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!
I cannot wait for these games! So many different things are going on that it’s all very hard to comprehend anything! From the Aether Foundation which sounds like a faction of scientology, Ultra Beasts, to X/Y characters returning, these games, from what I’ve seen look to be the most interesting, innovative, and greatest Pokemon games to date!
I don’t want to over hype everything but these games might end up being my favorite
The capacity, volume, and depth of the story, characters, and how they can intertwine every aspect of what makes Pokemon a truly revolutionary franchise into Sun and Moon is mind boggling. The potential is there, now we await for the execution and man… these games seem to be showstoppers!
Then again we thought the same thing about XY until we actually played them and the were completely different than they were advertised.
But the only thing X/Y had going in for them were, “First 3DS games” and “Mega-Evolution.” The story never really had anywhere to go from the start because all of the focus was on making sure the transition was smooth and executed to perfection. But yes, there’s always that option, but I would much rather not think about it. 😛
I agree. I dont want to get my hopes up too high but it’s hard considering what we know. These news drops are not only revealing new pokemon, but often a new feature as well.
I never liked the 3D transition in the begining. I only got used to it in ORAS.
Sun and Moon are already better than XY and I can determine that without ever even have played them yet.
I’m screenshotting these comments in preparation for people crying over things letting them down.
It’s gonna be up there for me, but nothing is gonna beat RSE for me, too much memories. Also it won’t beat ORAS, too many relived memories.
I’m sure people were saying that at the start of X and Y.
So what do people think of the artificial island, Aether Paradise?
Fallout Institute erm i mean paradise of course
That’s its official name.
A place where they are creating Type Null
I think some terrible stuff goes on there. THEY CAN’T HIDE IT FOREVER!!!! lol
Gives me creepy and evil vibes. As for the group… I don’t know how to explain it, but think of Team Plasma, an organized terrorist group times ten. Think of Hunger Games President Snow times ten. Think of anyone and anything that are so void of humane emotions, so void of everything that makes one truly human and then attach a just as menacing and creepy goal and you get the Aether Foundation.
Who also happen to run a hotel.
Plot twist, Mr. Fuji is over the Aether Foundation and he’s been taking in orphaned Pokémon to create an ultimate Pokémon Weapon to destroy the world so no Pokémon will ever been orphaned again.
You joke but at this point I wouldn’t even be surprised . I mean it is theorized that Mr. Fuji helped create mewtwo
I wonder if ultra beasts are even considered Pokemon.
They aren’t, the main website has them listed in an entirely different section than pokemon
“Pokemon from other worlds” that need Lusamine’s motherly love 🙂
So… is Gumshoos in Sun only then? I was already Team Sun and I love Gumshoos (Just look at my profile pic xD)
the totem fights are version exclusive
It would make it like another Zangoose Seviper exclusive thing and I’d be fine with that but I think it’s just totem pokemon
Idk about that. It seems like it would just be for the Totems rather than exclusives altogether. They’d still exclusive to their time of day tho so that may be enough of a division on it’s own. lol
Dark Raticate on Moon in the Nighttime, Normal Gumshoos on Sun in the Daytime.
Seems legit.
I’d imagine that was a day/night thing, they wouldn’t make the early route normal version exclusive would they?
Best theories I’ve seen all day:
– Lillie is actually a Pokemon or better yet, an Ultra Beast created by experimenting on Lusamine’s daughter
– The Aether Foundation’s goal is to bring Pokemon back to their original way of life walking alongside humans as equals
– Team Skull will become or are already the good guys
Trust me, the aether foundation probably arent the good guys.
I never said they were, but if you’re only referring to your own opinion, I agree.
My own opinion lol. I just saw the trailer.
Okay, lol! xD
Heres a theory, Gladion as a rival
A villainous team member as a rival would be neat. They could do the whole Platinum manga story line, but instead of being recruited to a villainous team, Gladion could be a rival/villainous team member who gradually becomes good or gets recruited to the Aether Foundation on a false pretense.
He has his own encounter theme, and has the same background effect with the sparkles like hau, he would be like silver
I could see the first being very plausible. But can she battle? How will it play out?
Have you played that game called Fossil Fighters (I believe is the name), the villainous teams are actually all part dinosaurs and can use their respective dinosaur team to battle, but if need be they can transform into their dinosaur form and battle. I think that would be neat if all the members of the Aether Foundation have integrated within them Pokemon DNA and transform into Pokemon.
I’ve heard of it. No I haven’t played but I would like to.
I had an idea of it having really high stats capable of taking out whole teams. Maybe even a move set that changed every few turns
That would be really cool.
Yay my theory is good 😀
LOVE your theory! Sorry I forgot to give you credit. :C
PUNCTUATION! YOU GET PUNCTUATION, AND YOU GET PUNCTUATION, AND EVERYBODY GETS PUNCTUATION!! Ok, here are my thoughts, I’m ready to type until my fingers ache but I hope it isnt that long.
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The 12 hours thing is so cool! That means it’ll likely be evening when I play sun, and dawn in moon. This has me so hyped. I’m calling it now, Aether foundation are evil. I also love the idea that you aren’t some 10 year old taking down an organized crime group, you actually have help this time. Jangmo-o is wierd, I mean it’s ok, but nothing special IMO. Now Type: Null is literally my favorite gen 7 pokemon hands down. Hopefully it can breed or you can catch one before post game. I want that thing so bad. Cutiefly evo looks exactly like I expected it too, no real surprise there. Also I’m really glad Sina and Dexio are back. I really think they had potential to be memorable characters, and now they get a second chance. Maybe they take is back to Kalos? The pokemon snap thing is really cool, since I’ve never actually gotten to play snap. So the ultra beast things are wierd, but I like them. I never thought I’d have to ask this regarding a pokemon game, but are they pokemon at all? I mean I’d assume they are if mewtwo is considered one. A follow up question: will we be able to catch them? I hope they are really tough to beat. Here’s a crazy thought: what if, since we don’t have a traditional league, they take place of the elite four? Maybe we have to take them down after we beat Team Skull (and aether foundation lol). What a news drop, this has me so hyped for the games. If the games are really as content packed as they seem, these may be the best games yet.
You might be able to catch one, but I’m struggling to imagine a seemingly one of a kind artificial pokemon breeding.
I’ll just spend the next 15 minutes reading this wall of text xD
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Is it the one I posted? Sorry the comments are out of order for me lol.
Oops, yeah it was. Good so far. Like hearing other’s opinions on the trailer.
Me too. Unfortunately I arrived too late for that, but I’m glad people are still here!
So do you guys think that we can breed type: null? I hope it isn’t just a post game thing, I really want to use one; it’s the best gen 7 pokemon yet IMO.
Probably not unfortunately… It’s pretty clearly stated to be a synthetic pokemon and none of those are breedable
I could see being able to breed it and have the offspring be without the helmet thing that it’s creators put on it. That way you can have both versions without having Type Null need a form change or whatever. Maybe the Offspring even has a normal name rather than being named Type Null
Type Normal.
Oh come on now hahahaha
I mean it is a normal type. Also if we can change its form with armor (helmet) I hope we finally get armored mewtwo.
Oh….I….did you think I meant that it’d get the normal type? I know it already has the normal type. What I meant that the offspring would have a more natural name rather than having the name “Type Null” as obviously that’s more of a code name or man made name than anything lol
You don’t breed it, it’s artificial.
Just think … Next week we’ll be getting more info and potentially another trailer… I’m not ready
well I am!
I’m so proud of Pokemon for learning how to make a story. I really hope they don’t ruin it
They learned how to write a story two generations ago, but they just didn’t apply it to the last game.
I know right? For the first time going into the games I’m still going to be guessing what could happen! lol In all the other games (even BW to an extent) It’s been pretty obvious what you need to do and what the bad guys are gonna do, but this time the story seems WAY more complex and has way more characters involved. I could see the story of these games being longer than the typical Pokemon game. Maybe not by much, but it’ll definitely be more intricate.
These games are bursting with potential, if they don’t mess up somehow, these will be high up on my list.
I’d be willing to bet these will be the best Pokemon games to date. BW had a good story, but the fact that Team Plasma was so fickle with it’s ideals made me feel like it was almost half baked to some degree. It’s almost like GF wanted people to think about how enslaving animals and making them battle were wrong, but then remembered that that’s basically what the series is about and had to clean up their tracks to make you feel better about how….well you’re enslaving animals and making them fight lol
I wonder what Jangmo-o Will evolve into? since it’s dex reads: Jangmo-o has the pride of a warrior, although it remains humble about its capabilities. In its pursuit to become stronger, it never neglects its training. Because Jangmo-o uses the scales on its head for both offense and defense, it never turns its back to its enemies. Many Trainers see this behavior and take it as proof that Jangmo-o is a valiant Pokémon. Jangmo-o gather in harsh locales like canyons, where no other people or Pokémon are around, to live together as they train.
Hopefully our first Dragon/Fighting type Pokemon.
I hope so. 🙂
I want dragon/steal personally
I hope not… The design looks really promising and Fighting is one of my least favorite types. I hope it stays quadruple (although GF has a tendency to make quadruplets bipedal) and gains a Steel-typing because of its hard scales. I also hope it’ll gain wings.
STEEEEL
Could it be our pseudo?
Maaybe.
Definetly
Two more things I noticed: I wonder if Aether Paradise will act as a safari zone type thing? I mean, they said that they host pokemon team skull are after. And Gladion is more important and significant than Guzma. He has a full 3D pre battle animation, while Guzma has one like the NPCs do. I dont remember who said it, but I really like the theory of Team Skull becoming the good guys.
Guzma hasn’t shown u his final form…
That would fit in with the Safari Zone theories I like to bring up when people start talking about Kanto pokemon existing in Alola.
Lots of people said the ‘Team Skull are good’ thing.
I was one of them.
The official name is “operation bait and switch”.
And it’s looking like AF are the switch.
Lillie goes on a rampage as an Ultra Beast and you have to bring her to her senses through the power of love. xD
it’s obvious that Lillie is an alien from outer space!
That would be horribly cliché
We are not Ashes
Lillie is cluster confirmed
Can someone tell me the name origin of Jangmo-o?
it says on bulbapedia that it may derive from moʻo (Hawaiian for lizard or dragon).
but i don’t know what the first part could be
Jango fett
Jangmo-o has to be my favorite
It might end up being my favorite pseudo
I know
It’s interesting that these new creatures have more story focus than Solgaleo and Lunala. I wonder what those two even have to do with it lol
That’s a really great question at this point. What do the two main legendaries to do with ANY of this?
Solgaleo reminds me of Aether, and Lunala reminds me of Skull, outside of that they don’t seem related, outside of that a bigger question ,how is Zygarde related
I don’t think Lillie is UB-01.
I think Lillie looks after UB-01 and it changed its appearance to look like her because it got to like her (it’s a molten-glass-like shapeshifter after all).
And UB-01 is the secret in Lillie’s bag.
It basically says that it constantly changes shapes anyway. I can get behind it resembling certain people when it wants to.
Specifically it says “UB-01’s body is composed of a glass-like substance. However, it’s constantly changing shapes, never settling on one.”
So the jellyfish deal isn’t even its final form.
Team so far:
*rockruff depending on his evo
so, now give me a cool water & fire pokemon, I like turtonator but I’m waiting for something even cooler. Alolan Nidos!!
Not gonna use the starters? lol
since when isnt rowlet a starter lol
You didn’t list it lol
RF apparently xD
Whoopsy daisy didn’t realize a refresh was needed lol
Oh wow? I didnt edit it, so its funny that u need to RF xD
I think the pics don’t show up unless the whole thing is refreshed. Even if it’s a new post….idk lol
In some places using imgur for images solves that.
Interesting lol
wow, i learned something again today haha
Well….(RF) lol
the less you remember?
Well……whatever…. lol
Psst. Use Bruxish. *evil laugh*
ur pure evil :O, that would totally ruin my teams esthetic
That should be aesthetic…
Besides, Bruxish isn’t even the worst water pokemon.
Why don’t you use a Slowpoke, Corsola or Luvdisc though?
sorry, english isnt my first language and grammar isnt my strong suit either, I’m trying heh.
Well, I want to make an generation 7 team with alolan forms in it aswell, because they are new aswell.
It’s ok. A lot of people are trying to kill off ‘ae’ sounds like “aether” and “haemotology”.
Nothing wrong with using a mixed team though. I used a Lucario in my gen 6 team. Not the gift Lucario, a Lucario I evolved from a Riolu.
nope, nothings wrong with a mixed team, but the autistic in me says no.
I think you mean OCD.
OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder = being obsessed with keeping things neat.
Autism = having problems forming reelationships and communicating with people
light up a bit ;). Not everything I type is that serious maahn
After reading through some Youtube comments, people think that Lillie is a Pokemon. I’m quite sure that UB-01 is just taking her shape as it’s a shape-shifting Pokemon. I think the Pokemon in her bag was UB-01 or another Ultra Beast, the cries are rather similar. Also, I do think Aether Foundation is just a bunch of good guys doing good. It would be an obvious story cliche if their evil. Lastly, I’m heavily leaning towards Moon now. In all honestly, I like the idea of Alolan Raticate being the Totem Pokemon and the idea of it being night during the day. It mostly depends on version exclusive Pokemon, yet I’m loving Moon.
Yeah, some of us have independantly come to the same conclusion.
I’m still convinced at least 1 member of the AF is evil though, even if the whole organisation isn’t.
I reckon it’s that old guy with the green sunglasses. Never trust a guy with green sunglasses.
He looks very evil.
But that’s kind of why I’m expecting it to be Wikke.
Am I the only one that feels like the Aether Foundation looks like Amity and Team Skull is Dauntless?
Yes.
Now that you mention it, I can see it 🙂
OK!!! I just listened to the GameXplain discussion with Serebii……still hate listening to him talk, but they talked about something interesting. During the Tree house live demo at E3 they showed the the game at sunset despite it being morning for them in real life. That means the game they were playing was Moon!! Idk…was a coll little thing they pointed out lol
Trivia
Hahaha I know it isn’t a huge thing, but knowing that we’ve seen this day and night difference all along is kind of cool lol
I seriously hope Type: Null gets a Form Change.
Battle Armour works as an ability Flavourwise for the current form.
But I’m hoping a form without the helmet exists with Protean as its ability.
Type: Null
Type: Ten
Type: Fifty
Type: Hundred
From a programmer’s point of view that looks weird given the special meaning of ‘null’ in programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_pointer
i think it should have protean
i’ve had a normal Fakemon under the name Amorphix or Adaptrica which was a blooby cell pokemon that replicated the environment around it and it’s only ability was protean
I love Gumshoos (rf)!
http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/bubble-gum/fullsize/not-again-4e8bae080c060_hires.jpg
Ur a clever dood
I’ve started a Disqus channel for gathering facts and evidence about the games.
I’m slowly building up a list of pokemon spotted in the overworld, a list of pokemon spotted in battle and an in depth breakdown of the map.
I have a list of like 100 somethingpokemon I’ve seen in trailers. You want it?