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Ask PokéJungle: Alola
We’re going to kick things off with something simple – we had to delay our initial plans, but keep your eyes peeled tomorrow! We want you guys to ask the PokéJungle team any questions you have about the Alola region. We’ll pick a selection of questions and answer them in a future episode. All we ask is you keep your questions specifically about the Alola region.
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GamexPlain are fairly positive that there’s 18 trial captains
I’ve heard this theory from a few people now. Have there been any signs of this from what we’ve got?
really? is that just a theory they’re hoping to be true or do they have some proof/signs of this? either way ide be glad to have more trial captains to meet, i dont think the ones we have are enough though we do have the kahuna’s and one of those is Hala as far as we know. i think if we only have the remaining trial captains we know of they would give us a ton of trials just to let us forget that their is only 4 and probably 4 kahuna’s including hala…idk hm if their is evidence or some signs of more than ide be happy but im still salty on that assumption they are making…
If you would compare the Alola region with a sandwich, which type of sandwich would it be?
HAH!!! I GET IT!!!!
The Sandwich Islands
It would be on Hawaiin bread at least.
Lol
Hawaiian bread Spam and Pineapple
A spam and pineapple sandwich xD
I had one there. It was disgusting…
Pineapple on its own tastes great! Spam i…good but not as good and together they just become a horrible mess of sweet and salty weirdness
I love Pineapple. Pineapple Jalapeno..,. eh…. Do you know what Village Pizza and Pub is?
Nope, if its a restaurant we probably dont have it where i live
Hmm theres a Steelix boat in one of the trailers. Maybe a hint to Alola Onix line?
There was a Magikarp as well
Alola formes for Magikarp/Gyarados? Idk about typing tho
Obviously Fairy
Elaborate?
I’m just kidding
Oh! I had an idea just now!
Magikarp: Fire/Water. It tried jumping over volcanoes but fell into the lava. It’s durable scales kept it alive and it evolved to be able to see in the lava and fish out prey. Learns Splash, Tackle, Flail and Sunny Day.
Gyarados: Fire/Rock. It can summon lava and lava rocks on command. It is said to live deep within volcanoes in places where even the Team Magma suit will melt.
lol that’s actually a neat idea! though the typing is not my favourite combo lol but it’s still a cool idea :)what about design-wise? describe its designs or draw them so i can sort of imagine these alolan forms :p
Alright I’ll try and match a question
Which region’s continental geography would make the best back-scratcher
Half asleep here. Come again?
You lex Luther a region and which one would make the best back-scratcher
Alola because of Alola Exeggutor (refresh)
Original Exeggutor seem sturdier though.
Sinnoh obviously. It has Mt. Coronet.
Wait. Where are Zubat and Dragonite stuff?
A month and a half ago: Stay tuned for more about these familiar Pokemon.
A month and a half later: *staying tuned* -_-
Should I draw my Alola Magikarp/Gyarados concepts?
yee
Yee
But yeah. Anyway. I’ll be done tomorrow
Plz do! 🙂
I drew an Alola Gyarados! Fire/Rock
Mine was Fire type as well 😀
Do you want to see more hoard battles or would you prefer it goes back to shaking grass and an Audino pops out, allowing you more experience points? Or some other method, or none at all?
Both?
At the same time! Audino hordes!
This would be amazing if they were high levels. Also great for HP EV training 🙂
Hordes are arguably better for EV training than Super Training, I feel it is a very valuable thing to keep in the games now. Also I wouldn’t mind shaking spots or DexNav sneaking returning.
Alolan electric type Tangela
http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/image/984478-13-20160117075042.jpeg
No, a big ball of tangled Christmas lights… Electric/Fairy
*Can learn Boomburst
Not gonna happen anymore with the NEW IPHONE 7. Lol XD
Did we ever get an explanation for Raichu and his Pancakes?
Pancakes are the 6th element of alchemy.
Which is why no one achieved Azoth! Pancakes didn’t exist yet! Mother of god….
Nope, and that was the day I resented Alolan Forms indefinitely
*Panquakes
Can’t Alolan forms have random funny explanations, why do people take these so seriously?
It just bothers me that it isn’t a climate adaptation. But honestly how would they do a psychic climate adaptation?
The relaxing atmosphere has made Raichu so chill, it has succeeded it secret ESP potential.
Raichu dropped some acid and thought its tail turned into a hovering surfboard.
My theory was that Pikachu weren’t native to Alola but they were extremely popular so they tried to selectively breed Pikachu with native Pokemon to meet demand thus resulting in irregular brain development though highly unnoticed in the resulting Pikachus but exposure of Thunder Stone radiation triggering evolution caused a massive increase of electricity in the brain causing the psychic typing
Honey….you know GF is not going to put that much thought into it…
They were like, “Raichu surfing on its tail would be cool. Let’s fuckin do it.”
Siiiigh at least I tried….
And besides Psychic and Electricity go together like that *snap* they should’ve tried to come up with some Logic
They probably won’t give us any explanation honestly.
And because of that is why I hate Alolan Forms
Same. Some are decently logical though
Here’s a question: what geographical part of each island intrigues you the most answer why?
The ice mountain randomly on Island four
The waterfall on MeleMele
The basins on Akala
The tree on Poni
The flower field on Ula Ula
Melemele: The volcano mountain crater
Akala: Tidal pools or w/e
Ula Ula: Lake with the stones
Poni: Tree
Aether Paradise: Mansion in the back
Ok why does the aether paradise have a ring around part of the ocean?
Maybe it’s like a thin man-made beach?
Could be. It’s kinda confusing and I feel like it probably won’t be explained in gam
Game.
Yeah, like Lysandre’s doc ock arms..
If Alola were to have Secret Bases, where would yours be?
Mine would preferably be near the graveyard on Akala.
The red flower field of Ula Ula.
Terminus Cave
Um, Alola?
Let me believe ;-;
Even if it does connect, it’s still not in Alola.
What if Kalos is a big Alolan island. Did you ever stop to consider that improbability??
Technically within the definition of island every landmass is an island. xD
Keep on believing, while we’re at it
Glittering Cave
Ok in Kalos my secret base would be on the cliff side of Ambrette town.
In Alola, my secret base would be by this tree which probably has something to do with Zygarde, taking note of the green hexagons hanging from the rock…
http://i.imgur.com/Pj2FgmZ.jpg
Reflection cave for me <3 One of the most beautiful places in pokemon
Same
Inside the crater on melemele
Under Kukui’s desk
Under Kukui’s Labcoat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Close enough
HA! ha ha
This just got real.
The realest
Near that Waterfall of sorts with lots of layers. You know what I’m talking about?
The one we see in the background when the player is chillin on lapras?
Hold on. I’ll show you.
(refresh)
Oh, those basin things.
That’s Lana’s trial area.
Some kinda craggy freshwater cave
Would say in the volcano but its already hot enough as is in the summer, lead me to were all the Alolan Vulpix/Nintales are! there we go, perfect~ in all honesty this is a good question so i’ll have to think on it! Alola is too beautiful
They’ve probably abandonned secret bases, which would make me sad.
At least we’ll get them back in D/P remakes :/
The bases in the underground are different though, they’re all rocky.
I do miss the underground, more for digging up fossils and evo stones than for any other reason.
They are different and don’t quite have the same feeling..but at least you get to decorate them. I hope they revamp the underground though, it could use more features and maybe differing base sizes as well.
I hope we can build houses because if that’s the case I would build mine near the beach on Akala. It would be a beach house!!!
i think i would of rather we build our own gyms inside and out. now that would be awesome because atleast then we can actually do online battling with people around the world with our own way, with types and methods. its just something i have always wanted in a pokemon game though it’s unlikely to happen -__-
That would definitely be awesome!!!
So I just rewatched the whole team flare arc and at the end. BONNY WAS A MURDER!! Before perfect zygarde attack bonny entourage it to do it even though she knew Lysander was in its way plus! WE all hadn’t a bone to pick with bonny since day one of the x and y real ease of the games lol! (Dicie)
Encourage• had• release• (sorry, I got overwhealm for a min and auto happen)
Flashback to the last article I wrote because everyone complained about it being “too long…”
xD
Dear Pokemon Go,
Don’t put Pokemon like Seaking and Omanyte in Cornfields that are not accessible without permission. Geez. Put them on the road where I can reach them.
I saw some land Pokemon in the middle of a ferry ride once… so they do put Pokemon in seas for some reason… and not appropriate ones like Tentacool either.
Lol reminds me when there was a Nidoking nearby and Poliwrath at the same time in a community you can’t enter without living in it. UGH
My Alola question: Hypothetically, if there were an Alola Dragonite what do you all think would be the in-game reasoning for its change on Alola? Also what typing would it be?
Everyone was like: “O. M. G. You look horrible gurl. You used to look so bootyful in High School and You were so cute in Elementary school. What happened?”
Then she worked out and became blue and got Blue Pearls.
Barney sued for copyright.
Man… I thought mine was good 🙁
😉 I’m just so witty
Yeah
There would be very little reason to change since Dragonite don’t have much problem living anywhere
They either sleep at massive depths in the ocean or tall craggy mountains but I theorize Dragonites don’t tend to stay in one place since they regularly circle the globe
Perhaps its body becomes more serpentine to navigate the deep waters at a faster pace. Dragonite’s speed is rather lackluster, after all. I’m sure it’s described in the dex as being fast though.
To me competitive stats and dex entries are two different animals
But I still regard them as facts otherwise anyone could say anything about a Pokemon and be true gotta have some guidance
If only there was more consistency though.
Lol no Pokémon has any reason to change considering every region has had an appropriate microclimate. It’s a for-fun hypothetical. You’re way too negative Nancy all the time.
There can’t be, we’ve seen it in poke finder. But idk otherwise.
he never said their would be, he just asked if their WAS an alolan dragonite how would we describe it as type and lore wise. in the end its just a curious question to ask.
hmm ide say it would be water/dragon type if it were to adapt like the other alola forms, and the reasoning would be “Because some dragonite prefer to swim instead of fly to get around, their bodies changed due to its swimming skills. it’s wings are now used like webbed fin’s to help it turn corner’s smoothly and faster” i can picture it being an ocean blue colour with a white shiny tummy, webbed wings and fins, thinner, longer tail and maybe an orb on its head to resemble its pre evolution “dragonair” i suppose i could think of a better lore on its adaption but its the best i got 🙂
Do you think non-Alolan Raichu can perform Stoked Sparksurfer? Y/N.
(Gameplay and “lore”, considered?)
Is it a special stone that lets raichu perform it?
Likely, like Snorlium-Z.
Though the issue might be if the game requires it to be Alolan Raichu specifically.
I imagine it’ll be exclusive to alolan raichu then.
It probably would require alolan raichu, which would be pretty crappy.
All Z moves are atained through use of stones.
I meant more of if it was an exclusive Z-stone, like the Snorlaxium-Z or whatever the hell it’s called.
It would have to be.
Well.. That wouldn’t make cents
How many cents? 5 cents?
But it would make the $$$$$
Nope.
Isn’t there supposed to be news on the 20th? Can’t remember where I heard it from..
There is news coming the 20th. It’ll happen at 9am est. Figure out the conversion for your own timezone
I just looked at my clock to see what day it was, and it read the 19th. So I was like, yay news tomorrow! I expected it to be next morning, because I thought I was still in yesterday night. But it’s actually just the early morning of the 19th…
Thanks for confirming that. I guess that’d be around 6 am at the Pacific Northwest.
Flowers r reduce by 1 …….that’s not a big deal the problem is I damn love number 9.
So it’s been a week, are we going to move onto Hoenn E4 or do you guys enjoy watching Karen continue to wreck the competition?
We had to delay article because other things were in the pipeline and it’s probably going to be another couple of days yet 🙁
That’s okay 🙂 I figured it was a busy news time
I know how you can make the wait more bearable
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Oh yeah? Do tell!
Come closer and I’ll whisper it in your ears 😉
hmm i would dress in a nice dark orange tee with a black sun and water below it and an alolan exeggutor beside it. for bottoms ide wear cut offs with a red or purple tips/ends. and hopefully wear flip flops if they give us that option of footwear, if not maybe flat shoes of my favourite colour purple. my hair would be medium long and black though with a different coloured cap mainly blue or purple…xD yeah its a tad specific but i can just picture it 😛
You don’t get it *cries*
But I like it. I bet Moving would go for less though
Why!! Euro Pokemon!! Why!! I am probably one of the most hyped person for sun and moon! And why why why!
we just have to face it….5 days of avoiding spoilers DX
I.. I am still too hyped! And how am I gonna avoid spoilers for 5 days when I go on YouTube and Pokemon Amino everyday?! Oh I guess we could find out what level and where Pokemon are found and evolved!
I will probably go to the stores everyday and ask if they can sell them already. Got the past games a day early of the release aswell!