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An anonymous poster on 2ch claims to have seen the October issue of CoroCoro, a Japanese comic magazine, and says that the latest issue shows Alolan Ekans and Arbok. They’ve given a few details about it and here are the translations:
- Alolan Ekans & Arbok are Fighting-type
- Their abilities are Fighter Skin, which makes Normal-type moves Fighting and increases their power by 30% (ala Pixilate, etc), and Shed Skin
- Alolan Arbok is light brown and bigger in size than its normal counterpart, but lacks any pattern on its body
- It is a Pokémon Sun exclusive and the CoroCoro issue also reveals that Alolan Sandslash is a Moon exclusive
UPDATE:
Adding in other rumors from 2ch, newest rumors will be added to the bottom. The Alolan Electabuzz & Magmar rumor was preceded by a typo so I think I consider this much shakier than the above Arbok rumor. It would also leave questions regarding their evolutions as well.
- Alolan Electabuzz revealed, new form looks similar to the pudgy Shinto god Ebisu
- Brought electricity to Alola and is seen as a guardian-type figure
- Electric/Fairy-type
- Has the abilities Friend Guard/Healer
- Alolan Magmar
- It walks on all fours and is covered in vines; covered itself in vegetation as a way to survive in the jungles of Alola
- Fire/Grass-type
- New ability that reduces the effectiveness of its opponents attack when it switches to a teammate in battle (teammate will take less damage when it switches in)
Furthermore, one of the posters has promised to post pictures of the issue tomorrow at 7PM Japan Standard Time. Hopefully they’re telling the truth 😉
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Fairy Type Electabuzz and Fighting Arbok make absolutely no sense
Hoping this is fake
Exactly how I feel
”Looks similar to the pudgy Shinto God Ebisu” and it brought electricity to Alola, which would make it being revered as mythical creature by Alolans and give it Fairy magic, like with Ninetales.
Actually I can kind of see Fairy Electabuzz being plausible, however the other two? Lol no way!!!
Ice ninetales doesn’t make any sense either so I’m not sure why that’s an argument
You faggot Ice ninetales already exists?
Jeez, calm down.
Qhy the iing braf is the king of faggots
Dddd ?
It really makes no sense
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Ice Ninetales and vulpix have sense due to their inspiration in real life, arctic foxes.
Fighting Arbok would be innovative and seems like a bunch of creativity thrown to the table, but I really hope the game designers take ideas like these with some moderation. There’s no need to complete the alolan pokedex with a massive bunch of alolan variants. I rather would have gotten interseasonal alolan variants (gen 2, 3, 4…)
Even so, those rumours sounds way more fake. The electabuzz part is confusing for me. As it has been said already, why would we want another fairy electric pokemon which is felt to be a guardian -like Tapu Koko, which already is a guardian? In case it happens this way they should be somehow related by area or role.
At this point the game has gone so crazy, so innovative and magnificent in comparison with other games that we should expect anything, even “too creative” fails, or complex details that need to be understood in their respective contexts -and when, outside of them, seem like a mess.
Alolan Raichu is also Electric/Fairy. With Tapu Koko making three, these rumours can’t be real.
Alolan Raichu is electric/psychic
My bad, confused it with Dedenne I guess
Alolan Raichu is Electric/Psychic
A fighting snake makes absolutely no sense. But the bringing electricity to Alola and being praised sorta does. I don’t think Fairy is the right type for that though.
Maybe the fighting Snake came from the Chinese martial arts. There are fighting styles that were based from animals and I know they definitely have one based on the movements of a snake. I mean, they even have it on Kung Fu Panda.
It works the same way evolution in real-life does. Animals adapt to their surroundings and become completely different species.
but gf ripeat… and fight, typing single infinity
if listen funs one time.. good
Kinda hope arbok and ekans aren’t in this game, mostly because Hawaii doesn’t have snakes (except for one that’s basically a black worm)
This just screams “fake” to me. I have no facts or evidence to the contrary it just feels made up.
rockruff evolve tipes wormadam, with stone z?
You do realise that Z-stones have nothing to do with evolution right?
Alolan magmar too much sense
While I don’t believe Alola Electabuzz and Arbok/Ekans, I do think Magmar could be accurate.
not confirmed,with dragonite last leak
I’ve waited long enough,my fellow Gamers we must put on our hot rod like Pokemon clothing and show these guys that we mean business,we want our leaks and we want it bad,let’s show these guys the business,bring up your best Pokemon and follow me to the Gate! >XD
Has anybody noticed, that the protagonist from the upcoming Sun and Moon manga series looks very similar to the one from Gale of Darkness?
Aloan Arbok for Jessie, aloan weezing for James 🙂
They released them back in Hoenn…
Well of course it doesn’t make sense for it to be the same ones from the first seasons… since that’s not how regional variants worked…
Hate the type. would’ve loved if it stayed poison or at the very least poison fighting. I hope we finally we get alternative form Arbok it’s pokedex hinted at that years ago!
This is a load of TAUROS
Why would they need Electricity when they have so many bloody Electric Types
Also Magmar live in effing volcanoes they would never venture far from a ultra-heated habitat otherwise it would just burn its way through a jungle
The only one that doesn’t sound completely stupid is the Arbok idea, but not Arbok itself I can easily see a agile and very powerful Snake Fighting type ala snake style Kung fu
Like Game Freak cares about making sense lol. Granbull doesn’t even remotely resemble a Fairy
Well this has been said a billion times
They took inspiration from a Cu Sith which translates to Dog Fairy and even in Gen 2 Snubbull and Granbull where classified as the Fairy Pokemon so take it up with them
I use to be a dog groomer and a least half of all the bulldogs were owned by women. They thought they were the cutest things for some reason. Maybe in game freaks mind cute=fairy?
Nah Fairy represents magic in the Pokemon universe
What’s more magical than this? (refresh)
Bulldogs are cute
Some of the smaller what I like to call compact bulldogs are cute but we got a lot of ugly fat wrinkly messes. The cute ones were few and far between.
Maybe the volcano on the island they inhabited is no longer active so they were forced to adapt.
This, Alola Ninetales is Ice/Fairy, but could have easily moved to a warmer location on one the islands to retain its Fire typing.
Well maybe Alolan ninetales will be exclusive to a set area in the game for example that large ice mountain maybe a whole group got trapped up there and evolved from there low land cousins
I’m fairly certain every Ice type are exclusively found on that snowy mountain
That it could but the bloody site says that they kept to the mountains to avoid other Pokemon
But they are… Did you see the lava everywhere,
There’s two volcanoes in Alola though, he means the inactive one on the starter island.
Doesn’t matter Magmar and Magby also can be seen in mountainous environments and even seldom a few abandoned buildings and urban sites
But a Fire/Grass Magmar is hogwash
But Electabuzz could have been the first Electric type in Alola. We don’t know how GF are gonna explain it, if it turns out true.
not to mention one of the gaurdians is an eletric fairy type why do they hae electabuzz with the same typing
OMG this is so sad, it’s not off topic because Komala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cAx1jLbJk
Only the strong and obnoxious will survive
So sad?
It’s not sad it’s hilarious. ?
is it wrong I’m laughing at this poor creature….
komala evo normal/rock
Nah Normal/Psychic
What!? This is so fake. nothing in this makes any sense. A Fighting Arbok!? How? Also Fire/Grass Magmar isn’t even possible as well.
Read Earthen’s comment below, fighting type Arbok can make sense.
Lmao I just encountered a wild Steelix in Soulsilver.
Is that possible or is it a glitch?
It’s very possible
No its possible in Cliff Cave, it has a 5% encounter rate though
I was originally going to use one for my previous run of HeartGold but then I saw a Larvitar at the safari zone and quickly changed my mind, Tyranitars are beast.
arbok poiosn/electric our ice/poison.
i wonder if tauros gets a new form too .. it looks so white on one picture
Thats just lighting but an Alola Tauros would be neat imo. Normal/Steel perhaps?
4x weak to fight :´D … again nOooo
That tears it I am determined to create a Snake Fighters type
Comboa or Skirmamba
The Striking Pokemon
A long slender Serpentine Pokemon with a glossy brown red coloration with specks of black, at the very end of its pointy tail are several bands of skin that when it curls its tail allow it to jab and “punch” opponents, its face is thin with a similar band of skin on its face stretching out from its nose to the top of its head that streams off resembling a headband with tassels
lacking poisonous fangs or venom in order to protect itself it whips its prey with its prehensile tail and strikes with its face, it overwhelms opponents with mind boggling agility
I like it?
This confirmed poplio final evo
Get the $&@! Out
Just out of curiousity, what do you have in mind for Popplio evos? I mean typing and shit.
Water/Fighting Type
Keldeo is the only one yes?
Poliwrath
My original idea stems off that datamined pic of the Grass/Flying Ground/Fire and Water/Fighting and i came up with the idea of a Chinese Acrobatic martial artist
This confirms everything.
There’s no need to play SuMo anymore we already know everything.
Onto Gen 8
I already posted this earlier. There’s no gender mark so I think its fake
I guess i can believe more on this picture rather then on the post regarding electabuzz.
Discuss: maybe there is no gender mark because Popplio’s evo have different “forms” because of gender? (Maybe something similar to NIdoking and Nidoqueen)
If it has different forms, it still should have a gender unless its a legendary
Your statement is correct.
Well..guess we will have to wait for next info release. 🙂
Maybe it’s a male, and we can’t see the mark because the mark is blue.
& i posted this on september 6th, so, oh nana whats my name
Its Fake Minior is genderless normally but in this it has a gender so this is 100% Fake
What does its name say? Flipila?
All I can see is ”lio”
Ahhh Fliplio
I’ve seen the video this is from. It’s definitely fake.
https://twitter.com/rafibema/status/771031102479855616
It looks ridiculous ahahah
Oh my goodness lol
Sometimes, I wish twitter had a dislike button..
Electabuzz and Magmar have evolutions that aren’t in original 151. Rumor debunked.
Not really since Alola formes are gen 1 exclusives
I kinda agree with Doctor tho… Going from a fire magby to a fire/grass magmar back to a fire magmortar would be both nonsensical and kind of a letdown when you get to a regular magmortar.
The implication is that we’ve seen non-alola pokemon evolve into alola forms, but not the other way around. An alola Magmar will most likely not evolve into an Alola Magmortar because Magmortar is not Gen 1.
I only hope that alolan electabuzz (if true) looks good and not all roundy and retarded looking like the alolan raichu…I still cant belive this thing exists
I don’t get why everyone says that Alolan forms are Gen 1 exclusives. Nothing’s confirmed. All there is, is a pattern. It’s the same mentality as “Stone evolutions won’t be getting Megas herp derp” and look what happened, Mega Gallade came along and ripped that theory to shreds.
Also, not that I believe these leaks, but nothing about these type changes make “no sense”. If they can give us an Electric/Psychic Raichu and have “eating too much pancakes” as a reason for its existence, we can have an Electric/Fairy Electabuzz.
Oh please they only gave Mega Gallade to that walking green stick differentiate from Diantha’s Mega Gardevoir
The demographic was getting repetitive since we already had a Gardevoir mega user in XY and everyone knows Wally uses Gardevoir prior to Gallade so not to overuse it they cranked out a Mega Gallade just to avoid reusing M Gardevoir
Plain and simple
Still debunks the “Stone evolutions = no megas” theory and the sole existence of Mega Gallade means that nothing’s stopping them from making more Mega forms of stone evolved Pokemon.
Find a mega from a stone that isn’t a Gallade then we’ll talk
Otherwise I stand by my cold logic
See, this is what I don’t get. Facts are right in front of you and you still deny. But whatever. If you really think that they’d go against this so called, set on stone “Stone evo = no Mega” rule just to differentiate Wally from Diantha then by all means, you do you.
I said find me a Mega evolution from a stone then we’ll talk
> “I said find me a Mega evolution from a stone then we’ll talk”
Gallade :p
Wally was better with Gardevoir.
Diantha should have mained Florges, or if they really wanted her to have a mega, give her Alakazam.