it is, then you can just change the time and keep it there until you’re done playing. If online stuff requires the correct time, then just change it back (ofc that’ll mess up certain in-game time-based events, but w/e)
That’s so much work tho lol
Ultra Beasts? You mean D-Reaper?
Ok, this was unexpected. I guess they’re going all out
Ultra beast is said to move like a little girl Lilie’s role confirmed!