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. The one thing I wonder is if I’ll absolutely love the Aether Foundation despite them being evil or if I’ll hate them if they in fact do end up being good. I tend to like having comical relationships like that and either way it’d make my experience great hahaha

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  2. The Aether Foundation is like a badass crossover between Team Plasma and Team Flare. I’m really loving them, but it’s inevitable that they’re the true antagonists.

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  3. There should be a Pokemon game where there’s many different outcomes based on your decisions and there were lots of decisions you could make. I’d join the Aether Foundation! They are amazing!

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      • But they’re there to heal Pokemon. Maybe it’s supposed to be GAMEFREAK changing things up, there aren’t 2 evil teams as people were begging for, but a good evil team to make the possibility of a ten year stopping an entire organisation capable of manipulating legendary Pokemon more plausible and realistic. Also, it’s surprising. Lillie looks like a relative though, but now we know she’s a jelly fish

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        • Not 100 percent on the jellyfish theory though. We don’t know the true reason they exist is to heal pokemon yet. It might be to get DNA from as many different pokemon as possible for a single weapon

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    • Could be, it’s always a possibility.
      I blame me leaning towards ‘evil’ due to the good amount of books I’ve read that like to do this fake-out thing where the antagonist is actually good and the good guy is bad. It’s kind of been conditioned into me.
      Or, it can be both. Like they are ‘grey’, what they do is bad and evil, but their reasons and the people are good. Like they think they are in the right and are good. It’s reflective of real life, there’s no true ‘evil’, only people seen as good or evil due to different perspectives.

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      • Skull and Aether being immoral and amoral teams that have to join together with the player to overcome a greater evil would be a good story.

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  4. I forgot about the fact that UB-01 is capable of shapeshifting. I’m predicting that Lillie’s secret is her ability to summon Ultra Beasts (the Pokemon equivalent of psychic communication and astral projection to interact with aliens). Maybe she became a friend or owner of UB-01 and tried to emulate her physical form as best as it could?

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  5. I think some people pointed out the Mega Rings on Dexio and Sina’s arms. If they really are coming back, we sure have a ton of new mechanics in S/M:
    Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Alola Forms, these Ultra Beasts, Rockruff’s multiple evolutions, the starters’ supposed day/night evolutions, whatever the secret behind Type: Null is… These recent reveals have me very excited!

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  6. So here’s a thing. So let’s say that demo that was rated really does get released to the public like the ORAS one did. Which version do they give you? With the whole day and night system being different that would mean there’d have to be two demos of sorts. I wonder if the rated of the trial version was meant for two technically as they are basically the same game or if it was specifically for one version….could be interesting lol

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      • Lmao seriously. I never use regional rats past the second gym anyway so I don’t care but it is funny looking but I love it’s dark typing

        Just not as excited for dark Persian anymore. It’s basically just going to look like normal Persian except black.

        I wish they would get more creative with the Allan forms like they did with raichu and marowack

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  7. so Aether being the main evil team could explain why Guzma has a very short opening intro to his battle similar to a ordinary NPC (look at e3). seems like most Major NPC battles have a longer animation then that like Hau and Gladion.

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  8. So I just watched the live action Japanese trailer again. Something caught me as interesting. At the end it showed a bunch of Pokemon using Z moves and then right at the very end it showed both Solgaleo and Lunala using their special moves. Are they perhaps Z movies after all instead of regular moves? Wasn’t there a rumor/leak about this? Would also explain why the animations seem so much more…well animated than the typical moves shown.

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  9. The way time works in Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon is cool and all, but what the hell does it look like for a 10 year old to be always out at night time in the Moon version?? Guess your Pokémon Moon protagonist is a rebel… unless you tend to be a night owl, which ironically will have you usually experiencing Moon’s daytime rather than the intended nighttime. I want Pokémon Moon (along with that lovely, gorgeous, magnificent, marvelous, majestic, regal, sexy sexy, glamorous… Galaxy Style New 3DS XL), but having my young protagonist roaming around at night in this region he just moved to is a little… I dunno. You know what I mean, right? Right??

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  10. OH!!! Idk if anyone else caught this, but I saw someone on VP point out that there seems to be the ability to gift Pokemon now. When Shohei tries to apologize to Hoku it looks like Hoku gets a notification from Shohei and he suddenly gets a Minior! That could be pretty cool lol

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    • I noticed that but thought it was like dropping off a Pokémon in the GTS and wait for someone to receive it. I’m going to love that feature. I’ll be able to send Shady Penguinn my Defensive Drifblim Ive been holding for him for a while ;~;

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      • I think we did see some sort of animation that looked like a pokemon being received as a present with the event munchlax. So hopefully it’s a bit more expanded. It would be a fun feature if you could just give people pokemon with no return trade required. It could make for some interesting nuzlocks, streams, and lets plays.

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