New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Trailers [SEP 6]

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!

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2,686 thoughts on “New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Trailers [SEP 6]”

  1. I must say that the overworld snippets in the Japanese trailer are absolutely STUNNING. Very excited to do some exploring of my own.

    Interesting how people are making connections to the Aether Foundation and Colress…would anyone mind explaining how they could possibly be tied together?

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    • One of my theories (admitedly not a very good one) was that they’re finding a way to remove all the pokemon and take them to some other dimension or something so that humans can’t force them to battle and they can live in peace. Kind of like a Noah’s Ark deal.

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  2. Experimenting on your own blood to achieve your own visions would be one of the most sickening, depressing, and awful actions ever touched on by Pokemon. So basing it off of what Star found:
    – To achieve Synchro-Evolution akin to Ash-Greninja, Lusamine allows the experimentation of Lillie, her own daughter
    – The experiment went terribly wrong and left Lillie in an unstable state which means that she does not remember anything when in her Ultra Beast form
    – Furthermore, Lusamine’s organization; Aether Foundation “saves” Pokemon from the “evil” organization Team Skull and then experiments on these Pokemon under the vision of Lusamine
    – Their first successful creation was Type: Null, but upon learning about the secrets of the Aether Foundation, Gladion escapes with the knowledge of his sister being one of the Ultra Beasts everyone fears and Type: Null

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    • I feel like Jim Hopkins uncovering a major conspiracy about mind control and other dimensions.
      Also I think I should point out that Type:Null is a dog. Maybe some connection to Zygare 10%?

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    • I don’t like the theory of lillie and UB-01 being one and the same. Seems way too obvious. And why would they label it with a number? I doubt there are other characters out there who can “turn into” pokemon. I think they added the “01” part because there are going to be more of them out there in the game/post game. I think this one just shares a connection with Lillie but it would be too weird if it was her.

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        • I just can’t see them all being the result of human experimentation. I think it’s more likely this one resembles Lillie for a different reason

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          • I don’t think any of them are experiments. I think they’re the equivalent of pokemon from another dimension. Hence why GF went to the trouble of making the delta episode in ORAS discuss alternate realities.

            My explanation of it resembling Lillie is just that it took a liking to her form and copied it, just like how Ditto can copy objects and Zoroark can pretend to be other people or pokemon. Or at a strecth, how Mimikyu desparately wants to look like Pikachu so people will love it.

            Might have even been a newly born creature imprinting on what it perceived to be its parent.

          • The it has some sort of connection to Lillie so it takes on her appearance type thing. Like maybe she was the first human it made contact with so they share something. The dimension part could work into that.

          • Yeah, I think it seems more plausible than all the strange theories stating they’re the same entity.

            I’ll admit at first I thought it might be like a missing piece of Lillie and they two were actually two halves of one entity because that plot’s been done in other games.

            The imprinting and other dimension thing just feels much more “Pokemon” to me. We’ve seen Pokemon imprint, we’ve seen them take human form and we’ve seen an alternate dimension before (Giratina), so it’s pretty much a case of Occam’s Razor – the fewest new assumptions.

  3. When the plot twist is not actually the Aether Foundation being evil, but they’re all capable of becoming Ultra Beasts and their main goal is to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone which requires synergy or energy emitted by Pokemon and Lucamine devised the Island Challenge to collect synergy from Pokemon and slowly, but surely every Pokemon in the Alola region begins to “die off” and the only way to save them is by reviving Lunala or Solgaleo to try and stop Lucamine… o_0 Okay, I’m done with these conspiracy theories.

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  4. Joe Merrick at it again, he’s spot on.
    ”Remember in Black and White, when N was revealed a lot of people came up with theories that he was in fact Zoroark”

    Basically he’s saying that we dont need to give in on the Lillie is UB-01 speculation. GF might just be misleading us like with N.

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    • Ok….ok, but this is completely different. Sure both N and Zoroark were mysterious and had some kind of connection, but I’d say Lillie and UB-01 are too on the nose to be separate entities. N doesn’t look like Zoroark other than having a ponytail. Lillie is a dead ringer for UB-01. It’s just too close for them not ot be completely related/ the same thing. lol

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      • Occam’s razor my friend. If UB-01 and lillie looks very similar, and 01 has the ability to shapeshift to some degree, wouldn’t the most logical answer be that 01 changed itself to look like Lillie? I mean that’s ignoring all the plot holes and logical gaps that come up with saying Lillie is 01, or its her sister or some junk like that, but really.

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        • Well sure I guess……but I prefer her being 01….lol Both things make sense either way. It’s not like it would be too wild a thing for her to turn into 01. lol

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          • ehh, yes and no. The main issue is that whole first sentence saying that 01 is basically a jellyfish, in the sense that it has basic survival skills, but has no real ability to think or feel. That kind of creates a problem as that would me it shouldn’t be able to serve as professor kukui’s assistant since it wouldn’t be able to function as a proper human, much less communicate with anyone or anything. Nor would it have an opinion on battling pokemon since it has no emotions and thus can’t feel bad, and that was a major part of Lillie’s character.

          • The website says that “no one knows” for sure if they have a will/emotions of their own. That to me means that it having a consciousness of its own is not out of the realm of possibility. If they straight up said that they didn’t then it’d be a different situation, but they leave it up in the air so it really comes down to opinion until they say otherwise.

          • I guess, but honestly it seems highly unlikely given this things has likely been heavily studied at the point we see it. But its best for us to wait and see. Honestly at this point, no matter the answer; its going to be something special.

          • Oh yeah definitely. I honestly didn’t see them throwing a whole other plot element at us like this. It adds a whole other level to the games.

      • But the website mentions multiple beasts and that each are called by a code name. If it’s an accident that this was created (Lillie fusion or whatever), why would there be a bunch of them?

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        • Never said it was an accident. It’s possible 01 wanted to hide and decided to disguise itself as a human.I would assume that the UB’s are not as threatening as they want us to believe and that AF created them/brought them into the known world. Under the assumption that AF IS in deed the true evil in the games that would mean that the UB’s would want to escape them right? Hiding is a good way to get away from people chasing you. lol

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          • That’s a fair thing to say. It’s one of those things where people are going to stick to what they believe and no one is really “correct” until the source tells us what’s going on lol

          • Only a little over two months. November is about to be Litten like a kitten. First Doctor Strange, then Fantastic Beasts and S/M on the same day, and then Moana! Woo!

    • Or we could just ignore party pooping Joe and have fun with theories since it’s a kids game. Or at least it used to be.

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    • I wasn’t aware of that. I’m being drawn ever further away from entertaining the notion that Lillie is physically linked with UB-01 and heading further towards my other dimension theory.

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  5. All this talk about alchemy, chimeras, and people and Pokemon being experimented on to create a homunculi remind me of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood… and Nina… T_T

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    • I wonder if during the downtime between ORAS and SM they watched a little too much FMAB and were like:
      Employee 1: “Man this show is awesome, let’s incorporate it into the games”
      Employee 2: “Yeah! We’ll put in a lot of alchemy references to make Lockstin crazy!”
      Employee 1: “And we’ll give one of the legendaries ‘Full Metal’ in the ability.”
      Employee 3: “Sweet! Let’s also make Mega Arceus too!”
      Employee 1-2: “…Dude..”
      Employee 3: “Nevermind…”

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  6. I am also not at all convinced that Team Skull are the true badasses, They’re just thugs who want to steal Pokemon and sell them. Bit like Team Rocket in gen 1. Its an outdated concept. Aether are the true villains imo.

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    • They literally say they want to steal pokemon and sell them. If you’re just trying to rebel against Aether, why are you thieving? I think there’s obviously going to be some sort of connection/plot twist between the two, but Team Skull definitely aren’t secretly saints. They’re using experimented pokemon too.

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        • I think I misread your first statement lol. But I think we’re both getting at that Skull and Aether are both evil. Gladion probably did work for Aether. He resembles Lusamine and Lillie with the blonde hair/green eyes so it’d be weird if they weren’t related. His Nullion is also probably from Aether.

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    • I liken Team Skull to bad behaving children. They didn’t get their way (completing the trial/individual goals) and now they go around Alola acting like jerks. In the end they aren’t bad people per say as they’d still stand up to those who’d do REAL evil, but act out a bunch on the regular lol

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  7. My theory is that UB01 is a being form another universe/dimension seeking help and is capable of synchronizing like ash greninja and takes a similar form of Lillie. Due to them being friends. Lillie being the pacifist, understands the situation these UB’s are in and want to help them and is sneaking them around, like in her bag, as seen in the e3 demo. It would be almost like an ET movie, the alien(UB) is friendly and in need of help, but the government(team skull/Aether) sees it as a threat so a bunch of kids(protagonists) help it in whatever way it needs.

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  8. These games are gonna be beefy I can tell. with everything they’ve shown us I’m so stoked. Lets see we have the Trial in general, confrontations with Team Skull, interactions/confrontations with the Aether Foundation, the whole Zygarde side quest(?), plus whatever the end goal with the two legends are! That’s a lot of plot to fit into a Pokemon game. On top of all that the games look amazing despite still being on the 3DS. I can feel these are gonna be great games. lol

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    • It is pretty stacked for the 7th gen games, after all it’s the 20th anniversary game. Honestly I’m very happy they are doing this because I always wanted a Pokemon game about the sun and moon, and I finally got one, and it looks very promising.

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      • Honestly I could see these be the only gen 7 games. They’d fill these to the brim and then move on. If the NX really is a hybrid and the rumor of a GF developed game coming out next year is true I could see them them jumping to another set of games with the NX being the console. That’d mean full HD Pokemon games!!! lol

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        • Yay, and I hope DP remakes happen for the NX. I miss the old days when I used an Infernape, Luxray, and Staraptor in Sinnoh…

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  9. What if UB – 01 is Lillie’s ”spirit” pokémon or something like that? Im sure we will discover a new type of connection between human’s and pokémon’s in pokémon sun and moon. Also, anyone else thinks we get more new in a week like the past months?

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    • I could see that theory being a thing. Also yeah we’re definitely getting more news later this/early next week. CoroCoro is gonna talk about Rockruff’s evo and presumably that means we may get the starters evos too. lol

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  10. What if the Aether Foundation actually wants to capture/defeat the Ultra Beasts because they somehow “hurt” the Pokemon from the region? (or at least, pose a threat to them). Honestly, I can’t see Team Skull even knowing about the existence of the UBs, but I do think that at least Lillie, Gladion and Lusamine are related – c’mon, how many blonde people with green eyes are native to Alola (or should I say, Hawaii) like that??

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  11. Aether captured an Ultra Beast, and others Beasts are threatening humans and Pokemon. As the situation got critical, Solgaleo/Lunala come to save the day. The end.

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  12. I don’t think I’ve been this excited for a pokemon game in a long time 🙂 It feels really nice. I have my reservations, but I think they’re going to turn out really unique. These could be another 40/40 from Famitsu.

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  13. I feel like cursed man I was working for 4 hours on Rowlet evo’s but the file no longer exist …..that’s remind me on these black days on the collage …..I hate this feeling.

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  14. also i think is funny how weeks ago me and someone else commented how irrelevant were Sina and Dexio in XY and they are now back in Sun and Moon with a relevant storyline

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