[UPD] Samson Oak Appears in New Trailer!

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A new Japanese trailer was released today showcasing all that has been revealed about Sun & Moon so far! The trailer shows very little notable, new gameplay but it does confirm that Professor Oak’s cousin known as Nariya Ookido, is in the game! Tanner and more mullet-er than his famous cousin, he’s in the Alola Region studying the Alolan forms.

In other news, the next batch of Sun & Moon info is coming September 14th at 10am JST! As usual, we’ll be here to cover anything that will be revealed!

[UPD] The Official English Pokémon site has updated and has confirmed that Oak’s cousin is known as Samson Oak.

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  1. Guys. I looked up Persian and you know how that thing shows up on the side the Says the Pokemon, Species, type etc., There were pictures of “Persian” but the biggest picture was an Espurr and not a Persian XD

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    • I’ve accepted the fact that that was a one and done type feature. It’d be great, but with the amount of Pokemon and the graphics I don’t see this happening.

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    • My musts for D/P remakes:
      -Game corner
      -Girantina story
      -Battle Frontier
      -Something special with Amity square. Walking with pokemon everywhere would be great of course
      -Gym Leader rematches
      -Revamp of sinnoh underground
      -New features for pokemon contest

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        • They could take out the gambling feature and turn it into an arcade. That’d be even better. If not, I say screw Europe and just take it out of their versions.

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          • I just realised, even with Brexit we’ll still probably be subject to PEGI rules.

            Dammit PEGI, why do you do this shit to us!

          • It’s just one of those stupid laws that exists for no reason :/ Buying a pack of pokemon cards is basically gambling so I don’t see the harm.

          • That’s different though because there’s no loss. Sure, you can get sucky cards, but you haven’t lost anything. You paid money, you got the product. It’s nothing like gambling.

          • It has an element of randomness that I would argue is random.

            The value of a good is equal to what people are willing to pay for it, hence some of the cards inside are worth more than others.

            It’s possible that you could spend a lot of money on card packs where the cards inside, when sold individually would total to less money than you paid for them.

            Besides, in pokemon you aren’t using any real money. It’s less harmful than letting a kid use a freemium game where they could drain the parents’ wallet.

  8. THIS. TRAILER.

    I CANT.

    OwO

    The hype is SO real. <3

    And it's confirmed for sure this time: Cubone has no Alolan form, which just seems incredibly odd to me. xD
    Pikachu, I get. It's the franchise mascot, it doesn't change types but adds Psychic, yada yada.

    But Cubone? Going from Ground to Fire/Ghost? It just seems so odd.

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  11. So if Aether is evil and we take them down, what happens to the paradise? What if it gets remodeled for the post game? Or what if we get control of it like the Join Avenue?

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  12. Are we going to discuss the fact that you can’t even see all of Exeggutor in the evolution screen?! xD
    I’m literally dying!!!

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  13. I figured out that the Aether Foundation might not be evil but the scientists! The ones who were attacked by grunts. The definition Aether helped me thought of this. It means heaven or colorless sky or a kind of liquid that is pleasant smelling and highly flammable. Aether FOundation might either be a kind of Jurassic Park Lab, or whatever

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  15. I shall say no more

    Aristotle proposed a fifth element, aether, in addition to the four proposed earlier by Empedocles.

    Earth, which is cold and dry; this corresponds to the modern idea of a solid.

    Water, which is cold and wet; this corresponds to the modern idea of a liquid.

    Air, which is hot and wet; this corresponds to the modern idea of a gas.

    Fire, which is hot and dry; this corresponds to the modern ideas of plasma and heat.

    Aether, which is the divine substance that makes up the heavenly spheres and heavenly bodies (stars and planets).

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  16. I did some translating.
    1) I don’t know what “ライドギア” (Raidogia) is (and very well could be a named thing, or an english word).
    2) Hau saying something like “The Ultra Beast is really hurt” with a smile.. @1:23.
    3) Kukui is saying “ウルトラビーストが いたとしたら どん” @1:24. Talking about Ultra Beasts, but I don’t understand it.. probably an unfinished phrase.
    4) Wow, Dr Burnet from Dream Radar might be int he game!! “バーネット” which is “Baanetto” @1:25. Matches the name in Bulbapedia: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Professor_Burnet.
    5) Tan Professor Oak is talking about their investigation of Region Forms.
    6) @1:41, Litten has: なきごえ Growl / したでなめる Lick / にらみつける Leer / ほのおのキバ Fire Fang

    The rest are Z-Moves, nothing interesting.

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    • All I can tell about 3 is that it seems in the past tense.
      it’s almost certainly an unfinised sentence.

      “ita” is apparently the past tense form of “iru”, the verb ‘to be’

      “toshitara” seems to be a conditional, it translates to “if it happens that; if we make…; if we take…; if we assume…”

      I think the ‘don’ is the don used for sound effects and to add emphasis to things, but I could be wrong.

      So closest I can make it to be is “If the Ultra Beasts had been …”

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        • If it’s half a sentence, the whole sentence probably would have been a spoiler, but they’re probably keeping out the important bit on purpose :C

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          • I think meeting UB-01 happens quite early.

            @PercyEspeon:disqus Translated some of the previous trailer which indicated that the player, whilst in Aether Paradise, was only just about to begin their “island hopping”.

          • I thought that “Shimameguri” referred to the act of traveling to another island, no? So, maybe, when we are done there, we go hopping again.

          • It could be, considering I have help via online translator when I do mine (Since I am still in the process of learning Japanese) and shimameguri there translates to island hopping. I’d take my translations with some salt. The meaning’s there, but definitely not what they definitively said.
            But I definitely translated pretty well that one of the employees said ‘Good luck with your island hopping/traveling’ after we save the Slowpoke, so maybe the Slowpoke rescue is after we’re done our tour and we’re moving onto the next island.

          • Don’t worry Percy, so do I most of the time 🙂
            Can’t do much about the chronology of the trailers.. but good eye on the slowpoke catch! I remember the Aether volunteer thanking the player for being there to save her. Might be our introduction to this team.

          • Yeah, could be anything at this point.
            And yeah, she did thank the player and, in the same scene, said the good luck line. That might be the first Team Skull and Aether Foundation interaction that we see.
            Like, what I’m thinking is that we stumble on it, Faba is there, guides us through, we meet everyone else, Ultra Beast maybe?, and at the end the Slowpoke rescue. I might be off here or there, but it would definitely be weird if she said ‘good luck on your travels’ but we immediately get swept into the tour and not leave the island.

          • If I could remember which article it was, I’d direct you to where me and Percy translated the trailer where Team Skull was revealed. We found out about Guzma’s vendetta towards the Trial Captains and Plumeria’s role as the ‘big sister’ before most other people 😛

          • No problem 🙂 I’ll definitely be translating any future Japanese trailers, as it does help me learn the language better I feel. thanks for the discussion :3

          • I think there are 3 possibilities in regard to Aether Paradise
            1) We visit there after beating Hala (Kahuna of Melemele) and get convinced whilst there to visit other islands
            2) It’s a sort of hub area the player can visit any time
            3) It gets visited once at the end of each island and becomes available to visit any time after the 4 islands are cleared.

      • Yeah, I got something similar as well 🙂 Sucks that it got cut off. I was having the same problem yesterday with Gladion’s dialogue, since two of the scenes were cut off before the sentence was finished.

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    • Isn’t it great?? They really want this to be the best Pokemon game yet. Last time hype was this big was back in Diamond/Pearl.

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      • Although everything they’ve revealed I’ve been very very happy with, and still don’t feel like they’ve revealed a lot..

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      • It’s really clear that they’re holding a lot back. There’s still a couple months before the game releases, we know this much… but we don’t know enough to put it all together yet. The other Ultra Beasts, the starter evolutions, Marshadow, the goals of the various groups, other island trial captains, what about a pokemon league? Other pokemon, other alola forms, mega evolutions… sooooo much more.

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  20. GUYS!! does this mean we are in the alternate mega universe? does professor oak have a twin or did jigglypuff used sing while he was tanning?

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      • Yup, probably an alternate time-line where Oak is Gen I professor staying in Alola.. much like Dexio and Sina are there. Seeing how he is SO tanned, maybe he has been there for a long time! Probably after Red/Blue/Green/Gold/Silver?

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        • Do you think Dexio and Sina might say something about the events that took place in x and y? or will it be like how N mention the character from black and white 1 but in black 2 we never saw him?? they better take us back to kalos!!!

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          • I wonder, they might exist, but the events might be completely different! Though it would be weird to reference other regions so much, but not continuing the stories of those characters. Hopefully, yes.

    • ME TOO!! Solgaleo and Lunala!!! though loL! but did you see that they didnt fought, it like they met up and went inside a portal… maybe they are after the UB with their visor type things and that eye that shows up when they attack.

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      • Yes I was thinking the whole time they were going for each other but at the end it made it more of a mystery as of what they were going for could just be speculation but with GF who knows

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  23. So, from the Riddle = Kirsi from Darker than Black and Yukie Nakama.
    Kirsi is a doll in the series(?) and Yukie (Yuki = Snow) Nakama (teammate). Haha, this leaker guy is quite fun!

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    • I have my doubts about him because he forgot to add cutiefly’s evolution the first time round, so I’m suspecting either this is a different person pretending to be the original riddler or they don’t actually know as much as they pretend to.

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      • Yup, someone was saying that he might be a trailer editor, and THAT evolution wasn’t in the chinese trailer, so there was no way for him/her to know.

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        • I’ll be fair, that would make sense.
          It would explain why his riddles are close to what trailers reveal and why he missed other stuff like Tortunator and Crabrawler.

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      • thing is though, he likely didn’t. He generally sates only revolutions that we already know about, not the ones we don’t know. As well the first list was a month old or something.

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          • He’s been leaking things since March I think, but it really wasn’t until the sea cucumber pokemon that people pretty much started saying that this leaker was worth anything.

          • I had looked at his stuff a bit before Pyukumuku, back when it was just Rock-Paper-Scissors and ‘Bloody Organs’.
            Apart from that I only read the Aristotle and Pikachu sheet things though, and I lost my link to the original thread.

          • Yeah. Really until the rock-paper-scissors blood organs thing, you could have seen a lot of things as lucky guesses. In any case though, Here’s hoping that froslass gets a new sister with his leaks.

          • One thing I notice though, a lot of his greyed out pokemon have appeared in boat form in the previous Japanese trailer.

            Steelix, Whiscash and Huntail.

          • The riddles aren’t exactly that public. Mostly people form bulbagarden and a bit of 4chan actually keep up with it.

    • Hmm…perhaps their going more for the Yin angle. yin -(in Chinese philosophy) the passive female principle of the universe, characterized as female and sustaining and associated with earth, dark, and cold.

      So we have something associated with women, cold, earth, and darkness and a woman named snow and teammate. So new ice type pokemon. maybe a new version of the Yuki-onna

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