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!
Question, what if Aether is like a Galactic/Plasma mix and plan to use the Ultra beasts to eliminate people or such? They believe its right so it motivates them. After all, look at what Aether means
What does aether mean? Isnt it heaven or paradise?
Pretty much, Heaven
So I think the trailer may have lowkey confirmed that ultra beasts ARE pokemon. Just pokemon from another dimension. Based on what The president of the Aether Foundation says here
So what…..I’m gonna be able to catch Lillie…..is that what you’re saying? lol (yes I believe that it is her)
I don’t think so… Of they are pokemon from other regions then technology in the “main universe” wouldn’t necessarily work on them. And I for the record don’t think Lillie is UB-01 but I do think they are very connected
I suppose that could be a thing…..So where does Deoxys fit into this theory? lol
Even in range main universe there are theories that pokemon, or at least some of them, come from space. Clefairy and the Elgeheym(spelling?) are examples. Pokemon DNA could definitely just be floating on asteroids in space and different planets have different pokemon. It’s similar to the seed theory of life origination here in the real world
She specifically references pokemon from different worlds as opposed to regions. The pokemon games have referred to far away places as regions still before so it’s strange to see her say “worlds” here specifically
I’ve brought this up before, but I’m still not sure whether they create the Ultra Beasts or not. Although this line plus the end of the 1st JP trailer with the portal kind of goes with what you are saying.
I couldnt be happier with all these surprises! I simply love everything shown (except maybe alolan raticate) but man everything is juat so beautiful! Also this “aether foundation” gives me the vibe that they are doing good but without thinking about how it affects others which ultimately make them a very controversial topic akin to the institute in fallout 4
I definitely get institute vibes!
Yeah im really looking forward to finding out their intentions, they just seem like the kind of people that want to achieve their goals no matter at what cost
thats why i think they are evil. team skull might be a violent team but with good intentions
Yeah i was thinkig that aswell, like maybe further into the story you find out that the aether foundation has horrible intentions while team skull is trying to stop them, only that not in the most appropiate way
Team Skull remind of riots in a way. riots are very violent and crazy usually to support good intentions
I got a stranger things vibe
Hmm many people talk to me about that series, is it good? I havent watched it myself
if u like the works of Steven Spielberg youll enjoy it
Oh god it’s sooooooo freaking good!!! Get on it NOW!!! lol
Haha ok, maybe ill understand why everyone likes it so much and maybe end up getting hooked myself xD
Oh you’ll get hooked alright hahaha
I guess that would make Moon upside down? lol
I dont want to be that guy but UB-01 reminds me of lillie xD
everyone is that guy
Oh ok then i thought i would get killed for mentioning the resemblance, implying that UB-01 is linked to lillie but im glad im not the only one haha
Nah you’re good. It’s too similar a resemblance to NOT think they are one and the same lol
According to Jangmo-o dex entry most likely it will become the first Dragon/fighting type ….but the hint of being having the pride of a warrior is not necessary for being a warrior itself maybe the pkmn who ridden by the worrier …..it could be more slimy and looks fast like this. http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab337/skorpyann/Beau%20versions1/Beau-black-and-gold-1.gif
that 4x fairy weakness tho
U forgot that Hydreigon is exist didn’t u?
no but hydreigon has alot of weakness too
Dragonite is x4 ice, Tyranitar is x4 Fighting, Salamance is x4 ice, Garchomp is x4 ice and Hydreigon is x4 Fairy. Among the pseudo legends only Metagross and Goodra have not x4 weaknesses. Fighting/Dragon is still a really good offensive type; with 7 resistences x0,5, 4 weaknesses x2 and one weakness x4.
Bruhhhh I FREAKING LOVE THE MUSIC AT THE BEGINNING OF THE JP TRAILER!!! It’s so culturally authentic 😀
Gawd these games are shaping up to be amazing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhfgH7_iE8
THANK YOU!!!
is there gonna be gender diference in this game ? I really hate how they ignore gender diference in the newer gens and is now only limited to 2 pergen
i hope so
I’m curious, how would you want them to handle gender difference?
Here’s how I’m now seeing it. Honestly I never thought Team Skull was all that bad to begin with. Yes they are an “evil” team and yes they do bad things, but I never saw them as the typical bad guy we usually get. even if you take into account Teams like Team Rocket and Plasma where they weren’t necessarily out to destroy the world per say and were on a semi smaller scale as far as destruction goes, Team Skull seemed a little too….what’s the word I’m looking for…..schmuck-y? Either way they seemed a bit too small scale to actually be a threat to anyone that would stand up to them. Then enters the Aether Foundation. They “seem” to have good intention, but immediately you pick up vibes like you don’t trust them. I could see something like this happening(SEMI-LONG POST COMING
:Throughout the game Team Skull is doing what it does and causes trouble here and there. AF are around acting like they hate Team Skull for being terrible and whatnot. HOWEVER! In the background AF are slowly working toward whatever their “true” goal is. All the while they are pointing the blame for everything bad happening at Team Skull even though they probably couldn’t hurt a fly much less the region or world, By the end AF ends up showing it’s true colors and the good characters and Team Skull have to stop AF some how. Team Skull might not have too much to do with stopping the final plan, but I could see Guzma having a heart to heart with Kukui and lending a hand here and there. Either way they’l in a way redeem themselves and Lusamine is shown to be a crazy B%$CH that’s been experimenting on humans and Pokemon alike. I’m not sure how Solgaleo and Lunala fit in, but they’d be around too lol Anyway that’s what I could see happening.
Aether Foundation wants the powerful pokemon, so there is solgaleo and lunala. This is my guess.
Maybe they want to experiment on them and splice their dna to create their own Pokemon?
Well done, thats a nice concept. Well but we still don’t know if it’s true. (in my personal opinion i dont like this foundation, they seem bad idk)
I’d be willing to bet that Type Null is also a Pokemon they created too lol
Maybe it is their first project cause it seems a little you know, weird and messed up, so it didn’t get the power to be a ULTRA BEAST.
It’s definitely what I am leaning toward as well. It would be a nice fake out to have the teams reverse themselves in the end.
Hehehehehehehehehe
HA!!! OMG! SO MUCH INFO!!! 😀
Definitely getting Destiny Deoxys vibes from that UB-01 Scene 🙂
So are we thinking jangmo-o is the pseudo?
most likely, yes. Its also likely that it might have heart scales as well given the large heart on his head.
That’s a good guess. Im getting chainmail feels potentially from the design and description
Probably. It seems to appear on the final island where the legends show up.
Ah that’s true, so we wont get it till late like the pseudos.
I hope not.
Say no to Dragons
I really wanted that dark/electric pseudo
Holy crap I just realized something! If you watch the Japanese trailer when their cycling through towns, which what appear to be cut scenes of when you first arrive, there’s one that appears to be a Japanese/Chinese inspired town with a strip of shops on both sides that has a Hypno and a Delibird on screen. If you slow down the footage, you see the Delibird move, by flying!
My wish came true. Flying Penguins are confirmed for Sun and Moon T-T. I mean yeah its likely a reference to the Anime where Delibird could fly, but I don’t care. He’s living the dream!
Uhhhhhh Delibird always flew
yeah I know, but most depictions of it have never really shown that off. Its generally portrayed as a big red penguin and rarely is it ever shown that it can actually learn moves beside present.
That, and its a really weird way to animate it when giving it a walking cycle would have probably been easier for them. But i’m not an animator so I can only speculate.
Well I always just go by the anime and Pokemon stadium 2 it always knew fly and shown it flying with just one wing
I know which island the shops are on 😛
Anybody got a screenshot of the cutiefly evolution?
http://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/cutieflyevo.jpg
oh thank you so much 😀 I didn’t see this screenshot on the top comments at first so thank you for replying with it.
I just watched the japanese trailer and its even more amazing!
1.the starting music is awesome!
2.Aether gives me even more of a fallout 4 institute vibe now
3.Palossands animation upon exciting the pokeball is nicely detailed, it just makes sense
4.Gladion seems to have some sort of problem with his hand, maybe neurological or maybe is something else idk
5.Ultra beasts seem to be pretty much confirmed to be from other dimensions in this trailer
6. I LOVE SUN AND MOON EVEN MORE NOW PLZ MAKE IT COME SOONER!
UB-01 is Lillie right?
Presumably lol
we still dont know budy
Probably
When I was watching the trailer I thought they introduced Null as a type. They’re really naming pokemon weird this gen with colons and hyphens and numbers.
It all comes together.
Porygon2
Porygon-Z
Tbh this isn’t anything new… I’m glad they are using more creative amalgamations.
That was one line, and it was based off computer programs. Im not saying these names are bad. Im just saying…
Farfetch’d
Ho-oh
Mime Jr.
Mr. Mime
Nidoran♂
Nidoran♀
I just want to pinch Alolan Raticate’s cheeks!!!! lol
This is not safe …..it will not be happy though.
You’ll probably lose a couple of fingers… Or the whole arm
Yep, basically xD
It’s so cute tho!!! Also I’m sure ti wouldn’t even bother with me. It’s a refined taste and I’m sure raw human doesn’t taste that great…….not that I’d know what human tastes like………….uuuuuh…..yeah……..
At least let me put some safe gear on
*takes out a jar of barbecue sauce and paints it on your fingers*
And this
*Opens up a parmigiana sifter and pours flakes onto the sticky hand*
And for good measures
*Adds a garnish*
There ya go sport now go give those cheeks a good pinch
Playing the Battlefield 1 Open-Beta, awesome!
Also Type: Null is AMAZING! New favorite normal type by far.
Ok, theory time. Ok, so it’s pretty obviously that Lillie has some connection to UB-01. I think that the Aether Foundations goal is to bring Pokemon closer to humans, but not in the way you think. In the Canalave Library, there is a book that talks about when Pokemon and people weren’t much different and treated each other as equals until Pokemon evolved more into animals over time. Alola forms already are examples of Darwinian evolution in Pokemon SuMo so this makes it much more interesting
My theory is that in order to try to restore Pokemon to a more human like state, they experimented on Lusamine’s daughter, Lillie and created her into a shape shifting Pokemon to blur the line between people and Pokemon.
Some things to note are 1: People turning into Pokemon has been mentioned by scientists in both XY and ORAS. We can guess that ORAS was the beginning of the creation of this technology. Since Gen 3 and 1 happen at least the same time, there are 3 years between then and Gen 2 and 4, at least a year between then and gen 5, 2 years between BW and B2W2, a year between then and XY and presumably a year between then and SuMo. 8 years. And next year will be the 8th year since Platinum came out. Zygarde 100% also has the colors for XY and SuMo… And white for Platinum. This summents the Sinnoh connection, providing further evidence.
Oh and Lillie also dislikes Pokemon battles
UB-01 is awesome tho. If we don’t get to capture it because Lillie is it, then I’m done xD
Maybe it can be separated from Lillie
Maybe it’s what’s living in her bag…
Which would explain why it’s taken her form. Mimicry is the sincerest form of flatter.
Thank you for having a straightforward theory.
An alternative theory is that they are fusing with the Pokemon to take its power or something like that.
It would tie into that leak where our pokemon can look like us (like ash greninja) because that also is like a fusion
I like this theory, also can you tell me where you got the timeline of the gens? I only really know that gen 6 happens “a while” after gen 5 according to the guy in shalour city
One of the developers posted it on Twitter a bit ago. You can just google Pokemon timeline and you’ll find it. To be honest, the only confirmed time lengths are between gen 1 and 2 and between BW and B2W2.
It could also be 9 years lining up with the Japanese release of Platinum
Oh ok thx 🙂
Also, isnt gen 2 just two years after gen 1, not three?
I replayed HGSS, it’s 3 years
Do they say in the game or something?
Multiple NPCs mention Red defeating team rocket 3 years ago
Right I remember that Azalea town PC guy says that
Oh that’s interesting
It was 3 in the original as well according to bulbapedia. I think Unova might have been 2 years.
Yeah, that’s what I was getting mixed up
This theory is pretty dope there’s just one hole in it. Omega Ruby and Alpha sapphire are not known to take place at the same time as Fire red and leaf green. Ruby and sapphire do. In the Delta Episode (SPOILERS) zinnia makes a reference to the fact that there are different pokemon universes and timelines. ORAS takes place in the same universe and timeline as X and Y. We don’t know about any other gens connection to this timeline yet tho. Besides SuMo due to Sina and Dexio
Same thing applies. They may be different universes, but the chain of events still happens
That’s not how timelines work tho . Just take zelda for example. After ocarina there are three distinct timelines. None of them share any events besides what happenened before ocarina. And considering this timeline split is recent, we don’t know what our “ocarina” is to know which events all timelines share
every game takes place in a different world to other’s but the basic timeline is the same
RBY=RSE=ORAS
3 Years later
GSC=DPPlt=HGSS
Unknown time but probably about 2-3 years
BW
2 Years later
B2W2=XY
Unknown amount probably 2-3
SM
This doesn’t work tho because ORAS=/=RSE… Zinnia herself said that the events that happened in ORAS didn’t happen in this other universe. The asteroid, the war 3000 years ago, etc. if they have different histories then they have different events and we can no longer infer through syllogism that ORAS=RBY/FRLG…
It’s a very loose canon, but what I merely meant is that it happens at the same time, in an alternate universe, in fact, every game seperatly would have to be it’s own universe too to work.
Narrowing it down however to just 1 pair of set games and counting it as 1 game, OR/AS would still happen at the same time as R/S and FR/LG, and R/B/Y, but in a world with an alternate history, and so it still works and the Timeline remains the same.
Bill already turned himself into a pokemon back in Gen I, wouldn’t be much of an achievement.
Alolan raticate definitely cheers for the Rumpcity booty heads. ( billy and mandy reference)
Oh my god…
This is perfect.
I think that Gladion will be the second rival, but he never was able to beat hala
Yeah he definitely gives me a rival vibe
He gives the same background affect like hau with the sparkles
So do you think that there is only one type null or do you think that it can breed and many type nulls can be found?
Maybe we can mix and match its design
Lego dog
That would be neat xD
I’d have to double check, but I think he’s been shown that Type: null is gender less, so breeding might not be an option. I’d guess though it might have a mechanic similar to Arceus where you could give it an item to change it typing.
Yeah change its appearance like giving it wings to make it flying type or fins for water type etc
Can we appreciate that GF isn’t giving us a stupid group of friends no one cares about?
Yes we all can down with Shauna!!
I really felt like killing shauna in more than one occasion
She just won’t… Shut up!! (Not you Shauna)
Someone should take her up the tower of mastery and throw her off
I feel her Pokemon were very weak in comparison as well
Rip Orange Bowl Head, Chubby dude, and um, pink shirt.
To be honest i only remembered shauna and serena…
same
I liked Trevor cause he at least has realistic goals of completing the Dex the others have bad goals
Yeah, none of them actually did anything but be those supportive friends, Trevor tried… TRIED
He actually ranks for me second best Rival second to Wally I always like Wally
Trevor is always behind you though. He should have a pokedex number it compares every time you meet him
Shauna is so weird. It’s like, she’s supposed to be this bisexual love interest but was really forced… She could’ve been a lot better
Yeah, at the firework scene I was reading her text in confusion and I was like “If you don’t shut the heck up I will push you off this balcony. This is some trash love story crap that everyone will forget about”
If it was optional and not tacked on, it would be decent
Bisexual?
I think you’re reading into things too much.
Well she’s into you no matter your gender soooo
I liked Tierno to be fair. Dude had spirit.
The rest were forgettable. Shauna was kind of ok because she handed over her pokemon’s offspring.
Okay, those facial expressions on the main character are so good in the cutscenes (both overworld and cinematic cutscenes). This is the most emotion we have gotten out of ANY protag from Pokemon
Yeah huge step up from x and y’s gasp face from when you meet yveltal/xerneas xD
I was going to mention that, but didn’t know where to put it.
Haha but these games are just so detailed and amazing, if you’ve watched the japanese trailer you can see how every character has life! My favorite cutscene is from when they meet UB-01 getting out of the portal, the emotions are so real, i feel like in there the atmosphere it creates is just amazing!
Yeah, I only watched the Japanese Trailer (my bad) and that’s why I love it. Hau (still don’t know his name, your rival) is all jumpy and fun! And you’re character has feelings other than 😐
Yessss it’s all so real and, dare I say it, visceral lol. Like my favorite part of the Japanese trailer was them showing the different towns and such! It all felt so alive and full of energy and atmosphere! And that opening music 😀 it actually sounds and feels Hawaiian!!
Ikr! I wonder if it is music from a route because if it is i will stay there for about an hour listening to it haha
Same lmaoo same
😮
More like :(|
GUYS! What if…Lillie is bald?! *Dun dun dun* And her hair and hat are actually UB-01!
Dat no good
Bald chicks…..really don’t do it for me
That’s already been suggested.
Oh well i got here around an hour ago so i might have missed it sorry xD
So Dexio and the other one is back. I still don’t understand their role in X and Y. Who even are they? What?
Assisstants of sycamore and “defenders of kalos”
That last one is really vague
Yeah all they did was just show up dressed in capes to the kalos power plant and do nothing
Oh! I slightly remember them!
Ikr and then they just go on vacation to alola and give this very important item that captures zygardes cells to a kid they dont know…i think bianca makes a better professor assisstant
Heck, even Dawn/Lucas was a better professor assistant
Ancillary Characters
You mean auxiliary?
I mean ancillary
The ancillary character is a one who provides a simple service to the sitcom world. Their purpose is to dispense a clever one-liner, dole out the occasional life advice, or distract the audience with a side-story as our protagonist deals with the main conflict.
So like a more serious comic-relief
Ooh ok nice
Auxiliary and ancillary and synonyms.
Sycamore’s assistants.
They’re getting a second chance! I hope they make an impression this time!