Riddle me this, Zubatman
Some of you may have heard about the mysterious Chinese leaker who hasn’t actually leaked anything concrete, but instead gives clues as to what is in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS titles Pokémon Sun & Moon. They seem eerily accurate in rather unique ways. Here’s most of what they’ve gotten right so far:
- Pyroar & Zubat before the reveal of Solgaleo & Lunaala
- Pikachu covered in a sheet prior to seeing Mimikyu
- Image of rock-paper-scissors and innards (?) before Pyukumuku
- Sandcastle & shovel for Sandygast & Palossand
- A skeleton on cloth for Team Skull
There are still a few unsolved mysteries left to figure out, however. A bust of Aristotle that was posted remains a mystery; some say that Type: Null could be what the Riddler was referring to, others are not as sure. There’s also a grid of Pokémon which shows officially revealed (or, with the starter evolutions, leaked) Pokémon with some teasingly marked with question marks. It even hints that Marshadow may not even be the third legendary, it could simply be an event Pokémon.
Underneath that are also small sprites of Pokémon which may appear in the games (colored) or get an Alolan form (faded). If this is correct, and that is the meaning behind it, we could expect Alolan forms for the following Pokémon:
- Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
- Voltorb, Electrode
- Horsea, Seadra, Kingdra
- Staryu, Starmie
- Porygon, Porygon2, Porygon-Z
- Gen II starters
- Chinchou, Lanturn
- Larvitar, Pupitar, Tyranitar
- Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
- Axew, Fraxure, Haxorus
- Hawlucha
Certainly would be exciting to see some for Pokémon outside of the original Red & Blue!
They’ve also posted a picture of Anabel who runs the Battle Tower in the Battle Frontier in Pokémon Emerald! Does this mean the Tower returns? Or the whole damn Frontier?! An exciting prospect for many who pined for its return in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire. Junichi Masuda has claimed that its omission had been because players nowadays want faster gratification from their games and he didn’t think it would be widely appreciated.
So what is the current fuss about? It just so happens that the Riddler’s avatar is none other than Colress, a villainous researcher and Team Plasma’s second leader from Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 who sought to unlock the ultimate strength within Pokémon. Definitely Z-Move vibes from his past motivations and he even hinted that he wanted to make a device that allowed humans and Pokémon to communicate; could he have been the developer of the Rotom Dex?!
Some fans even claim that Colress was seen during the recent trailer in the Aether Foundation’s headquarters, but the evidence is tenuous at best.
They’ve also hinted that there may be multiple professors in Alola, but whether this means other professors from previous regions may make an appearance or that Prof. Kukui is not the only Alolan Pokémon professor is still up in the air.
Perhaps the most interesting information is that of the potential Alolan forms, but there’s certainly enough to speculate about for the moment! WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
<3 PJ
FEATURED DISCUSSION: Preliminary Sun/Moon Teams
So, I’m getting really hyped about this tournament so I drew my avatar as my main pokemon in my team?
Wishiwashi is a Totem Pokemon for Lana!
Lana. And yeah, it seems like it is the Pokemon you need to calm down.
I’ll get my harpoon gun
It’ll go straight through. Wishiwashi is hollow.
i’ll get my BIG harpoon gun
You’ll need way more than one BIG harpoon.
Well we all knew this day would come
gentlemen….the keys
Wait are you going to use the SECRET WEAPON?
*Blank icy stare*
Oh Boy, I prepared my whole life for this. The time has come. It all comes together. xD
*Warps to a command console*
*pulls out a ignition key*
5 years after, the whole world have been eaten by Wishiwashi. The humanity disappeared.
You need a canon that shoots forks to take down each fish individually
MUCH better.
Electrified net. You’re welcome
Why are Solgaleo and Lunala traveling through a wormhole at the end, I don’t know what these games are doing! And we saw the giant tree that a lot of people speculated to be Zygarde’s post-game area. I have no guesses anymore!
Alternate dimensions confirmed! Sinnoh tie with distortion world confirmed!
Are the Mega and Non-Mega universes being tied together? Is this how it all comes together, wtf, idc, just GameFreak can take my money
Take my money, just give me alolan and mega volcarona
You know that won’t happen :c
Just humor me for a moment.
We can see a TM shop and a clothing store at :13.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whjpUv9slSQ
EVERYONE WATCH THAT HORY SHIET ITS SOOOOOO EPIC WTF AND PROFESSOR OAK IS COMING BACK
Now that I think about it, we haven’t seen oak since Sinnoh have we? Maybe he has been chilling in Alola for a few years
Technically we saw him in HG/SS…. 😛
Which takes place the same time as DPPt. Assuming we have at least two years inbetween time slots after that, this should be 6 years after. Or 8 years after RB.
I was talking chronologically but yeah you’re right!
Oh. xD Well, we have at least two years in between BW and BW2, but we don’t know how much time is inbetween DPPt and BW, or BW2 and XY. Or XY to SM for that matter.
he’s a Florida Grandpa now!!!
lol prolly 😛 all i can picture atm is the first episode of the alola season of the anime where ash just arrived and tanned oak is greeting him with all the pokemon he left with him.
Lol I forgot Bruxish even existed until I saw this trailer.
A few things I notice from the trailer:
– You can’t see Alolan Exeggutor head after it evolves.
– Alolan Exeggutor shirt that Dexio was wearing is wearable by the player. Some of the customization styles look great.
– Professor Oaks long lost black brother. I’m guessing that he’s a Kahuna.
– Did you notice that all the Trial Captains did the poses for Z-Moves? I think they might actual give you the Z-Crystals once you defeat them and complete their trial.
I’m glad they are showing customization a bit more. I was worried it was going to be really limited
And now, we can see our HAIR, THATS SO COOL.
WOOO!!!!
Oh wow I just refreshed to see the pics and I love these hairstyles
And we have new haircuts, wich is cool and different i guess.
If it’s not possible for males to have long hair, I’m suing.
In some japanese trailer we can see that they have long hair.
I like these poses …they look like Tai-chi and energy absorbing .
Alola Professor Oak?
In the new trailer, in the scene at the beginning with all the different Pokemon boats, what is the little blob at the man’s feet? Is it a Pyukumuku? I thought humans were repulsed by it?
Not all humans, otherwise people wouldn’t battle with them or help throw them back in the ocean.
Does anyone else hear a clicking sound like a mouse near the end?
Nope.
Hmm. I’ve watched it twice now, it can’t just be me. I need some sleep . . .
If you mean, the snorlax sound, yes.
No, it’s like thirty second before the end and then it does it a few times after. Odd.
Ok, so it can only be two things happening:
1- You need to sleep
2- I need to sleep
Rayquaza is s-h-o-o-k after seeing the Lunana and Solgaleo cutscenes.
Pfff nah, they’ll never beat 2-D Rayquaza flying out of a perfect circle in the sky
I’m watching at 10 fps (still haven’t finished yet :p), but I just want to say that I fully believe that Colress is seen walking in the background at 1:21.
O_O
I was about to say “wait that’s Faba”, but he is in the foreground lol.
Iit doesn’t look like Colress. I guess
Sun Sanctuary confirmed?
http://i.imgur.com/38egcYd.png
I was just about to post asking what people think this is. xD
There’s also a tree one.
I’ll add it to my map later.
Map? I’d love to see this.
I’ve got a channel on Disqus that I’m using to slowly build up a map of all the locations that have been shown to us among other things. I’m keeping it hidden from the rest of the public until I’ve got a decent amount of info in it though.
Well, when you open it, definitely let me know! 🙂
Professor oak alolan form revealed
It seems Poni island is a lot more inhabited than we thought, with the port town and now the tree town. Also isn’t it a bit weird that we haven’t gotten any town names?
Spot the Colress
http://imgur.com/nyXxp15
At 1:21 as well.
So, regular cubone confirmed?
http://i.imgur.com/BNXtgFv.png
It would seem so
Also, Alola forms like these are the first pokemon to completely change typing aren’t they?
Eevee, if that counts.
Oh yeah. Well, dual types then? Completely change both types?
They’re the first I’m sure.
I’m sure there are others, but I’ll have to double check bulbapedia.
Nincada and Shedinja? I’m not sure.
That’s a partial type change. 😛
We’ve never had anything transition to two completely new types before. We’ve had things drop 1 type in favour of another, but everything always retained at least 1 typing.
And yes I checked everything on the list numerically 😛
Exeggutor’s evo sequence is priceless. xD
well they could’ve skipped frames in the animation
There is no animation for evolution though. Just its idle battle animation and the spinning.
Yes, but again, that would be being deceptive on purpose and I don’t think they’d do that.
Serebii says: “this oak looks a bit different from the one we know”; as if this is a different oak. This is the same oak, right?
This is professor black oak.
The difference is he has a bad tan.
That’s what I figured, but serebii is kinda throwing me off.
I don’t think serebii knows much more than us.
everybody jump ship new article
Loving alolan form oak
Guys, looks like we have some moves of Litten. If at least I knew Japanese. Can someone help me?
I was ask the same question ….1:41.
new article bro.
Colorwise, that attack is ghost for certain. At 30 pp, its most likely lick or shadow sneak. Lick more likely given its a cat and we’ve seen it lick itself.
The move at the bottom is Fire Fang. The Ghost-type is Lick.
Lick, Leer, Growl, Fire Fang
I don’t think the faded spirit are for Alola Forms but megas also. In the new japanese trailer there’s an Starmie, a regular one, none a new form, also, I believe it’s an obvious move to give mega evolves to Gen II starters. Fun fact, Cutiefly hasn’t a question mark nexto to it, even the last japanese trailer shown a suposed evo.
About Aristoteles thing, I figure it out that, Aristoteles was an defender of geocentrical theory so that must be a reference that a Earth (planet) focus PKMN (togheter, like a system, the sun, the moon and the earth)…
Sorry for the bad grammar.
Does the normal Starmie featured in the new trailer debunk the “Chinese Riddler’s” Alolan form list?
I hadn’t noticed that. Good eye.
Part of me suspects these latest leaks aren’t the same guy.
I don’t think so, though I don’t believe that the faded ones mean they’ll get alolan forms as, as far as I know, that’s another of his riddles, people just speculate that’s what it means rather than the leaker having stated it. He just gave out the list.
But, not to ramble, I don’t believe so because if I recall correctly you see it in one of the areas of the Aether foundation which would justifies it.
Personal Z Moves are more likely.
Not to burst anyone’s bubbles but that pic with all the pokemon doesn’t have Crabrawler or Turtonator those are just two that come to mind. Why would they leave those out?
There’s a newer one: http://tieba.baidu.com/photo/p?kw=%E7%B2%BE%E7%81%B5%E5%AE%9D%E5%8F%AF%E6%A2%A6&flux=1&tid=3773780366&pic_id=86330f9759ee3d6d8ba7fd674b166d224e4adecc&pn=1&fp=2&see_lz=1
Good spot though, I said the same thing, but about Cutiefly’s evo.
The faded Pokemon could also be the Pokemon which recieve their own Z-Move. Because all of these can’t have Alola forms it’s only for gen 1
It’s not confirmed to be only gen 1, but some of the faded ones are confirmed already to not be Alolan forms, so Z moves is a very good idea, though I question if Greninja should be there, assuming that is related to Z Moves
I kind of messed up since Snorlax has a Z-Move and it’s not faded. It could also mean. Pokemon which are highlighted have their own Z-Move and Pokemon which are faded are pre-evolutions of Pokemon who do have a special Z-Move. I’m still trying to guess my way around this
Could it be Mega Evolution perhaps, though Venusaur and Steelix already have, quickly ruling that out, also interesting how not every pokemon we know is in alola is on that
But wait no that list can’t be right, we’ve seen Cutiefly’s evo. Also wheres room for Jangmo-o?
Pokejungle forgot to update.
http://tieba.baidu.com/photo/p?kw=%E7%B2%BE%E7%81%B5%E5%AE%9D%E5%8F%AF%E6%A2%A6&flux=1&tid=3773780366&pic_id=86330f9759ee3d6d8ba7fd674b166d224e4adecc&pn=1&fp=2&see_lz=1