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!
New Ultra Beast leaked.
It looks like intenstines.
Seems legit.
I’m liking all the cool boats:
http://i.imgur.com/5dFNeik.png
gotta love that steelix? boat on the right there.
Yeah, it’s steelix.
I think the wailord boat is a flower shop.
They remind me of Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass XD
So I guess then its safe to say that ship’s an ironclad?
Might just be painted wood.
fair enough. It was a bad pun anyways.
Wasn’t even a pun really, just a bit of … wordplay maybe?
Thats true.
What is that boat on the right based off? Looks awesome!
The metal one to the right of the Whiskash is a Steelix.
Not trying to be insistent here but.. are you sure? Haha I just find it weird that there’s only one not based on a fish.. I’m just overthinking it, I guess
You can double check the trailer if you want. I’ve set it to the right time. ~46 seconds.
https://youtu.be/YR1ssSZfoGY?t=44s
Team Rocket’s Magikarp Boat!!!
Or as close as we’ll get to it.
Fun fact. That boring white boat is the same one from Aether Paradise.
http://i.imgur.com/Y53SMfp.png
those colors are very 80’s esk.
80s-esque
Reminds me more of tacky tourist attractions, or pop art.
Interestingly cyan and magenta are two of the main secondary colours from the additive light spectrum.
I like the huntail one. That’s always been an obscure poke
Yeah, that’s one of my favourites.
Reminds me of the Kuja’s ship from One Piece.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/2/2a/Kuja_Ship.png
Huntail is very underappreciated.
It’s definately my preferred evolution of Clamperl.
Oh I see it! Coolness. The Steelix ship seems out of place though since its not a water type lol. But I like Huntail more than Gorebyss too 😛
Story time!
So the high resolution Alola pic is my laptop wallpaper and today in class this guy was like “Woah that wallpaper’s really awesome I want it” and so I just emailed it to him because on whatsapp it wouldnt be high rez (I think). The funny thing is he doesnt know where it’s from and he’s really religious and I think hates pokemon so I didnt want to tell him what it’s from. Some of them in class actually thought it was a something I painted LOL.
Must be weird living in a place where people are religious.
Religious people hate Pokemon?
That’s a new one.
1996 ain’t new. There’s a couple of videos online of preachers freaking out over it being demonic. Pretty funny
I thought that was just ‘preachers’ as you said or old school religious people.
I haven’t heard any religious people that I personally know say anything about Pokemon, in fact most of them enjoy playing it from time to time.
I’ve heard of a few, haven’t met them
Yeh, honestly your everyday religious people don’t care.
It’s mainly preachers that have nothing better to do than complain about stuff.
It’s literally their job.
If I were a preacher, I’d be ashamed of myself and get a real job.
Mostly it’s Nazi related things.
Like Registeel doing a Nazi salute XD
Or Lopunny being too sexy
And Misty exposing her bellybutton for however many hundred episodes of the anime was fine 😛
People are weird
I think the Lopunny haters actually hated furries and wanted to ruin it because they knew furries loved it.
I love Lopunny, specially it’s shiny and mega form.
I really don’t understand the furry hate tho
I’m not overly keen on its mega form.
I think it should have been part fighting to begin with.
Eh, haters gonna hate.
Oh that’s just people in general being retarded.
Illuminati and devil worshiping references in everything.
It’s possible to complain about everything if your stupid enough
I like how Gladion and Lusamine have blonde hair and green eyes and, if they’re related, both chose a completely different path. I hope they’ll have a conflict together during the end of the game.
@movingg:disqus . I wanna point out that that’s not Cutiefly’s evo in the Pokefinder footage. It’s Pom-pom Oricorio
?
In the article, it says “Cutiefly’s evolution can be seen in the footage of the Pokefinder” but it’s not, It’s Oricorio
That isn’t Oricorio
What?! Where is that?
The video lol. The same one moving is talking about it think lol
Is this the trailer that’s here or do I need to look this up?
It’s in the Train On-trailer on Youtube, you have to look it up 🙂
But I did it for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqxPWVIU2U
Thank you! 🙂
It confused me that he said “In the footage of the Pokefinder”
I was grabbing the link when I accidentally killed my browser.
Aparently there’s a point where firefox has problems asking for more memory 😛
Idk
Yeah, should be “Cutiefly’s evo can be seen in the real-life Japanese trailer”.
Jangmo-o better make it easier to find heart scales
Something that confused me in the Japanese trailer: the level of Pokemon when battling Hala. It’s in the 30s. Isn’t Hala the boss of the first island? So is this a rematch?
First Island maxes at lvl 30.
Where did you hear that?
I didn’t. But I would like that.
First Island at 30, second up to 45, Third up to 60, Last one up to 70.
In XY you would be around lvl 65-70 upon completion of the story.
Don’t forget the man-made island.
A nice idea, but its already been shown that the trial on the second island is at level 25, so it likely isn’t so.
Hmm. That would mean you nearly have a fully evolved startee before the second island. I’d say more like 20z
Maybe, but it depends on how much you have to do on the first Island compared to the others. Also you yourself might easily be at around 20-25. But the Boss battle is a few levels higher to increase difficulty. One can hope.
So I have a question about the tournament this weekend…what are the rules…like what pokemon can we use and not use?
There is a forums post called “finalization of tournament” or something. All the info is there. 🙂
ok ty
I didn’t see a level on Crabrawler.
Could be a rematch.
I’m so confused
about what exactly?
Why does that pokemon have “Type:” in it’s name? No one seems to care but it makes absolutely no sense to me ;_;
Its fake. Like an experiment
Hmm, I get that; but it just looks so random to me, like, it’s the most random pokemon name yet, followed close by whatever UB-01 is. I guess it’s too much of a weirdness overload for one day xD
In the Anime: “TYPE: Null!”
Can’t wait to hear that xD
They’re probly gonna make it talk -_-
Do you think it’s considered a legendary? Or, at least, unique?
Problem? (refresh)
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e1/199Slowking.png/250px-199Slowking.png
That’s actually pretty normal in science. The UB stands for Ultra Beast. The number is simply to indicate the order it was found. So UB-01 simply means its the first Ultra Beast ever discovered.
That’s awesome! I actually love UB-01, I love games that have a weird thing just pop out of nowhere like that, and UB-01 is by far the weirdest thing in this series yet; not human nor pokemon… WHAT IS IT?!?!
Whoever made it (in game) wasn’t very good at naming, and probably didn’t view it as a real pokemon.
UB-01 isn’t a pokemon.
And that’s just a categorisation, not a proper name. They’d need to study what it does to name it, and check if it’s sentient.
Kind of like how planets get weird alphnumeric designations befer being deemed interesting enough to get a name.
A connection to planets and astronomy… the plot thickens
It’s a pretty thin connection.
But then again, sun – moon.
Alchemical symbols for gold and silver 😛
And the Lion and Winged creature (in this case, a bat) as symbols in alchemy as well.
Actually, this “Type: Null” reminds me of a Chimera… does that have some sort of connection with alchemy?
I don’t think bats have any major alchemical relations.
The Lion is a Zodiac symbol, but no bats in the Zodiac.
If you’ve got a case for it not being a bat though, I’m all ears.
If you said dragon I’d buy that straight away because there are many myths about tigers and dragons, and a lion is like a tiger.
I remember seeing something like this in that big pokemon theory video (the one that says the series will end), an image of a lion biting the sun alongside a bird biting the moon; I guess they wanted the bird to symbolize the night, so they chose a bat instead
Not ‘fake’. Artificial.
There’s a difference.
Because that really is it’s name. It is literally named “Type: Null”.
Basically it was a science experiment, and it likely wasn’t given a proper name, like how mewtwo is literally just called Mew-2. Scientist’s aren’t very creative in this universe.
They’re not very creative in real life either.
Ehh true, but that’s more on Japan then anything. We might have puns and wordplay, but they straight up name named Charmeleon a poor pronunciation of lizard.
Oh really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_craters#Locations_of_major_craters
They’re literally named after people.
Granted I’ve always wanted to discover something and name it after myself.
Pokemon names are just portmanteaus and homophones.
Koffing is a homophone.
Ekans is a semordinilap.
Girafarig is a palindrome.
Ooh, I see. It looks very weird. Like, way too weird for a pokemon. Gamefreak never ceases to amaze me hahaha
Should have just been called Null
I think it’s name sounds cool.
Sounds ok.
It’s just annoying when typing it on a phone/iPad have to switch keyboard to get the colon sign.
I really just hope I can either breed it or we can get one early on the the game. It’s currently my favorite gen 7 Pokemon.
I doubt it will be widely available. I’m getting a Rotom vibe from it.
Sadly. 🙁 I love it, so I really want to become able to grow attached to it.
It IS cool, I just never would’ve expected it at all xD
All the programmers involved in the project would down tools immediately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_pointer
Lol. God dammit why is the game so buggy.
NullPokemonExceptions everywhere!
I’m literally learning this stuff right now in my class. xD
Yikes, you’ve got a long way to go then…
In the hopes that you’ve touched on exceptions:
NullPokemonExceptions everywhere!
I just started this semester.
You’ve got a loooooooong way to go then.
Which languages are you learning?
It sounds dumb to me. Whatever scientist named it did a piss poor job. Let’s pray someone shows more care for it and gives it a good name during the story.
Yeh something like George, or Bob
Nullion!
Type: Normal
:I
At least it’s honest.
Doesn’t make sense to me either
Lol Gladion’s theme from the Japanese trailer starts of sounding a lot like “fugitives” from PMD.
……my brother has asploded…..
good luck cleaning that up
That’s the last time I sell you dynamite.
Everyone here is talking about Type: Null’s name, and I’m just here wondering what the heck was going through the head of the person who named Jangmo-o. Seriously, if anyone knows tell me please.
I hope they don’t continue this trend when naming its evolutions
I, for one, welcome the punctuation. More punctuation!
I’m not paying attention to punctuation when typing one sentence…?
What? I meant in the names Type: Null and Jangmo-o.
Oh I thought you meant I had to use punctuation, sorry. Totally misunderstood you. I actually am against it, since I like names with just letters haha
Just letters are easier to type on phones e.t.c
I agree, bring back the letters. Say no to punctuation.
We need a Lati Twin fusion called Lati@s
I’m going to name a pokemon with a nul character half way through the name just to upset any C-based functions they might be using 😛
You could always have null characters though.
Spaces and nul characters aren’t the same.
Assuming pokemon uses Ascii, space is 32 and the nul character is 0.
It might still use a different encoding though, I haven’t checked.
Sorry, I’m like 3 weeks into a basic class. Dx I thought you meant something like a semicolon?
Or }
Those are usually called curly braces.
Which was also the name of a character in a game called Dokutsu Monogatari, where several of the humanish characters were named after symbols used in programming languages. I think the main character was called ‘Quote’.
Hmm. Interesting naming theme for sure.
They made a 3DS port, but the original is better. You can still get the original for free on the fan website or the version with updated graphics on Steam.
Just in case you ever want to look into it that is 😛
http://d2oah9q9xdinv5.cloudfront.net/cache/images/games/1/13/12730/crop_640x480/Cave_Story_003.jpg
No, it’s a special non-printable character used by some languages to mark the end of a string of text. That wasn’t its original intention, but one upon a time the writers of the language C decided it would be a good idea to have a special character to mark the end of a string of text, and they chose the nul character. Now C is stuck with it and other languages copied it.
Luckily more languages have adopted the length-prefix approach where they write the length of the string before the characters of the string 😛
Basically if the game used the same C functions it would result in half the name being cut off because of the nul char in the middle 😛
Honestly I doubt it uses C, but it’s a cool concept!
It probably uses C++, but the GBA era games used a variation of C. And there are C libraries available for Nintendo consoles.
A well known library called SDL used to work on most consoles, but now only the older versions work sadly.
I feel like it can open up a plethora of new and inventive names!
It won’t evolve.
All I know is that Mo’o is hawaiian for dragon/lizard
That’s good enough for me. Thanks!
I have no idea, but I wouldn’t be surprised if its setup for a Susano-o like name. I’d love to have a big violent drunk dragon.
Mo’o is a hawaiian shapeshifting dragon.
“Most moʻo of legend are female, shapeshifters capable of appearing as
beautiful maidens or water dragons. They dwell in caves, pools, and
fishponds and are fierce guardians of freshwater sources.”
Still can’t take Faticate seriously though.
Also a Good Fighting type for the first Totem Pokemon it is then. Here’s to Crabrawler (and hoping it’s available early on).
And the obvious Fire/Fighting starter.
lol I used to call Patrat Fatrat.
I never thought they’d manage to make Raticate worse than its original design.
I know I was expecting something a bit on the slender side
And he’s not the first totem. He’s the totem for Akala island.
So this “Type: Null” is, like, the sixth pokemon directly made by humans, right?
Porygon, Mewtwo, Castform, Golurk, Magearna, Type: Null.
Arguably Trubbish, Banette, Baltoy, Voltorb and Grimer are also the fault of humans.
And Genesect was a modified ancient pokemon.
Wait castform was made by humans?
Yes, its artificial enhanced water molecules
It was created by the weather institute.
They’ve done “Type : Null”.
Next pokemon will be called “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;”
And his nickname shall be little bobby tables.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png
Is this some glitch?
It’s an SQL injection attack XD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection#Incorrectly_filtered_escape_characters
XKCD!
So in spanish, ‘Type: Null’ is called ‘Código Cero (Code Zero)’, stating that ‘Cero’ its the nickname, maybe there is more of these ‘Null(s)’?
In other news, here in Argentina the price for the game is $1400 (pesos), nearly 95USD, more than twice. It’s getting really hard to stay updated with prices like these…
EDIT: with 89USD you can buy the steelbox in Amazon, lucky you…
There is going to be more UBs, I hope there isn’t more Type:Nulls because I don’t want another unknown crisis
That’s harsh.
The worst part is that we can’t buy phisical games (or electronics) directly on Amazon
I wish I had some insightful information that could help, but sadly I don’t. 🙁
That’s ok, this time i’ll buy it digitally, I’m tired of paying overpriced games. Although I really like having them phisically :/
Tax evasion time!
I feel like lilly, lusamine and gladion are siblings.
I feel like Type: Null has features that we would see on the three starter Pokemon evolutions. The front legs of Rowlett, the back legs of Litten, and the tail of Popplio. Could be way off, but that’s the vibe I’m getting.
So I wonder what’s under that helmet
A Ratatta head.
It kinda looks like it has a bird head, with some of the (very large) feathers sticking out of the helmet..
Lusamine is yellow.
Faba is green.
Wicked is purple.
Will Colress be the blue one? I think he’d fit in perfectly, especially with the Z-bracelet pictured on his book as someone on here showed before. I’d like to see him return.
Z ring on his book? What?
He had some diamond patterns on a book he was holding in some art. It’s a very loose and ambiguous connection.
So you’re saying the book just happens to have the exact same symbol on the cover? Imagine thinking its not connected ffs
It’s not exactly the same symbol, it’s just reasonably similar.
I’ve been waiting for this voice of reason!
http://i.imgur.com/3fZ4Qjw.png
http://www.vpdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Pokemon-Sun-and-Pokemon-Moon-Z-Move-Bracelet.png
If Colress shows up I will vote for Gumshoos.
And we all know he’ll work with anyone to further his research. A very morally gray character. We need more like him neither good nor evil.
The correct term is amoral.
One who belives what they are doing isn’t wrong.
Immoral = Knowing it’s wrong and doing it anyway.
Amoral = Not accepting it as wrong.
Thanks I knew there was a word for that lol.
Dude, not everyone’s native language is English. It’s getting on my nerves that you correct everyone. We get what he meant and that’s the most important thing.
Well excuse me for trying to broaden people’s vocabulary.
Just gotta say I love that the relation between Alolan Rattata/Raticate and Yungoos/Gumshoos is like cops and robbers xD Real creativity right there
Now here’s one I haven’t heard in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzn0ISaR9OQ
(refresh)
BTW does anyone know what the ability battle armor does?
No cries.
Crits.
Awww I was hoping it was new?. But thanks
I have a feeling it’ll have a cool HA, like protean or color change.
Yeah that would be great.
Prevents crits.
The Japanese name is literally ‘Kabuto Armour’ and it features on Kabuto/Kabutops, Anorith/Armaldo, Skorupi/Drapion and the hidden ability of Cubne and Marowak.
Again, all of these characters’ names relate back to a species of flower:
– Gladion, whose name most likely refers to the flower gladiolus actually has a unique relation to a lily, plant-wise. The gladiolus is often called the, “sword lily” even though it has no relations to the lily and the gladioli was the symbol of many a gladiators during Roman history. In addition, the flower symbolizes moral integrity and strength.
– Lucamine, whose name most likely is in correlation to a jasmine means “pure” or “lucky.” The name may also be in reference towards Lucifer whose name means, “bringer of dawn.”
I expected as much but hadn’t got round to searching it yet.
Going with the whole Lucifer angle, Mine in Arabic means something like “God is my light” which could explain her love and maternal attitude to people, albeit a stretch. Like trying to come across as pure, but eventually shows her true colors of being horrible; maybe even having a god complex like Cyrus, which would be yet another nod at gen 4 remakes.
Oh my Lord, yes!
Luca probably does come from ‘lux’ like the first part of ‘lucifer’ but I’m not sure it quite corellates.
Also there’s debate over how Lucifer translates. Many translate it as “Morning star”, “the planet venus” or “light-bringing”. My copy of the collins Latin dictionary lists it as “light-bringing”, “morning star”, “Venus” and “day”, in that order.
(refresh) Please Gamefreak, make this happen!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon reference! 😀
Ay, you got it!
Team Skull and Team Skull o_o
Did you notice that Gladion’s theme sounds like “Run away/fugitives” from PMD1.
omg link?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGV-BV5oWo Listen to this and then watch the JP trailer. It’s not terribly apparent so listen closely.
IT GETS DEEPER
Yay I wasn’t the only one who noticed!
itallcomestogether
Sorry, you say link too much
Do I?
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e35/12424622_540361192804137_577879802_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE5ODM0MDQ5MTAzNjAzNzIzNw%3D%3D.2.l
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA :’)
Uh, maybe
OMG, what if UB-01 is Lillie’s little sister?
I HAVE SO MANY THEORIES HELP!
GF is so smart for revealing it this way. Just vague enough that we can speculate
The removal of gyms was a great call. It opened up the story to many things they likely wouldn’t’ve done otherwise.
”Lillie’s experiment was an attempt at reproducing Synchro like Ash-Greninja”
Oops that was meant for your new post
I wonder if Ash Greninja will become Red’s Greninja and we’ll get some Red backstory
I really dont see how Synchro and Mega can be seen as a seperate thing though. They are the same imo, with the only difference that Synchro doesn’t require a stone,
I was thinking the same thing and Lusamine is the mother of Lilly, Gladion and UB-01 with the later being involved in some tragic accident.
So /vp/ might’ve figured it out. Similar to my thoughts
http://imgur.com/uLedCtE
Why do I hear people saying that UB01 is a human?
I think the implication is that it is human like, like, it looks like Lillie
Ah ok.
Meh I think its a synthetic Ultra Beast created in Lillie’s image. Maybe have some of her DNA implemented in it as well.
Ditto can look like people if it wants to.
And Zoroark has done it before.
Plus the official site states:
“UB-01’s body is composed of a glass-like substance. However, it’s constantly changing shapes, never settling on one.”
That would make for a neat story, but why join Team Skull of all people and not just try and rebel against the Aether Foundation? That seems weird.
Well I mean, that’s what edgy teens do? Rebel?
Even though Gladion seems edgy to a cliche extent, I still think he’s cool. For one, he has Type: Null, and his hand twitches a little bit like mine used to.
Maybe that’s from some experimenting? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I’m talking about rebellion as in unraveling the dark secrets of the Aether Foundation… UNLESS it was detrimental to Lillie in any way. I mean if they truly are related and their mother is an evil, psychotic woman, I would totally want to protect my sister. Maybe he’s not revealed anything to keep Lillie safe.
I mean if I learned one thing from Stranger Things, it’s that exposing Government secrets doesn’t end up well for you
Oh my gosh! I love these theories 😀
Doubtful.