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’m really disliking this framing of Aether Foundation as the “real” villainous team… Like I get it if you don’t necessarily like team skull or their theme but don’t go disrespecting my boy Guzma like that!!! He is destruction incarnate!
If anything this is a Team Aqua/Magma situation
Poor Guzma 🙁
RIGHT?!?!
I’m not dissing Team Skull, heck, I appreciate them a lot, they are a breath of fresh air.
I just don’t see them doing evil, world-changing things, like past evil teams have done. With the Aether Foundation, I can see them being like Team Plasma, hiding behind a facade of good. Having Team Skull also helps their disguise, since people (well, excluding me) would be expecting that they are the main ones, while the real damage is being done in the background by the Aether Foundation.
It’s a fake out I’ve seen in other media (mostly books) so I’m not surprised by it.
I just love how Good Knight team Plasma split in two and the Evil Knights went and Became Pirates.
I thought the evil plasma were ninjas…
I like this idea a lot! I even like the idea of teaming up with team skull at the end. They have a redemptive quality that makes them so interesting to me. Guzma and Kukui both having a similar past of being rejected trial captains but taking it two different ways! I LOVE Team Skull for that reason.
I would love for that to happen, possibly a moment where Guzma reflects on himself and realizes he needs to move on past his failures and decides afterward to be Kukui’s assistant or something.
And I love the fact they are foils, same situation, different outcomes. Foils are my fave story-telling element.
EXACTLY!!! It’s so much depth to it! These games are definitely going to have some powerful story elements. I can not wait lol
Anyone else notice that wasn’t Cutiefly in the trailer?
Thats not falco
Einstein Side
Aether giving off the wolf in sheep clothing vibe to me, I feel like they experiment with Pokemon with Gladion a former member/has history with Lusamine, and that’s why he has Type: Null, also feel like they’re gonna have somin to do with Zygarde as well
I mean this gen seems to be about nature and being one with Pokemon and you’ve got lab coats out here tryna take that to the extreme, even creating an artificial island
Nature vs Man/Technology 🙂 It’s definitely something I imagined as a conflict for this game, especially with all the info about Alola being this Pokemon-filled paradise
At some point, It will be revealed that Team Aether is led by Ike.
So has anyone seen this from the other Japanese trailer
So Dexio and Sina being in the games has me wondering. Are they older or is they’re taller appearance just byproduct of the games now showing everyone in better scale? lol
Probably the latter. Likely the better scale.
Both? They reference the 5 trainers from XY
Hmmm interesting. I guess it makes sense. Even with the chibi scaling they were more in line with children than the adults. Well I guess that means we got another time skip on our hands! lol
Definitely after the events of XY, maybe 2 years later, so they have definitely aged but not by a lot. But I think their more mature appearance is mostly due to them being properly scaled.
Haven’t read the convos below but I’m calling something right now:
Lillie is from team Aether and UB-01 is her (or related to her in some way). It looks like her and the US website says:
“While evidence of something like a survival instinct can be observed in UB-01, no one knows whether it has a will of its own or any emotions. It’s said that, for some reason, its movements resemble those of a young girl”
Speaking of Lillie, did we ever get confirmation of the Pokemon that cried inside her bag?
Maybe Lillie smuggled something out of the Aether foundation
Jangmo-o Dragon/Fighting evo needs to happen IMO
I’m getting Griffin vibes from it. Anyone else?
That was my first feeling also
Same, as well as a dino feeling.
I’m basically going by the website’s describtion saying its a warrior
I want it to evolve into Susano. although we could get a 3rd legendary storm god pokemon to go with sun and moon since Japanese culture Ameterasu and Tsukuyomi were Susanoos siblings.
The Shinto god? lol
Hey, we may be in front of completely new creatures that are not Pokemon…
“Ultra Beasts possess mighty powers and could pose a threat to humans and Pokémon, so they are feared.” “HUMANS and POKEMON”…
It’s not even listed under the Pokemon list: http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon/
They have their own page: http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/ultra-beasts/
What do you think?
I think it’s because Lillie is UB-01 and you probably won’t be able to catch her like a real Pokemon lol
Ok first off, I LOVE Jungmo-o as it seems like that type who fight for you till the end, and I totally believe it’ll become the Pseudo Legendary this gen. BUT, after reading it’s description, does anyone else get a vibe that maybe this dragon will be a split evo? Like as of the site, maybe one is Dragon/Fighting, and the other is Dragon/Steel, I mean look here: “Because Jangmo-o uses the scales on its head for both offense and defense, it never turns its back to its enemies.” So maybe it has a split evo? My guess is that its evolutions maybe related to Rockruff and our Starters too 😉
Anyone else getting a dragon/electric final evolution vibe from Jangmo-o?
The yellow coloring, while never definite, could hint at an electric typing. Good thinking!
Time we get a good Dragon-Fight type.
Where on earth is this Cutiefly evo??? I can’t find it!
its in a japanese trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgXtwxIW-Q
1:01
Guys. Remember that we still have info on Rockruff’s secret coming in a few days. It’s crazy how much they reveal but still somehow have things like Ultra Beasts in wraps until this point. Props to Gamefreak!
They kept us distracted with the starter “leak”
Yeah I’d be willing to bet we get another info drop real soon. Possibly a special one that has the starters evos lol
Maybe b-01 is the failed result of synchro evolution ahhahahahaja
My thoughts exactly. Like a sort of “forced” synchro. If rumors about rockruff and the starters are to be believed
Maybe its an Eldrazi.
Pokemon website says this regarding UB-01:
“It’s said that, for some reason, its movements resemble those of a young girl.”
Looks like they want to hint to it being Lillie, but could it be a red herring?
It’s Shauna.
Nah, Kalos doesn’t have enough water to support a Jellyfish.
It still has a coastline. :p
Or they had a HumanXPokemon experiment that went horribly wrong.
I think the Aether foundation could be trying to merge pokemon and humans but that’s a stretch.
Bill did that already in Gen 1…
(Accidentally)
Of course it’s a call back and these people have succeeded… and we have
DigimonPokemon Frontier…Im n9cknaming my Jangmo-o Susano.
Where does this come from? I couldn’t find it in neither of the trailers.
http://serebii.net/sunmoon/cutieflyevo.jpg
There’s a Japanese live-action trailer that it comes from.
Do you have the link?
I think someone posted it down below, but I’ll try to find the link for ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgXtwxIW-Q
Woah, thank you very much!
Finally some one on 4chan notice wat I was talking about……could it be Wishiwashi have an evo?…..the left side of hotel have another mysterious drawing. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1473170066566.png
I think it’s a Krabby.
left corner.
That’s WAY to small and hard to see for a conclusion that specific to be made lol.
So is BM-01 a jellyfish?
It’s a Lillie
Its an Eldrazi.
Ayyyyyy, see what you mean 😉
UM-01 is Cthulhu?
it seems to be XDal
Didn’t quite understand if Alola Raticate and Yangoos evo will be version exclusive bosses. It looks like you will encounter one or the other depending on time you play. What’s the point on Alola raticate being at night if when you play moon it’s day time?
They seem to hint that playing Moon in real-life daytime will make it in-game nighttime.
And I dig the idea that we fight Gumshoos or Raticate depending on the time of day in-game.
Makes sense in Context with Nocturnal Rats and Diurnal Mongeese.
Moon is 12 hours ahead of your 3DS clock.
okay guys,we got ourselves a cutiefly mystery we need to figure out what was that evolution of cutiefly.
Can’t see any mystery. It’s clearly cutiefly evolution. The question is now: would it be its last evolution or its first one?
i think 1st.
I can’t find it. I saw the yellow oricorio.
The main English website has a section for Ohmori’s wishes/inspirations for the game <3 I'm glad they put that on the website, it's never been done really before <3
Yeah, I kinda hope they keep it up with a developer’s blog or something. Like Sakurai with smash bros
We’ll probably all just get trolled if they follow in Sakurai’s footsteps…
Oh god, hahaha
So will there be a night counterpart to Lurantis?
I just realized that the UB in UB-01 stands for Ultra Beast. I feel slow.
Oh. Damn. Me too.
People are starting to think UB-02 will be Gladion
even tho i disagree.
Why would they think that? Especially when it has a striking resemblance to Lillie. If anything it’s her lol
Lillie is clearly UB-01, making Gladion UB-02 is obivous
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