New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Trailers [SEP 6]

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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. Theory is probably going to be way off, but is it possible that the pokemon Type: Null is based on are the island guardians? Perhaps its tomahawk on its head is an attempt at mimicking Tapu Koko’s mohawk. Maybe its other features are inspired by the other guardians

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  4. Am I the only one who thinks that among all these trailers the starters seem almost forgotten since their reveal? I mean it’s 4 month now they’ve been revealed and what we know about them is that they can use Z-moves like all other pokemon.

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  10. So….I have to think:
    In terms of people saying that “Normal Arcanine has been shown already! It’s not getting an Alola Form”, we honestly can’t know that for certain.
    In all truthfulness, I wouldn’t at all put it past Game Freak to outright trick/troll us into believing there isn’t one, just to save us from being spoiled before the games come out.
    The disclaimer does say that “Game Footage is Not Final”.

    Maybe…..just maybe…..there is hope for my water Arcanine….;)

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    • Once again, REACHING. As well as blind hopefull wishing. There’s way more evidence to suggest Allan arcanine is a dub and you’re still trying to put together whatever evidence you can to make your self believe there’s still a chance, even though gamefreak hasn’t been subtle with its marketing at all this time around. they have no reason at this point to hide anything besides Starter evos and intricate story details. Everything else they’ve been busting wide open

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      • Its not reaching when most of the Chinese leaks have been so far the truth. Its listed on the shit as Pokemon seen in Alola, but you’ve do have a regular Meowth and a Alolan Meowth in the game. Its been shown in the game not all trainers are Alolan. Its also alpha footage being used. We’ve rarely fine wild pokemon that used stone evolutions in game. I think the only exception is Starmie and Cloyster from fishing. They either can’t be found or very very rare. They may have done that just for sake of footage? Its not reaching. Because we don’t know.

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  12. So, Type: Null’s mask heavily resembles the symbol around Arceus. Also Null’s website describtion says that ”it was used on a certain mission, to rival the power of that of Pokemon often spoken of in mythology”

    Could it be that Null was supposed to be Aether’s version of Arceus, but the experiment failed and this is the result?

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    • It’d be interesting if they actually mentioned Arceus in the game, which I don’t think they’ve ever done. That would also make sense considering Arceus can be any type and it seems Type:Null looks like it was created to be multi-typed perhaps.

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    • WAIT…….I think you may be on to something here…..

      What physical features do we see on Null?
      -A watery type fin for a tail
      -Hind legs that resemble a feline
      -Front legs that resemble bird talons
      -And a canine head

      WOW……there really may be something to this….

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      • You guys are seriously reaching. Nulls tail is obviously aquatic but doesn’t look anything like poplio. Poplio doesn’t have a wide fine like tail. Also its hind legs are so clearly insectoid, even a child can see that. Speculation is fun and all but you guys just kinda throw shit at the wall and see if it sticks, using whatever facts you can to back up increasingly ludicrous fan theories

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    • Not trying to call you out, but try to at least cite Lockstin’s research. Because basically you’re just quoting his video he just posted.

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      • I really hope they have more black hair styles it kinda sucks when I can change the skin tone but I have to have for the most part straight hair.

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        • I feel the same. I have nothing against the option to have straight hair but I’d greatly appreciate hairstyles that are representative of different hair textures.

          I for one would really love to see dreadlocs as a style seeing as I have them lol! Also, my dream of making a Bob Marley pokemon trainer would be fulfilled!

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          • Me either but I would just feel more invested in my character if I could make him more like me. So here’s to more hair styles in Sun and Moon!?

  19. Heard that they might use the four phrases of the moon for rockruff….. New Moon, Full Moon, Cresent, and i think half?

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  21. Guys, realistically speaking – in terms of what Game Freak has done in the past – what do y’all think is the deal with the Ultra Beasts? Do you think they’ll be catchable? Or will they be some sort of separate beings that serve another purpose? Will they be present in future games?

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    • I dont think they will be catchable. I think they serve as new foes you can battle maybe? UB-01 isn’t a Pokemon, so it would be weird if you can catch it.

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      • One thing is true: Ultra Beasts are one of the weidest / unique things Game Freak has ever introduce to the series; I’m looking forward to know how they all connect to the story, because, at this point, I was almost forgetting who the legendaries of the game were ?

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      • Well, if the Aether employees are to appear in future games, I suppose the Aether Foundation can’t be the “secret” villains in this game, unless they become usual villains in the series. (I do think they’re a little suspicious, though)

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    • Okay, I know it’s been said already but I think UB-01 has something to do with Lillie. But Lillie does look like Gladeon and Lusamine. What if they’re all Ultra Beasts? There is also something living in Lillie’s bag… Just a thought.

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      • That’s a great idea, I do think those 3 are connected, but it’s just hard to imagine that Game Freak would introduce a new race of beings that resemble humans but can turn into pokemon-like creatures in the series; it’s very, very random.

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        • Same, it’s a very we’ll put together and thought out theory. It was missing some pieces to me at first, (yes I know part 3 isn’t finished but I meant evidence was missing from part 1 & 2), but with this latest trailer introducing; Type:Null (a chimera), the Aether Foundation (Aether is very important to his theory), and Ultra beasts I simply can’t ignore how accurate it is any longer.

          Especially with the Aether Foundation thing! Like they could have chosen ANY OTHER NAME TO CALL THEM. They chose aether… There be a reason

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    • Always a fun theory, but an illogical theory all the same. Don’t get me wrong, its well made, but the issues of theories like this is that it tries to blind you with evidence that seems to make sense to come to the conclusion that something that seems so absurd is certainly possible. The problem though is that the conclusion here is virtually impossible.

      Pokemon is a series that is virtually impossible to reboot. You can’t reboot the actual number of pokemon since every pokemon has its fan’s and people would be uset if you cut them out forever. You can’t really reboot the story given every game already does that. Every game, even X&Y, wrap up their story very well. The bad guys are defeated, the champion is beaten, and the day is saved thanks to a 10 year old. Certainly their might be some threads left hanging, but those are usually explored in future games, or completely ignored as being unimportant. The most reference the other games get is usually a small cameo by previous characters, which usually adds nothing to the story.

      Heck, that’s even ignoring that technically every generation is a reboot in a sense that its likely taking place in a different universe then the previous one due to the change of mechanics, which is why the remakes always redesign characters to look similar, but different then their original counterparts. The most obvious of these being gen 6 that outright brings up the idea of having multiple universes in ORAS.

      Honestly this is a well made theory, but again it seems to ignore the basic issues of this idea and if I may be a bit callus, comes across more as someone saying that pokemon is to complicated now and wants it to return to a more simplified form, which it isn’t. Theories about the end of pokemon, or a reboot of pokemon come out every generation. From 6 gen having the beginning and the end with oras, to X&Y having the pokemon of like and death, to black and white being the first time the games didn’t take place in Japan, to Gen 4 with cyrus wanting to recreate the universe, to probably something really random in gen 3. People will see what they want to see to support their arguments that the end is coming, and make some pretty impressive arguments for it. But more times then not people are chasing nothing more then shadows as they lead themselves further and further from the truth. Or as Blizzard put it with their ARG going on right now “why are you staring to the stars, when you should be looking behind you?”. Don’t lose focus and start chasing shadows, but stay determined that the real answers are out there.

      Also sorry for the essay.

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      • I feel you on everything here besides your inclination to believe pokemon is impossible to reboot. “In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning. The term is used with respect to various different forms of fictional media such as comic books, television series, video games, and films” -Wikipedia. A pokemon reboot would not have to “get rid of all the current pokemon, just start from the beginning and could possibly reimagine them with slight differences.
        Also with specific reference to pokemon, a reboot could also change the basic mechanics and introduce or “reimagine” pokemon with new ones. Like an active or real time battle system for example. Pokemon can indeed be rebooted.

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        • yes, but that’s not really the implication, at least how I took the video. Pokemon can change up is mechanics at any time. It however usually leaves that to spinoff games while building off the formula that has lasted for 20 years. Again there’s no need to reset things if they wanted to try a new battle system. Heck Yokai-watch, their main competition in Japan, completely redesigned their battle system for their newest game and its generally been seen as a huge improvement to the series. As well, while redesigning some pokemon really doesn’t work anymore given the Alolan forms. If they waned to redesign old pokemon or make small changes, they can now simply create a region variant of the pokemon, and thus they have no incentive to alter any old content. Simply they can have their cake and eat it.

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          • This is Nintendo and Gamefreak we’re talking about tho… Do they really need incentive?

            Also that can work with Yokai Watch because it isn’t a 20 year old franchise with die hard fans. Also with only two games under its belt, changing its battle system from the first to second game is more of a “trying to see what works best for our franchise” and less “switching up a tried and true formula”.

            My point isn’t that they are going to reboot. It is that they can. And personally I wouldn’t mind.

          • Do they really need incentive? Yeah, they really do, especially if you look at their comments in recent years. They’ve pretty much admitted that they try to keep certain franchises following a status quo, while allowing for others and spinoff to act as experiments. Its why we haven’t had a proper paper mario rpg since the gamecube; because they’ve openly said that the Mario and Luigi series is their new mario rpg. Or why Star fox zero was yet another remake of the first star fox game, but had a small spinoff game to experiment with mechanics. Nintendo in recent years is really trying to play things on the safer side and it doesn’t seem like they would do anything major to rock the good boat of one of their biggest sources of revenue.

            As for Yokai Watch, yes and no. Technically they have 4 games if you don’t count different versions, and if you do it goes up to 7, eight if you count the mobile game. The series though has been around since 2013, so yeah it is relatively new still. At the same time though they made a game that basically a ghost busters parody, so who knows what’s really going through their head.

            And yeah I’ll agree that they CAN reboot, but I simply mean it doesn’t seem to make much sense for them. Any benefit of rebooting seems to have already been achieved by something they have introduced, like Alolan forms, and the need to rewrite certain plots seems unnecessary as past games are barely mentioned and as shown with ORAS; they can easily rewrite entire parts of past games with remakes, saying it took place in another universe. Really I don’t care, but I just like to bring up that these kinds of theories are a dime a dozen every generation, and seem to eventually devolve from speculation of they could be doing it, to assuming that this is all hard confirmation that the series is being rebooted. But I digress. And again you did bring up some good points.

          • Their stances have seemingly changed then as they have openly stated that for the BOTW and the next Mario they are bucking series conventions and trends and essentially going back to basics to create something new.

            If they are willing to do that with two of their longest running and most storied franchises I don’t see them not giving pokemon the same treatment. But in all honesty it’s not really that deep. I’d appreciate a really big mix up after playing the same formula (broken or not) for 20 years. Others wouldn’t.
            I just don’t want gamefreak to be tied down to tradition and convention because fans fear a big change

          • yeah a rebooted pokemon game cnan work, look at the remakes and some can say pokemon had a soft reboot with the 4th /5th gen. but there villians seem to be more of the same really.

  25. So… if what they say about these Ultra Beasts is true, and if Lillie is one.

    Then could that mean any other person might be one.

    Like for example, Cynthia?

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